There isn’t a single joke in this video. Every line in the script is not only something you can do in this game, but most of it is encouraged and some of it is straight up necessary to move forward.
This video phisically exhausted me. The sheer outlandish and intricate systems information dump numbed me for days to come. I can't even fathom the work that was put into this video. Giant Kudos Seth! And thank you!
honestly... being a chinese weeb helped, might seem like a mental illness but i've actually read about 6000 chapters or more of this sort of stuff so i was able to understand everything
He made it sound way more complex than the game really is. Well except for the golden core part, he actually made that part sound way more easy than it really is.
I love Sseth's videos but I only made it about half way through this one before I just wasn't even following along anymore. This game is too whack for me thanks .
The way its framed with the POV shot, I like to think that sseth himself answered the prayer by hanging out with him on his birthday. Imagine the friendless schlub in the mailroom was seen pounding qt Asian hooker ass with the God Emperor himself
I mean. Its accurate too. Even Stalin and Hitler had shockingly wholesome moments....Like when hitler shot himself in the head. And Stalin died cause he locked up all the doctors. Wholesome times.
Bought this the day it came out, started the game with a single character, realized very quickly that without any outer disciples to put to work I was pretty fucked, managed to get some outer disciples and soon after came to the conclusion: "This isn't a game for me, it's a game for Sseth, I'll just wait for his video on it."
Just like in wuxia novels in the beginning of the stories, you have to steal some outer disciples from the powerless non-martial artists. At least, I wanna think that's the mechanic the game implements.
I watched Sseth's video 3 times, I tried playing the game for 2 hours - I still don't understand anything. The resource management, task prioritization, etc, is all confusing, especially when I set the correct priorities, give out tasks, and then I see the outer disciple "wander around" while his mood is maxed while I badly need resources for my luxury suite.
Meng Hao walked into the McDonald's. The cultivator taking his order gave a derisive snort, but Meng Hao did not really care, because he had repressed his aura down to the Single Patty Realm, and a fool would not be able to tell his true level of burger eating. "Give me... a Happy Meal!" The cultivator's face flickered before he finally regained his composure and laughed. "You couldn't afford a Happy Meal. Get lost! Don't you see that there are Double Quarter Pounder Realm eaters waiting behind you? Meng Hao slapped his bag of holding and threw 80 billion spirit McDonald's coupons onto the counter, causing an earthquake which demolished half of the restaurant. Everyone dropped their jaws. None could see how this was possible! "I'll take that Happy Meal with a side order of fries, " Meng Hao said. He was as calm as the ocean in a painting of an insanely calm ocean. "And let me see your manager!" The cashier cultivator coughed up a mouthful of ketchup. He simply could not handle Meng Hao's killing intent, because he was only at the Quarter Pounder with Cheese realm himself. Even though Meng Hao had suppressed his aura, because he had cultivated the Heavenly Burgin' Qi, this was enough to kill people a few levels higher if he truly wanted. It was then that another man which a much more fierce aura stepped forward. "You dare make trouble here?" "P... Patriarch Hamburglar!" Patriarch Hamburglar was 99 cents of the way into the Big Mac Realm, plus tax! Meng Hao was pushed back two feet, knocking over a soda machine. Powerade Mountain Berry Blast geysered outward, killing several onlookers. Of course, Mayor McCheese saw all this happen through the window. Meng Hao coughed up a mouthful of blood, snorted, constricted his pupils, and then his expression went calm. He unleashed the aura of 64 patties, condensed down to a 2 patty stack that could fit into his mouth! Mayor McCheese coughed up a mouthful of cheese. His pupils constricted. "Is this... Seeking the McRib stage??" Meng Hao had the gentle air of a scholar, but it wouldn't stop him from killing several people in a McDonald's. "Burger Devouring Scripture! I'm Lovin' It!" With the first keyword of the Burger Devouring Scripture, everyone below the early Quarter Pounder With Cheese stage exploded into purple mist. The light of the immense heavenly burger shone down with the contours of a golden arch as 9 illusory burgers floated around Meng Hao's body, which is probably an important xianxia number that matches the number of lakes in some sacred Chinese province I've never heard of. But that was only a fraction of Meng Hao's power. He waved his arm, bringing forth thirty more cultivation techniques that hadn't appeared in over 400 chapters! "Heavenly Tribulation Fries! Eastern Everburning Egg McMuffin! Fruit Smoothie Guillotine! Soul McCafe Mocha Incarnation!" Meng Hao's expression was the same as ever as he slapped his bag of holding, and brought out his karmic ketchup packet, Fry Cook Lord medallion, seventeen different wooden time spatulas, a five-coloured resurrection coupon, the silk burger wrapper, various souls of lightning McNuggets that he may or may not still have, and his mask of the legacy of Ronald McDonald. Oh, and the image of a flying Chicken Snack Wrap dragon appeared. Remember that? It was basically his Main Thing at the start of the novel, but quietly faded into irrelevance. Until now! All of this takes some time to describe, but actually happened in the space of only a few breaths. "What! Impossible!" Meng Hao wanted to summon the parrot as well, but it was too overcome with eroticism by the purple fur depicted on a nearby poster of Grimace, and was busy drilling out a glory hole straight through the poster, and the wall it was pinned to, with its strong parrot erection. But it was more than enough. The Hamburglar's soul flew out and was absorbed into his mask! He screamed as his body was destroyed completely. Meng Hao brushed off his robe and swept up his spirit coupons and everyone's bags of holding which probably didn't have any cool sh*t inside unless I write him into a corner later, and anyways, don't worry about it for now. He surveyed the rubble that was all that remained of the McDonald's. "Guess I'll be taking that Happy Meal... to go!"
Oh god this is giving me flash backs to xianxia 4000+ chapter novels. Did he ascend into a higher realm? The Wcdonald realm? Or the mythical MgRonald realm?
It's like the Encyclopedia Dramatica effect, some clusterfucks of the internet can only be properly covered in that way; short and to the point, but also layered with snark, which in the right cases the subject matter is begging for.
The wiki is hot trash. Honestly, I had to learn from reading forum posts and Steam community questions. Though, the comment section of the items themselves had people who knew their shit.
that part where he sent a doll to the auction house so he couldn't get caught really was funny and made my jaw drop. Those games may not be for me, but i'm glad they exist
It's kind of a great skit where whenever he pronounces a word with 'high confidence' he pronounces it horribly wrong, and whenever he pronounces a word with 'low confidence' he gets it nearly perfect.
If anyone wants to play this in 2023 or later, the English version has been improved a lot. There is now mod support and 2 DLCs, and a great sequel is in the works. Update: There's also a mobile port of the game! It's only available in China, but it should be coming to the West soon.
@@ChronicNOTAG best way to find out is to read some yourself. I suggest you read I shall seal the heaven's or a will eternal on novel full. Try a few chapters and see how you feel
I think i broke the code now. He gets addicted to a game, plays it for 500+hours, then he gets an injection of seratonin and forces himself to make some high quality content.
The Yaoguai thing is actually hilarious too. So, Tribulations happen to any cultivator that really tries to go hard in the paint on ascending. and Yaoguai tribulation is basically the easiest one. It burns through 30k Qi, 5 times, at base. This means you have to be able to tank 150k Qi of damage. A cultivator that just became an inner disciple has between 500 to 1200 Qi. This plus good artifacts in the first couple months could get you to 1500 Qi in the disciple, and 30k Qi in artifacts and other pools of Qi they can use. This will not save you. If you have a Yaoguai with under 100 days before tribulation, they're a lost cause if they aren't already an established cultivator, or you're willing to play like a psychopath. So my first attempt at The Miao Haus ended in terror. MY next attempt just has the Miao family and their many, many, mundane cats.
just stack protect and talisman for protect with some items and do the Whitout artefact. Shifter tribs are super easy. I tank them before gold core on pure regen with that strat on a few 1000 qi
After reading more cultivation novels/manhuas than a computer can count, I have long come to the conclusion that cultivation trades brains and maturity for sheer power. The number of times I have read about people gasping in shock and amazement because the MC was smart enough to know that the guy who threatened him and his family with torture and the eternal imprisonment of their souls might not be trustworthy is... Not to mention all the times they have been AMAZED that someone as YOUNG as 2-3000 years can understand basic sarcasm and 'subtle' threats.... As the characters themselves have stated: 'Even million+ year old legends might not have been able to detect the animosity shown by (guy known for killing everyone who does not bow and scrape before him, or just anyone he sees when he is in a malicious mood.)'
You can tell that Sseth actually tried with his pronunciations, which is awesome. Also, Chinese mysticism is the final boss of "contrived plot armour and maguffins" so its insane to see the developers made some semblance of a system out of it
I mean literally every magic system whether elaborated on or not is all just contrived bullsh*t to make otherwise impossible things happen. And as far as magic systems go, Chinese alchemy and Wuxia Chi cultivation is actually one of the more well thought out, consistent, mechanically fleshed out systems of mystical hogwash. To be honest I would like to see similar (arguably insane) levels of detail and fleshing out of other settings' magic systems and elaboration of their respective metaphysical underpinnings. (and in many cases coming up with metaphysic models were none existed before..) Plus even in Chinese mysticism, it's not just about imperical methods, infact it largely depends on the individual on how they're to approach the arts of magic, hence why in the *"Amazing Cultivation Simulator"* each character all have their more or less own unique qualities that must be cultivated on a customizable basis in order to unlock their true potential and obtain godly powers based on them as individuals. All the system does is like giving people various avenues of research or training so they can find methods or approaches that work best for them based on their individual skills and even personality quirks. Basically Wuxai is a compartmentalized but interchangeable system, like bionicles, sure there's concrete pieces of metaphysics but how they're arranged for people is largely up to the individual's abilities and qualities as well as lifestyles and environments they're immersed in.
@@navilluscire2567 The same kind of detail for actual Western alchemy would be interesting. Actually incorporating the five elements and the four steps to purification and all the mystical baggage associated with it.
@@seigeengine Not really, the fact that people still play or would play around with such detailed, involved (as in it takes actual preparation and thought) magic systems proves that there's definitely a market for such games. Most other magic systems in popular media treat magic less like a study and more like just having basically super powers at the users beck and call, which funny enough is the entire point of chi cultivation, all that studying and all that preparation, and all the meticulous steps is towards achieving the goals of both immortality and developing incredible super powers or else crafting legendary artifacts. Most magic systems in many games just cut out the implied in between studying or prerequisite stuff that is sopposed a learned art and metaphysical science in their magic systems if they even bother with implying that. Again in popular fiction magic wielded by mortals is treated as some inborn super powers rather than grafted abilities or manipulations of fate via esoteric tools and symbolic gestures like in more historical magic traditions or Wuxia literature.
I bought this game when it came out. I played it for 20 hours and still didn't understand anything. Now that I've watched this video I can safely say it's not my fault and this game is an afront to god
Having already owned this game, I watched this video and was inspired to go back. I just wanted to note: the Big Chungus sentient spirit thing? That's not actually a joke. Sseth is being completely serious. The name you give an awakened building or item DOES actually decide part of the stats it gets, and a male spirit being named "Big Chungus" will give base stats of 26 which is either the highest possible base stat value, or just the highest one that has been found. This is reproducible across saves and games. fuckin wild.
@@notepadplusplus4923 Same thing as Big Chungus. It modifies the stats of your character to the highest. Very important if you want to consume sunpill before golden core.
I watched this video with two large breaks of half a day each in an attempt to absorb as much of the information as possible, but this game is by far the most complicated one I've ever seen and sseth did an amazing job presenting how deep the rabbit hole goes. I was thinking sseth was joking when he said fans datamined the game but it's absolutely true, just open the linked guide in the description and find the "Code Diving" link in that spreadsheet, there's so much more he could've covered.
I have 277 hours and I know for a fact Sseth isn't lying when he says he hates it. The game is addicting and you will likely have fun but its a massive time sink and the story is dam near impossible to complete. If you don't read up on the game before starting you first playthrough will likely end in tragedy and around 30-50 or more hours of work on your base and cultivators will get wiped by the flood dragon.
@@NFDave1992 it is for people who beat everything too easily. we want a challenge at times. but a smart challenge.. not just a gratuitous randomly difficult to complete... there has to be a high level of refinement to the madness
The moral of the story is that Chinese fantasy is like Western fantasy, if instead of being refined by masters of their craft, and ruthlessly polished into a shining little gem by the constraints of fantasy gaming, everyone just did drugs and watched martial arts movies, and then recordings of their drug-addled ramblings were input into a machine to convert into a genre of fiction.
You never read the classics, didn't you? I don' t blame you, your brainwashed head is to naive for metaphor, katesian, philosofical, metalinguistic fictction.
I'd say it's more like if the various esoteric beliefs, natural philosophies, and whatever other strange ideas of pre-modern societies that inspired modern fantasy tropes were basically left in, rather then refined, modified, or just flat out removed as they were in western fantasy. Like, imagine typical western fantasy world, but disease was pevented through adorning places with good smells, or you'd place animals and objects on trial to dispell any demonic/bad influence, or so on.
It actually is. Spent 15 hours looking at spreadsheets and guides. Also, he didn't even talk about spirit tree farming. He's not kidding about the casual filters.
Hey Seth, dunno if you will read this, but I really appreciate that you prioritize quality over quantity/frequency, I really like your videos and I surely think its worth rewatching them on another day/in another mood. Thank you for your work..
Hell yeah, I’m not sure where the myth that infrequent uploads loses your audience came from. Probably UA-camrs who had fanbases that didn’t have time to question if their content was terrible
@@Makujah_ I understand there is a lot of revenue incentive to put out frequent uploads, but I’ve heard UA-camrs talk about that being a big fear with people like jontron and internet historian.
@@woodlefoof2 another issue is based on your viewbase . Younger kids have higher frequencies and habits getting bored and forget without multiple daily/weekly uploads . Sseths case is that I don't think most his fans are in those categories
Sometimes i like to come back to this video because i cannot hold on to a single bit of info about this game whatsoever so it's an entirely new viewing experience every time
I came back to this video every year pretty much because my knowledge on wuxia & xianxia have improved. Now in 2024, everything finally made sense and this game depict the almost true depth of this genre
For everyone confused about the sex swap based on your cultivation, yin and yang are sexed energies, yin is female, yang is male, certain cultivations are sex specific since they use these two energies, if a male cultivates lunar cultivation (the moon is yin) their internal yin energy increases (think of it like estrogen overdose) which makes you female. in ancient chinese beliefs an excess of yin energy was what made males gay, very feminine, or even transgender, and an excess of yang energy made females lesbian, very masculine, or even transgender.
29:13 "I've never seen a story mechanic that's more laborious, difficult, and poorly thought." but It's accurate, since characters in those xianxia ALWAYS talk in cryptics so that we can have another 3k chapters
@ทักษะ รอดภัย Unfortunately, yes. A short sentence about how you should apologize cuz disrespect is suddenly three paragraphs long and you still havent actually apologized. Its fucking insane how longwinded they are. Its like that one teacher in school where they took 15 minutes to explain a concept they could have explained in 3.
@@Blah64 That's right. Mars Gravity takes his time posting new chapters. Sometimes it's few chapters per day, sometimes it's 1 chapter per month. Although Mad Snail's pace was an extreme that took about half a year and a bit in the 2nd half of last year and early this year, he came back with the explanation that he burned out a bit and had to rest for that time and normal pace of 1ch/1-2d. He slowed down a bit from posting ~0.5-1ch/day a month ago. The novel has 1876 chapters as of right now, but it will most certainly have over 2000. I can't see it finishing earlier than late 2022, but you never know...
Yeah starvation isnt exactly something that's spontaneous. Which means he woke up that day, on the CUSP of starving to death, and still was going to do some work. THAT'S dedication.
@@plsarguewithme2665 I'd say it's slightly downplaying a lot of Wuxia dramas... not enough old men and hags getting riled up because of the protagonist which is clearly weaker than them, doesn't show them face.
@@jonsimpson6240 Bruh, sentient penis farms, where you make women grow penises only for them to fall off and then enchant them to sell them as living dildos to bored female cultivators who don't need no Dao partners.
@@Watchmanskey I started [;aying in the last 2 days and now I'm reading Cultivation Manhua in my spare time for fun. It helps that the Manhua explains what cultivation is and now I can somewhat understand the game
How to make the Amazing Treasure Sect 1. Get a male cultivator to learn Lunar Form, this will give you a treasure. 2. Regrow body part and repeat for infinite treasure, then go to step 3. 3. Use primordial skill "Darksoul Genesis" to illuminate the treasures into sentinel spirits 4. Awaken the sentinel spirits and cultivate them 5. Now you are ready to take over the world with your amazing treasures
As someone who got into xianxia books and tv shows in the last 6 months im laughing my ass off and i am gonna play the shit out of this. Honestly the genre is funny cause it full of people trying to cultivate immortality, but also theyre the fucking pettiest human beings imaginable. So this game carries the spirit of the genre pretty well lol
@@johnarcher6150 Martial World (really long so you can drop it mid way if you're bored) or Coiling Dragon (starts of more western, with more western names) are good beginner novels. If you like ecchi go for Against the gods or Martial god asura for the fastfood variant. More quality books are Reverend Insanity (evil MC and cultivation + pokemon insects), Way of choices (starts slowly and is more poetic/less about power fantasy), I shall seal the heavens (if you want to have a book with more actual Daoism) and Death Sutra (more grounded and less about cultivation, darker/noir/tragedy).
@@Miraclelnvoker Never recommend that to anyone, its not bad, but its also never going to be finished in anyone's lifespan because of a stupid ass contract the author signed with some companies.
This channel is like waiting for a drop of enlightenment from a grand mentor, who is actually a cult leader that would sell us out for some in game currency on a hentai game.
Yes why would I want a sword made out of materials that makes it good but it causes every sects hidden elders to come kill me. Ancient fossils would never expect a peasant in a cotton shirt that is if they come out of their closed cultivation within the next 100 years
@@BierBart12 The lore explanation for the name is that Yao guai are first encountered by the descendants of people staying in Chinese internment camps, it does not explain how this name spread throughout the entire US though, you would think that an English name would spread faster rather than a foreign one.
@@amf9797 True...but I imagine that if people are fleeing from a flaming giant bear screaming "Yao Guai! Yao Guai! Fai di lai le!" an English name wouldn't be the first thing to cross a US Native's mind.
I needed him 3 months ago but yeah being sent to Xinjiang for some RE-EDUCATION i'll give him a pass. 14k Triads finally found him i guess, but he's too important to bury.
@@Ovvkoz Joke? ^:) That real ingame mechanic. It's REALLY hard to find high stated wetworkers, and promoting them to cultivators means you now lack professional labor... And because it's not shown how long mortals live, you work them to death :^)
"You are courting death" and "You have a death wish" the two lines spoken at the very least once every page and some character has to spit blood every other line. Whether from wounds they suffered, the result of some cultivation technique/elixir or the most common of all... spitting blood because our MC is just so arrogant.
-Fists don't have eyes -2 tigers can't share a mountain -There sky above sky, mountains beyond mountains -Birds die for food, men die for wealth -Mantis stalks cicada while oriole is behind it -I Your FaTher/laozi LMAO that's all I could think of at this moment
Thank you for being funny as you are. I spent countless hours during chemo watching your reviews, only thing that made me laugh. Have a good day my man.
And you know what? That is one of the two explanations I expected, the other being "I somehow declared war on all the present factions who fed me their weaker members until I successfullly cultivated to the point I can single handidly wipe them out" because I read the novels this game is based on.
and make 14 years old custom cultivator.. if you want 500k+ golden core.. and i think cultivation event pre flood dragon cave will boost your core.. so i's a race against time to unlock wicked flux and earth flux + all artifacts and sub-spirits.. first golden core can be your main guy.. it doesn't have to be a sacrifice.. as long as they could reach primordial.. then make artifacts and eat nirvana pill (one of the sect sells this.. befriend, hunt and kill their leaders).. repeat until you unlock all artifact slots and attached sub-spirits into your equipments.. then go kill ancient cultivators for manuals.. or buy manuals from other sects.. hell gate is a must..
i've read somewhere that you could make the ultimate cultivator using an illuminated elixir by making it swallow a sun pill before the golden core realm
I'd love to see a game that take the concepts here and makes it into something where you're an individual on a cultivation journey, instead of the seed point for an entire sect
To clarify, this game is based on the "cultivation" genre, not the "Wuxia" genre. The Wuxia (武侠）genre goes back to around late Qing Dynasty. The modern Wuxia becomes popular around early 60s and is more grounded to our world where martial artists are just fighters who try to use their skills for good. Usually, the said "good" depends on the era it's in. If it's in Late Song Dynasty, it's about defending the nation from invading Mongols. If it's in Ming Dynasty, it's about doing the right thing in the middle of civil wars / fighting corruption that's rooted from within the imperial government. If it's in Qing Dynasty, it's about the Chinese trying to overthrow the Manchurian invaders (who had planted themselves as the new rule) in order to bring back their Han rule. And, the plot doesn't involve anyone "ascending to godhood". It's sort of like the "superhero with no powers" genre for Chinese but sets in Ancient China. Cultivation （修仙）genre, on the other hand, is a new genre that appears around 10 years ago when web novel becomes popular. The story usually happens in fantasy China instead of historical China. And the story almost always involving the protagonist becoming the most powerful deity in the universe / multiverse. The protagonist gets all the girls, all the powers, kills everyone who disagrees with him. Bad guys must always be one dimensional evil. If the bad guys is complex, he will end up being one dimensionally evil. If the protagonist is morally questionable, it's fine he's not evil because "he's the protagonist" and the protagonist is always right. in short, it's a "power fantasy writing piece". This is why many Chinese often call a Wuxia novel a "novel"(小说） while a Cultivation novel a "power fantasy writing" (爽文）.
This is my favorite video of yours, I could never play autism games like these and this one especially is very interesting with the Chinese culture and lore. I come back to watch it every now and then
@@aurelius-sparksf I had to guess I'd say hyper realistic and/or detailed simulation games that are extremely complex and difficult to learn and in which absurd happenings are practically the norm. Games like Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress.
I'm out here in China, and everything in this game seems legit. There are dozens of TV shows where people transform into animals, but not for anything cool or on camera. They just refer to having done some shopping as a spiritual fox earlier in the day. And everything is controlled by hot & cold energies. Even in the peak of summer, people can and 'will' suffer from cold wet energies, so you best drink some hot water.
Not literal hot and cold energies some might think. Yin and Yang are more like like dark vs light or feminine vs masculine or negative vs positive or lunar vs solar. It's something supposed to be balanced for human to not get sick. As for people transforming into animals, that's actually the other way around. Once animals gain further consciousness (beyond their animal consciousness), they start to become 'Yaoguai', a kind of life-state close to western concept of monster. From then on, their main life goal would be cultivation and ascension to godhood or humanhood because these are deemed better by them. In Chinese literature, Yaoguai is often depicted with huge interest in human life and becoming one. That's why there's a lot of them masquerading and faking to be one and join the human society. One thing worth noting is that, Yaoguai is also generally deemed as mischievous, unkind, and even evil, so ancient Chinese liked to blame them, like saying "that is not a human, they're a Yaoguai disguising as human, that's why they're so evil." But in reality, they're often just evil humans.
@@ncrvako Just read too many web novels. You'll understand how shameless brothers who go back in time and achieve cultivation godhood are the people you want to avoid.
I do want to say that despite several years of continued research, Big Chungus continues to be one of the best names for sentient objects. I didn't want to know this, but I'm too far in. Help me.
Haha I just got into it, but already read and caught up with most of them hehe. Good stuff, as manga kinda already hurts my eyes with it being black and white, already caught up with alll that.
"We have to trick villagers into joining our ranks. We do this by making small talk, find out that half of them like nothing more than to consume shit, then invite them over" [17:38] _T H E L O A T H S O M E D U N G E A T E R_
@@r0br33r How can one sentence be so full of ignorance, false pride and projection lol. My man, you're better off not opening your mouth or typing ever again, because you're as cringe as they come.
There are some games that makes me to ask myself these two questions whenever Sseth covers them, 1) who are the target audience for this game?? and 2) who the hell has this much free time and the patience of a sage to understand and even finish this games?? This game is one of them.
I never thought to be "afraid" of a game. Sure Rimworld can be funny and stupid but THIS game is a total other scale. I sat here and watched this video and was baffled that this game really exists. xD
@@afrizalaminuddin2717 it is definetely more complex than rimworld so i recommend reading a wuxia novel to understand the basics but if you like wuxia novels or cultivation manhwa i definitely recommend it
The dog destroying everything is so relatable. I have a husky puppy rn and she not only has the same look on her face, but she told me she wants to feed people laxatives because destroying everything in my house just doesn't cause enough chaos
I blame you for my avid spiralling out of control addiction towards cultivation novels. I have spent 3000+ hours on them and this has caused me to fail my last year of college and for my girlfriend to leave me. I regret very little for I have discovered the joy of poorly translated novels of fantasy world of ancient China and the harsh reality of ancient China and the harsher and more sociopathic characters inhabiting such land. When I ever have the chance of meeting you I'll definetly turn you into a living pill.
"Read Martial God Asura. Its ultra cancerous. So much so that you'll gain superpowers after reading it. tumors won't grow on you anymore, you'll grow on tumors. As long as tumors remain, so will you." - 7 Secret Ways to eternal life.
This game is a trip man, took me hours just to understand how to make a single cultivator reach GC1, And once I had finally achieved it, I immediately got the dragon event and didn't know how the hell to take it down Haven't played the game since so any advices are welcomed
so many years whenever I heard about some cultivation story I thought it was about farming. But now I found out it's actual hell. Why do people read stories about this
@@roseravus4908 because people beating people with giant swords and using their enemies souls as fuel for their revenge is any teenagers power fantasy junk food
Everyone is OP as heck all around you. So you have to find some way to out OP them all but the more OP you get the more OPer people show up and becomes an infinite loop of gaining arbritrary stats that the numbers become ridiculous in how big they are becoming?
@@roseravus4908 One will to create oceans. One will to summon the mulberry fields. One will to slaughter countless devils. One will to eradicate innumerable immortals. Only my will… is eternal.
There isn’t a single joke in this video.
Every line in the script is not only something you can do in this game, but most of it is encouraged and some of it is straight up necessary to move forward.
So you telling me farming severed genitalia for my dicknado is encouraged, eh? Hmm..
Oh lord.
So that explains why the Chinese government is an extreme totalitarian backwards communist super power.
I mean, google the word Joke.
the game is the joke
He literally strawmanned his way out of an auction
"Gentlemen, it's been a pleasure doing business with you!"
The fact that thats where the saying comes from is the best part of the joke.
@@jamzee_ What do you mean
@@Daubi1990 a person set up to serve as a cover for a usually questionable transaction.
Well, as he established in his M&M6 Re Review, his hustle is supreme.
This video phisically exhausted me. The sheer outlandish and intricate systems information dump numbed me for days to come. I can't even fathom the work that was put into this video. Giant Kudos Seth! And thank you!
I swear some Sseth videos give me fucking anxiety
Feels like if I play this game I will ascend into godhood or go fully insane
honestly... being a chinese weeb helped, might seem like a mental illness but i've actually read about 6000 chapters or more of this sort of stuff so i was able to understand everything
He made it sound way more complex than the game really is.
Well except for the golden core part, he actually made that part sound way more easy than it really is.
I love Sseth's videos but I only made it about half way through this one before I just wasn't even following along anymore. This game is too whack for me thanks .
"You want someone to celebrate your birthday with you this year?"
"Granted."
That was unexpectedly wholesome.
The way its framed with the POV shot, I like to think that sseth himself answered the prayer by hanging out with him on his birthday.
Imagine the friendless schlub in the mailroom was seen pounding qt Asian hooker ass with the God Emperor himself
Just because you are a chaotic dick selling demigod doesnt mean you can't show your elders some love.
The little turtle with a party hat is especially cute
I mean. Its accurate too. Even Stalin and Hitler had shockingly wholesome moments....Like when hitler shot himself in the head. And Stalin died cause he locked up all the doctors. Wholesome times.
@@NeiasaurusCreations You mean holesome?
I like how Seath is so deep into the mechanics of this game he forgot to explain what the golden core actually does.
What does it do?
@@Ghi102 It lets you draw 2 cards
@@Themeir 2 cards of what? Ive finished the video but i forgot to understand
@Allodium was the answer one of the cards? I got the first card but I dont think it's my turn to draw yet
I think it's just a level up, state boosts etc
Bought this the day it came out, started the game with a single character, realized very quickly that without any outer disciples to put to work I was pretty fucked, managed to get some outer disciples and soon after came to the conclusion: "This isn't a game for me, it's a game for Sseth, I'll just wait for his video on it."
Just like in wuxia novels in the beginning of the stories, you have to steal some outer disciples from the powerless non-martial artists. At least, I wanna think that's the mechanic the game implements.
There's some games that are ONLY for sseth
You made a mistake of not being overdosed on adderal
@@jeyolikemayo those bloody novels can give santa barbara a run for it's money, ngl
I watched Sseth's video 3 times, I tried playing the game for 2 hours - I still don't understand anything. The resource management, task prioritization, etc, is all confusing, especially when I set the correct priorities, give out tasks, and then I see the outer disciple "wander around" while his mood is maxed while I badly need resources for my luxury suite.
不要伤害我, 我可以破坏当地的电网
israel
赞美中共
Yes, thats very true
Hard feelings :/
🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇹🇷🇨🇳🇨🇳
Seth sending a fake body double to scam the auction is the single best game mechanic I've ever witnessed
Fits with the genre. Using a clone/incarnation/avatar for these kind of things is a stable
Being a dick farmer is more innovative
@@IronikMoI’m pretty sure there is very very few things that haven’t happened in cultivation novels 😂. They’re SO MANY.
Meng Hao walked into the McDonald's. The cultivator taking his order gave a derisive snort, but Meng Hao did not really care, because he had repressed his aura down to the Single Patty Realm, and a fool would not be able to tell his true level of burger eating. "Give me... a Happy Meal!"
The cultivator's face flickered before he finally regained his composure and laughed. "You couldn't afford a Happy Meal. Get lost! Don't you see that there are Double Quarter Pounder Realm eaters waiting behind you?
Meng Hao slapped his bag of holding and threw 80 billion spirit McDonald's coupons onto the counter, causing an earthquake which demolished half of the restaurant. Everyone dropped their jaws. None could see how this was possible! "I'll take that Happy Meal with a side order of fries, " Meng Hao said. He was as calm as the ocean in a painting of an insanely calm ocean. "And let me see your manager!"
The cashier cultivator coughed up a mouthful of ketchup. He simply could not handle Meng Hao's killing intent, because he was only at the Quarter Pounder with Cheese realm himself. Even though Meng Hao had suppressed his aura, because he had cultivated the Heavenly Burgin' Qi, this was enough to kill people a few levels higher if he truly wanted.
It was then that another man which a much more fierce aura stepped forward. "You dare make trouble here?" "P... Patriarch Hamburglar!"
Patriarch Hamburglar was 99 cents of the way into the Big Mac Realm, plus tax! Meng Hao was pushed back two feet, knocking over a soda machine. Powerade Mountain Berry Blast geysered outward, killing several onlookers.
Of course, Mayor McCheese saw all this happen through the window.
Meng Hao coughed up a mouthful of blood, snorted, constricted his pupils, and then his expression went calm. He unleashed the aura of 64 patties, condensed down to a 2 patty stack that could fit into his mouth! Mayor McCheese coughed up a mouthful of cheese. His pupils constricted.
"Is this... Seeking the McRib stage??" Meng Hao had the gentle air of a scholar, but it wouldn't stop him from killing several people in a McDonald's. "Burger Devouring Scripture! I'm Lovin' It!"
With the first keyword of the Burger Devouring Scripture, everyone below the early Quarter Pounder With Cheese stage exploded into purple mist. The light of the immense heavenly burger shone down with the contours of a golden arch as 9 illusory burgers floated around Meng Hao's body, which is probably an important xianxia number that matches the number of lakes in some sacred Chinese province I've never heard of. But that was only a fraction of Meng Hao's power. He waved his arm, bringing forth thirty more cultivation techniques that hadn't appeared in over 400 chapters! "Heavenly Tribulation Fries! Eastern Everburning Egg McMuffin! Fruit Smoothie Guillotine! Soul McCafe Mocha Incarnation!"
Meng Hao's expression was the same as ever as he slapped his bag of holding, and brought out his karmic ketchup packet, Fry Cook Lord medallion, seventeen different wooden time spatulas, a five-coloured resurrection coupon, the silk burger wrapper, various souls of lightning McNuggets that he may or may not still have, and his mask of the legacy of Ronald McDonald. Oh, and the image of a flying Chicken Snack Wrap dragon appeared. Remember that? It was basically his Main Thing at the start of the novel, but quietly faded into irrelevance. Until now!
All of this takes some time to describe, but actually happened in the space of only a few breaths. "What! Impossible!"
Meng Hao wanted to summon the parrot as well, but it was too overcome with eroticism by the purple fur depicted on a nearby poster of Grimace, and was busy drilling out a glory hole straight through the poster, and the wall it was pinned to, with its strong parrot erection. But it was more than enough. The Hamburglar's soul flew out and was absorbed into his mask! He screamed as his body was destroyed completely.
Meng Hao brushed off his robe and swept up his spirit coupons and everyone's bags of holding which probably didn't have any cool sh*t inside unless I write him into a corner later, and anyways, don't worry about it for now. He surveyed the rubble that was all that remained of the McDonald's.
"Guess I'll be taking that Happy Meal... to go!"
Well, now we know who has been making those threads on /v/ about Xianxia novels.
The parrot part isnt even exaggerated.
Oh god this is giving me flash backs to xianxia 4000+ chapter novels. Did he ascend into a higher realm? The Wcdonald realm? Or the mythical MgRonald realm?
Classic copy pasta
so yeah, a typical chapter, only a thousand or so to go
returning with "Cultivation Simulator" makes too much sense
in secluded cultivation years pass in the blink of an eye
Do you think he reached the bone forging realm? if not, we have to bully him, while risking useful artifacts/pills.
The best part is, this entire video is more useful than the entire fucking wiki
a-fucking-men to that
It's like the Encyclopedia Dramatica effect, some clusterfucks of the internet can only be properly covered in that way; short and to the point, but also layered with snark, which in the right cases the subject matter is begging for.
The wiki is hot trash. Honestly, I had to learn from reading forum posts and Steam community questions. Though, the comment section of the items themselves had people who knew their shit.
ACS Foundation guide is literally more useful than anything else you will find
Amen to that
9:05
Oh I see, that's why my parents got divorced, the bedroom was in orientation 5, which is clearly incorrect Feng Shui, dooming their relationship!
that part where he sent a doll to the auction house so he couldn't get caught really was funny and made my jaw drop. Those games may not be for me, but i'm glad they exist
lol that shit got me the most.
Games that allow you to pull off stuff like that are what I live for.
Tbh that wasn't his idea, that's the exact description of this item in game.
funny thing is wuxias often do a similar thing
Truly, you can be an immortal con artist
Guys, Seth was never gone, he was just optimizing his Feng Shui and cultivating himself into a higher state of being.
Chill out
The doxxing set him back a bit
@@helsingS_ Tf you talking about?
@@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943 sseth and part of the merchant's guild where doxxed
@@helsingS_ By who?
@@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943 I don't know but I'm trying to find out
What I've learnt is that Sseth spent the last 2 months learning to say Feng Shui correctly
The wise man prepares for their eventual chinese overlords
It's kind of a great skit where whenever he pronounces a word with 'high confidence' he pronounces it horribly wrong, and whenever he pronounces a word with 'low confidence' he gets it nearly perfect.
John Cena taught him
havnt seen the video yet but can almost guarantee this comment is a lie (just the him saying it right part)
If anyone wants to play this in 2023 or later, the English version has been improved a lot. There is now mod support and 2 DLCs, and a great sequel is in the works.
Update: There's also a mobile port of the game! It's only available in China, but it should be coming to the West soon.
A sequel to ACS? Awesome!
@@VeryProfessionalGamer Yup, it should come out this year!
@@tristanmisja Hell yeah! I can hardly wait! Hope it lives up to the first one.
is the mobile port out?
I’ve read too many wuxia novels.. this game completely makes sense to me. What have I become..
A fellow brother of mine
You're not alone at least
Would you mind explaining that thing about wuxia novels to me? I don't thing Ikki Tousen counts as wuxia, despite bastaradising Three Kingdoms.
To cure this, you must go into the woods and mediate while an elderly Asian hits you with sticks until you can seek revenge……oh shit wait a minute
@@ChronicNOTAG best way to find out is to read some yourself. I suggest you read I shall seal the heaven's or a will eternal on novel full. Try a few chapters and see how you feel
Was getting real worried that the Merchan'ts Guild™ took you out, Sseth
Instead it was Sseth who took out the Merchants' Guild. How the tables have turned.
He was just living the live using the Merchants money I suppose 🤔🤔
aahh... what a blessed day today. I love you both
He probably was stuck in a toilet.
ayeeeeeee i love your videos when youre not talking no offense!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think i broke the code now. He gets addicted to a game, plays it for 500+hours, then he gets an injection of seratonin and forces himself to make some high quality content.
The Yaoguai thing is actually hilarious too.
So, Tribulations happen to any cultivator that really tries to go hard in the paint on ascending. and Yaoguai tribulation is basically the easiest one. It burns through 30k Qi, 5 times, at base. This means you have to be able to tank 150k Qi of damage. A cultivator that just became an inner disciple has between 500 to 1200 Qi. This plus good artifacts in the first couple months could get you to 1500 Qi in the disciple, and 30k Qi in artifacts and other pools of Qi they can use. This will not save you.
If you have a Yaoguai with under 100 days before tribulation, they're a lost cause if they aren't already an established cultivator, or you're willing to play like a psychopath.
So my first attempt at The Miao Haus ended in terror.
MY next attempt just has the Miao family and their many, many, mundane cats.
You can just cultivate in a cave off map or stick them in a agency to stop their timer, the cave lets them train though.
just stack protect and talisman for protect with some items and do the Whitout artefact. Shifter tribs are super easy. I tank them before gold core on pure regen with that strat on a few 1000 qi
Give them one artifact from a PS or Shendao. It will utterly destroy the cloud from pure awesomeness.
>Miao Haus
Hehe funny cat house
Is this that Genshin Impact everyone is talking about?
Yes.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Well, that game's review was made by Sseth's long-lost white cousin.
"Heaven's punishment for being a furry" is a sentence that I did not expect to describe Heavenly tribulations accurately.
you probably played this game way too much.
@@wei270 furry spotted
@@wei270 or reads wuxia
Heavenly entities: furry spotted
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@@iceempoleon5471 The wuxia to furry pipeline is real
"his dog was literally feeding laxative to his disciple." is a sentence I thought I've never heard.
what the dog doing
Wait. So you have heard it before? Tell me what kind of buried horrific memory this video made you recall?
Didn't that show up in one of the changelogs for Dwarf Fortress?
@@LordVollmilch Crimes against humanity. It's "doin" crimes against humanity.
16:10
After reading more cultivation novels/manhuas than a computer can count, I have long come to the conclusion that cultivation trades brains and maturity for sheer power. The number of times I have read about people gasping in shock and amazement because the MC was smart enough to know that the guy who threatened him and his family with torture and the eternal imprisonment of their souls might not be trustworthy is...
Not to mention all the times they have been AMAZED that someone as YOUNG as 2-3000 years can understand basic sarcasm and 'subtle' threats.... As the characters themselves have stated: 'Even million+ year old legends might not have been able to detect the animosity shown by (guy known for killing everyone who does not bow and scrape before him, or just anyone he sees when he is in a malicious mood.)'
It goes deeper, now we have a manhua parodying that very same troupe and making fun of it. Don't ask me for sauce, I could never find it in my library
@@Vysair I am the Fated Villain? Right? Yall should read it, it's so funny
Honestly, the idea that people in power just brutally murder people for small slights seems very much in Chinese fashion and it makes me feel weird.
that's like insulting mcdonalds for selling junk and then eating every single meal at mcdonalds
Take it to a publisher 💀😭 all that yap
You can tell that Sseth actually tried with his pronunciations, which is awesome. Also, Chinese mysticism is the final boss of "contrived plot armour and maguffins" so its insane to see the developers made some semblance of a system out of it
Yeah, I was actually a little impressed by how far they went.
I mean literally every magic system whether elaborated on or not is all just contrived bullsh*t to make otherwise impossible things happen. And as far as magic systems go, Chinese alchemy and Wuxia Chi cultivation is actually one of the more well thought out, consistent, mechanically fleshed out systems of mystical hogwash. To be honest I would like to see similar (arguably insane) levels of detail and fleshing out of other settings' magic systems and elaboration of their respective metaphysical underpinnings. (and in many cases coming up with metaphysic models were none existed before..)
Plus even in Chinese mysticism, it's not just about imperical methods, infact it largely depends on the individual on how they're to approach the arts of magic, hence why in the *"Amazing Cultivation Simulator"* each character all have their more or less own unique qualities that must be cultivated on a customizable basis in order to unlock their true potential and obtain godly powers based on them as individuals. All the system does is like giving people various avenues of research or training so they can find methods or approaches that work best for them based on their individual skills and even personality quirks. Basically Wuxai is a compartmentalized but interchangeable system, like bionicles, sure there's concrete pieces of metaphysics but how they're arranged for people is largely up to the individual's abilities and qualities as well as lifestyles and environments they're immersed in.
@@navilluscire2567 The same kind of detail for actual Western alchemy would be interesting. Actually incorporating the five elements and the four steps to purification and all the mystical baggage associated with it.
@@navilluscire2567 "hurr fiction isn't real durr"
The reason other magic systems don't do this is that it's objectively terrible.
@@seigeengine
Not really, the fact that people still play or would play around with such detailed, involved (as in it takes actual preparation and thought) magic systems proves that there's definitely a market for such games. Most other magic systems in popular media treat magic less like a study and more like just having basically super powers at the users beck and call, which funny enough is the entire point of chi cultivation, all that studying and all that preparation, and all the meticulous steps is towards achieving the goals of both immortality and developing incredible super powers or else crafting legendary artifacts. Most magic systems in many games just cut out the implied in between studying or prerequisite stuff that is sopposed a learned art and metaphysical science in their magic systems if they even bother with implying that. Again in popular fiction magic wielded by mortals is treated as some inborn super powers rather than grafted abilities or manipulations of fate via esoteric tools and symbolic gestures like in more historical magic traditions or Wuxia literature.
I bought this game when it came out. I played it for 20 hours and still didn't understand anything. Now that I've watched this video I can safely say it's not my fault and this game is an afront to god
I think its more to many gods cooked this thing and then the humans wanted a say:P
To be fair, the entry barrier of this game for english speakers is reading 1000+ chapters of chinese novels
@@letroll8954 lol so true. but if you're read a single chinese novel, then you should be a pro at this game. it's so predictable.
@@AndenMowe-hh5qk that's 2.5 days of a full time job. I worked at a job I hated for over 6 years.
20 hours is nothing
Well, as a Chinese who are familiar with the concept. It took me like 50 hours just to understand the basic mechanics.
Having already owned this game, I watched this video and was inspired to go back.
I just wanted to note: the Big Chungus sentient spirit thing? That's not actually a joke. Sseth is being completely serious. The name you give an awakened building or item DOES actually decide part of the stats it gets, and a male spirit being named "Big Chungus" will give base stats of 26 which is either the highest possible base stat value, or just the highest one that has been found. This is reproducible across saves and games. fuckin wild.
This fucking game man.
Wow, that's hilarious.
Ascended Meme.
There are also Space marine (male), Adepta Sororita (female) and Hello Babe (female), etc
@@richardgaotama3466 what do those do?
@@notepadplusplus4923 Same thing as Big Chungus. It modifies the stats of your character to the highest. Very important if you want to consume sunpill before golden core.
“I only answer bad prayers” followed by him hesitantly granting the person who just wanted company on there bd always hits for some reason
"You are bad guy, but that doesn't mean you are bad GUY"
"A man just decapitated my best friend from 10 miles away with a flying fedora."
Hate it when that happens in rimworld.
Especially since the fedora is usually made up of your former family members who died on their raid
Kung lao from mortal kombat?
Oddjob is that you?
It is better than being choked from a flying haunted foot
Ah that's probably Kung Lao doing his stuff
This game is literally just the "very wise" and "very unwise" memes turned into a colony sim.
mmm yes, very wise
very unwise
Fuck, I just came back here after 8 hours and I've got like 350, it wasn't even a good joke, guys.
@@jakeking974 very wise
@@DarkOmegaMK2 非常明智的举动
I know I'm never gonna play this game, but the video still made me want to.
every Sseth game tbh
Truth.
Feels bad having a 12 year old PC, but it's better than no PC.
Same.
Read some cultivation novels instead, then.
Kudos to whoever made this game. It must've taken a *really* long time.
This is one of the most insane games Sseth hast covered and that's saying something.
I lost track of how everything's connected and what the fuck is happening several minutes into the vid
I watched this video with two large breaks of half a day each in an attempt to absorb as much of the information as possible, but this game is by far the most complicated one I've ever seen and sseth did an amazing job presenting how deep the rabbit hole goes. I was thinking sseth was joking when he said fans datamined the game but it's absolutely true, just open the linked guide in the description and find the "Code Diving" link in that spreadsheet, there's so much more he could've covered.
We're on CoQ levels of insanity and in all for it.
"Are you easily entertained by seeing numbers get higher"
Damn, you got me
I have 277 hours and I know for a fact Sseth isn't lying when he says he hates it. The game is addicting and you will likely have fun but its a massive time sink and the story is dam near impossible to complete. If you don't read up on the game before starting you first playthrough will likely end in tragedy and around 30-50 or more hours of work on your base and cultivators will get wiped by the flood dragon.
@@billfred9411 that sounds sadistic
tight
He got me with just the first half of that sentence.
@@billfred9411 Losing ins fun
@@NFDave1992 it is for people who beat everything too easily. we want a challenge at times. but a smart challenge.. not just a gratuitous randomly difficult to complete... there has to be a high level of refinement to the madness
"Are you easily entertained by seeing numbers get higher?"
still waiting on a runescape video
Not obscure enough.
Runescape private servers.
@@EyePatchGuy88 erm, sseth doesn't really cover obsure games. majority of them either well known or were popular back in a days
@@musikalniyfanboichik Starsector has entered the chat.
The moral of the story is that Chinese fantasy is like Western fantasy, if instead of being refined by masters of their craft, and ruthlessly polished into a shining little gem by the constraints of fantasy gaming, everyone just did drugs and watched martial arts movies, and then recordings of their drug-addled ramblings were input into a machine to convert into a genre of fiction.
So... what you're saying is that Chinese Fantasy is completely based?
You never read the classics, didn't you? I don' t blame you, your brainwashed head is to naive for metaphor, katesian, philosofical, metalinguistic fictction.
I'd say it's more like if the various esoteric beliefs, natural philosophies, and whatever other strange ideas of pre-modern societies that inspired modern fantasy tropes were basically left in, rather then refined, modified, or just flat out removed as they were in western fantasy. Like, imagine typical western fantasy world, but disease was pevented through adorning places with good smells, or you'd place animals and objects on trial to dispell any demonic/bad influence, or so on.
@@JBaum55 That's what I said.
Sounds so accurate it could be a documentary lmfao
This is the only review where every 3 minutes I question if this is really a game or some sort of long con/fever dream.
I thought I was closing in on the end, tabbed out, 10:40 in only...
Oh boy
It's genuine. The translation might be subjective as a fever dream, but I mean, the scenarios and events are as advertised.
This...this isnt even a game anymore.
This is homework.
Studying the meaning of life.
Gaining immortality is not easy
It actually is. Spent 15 hours looking at spreadsheets and guides. Also, he didn't even talk about spirit tree farming. He's not kidding about the casual filters.
There can only be one ☝️
I literally spent an hour and half scouring the web for a google doc explaining how the fuck the “golden core” stage works.
The new DLC has pills that cures perpetual child face and can make your 14 year old boy look like Master Roshi.
About God damn time.
Oh God, it has DLC !?!
*anguished skeleton noises*
came back to watch this life changing masterpiece, the best 30 minutes of my life, went from a broke and disabled person to a demigod thank you ccp
Hey Seth, dunno if you will read this, but I really appreciate that you prioritize quality over quantity/frequency, I really like your videos and I surely think its worth rewatching them on another day/in another mood. Thank you for your work..
Hell yeah, I’m not sure where the myth that infrequent uploads loses your audience came from.
Probably UA-camrs who had fanbases that didn’t have time to question if their content was terrible
the videos are so high quality i can watch them every day and find something new XD
@@Makujah_ I understand there is a lot of revenue incentive to put out frequent uploads, but I’ve heard UA-camrs talk about that being a big fear with people like jontron and internet historian.
@@woodlefoof2 another issue is based on your viewbase . Younger kids have higher frequencies and habits getting bored and forget without multiple daily/weekly uploads . Sseths case is that I don't think most his fans are in those categories
Not only rewatching some vids myself, but sending them to friends usually make them instantly buy the game, like in case of Synthetik 😛
The King returns 👑👑
13k likes in 1 hour tho
I wanted to say this as soon I saw the video
Emperor actually..
When we needed him most
@@cramirez3855 immortal emperor
This is what I imagine high level elders scrolls lore is like.
Taoism is pretty much that
And you're right....oh no more jokes about Sven
Chim chim
About as insane, recommendation btw, go read the 36 Lessons of Vivec while high, it’ll be one hell of a trip
It is,and its as fucking stupid as it is glorious.
Sometimes i like to come back to this video because i cannot hold on to a single bit of info about this game whatsoever so it's an entirely new viewing experience every time
On my third watch now. I literally don't remember a thing this is cool
glad I'm not alone on this
I came back to this video every year pretty much because my knowledge on wuxia & xianxia have improved. Now in 2024, everything finally made sense and this game depict the almost true depth of this genre
@@Vysair You have become prideful young master, come back after 2000 chapters and maybe you will truly understand the true essence of Chinese fantasy
For everyone confused about the sex swap based on your cultivation, yin and yang are sexed energies, yin is female, yang is male, certain cultivations are sex specific since they use these two energies, if a male cultivates lunar cultivation (the moon is yin) their internal yin energy increases (think of it like estrogen overdose) which makes you female. in ancient chinese beliefs an excess of yin energy was what made males gay, very feminine, or even transgender, and an excess of yang energy made females lesbian, very masculine, or even transgender.
Very informative
wake up babe, new HRT just dropped
Having that gay yin energy
@@DesertsOfHighfleet If you are a man with too much yang energy, that can result in irrational anger, fever, and shooting blood out of your nose.
Dudes got the big yin.
29:13 "I've never seen a story mechanic that's more laborious, difficult, and poorly thought."
but It's accurate, since characters in those xianxia ALWAYS talk in cryptics so that we can have another 3k chapters
@ทักษะ รอดภัย Unfortunately, yes. A short sentence about how you should apologize cuz disrespect is suddenly three paragraphs long and you still havent actually apologized. Its fucking insane how longwinded they are.
Its like that one teacher in school where they took 15 minutes to explain a concept they could have explained in 3.
@@subarusama5673 Holy crap, ATG isn't finished yet?
@@Blah64 That's right. Mars Gravity takes his time posting new chapters. Sometimes it's few chapters per day, sometimes it's 1 chapter per month. Although Mad Snail's pace was an extreme that took about half a year and a bit in the 2nd half of last year and early this year, he came back with the explanation that he burned out a bit and had to rest for that time and normal pace of 1ch/1-2d. He slowed down a bit from posting ~0.5-1ch/day a month ago. The novel has 1876 chapters as of right now, but it will most certainly have over 2000. I can't see it finishing earlier than late 2022, but you never know...
@@subarusama5673 has mad snail continued tdg?
@@leonardodavila506 Not since January, this is the last time he posted new chapter... Is it officially on hiatus?
Turtle man: “Hrm, today I will refine brownstone”
*dies from starvation*
At least he had his birthday celebrated
Yeah starvation isnt exactly something that's spontaneous. Which means he woke up that day, on the CUSP of starving to death, and still was going to do some work. THAT'S dedication.
Renaming the dog "Dinner" since it was a little more Chinese KILLED me. Thanks for the vid.
"Someone drawed a swastika and now can use the oven 12% faster"
This is some Kung Fury level of martial arts
Should be an increase in carrying compacity.
"Someone"
@@photonfield yeah.. "someone"
I agree . This game is what happens if Kung Fu Hustle, Kung Fury and Kung Pow had a orgy thought process and fused together
In East Asia, the swastika still retains its pre-Third Reich meaning of well-being. A lot of early 20th century branding in the US used to use it too.
It's like an AI generated this game after learning random Chinese myths and downing a bottle of Jägermeister.
That's pretty much the entire Wuxia genre honestly
nope, this is perfectly normal if you're familiar with chinese fantasy historical dramas
@@jmiller6066 and i fucking love it
@@plsarguewithme2665 I'd say it's slightly downplaying a lot of Wuxia dramas... not enough old men and hags getting riled up because of the protagonist which is clearly weaker than them, doesn't show them face.
@@livedandletdie Courting Death!
This is the most esoteric game I've ever seen.
Compared to that Rimworld looks like a perfectly normal, regular game.
Less forced organ donations in this one though...
@@jonsimpson6240 Bruh, sentient penis farms, where you make women grow penises only for them to fall off and then enchant them to sell them as living dildos to bored female cultivators who don't need no Dao partners.
I just started playing yesterday and now I'm neck deep in the Wuxia and Chinese mysticism rabbit hole
@@Watchmanskey oh no one so it as claimed one more victim lol
@@Watchmanskey I started [;aying in the last 2 days and now I'm reading Cultivation Manhua in my spare time for fun. It helps that the Manhua explains what cultivation is and now I can somewhat understand the game
rewatching sseth's entire filmography because life has lost all meaning and it's one of the few things that make me feel alive
This entire video is like a non-stop fever dream. Every time I think it's hit the apex of insanity, it surpasses it and then some.
Seeing someone get decapitated with a flying blue summer shirt was fucking hilarious.
Good ending: Sseth wasn't Mcaffe'd.
Sounds like one of those videos.."Sseth wasn't McCaffe'd, he was Epstein'd"
YET
He wasn't mfecane'd either
Blessed timeline
My president
How to make the Amazing Treasure Sect
1. Get a male cultivator to learn Lunar Form, this will give you a treasure.
2. Regrow body part and repeat for infinite treasure, then go to step 3.
3. Use primordial skill "Darksoul Genesis" to illuminate the treasures into sentinel spirits
4. Awaken the sentinel spirits and cultivate them
5. Now you are ready to take over the world with your amazing treasures
Ah yes, an army of "flying swords".
Don't Forget to name them All Big Chungus
The classic sentient c*ck army.
I like your funny words magic man
You can create the CCP that way. Cultivated Cocks Pavillion.
As someone who got into xianxia books and tv shows in the last 6 months im laughing my ass off and i am gonna play the shit out of this.
Honestly the genre is funny cause it full of people trying to cultivate immortality, but also theyre the fucking pettiest human beings imaginable. So this game carries the spirit of the genre pretty well lol
Got any recommendations? i'm bored and reading good old 4chan quests are getting difficult to find.
@@johnarcher6150 Martial World (really long so you can drop it mid way if you're bored) or Coiling Dragon (starts of more western, with more western names) are good beginner novels.
If you like ecchi go for Against the gods or Martial god asura for the fastfood variant.
More quality books are Reverend Insanity (evil MC and cultivation + pokemon insects), Way of choices (starts slowly and is more poetic/less about power fantasy), I shall seal the heavens (if you want to have a book with more actual Daoism) and Death Sutra (more grounded and less about cultivation, darker/noir/tragedy).
@@Thelastninjaman Nice, I'll start looking for them, thanks for the sauce friend.
@@johnarcher6150 start with Tales of Demons and Gods.
@@Miraclelnvoker Never recommend that to anyone, its not bad, but its also never going to be finished in anyone's lifespan because of a stupid ass contract the author signed with some companies.
This channel is like waiting for a drop of enlightenment from a grand mentor, who is actually a cult leader that would sell us out for some in game currency on a hentai game.
This is so true
@Mialisus Belko art in a game would be magical.
Honestly, using an enchanted, flying piece of fabric to decapitate your enemies sounds completely badass.
I mean if you grow up watching chinese martial arts movies, things like those seem completely normal by now.
Still stylish as fuck though.
Yes why would I want a sword made out of materials that makes it good but it causes every sects hidden elders to come kill me. Ancient fossils would never expect a peasant in a cotton shirt that is if they come out of their closed cultivation within the next 100 years
My first guy used an enchanted pear to lay waste to everything
Basically how Master Asia from G Gundam fights
The flying chainsaw fedora/hat is one of the enduring captivating mysteries of our culture
Jeez this game is basically a crash course into Chinese mysticism.
It sure has taught me some things, like that the bears in Fallout are just called "Monster" in chinese
@@BierBart12 The lore explanation for the name is that Yao guai are first encountered by the descendants of people staying in Chinese internment camps, it does not explain how this name spread throughout the entire US though, you would think that an English name would spread faster rather than a foreign one.
@@amf9797 True...but I imagine that if people are fleeing from a flaming giant bear screaming "Yao Guai! Yao Guai! Fai di lai le!" an English name wouldn't be the first thing to cross a US Native's mind.
@@amf9797 Kangaroo is not english though
@@amf9797 Yeah especially when it can reach an obscure place like Zion.
"Keep in mind, this IS a fantasy game, so the sound of women is optional" Oh my fucking God. Best thing I've heard all year.
When we needed him most, he returned to enlighten us once again.
with another obscure game that feels more like homework than a game yet we still play to fill up the extreme emptyness of modern society.
I needed him 3 months ago but yeah being sent to Xinjiang for some RE-EDUCATION i'll give him a pass. 14k Triads finally found him i guess, but he's too important to bury.
Nice pfp.
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"a competitive salary of $0" and "they're not slaves" just sounds like grad-school all over again.
They just promised that they gonna be immortals....
but with their farmer/builder skills manager would use them till they die :^)
@@Kairax you joke, but it still is a bit too real
@@Ovvkoz Joke? ^:)
That real ingame mechanic. It's REALLY hard to find high stated wetworkers, and promoting them to cultivators means you now lack professional labor... And because it's not shown how long mortals live, you work them to death :^)
No need to rub it in. We've all made our mistakes.
the second I heard the phrases 'courting death' and 'jade like childhood friend' I almost had a fit.
"Spat blood"
I, your grandfather, will pull your cultivation out by the roots
Did it at least leave you with an intact corpse? 🤣🤣🤣
"You are courting death" and "You have a death wish" the two lines spoken at the very least once every page and some character has to spit blood every other line. Whether from wounds they suffered, the result of some cultivation technique/elixir or the most common of all... spitting blood because our MC is just so arrogant.
-Fists don't have eyes
-2 tigers can't share a mountain
-There sky above sky, mountains beyond mountains
-Birds die for food, men die for wealth
-Mantis stalks cicada while oriole is behind it
-I Your FaTher/laozi
LMAO that's all I could think of at this moment
the cultivation novels genre, the one genre where being childish is a sign of strength.
“Completely geriatric” *shows Mike stoklasa*
I love it
Sseth is cultured as hell
*Rich Evans laugh*
TBF Mike has gone from age 30 to 65 in 10 years.
@@spiritof78 he ages 5 years everytime a new Star Trek show/movie comes out
@@spiritof78 the hyperbolic best of the worst chamber will do that to you
Thank you for being funny as you are. I spent countless hours during chemo watching your reviews, only thing that made me laugh. Have a good day my man.
Good luck man.
Good luck, dude. I hope you're doing well.
Hope you’re getting through it alright man
Aww get better
What did you think of his lecture stream on immunology and cancer?
The legend returned
Praised be!
Just when I was about to lose faith the Merchants Guild pulled through.
The world always needs him, and he always returns.
And at 34 minutes, no less.
my favourite warlord is back
How is this actually the funniest video on the whole site? I've watched it like 10 times and it's absolutely killing me. It's Perfect.
This is how John Cena learned how to speak chinese
Maybe that's why you couldn't see him for years.
im fucking crying bro
you mean Zhong Xina?
Bing chilling 🥶
@no or maybe yes JC? From deus ex?
Oh God, the clone in the auction house had me tearing up with laughter, holy shit.
imagine the game allowing you to do so, but it being a puppet with somone else's face, so all the backlash hits the one you faked as instead? :p
Not even Shyamalan could of seen that twist coming.
And you know what? That is one of the two explanations I expected, the other being "I somehow declared war on all the present factions who fed me their weaker members until I successfullly cultivated to the point I can single handidly wipe them out" because I read the novels this game is based on.
@@TheWizel What novel is that?
@@kinagrill A mortal's journey to immortality
The fact that everything he's saying makes sense to me shows how far gone I'm into the game
You're courting death you filthy casual!
and make 14 years old custom cultivator.. if you want 500k+ golden core.. and i think cultivation event pre flood dragon cave will boost your core.. so i's a race against time to unlock wicked flux and earth flux + all artifacts and sub-spirits.. first golden core can be your main guy.. it doesn't have to be a sacrifice.. as long as they could reach primordial.. then make artifacts and eat nirvana pill (one of the sect sells this.. befriend, hunt and kill their leaders).. repeat until you unlock all artifact slots and attached sub-spirits into your equipments.. then go kill ancient cultivators for manuals.. or buy manuals from other sects.. hell gate is a must..
i've read somewhere that you could make the ultimate cultivator using an illuminated elixir by making it swallow a sun pill before the golden core realm
@Black Monkey For bedroom just go for Metal Core + Earth Feed. Only the cultivation room need to fit the cultivator element.
I'd love to see a game that take the concepts here and makes it into something where you're an individual on a cultivation journey, instead of the seed point for an entire sect
The happiness of hearing “hey hey people” anew was great. Despite watching a Chinese furry simulator
To clarify, this game is based on the "cultivation" genre, not the "Wuxia" genre.
The Wuxia (武侠）genre goes back to around late Qing Dynasty. The modern Wuxia becomes popular around early 60s and is more grounded to our world where martial artists are just fighters who try to use their skills for good. Usually, the said "good" depends on the era it's in. If it's in Late Song Dynasty, it's about defending the nation from invading Mongols. If it's in Ming Dynasty, it's about doing the right thing in the middle of civil wars / fighting corruption that's rooted from within the imperial government. If it's in Qing Dynasty, it's about the Chinese trying to overthrow the Manchurian invaders (who had planted themselves as the new rule) in order to bring back their Han rule. And, the plot doesn't involve anyone "ascending to godhood". It's sort of like the "superhero with no powers" genre for Chinese but sets in Ancient China.
Cultivation （修仙）genre, on the other hand, is a new genre that appears around 10 years ago when web novel becomes popular. The story usually happens in fantasy China instead of historical China. And the story almost always involving the protagonist becoming the most powerful deity in the universe / multiverse. The protagonist gets all the girls, all the powers, kills everyone who disagrees with him. Bad guys must always be one dimensional evil. If the bad guys is complex, he will end up being one dimensionally evil. If the protagonist is morally questionable, it's fine he's not evil because "he's the protagonist" and the protagonist is always right. in short, it's a "power fantasy writing piece".
This is why many Chinese often call a Wuxia novel a "novel"(小说） while a Cultivation novel a "power fantasy writing" (爽文）.
Technically speaking, 修仙 itself is not exactly new, just the webnovels surrounding the idea. It's basically the path of Taoism.
Nerd alert
Cultivation seems mind-numbingly childish.
@@osakanone most of Chinese pop culture is
@@MtD021 How so, and could you expand further?
This entire game feels like an insanely elaborate shitpost.
Wuxia is 60percent shitposting and 40 faceslapping
Thats basically Taoism bro
others said it but oddly chinese media seems to have that odd quality of perpetuating the ambiguity
> you can meditate amongst piles of shit
Yes, it does sounds like an elaborate shitpost.
@@Jaime_Protein_Cannister I read Wuxia/Xianxia every day and I confirm
This is my favorite video of yours, I could never play autism games like these and this one especially is very interesting with the Chinese culture and lore. I come back to watch it every now and then
Would you care to explain what "autism games" are?
@@aurelius-sparksf I had to guess I'd say hyper realistic and/or detailed simulation games that are extremely complex and difficult to learn and in which absurd happenings are practically the norm. Games like Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress.
@@transgression6902 ooo... thanks!
@@aurelius-sparksone possible trait of autism is hyperfixation, which you would need to play the entirety of this game.
I'm out here in China, and everything in this game seems legit.
There are dozens of TV shows where people transform into animals, but not for anything cool or on camera. They just refer to having done some shopping as a spiritual fox earlier in the day.
And everything is controlled by hot & cold energies.
Even in the peak of summer, people can and 'will' suffer from cold wet energies, so you best drink some hot water.
what the actual fuck..
totally no dragon in hong kong
That's mad interesting. I'd seriously like to hear more
I have no clue what any of that means
Not literal hot and cold energies some might think. Yin and Yang are more like like dark vs light or feminine vs masculine or negative vs positive or lunar vs solar. It's something supposed to be balanced for human to not get sick.
As for people transforming into animals, that's actually the other way around. Once animals gain further consciousness (beyond their animal consciousness), they start to become 'Yaoguai', a kind of life-state close to western concept of monster. From then on, their main life goal would be cultivation and ascension to godhood or humanhood because these are deemed better by them.
In Chinese literature, Yaoguai is often depicted with huge interest in human life and becoming one. That's why there's a lot of them masquerading and faking to be one and join the human society. One thing worth noting is that, Yaoguai is also generally deemed as mischievous, unkind, and even evil, so ancient Chinese liked to blame them, like saying "that is not a human, they're a Yaoguai disguising as human, that's why they're so evil." But in reality, they're often just evil humans.
the way sseth runs a sect is more or less equivalent to actual wuxia sects lmao
ok but how or why?
@@ncrvako because both in this game and real life humans are the most efficient expendable resource
@@zhanyao2481 fact
@@zhanyao2481 based
@@ncrvako Just read too many web novels. You'll understand how shameless brothers who go back in time and achieve cultivation godhood are the people you want to avoid.
17:20
The madlad literally drew the symbol from Berserk and created a BLESSED TALISMAN.
*G O D T I E R*
G O D H A N D T I E R
The Band of the Hawk.
"I wonder what it does?"
I thought that it was the bloodborne symbol
@@sevenclovers7 BB symbol is a reference to Berserk
I do want to say that despite several years of continued research, Big Chungus continues to be one of the best names for sentient objects.
I didn't want to know this, but I'm too far in. Help me.
Embrace the future young master, cultivate it and you might just reach the eternal heavens
I feel so resonated with this after reading cultivation manhuas for years.
Haha I just got into it, but already read and caught up with most of them hehe. Good stuff, as manga kinda already hurts my eyes with it being black and white, already caught up with alll that.
@@koilamaoh4238 Ok.
Most manhua are roughly the same as well and this vid is spot on
I dont get it. Why are they called cultivation?? What are they cultivating?
@@raystargazer7468 Their Qi.
*"Because i like Ti bet in the Winning Team, and right now thats team China."*
You’re correct, Tibet is part of the winning team
All hail the glorious leader xinnie the pooh may he live long and have many smackurals of honey
I have read too many wuxia novel so all the concepts that were supposed to sound weird seemed perfectly normal for me
@@Nope-en9bo a common Tuesday as a cultivator
@@vickironi no, i think you meant wuxia/xianxia protagonists
Been reading cultivation manhua since december myself.
the problem is that the game makes about as much sense as most xianxias... NONE! FUCKING NONE!
ME TOOO
"We have to trick villagers into joining our ranks. We do this by making small talk, find out that half of them like nothing more than to consume shit, then invite them over" [17:38]
_T H E L O A T H S O M E D U N G E A T E R_
"Xiandao, Shendao, and Physical"
Why is this so funny
Rule of threes, contrast etc, doesn't take a genius to figure out but maybe you're even dumber than usual
@@r0br33r wow ok Jimmy Neutron
@@yunaru3643 no no the dude is clearly a genius, I don't get why you're flaming him 🙄
@@r0br33r How can one sentence be so full of ignorance, false pride and projection lol. My man, you're better off not opening your mouth or typing ever again, because you're as cringe as they come.
@@r0br33r found the redditor
There are some games that makes me to ask myself these two questions whenever Sseth covers them, 1) who are the target audience for this game?? and 2) who the hell has this much free time and the patience of a sage to understand and even finish this games?? This game is one of them.
I mean if you're into that niche then you probably will want to invest your time in it
It's like Warhammer figures
@@ktosiekbot
>Warhammer
>niche
@@zeronikku3549 I dunno man, sure it's the biggest of the miniature wargames, but you can't exactly call miniature wargames mainstream either.
me. The answer is me.
“Sseths videos have become ad friendly.” *laughs in +12% faster ovens*
Very distasteful.
Shows you what UA-cam is willing to gloss over in the name of popularity, even if it is satire
Six grillion degrees
@@eisenhorn5494 “Garbage day!”
The Algorithm considers the rate of views, and turns on its own masters like all A.I. inevitably must
10:55 this entire segment just..... perfection.
I never thought to be "afraid" of a game. Sure Rimworld can be funny and stupid but THIS game is a total other scale. I sat here and watched this video and was baffled that this game really exists. xD
I'm more afraid of the fact that he play this for more than 100 hours
I've got almost 200 hours on this game, lots of reading guides cuz it does get complex and has "casual checks" but god damn... its glorious
@@JX531 I'm a veteran Rimworld player, is this game worth getting?
@@akcrumly leaving this here since i have the same question on mind.
@@afrizalaminuddin2717 it is definetely more complex than rimworld so i recommend reading a wuxia novel to understand the basics but if you like wuxia novels or cultivation manhwa i definitely recommend it
That tone when he grants turtle to have a birthday party with someone kills me
i like the game title
"AMAZING CULTIVATION SIM"
the fact it called itself amazing deserve a medal
It's absolutely amazing. People call it Chinese Rimworld, but it's actually Chinese Dwarf Fortress with graphics.
@@slvrcrystalcc this aint dwarf fortress. Nowhere near enough autistic detail.
Chinese Marketing 101
The dog destroying everything is so relatable. I have a husky puppy rn and she not only has the same look on her face, but she told me she wants to feed people laxatives because destroying everything in my house just doesn't cause enough chaos
No wonder Sseth has been missing until now. He was coordinating with the CCP.
>See’s title
This doesn’t look like a Sseth game
>Watches video
Oh yea this is totally a Sseth game
I blame you for my avid spiralling out of control addiction towards cultivation novels. I have spent 3000+ hours on them and this has caused me to fail my last year of college and for my girlfriend to leave me. I regret very little for I have discovered the joy of poorly translated novels of fantasy world of ancient China and the harsh reality of ancient China and the harsher and more sociopathic characters inhabiting such land. When I ever have the chance of meeting you I'll definetly turn you into a living pill.
Read MTL xianxia novels, that should fix it
Want to add on to that? Start reading cultivation manhuas like Martial Peak
"Read Martial God Asura. Its ultra cancerous. So much so that you'll gain superpowers after reading it. tumors won't grow on you anymore, you'll grow on tumors. As long as tumors remain, so will you."
- 7 Secret Ways to eternal life.
@@058w. I have cancer growing on my cancer because of this. Thanks
@@paxshmitz2665 happy to help
This game is a trip man, took me hours just to understand how to make a single cultivator reach GC1,
And once I had finally achieved it, I immediately got the dragon event and didn't know how the hell to take it down
Haven't played the game since so any advices are welcomed
Normally a Sseth video makes me want a game. This made me realise I don't want this game. Great video though.
i wish. i bought the game after watching this video and im already regretting it.
@@4tell I regretted it as I made the purchase, already feeling overwhelmed and I haven’t even installed
Weakness.
@@4tell Your regret is not that you bought the game, it is that you didn't acquire IP the Chinese way
That's why I bought it for free
He wasn't gone, he was just.... Suffering
Can we all appreciate the fact that this video game review also doubles as the perfect introduction and explanation of the Cultivation genre?
so many years whenever I heard about some cultivation story I thought it was about farming. But now I found out it's actual hell. Why do people read stories about this
@@roseravus4908 because people beating people with giant swords and using their enemies souls as fuel for their revenge is any teenagers power fantasy junk food
Everyone is OP as heck all around you. So you have to find some way to out OP them all but the more OP you get the more OPer people show up and becomes an infinite loop of gaining arbritrary stats that the numbers become ridiculous in how big they are becoming?
@@roseravus4908they don’t I know not a single man who actually enjoys cultivation novels besides Reverend Insanity
@@roseravus4908 One will to create oceans. One will to summon the mulberry fields.
One will to slaughter countless devils. One will to eradicate innumerable immortals.
Only my will… is eternal.
This helps me understand the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation far better than that series does
Vice versa for me. Saw this vid, then read Mo Dao Zu Shi, then understood the video