Garbage bait video adds absloulty nothing but view farming "content". Good job on getting algorithmd im sure the subhuman bait will gush at the quirky anime game.
The game seems nice but i didn’t see a single Goon or hear this guy mention one not even a peep about Henchmen, thugs, or lackeys if any kind, wtf does this have to do with goons?
@@MALICEM12 tbh i just think its cool ive never seen it as sexually arousing just disturbing in an intriguing way that very interestingly thematically explores sexual shame. i never had any idea people wacked it to guro but people wack it to gore so ig im not suprised.
i was streaming the last level to my friends when one of them said " is this a guro game?" and i said no at first but then it all clicked. I never really thought of it that way until that moment
I remember there being an interview with the dev about his inspirations a while back. The hyper violence stems from the devs love for like 1980s and 90s anime with him name dropping akira
Hdoom and Citadel yes but Seed of the Dead isnt really a boomer shooter but more l4d left 4 dead... well left 4 dead is pretty old now so technically...
the citadel isn't guro, or ero guro as it's frequently shortened to. guro, coming from english, means grotesque, while ero guro means erotic *and* grotesque. the content on display for the most part is simply guro, grotesque. the developer has gone on record saying he is *not* an ero guro artist, but a guro artist. the distinction is important because it's clear that while the gore in the game is grotesque, it's not meant to be taken in an erotic fashion. the only explicitly sexual content in the game that i've actually been able to see as erotic or suggestive at all is the main character's-- Martyr's --design and the final boss, which are two bare-skin girls without any genitalia or mammary glands. that's pretty much it. the game was review-bombed due to this misconception on release, especially after GmanLive's video on the game.
@@ground5295 Idk man, he's literally posted rule 34 of his game on twitter that's pretty suggestive of that. Sucks that the game got review bombed though, especially since if I'm remembering correctly, Gman was positive about it overall.
I only clicked on this because I wanted to know what tf "gooner shooter" meant, but you got me with the line "I'm not trying to kink shame anybody, but actually I am"
Definitely recommend Beyond Citadel, even just the demo is peak, got way more story, becomes even more of a gun sim, even more down bad, pretty much just an enhancement in all ways.
Played through the game a week ago after having owned it for a few years and then saw this video pop up, reinforcing the idea that we live in a simulation. Anyways, good video and fun game. The pump-action shotgun with the choke upgrade is peak, absolute prime shotgun material.
I subscribed instantly to this mf when I noticed he actually put effort into knowing what in the hell is he talking about when rambling about shit that is relevant but not directly related to the game. Extra effort pays off.
Rly refreshing to see someone who actually explains stuff, very interesting vid about one of my fav shooters. Played through it this year, lowkey hyped of beyond citadel cuz it looks even crazier
I played through this game with my door open because I had a housemate who was into anime and retro shooters. Guess which boss I was fighting when he walked past?
1) You're right, I haven't. 2) Did this come out before or after Hedon? I can't actually remember. Either way, I own that one too so you know it's getting a video at some point.
@@snesbagel I think hedon was first. Originally it was just a free game you could download from Moddb (this version still exists). Steam version, Bloodrite, didn't come out till way later
@@snesbagel If Azathoth were awoken all existence would evaporate like a dream that's come to an end. Best case scenario would be Azathoth going back to sleep and hopefully dreaming up a better universe. I've also noticed that in Lovecraft's stories, Nyarlahotep seems to "hunt" humans who attain immortality of soul in the dream lands, hinting that perhaps when humans realize that they don't have to die, those thoughts cause the sleeping to stir in his slumber. Or maybe that dreams which are superbly humane and ideal might awaken the sleeping god? But in the end if the universe is truly indifferent then that indifference even applies to Azathoth, who may some day be overthrown by someone who's even better at sleeping than Azathoth is.
It is awoken it's just that time and such moves at a different speed, yeah. can't you feel it drifting off, like something in slow motion or high frames per second
Hey, I've never really watched a smaller channel before, but I've started watching your videos and they are really good, here's hoping that you start getting the views you deserve.
I don’t get why fetishes revolving around physical and emotional devastation are so popular… in this day and age all my fantasies are of genuine love and comfort. I used to think I was weird for it but I guess I should count myself lucky.
Subbed. Your reading, coverage, gameplay and flow are all on point. Ive seen this game in my recommends on steam but havent seen any real coverage and the store page didnt really sell it to me
I was actually surprised at the level of research you had done into Ero Guro. Usually people just associate it with porn and sweep it under the rug. However, I would like to make minor corrections. I wouldn't say Rampo invented it, but he was the most famous to get involved into it. The art movement more developed with heightened censorship laws in the 1910s and 20s. Art and literary magazines would push the envelopes in response to the censorship laws, arguing that they are unfairly and unevenly enforced. They would obscure the lines of upsetting imagery, yet not violate the laws to the letter, seeing if such things would still get pushback by censors. It is incredibly hard to get a hold of much of the literature made at the time, though supposedly there are libraries out in the world preserving them. You are on point definitely about the 1960s and 1970s being a cinematic era of Ero-guro. Funnily enough a lot of the films were Rampo adaptations. The pornographic part of the era (pink films) is a little more complicated. A great piece of reading I recommend is Behind the Pink Curtain by Jasper Sharp (though it is relatively hard to get a hold of now, hopefully this changes). Where Jasper lays out the development of sex cinema in Japan and its oddly political roots. Pink films aren't purely for pornographic purposes (at least a chunk of them). Films from companies like Wakamatsu Production were actually attempts to get out from under the rigid Japanese film system and were widely accepted in important international film festivals as political works of art. Much of it supposedly commenting on war and societal violence. Was that to say that it wasn't supposed to be spicy? No, it was still supposed to be titillating and exciting, admittedly. But, politics was supposedly at the forefront of the creators' minds. Even into the early 2000s, pink films still had political edge to them in different ways. However, by that point, pink films and straight up pornos were very much distinct from each other; pink films having a distinctly softcore edge. I would argue that through the 90s and the 2000s, Ero Guro still maintains an artistic edge that we do so outside of weirdo sicko type hentai. A whole sub-genre of music is dedicated to the aesthetic (Ero Guro Kei...Shout out to Early Cali-Gari). I do hope that there is a chance to educate people on its history before people get categorized with the gore freaks out there.
@@wintermute5974 I do have a digital copy, but I do hope to retrieve a physical copy at some point. That and a bunch of others on the subject. If I was rich, I'd be broke.
I'll be frank, I think it a little bit unfair to call it a "gooner" shooter when the only really sexualized element is The Martyr's outfit and the fact that you could see her chest and her legs when you look down. The rest of the game is a really solid Marathon-like with unnecessarily tactical mechanics and hardcore over-the-top gory violence taken straight from Brutal Doom. It probably would've been more widely accepted by the boomer shooter community in a heartbeat if it weren't for the anime artstyle. That said, I am beyond hyped (lol) for Beyond Citadel. Played the demo for that recently and found it a net upgrade pretty much across the board, especially in the aspect of making the environments actually look somewhat varied, rather than being made of the same dark teal textures for literally every aspect of the environment the way the first game did.
Yeah lmao, plus the amount he jokes about it just being fetish content is insane. Like when he tries to talk about Guro instead of saying straight up what it is (it’s just gore) he divulges into a separate genre for 0. Lowkey started to feel brain rot just listening
@@noisehero4409 Idk how many times I have to point out that the dev posts guro art on his twitter but I guess that's just how it is. I talked about guro in the vid because I saw a bunch of people mentioning it and the connection made sense to me at least. The jokes were just meant to be funny, idk what the big deal is.
@@snesbagel Idk more that it was unnecessary and had nothing to do with the game itself, when you actually talked about the game it was cool but whenever you trailed off just to make abunch of “haha coomer haha gooner haha weird porn” jokes it kills the momentum. It’s just criticism and opinions no need to get offended. Also don’t like a comment you’re going to respond negatively to, kinda backwards.
The dev got a lot of shit 4 years ago because people were accusing him of being a guro artist, hopefully people chill out this time instead of continuing to harass the guy.
@@fojisan2398 Most human beings would in fact, not play a game that's got links to the fetishization of gore, maybe not harass the creator (obviously do not do that) but most normal human beings would care enough to at least not play the game so I'd argue that more then twitter gives a shit.
Don't remember but I believe the dev came back to this game and did some updates including to the character to giver her a slightly larger chest to match the sequel.
I had a little chat with the creator of this strange masterpiece. He was a humble regular guy except for the fact he's constantly struggling between ruining his own mind with wretched world building and pure fun gameplay for people. That's the kind of guy I want to let them making indie games on the dimest corner of Steam.
never saw the gore as sexual thing (even the dev ranted about it NOT being sexual when people called him out on it) but i guess its all "guro and goon" when the exploding gibs is of a woman. but i cant really defend the dev's twitter likes and art he made tho LMAO
Since you touched on it, uh, a good reminder for people to not harass the creator, as far as we know they didn't hurt anything but his creations, we're all weird in different amount of ways. I think at release one UA-camr talked about it and it caused a massive amount of strange people harassing them, not even the UA-camr fault either, you just, never know the people that follow you, pretty sure they apologized too even tho' it's not necessarily their fault. It's a single dev, they're passionate about a lot of things, you might not like some, but its always fiction unless proven otherwise, if you don't like it, act like an adult and don't buy it and move on. But yeah, guro's weird, but it really adds to the horror here. The second game is looking amazing tho', you can dropkick motherfuckers, its incredible. You didn't touch on it, but this game has a lot of options for like, real gun physics and shit which makes the game even harder, but its kinda cool that its there, and that you can opt for something more arcadey if you don't like dealing with bullet drops.
I love my, UA-cam recommended, and learning about things I didn't know of previously as staying closed off to the west was, probably a better idea for my own wellbeing
I’m surprised you don’t have more subs? Your commentary is wonderful across all your videos I’ve seen (Half-Life mostly). This is definitely a game I would’ve never known about or bothered interacting with (not rlly into this genre) but I’m glad to know of it’s existence, sorta in the way cavemen discovered the dangers of fire or bears I’d prefer to avoid the psychologically scarring from this one and my new found vocabulary from this video lol. Great video.
Thank you for introducing me to this game! I’m exactly the target demographic. This is some high quality ero guro. I hope that adds to your disturbance in a good way lol.
I think there's something so darkly ironic and comedic about how a dude making a game for his fetish that is so fucked up and bizarre that it somehow manages to loop back around and be actually a pretty good entry into the boom-shooter medium but for entirely different reasons for most people.
@@snesbagel A true gooner realizes a game should be entertaining both pre- and post-goon sesh. Genuinely though this game is almost certainly helped by the fact the dude's fetish is conveniently very horror-adjacent, outside of couple signs I could see a good chunk of people not even noticing this is a fetish thing at first just exceptionally gory.
I just want more people to know about this game and talk about it. I recognize that its not everyones cup of tea and its got some offputting imagery. But at its core its a damn fine game made by a very passionate guy. I love this and can't wait to see more from Beyond Citadel.
I bought this after reading a review that said it was "a mix of Marathon and Aeon Flux"...and although really weird, the gameplay was great. There's a really cool remake of the first act in the Entropy Zero 2 workshop too on Steam.
@@snesbagel Haha, you'll love it when you finally get around to it, but check out the workshop on that one when you do, I was surprised at how packed it was with well-developed mods , they even have Mission Improbable and Nightmare House 2 as full campaigns you can play with EZ 2's new gameplay mechanics.
Fun fact: Michio Hashimoto and Tomoaki Deguchi made a name for themselves in the Marathon community for their Vidmaster videos (basically a completionist challenge set by Bungie for enthusiastic players alike using the "videos" feature of the Marathon Trilogy). Hashimoto even made an unofficial Marathon comic, which, curiously, is much more Western-styled than people would probably like to admit.
If you notice closely, the enemies that you blow up with the horrified faces looking at you, they slowly move away from you, because they're still alive.
The Dev themselves came out and said its not a guro game, and not to buy it if thats what you want (because apparently guro fans are upset the game wasnt nsfw ENOUGH).
Definitely a weird game, and for more reasons than meet the eye. You mentioned the performance issues. Well, the game tries to make the gibs look like they are 2d sprites, except they are not, they are flat 3d objects that ROTATE IN REAL TIME to alwas face you. That's a mindblowing waste of computing power, and if this is what we have on the surface, then I dread to imagine what else is inside it.
i feel like this sounds weird, but the moment i saw the name of the game my first thought was The Shaded Citadel for rain world (no correlation, they're just both called citadel)
3:22 Apparently there's a huge stigma in Japan for shooter games, its also one of the reasons why the on-foot sections of Star Fox Assault were not received well there, as well as numerous FPS series like Halo or COD never reaching the popularity there they did in the States.
Watching this video and seeing the movement and weapons all I could think about was Marathon and Marathon Durandal. I can practically hear the Marathon music while watching .
@@snesbagel i dont disagree but shooters have had sexual content since duke nukem 3d and theres been tons of standalone titles with sexual content as main focus before the citadel (before you move the goalposts there), as hundreds of other commenters have pointed out and will probably continue to point out as long as that title stands actually lets see how long it takes for the next one
@@RayTC Fuck's sake, it's supposed to be a play on the term "boomer shooter", half the comments saying I'm wrong are talking about H-Doom (which is a mod, not a full game) and Hedon (which came out afterwards). It's supposed to be a joke, I didn't expect people to take this shit that seriously.
I get the strong impression that what makes a game run well is lots of fiddling with the graphics drivers - all of them, from every possible GPU - and how the game software interfaces with those drivers in order to throw its image onto your screen. This is the kind of mundane, uninteresting work that AAA studios excel at because they can just throw bodies at the problem, bodies who don't get to quit until all the bugs are worked out and the game runs smooth. By contrast, one motivated bedroom dev with a vision can put out some impressive games, but lacks the will or the manpower to do this optimization work. Often the dev just says "eh, good enough", especially when it's one for the goon cave and you have to pretend you didn't make it. It's one of the big downsides of indy development.
"Don't worry about me, I visit monastery regularly when I help people meet God." On a serious note, I love your channel from the first sight, your review is perfect, I hope I am your 1000th subscriber, congratulations!
Garbage bait video adds absloulty nothing but view farming "content". Good job on getting algorithmd im sure the subhuman bait will gush at the quirky anime game.
Thnx fam, I appreciate it. ❤
What fucking bait man
cannot believe that zombie hobo 49 would do this, absolutely unforgivable.
@@threestrawsandasaladspoon2057 I'm straight fiendin'.
he clicked the video for alternate reasons
>Claims to not be an expert on bizarre internet pornography
>Gives the most in depth explanation of guro I've ever heard
I'm willing to learn lol.
paved road...
@@Alfenium ?
@@snesbagel pretty sure that's an indirect "road to hell" joke
he didn't mention anything about the weird hyper violent 80s ovas like Genocyber
Hdoom Edged so that The Citadel could Goon
🍆🍆💦💦💦
too real
Are we going to memory hole Duke Nukem 3D? I know it's a different engine, but I feel it deserves a mention.
@@timsievers2067 Eh, I can't really goon to that one.
What about that one hl2 mod
Sigh, I remember a day when being a goon meant you just robbed people with stalkings over your head. Probably said "blood" a lot.
Don't forget the vaguely Italian-American accent, too!
@@knocked_for_six You mean an E G G P L A N T?
and you called your leader "boss"
ay boss, whats da plan?
@@biloudz358 "Boys. Handle this."
The game seems nice but i didn’t see a single Goon or hear this guy mention one not even a peep about Henchmen, thugs, or lackeys if any kind, wtf does this have to do with goons?
My goons told me to play this game.
ay boss whats da plan?
Oh sweet summer child... How to explain...
@@blisteringstars Got a question? Ask da boss.
@@blisteringstars Hehehe yeeeaah, Da boss says weah gunna get em reeeeel deeeep this toime! Eheheheheh! Neva know what hiddum!
“I’m not a porn expert.” Spends the next 5 minutes describing a type of niche degenerate porn.
Honestly as someone who has seen plenty of Guro, I didn't even know it's backstory. Bro fucking deep dived into the lore of gore.
@@MALICEM12 that rhyme goes hard
@@MALICEM12 tbh i just think its cool ive never seen it as sexually arousing just disturbing in an intriguing way that very interestingly thematically explores sexual shame. i never had any idea people wacked it to guro but people wack it to gore so ig im not suprised.
Goon
Goon 2: Edge on Earth
Goon 64
Goon 3: Resurrection of Egirls
Goon 2016
Goon Eternal
Goon: The Jelq Age
Goon: the dark ages
Goon: the horny ages
Goon 2 Soon
Goon 34
i was streaming the last level to my friends when one of them said " is this a guro game?" and i said no at first but then it all clicked. I never really thought of it that way until that moment
The disease of "Oh hell yeah ultra detailed robot art to go with the game let's go"
That's when you know a fetish is done right in popular media. When normal folk can't tell it's a fetish. But those who enjoy it know.
@@MALICEM12 Turns to look at his friend >.>....
@@merccc1 XD
All I want to know, what was the conversation like after that? Did you just go, "ahhhhhhh... FUCK! ... well ... still gotta beat it..."
I remember there being an interview with the dev about his inspirations a while back. The hyper violence stems from the devs love for like 1980s and 90s anime with him name dropping akira
Makes sense. The artstyle does have that vibe.
Genocyber
Yeah I miss how cool and dark and detailed anime used to be
@@MALICEM12 fr nowadays almost every anime loses what made the manga special in terms of detail
What are you talking about? The story is obviously a retelling of Aladdin
There it is.
i dont get it
@@wokeuplikedis1500 It's a reference to a joke I made in the video.
I stumbled on this comment right when he said that.
THEY CALLED HIM, THE GOON SLAYER
IN THE FIRST AGE, IN THE FIRST BATTLE
WHEN THE SHADOWS FIRST GOONED
I read that in the voice 😂
This ain-t the first gooner shooter, it-s just the first gooner shooter with deep lore
*Laughs in Hdoom, Seed of the Dead*
Hdoom and Citadel yes but Seed of the Dead isnt really a boomer shooter but more l4d left 4 dead... well left 4 dead is pretty old now so technically...
@@reimuhakurei2123
You've obviously never played the uncensored versions.
Not my proudest moment, or knowledge.😭😭😭😭💀☠️
@@ChiefWombatCuddler wdym uncensored versions?
@@reimuhakurei2123 alot more explicit and ntr events
@@gudaguda5523 yeah i know and ew ntr but idk why he brought up never saw uncensored version
BRUH ITS ANIME PROJECT WARLOCK IM CRYING
this is so tame compared to what the title would lead me to believe.
I was expecting something like a modern hdoom or something lmao.
"The first gooner shooter"
Duke nukem 3D: "am I a joke to you?"
Duke is too charismatic to be considered a gooner.
Even my adolescent ass couldn't get off to those low res pixel titties.
shake it babey!
@@snesbageltrue, even when gooning he's a chad
@@MALICEM12But Duke never has to goon 😎
1:45 - I like how your first instinct is to shoot this hither-to unidentified creature.
normal human discovers guro
Normies
I appreciate being called a normal human lol.
@@snesbagel nice to see you commenting, great video!
the citadel isn't guro, or ero guro as it's frequently shortened to. guro, coming from english, means grotesque, while ero guro means erotic *and* grotesque. the content on display for the most part is simply guro, grotesque.
the developer has gone on record saying he is *not* an ero guro artist, but a guro artist. the distinction is important because it's clear that while the gore in the game is grotesque, it's not meant to be taken in an erotic fashion. the only explicitly sexual content in the game that i've actually been able to see as erotic or suggestive at all is the main character's-- Martyr's --design and the final boss, which are two bare-skin girls without any genitalia or mammary glands. that's pretty much it.
the game was review-bombed due to this misconception on release, especially after GmanLive's video on the game.
@@ground5295 Idk man, he's literally posted rule 34 of his game on twitter that's pretty suggestive of that. Sucks that the game got review bombed though, especially since if I'm remembering correctly, Gman was positive about it overall.
I only clicked on this because I wanted to know what tf "gooner shooter" meant, but you got me with the line "I'm not trying to kink shame anybody, but actually I am"
bro entirely forgot the axe due to his massive skill issue
I never used it.
Yeah, well the developer of this game forgot to use the axe too. I mean axe body spray cuz the developer must stink from gooning in his room too much.
axe is really strong
@@FuriousMaximum developer catching random stray shots for no reason
@@Celstraynah, he ain’t beating the goober allegations…
/he is beating something tho/
Definitely recommend Beyond Citadel, even just the demo is peak, got way more story, becomes even more of a gun sim, even more down bad, pretty much just an enhancement in all ways.
Very excited for the full version of Beyond Citadel
Enable realistic reloads
Start level with several magazines
End the level wondering why the R key isn't reloading your gun 🙃
@@boi8328 this goofy ahh mf doesn't know to press a separate key to remove magazine
Even more down bad? 👀
Is down bad in a good way or down bad in a scary way? 🤔
"It's better hearing it from me than DeviantArt" I've never heard a better sentence in my fucking life
12:45 You beat it in about five hours?
Damn bro, you got some endurance to ya!
I ask no forgiveness and I will offer no apology.
I feel like an idiot, that took me like a full half a minute to get.
It's right in the title!
@@kinkrow6221 Like I said, I'm an idiot.
I replay it everyday as a part of my morning routine
I went 6 hours a few days ago and ripped the skin. I wish my daddy gave me good advice on how not to rip the skin.
Played through the game a week ago after having owned it for a few years and then saw this video pop up, reinforcing the idea that we live in a simulation.
Anyways, good video and fun game. The pump-action shotgun with the choke upgrade is peak, absolute prime shotgun material.
Idk how the first part correlates lol but yeah, the shotgun is good.
A reviewer who does actual research? Am I dreaming?
I subscribed instantly to this mf when I noticed he actually put effort into knowing what in the hell is he talking about when rambling about shit that is relevant but not directly related to the game. Extra effort pays off.
Well this is a hell of a recommendation, UA-cam really does know me too well. Good video and i like your voice.
I appreciate it homie.
*goon video
Rly refreshing to see someone who actually explains stuff, very interesting vid about one of my fav shooters. Played through it this year, lowkey hyped of beyond citadel cuz it looks even crazier
Yeh, I need to check out gameplay of it.
@@snesbagel Go for it!! u got a new sub I enjoy your reviews
Ofcourse the video with "goon" in the title gets the most views
Gotta start upping my goon game and figuring out how to make every vid title vaguely horny now.
"You need a monastery" killed me
Not the greatest look that a gooner shooter review is the reason ive subscribed to the channel but here we are
Glad to have you here!
(*loads shotgun*)
You know what they say, better to be a gooner than a goner
This is my favorite FPS, and it's why I went to college for programming, and am now making an FPS. I'm glad you like it.
I played through this game with my door open because I had a housemate who was into anime and retro shooters. Guess which boss I was fighting when he walked past?
Finaly, Systemcock
Really did watch the whole video waiting for him to explain the mechanics of a game meant to be played with one hand.
Well at least you watched the whole thing lol.
I think "down bad" is an understatement
If you think this is the first of its kind, you haven't played Hedon
1) You're right, I haven't.
2) Did this come out before or after Hedon? I can't actually remember. Either way, I own that one too so you know it's getting a video at some point.
@@snesbagel I think hedon was first. Originally it was just a free game you could download from Moddb (this version still exists). Steam version, Bloodrite, didn't come out till way later
@@snesbagelbefore
@@isseisato1689 Thnx fam.
@@isseisato1689 fuck u mean
Hedon was way earlier than this
The Sleeping God is Azathoth.
Our entire universe is just Azathoth's dream.
Basically a universal game of Don't Wake Daddy.
Oh so it's more of a Lovecraft thing than I thought at first.
@@snesbagel If Azathoth were awoken all existence would evaporate like a dream that's come to an end. Best case scenario would be Azathoth going back to sleep and hopefully dreaming up a better universe. I've also noticed that in Lovecraft's stories, Nyarlahotep seems to "hunt" humans who attain immortality of soul in the dream lands, hinting that perhaps when humans realize that they don't have to die, those thoughts cause the sleeping to stir in his slumber. Or maybe that dreams which are superbly humane and ideal might awaken the sleeping god? But in the end if the universe is truly indifferent then that indifference even applies to Azathoth, who may some day be overthrown by someone who's even better at sleeping than Azathoth is.
@@mrredeefYeah, I'm familiar with the lore I've read most of Lovecraft's stories and all of his books.
It is awoken it's just that time and such moves at a different speed, yeah. can't you feel it drifting off, like something in slow motion or high frames per second
Disgusting... Why can't people just have a normal, good old fashioned gore folder like the rest of us?
Everyday we stray further bro.
@@snesbagel Everyday we edge further from God
Remember, if you think what you're into is bad, there are worse things out there.
@@snesbageljokes on you god is into that shit. Why do you think evil and suffering exist?
Hey, I've never really watched a smaller channel before, but I've started watching your videos and they are really good, here's hoping that you start getting the views you deserve.
Thnx fam, I appreciate it.
Commenting again to help the algorithm lol this channel deserves more views
I appreciate it a lot fam.
And people think I'm sick for liking pregnant women. In my fantasies, the women are safe, happy and comfortable.
I didn't need to know that.
@frogblasttheventcore69 it's a good fetish fam
goated
Oversharing online is getting crazy 💀@@frogblasttheventcore69
I don’t get why fetishes revolving around physical and emotional devastation are so popular… in this day and age all my fantasies are of genuine love and comfort. I used to think I was weird for it but I guess I should count myself lucky.
This is certainly one of the strangest games I’ve seen in a while. Your review does an excellent job of dissecting this odd experience
Hdoom's Legacy and its consequences on the Coomer Shooter
Guro ain't that bad, its like fine wine, not everyone can appreciate tastefulness of it, you earned a sub tho
I might absolutely despise the topic of the video but I can admire your dedication to research. Subscribed.
you gained a subscriber my guy you do research and funny commentary? i love you already
Thnx fam, I appreciate it.
Subbed.
Your reading, coverage, gameplay and flow are all on point.
Ive seen this game in my recommends on steam but havent seen any real coverage and the store page didnt really sell it to me
Wasn’t expecting to learn the origins of guro today but here we are lmao
This is a modern retelling of god of war 2 I Don t see how you could not see that
I'm blind. My keyboard is in braille.
Sounds like an interesting game. Thank you for the showcase.
My time has come (pun intended)
You have been blessed by the algorithm for making in-depth analyses on very obscure and messed up games. Take this and run with it.
I plan to lol.
I was actually surprised at the level of research you had done into Ero Guro. Usually people just associate it with porn and sweep it under the rug. However, I would like to make minor corrections. I wouldn't say Rampo invented it, but he was the most famous to get involved into it. The art movement more developed with heightened censorship laws in the 1910s and 20s. Art and literary magazines would push the envelopes in response to the censorship laws, arguing that they are unfairly and unevenly enforced. They would obscure the lines of upsetting imagery, yet not violate the laws to the letter, seeing if such things would still get pushback by censors. It is incredibly hard to get a hold of much of the literature made at the time, though supposedly there are libraries out in the world preserving them.
You are on point definitely about the 1960s and 1970s being a cinematic era of Ero-guro. Funnily enough a lot of the films were Rampo adaptations. The pornographic part of the era (pink films) is a little more complicated. A great piece of reading I recommend is Behind the Pink Curtain by Jasper Sharp (though it is relatively hard to get a hold of now, hopefully this changes). Where Jasper lays out the development of sex cinema in Japan and its oddly political roots. Pink films aren't purely for pornographic purposes (at least a chunk of them). Films from companies like Wakamatsu Production were actually attempts to get out from under the rigid Japanese film system and were widely accepted in important international film festivals as political works of art. Much of it supposedly commenting on war and societal violence. Was that to say that it wasn't supposed to be spicy? No, it was still supposed to be titillating and exciting, admittedly. But, politics was supposedly at the forefront of the creators' minds. Even into the early 2000s, pink films still had political edge to them in different ways. However, by that point, pink films and straight up pornos were very much distinct from each other; pink films having a distinctly softcore edge.
I would argue that through the 90s and the 2000s, Ero Guro still maintains an artistic edge that we do so outside of weirdo sicko type hentai. A whole sub-genre of music is dedicated to the aesthetic (Ero Guro Kei...Shout out to Early Cali-Gari). I do hope that there is a chance to educate people on its history before people get categorized with the gore freaks out there.
why do you know so much about it
@@Triikouu Wrote two college reports on it and have been tempted to make youtube videos about it but my mic sucks lol.
There's actually a scan of Behind the Pink Curtain up on the internet archive.
@@Triikouu It come up more often that you'd think if you're interested in the history of Japanese cinema.
@@wintermute5974 I do have a digital copy, but I do hope to retrieve a physical copy at some point. That and a bunch of others on the subject. If I was rich, I'd be broke.
Excellent video!! You do your research, you're funny, and have a good voice for this! Keep em coming!🎉
I'll be frank, I think it a little bit unfair to call it a "gooner" shooter when the only really sexualized element is The Martyr's outfit and the fact that you could see her chest and her legs when you look down. The rest of the game is a really solid Marathon-like with unnecessarily tactical mechanics and hardcore over-the-top gory violence taken straight from Brutal Doom. It probably would've been more widely accepted by the boomer shooter community in a heartbeat if it weren't for the anime artstyle. That said, I am beyond hyped (lol) for Beyond Citadel. Played the demo for that recently and found it a net upgrade pretty much across the board, especially in the aspect of making the environments actually look somewhat varied, rather than being made of the same dark teal textures for literally every aspect of the environment the way the first game did.
The title is a joke. I doubt that many people have masturbated to this game.
@@snesbagel”that many”
Yeah lmao, plus the amount he jokes about it just being fetish content is insane. Like when he tries to talk about Guro instead of saying straight up what it is (it’s just gore) he divulges into a separate genre for 0. Lowkey started to feel brain rot just listening
@@noisehero4409 Idk how many times I have to point out that the dev posts guro art on his twitter but I guess that's just how it is. I talked about guro in the vid because I saw a bunch of people mentioning it and the connection made sense to me at least. The jokes were just meant to be funny, idk what the big deal is.
@@snesbagel Idk more that it was unnecessary and had nothing to do with the game itself, when you actually talked about the game it was cool but whenever you trailed off just to make abunch of “haha coomer haha gooner haha weird porn” jokes it kills the momentum. It’s just criticism and opinions no need to get offended. Also don’t like a comment you’re going to respond negatively to, kinda backwards.
You beat it for 5 hours you say? Bold confession on a video.
only 5k subs? wow you're underrated. Not even the content I usually watch but can tell you put a lot of effort into it
Thnx fam, I really appreciate it.
The dev got a lot of shit 4 years ago because people were accusing him of being a guro artist, hopefully people chill out this time instead of continuing to harass the guy.
I don't endorse people shitting on him but I can't really blame people for getting that impression.
I have checked some of his art and...yeah. He is but like, only Twitter police care about that shit.
@@fojisan2398 Most human beings would in fact, not play a game that's got links to the fetishization of gore, maybe not harass the creator (obviously do not do that) but most normal human beings would care enough to at least not play the game so I'd argue that more then twitter gives a shit.
@@ballstealer Well they need to learn to mind their own fucking business then
@@fojisan2398 I wasn't implying otherwise lmao
Had to stop the video because this looks good and I don't wanna get spoiled. Great vid!
Oh man, Civvie11 is gonna gonna have a field day over this
10:05 "Now I'm not trying to kink shame, or anything, but I actually am and this shit is fucked up."
b a s e d 😂
Don't remember but I believe the dev came back to this game and did some updates including to the character to giver her a slightly larger chest to match the sequel.
Lol, dude's got a one track mind. Gotta respect the commitment though.
There is in fact old sprites left in the game, if you start a new game, at the very beginning in the white room, don't move, and simply look down.
The jab at lore youtubers is so funny, love that one.
I had a little chat with the creator of this strange masterpiece. He was a humble regular guy except for the fact he's constantly struggling between ruining his own mind with wretched world building and pure fun gameplay for people. That's the kind of guy I want to let them making indie games on the dimest corner of Steam.
3:17 : you know, i could very easily make a galgun joke here
never saw the gore as sexual thing (even the dev ranted about it NOT being sexual when people called him out on it) but i guess its all "guro and goon" when the exploding gibs is of a woman. but i cant really defend the dev's twitter likes and art he made tho LMAO
Yeah, like I said, I didn't even think twice about it until I saw his twitter.
1:46 Leprechaun! Oh wait, that's an innocence. Oh well.
Since you touched on it, uh, a good reminder for people to not harass the creator, as far as we know they didn't hurt anything but his creations, we're all weird in different amount of ways. I think at release one UA-camr talked about it and it caused a massive amount of strange people harassing them, not even the UA-camr fault either, you just, never know the people that follow you, pretty sure they apologized too even tho' it's not necessarily their fault.
It's a single dev, they're passionate about a lot of things, you might not like some, but its always fiction unless proven otherwise, if you don't like it, act like an adult and don't buy it and move on.
But yeah, guro's weird, but it really adds to the horror here. The second game is looking amazing tho', you can dropkick motherfuckers, its incredible. You didn't touch on it, but this game has a lot of options for like, real gun physics and shit which makes the game even harder, but its kinda cool that its there, and that you can opt for something more arcadey if you don't like dealing with bullet drops.
I love my, UA-cam recommended, and learning about things I didn't know of previously as staying closed off to the west was, probably a better idea for my own wellbeing
THE GOON SHOOTER
The Science Team approves of this new simulation
I’m surprised you don’t have more subs? Your commentary is wonderful across all your videos I’ve seen (Half-Life mostly). This is definitely a game I would’ve never known about or bothered interacting with (not rlly into this genre) but I’m glad to know of it’s existence, sorta in the way cavemen discovered the dangers of fire or bears I’d prefer to avoid the psychologically scarring from this one and my new found vocabulary from this video lol. Great video.
Thnx fam, I'm glad you like the videos.
A review of a wack-ass niche game i love with cry of fear OST as the background music.. I might be in love.
Cultured individuals have a habit of finding each other in the wilds.
Thank you for introducing me to this game! I’m exactly the target demographic. This is some high quality ero guro. I hope that adds to your disturbance in a good way lol.
Find god 🙏
@@BlazeThyAfkI did he was mid tbh
Clicked for the funny title, subbed for the good video.
I thought this was gonna be about The Emperor’s Children
Khorne and slaanesh finally had a co-production with this
@@cyrusmann5443And the story was written by Tzeentch
@@fojisan2398 yeah, and tzeentch also wrote kingdom hearts and fnaf lore.
@@cyrusmann5443don't forget elder scrolls
Can’t wait for more videos. I’ll skip this one but I’ll definitely like and subscribe
I think there's something so darkly ironic and comedic about how a dude making a game for his fetish that is so fucked up and bizarre that it somehow manages to loop back around and be actually a pretty good entry into the boom-shooter medium but for entirely different reasons for most people.
Honestly, it's kind of admirable. He wanted it to stand on its own as a good game before anything.
@@snesbagel A true gooner realizes a game should be entertaining both pre- and post-goon sesh.
Genuinely though this game is almost certainly helped by the fact the dude's fetish is conveniently very horror-adjacent, outside of couple signs I could see a good chunk of people not even noticing this is a fetish thing at first just exceptionally gory.
@@theodorehodbor5080 Hell, like I said, I didn't notice it at first lol.
Congrats on this video blowing up
Thnx fam, it's been pretty crazy to see.
Can we go back to where goons were evil henchmen and not people who wonk their willies?
The industrial revolution and its consequences.
@@snesbagel :C
First thing I thought when I heard about this game was "guro"
also, first video I have watched by you
subbed within a couple of minutes
Nikke:
That one doom mod:
This mod is actually worth talking about compared to that ai-generated sludge.
I just want more people to know about this game and talk about it. I recognize that its not everyones cup of tea and its got some offputting imagery. But at its core its a damn fine game made by a very passionate guy. I love this and can't wait to see more from Beyond Citadel.
Yeh, Beyond looks really good
@@snesbagel heck yea! I can't wait for it to drop. Hope it's as good as the first.
I bought this after reading a review that said it was "a mix of Marathon and Aeon Flux"...and although really weird, the gameplay was great. There's a really cool remake of the first act in the Entropy Zero 2 workshop too on Steam.
I definitely need to check that out. I also need to just play Entropy: Zero 2 lol.
@@snesbagel Haha, you'll love it when you finally get around to it, but check out the workshop on that one when you do, I was surprised at how packed it was with well-developed mods , they even have Mission Improbable and Nightmare House 2 as full campaigns you can play with EZ 2's new gameplay mechanics.
@@robcoguy6909 That's crazy. Also crazy that we have mods for a mod lol.
Fun fact: Michio Hashimoto and Tomoaki Deguchi made a name for themselves in the Marathon community for their Vidmaster videos (basically a completionist challenge set by Bungie for enthusiastic players alike using the "videos" feature of the Marathon Trilogy). Hashimoto even made an unofficial Marathon comic, which, curiously, is much more Western-styled than people would probably like to admit.
If you notice closely, the enemies that you blow up with the horrified faces looking at you, they slowly move away from you, because they're still alive.
Hot
The Dev themselves came out and said its not a guro game, and not to buy it if thats what you want (because apparently guro fans are upset the game wasnt nsfw ENOUGH).
Dude, this video rocks. I’ll definitely check out this game it looks awesome
Definitely a weird game, and for more reasons than meet the eye. You mentioned the performance issues. Well, the game tries to make the gibs look like they are 2d sprites, except they are not, they are flat 3d objects that ROTATE IN REAL TIME to alwas face you. That's a mindblowing waste of computing power, and if this is what we have on the surface, then I dread to imagine what else is inside it.
That is bizarre.
"Now Im not trying to kink shame, but actually I am because this is absolutely fucked up."
Never agreed more in my life.
i feel like this sounds weird, but the moment i saw the name of the game my first thought was The Shaded Citadel for rain world (no correlation, they're just both called citadel)
3:22 Apparently there's a huge stigma in Japan for shooter games, its also one of the reasons why the on-foot sections of Star Fox Assault were not received well there, as well as numerous FPS series like Halo or COD never reaching the popularity there they did in the States.
Watching this video and seeing the movement and weapons all I could think about was Marathon and Marathon Durandal. I can practically hear the Marathon music while watching .
The dev said that Marathon was a big inspiration, I'm just dumb and forgot to mention it.
Really good video. You've got a very pleasant speaking voice and I'm sure you'll go far if you keep doing what you're doing.
“Gooner Shooter” is an insane combination of words
dumb clickbait title for what is otherwise a solid 5/10 video
feeling mildly disappointed in place of your parents
Title was meant to be funny homie.
@@snesbagel last i checked being wrong isnt being funny
@@RayTC I'm not though. Titillation is clearly a goal of the game.
@@snesbagel i dont disagree but shooters have had sexual content since duke nukem 3d and theres been tons of standalone titles with sexual content as main focus before the citadel (before you move the goalposts there), as hundreds of other commenters have pointed out and will probably continue to point out as long as that title stands
actually lets see how long it takes for the next one
@@RayTC Fuck's sake, it's supposed to be a play on the term "boomer shooter", half the comments saying I'm wrong are talking about H-Doom (which is a mod, not a full game) and Hedon (which came out afterwards). It's supposed to be a joke, I didn't expect people to take this shit that seriously.
I’m glad more people are discovering this game
I get the strong impression that what makes a game run well is lots of fiddling with the graphics drivers - all of them, from every possible GPU - and how the game software interfaces with those drivers in order to throw its image onto your screen. This is the kind of mundane, uninteresting work that AAA studios excel at because they can just throw bodies at the problem, bodies who don't get to quit until all the bugs are worked out and the game runs smooth. By contrast, one motivated bedroom dev with a vision can put out some impressive games, but lacks the will or the manpower to do this optimization work. Often the dev just says "eh, good enough", especially when it's one for the goon cave and you have to pretend you didn't make it. It's one of the big downsides of indy development.
I have come close to losing my mind I was playing for so long, days stroking my slong👌
TRUE STRENGTH.
"Don't worry about me, I visit monastery regularly when I help people meet God."
On a serious note, I love your channel from the first sight, your review is perfect, I hope I am your 1000th subscriber, congratulations!
I appreciate the shit out of you homie.
Sounds like a Max0r line 😂