PIT OF BABEL - Brutal Game Where You Grind Cute "Creatures" To Build A Tower To The Heavens

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  • čas přidán 17. 12. 2020
  • PIT OF BABEL is a brutal puzzle game where you build a tower using cute little creatures. Created by the devs of Perfect Vermin / Swallow the Sea & The Third Shift, ItsTheMaceo & Teebowah respectively.
    Game Info: itsthemaceo.itch.io/pit-of-babel
    "Tetris sure looks different."
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    #pitofbabel
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Komentáře • 990

  • @ladybug6525
    @ladybug6525 Před 3 lety +3527

    13:14 *smashes a block into the tower* "Push it back in! Yeah! Manly engineering! Firm it up! Firm up that tower!"
    I love how this man has figured out how to use a block as a hammer and just is so excited about his discovery!

  • @teebowahgames
    @teebowahgames Před 3 lety +6195

    Fellow dev of the game, thanks for playing Manly! Nice use of the "slam block against other blocks to tidy them up", a technique I like to use myself ;]

    • @joelhoon1707
      @joelhoon1707 Před 3 lety +115

      This game is amazing! I really like the gimmicks added to make life harder.

    • @ppppp4641
      @ppppp4641 Před 3 lety +73

      can't wait to see more of your projects, all your games so far has been amazing :)

    • @kingfierysaber3654
      @kingfierysaber3654 Před 3 lety +79

      Hey, since you were one of the devs, you would probably know this. I'm smart enough to realize that there is a lot of symbolism in this game, but too stupid to figure out what it is, so, what is the stuff in this game symbolizing.

    • @Rurush7
      @Rurush7 Před 3 lety +25

      awesome game, I was happy to hear that someone from the team was the one who made perfect vermine because I played that game

    • @HoundXXII
      @HoundXXII Před 3 lety +32

      Why not tell him about the brighter colored ones produce offspring more often than the darker colored ones. Cmon man that was painful to watch

  • @navyblue32
    @navyblue32 Před 3 lety +692

    The line “WHY IS IT STILL STANDING??? I MADE IT TO STURDY!!” Is like that one video where engineering students played jenga

  • @jaysea5939
    @jaysea5939 Před 3 lety +679

    13:21 Bashing a building into shape is the manliest tradition

  • @limonade8004
    @limonade8004 Před 3 lety +1502

    That tower collapse at the end was pretty damn satisfying.

    • @wackwacker8623
      @wackwacker8623 Před 3 lety +44

      It was really cinematic as well with how the lights turned off one by one

    • @BLITZ0100
      @BLITZ0100 Před 3 lety +25

      It was, and yet not nearly as satisfying as it was to watch him shimmey the blocks back into place after the reload.

    • @AkaiKnight
      @AkaiKnight Před 3 lety +6

      Damn spoiler lol

    • @bensoncheung2801
      @bensoncheung2801 Před 2 lety

      669 likes

  • @akumjh
    @akumjh Před 3 lety +427

    The creatures need to die as an individual to become a part of the tower. In the story, one character chooses to become a part of the collective while the other chooses to stay as an individual. It doesn't seem to say either choice is right or wrong, but depends on what you want to become.

  • @mayuzanevideos
    @mayuzanevideos Před 3 lety +2153

    "I don't want to be God. I just want to be a little better than this"
    This story sounds like an allegory how people who are desperate to change themselves for the better can end up becoming part of a cult.

    • @LainVics
      @LainVics Před 3 lety +41

      What I was thinking too

    • @LainVics
      @LainVics Před 3 lety +80

      A friend of mine says stuff like this to justify his cult leader like actions

    • @raphtheartist9608
      @raphtheartist9608 Před 3 lety +100

      The only good cult is the Coffee Cult. (I wish that was an actual thing...)
      Everybody is invited, even those who drink decaff (...only if it's for health reasons tho)
      Tea drinkers are friends, not enemies.

    • @LainVics
      @LainVics Před 3 lety +31

      @@raphtheartist9608 Ooh boy you ain't gonna like me

    • @raphtheartist9608
      @raphtheartist9608 Před 3 lety +28

      @@LainVics Noooooooo whyyyyy ?!
      You don’t like coffee or you drink decaf?
      Caffeine is so great, it’s a mood booster, a stimulant and it helps you wake up.
      ...not even very sweet or weak coffee? ☹️🥺

  • @akame_naraku
    @akame_naraku Před 3 lety +1393

    Alright. Imma say it. "Blocks for the Block God."

  • @gronzen5451
    @gronzen5451 Před 3 lety +407

    I do love that his 'repairing' the tower is essentially a man beating the frame of a building back into shape with an I-beam lol

  • @amiableapparition
    @amiableapparition Před 3 lety +1830

    Pretty genius take comparing all the tetris blocks, despite their different shapes, creating structure, to different languages building the tower of babel. This game is wacky love it. Although the purring of the creatures when they sleep is too cute... why ;w;

    • @jimijenkins2548
      @jimijenkins2548 Před 3 lety +147

      Three more observations about this game
      First, how the gibs from the grinder roll into the void. All comes from the void, the eels drawing from it, to the creatures crawling out of it. Only to return to the void as refuse.
      Second, using the blocks as a fence to protect your 'farm'. Pretty self explanatory, nothing deep here.
      Third, the ruins in the background. It is a strange feeling when that realization hits. This is rubble from all the previous towers. And yours is soon to join them.

    • @krel7160
      @krel7160 Před 2 lety +36

      @@jimijenkins2548 So one day, the true tower reveals itself.. not as a tower of construction, but a ruin of rubble so great that it pierced the clouds in it's magnitude.

    • @f.jideament
      @f.jideament Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@krel7160 that happened with the fossil fuels and it turned out real bad for the planet earth.

  • @doctorqrow3452
    @doctorqrow3452 Před 3 lety +4200

    High key this concept is actually existentially horrible.

    • @Thelothuo
      @Thelothuo Před 3 lety +669

      _"It all returns to nothing. It just keeps tumbling dooown."_

    • @Ali-oh2bq
      @Ali-oh2bq Před 3 lety +283

      @@Thelothuo “It all returns to nothing, I just keep letting me down, letting me down, letting me doooown”

    • @astolfocomunista954
      @astolfocomunista954 Před 3 lety +141

      @@Thelothuo tumbling down; tumbling down; tumbling down...

    • @dollynhouzucrack4299
      @dollynhouzucrack4299 Před 3 lety +195

      @@Thelothuo "And the LORD God formed man ‭of‭ the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." - "for dust thou ‭art‭, and unto dust shalt thou return."

    • @nautilume7114
      @nautilume7114 Před 3 lety +106

      100% agreed. Not only are we killing things to grow but we'll return to dust as well.

  • @setsurarara
    @setsurarara Před 3 lety +775

    You might not like it but this is how peak engineering looks like

  • @grilled777cheese3
    @grilled777cheese3 Před 3 lety +1863

    The art in the game reminds me of another game where you play as a little creature while trying to avoid being eaten in the ocean

  • @ManlyBadassHero
    @ManlyBadassHero  Před 3 lety +760

    Welcome to the Sound Foundation Club, how Sound Foundation are ya?

  • @sashimimisha
    @sashimimisha Před 3 lety +633

    I think there's some connection between the memories in the notes of losing a child (and feeling shame about it, perhaps implying guilt) and the player sacrificing these small, fleshy, almost fetus-like creatures for their own ambition

  • @Asango
    @Asango Před 3 lety +1042

    "Grub Gott!" is likely meant to be "Grüß Gott!" a common German greeting meaning "Bless god!". "ü" pronounced by making an "ee" sound with o-shaped lips, very close to the sound you get when a "y" is pronounced "ee" like "cynical", "ß" is equivalent to "ss".

    • @AngelNG-dw3rt
      @AngelNG-dw3rt Před 3 lety +85

      I made it sound like "grease god"

    • @Asango
      @Asango Před 3 lety +51

      @@AngelNG-dw3rt Now give it a hard "r" and you've done it.

    • @schufck5272
      @schufck5272 Před 3 lety +53

      I think it was supposed to be a pun, because they are inside a pit.
      You know, Grub Gott? Like graben, and Man gräbt Anderen eine Grube.

    • @DGneoseeker1
      @DGneoseeker1 Před 3 lety +25

      Well, I learned a new thing. I thought it was "great god". Apparently gruss is more like greet which somehow means the same as bless.

    • @wu1ming9shi
      @wu1ming9shi Před 3 lety +28

      @@DGneoseeker1 "gruss" can be translated as "greetings" or to "greet" someone. "Great" would "gross". That's what I know of my limited German knowledge. Most of it based on my own language wich is dutch and thus shares a few similiraties with german. Except we don't confuse traveling by boat and driving a car like germans do. XD

  • @hoyitsmiguel
    @hoyitsmiguel Před 3 lety +468

    The Tetris Game from Hell - I imagine that it's a similar feeling to never getting first place in Tetris 99 and trying to reach the top

    • @wu1ming9shi
      @wu1ming9shi Před 3 lety +7

      it definitely felt weird but it oddly wasn't creepy to me for some reason.

    • @Josuh
      @Josuh Před 3 lety +1

      Just t spin bro

  • @littlekitsune1
    @littlekitsune1 Před 3 lety +317

    I'm not sure what I was expecting, but Hell Tetris wasn't it.

    • @fractalgem
      @fractalgem Před 5 měsíci

      Fyi there is a playable version of hell tetris. Scoring more than a line or two is haaaaaard.

  • @notoriouswhitemoth
    @notoriouswhitemoth Před 3 lety +433

    You cannibalize the rotters to build the tower. That's the symbolism. Between that and the narration, my interpretation is that It's all about sacrificing your humanity in pursuit of something that's supposedly greater but ultimately isn't worth the sacrifice, or indeed worth much of anything. The rotters are people, they're the human race being sacrificed in pursuit of a false promise of godhood.
    Somehow I got a feeling there's more to the doulas.

    • @Soroboruo
      @Soroboruo Před 2 lety +50

      Having played it due to this video, I can say if you're not prepared for the final phase then you may have to cannibalize your own tower to reach the final node. Nerve-wracking and symbolic.

    • @DaMoniable
      @DaMoniable Před 2 lety +46

      This also explains why the grinder is destroyed in the end. Its you taking a stand against it, refusing to join. Without you, the production is halted, making the people continue their effort in desperation.
      Perhaps if this is the case, maybe this is what the Doulas stand for. Doubt. Protest. or Individuality.

  • @unu9651
    @unu9651 Před 2 lety +80

    I don't think I'll ever forget the lore of this. I watched this video months ago and had to find it again because this concept haunts me. Particularly "What now? Even if you walk away you'll still be permanently mixed up. Tormented by memories of lives you've never lived." and "I don't want to be god. I just want to be better than this."

  • @dsagent
    @dsagent Před 3 lety +656

    Disappointed that we did not see a divine being crash into the tower.

    • @renatoriquelme2490
      @renatoriquelme2490 Před 3 lety +69

      guess what, the divine being was the same that constructed it back

  • @buterassassin1952
    @buterassassin1952 Před 3 lety +160

    It appears that the story implies that the real reason humanity was dispersed from the Tower of Babel had less to do with the perfect language and instead was about the loss of individuality. This place is a cognito hazard that could have doomed humanity had the angels not been sent

    • @montgomeryfortenberry
      @montgomeryfortenberry Před 2 lety +16

      Maybe but the story also blatantly shows one man choosing to remain an individual instead of joining the tower which would indicate at worst some people would do it and some wouldnt

    • @maddieb.4282
      @maddieb.4282 Před 5 měsíci +2

      @@montgomeryfortenberryuhhhhh just because a few people have escaped North Korea doesn’t mean it’s not a dictatorship

    • @montgomeryfortenberry
      @montgomeryfortenberry Před 5 měsíci +3

      @@maddieb.4282 yea but the difference is choice

    • @syweb2
      @syweb2 Před 5 měsíci +3

      I think it's more that the lore suggests that humanity's _starting point_ was as a gestalt organism, before being split apart, as the True Language originated before the Tower.

  • @umcaraqualquer3640
    @umcaraqualquer3640 Před 3 lety +205

    Tetris: Evangelion edition.

    • @abhigyanpal3695
      @abhigyanpal3695 Před 25 dny +1

      This was all a cruel Tetromino's thesis from the start

  • @redhartsocks5549
    @redhartsocks5549 Před 3 lety +570

    CZcams:recommend this video
    Manly:cute "creatures"
    Me:SoS

  • @alansmithee419
    @alansmithee419 Před 3 lety +122

    While the fact that the tower held initially is very impressive, the reason for the slow collapse was rotational inertia and the fact that gravity pulls only downwards rather than sideways, not structural integrity.
    A very tall structure will always take a long time to fall to the side.

  • @suitov
    @suitov Před 3 lety +209

    I was wondering if we were the one who chose not to join, and we were building up to escape the pit.

    • @rustythefoxcoon5143
      @rustythefoxcoon5143 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Huh - would be a cool hidden lore thing tbh. Should be added.

  • @purplecatjake
    @purplecatjake Před 3 lety +202

    Even a few minutes in this game highly reminds me of a concept I read in a game design book at some point. It was something arguing that the content of a game's story and narrative is important to consider, because Tetris would be far different if instead of stacking blocks, that if you were throwing people into a pit and stacking them only to have their bodies disappear when a full line was made. It was probably an old book since that seems like an obvious thing even without that metaphor, but it's a weird imagery that's stuck with me and I'm curious if the game makers have read that same thing or if this is just a weird coincidence.

    • @phantomspaceman
      @phantomspaceman Před 3 lety +20

      Body stacking Tetris? There was one in the Monty Python and the Holy Grail game.

    • @mickeyrace873
      @mickeyrace873 Před 2 lety +4

      I think this allegory is addressed in "i am the man who arranges the block", gotta keep it mind tetris is after all a product from the Times of the soviets

    • @pubcollize
      @pubcollize Před 2 lety

      there was an NSFW people-stacking tetris back in the 90s

  • @chito4154
    @chito4154 Před 3 lety +156

    ManlyBadassHero: *reads an interesting an well-written bit of lore that describes the mental state of a distraught mother*
    Also ManlyBadassHero not two seconds later: "So what happened to that block I had?"

  • @FeenieVonKarma
    @FeenieVonKarma Před 3 lety +152

    Getting memories of Berserk with the building mountains of bodies to climb up... This is a really fascinating story, though.

  • @Thungoid
    @Thungoid Před 3 lety +65

    And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had little creatures for brick, and yellow orbs for bitumen.

  • @nolanrudolph5463
    @nolanrudolph5463 Před 3 lety +50

    Jesus, what an extraordinary plotline. I was enticed through the whole thing.
    At one point, I couldn't give two shits about how the tower was being made, I just wanted to hear the next dialogue!

  • @aperson2go497
    @aperson2go497 Před 3 lety +385

    I thought the title was "Pit of Bagel"

  • @adithegamer7936
    @adithegamer7936 Před 2 lety +37

    Gotta love Manly slow descent into madness as he tries to make a perfect tower. Stating that the cute meat bugs are just meat and that all their useful for is to get more blocks for his tower. (Around after 27:00 is when I thought of this.)

  • @amperebat9771
    @amperebat9771 Před 3 lety +88

    Third Impact meets Tetris, nice.

  • @solstice_soda701
    @solstice_soda701 Před 3 lety +20

    Just using the blocks to bang the pieces back in the funniest thing since I'm using this as background noise and every so often I hear nothing but "BANG CLANG CLANG BANG" and I look back and a precariously made tower it's honestly great

  • @liz-yp3qg
    @liz-yp3qg Před 3 lety +85

    ok but not being quirky or anything but this game IS highkey relaxing- like the noises and the rain and just building like.. ignoring the morbid killing of the nasty red things it's kinda meditative.

    • @itsgirlcraft5842
      @itsgirlcraft5842 Před 2 lety +10

      Agreed, and tbh besides the lil red guys getting murdered the whole thing is pretty chill to me

  • @willsith9762
    @willsith9762 Před 2 lety +28

    Some are content, some want something more. I wonder, when he becomes "a little better than this," is he content? Is it enough to become one with a sea of voices, memories, thoughts and ideas? After working in an office, being a lawyer, whatever he did before... Was it really that soulless? I suppose a man in a business suit is likely the most desperate for a change. For something better. I hope he's happy in that sea of sand. The ever crumbling tower.

  • @EggDoodlez
    @EggDoodlez Před 3 lety +82

    Never have I ever related so much to "Manly Engineering"

  • @enaecore
    @enaecore Před 2 lety +3

    so the snakes produce "deceit" with which the small ones are being fed until they can in turn be sacrificed to the machine to produce bricks that are irrelevant to them in the first place. i like it, nice artsy form of commentary

  • @MassacreAtTiffany
    @MassacreAtTiffany Před 3 lety +30

    Text (of the story of the game):
    1- 4:00
    2- 10:00
    3- 15:12
    4- 21:44
    5- 29:31
    6- 33:06

  • @NaturalFlirtGamer
    @NaturalFlirtGamer Před 3 lety +24

    _It parallels the Bible story well_
    Man aspires and builds to become "one" and greater until MBH concludes the effort and demolishes the Tower. :D
    Most interesting line was where the one man didn't want to be God, just a better man.
    Cool game and very cool that each player to become part of the Tower's legacy.

  • @mewsingmage6487
    @mewsingmage6487 Před 3 lety +35

    I don't know anything about the Bible, but this game was pretty soothing. Reminds me of the philosophical concept of holons, where things are self-contained "wholes" and yet are also parts to other things (cells to an organ, organs to a body, bodies to a community, etc.). They are all distinct entities, but they exist in a wider context, struggling between individual and collective interests. Standing out vs. fitting in, both of which have their own pros and cons. The cells of the body are distinct in shape and function, but must work together to maintain an organism so that the organism can in turn feed and protect them (like people in a society). I don't really understand what God means to Christians, so the existential dread in pursuing divine meaning flies over my head, but as a lover of biology, it feels nice. Being both individual and together is built into the fabric of life. So while this game has a sorta bleak atmosphere, it gives me a sense of hope. Cuz the universe allowed humanity to evolve and live and experience so many things, both within, between, and beyond ourselves. Even if we're constantly struggling with those desires, our existence, in whatever form it may take, is undeniable.

    • @kelpstorm
      @kelpstorm Před rokem +5

      "Even if we're constantly struggling with those desires, our existence, in whatever form it may take, is undeniable." i actually love this line, its weirdly comforting after all the existential dread c:

  • @insertusernamehere3173
    @insertusernamehere3173 Před 3 lety +66

    Oh the weather outside is... interesting.... and the creatures are interesting.

  • @dripwardo7112
    @dripwardo7112 Před 3 lety +33

    “Tis there was a man Named ManlyBadassHero...he would demolish any scary game that stood in his glory path...everybody knew of him and thus dubbed him a LEGEND...”

  • @amethyst4578
    @amethyst4578 Před 3 lety +543

    As a Christian, yes this is EXACTLY what happened

  • @Elroid
    @Elroid Před 3 lety +42

    What Id like to know is how much did Manly actually played this!!
    The cuts are highly appreciated, but I fear for him.

    • @ManlyBadassHero
      @ManlyBadassHero  Před 3 lety +45

      The game takes a little over an hour.

    • @Elroid
      @Elroid Před 3 lety +26

      @@ManlyBadassHero did some Google search. The average time to beat classic Tetris is about 4-5 hours. All considered, an hour isn't that terrible then.

    • @maddieb.4282
      @maddieb.4282 Před 5 měsíci

      @@ElroidTetris isn’t really something you beat lol

  • @gamerdomain6618
    @gamerdomain6618 Před 3 lety +14

    About this language, that's actually kind of a thing, so it would seem.
    Studies have found that, even with no way to physically signal to each other, the vast majority of animals are always capable of signalling something to one another from incredible distances. They're really efficient about it, too. Nobody really pays attention to that since it isn't important, but I'm pretty sure they just know how to think to each other, which is pretty cool.

    • @nautilume7114
      @nautilume7114 Před 3 lety

      Can you name some examples of those creatures? That's insanely intriguing

    • @gamerdomain6618
      @gamerdomain6618 Před 3 lety +2

      @@nautilume7114
      It's literally with pretty much anything. From city animals like cats, dogs, squirrels, birds, racoons and such to more exotic creatures like bears and even insects. Not as scientific, but I've met people who can, too. They generally say the exact same thing about the situation, which is what got me curious.

    • @MrNickPresley
      @MrNickPresley Před 3 lety +2

      @@gamerdomain6618 That's because 90% of all communication is non-verbal. You can get across a whole lot just through body launguage. Posture, and the like. Add in scents that animals use, and you've discovered the secret.

    • @gamerdomain6618
      @gamerdomain6618 Před 3 lety +1

      @@MrNickPresley
      No visual opportunity either. They literally think to each other.

    • @papahairy5315
      @papahairy5315 Před 3 lety

      @@gamerdomain6618 that literally has no scientific basis whatsoever

  • @holyducks
    @holyducks Před 3 lety +15

    I love how to describe everything on screen. I’m legally blind and it’s awesome to not have to squint at the screen.

  • @katsumitsuchikido4849
    @katsumitsuchikido4849 Před 3 lety +5

    I like how he managed to make those blocks straight despite placing an extra unnecessary block on the bottom-right area.

  • @konoikurozora5851
    @konoikurozora5851 Před 3 lety +174

    Weird game. I'm not sure if I've "enjoyed" the vid - the game made me so incredibly unconfortable. Both the killing of the cute critters and the story told made me shudder.
    But in a sense, I guess the game managed to make it's point, then?
    I feel so weird...

    • @CrunchyCroquette
      @CrunchyCroquette Před 3 lety +38

      Seems like an actual art experience! I completely see where you are coming from

    • @toomanydum4084
      @toomanydum4084 Před rokem +2

      disturbed the comforted, and comforted the disturbed, for context. it does make me feel a bit better, maybe even inspired, if not a bit lonely. This might be my favorite short story game of all time.

  • @hoyitsmiguel
    @hoyitsmiguel Před 3 lety +50

    Alternate Sub-Title: Manly Becomes an Architect in the Abyss (aka Manly's Soul)

  • @Pheonix1328
    @Pheonix1328 Před 3 lety +25

    The story portions are very interesting. It's the whole individual (lesser, organism) vs. collective (greater, cellular), and I'm not sure what I'd personally choose. If I had to choose I'd rather be a piece in a puzzle rather than water spread throughout a lake, although maybe that's kind of defeating the point of a collective and is more like a fusion from Steven Universe xD

    • @user-jj6yq4mo8r
      @user-jj6yq4mo8r Před 3 lety +2

      You might have a point here,collectivism isn't bad humans achieve great things when working as a group,u think this is just taking it to the extreme

    • @Pheonix1328
      @Pheonix1328 Před 3 lety +2

      ​@@user-jj6yq4mo8r I guess for me it's scary to consider the loss of "self", it's basically death but it'd mean "giving birth" to a being that's more than myself. I guess I'm just kind of selfish and just want to experience it as "myself" and perhaps slowly dissolve in to the collective... or something... It's kind of hard to think about really xD

    • @user-jj6yq4mo8r
      @user-jj6yq4mo8r Před 3 lety

      @@Pheonix1328 I can imagine it's best to accept the best of the two,as for the game well it's best to walk away rather than be like what the man in the suit did

    • @Pheonix1328
      @Pheonix1328 Před 3 lety

      @@user-jj6yq4mo8r I think it's only a matter of time before the MC joins them all. His mind is already a jumble and his body is pretty much the only thing giving him a semblance of "self".

    • @dizzydial8081
      @dizzydial8081 Před 2 lety +3

      Late to the party but they both have their advantages. Most Americans with average education know at least the founding fathers' names, but the individual soldiers that were on the ground and doing a lot of the fighting are largely unnamed. Yet without them there would be no revolution in the Americas. Everyone wants to be George Washington but nobody wants to end up nameless like a rebel soldier.

  • @yinz-0015
    @yinz-0015 Před 3 lety +120

    So a hardcore jenga?

  • @marthfador
    @marthfador Před 3 lety +74

    The storyline has some real Water Womb World feel to it. But I guess some sort of deep biological meaning behind something Biblical tends to run that route.
    It's really kinda neat imo, even if it's existentially awful. We're all but individual cells that have lost the ability to come together. And what exactly were we when we were together? Was that organism what was made in God's image? What 'language' did we all speak together before it was separated from us?
    The little creatures are all really cute tho, even the little piggish one that ate the rotters...

    • @shinigamiyuu
      @shinigamiyuu Před 3 lety +11

      Maybe god is dead because we split apart and became individuals.

    • @AssistantCoreAQI
      @AssistantCoreAQI Před 2 lety +5

      @@shinigamiyuu
      That's The Plot Of Evangelion, Is It Not?

    • @shinigamiyuu
      @shinigamiyuu Před 2 lety +4

      @@AssistantCoreAQI Yeeanoo? kinda?

  • @lethalbloom2147
    @lethalbloom2147 Před 3 lety +11

    You always find the most fascinating games, and your voice in these kinds of games is incredibly relaxing despite the content of the games themselves Xp

  • @JunkyardGod
    @JunkyardGod Před 3 lety +23

    Now I imagine Lovecraft or Geiger jamming out to the Tetris Theme song

  • @tamonk9054
    @tamonk9054 Před 3 lety +26

    if the analogy is that we're the cells of god, then isn't pov character cancer as he chooses to reject the organism he is part of, tho a little better than cancer as he doesn't try to become god (own organism), he just wants to be

    • @coaiemandushman1079
      @coaiemandushman1079 Před 3 lety +3

      it is possible, considering the fact that the previous game of this creator was Perfect Vermin, a story about cancer...

  • @ethribin4188
    @ethribin4188 Před 2 lety +5

    Based on this story, humans were a true hive mind originally.
    Then god decided to make us individuals.
    It wasnt to spite us or prevent us from reaching heaven or god.
    Tge tower of Bable showed god the efficiency and power of a hive mind.
    But also the lack of individuality in a hive mind.
    Which is an important part of free will. The important stepping stone that he wanted to give humans.
    So he broke our hive mind into individual pieces.
    Literaly.

  • @ramseysmick
    @ramseysmick Před 3 lety +20

    The games you play are painful to hear but at the same time it quite lovely to listen to a soothing voice.

  • @Theystolemyhandle
    @Theystolemyhandle Před 3 lety +65

    Wait, I just thought about it...Shouldn’t it be ‘Badass, Manly Hero’? Oh man I’ve reached my mental peak...

    • @Theystolemyhandle
      @Theystolemyhandle Před 3 lety +22

      @Commodore X
      Hell yea. Knew someone would figure it out for me. You the man, man.

    • @alastor8091
      @alastor8091 Před 3 lety +1

      @Commodore X ??????????

    • @axmoylotl
      @axmoylotl Před 3 lety +8

      @@alastor8091 alastor descend the pit and it shall be clear

  • @BoxPossum96
    @BoxPossum96 Před 3 lety +4

    Biopunk Tetris with a side of chronic guilt and the perpetual staining of your subconscious.
    Take my money!

  • @BlissfullyEvil
    @BlissfullyEvil Před 3 lety +8

    I love how he reads out game text, it’s relaxing but also creepy! :)

  • @antzrantz3883
    @antzrantz3883 Před 3 lety +82

    This remind me of Evangelion were everyone chose collectivism so they wouldn't be lonely and misunderstood instead of individualism

    • @Thelothuo
      @Thelothuo Před 3 lety +17

      _"Tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling dooown."_

    • @medicario430
      @medicario430 Před 3 lety +35

      I think the merging of all human consciousness is a bit more... radical, than collectivism.

    • @krlosz1996
      @krlosz1996 Před 3 lety +27

      Reducing human instrumentality and The End of Evangelion to simple "collectivism vs individualism" is such a gross and basic interpretation of it

    • @medicario430
      @medicario430 Před 3 lety +4

      @@krlosz1996 Thank you for saying what I had trouble articulating.

    • @antzrantz3883
      @antzrantz3883 Před 3 lety +4

      @@krlosz1996 what is it then?

  • @EpicTop12
    @EpicTop12 Před 3 lety +22

    These creatures aren’t cute but... their petrified shrieks when they get grinded... I love them

  • @StrwbrrzDrmz
    @StrwbrrzDrmz Před 3 lety +80

    Cute? Things??! Oh this is going to be good. Also, early gang wassup!

  • @stephenshampine11
    @stephenshampine11 Před 2 lety +3

    Glad I read the description first. I was gonna say the art style reminded me of Swallow the Sea. Very captivating and disgusting in a prefect balance.

  • @dylanbrewer8605
    @dylanbrewer8605 Před 3 lety +8

    Two things from my experience in the game.
    I somehow got the secret rotter, or so I think. He was white on top and his lower section was green, almost like he was literally rotting. He could breed infinitely, but I accidently Threw him in the tar pit moments after getting him...
    Also, I made it to the top but my final block didn't count, because my whole tower came tumbling down at the worst moment. The whole time my tower was a ticking time bomb, because there was a split in the middle that kept expanding.
    I didn't watch the whole video but I can tell that your channel is worth a sub, I really like your style.

  • @ActCa
    @ActCa Před 3 lety +18

    Evening Manly. Schools out and sephiroth just dropped. Hope you're enjoying the winter season

    • @Fethos
      @Fethos Před 3 lety +11

      well help poor sephiroth up,

    • @ActCa
      @ActCa Před 3 lety +5

      @@Fethos Aw man, caught me slacking.

  • @calliopeavery
    @calliopeavery Před 3 lety +10

    37:23 this is what my my brain sounds like when i try and do basic math

  • @inasilentway9835
    @inasilentway9835 Před 3 lety +4

    Quick Analysis:
    The tetris blocks represent the efforts of different people to create or rebuild something they believe will reach heaven or achieve longstanding glory like the different languages and cultures that arose after the fall of the Tower of Babel.
    The blocks come from the petty sacrifices of innocent creatures that come from the abyss and they all return to the abyss, “dust to dust”. So the player creates a tower symbolic of hubris and the idea that they are doing something worthy of those sacrifices when the tower itself will fall regardless.

  • @jameslape8656
    @jameslape8656 Před 3 lety +4

    I like the story a lot. It made me think how I'd react if I forgot everything. Or in a scenario like the people where in. It always made me think that it would be a terrible fate to become one. Indavuiality is very import in creating new things and think of new things.

  • @martin712
    @martin712 Před 3 lety +2

    Didn't think i'd watch this but both the game and your voice made me keep watching

  • @arcticguy3455
    @arcticguy3455 Před 3 lety +13

    This definitely looks like a game by the swallow the sea dev, that style can be seen from a mile away.
    Edit: what did I just watch.

  • @zhengleo6305
    @zhengleo6305 Před 3 lety +3

    This reminds me of a game called Babel Tower where you build a tower by starting from mining to carving bricks and then cutting trees and carving them to planks to build the tower

  • @RaglandIncorporated
    @RaglandIncorporated Před 3 lety +1

    I realized I had seen your videos somewhat constantly without realizing it was always your channel. I dig the channel theme, so I'll sub.

  • @jw1934
    @jw1934 Před 3 lety +2

    Just found your channel yesterday and I'm already hooked. Love the content 👌 😌 keep at it 😃 smile

  • @masterzoroark6664
    @masterzoroark6664 Před 3 lety +5

    So, the artstyle really reminds me of those shorts in Perfect Vermin.
    Really, the shading and linework

  • @Adeone7368
    @Adeone7368 Před 3 lety +4

    You can tell good you tubers from bad ones with videos like this. A good video game channel can convince viewers to watch videos like this, where you have convinced the audience to watch you play horror Tetris for 40 minutes. Good job.

  • @pleight6656
    @pleight6656 Před 3 lety +1

    I'm gonna be honest, I wasnt super interested at first because I though this was a review of the game but you really brought it to life and you got a new sub :)
    I'm excited to see more of your stuff

  • @AidenOcelot
    @AidenOcelot Před 2 lety

    This was the first video I've ever seen from you. And I'm happy it was in my recommended

  • @hedgeearthridge6807
    @hedgeearthridge6807 Před 3 lety +4

    I really love the writing in the game. It reminds me of so many different authors, and all of them good. Lovecraft, Bunyan, Dante, Goethe, and others I can't remember right now

  • @Bashuraptor
    @Bashuraptor Před 3 lety +4

    Instantly recognized the art style of Swallow the Sea! Love that game, so I have high hopes for this one

  • @Thelothuo
    @Thelothuo Před 3 lety +2

    How to ram up a tower? A stick! POINTY STICK DOMINANCE, but without the point! What a ManlyBadassCivilEngineer.
    I really expected the three environmental tetrominoes at the bottom to disappear to trigger the collapse. Maybe they were supposed to?

  • @Phytoon
    @Phytoon Před 5 měsíci +1

    As an engineer myself, I'm very proud to see your use of percussive maintenance!

  • @jamzee_
    @jamzee_ Před 3 lety +3

    So basically. The tower of babal is a representation of language as a whole. It comes from Genesis so its in a ton of religious text.
    God saw the builders of the tower and decided they were trying to flee a second flood, so he cursed the world with multiple languages so no one man could understand the next. So each builder couldn’t agree on what to do, so the tower fell. The tower falling basically means that languages spread around the world.
    The rotters are like the builders, they make noise and thats it. The other things that scream are other languages. And the worms are a game mechanic.
    Inb4 some christian or jehovah witness person (jehovahs witness believes in the tower being real) corrects me on the story.

  • @Dark_Lieutenant
    @Dark_Lieutenant Před 2 lety +1

    I'm pausing the video right now to write this. I enjoy your voice deeply, This is the first video of yours I've found and I'm quite enjoying it. The soothing tones of your voice add an odd, pleasant ambiance to the video. I'm looking forward to many more.

  • @DiamondSan7
    @DiamondSan7 Před 3 lety +4

    The red kirby looking creatures you sacrifice are almost adorable in their own weird way

  • @lostaccount8222
    @lostaccount8222 Před 3 lety +3

    I like to call it “meat Tetris”
    (One of the developers also made Swallow the Sea, don’t remember which though)

  • @DussyBestroyer69
    @DussyBestroyer69 Před 3 lety +3

    27:56 your laugh is really nice. It sounds like a supervillain laugh.

  • @roxazaloah
    @roxazaloah Před 2 lety +2

    I liked how you referred to the little snake food guys as spotted eels (the ocean variety)!

  • @colehaney8836
    @colehaney8836 Před 3 lety +4

    I would definitely read a book about the pit of Babel. It seems like such an interesting world

  • @hedgeearthridge6807
    @hedgeearthridge6807 Před 3 lety +4

    *WAKE UP*
    *EAT*
    I love it every time, LOL

  • @redmin3r311
    @redmin3r311 Před 3 lety +42

    As a Christian man studying to be a pastor, this is how the tower of babel was made before God scattered them.

    • @valumtimes
      @valumtimes Před 3 lety +12

      I guess you could say this game's story is pretty canon to the reality of it. Or, one could say... confirmed by Word of God? ;)

    • @nautilume7114
      @nautilume7114 Před 3 lety +1

      As a Christian, I am immensely confused. Did people sink into the tar pit and become the building blocks??

    • @ndt_dynamite2247
      @ndt_dynamite2247 Před 3 lety +13

      @@nautilume7114 I've never read or learned the actual story of the Tower of Babel, but from what I can gather from this game, the story is that Humanity used to be a singular mind, but each body was separate, like a hive mind of sorts. Using this ability this singularity decided for some reason to make a Tower. A Tower that God struck down for another reason that I don't know, and after this event took place, Humanity was fractured. Or perhaps God fractured Humanity's mind, and the loss of it's ability to cooperate was what caused the collapse of the Tower.

    • @nautilume7114
      @nautilume7114 Před 3 lety +11

      @@ndt_dynamite2247 The best answer I could find was here, the first response: www.quora.com/Why-did-God-confuse-the-language-at-the-tower-of-Babel
      If you don’t want to read all that, basically everybody was united under one ruler who wanted to make a tower to heaven as a way to say that man doesn’t need God to be great, so he confused their languages and scattered them throughout. This allegedly aligns with what Jesus said about making many churches so that if one becomes corrupt, it will have way less power than if it was one united church

    • @CHKNSkratch
      @CHKNSkratch Před 3 lety +2

      @@ndt_dynamite2247 I believe that the story is like everyone spoke one language and so some people in high up places decided they would build a tower to be closer to god, but god made them speak different languages so they could not build the tower.

  • @raidbugspray3291
    @raidbugspray3291 Před 2 lety

    this is one of my favorite games youve played for some reason it makes me uneasy and happy at the same time

  • @algorithmdisciple9456
    @algorithmdisciple9456 Před 3 lety +2

    Just gunna say your voice fits the vibe of this game very well 👌would love to see you do some epic dark gritty voice over work

  • @Sandwichscoot
    @Sandwichscoot Před 3 lety +6

    What a fascinating concept

  • @leonhart99
    @leonhart99 Před 3 lety +12

    Caught a manly video in the first minute of upload? Very anime

  • @verruxlunox8438
    @verruxlunox8438 Před 2 lety

    Manly firming up the tower was one of the smartest things i've seen in a long time. Nice job, Manly

  • @MasterOfHelium
    @MasterOfHelium Před 3 lety +2

    Saw thumbnail, thought "it looks to be from the same devs who made "Swallow the Sea".
    Clicked, saw the description - bingo!

  • @sc4ml1kely
    @sc4ml1kely Před 3 lety +6

    37:12 FINALLY, SOME CATHARSIS