It was only when I paused the video that I realised that I was sat here, alone, at night, in the dark, eating Doritos, watching a grown man play a game about Disney princesses, which had my full attention. I think I fucked up somewhere along the line.
Jim, acting too cool for character customization, some tricky editing covered up that it took him hours to decide his princess dress, hair color, shoes and jewellery.
"I get a magic wand?" Yes child, it can do anything for you, apart from keep you away from the inevitable fact that we're all going to die, as the ones you love slowly rot around you until the day of your demise, when you are reduced to a rotting pile of bones, buried deep underground as the ones who remember you suffer the same fate, ultimately leaving you forgotten by the living, in a cold, heartless world, and some people believe that after this happens, you come back again as a different person, to do it all again in a never ending cycle of death and rebirth that goes on and on, prolonging everyone's suffering until the end of time itself. Now, where were we? Oh yes, princess magic!
L E I W Δ Δ N This is what happens when all the death and sacrifice finally gets to her head... she just goes to her lovely princess land, away from everything.
"The people lie and fight over unreal images of gold and treasures. What am I to do? I'm just a monarch in this palace full of real gold and treasures. If only I had the power and the means to help these impoverished people."
I really respect the fact that Jim manages to give this type of games the benefit of the doubt for more than twenty minutes. That's professionalism in its purest form. X)
The structure of this game is straightforward enough to make a decent platformer, but it's like the devs went out of their way to make the game as dull as possible to play. Hey guys, making a "game for girls" isn't the same as "make a game that plays like shit."
In this video Jim wastes 15 minutes of 2000+ peoples' time by incorrectly deeming unnecessary the tutorial to a game created for prepubescent girls. Thanks Jim. /s
It's because it's an act. He knows he's going to pick chungus. The part about randomly deciding a game to play and there not being things worth playing is also part of the act. He's pushing a very specific narrative with this channel.
Well, isn't that insidious? Little girl affiliated with the rich princess turns all of the peasant's wealth to dirt in order to uphold the status quo, dashing any hope these poor people had for getting out of their crappy life. The worst part is that these people are so brainwashed they actually thank her for it afterwards!
How long until the fact that a floppy disk was actually a thing is completely replaced with the mentality that it is a random symbol that means 'save?'
To be honest, I prefer the castle just the way it is at the start of the game. It has an eerie, withered gothic vibe to it. All I need are some moats, alligators, death traps, rusty suits of armor, and I'm all set to be drinking red wine by the fire place and contemplating plans for world domination.
is the female narrator Stephanie Sheh? or Colleen O'Shaughnesse (who voiced Ino on Naruto/Naruto Shippuden)? .. either way the voice of the main character is Mellissa Disney.. a relative of Walt Disney.. i wonder why they hired her? :P
This is a prime example of a video I watched because of the YT personality playing it and commenting on it and not because of the game content. Also I'm always hoping for more of Jim's DnD stories ^^
It was like a character of his in an RP and he literally names everything Chungus as a joke but he never acts like it's a joke... he's perfectly serious about it every time.
sethzard If we're going by Podtoid lore (and by God, we all should) it means literally anything. It's just a word Jim made up, and then used frequently, most of the time in reference to Jonathan Holmes
I would love to sit down and tear this game to shreds, literally at the 3:50 where she asks "is there anything else your supposed to tell me?" I so want to yell out, Your adopted by an evil step mother who wants to kill you, but don't bother your little head, your gonna have someone else deal with that ...
AlexanderTF I got a better idea, I'm gonna buy 2 coppies of this and send it over to Gamegrumps and Gamesocietypimps ... I will enjoy their torment ...
I half expected this game to have a deep, psychological journey about the princess regarding her amnesia, and her suddenly having to save every world at the request of the fairy. I've been playing too many mature games.
"I'm so glad you remembered your name!" I'm sorry, but we seem to be missing some context here, is there actually a fear of us not remembering our name in this game? Also, I'm sorry, but a wand that doesn't let you set things (especially people) on fire is not worth anybody's time in a game.
At this point I think so actually. Especially since Disney couldn't contain themselves and had to retell "A New Hope" in Phineas and Ferb. Then again Disney made "The Black Hole" in a shallow attempt to cash in on the Star Wars hype way back when(Not nearly as shallow as Moon Raker though.) Now Disney has Star Wars, I'd actually be a little dissapointed if they didn't try to shoe-horn it into every other disney property they can.
gasmaskangel Isn't there a general age range for princess's to be a marketable princess? Most of the princesses are around 18 even Pochahontas oddly. Leia is like what. In her twenties during the movie trilogy? And she's going to be even older in the newer movies and wasn't born in the prequels until the very end. They'd have to make an entire series about Leia as a princess in the midst of a war torn galaxy? Being on the planet where everyone dies due to the Death Star? Seems like too much work for very little payoff.
"Shall we send our greatest warrior on this journey and have them release all the butterflies?" "Nah. We'll wait for some kid to wander in and hand them a weapon."
I cringed and thought 'Well, this looks like Kingdom Hearts without any story or emotional attachment' and immediately Jim said it looks like Disney :3
The Fairy sounds like Soraka from the Star Wars animated show. Speaking of Soraka, that's what the young girl looked like in the cut scene. And the young girl kinda sounds like very young boy in anything ever.
lmfao.. when she put the wand in she made those sounds and then followed it up with the fairy saying it hasn't been used in a while but's it's a smooth ride to the bottom.. how could that not being taken wrong?
Adam Poole Love the way she turns her head to the side and closes her eyes; only to have them shoot open as she gasps in surprise at what her wand handling has achieved. This on top of those slightly strained but satisfied in the making of progress moans, too good, just too good.
A game about a girl with a magic wand that reveals false riches as dirt? Clearly this was allegory to warn young women away from trafficking scams! That's right girls. Just work that magic wand and you'll reveal the truth, and make everyone honest again. Damn Disney, why you gotta be so dark some times? :( 3/10 - Too dark for me. /sarcasm
I was hopefuly when they threw up all those games as I was hoping they might do that with Kingdom Hearts, but sadly not. Lots of people on the Square Enix forums have been hoping they would.
It was only when I paused the video that I realised that I was sat here, alone, at night, in the dark, eating Doritos, watching a grown man play a game about Disney princesses, which had my full attention.
I think I fucked up somewhere along the line.
Don't worry your in good company here.
I think you are the only successful human. You just achieved enlightenment.
Jim Sterling media.tumblr.com/fc13fba3ab9eef8de5d223fa1e50bceb/tumblr_inline_mkjxeubMp31qiw26m.jpg
The question is what kind of doritoes
Medli32
Of course.
Longshots Tangy cheese. Duh.
Jim, acting too cool for character customization, some tricky editing covered up that it took him hours to decide his princess dress, hair color, shoes and jewellery.
"This wand has very special powers, it can even vibrate!"
Jim Sterling: The most special of all the Disney Princesses.
Uh, Kuzco you swine.
Moral of the story; never skip the tutorial.
Jim almost always does
"I get a magic wand?"
Yes child, it can do anything for you, apart from keep you away from the inevitable fact that we're all going to die, as the ones you love slowly rot around you until the day of your demise, when you are reduced to a rotting pile of bones, buried deep underground as the ones who remember you suffer the same fate, ultimately leaving you forgotten by the living, in a cold, heartless world, and some people believe that after this happens, you come back again as a different person, to do it all again in a never ending cycle of death and rebirth that goes on and on, prolonging everyone's suffering until the end of time itself. Now, where were we? Oh yes, princess magic!
GamerGuy03 The truth in this negativity is...palpable
im sad now :(
Yes Jim. The time is now. You *are* that special girl.
*giggles with excitement
Good God Jim, even my 3 year old was shouting at the screen telling you what to do! hehe.
What she "used to look like?" The frick? Is she in purgatory?
And apparently she used to be Clementine from The Walking Dead.
This is the alternate ending to season 2.
No, she was cursed to forget almost everything about herself.
'skyrim with magic' - IGN
Thanks for the laugh!
Hahahahaha
"The start button works." *9.5 - IGN*
So where does this fall in the KINGDOM HEARTS time line?
you ended up making clementine
I was just thinking that!! Haha
I was about to comment the same thing. You saved me a few seconds
munky342 Your comment is longer than his and you took time to read his comment then reply, if anything he took multiple seconds from you.
Jeremy Masters
Yeah I realised that while I was typing. I would have just wasted those seconds doing something else meaningless anyway.
L E I W Δ Δ N This is what happens when all the death and sacrifice finally gets to her head... she just goes to her lovely princess land, away from everything.
Apparently Clementine is a Disney Princess now. Damn you, Disney!
Somehow Cinderella's world is harder than Jasmine's, which has roaming gangs of bandits and Arabic psychopaths with scimitars running around?
"The people lie and fight over unreal images of gold and treasures. What am I to do? I'm just a monarch in this palace full of real gold and treasures. If only I had the power and the means to help these impoverished people."
Apparently Navi from Legend of Zelda has a part time job in disney games
I really respect the fact that Jim manages to give this type of games the benefit of the doubt for more than twenty minutes. That's professionalism in its purest form. X)
That's not what I see happening... but fair enough
Taerdin Why not?
It always amuses me to hear someone swearing like a sailor while playing a children's game.
Wait... wait. Pressing X on the controller won't allow you to assassinate the sailors? WTF kind of game is this?!
Dilandau Albatou You can but it desynchronises you.
+Dilandau Albatou * Heavy laughter *
FINISH HIM! Disney Princess wins, flawless victory! FATALITY!!
The structure of this game is straightforward enough to make a decent platformer, but it's like the devs went out of their way to make the game as dull as possible to play.
Hey guys, making a "game for girls" isn't the same as "make a game that plays like shit."
In this video Jim wastes 15 minutes of 2000+ peoples' time by incorrectly deeming unnecessary the tutorial to a game created for prepubescent girls.
Thanks Jim. /s
I love how EVERY episode Jim ponders as to what name to chose and ends up with the same one. EVERY FUCKING TIME!!!!....Never change dude!
Meant to say Choose.
It's because it's an act. He knows he's going to pick chungus. The part about randomly deciding a game to play and there not being things worth playing is also part of the act. He's pushing a very specific narrative with this channel.
But... But how do they know that she's showing them the "truth" and not turning their gold to dirt?
0:30 Holy fuck, that's some of the best cloth animation I've ever seen.
Potatrobot best I've seen has been irl :3
Well, isn't that insidious? Little girl affiliated with the rich princess turns all of the peasant's wealth to dirt in order to uphold the status quo, dashing any hope these poor people had for getting out of their crappy life. The worst part is that these people are so brainwashed they actually thank her for it afterwards!
When she held that wand up I honestly expected her to
yell FLIPENDO!
Woah I had like an older version of this game growing up. Also Chungus' room looks just like Sofia's.
This game was actually a bit more sophisticated than I expected it to be.
How long until the fact that a floppy disk was actually a thing is completely replaced with the mentality that it is a random symbol that means 'save?'
I knew you were gonna say "Am I that special girl?"
It actually looks like a somewhat decent game.
this game actually has quite nice graphics
I had the misfortune of this autoplaying in a cafe while I went and used the bathroom
"Seems like a normal day on Twitter to me." Thanks for making me laugh out loud Jim.
There are very few things I regret having done in my life, watching a full LP of this game is actually one of them.
Mother of God...
Holy... Can I send you money? I'm pretty sure you need help.
To be honest, I prefer the castle just the way it is at the start of the game. It has an eerie, withered gothic vibe to it. All I need are some moats, alligators, death traps, rusty suits of armor, and I'm all set to be drinking red wine by the fire place and contemplating plans for world domination.
Jim, you'll always be that special girl to me.
I hope that is still true.
is the female narrator Stephanie Sheh? or Colleen O'Shaughnesse (who voiced Ino on Naruto/Naruto Shippuden)? .. either way the voice of the main character is Mellissa Disney.. a relative of Walt Disney.. i wonder why they hired her? :P
This is a prime example of a video I watched because of the YT personality playing it and commenting on it and not because of the game content.
Also I'm always hoping for more of Jim's DnD stories ^^
Can someone explain me the Chungus thingy? I've been watching for a few months but I still have no clue.
It was like a character of his in an RP and he literally names everything Chungus as a joke but he never acts like it's a joke... he's perfectly serious about it every time.
Chungus is something a kid might call a penis. Jim always calls his characters chungus
killslay actually it stands for chunky anus, at least according to podtoid.
sethzard If we're going by Podtoid lore (and by God, we all should) it means literally anything. It's just a word Jim made up, and then used frequently, most of the time in reference to Jonathan Holmes
I'm a big Disney fan...yes, we exist at 29... and this video cracked me up so hard. XD
And then suddenly, this little princess shoots a zombifying Lee Everett in the face.
I would love to sit down and tear this game to shreds, literally at the 3:50 where she asks "is there anything else your supposed to tell me?" I so want to yell out, Your adopted by an evil step mother who wants to kill you, but don't bother your little head, your gonna have someone else deal with that ...
AlexanderTF I got a better idea, I'm gonna buy 2 coppies of this and send it over to Gamegrumps and Gamesocietypimps ...
I will enjoy their torment ...
Your character looks like one of the main characters from that Disney series about the villains' kids.
I half expected this game to have a deep, psychological journey about the princess regarding her amnesia, and her suddenly having to save every world at the request of the fairy.
I've been playing too many mature games.
the grunting key insertion was weird
*wand, not key
Wand? So that's what they're calling them these days?
Should've been Chungalina
"I'm so glad you remembered your name!"
I'm sorry, but we seem to be missing some context here, is there actually a fear of us not remembering our name in this game?
Also, I'm sorry, but a wand that doesn't let you set things (especially people) on fire is not worth anybody's time in a game.
Yo Jim Sterling , I really want to preorder Civ Beyond Earth, because it comes with an awesome mousepad. Do you have an inside tip if it's worth it?
7:03-7:11, don't worry Jim, you don't have to say anything because we all did in our heads.
"I've always dreamed of finding a monkey in a marketplace" Jim's words are Golden here ;)!
1:09
Why yes, you are that special girl, Jim.
I'd die if I had to sit and program this shit for a company.
Princess Clementine
Exactly what I was thinking.
I got nabbed for a B&E because of that same damn pixie.
I honestly would watch a full playthrough of this from Jim
This is a pretty good game. Especially comparing it to some recent releases.
my daughter's favorite Wii game lol beat it in under an hour lol she's 7 😎
no one cares
You apparently do ctfu
I care and I'm proud of her
"beat" it huh?
I love my mommy and my mommy loves me
I had this on the wii back in the day, played it with my sister- quite enjoyed it, actually
So if Disney owns Star Wars, does that make Leia a Disney Princess?
At this point I think so actually. Especially since Disney couldn't contain themselves and had to retell "A New Hope" in Phineas and Ferb. Then again Disney made "The Black Hole" in a shallow attempt to cash in on the Star Wars hype way back when(Not nearly as shallow as Moon Raker though.) Now Disney has Star Wars, I'd actually be a little dissapointed if they didn't try to shoe-horn it into every other disney property they can.
gasmaskangel Isn't there a general age range for princess's to be a marketable princess? Most of the princesses are around 18 even Pochahontas oddly. Leia is like what. In her twenties during the movie trilogy? And she's going to be even older in the newer movies and wasn't born in the prequels until the very end. They'd have to make an entire series about Leia as a princess in the midst of a war torn galaxy?
Being on the planet where everyone dies due to the Death Star? Seems like too much work for very little payoff.
You can always use my wand, Jim
"Shall we send our greatest warrior on this journey and have them release all the butterflies?"
"Nah. We'll wait for some kid to wander in and hand them a weapon."
After watching that wand insertion everything is now a sexual innuendo...thanks Jim
Is it weird that i find this kinda cute? It's like a barebones Kingdom Hearts, except not really. I guess i was just expecting much worse.
Given the age, this seems like a decent game for the times.
They should let South-Koreans re-make this game, they could propably improve the melon-physics.
WHY IS THERE NO LINK FOR THE GAME INTHE DESC???? I WANT TO BE A PRINCESS????
Jim makes such a pretty princess!
I do like how the character in the FMV runs like Tuco did in the end of the Good the Bad and the Ugly.
2 things im dry heaving and 4:07 I think im the only kid in 2002 that knows that the save icon is a floppy disc.
5:04 did it say bongs!
5:16 *more dry heaving*
Nice of the game to explain the complicated process of "create your own character"
Literately the fastest character creation I've ever seen.
Disney: What should we name this next princess?
Jim: *cHuNGuS*
And there is an ad for something called Lady Games................... Holy crap on toasts, I am scared! oO
After Clementine saves the world from Zombies, she saves music from being silent in Ariel's world.
I cringed and thought 'Well, this looks like Kingdom Hearts without any story or emotional attachment' and immediately Jim said it looks like Disney :3
I'd be PISSED if some little girl was turning my gold into shit. (I know it was shit to begin with, but they didn't know that!)
The Fairy sounds like Soraka from the Star Wars animated show. Speaking of Soraka, that's what the young girl looked like in the cut scene.
And the young girl kinda sounds like very young boy in anything ever.
“I honestly think that most kid games should regularly remind the player that they’re going to die one day.” ~@JimSterling
LMAO! Definitely the thieves from Spyro!
When does your fairy companion turn into a larva slug thing that's one of two possible final bosses?
reminds me of Utena, with how much phallic symbolism it uses for that intro stage....
lmfao.. when she put the wand in she made those sounds and then followed it up with the fairy saying it hasn't been used in a while but's it's a smooth ride to the bottom.. how could that not being taken wrong?
Adam Poole Love the way she turns her head to the side and closes her eyes; only to have them shoot open as she gasps in surprise at what her wand handling has achieved. This on top of those slightly strained but satisfied in the making of progress moans, too good, just too good.
Jim, you ARE that special girl :-P
put your wand into the hole and white stuff will appear
Clever girl... Wait wrong game.
Jim, you'll always be a special girl :D
How come none of the women in the Jasmine level have their hair covered?
"I think you'll find a surprise!"
Ooh! Is it Demon-King!
i want a t-shirt with like idk a melon rolling up a wall with the quote "HOLY SHIT, Melon Physics
Yes Jim, you'll always be our special girl!
A game about a girl with a magic wand that reveals false riches as dirt?
Clearly this was allegory to warn young women away from trafficking scams!
That's right girls. Just work that magic wand and you'll reveal the truth, and make everyone honest again.
Damn Disney, why you gotta be so dark some times? :(
3/10 - Too dark for me.
/sarcasm
Oh my God, you can't stop now, did Chungus EVER find Abu?
Did she go on to live happily ever after. These things have to be known!
I was hopefuly when they threw up all those games as I was hoping they might do that with Kingdom Hearts, but sadly not. Lots of people on the Square Enix forums have been hoping they would.
Mellon physics in a Disney Princess game? Lewd.
"I ain't sayin' nuthin'" (Sterling, 2014)
That tutorial voice sounds like Sora from Digimon Adventure
pretty funny when all kids find this video they will be suprised lol
15:30 "It's... it's not real gold! It's just a pile of turds."
Hope you get well soon Jim!