Why Do Gaming Titles Sort of Lie?
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Mini-game - Luigi's Mansion
Play a Mini-Game- Mario Party
Silly Explanation - alaxsonder
Silly Little Guys - alaxsonder
Beach Crab (unreleased) - alaxsonder
Spin the Wheel - alaxsonder
Spamton - Deltarune Chapter 2
Pizza Song - Video Msuci Vol. 1
Menu - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Midna's Theme - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Mining Town - alaxsonder
Melon Lake - alaxsonder
Okay Everyone (Natsuki) - Doki Doki Literature Club
Ridiculous, Keep Talking Though - alaxsonder
Funky Soup - alaxsonder
Slot Machine - alaxsonder
There's No Metal on Zebes - Harmony of Heroes
Pirate's Road - Harmony of Heroes
Frog Song - alaxsonder - Hry
boy howdy we're almost at 500k! It's been my dream for years to achieve this, so if you're new and like this kind of stuff please consider subscribing!
This video was a challenge for me to do a single revision script and not overthink it. So I definitely just overllooked a ton. Originally, it was going to be a pure April Fools but I actually got more into it than anticipated. Please post other titles in th comments though. Don't even explain - just put the title of the game.
Alax! i love you ( no homo)
I find it insane that you haven’t hit atl the 1 million yet
I'm surprised you're not at 500k already
What's the song at 4:05 ?
Happy to see how far you've come alax. I think you truly have a talent when it comes to making entertaining yet educational content :). Keep doing the things you love and you'll receive every blessing you deserve🙌🏾
Smash for 3DS/Wii U should’ve been called Smash Duel. Sure, a duel is typically between only two people but still. It would’ve been a great pun. Duel and Dual sound the same. Dual as in two consoles and each console having two screens.
That is actually such a good name. Wish it was real.
Thing is Sakurai goes on record that he thinks of them as separate games. I can see how this wouldn’t work as a marketing thing. Cause the casual audience wouldn’t buy both versions. If they think it’s the exact same game.
Nintendo hire this man!
Realize that Smash is called Big Brawl/Scuffle Smash Brothers in Japanese
@SquirrelMario Smash bros alpha and omega were my initial name picks back in 2013. Why sakurai?
I was actually thinking about Summertime High School: A Young Man's Notes-How a New Exchange Student Like Myself Ran Into His Childhood Friend on the School Tour, Then for Some Reason Became Super-Popular with the Girls for His Daily Scoops on the School Photography Club Even Though He Only Takes Panty Shots, and What He Thinks as He Goes on Dates During His Summer of Island School Life randomly recently
The title should have ended at a young man’s notes
Or how it is referenced by in the community: AYMNHANESLMRIHCFOTSTTFSRBSPWTGFHDSOTSPCETHOTPSAWHTAHGODDHSOISL
I believe that game is actually a game adaption of a light novel. The titles of those are usually all insane(ly specific) because the market is heavily competitive, but the labels only get to publish a handful novels every week, so authors really have to compete for their audience with outstanding and "descriptive" titles (Nowadays the most popular web novels are often chosen). You may know some ridiculous manga/anime titles, these are usually adaptions of light novels too.
@@Mimi.1001 Actually no just doing the trend of light novels just being a sinopsis. But It's a more complex game that the title let it out. Actually just making panty shots can softlock you the game XD. Because for some reason the game has a reputation meter and a jail and requirements to meet girls or do anything. So if you behave some ways you fuck it up. It's very strange chill vive of a game.
@@pepe2011pley Oh, nice to know I suppose, I really just assumed based on the title :D I have assumed it would've been more like a classic visual novel as well.
The fact that Alax didn't mention 'Yeah! You Want "Those Games," Right? So Here You Go! Now, Let's See You Clear Them!' in this video should be considered a cardinal sin
God, Iove that title
Ah yes, the game with the most "I swear I'm not copying 2016-2020 warioware" ass menus
Dude, the YYWTGRSHYGNLSYCT OST goes so FUCKING hard.
Kinda surprised you didn't mention "Yeah! You Want "Those Games," Right? So Here You Go! Now, Let's See You Clear Them!" because it's one of the titles of all time
It's also such a dumb concept for a game (That being full versions of often deceiving mobile game ads).
@@Mimi.1001 Well, as the title said, we *did* want those games.
There was so much demand yet no supply. Somebody's gotta fil the void!
@@Mimi.1001my only gripe is the price of it. There's a void to be filled because there's a market that isn't being capitalized on.
Genuinely, YYW"TG,"R?SHYG!N,L'SYCT! is a good game, even if it solely exists to fill a void of games that exist solely through false advertising of games that don't exist. Even if the sound design on some of the gamemodes kind of suck- to be honest- it's otherwise really engaging and charming
And to think it came out of D3 Publisher of all things(essentially the Japanese equivalent to THQ/Bam! Entertainment/etc.)
The game was made to be refunded
It was to either make you
A. Not fall for those ads because you have the game
or
B. Not fall for those ads because you've played the game and know it wasn't fun
my favorite example of ridiculous names is "Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R"
Guilty Gear: The Missing Link
Guilty Gear X: By Your Side
Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core
Guilty Gear 2: Overture
Guilty Gear Xrd SIGN
Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator
Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2
Guilty Gear Strive
At least I can pronounce that one. How the hell do you pronounce Xrd?
@@Shaflugi eks-urd (as in X third because it’s the the third game with the X subtitle)
+R still be a goated game tho
lmao i just commented this
1. Last of Us
2. I Guess We Forgot Some of Us
3. Holy Shit There's Still More Of Us?
4. There Seems to Actually Be An Infinite Amount of Us
5. Overpopulation
First of us
The second of us
The third of us
The fourth of us
There Exists a Few of Us
Link travels to the past in 5 separate games. Exactly zero of those games are titled “A Link to the Past.”
Wait, then what is Link to the Past about then?
@@robertlupa8273 traveling between the light and dark worlds. I guess the idea is that LttP is a prequel to the first two Zeldas, but that’s a pretty weak reason to call it “Link to the Past” since that’s never even mentioned in game.
[ 9:16 ] That’s actually not the reason why it’s called Final Fantasy. The actual reason is because they wanted a name that could be shortened to FF, so they just came up with cool words that started with F. They were even going to call it “Fighting Fantasy” but couldn’t due to copyright, so they went with Final Fantasy instead.
fucking firefighters
They wanted to surf on the hype train of Free Fire, right?
Fighting Fantasy fans when Peaceful Reality shows up:
dude just wanted to make a comedy video so i guess he only did some surface level research for a lot of this shit
@@curtisleblanc5897 more like Initial Reality
I can definitely tell you what the BEST video game title is. Persona 4 Arena Ultimax has an absolutely hysterical title in Japan. “Persona 4 The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold”.
Can't believe you didn't mention Guilty Gear. Even the tamer titles like "Guilty Gear X" completely fall apart when you hear how they pronounce it.
wasnt strive originally going to be called Guilty Gear:Guilty Gear
@@pizzajohn4434Why didn't they call it that, that would have been fucking awesome
And then there's Blaze Blue
Kid named guilty gear 2: overture (this is the (iirc) 11th game in the series) and happens after the first bunch of games, being between guilty gear XX Accent core +R and guilty gear Xrd sign)
dont forget Xrd (they cant call it Guilty Gear XXX)
Pizza Tower: Yeah, it's in the name.
*Cue that edit my acquaintance posted on his Twitter about that Paw Patrol "Pizza Tower" building episode*
same with super mario and luigi (if you even play as him you player 2 losers) eating magic mushrooms that make them go through puberty and stars that arent drugs at all
I find it cool how "Battlefield 1" avoids the same trap that "Mortal Kombat 1" falls. There is no game titled "Battlefield", the first one was titled "Battlefield 1942".
Yep, and It takes advantage that by setting it on WW1 since there wasn't any Battlefield based on that War, although Battlefield V being set in WW2 is more confusing if you know that both Battlefield 3 and 4 were set on a more modern setting
@@CanalAleblasco77i guess they couldnt call it "Battlefield 2"
@@Eichro Yeah, since Iirc, Battlefield 2 doesn't exist either
@@CanalAleblasco77 It does exist, actually
@@Eichro Which is kinda confusing, because as we said, 1 didn't come until later. So we effectively reinvented math to count from 2, up to 1.
Wow... PvZ had some *wild* concept names
My favourite:
*JESUS LIVES!*
@@ItsPForPeano way real itsPforPea
Lawn of the Dead is genuinely great. They should use it for something
@@eugeniomorichon5624 Yes I'm a real person how'd you know?
@@LostSoulSilver They were going to use it, but they feared from copyright strike by the owner of of the title "Dawn of the Dead". They sent a request for using the name but never got an answer.
This video feels like an 80 year old grandpa who has never played a video game, but is also feels like a gaming nerd made it at the same time
0:54 it's funny because i literally didn't read the title i just saw the relaxalax notif
The sun being the *NEW! logo for the Universe was a fucking banger
In the first Dragon Quest game, the final boss is the Dragonlord. A lord that's a dragon™. He kidnaps the princess, has taken over a lot of the world, so the hero is on a quest™to defeat him. The rest is just sort of its legacy.
Technically, dragonlords appear in 2 and 3, and in 4 to 6 there's a dragon god that's prominent, but eh.
Don't you also fight a Dragon while saving the princess?
@@Chris-bz2rf Yeah, a green dragon. Optional fight though. You can also encounter a bunch of green, blue and dread dragons as random enemies in certain places.
Crazy how Mario staples nowaday came out of DokiDoki Panic, a tie-in game to a TV channel event or some shit. (Shy guys, Birdo, the character's abilities like floaty Peach, slippery Luigi and fast toad).
If only Wart could come back
Slippery Luigi is actually from the lost levels, but Luigi's kicking jump comes from that game.
As well as Bob-ombs, Pokeys, Snifits, and Ninjis
@@Taenarius Both Luigi's traction and high jumps come from The Lost Levels
@@RainLion10 While you are correct, nothing I said merited a correction. Luigi's classic jumping animation is from SMB2.
Some how Alax always finds a way to add that Donkey kong scream😂
AND IT NEVER GETS OLD! I love it
My favorite game title ever is the name of a romhack. Like if you tried to speak to someone and you had a lisp, but they don't understand the accent, so all they'd be able to understand is
Yeth.
I’ve heard that Triangle Strategy is a really good game but holy shit the name is bad. Could they really not come up with something better than that, it sounds like a placeholder
It was supposed to be a placeholder title until they couldn’t think of anything else and kept it
@@kwisowofer9872same happened with Octopath Traveler, but that one isn't nearly as bad
It's weird they called it "Project Triangle Strategy" first, because the title was tentative. Especially when they did the exact same thing with Octopath Traveler too, so why bother in the first place?
As someone was played the game, the name actually makes sense, since the concept of three of something constantly shows up in the game.
Three nations, three ideologies, three (main) side characters, three resources each nation specializes in, the central river of the world having three branches, having three choices every time the main story branches out, and course, three main endings corresponding with each ideology.
@@Mimi.1001A lot of people were talking about the game with that name and since most people were getting used to it they thought that for marketing reasons it would've been better to keep it as "Triangle Strategy".
That ending freestyle was legendary. Rhyming chambers with gamers 🗣️🔥
Luigi's Mansion 3 basically IS "luigi's hotel"
Hotel Luigi you mean
Hotel Luigi, spiritual successor to Hotel Mario (both action horror games)
@@crabulonbestgirl9130STOLE MY JOKE AS I WAS WRITING IT
so does that make dark moon "luigi's mansions"
They had to keep the brand name.
Persona 5 Tactica Strikers Royal definitive edition S Tricksters Edition Featuring Dante From Devil May Cry game of the year
And Knuckles
i feel pretty targetted knowing i'm working on a game litterally called "not a filler name"
"Sonic the Hedgehog"
Yep.
"Mortal Kombat 1"
Uh huh.
"Tomb Raider"
Fits the pattern.
"Ninja Gaiden"
Definitely problematic.
"Donkey Kong Country"
OBJECTION! The GBC game is a port of the SNES original!
Bruh seeing that frindle book cover unlocked memories that I have not thought about for so long omg
Another thing worth mentioning is Japanese culture values quantity of information over brevity or minimalism, which is why titles are so descriptive. One example is "Ponyo" in Japan being "Ponyo on the Cliff By the Sea". See also: any Japanese web design
I think they call it Left 4 Dead because there's four people who were left for dead. Also because the game likes presenting itself as a Hollywood movie, each level's loading screen is a poster the credits always say "in memory of whoever died" or "starring whoever is still alive"
Ah yes. The classic for 3DS / Wii U N64 DS ver. Ultimate Deluxe tropical freeze panic world 5 1/2 Plus mode vs Mario!
& Knuckles featuring Dante from Dvil May Cry
Super Mario Combats Climate Change is probably one of my favorite games to this day.
Ikr the cop 21 level is so good
I prefer Super Mario Proves The Earth Is Round, personally.
@@FriskDrinksBriskHaha would that be Odyssey or Galaxy?
@@TyGuy2462 I had Galaxy in mind, but it could be either one ;3
"Featuring Dante from the devil may cry series and knuckles plus r rev 2 combat evolved rising 3d ultra special delux ultimate edition"
Wasn't expecting a Frindle jumpscare in 2024 but here we are
ITS NOT EVEN A DIRECTORS CUT, THE DIRECTOR WASN'T INVOLVED WITH THE DX PORT OMG AS A SONIC FAN I WANT TO... UURRRGH
IT SHOULD HAVE JUST BEEN DX HOLY CRAP
What does Director's Cut even mean for a game? It ain't a movie, you usually wouldn't want something to be cut from the original, do you?
They called it a director's cut because the director has been cut 😅
@@Mimi.1001director's cut means The original vision of the director
@@raunakgujralsongs9135 I know, but neither was the actual director involved here, nor can you really change ("cut") scenes for a game like you can for a movie. I suppose in some cases you can restore some unused stuff, modify the level design or cutscenes, but then you have to ask why those changes weren't in the original release version, but somehow in this re-release. For movies time constraints are more common, like it would be too long for a theatrical audience or whatever, thus validating a director's cut.
Ever heard of the cutting room floor? Just like in movies they are reason of cutting content, story beats or even characters in games as or more often than movies. Publishers demands to release it at a certain time so they can't fit ideas or concept perfectly to make sacrifices, the usual. And yes, a Game Director exist, which a Director's cut does make sense for games too... As long as its not done as a marketing ploy which most of the time it is. Tho sometimes in other countries in Japan its called Final Mix, which change gameplay balances, added unfinished content or even new ones to improve the game to its best possible version.@@Mimi.1001
Im really impressed...
No mention of Kingdom Hearts : Union χ[Cross]
Nor
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Alax has conditioned me to laugh whenever that stupid minecart clip shows up
Which one?
Nvm i just remembered.
12:10 for someone named relaxalax he does not seem relaxed.
9:12 this luigi pic killed me
The frindle of games is a wild analogy
for a moment i was really confused when i saw you saying circlespace instead of squarespace like i actually thought that meant something
6:49 *_"It Takes Two... two what?"_*
Two playable characters.
They're both literally just standing there, in the tittle.
Exactly. This video is so dumb 💀💀💀
"The legend of Zelda" "what's the legend" play the game lol
I think he's saying "to what?" he knows there's two, but it gives you no indication of what it takes two to do.
You realize that was a joke, right?
Why yes, they are standing right there, on the disconnected dot of a lowercase i
The longest title song bit is kinda a bop actually
I mean for Xenoblade, Persona and Fire Emblem, how CAN you title them in a way that they could in 2+ words convey their gameplay idea? JRPGs, all RPGS, are kinda defined by focusing on story and variety more than some unique gameplay idea. And they still work IMO.
Xenoblade Chronicles - main guy's weapon, on the cover, biggest gameplay element, it's an RPG so we be chronicling the journey
Fire Emblem - Fires of war, emblems and symbols of nobility. Kinda works...
Persona - main gameplay gimmick, main story conceit, usually also on the cover. Plus, it even explains the main theme of the series too, masks and social life etc.
11:30 that’s not a game, it sounds like a crappy novel about someone going to 2 high schools in Japan with nothing interesting happening except them bumping in to their old friend, then they both move on
Edit: 11:44 that’s a porn magazine
I'm pretty sure it's actually an adaption of a light novel.
I'm curious about how well PVZ did in the timeline where they named it "Grave-Yard"
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R
wait till bro hears about Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R
Guilty gear Xrd Revelations aint the best either (the fuck do they mean by Xrd)
I love the running joke of donkey kong in the Minecart falling being a reoccurring theme in every video
Can't forget the classic title I'm In Love With Your Dead Grandmother Presents: Noah Smalljohnson's Puzzle Game
9:11
I feel like I need to take a long stiff drink not from having seen it, but from having noticed it _immediately._
6:11 First of all, thank you for yet another wave of 2000's nostalgia this 1999 baby won't be rid of for at least a week. 😭
Also 6:18 that made me burst out laughing. Not ashamed to admit.
11:10 i like how this goes from reading a game's name to a lin manuel miranda parody
I was pleasantly surprised when I paused the video to read the newspaper and instead of some lorem ipsum nonsense filler, it was several honest-to-goodness paragraphs that were discussing the topic of "Mario VS Climate Change" as well as Donkey Kong's new game. All that for a joke that lasted about 5 seconds. Got to respect the quality!
I feel like you’ve made a video about this topic 3 times already, and i love every single one of them lmao
This is my Favorite Relax Alax video purely because it mentions YIIK for half a second
I swear man these videos always go by so fast. just goes to show how well made they are.
this was an awesome video!! the title stuff was so funny, and i enjoyed the editing a lot.
also awesome section on how much cooler Japanese games sound in Japanese. Like Fire Emblem Three Houses' Japanese title has a really complex idiom and shin megami tensei sounds metal af in Japanese
Fans generally just put the japanese title as "four seasons" because that sh*t sounds cool in japanese, but it really cannot be translated without sounding weird as heck.
Fire emblem: snow, flower, moon, wind...
I prefer when they are called "goddess of dawn/red moon" or something like that.
What’s the idiom for three houses?
Is kinda hit or miss because sometimes they just try be obnoxiously simbolic or plain edgy.
In the year of our Lord, 1987, got the fourth installment of fighting fiends (the first ever monster tamer game, the first installment being a 1982 arcade game, 13 years before pokémon), and what did they call the fourth game? Fighting fiends 4: the golden quest - NES. Not only did they have to specify with the fourth game, and give it a subtitle, but the had to specify it was for the NES.
Surprised Alax didn't mention my arch nemesis
"Yakuza: Like a Dragon Gaiden, The man who erased his name"
There are three games with the initials SMB:
Super Mario Bros, Super Monkey Ball, and Super Meat Boy
Shin Megami 🅱️ensei
Grew up on this man's content and he still somehow he keeps getting better
The end bit reminded me of the peanut bar bit from community
0:53 Losing it? I don’t think he even HAD it!
Guilty Gear players know bad titles better than anyone else. I'm still trying to figure out what number an Xrd is
I have really been enjoying the last few videos quite a bit, keep up the great work
Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates it!
alax's favorite clip of any game ever is donkey kong in a minecart falling off the rails
YES!!! A sequel to two of my favorite videos of yours!!! This just made my Easter this year even better! 🎉🎊🎉/g
5:15
[Insert that one cereal stickman meme]
He will not include a rhythm heaven reference in here
Good time for this to appear while I'm currently playing an open beta called, in full: Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road - Worldwide Beta Test Demo "Leave Your Inazuma Mark on the World!"
Im sorry this guy is quite literally scott the woz with a different voice
I don't know why it just struck me that Alax's style is very classic JonTron-core and honestly I've been wishing for more of that lately
Fun fact, final fantasy was actually going to be called fighting fantasy first
You know I thought this was going to be a retread kind of like how the Smash 4 menu was redone in a new version of his old video, but I love the ending segment of this video alone to make it stand out
The random DK screaming never fails to make me crack up
One of the best videos ever. That ending was pure pure pure gold!
As a Melty Blood player, I can confirm that the titles may be confusing, but it's part of the charm. Same goes with Under Night In-Birth, who probably has it WORSE.
WTF IS A SYS:CELES
Wouldn’t street fighter be up there too bc of the sub titles their games have like SF2 championship edition, world warrior, super turbo and etc.
@@Laggggin Something like "Championship Edition" makes WAY more sense than "Exe:Late [cl-r]."
Undernight is aiming for that "Edgy Anime Bullshit" aesthetic and we appreciate it for it.
@@Chaos-15 Yeah, you get it! 🤝
Genuinely surprised Kingdom Hearts didn't make this list, some of those titles sound like Nomura was pressing the "auto complete" button on his keyboard
MILK REFERENCED YEAHH! what the FVK is MENTAL WELLNESS
It's been awhile and honestly this entire video can just be combined with Kingdom hearts
Kingdom Hearts titles make sense in context, though.
Lin Manuel Miranda needs to hire this man for that ending
I can't believe you didn't mention "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game Complete Edition"
Perhaps not the longest, but it's nigh impossible to shorten.
The smallest syllable count I was able to reach was 5.
The Scott Pilgrim game
@@KaitouKaiju 5 syllables!
For me, the worst titles are the ones which are referred to in an abbreviated form more often than the full title. Of these, I think the worst is probably "Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors". Not only is it a long and unwieldy title, but the common abbreviation is "999", which tells me absolutely nothing about the game. And on top of all that, [SPOILERS]
EVERY PART OF THAT TITLE IS A LIE TO BEGIN WITH!!!!
Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door is the first that came to my mind. TTYD is just so much faster to type
The "OHHHH" for Mario 64 was super funny
I gotta give it to you, your video ideas really are top notch
If "Disco Elysium" doesn't make sense to you after playing the game, you might need to play it again, because they do *literally explain* the meaning of that phrase within the game XD
The rap at the end was legendary. You should make an extended version into a video, with a full few verses and a chorus. I would jam to it
1:22 oh were back to this are we? 🤣🤣
11:15 really came out here with the fuckin' Hamilton bars, Lin Manuel Miranda is pissing himself in fear rn
5:34 "Sooonic annnnd sega alllll starrrssss raaacing!..Transformed!!"
I loved this episode! It was honestly just really funny XD
3:46
Sister Location: Am I a joke to you?
Custom night and ennerd night: allow us to indroduce ourselves.
@@user-ky3of8ng6t the Ennard night is an alternate ending that’s still on Night 5, the custom night is still a valid argument.
@@S-Fan2006 The custom night technically wasn't in the game when it released though, however, counting final products it does have more than 5. Pizzeria sim also only has five nights though
sb also only has like- one night, maybe two if you're counting the dlc
@@O-OBoys Pizzeria Simulator has 6 nights, which is convenient for it since it doesn't feature "Five Nights" in the title :P
that circlespace at the begining was quite funny
You just reminded me that as a child i used to call Mario sunshine, Super Mario Janitor 😂😂😂
6:12 as someone who has been watching your content since forever this is your first modern joke to actually make me laugh
This man was everything but "Relaxed" the entire video
1:25
" *_WHO'S THEY?!_* "
" WHAT THE HELL IS AN ALUMINUM FALCON? "
The World Ends With You mentioned!!
6:06 cool dk sound effect