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Funnily enough at 7:35 the other German Soldier says: "Er hat meinen Kameraden getötet" which translates to "He killed my Comrade" while the Guy groans on the ground. Neat Detail.
I like how instead of making conventional, body-horror monsters like games like dead space, signalis, or others, it instead *dehumanizes* the enemy, it makes them seem like a monster while they're just the same as you; a soldier fighting in the war
Now I want a sequel where both armies accidentally unleash an eldritch abomination and so the survivors of both sides have to band together and try to escape.
If there's one thing I love in this game above all others, is its depiction of how there's different kinds of soldiers in war: Ranging from the scaredy cowardly wimp (the privates with shovels), going through the one that is just trying to do his job and stay alive long enough to go back home (the standard riflemen, with their laidback idle stance), the foolhardy and overzealously patriotic one (trench raiders and ax wielding knights), the bloodthirsty homicidal psychopath (gasmasked riflemen, elite trench raiders), and culminating with the genocidal war criminal (flammenwerfer units). Which is exactly how this game treats its enemy variety. And it's pure undistilled genius.
While Conscript is absolutely a Survival Horror game -- I always tell people that it is it's own thing in that regard, and very different from what Survival Horror many know and love. Do not go into it expected Resident Evil, Darkwood, Amnesia, Fear And Hunger, Dead Space or the likes of such. Survival Horror to me, is all about that feeling of constant unease, discomfort and uncertainty. "What the hell is around the corner? What was that weird sound? What happened here? What caused this? Am I being followed? Am I safe here? Should I have bought that shotgun with me, despite only having 2 shells left? Please tell me there's a safe room/save spot up ahead"... That sort of tension and feeling. Conscript does manage to give you bits of that -- but not in the sense I think many expect when they jump into it. I absolutely recommend it. It's a brilliant game and it certainly does not pull punches on some things. I'd just say to avoid hopping in with the mindset/expectation of monsters, viruses, ancient powers and stuff like that. It's you and the enemy soldiers. That's it. But it still works well.
it does still have a lot of "traditional" horror elements, i have to admit i was scared shitless in parts like underneath fort souville and the town sewers and a lot of it is thanks to the amazing atmosphere and audio design, hearing the gas mask muffled breathing of a trench raider in complete darkness followed by almost inhumanly fast footsteps fading into the distance and back in from another direction was genuinely horrifying despite them being common enemies and most of all - not even monsters or supernatural beings, just. human. soldiers.
I prefer the Silent Hill approach of not limiting inventory. I tjust adds unnecessary back tracking where it doesn't need to be there. I don't mind seeing a locked door and having to come back to i tlater, but getting somewhere and realizing I need to walk back to pick up an item I didn't bring is annoying.
It depends. Quest items? No problem if they don't take up inventory space. Combat items? Alot of tension is lost if you have a giant supply of them available at any time
@@famulanrevengeance3044 That's an easy solution though. Just don't put a shit ton of ammo everywhere? The developer can easily control how many items the player can have access to.
@@Cr3zant I'd much rather have limited inventory spaces than less overall ammo in circulation. There's no worse feeling than fighting a boss to realize you literally don't have enough ammo to finish it (thankfully most boss arenas have ammo or scale their health down). Backtracking is at worst a frustrating nuisance; if you use up all the ammo the game has, you could be losing hours of progress.
@@Cr3zant People are gonna miss ammo, people are gonna make mistakes, so you need some abundance of items. Also so people don't softlock themselves or are unable to interact with the mechanics of the game. The Bunker gives you alot of items, you just have to find them, which can be hard in the dark with all the obstacles and limited fuel. Better for there to be extra items for people that need them, or to reward thorough players instead of punishing them for looking hard by giving them nothing. You could do adaptive difficulty with items, but if you figure out it exists, immediately the whole game feels like nothing you do matters because the game will shower you in items if you need them.
I have nothing to add just wanted to say this is a great thread. Prefer unlimited to limited inventory, but if important items could be unlimited and weapons and ammo limited before and after boss fights or would cause lower health or something if you’re carrying too much it would be awesome/neat to see implemented
I ordered the physical Switch edition which doesn't ship until August, but I'm glad you think so highly of this game. I loved the two demos so I had little doubt this would be another great indie horror release.
Hm. This looks like another game I'll have to check out. I've played the likes of SIGNALIS, Alisa, and Tormented Souls thanks to your reviews, and it looks like Conscript will follow suit.
Please play SOMA if you haven't. It's a video game, but it's practically the best science fiction movie of the twenty-first century. It really is the 'I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream' of our time.
You kinda sold me this game (even if i like more infinite inventory). There is another ww indie horror game coming "Zero losses" by the creators of "no one livers under the lighthouse"
I bet this game would feel great on a controller connected to a really good PC for the vibration feedback. That’s the only thing that I missed from my console era.
I was unsure when i saw this before, but I appreciate your review of it and tempts me to pick it up almost indefinitely. I don't know I just like game systems with upgrades and such because I like the feeling of progression?
Good video, I like this game, it's nearly a masterpiece, however, some aspects of it seem off; first of all the rats, I hate the fact that the protagonist their only target yet you can go around this point by leaving unworthy enemies (enemies without rewards when they're killed), using grenades (yes even in later levels there are rat holes you can throw grenades in) or burning bodies; second, the selling prices are way lower the purchase ones, this is so annoying because if I want to sell something I accidentally purchased I am going to lose my money (cigarettes); next, the used weapon parts to upgrade a weapon are gone, you can just restore them after selling the weapon and the seller doesn't have too much weapon parts so you should play with a trial and error method; and finally, the endings, let's just say, they're not what I was waiting for such a great game
Bought it after watching this. I'm really liking it but getting stuck quite a bit. Can't use certain items, tons of locked doors, not sure where to go 😢
I was looking forward to this game, good to hear its good. Would you say its closer to RE4 or RE1? As in, are you incentivized to generally kill all the enemies, or are you supposed to run past a lot of them?
I dont much like the color palette, multiple different shades of brown. Old Resident Evil was very colorful though I guess RE4 was also very brown, mainly early on.
No really!? The countryside is more open and less connected than the trenches Without your top notch insight there, I wouldn't have seen the difference
I get a little annoyed at people like you. He is criticizing a game, and here you are… criticizing his video. Why don’t you make something? It’s a better use of your time
Glad to see some sensible people who can spot what a good game is from a terrible one. Singing praises to a clunky game that somehow looks shiny on the surface is downright insane. The reviewer and the simps who supports this unpolished thing called a “horror game” clearly have awful taste in gaming in general. As long as they can use their filthy WASD plebian controls then everything is alright in the world. What a bunch of eunuchs… if you people even have some semblance of decency, there’s a game that deserves to be called a TRUE MASTERPIECE and that’s “Withering Rooms” That game is 10x superior than this junk. The game got rebind options and the gameplay loop is smooth and pretty addictive for a HORROR GAME. It’s an excellent example of a game that respects all kinds of players unlike this discriminatory game who only caters to mindless WASD players…
@@ІлляВетров-й2д Your game's sucks that's a fact. and its also a fact that a lot of people like this clunky excuse of a game. I'll rather play the older original Resident Evil 2 Game that recently got released on GOG since it has basic keybinding remap options unlike this modern wannabe game. if the truth offends you. not my problem... FYI all my comments are different, copypaste comments are for cheap lazy people like you :)
A Masterclass aye? My ass! HORSEHIT! The developer didn’t even bother adding a feature to rebind the movement controls from WASD to Arrow keys?! By the God’s developers from ages past always add rebind options when it comes to first person shooters and survival horror game titles and yet such a crucial and simple feature, they couldn’t even get it right the first time. In this gaming industry, the standard nowadays is quite low and that’s very concerning… the people who give praise to this lousy game are players who usually uses with WASD movement controls likes there’s a discrimination wherein this particular developer favors newer generation of players as oppose to older players who prefers custom keybind controls using the arrow keys. HARD PASS, don’t believe this propaganda bullshit, looks shiny but it fails in technical terms and overall comfort playability for people who uses arrow keys or custom controls. Lucky for those idiots who uses WASD options I suppose. Buying the officer edition was a mistake, I want a refund! Don't make me buy a controller since I'm a PC gamer and don't force to use WASD options since I prefer custom arrow key controls. STAY AWAY FROM THIS GAME! This game is so restrictive as it does not allow you to change the controls to your preference.
Wow man that's a little harsh. Not trying to start anything but judging by your handle I take it you're a huge pokemon/Digimon fan right? I could be way off the pulse here but I wouldn't expect a massive amount of 'mon fans to be a massive survival horror fan, a simple "meh not for me/didn't like it" would have sufficed. It's not everyones speed. It's unfortunate you feel that strongly about it.
@@cr4sh3dit it's not pokemon. if you check their channel they're into my little pony porn. this game has no sexualized horses in it so it's not their thing.
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Funnily enough at 7:35 the other German Soldier says: "Er hat meinen Kameraden getötet" which translates to "He killed my Comrade" while the Guy groans on the ground. Neat Detail.
Nice catch!
Where is the fun on that? 😭
I like how instead of making conventional, body-horror monsters like games like dead space, signalis, or others, it instead *dehumanizes* the enemy,
it makes them seem like a monster while they're just the same as you; a soldier fighting in the war
Now I want a sequel where both armies accidentally unleash an eldritch abomination and so the survivors of both sides have to band together and try to escape.
Reminds me an Amnesia: Bunker a little bit
And make sure both sides have problems understanding the other side two different languages right?
Yea like "kill" is the other language for "help"
Necrovision?
Check out Mutant Chronicles. It’s exactly what you have described.
If there's one thing I love in this game above all others, is its depiction of how there's different kinds of soldiers in war: Ranging from the scaredy cowardly wimp (the privates with shovels), going through the one that is just trying to do his job and stay alive long enough to go back home (the standard riflemen, with their laidback idle stance), the foolhardy and overzealously patriotic one (trench raiders and ax wielding knights), the bloodthirsty homicidal psychopath (gasmasked riflemen, elite trench raiders), and culminating with the genocidal war criminal (flammenwerfer units). Which is exactly how this game treats its enemy variety. And it's pure undistilled genius.
"Its a horror game"
"neat!"
"as in horrors of war"
"Huh??!"
Been playing for a while now, it does get pretty fucked up.
While Conscript is absolutely a Survival Horror game -- I always tell people that it is it's own thing in that regard, and very different from what Survival Horror many know and love. Do not go into it expected Resident Evil, Darkwood, Amnesia, Fear And Hunger, Dead Space or the likes of such.
Survival Horror to me, is all about that feeling of constant unease, discomfort and uncertainty. "What the hell is around the corner? What was that weird sound? What happened here? What caused this? Am I being followed? Am I safe here? Should I have bought that shotgun with me, despite only having 2 shells left? Please tell me there's a safe room/save spot up ahead"... That sort of tension and feeling. Conscript does manage to give you bits of that -- but not in the sense I think many expect when they jump into it.
I absolutely recommend it. It's a brilliant game and it certainly does not pull punches on some things. I'd just say to avoid hopping in with the mindset/expectation of monsters, viruses, ancient powers and stuff like that. It's you and the enemy soldiers. That's it. But it still works well.
it does still have a lot of "traditional" horror elements, i have to admit i was scared shitless in parts like underneath fort souville and the town sewers and a lot of it is thanks to the amazing atmosphere and audio design, hearing the gas mask muffled breathing of a trench raider in complete darkness followed by almost inhumanly fast footsteps fading into the distance and back in from another direction was genuinely horrifying despite them being common enemies and most of all - not even monsters or supernatural beings, just. human. soldiers.
I prefer the Silent Hill approach of not limiting inventory. I tjust adds unnecessary back tracking where it doesn't need to be there. I don't mind seeing a locked door and having to come back to i tlater, but getting somewhere and realizing I need to walk back to pick up an item I didn't bring is annoying.
It depends. Quest items? No problem if they don't take up inventory space. Combat items? Alot of tension is lost if you have a giant supply of them available at any time
@@famulanrevengeance3044 That's an easy solution though. Just don't put a shit ton of ammo everywhere? The developer can easily control how many items the player can have access to.
@@Cr3zant I'd much rather have limited inventory spaces than less overall ammo in circulation. There's no worse feeling than fighting a boss to realize you literally don't have enough ammo to finish it (thankfully most boss arenas have ammo or scale their health down). Backtracking is at worst a frustrating nuisance; if you use up all the ammo the game has, you could be losing hours of progress.
@@Cr3zant People are gonna miss ammo, people are gonna make mistakes, so you need some abundance of items. Also so people don't softlock themselves or are unable to interact with the mechanics of the game.
The Bunker gives you alot of items, you just have to find them, which can be hard in the dark with all the obstacles and limited fuel. Better for there to be extra items for people that need them, or to reward thorough players instead of punishing them for looking hard by giving them nothing.
You could do adaptive difficulty with items, but if you figure out it exists, immediately the whole game feels like nothing you do matters because the game will shower you in items if you need them.
I have nothing to add just wanted to say this is a great thread. Prefer unlimited to limited inventory, but if important items could be unlimited and weapons and ammo limited before and after boss fights or would cause lower health or something if you’re carrying too much it would be awesome/neat to see implemented
I ordered the physical Switch edition which doesn't ship until August, but I'm glad you think so highly of this game. I loved the two demos so I had little doubt this would be another great indie horror release.
Can't wait to play this tomorrow.
Hm. This looks like another game I'll have to check out.
I've played the likes of SIGNALIS, Alisa, and Tormented Souls thanks to your reviews, and it looks like Conscript will follow suit.
That's the reason I found this game, searching for similar ones after my big signalis post game depression lol
Play crow country if you havent yet, to me its the best one after signalis
@@JammedClipper seems promising thanks you ! I Will definitely give it a try
Ooohh. I remember seeing project a few years ago! Glad to see it being reviewed by you.
I liked the first thumbnail
I love survival horror but i was surprised how much im enjoying this take on it and how well the setting and locations work
Very much appreciate the recommendation..
Sweet!! I've been waiting for this since I saw the demo some years ago. Glad it's a great game we can all enjoy!!!
Five. Hundred. Cigarettes.
Please play SOMA if you haven't. It's a video game, but it's practically the best science fiction movie of the twenty-first century.
It really is the 'I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream' of our time.
It's not a movie
You kinda sold me this game (even if i like more infinite inventory). There is another ww indie horror game coming "Zero losses" by the creators of "no one livers under the lighthouse"
One of these days we're going to take the word Masterclass away from you, fair warning.
Man I aint a smoker but goddamn is that such a good choice for a currency. Very specific use cases, but when it works it works.
This game does look pretty good not gonna lie!
So like the Fallout series this game is about war.
Bought and finished the game after watching this review. Enjoyed it immensely, thanks for the recommendation.
Conscript reporting!
I bet this game would feel great on a controller connected to a really good PC for the vibration feedback. That’s the only thing that I missed from my console era.
Dude omg this game! and yes appreciate ya for mentioning Amnesia the Bunker
I was unsure when i saw this before, but I appreciate your review of it and tempts me to pick it up almost indefinitely. I don't know I just like game systems with upgrades and such because I like the feeling of progression?
Good video, I like this game, it's nearly a masterpiece, however, some aspects of it seem off; first of all the rats, I hate the fact that the protagonist their only target yet you can go around this point by leaving unworthy enemies (enemies without rewards when they're killed), using grenades (yes even in later levels there are rat holes you can throw grenades in) or burning bodies; second, the selling prices are way lower the purchase ones, this is so annoying because if I want to sell something I accidentally purchased I am going to lose my money (cigarettes); next, the used weapon parts to upgrade a weapon are gone, you can just restore them after selling the weapon and the seller doesn't have too much weapon parts so you should play with a trial and error method; and finally, the endings, let's just say, they're not what I was waiting for such a great game
you should cover SKALD: Against the Black Priory, its a great horror RPG
Now I wanna see a Survival horror top down game that tries to take the style of the first 2 Fallout games. That would be cool
The demo was really fun I’ll def give it a buy
Bought it after watching this. I'm really liking it but getting stuck quite a bit. Can't use certain items, tons of locked doors, not sure where to go 😢
Just beat the game, its my GOTY. So challenging it blew me away
Wonder if Suzi will release a video on this game now too.
Yea looks great i cant wait to play it on my legion Go.
Aww hell yeah! Another great game to point to when someone says "tHeReS nO gOoD gAmEs iN 2024!"
I was looking forward to this game, good to hear its good. Would you say its closer to RE4 or RE1? As in, are you incentivized to generally kill all the enemies, or are you supposed to run past a lot of them?
Nice is on GOG
Preordered this, and I’ve been counting the hours for it to become available
I could see this been a psp game for sure it matches killzone liberation aspect
There was always combat in every survival horror and a lot of it.
Not Siren, or Resident Evil 1, or Darkwood, or Mundaun
Nope. In survival horror games combat works best the less you have to use it. Otherwise it eventually turns into a zombie shoot em up game like RE5.
Can you review withering rooms please? Awesome indie hidden gem. It's mix of dark souls, rogulite and horror. Some junk and tons of personality.
Very interesting game. Thanks for the video
Please review Withering Rooms!
great vid
Wait.. You can craft fire bombs?
I’ve never been so early. Love these videos!
Ohhh
DW2
I dont much like the color palette, multiple different shades of brown. Old Resident Evil was very colorful though I guess RE4 was also very brown, mainly early on.
It's a WW1 game. The brown is a core feature of the setting.
Honestly the rats make me not wanna pick this up, adding small, hard to hit enemies that swarm and poison seems like pure anti-fun.
Gman copied you.
Can someone confirm if they really dropped the supernatural angle it had during the first demo?
Im 10 hours in the game and havent seen any supernatural stuff at all. Cant say what comes after that. I am currently super stuck 😅
@@JustMe-cs4wc ah thanks for the info, such a shame I lost the little interest I had left then
No really!? The countryside is more open and less connected than the trenches
Without your top notch insight there, I wouldn't have seen the difference
Doesn't look as interesting as Signalis, but it sure good enough to try!
Then don't let the stamina run out, it's a simple fix that only requires your attention
I get a little annoyed at people like you. He is criticizing a game, and here you are… criticizing his video. Why don’t you make something? It’s a better use of your time
Reminder : UA-camrs all too often have shit takes
Stellar blade and another crab's treasure are Goty bud.
Gooner Souls is mid without the gyatt nobody would care
why bother installing stellar blade when i can just go to porn hub. i dont get it man
combat was too annoying for me
The controls for this are terrible.
Glad to see some sensible people who can spot what a good game is from a terrible one. Singing praises to a clunky game that somehow looks shiny on the surface is downright insane. The reviewer and the simps who supports this unpolished thing called a “horror game” clearly have awful taste in gaming in general. As long as they can use their filthy WASD plebian controls then everything is alright in the world. What a bunch of eunuchs…
if you people even have some semblance of decency, there’s a game that deserves to be called a TRUE MASTERPIECE and that’s “Withering Rooms” That game is 10x superior than this junk. The game got rebind options and the gameplay loop is smooth and pretty addictive for a HORROR GAME. It’s an excellent example of a game that respects all kinds of players unlike this discriminatory game who only caters to mindless WASD players…
@@philipsconnor181gah damn mf who made your ass angry? Can't enjoy a game without comparing it to other ones, born to hate?
@@philipsconnor181your comment is perfect, it should become a new copypasta, your unhingness reaches the crazy marine copypasta.
@@ІлляВетров-й2д Your game's sucks that's a fact. and its also a fact that a lot of people like this clunky excuse of a game. I'll rather play the older original Resident Evil 2 Game that recently got released on GOG since it has basic keybinding remap options unlike this modern wannabe game. if the truth offends you. not my problem...
FYI all my comments are different, copypaste comments are for cheap lazy people like you :)
Alisa sucks though. Game's a complete mess. The rest you listed are good though.
A Masterclass aye? My ass! HORSEHIT!
The developer didn’t even bother adding a feature to rebind the movement controls from WASD to Arrow keys?! By the God’s developers from ages past always add rebind options when it comes to first person shooters and survival horror game titles and yet such a crucial and simple feature, they couldn’t even get it right the first time. In this gaming industry, the standard nowadays is quite low and that’s very concerning…
the people who give praise to this lousy game are players who usually uses with WASD movement controls likes there’s a discrimination wherein this particular developer favors newer generation of players as oppose to older players who prefers custom keybind controls using the arrow keys.
HARD PASS, don’t believe this propaganda bullshit, looks shiny but it fails in technical terms and overall comfort playability for people who uses arrow keys or custom controls.
Lucky for those idiots who uses WASD options I suppose. Buying the officer edition was a mistake, I want a refund!
Don't make me buy a controller since I'm a PC gamer and don't force to use WASD options since I prefer custom arrow key controls.
STAY AWAY FROM THIS GAME! This game is so restrictive as it does not allow you to change the controls to your preference.
lol
You have written this same whine on every single review video of this game. Buzz off.
a masterclass in spamming every video about the same topic with a comment nobody will bother reading
@@d-d-i Its called the freedom of speech, the masses need to be aware of what this game really is, sod off you plebian!
@@JewTube001 Funny that your reading my comments right now lol!
No one borrows cigarettes like Gaston!
Great game, instant purchase. Did you check Little goody two shoes? just finished, pretty good game, not full survival horror, but a great horror game
Masterclass? You're joking. This game fucking sucks.
Wow man that's a little harsh. Not trying to start anything but judging by your handle I take it you're a huge pokemon/Digimon fan right? I could be way off the pulse here but I wouldn't expect a massive amount of 'mon fans to be a massive survival horror fan, a simple "meh not for me/didn't like it" would have sufficed. It's not everyones speed. It's unfortunate you feel that strongly about it.
Bro got filtered. ☠️☠️☠️
@@cr4sh3dit it's not pokemon. if you check their channel they're into my little pony porn. this game has no sexualized horses in it so it's not their thing.
you jack off to clop wtf