My mum used to live in Barnsley. First night there, I was walking the dog and met some other guy who had been stabbed in the arm. Asked me if I was local (I wasn't) and said he was from Sheffield. Anyway, had a nice chat and I said he could come back and wait in the front garden so I could speak to mum and her partner. The guy was polite and they pointed him to the hospital. Asked of he wanted the police and he replied: "Nah, don't want to cause no bother. Thank you anyway!" then walked off calmly. Barnsley is somewhat adorably strange. Or at least it was - bee a while since I was there. Anywau, great game and walkthrough! Subbed.
listening to different people absolutely lose their minds over this same game is my new favorite pasttime lmaoooooo i know every gag and i'm still in tears
@@zh84 i actuqlly just heard from somewhere that if you wait 15 minutes in the reception room, the mayor will actually pop out and you end up bypassing the whole game, and i'm qiting with baited breath for someone to post a THANK GOODNESS YOU'RE HERE SPEEDRUN video lmao
Oh my god, I am literally doing the same. Basically waiting for UA-cam algorithm to give me another recommended video of a playthrough from someone I never heard before. Only one other game made me do this in the past
@@PhoenixNat In the most times I realize there’s a joke in it, but I can’t really understand it because I don’t know the contexts. This play through is GOLD!😂😂😂❤
The developers should add this video as an option to watch during gameplay, picture-in-picture style. This game already looks like it's hilarious, but your reactions make it a thousand times better!
Someone probably mentioned it but 10 bob is 10 shillings, which is strange because shillings stopped being used in the 70’s? But there were 20 shillings a pound, and 12 pence per shilling and a whopping 240 pence per pound. So 10 bob is roughly 50 pence, which is an almost suspiciously cheap price.
At the start, the... Secretary? Of the mayor was playing solitaire on her computer and tried to use real cards too, licking them to stick them to the screen. She wasn't even licking the right side of the card to make it stick haha.
19:53 "I'm in the bath." I'm a little surprised given the humor of this game that when you knocked on the next door that the guy didn't say he was spying on the woman in the bath next door.
The clever thing about this game is the characterisations. People in England (Yorkshire) has most definitely met the real life versions of these characters.
Nat, as always, loved sharing this with you. Great fun and how much you enjoyed it just pushed it over the top. Great video, as always. Hope all is well with you and have a ryt good evening.
I love the pub being called The Thumbit Inn 😂😂😂 There's not enough games that really lean into our often bizarre culture. Have you ever come across Landlord's Super? It's kind of like House Flipper, but set during the miner's strike back when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister.
33:15 The travel agent advertises a "Denby Dale Day Trip". Denby Dale is a Yorkshire village which is famous for its enormous pies. Bigger than Big Ron's, even.
"Bob", of course, meaning *shilling.* (Apparently, 10 shilling notes were a thing, but they were discontinued in 1969 and had ceased being legal tender the following year.)
@@TheBalthassar Although how the good folks of Barnsworth are still using them in (what can be assumed to be) 1980 (aside from the obvious) is anyone's guess.
They have a digital display in Megg's freezer, which seems to be a much more modern place than the rest of the town. Tho the soup guy does say they're around the 80s.
11:57 You laughing at him calling it a "big wee." I think you're missing the most important part of his story. "Every morning, I wake up, can of lager, then I do a big wee. And *then* I get out of bed." He just said that he wakes up every morning, drinks a lager, then pisses the bed before getting out of bed to go about the rest of his day.
I'm not really sure what exactly the mercury and bismuth is referring to, but they are both poisonous metallic compounds, similar to lead - it's probably just a satirical reference to metal compounds such as lead being in food products/water sources/paint etc, probably especially in old mining towns, which is where the term "lead-paint stare" comes from - that was my take on it anyway and just thought it was funny
😂 “put em back ont mercury” it’s still got me laughing, but your idea seems pretty accurate to the complete obviously nature of the late 80s and early 90s 😂
Homes have a "Burgy Alert" on them, but the guy eating a burger called it his burgy. So, are the Alerts for people breaking in or to let everyone know when someone is making hamburgers? This game raises some interesting questions.
Bayek this is like looking at my family's history 🙌🙌 you have truly outdone yourself NAT a wonderful piece of northern life outstanding thank you never seen you giggle so much joyful experience 💖🌻🐝🙏
Out of all the play thoughs of this game i watched so far no one discovered the FAST PSA Easter egg. it's good to know how to recognise a stroke but as someone whos prone to minegrains they have similar symptoms to strokes
Man I keep seeing you everywhere, even on my first time viewing random channels like this one. How many times before it becomes a pattern? Must be like the 10th by now
That's odd...in your play through, the box next to the oven in Big Ron's just has "??" On it... but in other reactions I've seen, it says "Ashes (Dead Wife)". I wonder why that is
Hmmm, I’m not sure - my copy was gifted, and downloaded before the game released, there’s a chance I didn’t have the most up to date version downloaded
@@PhoenixNat Normally I don't reply when a creator responds to my comment, because I don't want to be a nuisance, but I'm wondering if you could explain the _'spirit level bubbles'_ joke in this game? I've searched for an explanation but couldn't find one anywhere 😅
You can't buy a spirit level bubble - they were taking the piss out of him hahah. If you google spirit level, the little green bit in the middle, that's impossible to get to, that's the bit they was telling him to go buy
@@PhoenixNat _OH MY GOODNESS,_ thank you! I've never heard it called a 'spirit level' before -- I just call that a level. I thought there was something deeper going on 😅 That makes so much more sense. I appreciate the explanation!
My mum used to live in Barnsley. First night there, I was walking the dog and met some other guy who had been stabbed in the arm. Asked me if I was local (I wasn't) and said he was from Sheffield.
Anyway, had a nice chat and I said he could come back and wait in the front garden so I could speak to mum and her partner. The guy was polite and they pointed him to the hospital. Asked of he wanted the police and he replied: "Nah, don't want to cause no bother. Thank you anyway!" then walked off calmly.
Barnsley is somewhat adorably strange. Or at least it was - bee a while since I was there.
Anywau, great game and walkthrough! Subbed.
This story made me laugh SO MUCH 🤣
Thank you for sharing this, it’s as wild as the game 😂😂😂
listening to different people absolutely lose their minds over this same game is my new favorite pasttime lmaoooooo
i know every gag and i'm still in tears
🤣😂 nothing like sharing a giggle
This is I think the sixth playthrough I've watched. I originally started investigating because it made the BBC News...
@@zh84 i actuqlly just heard from somewhere that if you wait 15 minutes in the reception room, the mayor will actually pop out and you end up bypassing the whole game, and i'm qiting with baited breath for someone to post a THANK GOODNESS YOU'RE HERE SPEEDRUN video lmao
Oh my god, I am literally doing the same. Basically waiting for UA-cam algorithm to give me another recommended video of a playthrough from someone I never heard before. Only one other game made me do this in the past
I love watching these play throughs with the giggles from British players knowing the local jokes.😂😂
😁 it’s only now I realise a lot must be so random and niche jokes
@@PhoenixNat In the most times I realize there’s a joke in it, but I can’t really understand it because I don’t know the contexts. This play through is GOLD!😂😂😂❤
The developers should add this video as an option to watch during gameplay, picture-in-picture style. This game already looks like it's hilarious, but your reactions make it a thousand times better!
😁 happy to share a laugh, or 10 🤣🤣
@@PhoenixNat Two weeks later, still the best Thank Goodness You're Here playthrough out of dozens on UA-cam, and that includes Jacksepticeye's.
I like the fact there's always somewhere in each level there's written "TH1 M4M" aka "thi mam", its a "your mum" joke
Aha! Thank you. :D
I always read it as thicc mum
Someone probably mentioned it but 10 bob is 10 shillings, which is strange because shillings stopped being used in the 70’s? But there were 20 shillings a pound, and 12 pence per shilling and a whopping 240 pence per pound. So 10 bob is roughly 50 pence, which is an almost suspiciously cheap price.
However the decimal coins were designed to look similar to the old shillings/etc, meaning some older people still think of a 50p as 10 bob.
Not when you consider everyone's on mercury, bismuth, and lead.
At the start, the... Secretary? Of the mayor was playing solitaire on her computer and tried to use real cards too, licking them to stick them to the screen. She wasn't even licking the right side of the card to make it stick haha.
😂🤣🤣🤣 she’s perfect
(Credits roll)
"What am I gonna do now? How am I gonna laugh like this again?"
Isn't that just your life, ya funny British lady?
The song at the beginning and end was from the movie Kes, called "what a whopper", its on UA-cam if you search.
19:53 "I'm in the bath."
I'm a little surprised given the humor of this game that when you knocked on the next door that the guy didn't say he was spying on the woman in the bath next door.
He probably was
This is basically a playable Monty Python skit
The clever thing about this game is the characterisations. People in England (Yorkshire) has most definitely met the real life versions of these characters.
Nat, as always, loved sharing this with you. Great fun and how much you enjoyed it just pushed it over the top. Great video, as always. Hope all is well with you and have a ryt good evening.
I love the pub being called The Thumbit Inn 😂😂😂
There's not enough games that really lean into our often bizarre culture. Have you ever come across Landlord's Super? It's kind of like House Flipper, but set during the miner's strike back when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister.
They had me at Peans…
Tasty Peans 😌
not quite peas
@@L-iv6lxnot quite beans,
But something special- in betweens
33:15 The travel agent advertises a "Denby Dale Day Trip". Denby Dale is a Yorkshire village which is famous for its enormous pies. Bigger than Big Ron's, even.
Aww man, she did all the Bish segments right except for the punchline in the end😅
1:42:21 - Dad's answer was backed up by thunder.
2:13:01 - You dodged a bullet, you did. 😅
10 bob is half a pound. Equivalent to 50p pre decimalisation. With inflation it's about 6.65 in today's money.
"Bob", of course, meaning *shilling.* (Apparently, 10 shilling notes were a thing, but they were discontinued in 1969 and had ceased being legal tender the following year.)
Yeah that's what I was doing the inflation calculation from, 1970-ish. The 10 bob note you see on that guys shelf is pretty accurate to the real note.
@@TheBalthassar Although how the good folks of Barnsworth are still using them in (what can be assumed to be) 1980 (aside from the obvious) is anyone's guess.
They have a digital display in Megg's freezer, which seems to be a much more modern place than the rest of the town.
Tho the soup guy does say they're around the 80s.
@@davidaugustofc2574-- There's a satellite dish up on the rooftops too.
If this game is more than ten bob, I'm not buying it.
🤣🤣 think inflation means it’s a couple more bob 👀
11:57
You laughing at him calling it a "big wee."
I think you're missing the most important part of his story. "Every morning, I wake up, can of lager, then I do a big wee. And *then* I get out of bed."
He just said that he wakes up every morning, drinks a lager, then pisses the bed before getting out of bed to go about the rest of his day.
Hahahaha I hadn't even noticed that
Secret ending - just stay in the mayor's office and wait....... He, the Lord Mayor (lol), will come out and lead you into his office. :)
No way 🤣😂😂😂
I haven't timed it myself but I recall somewhere saying it took about 15 minutes. Not too bad.
I'm not really sure what exactly the mercury and bismuth is referring to, but they are both poisonous metallic compounds, similar to lead - it's probably just a satirical reference to metal compounds such as lead being in food products/water sources/paint etc, probably especially in old mining towns, which is where the term "lead-paint stare" comes from - that was my take on it anyway and just thought it was funny
😂 “put em back ont mercury” it’s still got me laughing, but your idea seems pretty accurate to the complete obviously nature of the late 80s and early 90s 😂
That made me think of someone taking those metals like supplements/vitamins for some reason, like taking extra iron or such.
Mercury was once used as a treatment for veneral disease. There was a joke about "it starts with Venus and ends with Mercury".
Watching you enjoy this gem for its Northern Britishness was so much fun! ❤🤣👍
I’m so glad there’s some northerns in the community who got to enjoy this one 😅
1:47 "Leaded water."
😬
Everyone in the country has lead poisoning. Explains a lot.
"I need a top up of the leaded....yes, it's happened again."
I can't tell the difference between Barmy Baz's Buttery Nubs and this dead crab
Homes have a "Burgy Alert" on them, but the guy eating a burger called it his burgy. So, are the Alerts for people breaking in or to let everyone know when someone is making hamburgers? This game raises some interesting questions.
Bayek this is like looking at my family's history 🙌🙌 you have truly outdone yourself NAT a wonderful piece of northern life outstanding thank you never seen you giggle so much joyful experience 💖🌻🐝🙏
Another northerner!! 😂😂 it’s scary how accurate it is 😁
All the detail and dialogue is so spot-on I love hearing you belly laugh NAT it's infectious 🙏🙏
i must say you've done an excellent job with your lighting!
If you just sit there you get a different ending
This is a very clever device to make speedrunning the game pointless. You can finish it in about 25 minutes if you wait for the mayor to appear.
Proper game speedruns take 1 hour, the other one take less than 18 minutes.
Out of all the play thoughs of this game i watched so far no one discovered the FAST PSA Easter egg. it's good to know how to recognise a stroke but as someone whos prone to minegrains they have similar symptoms to strokes
Man I keep seeing you everywhere, even on my first time viewing random channels like this one. How many times before it becomes a pattern? Must be like the 10th by now
I wanted to watch someone who understood the references so this was a fun watch 😂 missed some interactions but hilarious nevertheless
You have missed so many good jokes by not punching everybody twice.
Dude I’m an American and even I can tell this clearly supposed to be the North😂😂😂
I played this game and it’s awesome! I love the humor in this game 😂
That's odd...in your play through, the box next to the oven in Big Ron's just has "??" On it... but in other reactions I've seen, it says "Ashes (Dead Wife)". I wonder why that is
Hmmm, I’m not sure - my copy was gifted, and downloaded before the game released, there’s a chance I didn’t have the most up to date version downloaded
Huh, I was pretty sure it said "Bits of hair too noticeable to put in food". Might be thinking of a different box
@@andco53 There are some differences between the console and PC versions. Another is the "liminal spaces" notice in the back room of Bish's Fish.
In the 70s they didn’t call in old money coins so a shilling was acceptable as 5p
1:31:13 mischief is misspelt by the game
Your laugh is contagious 😆 I really enjoyed this playthrough. Instant sub; looking forward to more content!
Thank you ☺️☺️
@@PhoenixNat Normally I don't reply when a creator responds to my comment, because I don't want to be a nuisance, but I'm wondering if you could explain the _'spirit level bubbles'_ joke in this game? I've searched for an explanation but couldn't find one anywhere 😅
You can't buy a spirit level bubble - they were taking the piss out of him hahah. If you google spirit level, the little green bit in the middle, that's impossible to get to, that's the bit they was telling him to go buy
@@PhoenixNat _OH MY GOODNESS,_ thank you! I've never heard it called a 'spirit level' before -- I just call that a level. I thought there was something deeper going on 😅 That makes so much more sense. I appreciate the explanation!
🤣🤣 it’s just so silly! And you’re welcome, it’s given me another laugh just replying to this 😂
I do believe this is the most British game ever made.
You forgot to get the keys for that gold lock
1:35:53 Hahaha! Literal "tea bagging" in a video game.
1:56:46 Mercury used to be used as a medication before it was discovered to be deadly.
Doesn’t it make people blind!!!!
@PhoenixNat that's the least of what mercury does to you.
0:18 🎵"There you'll sample Mrs. Lovett's meat pies."🎵
This has to be one of the funniest games I have ever seen 😂, just recommended it to jonesy's list as well as Armored core 6.
😁 it’s super random and wacky if you’re not from the north 🤣🤣
@@PhoenixNat not from the north haha
You missed the wildest joke 😂
Happy Sunday phoenix
👋🏼👋🏼
1:04:53 scared the hell outta me i forgot thats a British word for cig lol
🫠 oh lordie, yes, it’s slang for cigarette, super south London, and east
Same
356 likes for you! 👍
10 bob is 50p, what're you like.
1:51:32
Why's the yellow man looking at the audience like a funny sitcom moment? 🤣
Beautiful and charming. The game is pretty good too.