Might be open to intepretation. I don't think she's saying she doesn't believe in the existence of people who are communists, so much as she doesn't believe in the idea of the evil, baby-eating communist.
Sending lots of love, Grim. Thank you for doing what you do. All this effort you put into your videos is truly efficient. The frustration and pain you have gone through in life has culminated into something fantastic. People are here for you and the comfort you give. All I hope for is that you will be paid back in some way. You may be goth, but your soul gleams.
Grim, I found your channel like a week or two ago, popped up in my recommended. Since then, I’ve been non-stop running through your backlog of videos. I have no fucking clue why you weren’t recommended to me earlier, your style is amazing and it’s exactly in the vein of what I eat the fuck up regularly. You’ve easily become one my favourite UA-cam channels, right beside accursed farms and mandalore. Your style is incredibly unique, you’re genuinely funny, and your reviews are fantastic. Nothing gives me more comfort after a 12 hour shift in the ER than a long, in depth review about a horror game from 15 years ago. Keep doing what your doing, I appreciate your work a lot, and, dare I say, youre goated ?
Seriously. Grim not having over a million in subs is damn near criminal. His content is one of the best on the platform in my opinion. Could listen to this man talk about games I've never played forever. And plan to do just that
@@danteshollowedgrounds yeah dude. It's almost a little more special this way. I mean 100+ thousand is still a fn ton of people. I just can't imagine someone finding his channel and not subscribing. So much heart and effort goes into them. He also might be the funniest person that I have ever heard. I mean holy crap. This dude makes me literally laugh out loud throughout his videos.
I kind of love the fanfiction vibe the story of this game has. Terminal Reality were so enamored with the setting and characters they created that they integrated them into other stories.
14:46 Hell yeah, Ghost Watch! I love when someone acknowledges it as it's more or less the UK's Blair Witch, as it tricked a lot of the audience into thinking it was real by having recognisable presenters in it like Micheal Parkinson; and everyone trusted Micheal Parkinson being the prime time interviewer he was back in the day!
Man, I've been having this genuinely crippling insomnia these past few days and I was trying to find something to relax to, and here comes one of my favorite youtubers in the whole universe with a video. I'll sleep decently this morning, thank you.
I just got out of my misery, I remembered something chubby emu said about b vitamins, which you think would keep you awake right.. but apparently they're essential for sleeping and I'm not going to lie, I grabbed a couple of multivitamins after 2 days of no sleep, and I'm not saying it was good sleep but it actually happened with REM cycles and you know terrible dreams and all that nonsense that you try to avoid it for normally my.. Definitely worth a try take yourself up some energy drinks or something like that, are usually pretty stacked in that regard. Counterintuitive but I mean what are you going to do stay up more? Lol Good luck
My high school English teacher is where the story of people throwing up at Blair Witch comes from. She had a former student in the movie and was invited to see it. She got a bad flu right before, still went, and the rest is history
It’s a cool story but probably not where it originated. This was maybe 6/7 years before widespread adoption of social media and the Washington post reported that roughly one person a day in one theatre had people requesting a refund due to feeling unwell, mostly because of motion sickness brought on by the, for the time, innovative shaky cam.
This 106 minute video has been out for 18 minutes and I'm calling it amazing already, because Grim made it and everything Grim produces makes me happy.
I'm old and I just don't remember this game, but if you told me it was an indie game that came out in 2023 I'd believe you without question. Feels like there's a whole genre of games that look and feel exactly like this now being made by 2 man devs teams in eastern Europe lol.
Grim! I just discovered your channel but I’m obsessed. I’ve watched an episode everyday. Your game essays are so smart and funny, you play the cool shit and seem like a lovely dude. Keep it up!
Another great day to be part of the Goth Gamer Nation(tm). I'm always impressed by your musical compositions, research, editing, humor and delivery Grim.
I never get tired of seeing that clip of the Butcheress from Bloodrayne in Grimbeard's intro and I never get tired of watching a new video about a game I've never heard of or had a reason to care about until he starts talking about it.
One of the comfiest videos of all time, truly, a fall day with rain through a window screen, cold and crisp air from the gloom and doom of a cloudy 2pm
Im new to this channel, but seeing you meet this game where it's at and having a fondness for the Spook House characters is so nice. I'm not familiar with them, but seeing you be excited to see them again makes me invested in learning more. The little I know of the weird Blair Witch games trio has always been fascinating to me, but I felt like any videos I found on them were not as in depth as I hoped for. This video is the remedy for that problem, looking foreward to you covering the other two if you do!!
Holy HELL! A KISS: Psycho Circus reference! Thats amazing! Lol! I just turned 42-years old. My Dad’s favorite band, as well as my lifelong best friend’s entire family (who are essentially family, as well. My dad grew up across the street from his uncle. His Mom used to babysit my Dad & siblings. They grew up together the same way we did. Anyway…) ….ALL of them, their favorite band was KISS. KISS was even my dad’s very first rock concert back in 1976/77 (the year he graduated High School. I just know it was his Senior Year). Well, needless to say, I grew up with KISS, all around me. When Psycho Circus came out..? I fucking LOVED it! I’m a Metal head, & go way heavier than my Dad did. (He actually went the Southern Baptist “Super-Christian” route. It caused me Childhood PTSD via Child Abuse actually. That’s its own story. Anyway…) I listened to that album (somewhat ironically) RELIGIOUSLY, for a couple months. Lol! Also somewhat ironically, it came out my Senior year in High School. That was actually a great couple of years, for music. But, it stayed in my rotation, for a few years. I thought they did a great job of being themselves, while catching up with the times musically & in style. The SONG ‘Psycho Circus’ is pretty fucking heavy, for them. There’s another bunting song, where Gene sings with a kids’ choir. It’s pretty good, believe it or not. That said, if I knew of this game you reference, I completely forgot about it!! Thank you for reminding me/bringing it to my attention. I now MUST play it!! I just recently got my first PC in 25 years (I’m a pro Graphic Designer; & have used Macs since my Junior year of college). I STARTED gaming on computers, in the way of a Commodore 64 when I was 3-years old (circus ‘85). Anyway…sorry I’ve kinda rambled on here. I just HAVE to go find this Psycho Circus game, man. Thank you!! Also…great job, on this video, homie! I’m working n getting myself back into UA-cam. I helped run a pro wrestling podcasts network channel a decade ago. Things happened, & I had to leave it all when the channel fell to the Google Gods. Hopefully we can work together someday, in the future. Currently teaching myself/learning 3D modeling for printing, as well as for animation (among other things…Premiere Pro being one. I mean, I already have the Adobe Creative Cloud. So, why the fuck NOT? Lol! After Effects & others are also on that list of things I’m currently learning.) Alright, I’ll stop rambling on. My bad! But, you’re a trooper, if you’ve made it this far; & I appreciate you! I hope to be a contemporary, of yours, before too long. Good job, brother! Keep it up!
Good vid! Late 90's-early 2000's era "Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture" CD's shaped/reflected a bunch of my music tastes also, at the time and even today. Cool music to look out for at your local thrift store CD rack include: The Crow, Queen of The Damned (especially if you're into nu metal), Spawn, End of Days, and of course the Blair Witch Mixtape. Felt like this fad waned in popularity after the time the Spiderman/Daredevil movies released, which is a pity, but it's always fun coming across more of these tie in albums and seeing what shit the directors thought was cool at the time.
The time vortex explanation is Canon: the reboot Blair Witch film that ignored the second meta movie established that the entity in the woods existed within a time vortex. So the scene where Elisbeth runs into Heather and Co. Is totally consistent. It's very impressive
I remember watching The Blair Witch project at my grandma’s house when I was a kid and I was so terrified I couldn’t finish it. As I get older I can see there’s not much substance there but as a kid the fear in their eyes made me scared as shit
Lovely video as ever. I remember going to see Blair Witch in the theater with a friend. I was a bit prone to nervous laughter, and burst out laughing right as the final scene hit paydirt. I was told the audience was fairly annoyed, though I did not notice myself.
Hey just wanted to say thank you for what you do and being my friend on the other side of the screen. Feels like I'm hanging out with an older brother who is smarter and better at games than I am but includes me in the fun. Keep it up, I'll always be rooting for you 🥰
"What was- what was happening in the year 2000? I think we all needed some kind of punishment collectively for our... sins... ... oh right." lmfao holy shit king
Dude your channel is just us, thousands and thousands of us, listening to your essays and watching your video editing and being pretty fucking engrossed.
Hey Grim thanks for the new video, Your content got me through a 16 hour flight and I'm eternally grateful. You always put so much care into your videos. Thanks again.
Engagement comment to help you out, since I LOVE your videos and have re-watched all of your 1 hour+ videos multiple times. Keep it up, love your humor!
Just when I thought I was going to wait for a hella long time after recently finding this channel, bingeing all the reviews so far, and that I'd have nothing new for a while...
Much love from down under grim, had a fucked week and finished work 10 min ago. Before the title dropped you reminded me about joy. Needed that today 🖤
Leaves me speechless how well this games graphics are made. The atmosphere is one of a kind. The character art, the face textures and pre rendered backgrounds in conjunction with the dynamic lighting are insane, not to mention the sound design. And the discrepancy between her dream and reality regarding the broken church window is also one of my fav parts. I have to say tho, Part II is my fav of the two (totally neglecting part 3 purposely)
Every single time I see a new video from Grim I cancel all my plans for the evening (not that I have many) and its just me time with best guy talking about good games in great detail. I cant express enough how much I enjoy your style and writing. Thank you again!
Dude you have no idea how much it makes my day to get a notification about a new Grim video. I have been having a really rough week and the joy I get from your videos really helps make it bearable. Thanks Mr Beard.
Don't let the bastards grind you down. Next week, you may see a dog leaning from the open window of a moving car. The flapping ears of an automated spaniel is truly the way and the light
Love the vid. Can't wait to see part 2 and 3. When the nocturne vid came out I searched for someone talking about these, and now I have it from the best source. Great work.
I'm so glad you finally talked about this game! The Gaming Brit made a video about it a couple years ago and it wasn't very good IMHO, and he didn't talk about the sequels so whatever. If someone asked me "name the best survival horror game from the late 90s/early 00's that isn't Resident Evil or Silent Hill" I'd instantly pick this one. Its only other competitor is arguably Alone In The Dark: The New Nightmare, but I don't think it's anywhere near as well realized as Blair Witch: Rustin Parr. It's SO GOOD as a survival horror game. The storytelling is compelling, the characters are great, the investigative element is so well implemented into the Blair Witch lore. Maybe the writing isn't entirely spotless, but they did such a great job that it's so easy to ignore the handful of mistakes. I love this game so much and I've lowkey obsessed over it since back in the day. The real time rendered shadows alone still blow my mind with how good they looked at the time. Games simply didn't render shadows like this back then! You didn't even get to mention how on Hard mode, some of the puzzles are different. Solutions that worked on other modes don't exist, and you're forced to figure out different ways to progress. In fact, you can even make a mistake that softlocks your progress, making you load an older save (such as when you need to get the Sheriff out of the station to speak with the Deputy). This also includes new lines of dialog not present on lower modes.
47:00 You weren't paying attention. Elspeth mentions she'd like to speak to Rustin Parr right after she meets the sheriff for the first time. Clearly he's still alive and in prison.
Only knew Nocturn by its cover until you videos but you do such a great job of expressing how and why it makes you see so much potential in it, now I feel the same bittersweet sadness that this is the last we got of it and the beloved characters within. Seeing it freed briefly from its comatose confines, to be lucid for an instant like you remember, forgotten feelings of joy and happiness returning; having to then wake the next day to find it returned to unresponsiveness while you slept, is its own kind of sadness. Maybe it would have been better for everyone if it never lived at all? But you can never really accept that.
I was 16 working at my local Regal Cinemas when Blair Witch came out. On opening night, a coworker and I made sure that one of us would be standing in the little vestibule so when people would round the corner to exit the theatre (immediately after the house lights came up)the first thing they would see was either of us facing the corner. We did it a handful of times until a startled woman punched me in the back of the head. She said sorry, and that I had startled her, as she didn’t see me until she was a few feet away. No big deal- the joy of scaring so many people was worth it. Although after that night I would request to work the box office or concession every other time I worked while Blair Witch was playing- I cleaned up A LOT of vomit due to that movie. I mean several piles- every showing.
It amazes me still that you don’t have more subscribers. You seem to have a healthy amount of patrons through and that’s the true sign of a quality creator.
Glad you brought up the quality of the acting in Blair witch, I feel like it's something people don't really think about or they gloss over or they misremember the cliches, I saw it several years later without any of the sub hyper background hype, knew nothing about it going in, other than it was a big deal at some point.. I just remember sitting there and at a point I started trying to pick it apart, and those performances absolutely made that film something special... Like there's definitely some silliness going on but especially for that era and for that budget, it wasn't a scary movie... And when they start ramping up the last sequences, I'm not sure I had the intended reaction.. but I do remember being absolutely compelled throughout the entire thing and genuinely feeling for how miserable everyone was... I was very curious to find if my memories of this held up because pretty much every time I've heard somebody talk about this it's been in kind of a condescending tone and you kind of sit there and think to yourself, it wouldn't be the first time I picked something up completely different than everybody else, and who knows maybe it really doesn't hold up... Well.. very surprised and kind of reaffirming that you pretty much traced through how I remembered watching it in my head and picked up on on a lot of the things that I remember standing out, and of all the people that I can trust to actually have a good read on that You're one of them... I do remember being incredibly confused when it had so many sequels, I was just kind of like wait why would.. how do you make a sequel to that, this has been enlightening, I genuinely had no idea this was this whole thing beyond the the movie aspect, I just figured that was just you know good marketing independently and hype cycles .. It is a shame though that they didn't seem to keep that same core quality, at least to the parts that I thought were the best, and normally the idea of oh we made the student film but with more violence and sex, that that sounds perfect lol and it certainly would have sounded perfect back then... But for some reason I I just stuck to the core conceit of the documentary miserable bad stuff formula as what Blair which was.. Probably would have given it more of a chance but I do remember stepping in on one of them, and it was... The tonal whiplash of being able to portray characters so realistically and then not being able to do that again kind of almost feel like it set themselves up for for failure in the end, at least in terms of functionality I'm sure they made bank.
So many franchises were absolutely great stand alones pieces of cinema that were needlessly extended way beyond initial premise. I'm the weird guy who loves first Alien movie, good luck convincing anyone that it was masterpiece of horror sci-fi movie with actually quite realistic premise and attention to detail if anyone seen any other Alien movie which is literally opposite of that xD
How lovely that she actually does take a bath! This engine is very lovely aesthetically... it's like a median point between PS1 Resident Evil and Gamecube REmake.
Every time Grimbeard uploads I am happy. But instead of rushing to watch the video I always try to get in the mood - read a mystery book, wait for the evening, maybe light a candle or brew a coffee, make myself cozy. I don't know how to describe it, but the direction, the writing, the editing, the humour, the voice, the choice of games, references and clips - all have this warm, rich texture to them, such specific analog Buffy/Twin Peaks/Supernatural/VtMB/X-Files spooky mystery thriller feel. Wasn't surprised in the slightest when Grim mentioned Scooby-Doo, it just fits so well into the whole vibe on this channel.
this is the amount of shark every videogame should jump in its adaptational aspirations; turn a horror movie equivalent of a walking sim (positive) into an x-files-ass best game ~ever~ made RE-clone venture, 10/10 brain move
The fact Blair Witch fooled so many reasonably intelligent people it was real with (now) laughably bad story, bad acting, and filmmakers with no skill or money shows you how easily manipulated the public is.
it's crazy to see a dude like this call an opinion "the normie opinion" since he has actually lived long enough to see himself become the normie....All the while sadly being unaware of the tragedy or refusing to accept it. how troubling.
@@Ohio.Gozaimasu he just keeps talking about normies throughout the whole second half of the video while not realizing what is a normie has changed and all the things that used to make him unique now make him the same.
@@rena10009 I see. His condescension towards people who don't appreciate the games he likes is very apparent. He even has a whole segment dedicated to it in most of his reviews (bitter recompense). I think people who mention "normies" (even in jest) probably feel unique in some way, which is pretty naive.
Fairly certain @15:18 is the actress Louise Brealey (played Molly in Sherlock). Whether or not she actually was a film journalist or indeed training to be an actress at the time is another question
I always thought making a Blair Witch game crossing over with something like Nocturne was super weird, but honestly I'd kill to see this sort of thing more often. Hellboy fighting the Annabelle doll and stuff would go hard.
Absolutely thrilled to watch this, although unfortunately I grew up in the immediate vicinity of Burkittsville, which transforms every Blair-Witch-related product into a comedy. Like, they don't actually have a motel. They never have. Or a town hall. They barely have paved roads.
Grim I love your videos and your sense of humour tickles my funny bone in all the right places. Hope you're enjoying making these videos as much as we enjoy watching them!
I've been looking at your channel for the past two weeks, awaiting my next fix. Thank you Papa Grim for this Beardy delicacy, that will assure my sustenance in these next days
holy shit new music in the outro?? so gassed, pure acid hell was my #1 album last year n i put in 20k hours of spotify lmao, thanks for another banger vid grim
"I don't believe in ghosts, vampires and communi..." that ladys line killed me.
She's right, though, Communists are a myth. No one has yet to properly employ the critical theories of Marx and Engels.
True! Wanted to comment on this too)
Might be open to intepretation. I don't think she's saying she doesn't believe in the existence of people who are communists, so much as she doesn't believe in the idea of the evil, baby-eating communist.
very pleased to see this being the top comment
But what about the vampiric ghosts of communism??? How would she react to that???
Grim has come out of his coffin again, this content will help me survive Valentine's.. Thanks!
Oh shit, it's almost valentines. It's almost time for me to embarrass myself again.
Ditto 😅
Buckle up!
Rub-a-dub-dub (Rub, rub-a-dub)
Yeah yeah
Too late, my baby
Oh hallelujah!
@@Cla0016 Time to break out my comically large vodka flask
2 weeks away? Tf
"I've got some ideas. I'm gonna make myself a little concoction"
- Grim making every video
still wondering if that was an operation soda steal reference
That part absolutely killed me
10:58
Was this not edited? Eliminating the term for marrying soda. Sui@ide?
J/K soda suicides
Sending lots of love, Grim. Thank you for doing what you do. All this effort you put into your videos is truly efficient. The frustration and pain you have gone through in life has culminated into something fantastic. People are here for you and the comfort you give. All I hope for is that you will be paid back in some way. You may be goth, but your soul gleams.
How do you know about the pain and frustration he's experienced in life? Did I miss something?
Grim, I found your channel like a week or two ago, popped up in my recommended. Since then, I’ve been non-stop running through your backlog of videos. I have no fucking clue why you weren’t recommended to me earlier, your style is amazing and it’s exactly in the vein of what I eat the fuck up regularly. You’ve easily become one my favourite UA-cam channels, right beside accursed farms and mandalore. Your style is incredibly unique, you’re genuinely funny, and your reviews are fantastic. Nothing gives me more comfort after a 12 hour shift in the ER than a long, in depth review about a horror game from 15 years ago. Keep doing what your doing, I appreciate your work a lot, and, dare I say, youre goated ?
Agreed!
I can’t stress enough how much joy your uploads cause me. Thanks for your hard work, goth gamer man!
Word.
Seriously. Grim not having over a million in subs is damn near criminal. His content is one of the best on the platform in my opinion. Could listen to this man talk about games I've never played forever. And plan to do just that
@@hiyabuddy7 SAME LIKE WTF but I am glad for what we have now at least.
@@danteshollowedgrounds yeah dude. It's almost a little more special this way. I mean 100+ thousand is still a fn ton of people. I just can't imagine someone finding his channel and not subscribing. So much heart and effort goes into them. He also might be the funniest person that I have ever heard. I mean holy crap. This dude makes me literally laugh out loud throughout his videos.
"Another dimension."
"Another dimension?"
"Yeah, another dimension, new galaxy. Cast him off into exile."
Intergalactic Planetary
@@espguitarist13 Planetary Intergalactic
I kind of love the fanfiction vibe the story of this game has. Terminal Reality were so enamored with the setting and characters they created that they integrated them into other stories.
14:46 Hell yeah, Ghost Watch!
I love when someone acknowledges it as it's more or less the UK's Blair Witch, as it tricked a lot of the audience into thinking it was real by having recognisable presenters in it like Micheal Parkinson; and everyone trusted Micheal Parkinson being the prime time interviewer he was back in the day!
Whoever you are, IRL, I'm glad you made a sustainable job creating this art. I also love your music. Be well.
It's always a treat whenever you upload, especially a longer video. Well worth the wait as always.
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Ugly walk?
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I love the translation on this one 😅👌 just thank you 🙏😌
What’s up goth hunters
This ugly walked right into my heart
I'm just old. I was 16 when the movie came out lol saw it in theaters without parents.
Seeing a new GrimBeard upload always makes me smile ❤
I saw it on tape when I was around that age.
I was 4! So I don't remember what happened around that time... :c
"Then she's gonna eat a big big sandwich!"
That's gotta be one of my favorite of your running gags
Saved this one for 3 days, definitely worth it to listen to this at work. New outro song owns, and that clip after was hilarious. Have a great one.
Man, I've been having this genuinely crippling insomnia these past few days and I was trying to find something to relax to, and here comes one of my favorite youtubers in the whole universe with a video. I'll sleep decently this morning, thank you.
I just got out of my misery, I remembered something chubby emu said about b vitamins, which you think would keep you awake right.. but apparently they're essential for sleeping and I'm not going to lie, I grabbed a couple of multivitamins after 2 days of no sleep, and I'm not saying it was good sleep but it actually happened with REM cycles and you know terrible dreams and all that nonsense that you try to avoid it for normally my..
Definitely worth a try take yourself up some energy drinks or something like that, are usually pretty stacked in that regard. Counterintuitive but I mean what are you going to do stay up more? Lol Good luck
I'll take a look into it, thank you! It's definitely worth a shot like you said.
My high school English teacher is where the story of people throwing up at Blair Witch comes from. She had a former student in the movie and was invited to see it. She got a bad flu right before, still went, and the rest is history
Hah, I wonder how many stories like that about people passing out, etc at movies comes from
It’s a cool story but probably not where it originated. This was maybe 6/7 years before widespread adoption of social media and the Washington post reported that roughly one person a day in one theatre had people requesting a refund due to feeling unwell, mostly because of motion sickness brought on by the, for the time, innovative shaky cam.
Stranger turning off the lights and Holliday's 'What the fu-' had me in fits of laughter, thank you!
WELL THIS LOOKS LEGIT. WHERE DO I SEND MY BANK DETAILS@GrimBeard_
That and the 'I shot my shot' scene slayed me.
2:16 - Grim Meets his shadow, and in he process unlocks his Persona.
Man, can he ask Igor for a better one?
This 106 minute video has been out for 18 minutes and I'm calling it amazing already, because Grim made it and everything Grim produces makes me happy.
Yes! I have been looking forward to this since your nocturne review. Glad you did it :)
"He was their Gorbachev and Nocturne was their Pizza Hut" Niche references like this are why I love your content so much!
I'm old and I just don't remember this game, but if you told me it was an indie game that came out in 2023 I'd believe you without question. Feels like there's a whole genre of games that look and feel exactly like this now being made by 2 man devs teams in eastern Europe lol.
Grim! I just discovered your channel but I’m obsessed. I’ve watched an episode everyday. Your game essays are so smart and funny, you play the cool shit and seem like a lovely dude. Keep it up!
You're skits are getting better an better man. Love this shit
Woohoo! Thanks for confirming that Kiss Psycho Circus was a game that actually existed and not just a fever dream I had.
Me too!
The only thing I remember about that game was that I couldn't deal with the mechanic that you had do destroy enemy hives to make them stop spawning.
Another great day to be part of the Goth Gamer Nation(tm).
I'm always impressed by your musical compositions, research, editing, humor and delivery Grim.
GRIM WHEN THE NEXT VIDEO, IM ALWAYS WAITING GOTH BOI, IM READY FOR ANOTHER, BEST REVIEWER ON UA-cam!
I never get tired of seeing that clip of the Butcheress from Bloodrayne in Grimbeard's intro and I never get tired of watching a new video about a game I've never heard of or had a reason to care about until he starts talking about it.
One of the comfiest videos of all time, truly, a fall day with rain through a window screen, cold and crisp air from the gloom and doom of a cloudy 2pm
I feel like Moe whenever Grim uploads. Not today, old friend. Not today.
Im new to this channel, but seeing you meet this game where it's at and having a fondness for the Spook House characters is so nice. I'm not familiar with them, but seeing you be excited to see them again makes me invested in learning more.
The little I know of the weird Blair Witch games trio has always been fascinating to me, but I felt like any videos I found on them were not as in depth as I hoped for.
This video is the remedy for that problem, looking foreward to you covering the other two if you do!!
I am unjustifiably proud of pre-empting the 'Freak on a Leash' cut to. Ticker-tape parade me now!
Holy HELL! A KISS: Psycho Circus reference! Thats amazing! Lol!
I just turned 42-years old. My Dad’s favorite band, as well as my lifelong best friend’s entire family (who are essentially family, as well. My dad grew up across the street from his uncle. His Mom used to babysit my Dad & siblings. They grew up together the same way we did. Anyway…)
….ALL of them, their favorite band was KISS. KISS was even my dad’s very first rock concert back in 1976/77 (the year he graduated High School. I just know it was his Senior Year).
Well, needless to say, I grew up with KISS, all around me. When Psycho Circus came out..? I fucking LOVED it! I’m a Metal head, & go way heavier than my Dad did. (He actually went the Southern Baptist “Super-Christian” route. It caused me Childhood PTSD via Child Abuse actually. That’s its own story. Anyway…)
I listened to that album (somewhat ironically) RELIGIOUSLY, for a couple months. Lol! Also somewhat ironically, it came out my Senior year in High School. That was actually a great couple of years, for music. But, it stayed in my rotation, for a few years. I thought they did a great job of being themselves, while catching up with the times musically & in style. The SONG ‘Psycho Circus’ is pretty fucking heavy, for them. There’s another bunting song, where Gene sings with a kids’ choir. It’s pretty good, believe it or not.
That said, if I knew of this game you reference, I completely forgot about it!! Thank you for reminding me/bringing it to my attention. I now MUST play it!! I just recently got my first PC in 25 years (I’m a pro Graphic Designer; & have used Macs since my Junior year of college). I STARTED gaming on computers, in the way of a Commodore 64 when I was 3-years old (circus ‘85).
Anyway…sorry I’ve kinda rambled on here. I just HAVE to go find this Psycho Circus game, man. Thank you!!
Also…great job, on this video, homie! I’m working n getting myself back into UA-cam. I helped run a pro wrestling podcasts network channel a decade ago. Things happened, & I had to leave it all when the channel fell to the Google Gods.
Hopefully we can work together someday, in the future. Currently teaching myself/learning 3D modeling for printing, as well as for animation (among other things…Premiere Pro being one. I mean, I already have the Adobe Creative Cloud. So, why the fuck NOT? Lol! After Effects & others are also on that list of things I’m currently learning.)
Alright, I’ll stop rambling on. My bad! But, you’re a trooper, if you’ve made it this far; & I appreciate you! I hope to be a contemporary, of yours, before too long. Good job, brother! Keep it up!
Keep going strong man 💪
I dropped everything when I saw the Grim notification. Looking forward to another great review
aw man, i hope nothing broke..
Good vid! Late 90's-early 2000's era "Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture" CD's shaped/reflected a bunch of my music tastes also, at the time and even today. Cool music to look out for at your local thrift store CD rack include: The Crow, Queen of The Damned (especially if you're into nu metal), Spawn, End of Days, and of course the Blair Witch Mixtape. Felt like this fad waned in popularity after the time the Spiderman/Daredevil movies released, which is a pity, but it's always fun coming across more of these tie in albums and seeing what shit the directors thought was cool at the time.
Your fake insert scenes are so well done it always catches me off guard. They're hilarious
The time vortex explanation is Canon: the reboot Blair Witch film that ignored the second meta movie established that the entity in the woods existed within a time vortex. So the scene where Elisbeth runs into Heather and Co. Is totally consistent. It's very impressive
I remember watching The Blair Witch project at my grandma’s house when I was a kid and I was so terrified I couldn’t finish it. As I get older I can see there’s not much substance there but as a kid the fear in their eyes made me scared as shit
Lovely video as ever. I remember going to see Blair Witch in the theater with a friend. I was a bit prone to nervous laughter, and burst out laughing right as the final scene hit paydirt. I was told the audience was fairly annoyed, though I did not notice myself.
YES! Your Nocturne video was what got me into your channel and into the game. I've been hoping you'd cover these in full ever since.
Damn bro, those cloth physics are still impressive even today- I'd be glad to see the same level of physics in any game- dismemberment included.
Break free from the Black Iron Prison. The empire never ended.
dang a lot work went into this video. It’s very much appreciated.
An almost 2 hours long Grim video!? Sign me the hell up!
Hey just wanted to say thank you for what you do and being my friend on the other side of the screen. Feels like I'm hanging out with an older brother who is smarter and better at games than I am but includes me in the fun. Keep it up, I'll always be rooting for you 🥰
"What was- what was happening in the year 2000? I think we all needed some kind of punishment collectively for our... sins... ... oh right." lmfao holy shit king
Yeah, the number one deadly sin of being horny.
Finally a new episode! I don’t have to fall asleep to reruns anymore
Until tomorrow
Every iteration of your intro is always so good.
Dude your channel is just us, thousands and thousands of us, listening to your essays and watching your video editing and being pretty fucking engrossed.
Your content is frigging incredible. Nobody does this quite like you.
Fine, since there's no good new content on UA-cam we'll watch the video AGAIN. Been through the back catalog a couple times, love your videos dude
Grim upload at 3:45 AM and I’m awake.
Goth gamer hours
Hey Grim thanks for the new video, Your content got me through a 16 hour flight and I'm eternally grateful. You always put so much care into your videos. Thanks again.
Love that this is basically an extended footnote for Grim's Nocturne Eventual Tetralogy
Engagement comment to help you out, since I LOVE your videos and have re-watched all of your 1 hour+ videos multiple times. Keep it up, love your humor!
It’s always a great day when papa grim uploads
Just when I thought I was going to wait for a hella long time after recently finding this channel, bingeing all the reviews so far, and that I'd have nothing new for a while...
Much love from down under grim, had a fucked week and finished work 10 min ago. Before the title dropped you reminded me about joy. Needed that today 🖤
Leaves me speechless how well this games graphics are made. The atmosphere is one of a kind. The character art, the face textures and pre rendered backgrounds in conjunction with the dynamic lighting are insane, not to mention the sound design. And the discrepancy between her dream and reality regarding the broken church window is also one of my fav parts. I have to say tho, Part II is my fav of the two (totally neglecting part 3 purposely)
That Fusion Frenzy line killed me, man. Thanks for keeping me sane while my shitty factory job drains my life force, Grim. ❤
Every single time I see a new video from Grim I cancel all my plans for the evening (not that I have many) and its just me time with best guy talking about good games in great detail. I cant express enough how much I enjoy your style and writing. Thank you again!
Wait, that journalist clip, isn't that the person who plays Molly in the BBC's Sherlock?
Your passion for what you do bleeds from every pore in this video. You really are one of a kind Grim. Thank you for the amazing entertainment.
Dude you have no idea how much it makes my day to get a notification about a new Grim video. I have been having a really rough week and the joy I get from your videos really helps make it bearable. Thanks Mr Beard.
Don't let the bastards grind you down. Next week, you may see a dog leaning from the open window of a moving car.
The flapping ears of an automated spaniel is truly the way and the light
Love the vid. Can't wait to see part 2 and 3. When the nocturne vid came out I searched for someone talking about these, and now I have it from the best source. Great work.
Admittedly, it was presumptuous of me to just take two and three for granted. You make what your comfortable with.
I'm so glad you finally talked about this game! The Gaming Brit made a video about it a couple years ago and it wasn't very good IMHO, and he didn't talk about the sequels so whatever.
If someone asked me "name the best survival horror game from the late 90s/early 00's that isn't Resident Evil or Silent Hill" I'd instantly pick this one.
Its only other competitor is arguably Alone In The Dark: The New Nightmare, but I don't think it's anywhere near as well realized as Blair Witch: Rustin Parr.
It's SO GOOD as a survival horror game. The storytelling is compelling, the characters are great, the investigative element is so well implemented into the Blair Witch lore. Maybe the writing isn't entirely spotless, but they did such a great job that it's so easy to ignore the handful of mistakes. I love this game so much and I've lowkey obsessed over it since back in the day. The real time rendered shadows alone still blow my mind with how good they looked at the time. Games simply didn't render shadows like this back then!
You didn't even get to mention how on Hard mode, some of the puzzles are different. Solutions that worked on other modes don't exist, and you're forced to figure out different ways to progress. In fact, you can even make a mistake that softlocks your progress, making you load an older save (such as when you need to get the Sheriff out of the station to speak with the Deputy). This also includes new lines of dialog not present on lower modes.
47:00 You weren't paying attention. Elspeth mentions she'd like to speak to Rustin Parr right after she meets the sheriff for the first time. Clearly he's still alive and in prison.
GRIM UPLOAD3D LETS GOOOOO
Oooo, firtst. Gud job.
Only knew Nocturn by its cover until you videos but you do such a great job of expressing how and why it makes you see so much potential in it, now I feel the same bittersweet sadness that this is the last we got of it and the beloved characters within. Seeing it freed briefly from its comatose confines, to be lucid for an instant like you remember, forgotten feelings of joy and happiness returning; having to then wake the next day to find it returned to unresponsiveness while you slept, is its own kind of sadness.
Maybe it would have been better for everyone if it never lived at all? But you can never really accept that.
I was 16 working at my local Regal Cinemas when Blair Witch came out. On opening night, a coworker and I made sure that one of us would be standing in the little vestibule so when people would round the corner to exit the theatre (immediately after the house lights came up)the first thing they would see was either of us facing the corner. We did it a handful of times until a startled woman punched me in the back of the head. She said sorry, and that I had startled her, as she didn’t see me until she was a few feet away. No big deal- the joy of scaring so many people was worth it. Although after that night I would request to work the box office or concession every other time I worked while Blair Witch was playing- I cleaned up A LOT of vomit due to that movie. I mean several piles- every showing.
Damn...I would've definitely asked the concession stand to stop selling vomit after like...the third pile or so
@@Funko777: But the vomit was cinemas' main source of income. They stopped selling it and now they're struggling.
It amazes me still that you don’t have more subscribers. You seem to have a healthy amount of patrons through and that’s the true sign of a quality creator.
ty for uploading at this very moment for me Mr. Beard. I appreciate it :3
Damn I hope that outro song has at least a few siblings to make an EP out of. It’s a bop!
Glad you brought up the quality of the acting in Blair witch, I feel like it's something people don't really think about or they gloss over or they misremember the cliches, I saw it several years later without any of the sub hyper background hype, knew nothing about it going in, other than it was a big deal at some point.. I just remember sitting there and at a point I started trying to pick it apart, and those performances absolutely made that film something special... Like there's definitely some silliness going on but especially for that era and for that budget, it wasn't a scary movie... And when they start ramping up the last sequences, I'm not sure I had the intended reaction.. but I do remember being absolutely compelled throughout the entire thing and genuinely feeling for how miserable everyone was...
I was very curious to find if my memories of this held up because pretty much every time I've heard somebody talk about this it's been in kind of a condescending tone and you kind of sit there and think to yourself, it wouldn't be the first time I picked something up completely different than everybody else, and who knows maybe it really doesn't hold up...
Well.. very surprised and kind of reaffirming that you pretty much traced through how I remembered watching it in my head and picked up on on a lot of the things that I remember standing out, and of all the people that I can trust to actually have a good read on that You're one of them...
I do remember being incredibly confused when it had so many sequels, I was just kind of like wait why would.. how do you make a sequel to that, this has been enlightening, I genuinely had no idea this was this whole thing beyond the the movie aspect, I just figured that was just you know good marketing independently and hype cycles ..
It is a shame though that they didn't seem to keep that same core quality, at least to the parts that I thought were the best, and normally the idea of oh we made the student film but with more violence and sex, that that sounds perfect lol and it certainly would have sounded perfect back then... But for some reason I I just stuck to the core conceit of the documentary miserable bad stuff formula as what Blair which was..
Probably would have given it more of a chance but I do remember stepping in on one of them, and it was... The tonal whiplash of being able to portray characters so realistically and then not being able to do that again kind of almost feel like it set themselves up for for failure in the end, at least in terms of functionality I'm sure they made bank.
So many franchises were absolutely great stand alones pieces of cinema that were needlessly extended way beyond initial premise.
I'm the weird guy who loves first Alien movie, good luck convincing anyone that it was masterpiece of horror sci-fi movie with actually quite realistic premise and attention to detail if anyone seen any other Alien movie which is literally opposite of that xD
I was just thinking about your last video on these characters - it's crazy to me these games existed the way they did
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How lovely that she actually does take a bath!
This engine is very lovely aesthetically... it's like a median point between PS1 Resident Evil and Gamecube REmake.
It's even more terrifying when you realize that stickmen, or yew-men, are a real phenomenon. Mansized skeleton of crackling grapevine and cedar limbs.
Yeah, real. Like Bigfoot.
Every time Grimbeard uploads I am happy. But instead of rushing to watch the video I always try to get in the mood - read a mystery book, wait for the evening, maybe light a candle or brew a coffee, make myself cozy. I don't know how to describe it, but the direction, the writing, the editing, the humour, the voice, the choice of games, references and clips - all have this warm, rich texture to them, such specific analog Buffy/Twin Peaks/Supernatural/VtMB/X-Files spooky mystery thriller feel. Wasn't surprised in the slightest when Grim mentioned Scooby-Doo, it just fits so well into the whole vibe on this channel.
this is the amount of shark every videogame should jump in its adaptational aspirations; turn a horror movie equivalent of a walking sim (positive) into an x-files-ass best game ~ever~ made RE-clone venture, 10/10 brain move
The twig men enemies are actually really close to an initial design for the entity in the movie.
The fact Blair Witch fooled so many reasonably intelligent people it was real with (now) laughably bad story, bad acting, and filmmakers with no skill or money shows you how easily manipulated the public is.
That's kinda why people were convinced cause it was bad it made it more believable when everything doesn't look or sound pristine
:O Grim Beard did a fucking review of the OG Blair Witch game?!?!!?!?!?!
LETS FUCKING GO BOYS!!!!!!!!!!
it's crazy to see a dude like this call an opinion "the normie opinion" since he has actually lived long enough to see himself become the normie....All the while sadly being unaware of the tragedy or refusing to accept it. how troubling.
Which part are you talking about, specifically? The one where he talks about the game's "target audience"?
@@Ohio.Gozaimasu he just keeps talking about normies throughout the whole second half of the video while not realizing what is a normie has changed and all the things that used to make him unique now make him the same.
@@rena10009 I see. His condescension towards people who don't appreciate the games he likes is very apparent. He even has a whole segment dedicated to it in most of his reviews (bitter recompense). I think people who mention "normies" (even in jest) probably feel unique in some way, which is pretty naive.
I don't think he's being serious when he talks about normies
The description of the cycle what we did with our physical media and what's happening next was spot on. Painfully spot on.
Fairly certain @15:18 is the actress Louise Brealey (played Molly in Sherlock). Whether or not she actually was a film journalist or indeed training to be an actress at the time is another question
1:32:48 "Uhn, and you participate in this cycle willingly?" "Maybe that's all I'm doing."
Damn, that hit too close to home.
Yeah, that hit me right in the Twin Towers.
Thank you for coming so quickly Justine.
I laughed so much at your nightmare prompts at the end of the video. Your sense of humor is great.
I always thought making a Blair Witch game crossing over with something like Nocturne was super weird, but honestly I'd kill to see this sort of thing more often. Hellboy fighting the Annabelle doll and stuff would go hard.
Absolutely thrilled to watch this, although unfortunately I grew up in the immediate vicinity of Burkittsville, which transforms every Blair-Witch-related product into a comedy. Like, they don't actually have a motel. They never have. Or a town hall. They barely have paved roads.
Grim I love your videos and your sense of humour tickles my funny bone in all the right places. Hope you're enjoying making these videos as much as we enjoy watching them!
Man your delivery in your videos over time has gotten really polished over the years, happy I found this channel and keep up the awesome work!
Everytime dude!!! How...HOW!!! Your content exceeds expectations every time!!! Amazing as always
Im watching this on my work laptop now, but had to open it on my phone to give you the extra views and engagement. May it please the algorithm 🙏
I've been looking at your channel for the past two weeks, awaiting my next fix. Thank you Papa Grim for this Beardy delicacy, that will assure my sustenance in these next days
Special project mentioned at the end sounds like quite a soda fountain concoction.
My guy, thanks. I really enjoy seeing you on my feed.
holy shit new music in the outro?? so gassed, pure acid hell was my #1 album last year n i put in 20k hours of spotify lmao, thanks for another banger vid grim
Hell yea