Imagine experiencing an avalanche IRL. You call for help in existential terror, and the asshole on the phone says "It's just a mountain warlock, nothing to worry about."
My favorite aspect of these games is the way horrors are described and obfuscated with clean corporate speak, such as "unfortunate bodily configurations"
I love how much this dlc pays tribute to various winter holiday figures from all cultures, to the ogre family with a huge cat and 12 yule lads to the horse that rap battles you for your beer, they pay tribute to them all.
1:34:53 The Saint is 100% meant to be the Dutch Sinterklaas, on the 5th of December he gives out presents to all children and rides a white horse on the rooftops, he's also based on a real saint named Saint Nicolaas.
If they wanted to take this series a bit further, they could make a game where you play as an HSH Pest Control employee. You'd go out to houses on call from what the call center people tell you is the problem and you have your own guide book on how to deal with the creatures. Of course, the game could ramp up in difficulty real fast by having the call center people give you wrong information and you have to improvise, identify the actual issue and take care of it, and of course your computer would go down occasionally so you would have to remember what to do. I don't know if that would be more of a generic horror game and they'd want to keep this as a unique thing, but I had the idea while watching.
I like this idea but it could be executed really badly, best case scenario there is no actual interacting with the monster and instead you have to notice the clues in the location, with penalties if you dont manage to eliminate the pest.
@@Edge-xy3fv i think personally the best way to go about something like this is to also make it linear the same way HSH is already. a series of pest control calls where the situations get stranger and stranger as you get promoted.
Yeah, hey, I tried calling the police but they just referred me to you. This gormless freak just wandered into my home and started spinning around in place. Every time I try to get him to leave, he just shouts "YOU MUST COMPLETE THE TUTORIAL FIRST!" Can you get this weirdo out of here, please?
Genuinely… I had a really hard day yesterday at work and just hearing him laugh at this game and later the climbing one just made everything feel bearable
Clever that the twist in many of these new calls is that the person calling is not the one suffering the infestation, but one of the neighbors, so you get only an indirect recollection of the "symptoms"
Or they consider themselves an expert on what’s happening and tainting the information themselves Like the False Caroler being someone’s cat cuz it left feathers
We, as a Species, have to remember that the Polar Express isn't the Tom Hanks movie originally, if that's what you are getting at. It was a book I swear, not a cognitohazard 🥲
You know the uh um the well actually um haha well if you think about it you see let's say that actually I think um well I like to see it as hahaha well let's just hear me out and consider that the possibility is that there's a certain chance that the conclusion you could draw on this theory that I have takes into account that one possible outcome is I invite you to consider that if you think about it and make a connection in your brain that might be within reason to say that we have several possibilities including the one where we think about it and come to a consensus that upon further inspection leads us to believe that the cake is a lie?
17:20 After replaying the callers service request and reading the description of a Kobold multiple times; Vinny is convinced that a 5-ft tall Kobold is capable of scurrying into a CUPboard and squeaking like a mouse. Legendary investigative skills on display 🕵♂️
@XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX the squeak at the end of the clip was the same as the end of thr sound sample (though I'm pretty sure it IS a stock mice noise) and well, I thought the height was strange but a 5 foot creature crawling on all 4s could with in my cupboards.
Um, hi, is this that Home Safety Hotline? I’ve been hearing some very strange sounds from my closet lately, like a warbly “eee” or someone yelling “What do you mean?” Just yesterday I walked in and found the floor covered with dead spiders and centipedes. I’m worried that maybe it’s a neighbour playing some sick prank, but the police just gave me this number and refused to do anything else. Any help?
Hello? Is this the safety hotline? Cause I got told to call you guys. So there is some weird guy roaming around the neighborhood for the past week. He only comes by night, but I’ve seen him in a streetlight. Young, lumber dude with a sick red jacket and jeans. He keeps going around saying weird ass things like “Are you okay” at people’s doors and windows. One of my neighbors, a real surly dude, opened his door to yell at him one night. That was 4 nights ago, and I haven’t seen nor heard of him since. Last night, someone else opened the door for him - Ned, poor guy suffered from a lot of depression and anxiety. I guess someone asking about him made him not think twice. Now he’s gone too. And now that dude is back, and I’m nervous he’ll come to me next. I tried telling the police, but they directed me here. Help!
I know it's a reference to something else but it made me think of that one lunatic caught by a doorbell camera, asking "Are you sure? Are you positive?" over and over and nonchalanty threatening to harm the woman inside the house. No amount of horror ever scared me as much as that recording.
so, the first game had a creepy caller that had a warbly voice and said weird things, which was a reference to a prank caller named longmont potion castle. this game actually features the voice of the REAL longmont potion castle, who plays hudson. i knew i recognized his voice! it's awesome they got him to do a voice role.
I think it mainly came from how in the base game you got new stuff every day so he read it as it came up but here in the DLC they just put them all in at once. Still, yeah, the refusal to do it because of chat's insistence might have harmed him a little.
Santa Claus and the idea of leaving out hotdogs for him is the most absurdly goddamn funny thing to me. "TIMMY STOP EATING THE HOTDOGS THOSE ARE FOR SANTA!!!!!” "C'mooon mom I just want one"
2:22:04 Oh man, imagine the chaos of community driven content in this game. People be putting loudest orgasm in one of the sound samples, not to mention the unique "callers" out there.
Ok I have to agree with Chat Member this time, the whole point of this game is reading the things and finding the correct thing. "Chat I'm not going to read all of these. Why? Because it's a lot?" What logic is this?
@@odintexas4064 How many different ways are there to play a game like this? Read, don't read, what else? Choose the wrong answers on purpose? I don't see what your point is.
Is this that Home Safety Hotline thing? I'm not really sure who else to call, so here goes... Lately I've been seeing a strange red guy walking around our neighborhood. He seems to be talking to himself, or maybe something in his backpack? He likes to shout "come" whenever he notices me. I really don't want to go near this guy, but sometimes it's hard to look away. Is there anything you can do?
Plus it never mentions they can become seemingly gingerbread men? It says marionettes, dolls, and stuff like that. Not things without joints like gingerbread men.
"Any miniature humanoid figures", dolls/puppets/marionettes are just a few examples. Postman Pete was a gingerbread man that collapsed on the floor. It burnt the post office but didn't burn itself. Burning the office down wasn't necessarily the creator's intended purpose, but it *went postal.* Skeeeeeel isssuuuuee.
@@kalel4everr Animations can be "any miniature humanoid figure." It just lists dolls and puppets as examples. Gingerbread men are technically mini humanoids. As for OP, postman Pete collapsed. He didn't burn himself, just the post office. Collapsing also matches the description of how Animations collapse after completing their intended function. Still, it was a really tough call and I'm surprised Vinny actually got it. I don't think I would have. 😅
@@retronnity "Burning the office down wasn't necessarily the creator's intended purpose" Presumably it was animated by the gingerbread rivals to destroy the post office, so when it did it collapsed, its task complete :3
God the Mouse King is so fucking funny. Yeah, who knew that turning a lot of people into mice that retain their human intelligence (and presumably their lifespans) would be a problem when enough of them decide to organize and cause PROBLEMS.
do you hear what I hear is a "slept on" carol. people sleep on a lot of carols. some recommendations: Riu Riu Chiu, Gaudete, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Vinny's aversion to reading pains him so much when it's literally required by the game design, lol. As if he doesn't realise that even a tiny smudge of information retained in the back of his brain will help him later.
As a certified hot dog hound, it depends on the dog. If I'm really longing for a long dog I can stomach a Ballpark Frank or a Nathan's (not caring for Nathan's is my hot dog take for the day). Just thinkin' 'bout 'em makes me shiver. Really have to be in a dog-deprived headspace to want one. Five Guy's and Boardwalk, on the other hand... I could probably down six of those puppies if I'm really hungry and bankrupt myself in the process.
I just wish vinny should have went though the new ones and read them to himself then if he thought it was a new on read that one outloud before submiting. I do agree with him though this DLC would have benefited from introducing the new stuff a little bit slower like the first game
The first stream was very helpful for me after getting lost as shit in Hakone and then coming across a dead run over cat so I'm happy to see binyot play it again
Twitch Chat Replay ► chatreplay.stream/videos/sUklWpqMaX4
Some of the creature art (False Carolers for example) in this DLC is done by Trevor Henderson, horror artist who created Siren Head and many others!
That was such a great choice. Trevor's art is horrifying and it shows with stuff like the Pechta.
Imagine experiencing an avalanche IRL. You call for help in existential terror, and the asshole on the phone says "It's just a mountain warlock, nothing to worry about."
Vinny beefing the first two and then getting a near-perfect score from there on is exactly how he played this last time lol.
Carol's warning stoked his fire after all
Seriously, props to the dev for getting these lines voice acted. Really makes the experience.
A hundred times better than no voice acting and a million times better than ai voices 🔥🔥🔥
"I'm about to be buried under a huge snowdrift and a robed figure is threatening me with a sacrificial knife!"
*PLEASE HOLD*
My favorite aspect of these games is the way horrors are described and obfuscated with clean corporate speak, such as "unfortunate bodily configurations"
Every solution punctuated to “direct our customer to our products and services”
I love how much this dlc pays tribute to various winter holiday figures from all cultures, to the ogre family with a huge cat and 12 yule lads to the horse that rap battles you for your beer, they pay tribute to them all.
Not just that, even extremely modern ones like turning the movie Polar Express into a child stealing entity can be harrowing in the game's context
No Tomte (cries in Swedish)
1:34:53 The Saint is 100% meant to be the Dutch Sinterklaas, on the 5th of December he gives out presents to all children and rides a white horse on the rooftops, he's also based on a real saint named Saint Nicolaas.
If they wanted to take this series a bit further, they could make a game where you play as an HSH Pest Control employee. You'd go out to houses on call from what the call center people tell you is the problem and you have your own guide book on how to deal with the creatures. Of course, the game could ramp up in difficulty real fast by having the call center people give you wrong information and you have to improvise, identify the actual issue and take care of it, and of course your computer would go down occasionally so you would have to remember what to do.
I don't know if that would be more of a generic horror game and they'd want to keep this as a unique thing, but I had the idea while watching.
phasmophobia or deep rock style
i think something in the style of sucker for love's gameplay could work really well
I like this idea but it could be executed really badly, best case scenario there is no actual interacting with the monster and instead you have to notice the clues in the location, with penalties if you dont manage to eliminate the pest.
@@Edge-xy3fv i think personally the best way to go about something like this is to also make it linear the same way HSH is already. a series of pest control calls where the situations get stranger and stranger as you get promoted.
Point and click style would probably work
Yeah, hey, I tried calling the police but they just referred me to you. This gormless freak just wandered into my home and started spinning around in place. Every time I try to get him to leave, he just shouts "YOU MUST COMPLETE THE TUTORIAL FIRST!" Can you get this weirdo out of here, please?
It's just an avalanche, nothing to worry about
That's a house fire. Try not to touch it, your info packet will arrive within 4-6 hours.
Please hold.....
Vinny, keep it up. You help uplift so many people like myself through tough times
Biden's America.
im so thankful i have vinny to watch while the hunt passes through my neighborhood
I'm so epic depressed lol
Genuinely… I had a really hard day yesterday at work and just hearing him laugh at this game and later the climbing one just made everything feel bearable
Sounds like a bot doesn't look like a bot 🤔
Clever that the twist in many of these new calls is that the person calling is not the one suffering the infestation, but one of the neighbors, so you get only an indirect recollection of the "symptoms"
Or they consider themselves an expert on what’s happening and tainting the information themselves
Like the False Caroler being someone’s cat cuz it left feathers
WHO UP SQUEEZING THEIR HOBB
I hope "House Fire" is finally a correct answer for one of these DLC callers
*picks up phone*
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHH"
@@wasvreta followed by the famous sigh
@@wasvreta kinda did that for the avalanche lmao
@@wasvreta Damn Warlock at it again
Threat level: 0
Hears a soft squeak, picks the child sized dog that yells “WOOPTY DOO”
Almost like not bothering to read any of the new entries somehow causes you to get all the new calls wrong. Riddle me this :O
@@Duskaria It wasn’t even new, mice was on the first level of the main game he just never had headphones or something
thats the joke lads!
I like how they made everyone have extremely severe red-eye in the photos at the end from the camera flash lmao
The locomotive has to be a polar express reference.
We, as a Species, have to remember that the Polar Express isn't the Tom Hanks movie originally, if that's what you are getting at.
It was a book I swear, not a cognitohazard 🥲
I thought this during the main game too, but many of these things sound absolutely TERRIFYING and devastating if they were real
That is the point of a lot of many such myths, to scare people away from doing dangerous things like going into a dark forest alone.
And funny thing is most of those things people believed as folklore and superstition not too long ago. Some rural areas still do.
I will now be blaming sugar wisps on a lot of my problems thank you explains everything.
"Ugh, I just can't stop eating this delicious cake. I think there must be sugar wisps in my house."
You know the uh um the well actually um haha well if you think about it you see let's say that actually I think um well I like to see it as hahaha well let's just hear me out and consider that the possibility is that there's a certain chance that the conclusion you could draw on this theory that I have takes into account that one possible outcome is I invite you to consider that if you think about it and make a connection in your brain that might be within reason to say that we have several possibilities including the one where we think about it and come to a consensus that upon further inspection leads us to believe that the cake is a lie?
Diabetus
3:50 Vinny discovers the joke every single Canadian has said at least once or probably about three times a year in some cases
the number of times this DLC tricks you into not knowing whether to pick between a Mountain Warlock or Avalanche is cruel
17:20 After replaying the callers service request and reading the description of a Kobold multiple times; Vinny is convinced that a 5-ft tall Kobold is capable of scurrying into a CUPboard and squeaking like a mouse. Legendary investigative skills on display 🕵♂️
"It's making a similar noise"
Bitch whaaaaaa?
Who was it then?
@XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX the squeak at the end of the clip was the same as the end of thr sound sample (though I'm pretty sure it IS a stock mice noise) and well, I thought the height was strange but a 5 foot creature crawling on all 4s could with in my cupboards.
@@sonicloverlol2 mice, or maybe raccoon
@@sonicloverlol2 The answer was mice.
44:35
*Petah, the Horse is here.*
Vinny being one of the few I've seen who actually got the Mouse King correct, even if he didn't figure it out on his own.
I actually appreciate the DLC being a bit harder, and actually utilizing the audio samples a bit more.
I love how being forced out of your home during Christmas doesn't bring down cheer but a mice infestation would
this game gave me a nightmare and not mouthwashing. i saw giant evil santa
How big we talkin 👀
The mouthwashing stream somehow caused me to have a nightmare about yume nikki instead
Saint Nicholas the jolly is rapidly descending upon us, there is nothing you can do now..
Um, hi, is this that Home Safety Hotline? I’ve been hearing some very strange sounds from my closet lately, like a warbly “eee” or someone yelling “What do you mean?” Just yesterday I walked in and found the floor covered with dead spiders and centipedes. I’m worried that maybe it’s a neighbour playing some sick prank, but the police just gave me this number and refused to do anything else. Any help?
I'm afraid you have a Vinbo. You should evacuate the house immediately
@@dysr Have you tried placing any awful pizzas around the home? That causes such creatures to leave fairly quickly.
Please hold.......
Do your walls call you "Chatmember" from time to time?
I love that they got Longmont Potion Castle to voice the Pest Control guy after having the prank call references to him in the main game.
the OG game was so much fun
I thought Hudson sounded like Longmont Potion Castle but I still couldn't believe the credits when it turned out he did voice Hudson
YES he’s playing it, god, I’ve been waiting 🥹 the moment I found out about this I immediately hoped he’d come back for round 2 😂
Hello? Is this the safety hotline? Cause I got told to call you guys.
So there is some weird guy roaming around the neighborhood for the past week. He only comes by night, but I’ve seen him in a streetlight. Young, lumber dude with a sick red jacket and jeans. He keeps going around saying weird ass things like “Are you okay” at people’s doors and windows.
One of my neighbors, a real surly dude, opened his door to yell at him one night. That was 4 nights ago, and I haven’t seen nor heard of him since. Last night, someone else opened the door for him - Ned, poor guy suffered from a lot of depression and anxiety. I guess someone asking about him made him not think twice.
Now he’s gone too.
And now that dude is back, and I’m nervous he’ll come to me next. I tried telling the police, but they directed me here. Help!
The Furious Fatale
Okay, before we move on, we just have to make sure, Are You Okay?
Terry Bogart
if you're smooth about it, you can tell the criminal about a certain "annie" in a bar down the road.
I know it's a reference to something else but it made me think of that one lunatic caught by a doorbell camera, asking "Are you sure? Are you positive?" over and over and nonchalanty threatening to harm the woman inside the house. No amount of horror ever scared me as much as that recording.
I watched the original playthrough for the first time the other day, so this is a pleasant surprise.
vinny vods have been COOKING this halloween season
"I am not going to read all these"
>Playing reading game
????
so, the first game had a creepy caller that had a warbly voice and said weird things, which was a reference to a prank caller named longmont potion castle.
this game actually features the voice of the REAL longmont potion castle, who plays hudson. i knew i recognized his voice! it's awesome they got him to do a voice role.
Vinny (Must Be Rats) Vinesauce
alternatively Vinny (Chat, it's Black Mold) Vinesauce
Gotta love Vinny's indignation about being asked to read the new entries in a game that needs you to read every entry to accurately diagnose a problem
It made me feel a little crazy. "You want me to read all the new things, in a DLC about the new things, in a game where you have to read?"
...Yeah!
@@DWN021and then proceeds to absolute beans it up on the first two calls because of it.
Classic Brainyot.
I think it mainly came from how in the base game you got new stuff every day so he read it as it came up but here in the DLC they just put them all in at once. Still, yeah, the refusal to do it because of chat's insistence might have harmed him a little.
a shame, I was gonna watch this while working so pausing the stream to read every one isn't really an option.
Once I heard this DLC was happening I was pretty excited! Boy am I ready!
Santa Claus and the idea of leaving out hotdogs for him is the most absurdly goddamn funny thing to me.
"TIMMY STOP EATING THE HOTDOGS THOSE ARE FOR SANTA!!!!!”
"C'mooon mom I just want one"
2:22:04 Oh man, imagine the chaos of community driven content in this game. People be putting loudest orgasm in one of the sound samples, not to mention the unique "callers" out there.
Questionable Italian Man
*Vinny passed out on the chair*
*“SPEEN”*
the voice at 1:30:10 is the streamer Granny! Not Vinny but still a legend.
Ok I have to agree with Chat Member this time, the whole point of this game is reading the things and finding the correct thing. "Chat I'm not going to read all of these. Why? Because it's a lot?"
What logic is this?
Sometimes I wonder if Vinny has ADHD since he shares a lot of ADHD traits that I have.
@@DeadHandtheSurvivoroh he has it all right, but nowhere near as bad as Jerma lol
"the streamer must play how i say" trope entered chat again
@@odintexas4064 The difference though is that this is the kind of game where you *should* be reading in order to better understand it.
@@odintexas4064 How many different ways are there to play a game like this? Read, don't read, what else? Choose the wrong answers on purpose?
I don't see what your point is.
you know, maybe the people below the soil are alright
Is this that Home Safety Hotline thing? I'm not really sure who else to call, so here goes... Lately I've been seeing a strange red guy walking around our neighborhood. He seems to be talking to himself, or maybe something in his backpack? He likes to shout "come" whenever he notices me. I really don't want to go near this guy, but sometimes it's hard to look away. Is there anything you can do?
if reddit was playing this game everything would be “carbon monoxide poisoning”
That Animate one was obtuse as hell.
It mentions absolutely nowhere that an Animate might burn itself to self-destruct.
Plus it never mentions they can become seemingly gingerbread men? It says marionettes, dolls, and stuff like that. Not things without joints like gingerbread men.
"Any miniature humanoid figures", dolls/puppets/marionettes are just a few examples.
Postman Pete was a gingerbread man that collapsed on the floor. It burnt the post office but didn't burn itself. Burning the office down wasn't necessarily the creator's intended purpose, but it *went postal.*
Skeeeeeel isssuuuuee.
@@kalel4everr Animations can be "any miniature humanoid figure." It just lists dolls and puppets as examples. Gingerbread men are technically mini humanoids. As for OP, postman Pete collapsed. He didn't burn himself, just the post office. Collapsing also matches the description of how Animations collapse after completing their intended function. Still, it was a really tough call and I'm surprised Vinny actually got it. I don't think I would have. 😅
@@retronnity
"Burning the office down wasn't necessarily the creator's intended purpose"
Presumably it was animated by the gingerbread rivals to destroy the post office, so when it did it collapsed, its task complete :3
Hell yeah, time for the spoop videos
God the Mouse King is so fucking funny.
Yeah, who knew that turning a lot of people into mice that retain their human intelligence (and presumably their lifespans) would be a problem when enough of them decide to organize and cause PROBLEMS.
This is a certified Clonch moment
god I hope vinny plays SIGNALIS one day
absolutely LOVE this game, love seeing Vinny peep the horrors!!
Slimy lussi got vinny acting irresponsible
Love this series.
raw dogging the mountain warlock was peak
Perfect timing DLC for some Holiday -cheer- spooks
Cool bots. Good to see Vinny play this again!
I'd be chill having a yule goat in my house, love goats
oh FUCK yeah i was so hoping he'd play this
yooo this goated game got dlc??
1:17 the dev used to be an Evermore park actor??
Oh hell yeah more horrifying flesh homunculi demons to make me scare-roused
At this point I imagine "HSH Pest Control" is just several people in riot gear to uh, "peacefully relocate" the monstrosity.
The locomotive is literally just the evil Polar Express
DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR
A PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE
do you hear what I hear is a "slept on" carol.
people sleep on a lot of carols. some recommendations: Riu Riu Chiu, Gaudete, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
mari lwyd mentioned 🏴
2:19:59 Yo they got Trevor Henderson to do some art for the dlc! Sweet!
Is "Hudson" Longmont Potioncastle?
I think it's a house fire vinny
you gotta have these guys on speed dial when going through silent hill 4
1:26:48 What song was Binto referencing here??? It sounded SO familiar, but I can't put my finger on it.
Tears for Fears- Everybody Wants to Rule the World
The hardest ones are usually the regular ones. Janet did just have mice.
39:50. Its not a red herring. Not quite, the elf (or elves) broke into the house.
I watched the original just a few days before my MRT appointment and now this one 2 weeks before my orthopedist appointment. Kinda weird.
What does a hobb taste like?
Cinnamon toast with a strong after taste of spinach.
Jonny should have made it a christmas themed thumbnail
Is it actually Longmont Potion Castle?
Vinny's aversion to reading pains him so much when it's literally required by the game design, lol. As if he doesn't realise that even a tiny smudge of information retained in the back of his brain will help him later.
i cant wait for joel to play this game
31:17 Not tooth degay 😭
Imma straightening those teeth
1:08:00 sounds like Longmont Potion Castle doing the voice
Remember when it was socially acceptable to type XD at the end of a sentence?
As a certified hot dog hound, it depends on the dog. If I'm really longing for a long dog I can stomach a Ballpark Frank or a Nathan's (not caring for Nathan's is my hot dog take for the day). Just thinkin' 'bout 'em makes me shiver. Really have to be in a dog-deprived headspace to want one. Five Guy's and Boardwalk, on the other hand... I could probably down six of those puppies if I'm really hungry and bankrupt myself in the process.
29:35 aka magic mushrooms
WHY CHRISTMAS DLC IN HALLOWEEN
Store owner dev.
We have all been very good boys this year so we get to open our present early 😊
Funy
I just wish vinny should have went though the new ones and read them to himself then if he thought it was a new on read that one outloud before submiting. I do agree with him though this DLC would have benefited from introducing the new stuff a little bit slower like the first game
The first stream was very helpful for me after getting lost as shit in Hakone and then coming across a dead run over cat so I'm happy to see binyot play it again
What
So if you’re HSH pest control, you gotta bring a Glock to work for the anomalies needing a “licensed firearm”
comrade hans
Jacked Skeldingson
58:20 Is that the Battlefront 2 Clone Commander voice??
1:03:24
I was hoping we’d get at least one “false person” 😔😔
Elves are basically that
@@ArmoredChocoboLPs Well yeah, but I meant like those weird calls from the main game
Epic dlc
I feel like the chat is out of sync for his series of streams.
"It's not like we can read your mind caller." No but we can read the entries, you just chose not to Vin.
58:26 Why is Piccolo so grumpy at Binyo?
Yahoo