The Story of Grand Theft Auto Vice City

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  • @ThePatientWolf
    @ThePatientWolf  Před 2 měsíci +1

    Watch The Story of Grand Theft Auto San Andreas right now!
    czcams.com/video/nJJjvtBkdOk/video.html

  • @annabelledee6554
    @annabelledee6554 Před 5 měsíci +182

    This was my first GTA game - it will always be my favorite. Ray Liotta’s voice just hits differently now

    • @claypotts2334
      @claypotts2334 Před 4 měsíci +7

      RIP Ray Liotta

    • @nightstrike90
      @nightstrike90 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Same! Why my mom bought it for me at 7 I have no idea but I still chuckle at the memory of the Walmart employee making sure she knows it's an M game 🤣

  • @ungodlybeast8436
    @ungodlybeast8436 Před 5 měsíci +356

    The definition of quality over quantity

    • @tytyguy1able
      @tytyguy1able Před 5 měsíci +7

      But they released so many damn games back then so it aint even that!

    • @ungodlybeast8436
      @ungodlybeast8436 Před 5 měsíci +25

      @@tytyguy1able im talking about the channel

    • @gordonchard6243
      @gordonchard6243 Před 5 měsíci +6

      Can't wait for SA but I know it's going to take long time.

    • @primmslimm7185
      @primmslimm7185 Před 5 měsíci +4

      I can’t wait for Liberty City Stories so I don’t have to look at defective edition footage anymore lol, the videos are wonderful regardless though

    • @nickcozzie6614
      @nickcozzie6614 Před 5 měsíci +4

      ⁠@@tytyguy1ableI’m pretty sure he means the channel. He doesn’t post much. But everything he posts is gold

  • @falloutfreak111
    @falloutfreak111 Před 5 měsíci +121

    Bro, you’re absolutely CRUSHING the game video essay market

  • @GMBMessiah
    @GMBMessiah Před 5 měsíci +116

    This honestly may be one of the best channels on the site. Deserves at least a million more subs.

  • @UTP_ENT
    @UTP_ENT Před 4 měsíci +49

    When I was a kid and heard Sonny say “didn’t think they’d ever let him out” I couldn’t understand him and thought it was Italian 😂

    • @ThePatientWolf
      @ThePatientWolf  Před 4 měsíci +8

      I can see how you did that... its a very thick accent!

    • @mcculler1993
      @mcculler1993 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Same bro. Never thought to read the subtitles. 😂🤣😂🤣

    • @FinkleStinkle
      @FinkleStinkle Před 2 měsíci +2

      I did the same I always thought he was just speaking gibberish until I read the subtitles lol

  • @annabelledee6554
    @annabelledee6554 Před 5 měsíci +28

    I always felt like the only person Tommy really respected and admired was Ernest from printworks. I’m so glad you covered that purchase ❤

  • @bongboyz6468
    @bongboyz6468 Před 5 měsíci +52

    I love how this game never truly gives out who planned the sabotage and how Tommy just gives up his plan with Sonny. I like it because it shows that gta is really a "anything goes" kind of game

    • @XanVicious
      @XanVicious Před 4 měsíci +4

      It was Diaz, the games narrative makes it clear.

    • @bongboyz6468
      @bongboyz6468 Před 4 měsíci +9

      @XanVicious it's not clear at all. The characters point to Diaz but the clues do not. The clues point to a 3rd party like Mr black or whoever sunny hired. But it doesn't matter anyways because Tommy switched priorities to focus on gaining power in vice city to take out sunny by killing Diaz

    • @jjkcommentaries8645
      @jjkcommentaries8645 Před měsícem +1

      Remember too, during the call with sonny he has the money and coke on the table

  • @Marcus_shawn
    @Marcus_shawn Před 5 měsíci +69

    I play this from time to time... Sonny had the money and coke on the table when he called Tommy

    • @DTA707
      @DTA707 Před 5 měsíci +9

      So many people still think it was Diaz

    • @Marcus_shawn
      @Marcus_shawn Před 5 měsíci +10

      ​@@DTA707😂 Diaz was definitely the scapegoat

    • @emekaasiegbu3697
      @emekaasiegbu3697 Před 5 měsíci +6

      @@DTA707playing this as a kid I saw it immediately…. I was like ummm isn’t that the stuff Tommy went to that deal for?

    • @NabeelFarooqui
      @NabeelFarooqui Před 5 měsíci +6

      How do we know it's the same and not some other stuff?

    • @Thegamer10113
      @Thegamer10113 Před 4 měsíci +1

      ​@@NabeelFarooquibecause it's not in the intro cutscene only in the cutscene when Tommy calls.

  • @Nixkrude79
    @Nixkrude79 Před 5 měsíci +19

    Gotta do a story on Vice City Stories that way it'll make more sense on how some of these characters already know each other

    • @user-oy2lj5yf3d
      @user-oy2lj5yf3d Před 5 měsíci +2

      He has to go back to Liberty stories

    • @Nixkrude79
      @Nixkrude79 Před 5 měsíci +5

      @@user-oy2lj5yf3d If we going back in chronological order den VCS is first due to the events happening in '84

  • @GamerGaGs-i1b
    @GamerGaGs-i1b Před 5 měsíci +21

    When you're done with san Andreas please don't forget to cover gta liberty city stories it's such a good story

    • @ThePatientWolf
      @ThePatientWolf  Před 5 měsíci +8

      Hey, I surely will. Not sure i'll jump back before dealing with the main games first but they're on my list. I'd like to do GTA 1&2 also but no idea how i'd go about recording those to any high quality. Further research needed there. Thanks so much for your membership!

  • @brutustantheiii8477
    @brutustantheiii8477 Před 5 měsíci +4

    DUDE. YES. I CAN’T WAIT to sit down to this.
    You could be just like Ahoy. Because I couldn’t get enough of your GTA III video

  • @abdulnasirbushra6049
    @abdulnasirbushra6049 Před 4 měsíci +3

    5:06 Is that Big Smoke in the back running or what LMAOO 😂😂

  • @dabking94.19
    @dabking94.19 Před 5 měsíci +7

    This was amazing! I've played VC and III since i was 12 and it's one of my favorites! And to think that two years prior to Tommy coming to Vice City in 86, in 84, it was Vic Vance's City.
    I would like to see the entire GTA timeline from VCS - V covered. We already got III and VC on from you but the official time line is:
    1984 GTA Vice City Stories
    1986 GTA Vice City
    1992 GTA San Andreas
    1998 GTA Liberty City Stories
    2001 GTA III
    2008 GTA IV
    2013 GTA V

    • @ElPatron42069
      @ElPatron42069 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Same I was 12 when VC came out and it’s my favorite but I love them all

    • @mr.andrew7820
      @mr.andrew7820 Před 4 měsíci

      Chinatown Wars - 2009

  • @tripmann268
    @tripmann268 Před 5 měsíci +9

    Brilliant stuff, unique editing, congrats 💯

  • @ravirosmarys301
    @ravirosmarys301 Před 5 měsíci +2

    If this is how you make videos, I'm subscribing now. It felt like a documentary. You really add your touch, and the way you add descriptive details like: "the smell of machinery and ink"... Can't wait for more videos, and I can't wait for GTA 6.

  • @BarkerVancity
    @BarkerVancity Před 5 měsíci +5

    great video, thanks for the hard work. 120hrs shows

  • @juwanchandler8624
    @juwanchandler8624 Před 5 měsíci +17

    R.I.P. 😢 Ray Liotta aka
    Tommy Vercetti 😔

  • @jesusperez2694
    @jesusperez2694 Před 4 měsíci +3

    This game shaped me as a child.
    & gave me the "can do" mentality I am known for.

  • @tristengoetz7911
    @tristengoetz7911 Před 5 měsíci +2

    I love this it’s like Thomas the tank engine style narration I loved the GTA3 video but subscribed after realizing it wasn’t a one off and you planned to make a series, I wish you luck and hope you can make more of these soon

  • @gaurav_0369
    @gaurav_0369 Před 5 měsíci +5

    How are you doing this breathtakingly beautiful count down I wanna know 😭

  • @lefterisdolkas5491
    @lefterisdolkas5491 Před 5 měsíci +4

    amazing video once again

  • @ronnsnow2859
    @ronnsnow2859 Před 5 měsíci +21

    Avery Carrington is a descendent of Dutch.

  • @FortunateJuice
    @FortunateJuice Před 5 měsíci

    Love how Fincher shot this. Those eye level one-shots make it so much more tense.

  • @saschaberger3212
    @saschaberger3212 Před 5 měsíci +2

    This is the last dance for Lance Vance

  • @oraclemirai
    @oraclemirai Před 5 měsíci +3

    Looking forward to you cover San Andreas, Vice City Stories, Liberty City Stories, and even Advance to close up the 3D Universe (that's if you're covering the Manhunt games).

    • @CoralCopperHead
      @CoralCopperHead Před 5 měsíci

      I keep forgetting that Manhunt happens in the same universe as GTA.

    • @oraclemirai
      @oraclemirai Před 5 měsíci

      @@CoralCopperHead Most do

  • @stefomate
    @stefomate Před 2 měsíci

    I was 12 when I played this game. This was an amazing recap to watch with complete understanding of how the world works as an adult

  • @CoralCopperHead
    @CoralCopperHead Před 5 měsíci +1

    Your essays are golden, man, keep it up and you'll break a million soon enough.

  • @chadd990
    @chadd990 Před 4 měsíci +2

    this story does nothing to help me with my coke addiction. Thanks a lot, Kent Paul.

  • @joelarias55
    @joelarias55 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Sonny in the intro with the missing money and coke , Sonny stole from himself 😅😅😅😭😭😭

    • @acezavala3816
      @acezavala3816 Před 5 měsíci +2

      That's what I always thought too, got his coke for free and was most likely trying to get rid of Tommy as well.

  • @gibbonsgomez4434
    @gibbonsgomez4434 Před 5 měsíci +1

    This is truly a masterpiece of storytelling 😢 especially if you grew up playing the game. thank you 🙏

  • @mohammedalshamery8557
    @mohammedalshamery8557 Před 5 měsíci +3

    This is my favorit game in the world. Sad rockstargames failed us for the remstared version

  • @Chrome_008x
    @Chrome_008x Před 4 měsíci +1

    This was the first GTA game I ever played and it'll forever have a special place in my heart.

  • @domasavpedzivin
    @domasavpedzivin Před 3 měsíci +1

    *Fun facts about Vice City : It seems that the Forellis are the 3D era Gambinos ,so Sonny is the 3Ds Gotti , although I can't be 100% sure that the Gambinos were the 1st Italian - US crime organization in Miami ,*
    *Tommy's based on Tony Montana and Joseph "Joe Dogs" Ianuzzi Jr. (Gambino soldier) however there's also a possibility that Jon Roberts (born John Riccobono) that was a Gambino soldier , was also taken as an inspiration to the creation of Tommy, while the original Vercetti's appearance was reminiscent of Ray Liotta , the Definitive Edition bears more similarity to Vincent Gigante who was the boss of the Genovese crime family on the other hand*
    *Upon further investigating the Gambinos and Florida , I found out another parallel 'tween Tommy and Joseph Armone this time, as Gotti have sent 'em in '86 to Florida in order to supervise the Gambinos interests in there*

  • @nissan_skyline
    @nissan_skyline Před měsícem

    Man this game brings back so many memories. I was 12 when I discovered it and was immediately HOOKED lol. I knew all the cheat codes.

  • @hansolo3003
    @hansolo3003 Před 2 měsíci

    I truly love the way you did this video. its like watching a crime mob docu from A&E back in the day. thank you

  • @UnipornFrumm
    @UnipornFrumm Před 2 měsíci

    Tommy: I m thinking of printing news papers magazines...
    Dude at the print shop: how about printing money

  • @jamalali912
    @jamalali912 Před 3 měsíci

    Diaz: YOU WORK FOR ME NOW
    Tommy: I work for money 😂😂😂

  • @ahmadking5229
    @ahmadking5229 Před 3 měsíci

    This channel is tight i played these games since i was a kid in the early 2000s but was just playing missions just going through the motions but man you described the story so detailed i had to sub

  • @GoofyBozo445
    @GoofyBozo445 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Love the work dude, always such engaging videos!

  • @mikehawk4455
    @mikehawk4455 Před 22 dny

    Love these story telling vids. Good stuff

  • @No14210
    @No14210 Před 3 měsíci

    I love how the early missions of Vice City introduce the world and characters.

  • @NeoVenomStrike
    @NeoVenomStrike Před 5 měsíci +3

    How is his voice so soothing ?

  • @yeshua963
    @yeshua963 Před 5 měsíci +1

    The Diaz Mansion is my dream house till today.

  • @primeaether
    @primeaether Před 4 měsíci +1

    Would be awesome if GTA 6 has a few throwbacks to Vice City and Vice City Stories

  • @Aceboogie90
    @Aceboogie90 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Been waiting for this one 🍿🍿

  • @viejos1000
    @viejos1000 Před 5 měsíci

    This is my favorite video at this moment lol. I love vice city and I’m sure you already have these idea for later content story’s but you definitely should do the story about it Vic Vance and from vice city story’s which takes place in 1984, I know that Gonzalez has story on there along with the rise of Ricardo Diaz and Liberty City’s story’s which takes place in 1998 and Donald Love has some missions on there and there is one specific mission involving Avery Carrington and tells the story about Toni Cipriani

  • @stylooslave
    @stylooslave Před 5 měsíci

    THIS IS ART! ❤ My first GTA and still my all time favorite 😊
    Thank you for the storytelling, thank you for the memories ❤

    • @CoralCopperHead
      @CoralCopperHead Před 5 měsíci

      I know there's a certain cliche about liking the first entry you played in a series, and while it doesn't always hold up, I find it's almost always true with GTA. The only people I know who list III as their favourite started with it, and everyone I know who started with it lists it as their favourite. Hell, I'm one of 'em.

  • @NuclearAtoms
    @NuclearAtoms Před 5 měsíci

    Loved the GTA 3 story narration and loved this one as well ❤ The style is very unique and brings out some elements of the story that we don't normally think about 👏🏼 Hopefully the GTA San Andreas story comes out this year 🙏🏽

  • @gallardo10001
    @gallardo10001 Před 2 měsíci

    "buenas noches" under the bright sun😂

  • @taterjay1602
    @taterjay1602 Před 5 měsíci

    Ahh yes another banger of a video once again from you honestly keep up the good work and don’t stop best channel out there for video game story’s

  • @applepulse
    @applepulse Před 5 měsíci +1

    I love your videos
    Big fan🤘

  • @bobhill3941
    @bobhill3941 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I love your channel, I really like your analysis. I've subscribed. I loved Vice City and GTA III, I received both in a double pack for Christmas over 20 years ago. Both were so much fun and has outstanding, riveting, engaging stories and character development.
    I wish Ray Liotta and Tom Sizemore were still alive and Ray never fell out with Rockstar, it would've been cool to see both men as elder statesmen in cutscenes for missions in GTA VI (Tommy would've been 73 considering a release date of 2025)
    I loved Vice City so much, I wrote an epilogue for Tommy while I was laid off during the pandemic:
    After killing Sunny and taking back Miami, Tommy drives his yellow Coutach he stole from the mall after the shakedown to Little Havana and starts the printshop up again like his dad worked at after coming home from Korea as a tank loader....
    He works there for over 30 years, doing whatever people and companies wanted, all the while, hiring anyone who needed a job.
    He was killed instantly in a car crash, swerving to avoid a pedestrian in the road.
    At his simple, low-key funeral, former coworkers and even former mob associates paid their respects.

    • @mr.andrew7820
      @mr.andrew7820 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Tommy is mentioned in San Andreas and
      Sonny(Tom Sizemore's character) died in Vice City's final mission but he is mentioned in San Andreas and Liberty City Stories

    • @bobhill3941
      @bobhill3941 Před 4 měsíci

      @@mr.andrew7820 Thanks for the reminder, it was so long ago since I played San Andreas that I forgot. I also never played Liberty City stories because I never had a PSP or any Playstation consoles. Yes, I remember killing Sonny (I ran around the front of Diaz's mansion and sniped him!)

    • @mr.andrew7820
      @mr.andrew7820 Před 4 měsíci +1

      ​@@bobhill3941 in Liberty City Stories,besides the Forelli Crime Family being the secondary main villains(now led by Franco Forelli) there are posters for a movie called"Sonny Forelli:a true story" based on Sonny's life,while the story of Liberty City Stories is weak It's a good take on Liberty City with the added lore from Vice City and San Andreas like Avery Carrington appearing in a couple of missions,poster for Candy Suxxx's final movie and Madd Dogg's new album,etc,shame It never got a oficial Pc port,but you can play It on emulators

    • @bobhill3941
      @bobhill3941 Před 4 měsíci

      @@mr.andrew7820 Thanks for the review, that's interesting.
      I exclusively played console games.

  • @weshouldchill5694
    @weshouldchill5694 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Man i hope we get to see the iconic mansion in 6 next year. Or at the very least some nods to how Tommy used to own Vice City.

  • @silverion5347
    @silverion5347 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Vice City Stories next please

  • @Shushkin
    @Shushkin Před 5 měsíci +1

    I am very much convinced that it was Sonny who ambushed the deal.

  • @selder_7
    @selder_7 Před 2 měsíci

    2:40 was there a guy on a hook in the back there in the original?
    I know a lot went over my head as a kid but damn

  • @BarelyDecentProduction
    @BarelyDecentProduction Před 5 měsíci +1

    Tommy better be an important NPC in 6

  • @codeeast1224
    @codeeast1224 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Thank you, this is my Favorite GTA!

  • @colored_lonely
    @colored_lonely Před 5 měsíci

    I enjoy your way of telling a story. I know everything about this game plot, but i still enjoyed to listen to your interpretation of it.

  • @neverdavenever
    @neverdavenever Před 5 měsíci +1

    I've waiting for this! 😁

  • @Lucky38384
    @Lucky38384 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Great Video. Can't wait for San Andreas.

  • @AyoBodee
    @AyoBodee Před 2 měsíci

    I actually replayed and beat Vice city and let me say it was a phenomenal experience, besides the business jobs I hated the business jobs💀

  • @IvanSensei88
    @IvanSensei88 Před 3 měsíci

    I know Gta 5 and San Andreas also had businesses you can buy and own, but this one did this feature the best, because with nearly every single one, you would have a questline to follow-up, making that business feel more "alive" and more.. "personal" - like you really own it and may even grow attached to it, rather than them being just money-generators with the occasional bland mission popping up every now and then just to remind you like "ah yeah, by the way you own this".

    • @jjkcommentaries8645
      @jjkcommentaries8645 Před měsícem

      The print works is my favorite, hearing Tommy's stories about it and the love and rage he shows over Ernest is fantastic

  • @ElPatron42069
    @ElPatron42069 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Best gta ever

  • @Motebang4125
    @Motebang4125 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Its about to be a banger once again

  • @BeeboHamido
    @BeeboHamido Před 5 měsíci +3

    Wish I had 2 like buttons

  • @MacAttackCobra77
    @MacAttackCobra77 Před 3 měsíci

    Very beautiful story, not how I played the game in 2003 at 11 years old.
    I appreciate it being 30+ years old

  • @aishwaryaiyer9569
    @aishwaryaiyer9569 Před 4 měsíci

    Amazing video man… GTA Vice city always feels like home ❤

  • @monsterrrrgaming
    @monsterrrrgaming Před 4 měsíci +2

    San Andreas when?

  • @moneymann4568
    @moneymann4568 Před 5 měsíci

    19:45 I’m next in line mane😂😂

  • @user-ei1yf3st8l
    @user-ei1yf3st8l Před 5 měsíci

    Amazing dude. This was great.

  • @Mishu-cd7xb
    @Mishu-cd7xb Před 5 měsíci

    Great story telling , thank you for posting this

  • @user-oy2lj5yf3d
    @user-oy2lj5yf3d Před 5 měsíci

    I want to say I love the work I enjoyed every moment of it and thank you for the connection in the video I didn't know Donald love was in vice City and the guy from Diablo good connections will you also cover Liberty stories gta

  • @chriscollins550
    @chriscollins550 Před měsícem

    Vice City had the best story and the best era.

  • @aileenhogan2765
    @aileenhogan2765 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I know the video is good when the patient wolf

  • @steved3737
    @steved3737 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Oh yeah. My FIRST (and BEST) GTA

  • @Averagebasementman
    @Averagebasementman Před 11 dny

    Sad Lucia isn’t gonna run into Tommy. It would be insane if they did live in the same world.

  • @MidNight0_
    @MidNight0_ Před 4 měsíci

    I think the intro was a bit off. Victor Vance was black, not Colombian. The man with the 2 briefcases was clearly Colombian. Also, the real backstory mentions Victor Vance being killed by the forellis sometime after VICE CITY STORIES, which lands on the gta timeline right before the events of vice city while the actual game was released several years after vice city on the PSP then remastered for the PS2. Victor Vance happens to be the main character in vice city stories and there are many references in the game on how bad the forellis want his head. Now if you pay close attention in the opening cutscene to vice city you can see the body of a bald headed black man hanging in the meat locker behind Sonny Forelli while he speaks. That being said, he was technically killed sometime between vice city stories and the actual vice city and that’s the proof. This cutscene i mentioned is actually in this video between 2:35 and 2:45 . Look behind Sonny Forelli while he talks about Tommy V.

  • @Toto._.576
    @Toto._.576 Před 5 měsíci

    The definition of insanity skyrim with guns what's cooking good looking? 😂

  • @Gunny426HemiPlymouth
    @Gunny426HemiPlymouth Před 5 měsíci

    Honey wake up. That wolf guy posted again! Plus its about the best GTA!

  • @douglasschultz9808
    @douglasschultz9808 Před 4 měsíci

    I hope we could get another 1980’s Vice City DLC game with the full future Florida map after the release of GTA 6.

  • @threetrys
    @threetrys Před 5 měsíci +1

    Greeting PatientWolf I love your narration videos! I was thinking of doing my own version of narration on GTA, if I do this project would that count as "stealing" from you or would you not mind. Rest assure that I will credit you and your channel if you're OK with this!

  • @ice_man_7
    @ice_man_7 Před 5 měsíci

    Brilliant, keep it up 🤘🏻

  • @insidebyte8561
    @insidebyte8561 Před 5 měsíci

    Your videos are the Best!

  • @thientuongnguyen2564
    @thientuongnguyen2564 Před 2 měsíci

    I didn't need this indeed, played it, read the Wikia and such.

  • @lhastnin6227
    @lhastnin6227 Před 5 měsíci

    WTF did i just watch ?? Man... no words ! AMAZING 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @JessesAuditorium
    @JessesAuditorium Před 5 měsíci +1

    This channel is so good, kudos on your work.

  • @robdavies8702
    @robdavies8702 Před 4 měsíci

    Absolutely superb work!

  • @C21H30O2
    @C21H30O2 Před 5 měsíci

    Rock star "Jezz Torrent" 😅

  • @gavinhirst3136
    @gavinhirst3136 Před 5 měsíci

    Great content as always ❤

  • @ianashby3626
    @ianashby3626 Před 5 měsíci

    Just replayed the definitive editon vice city was my favorite on ps2 aswell also cosplaying Tommie vercetti

  • @__-bc4bs
    @__-bc4bs Před 2 měsíci

    Vice City will always be the best game Rockstar and Angel studios ever made, Epic soundtrack template, Awesome charachters, vibe and setting and voice actors like Burt Reynolds and Jenna Jameson. Such a hoot.. 🎆🌇🌅😄😄😄🥳🥳🥳

  • @SKIDDKIDD
    @SKIDDKIDD Před 5 měsíci

    Soon time to start the months to..countdown

  • @dmdeign7116
    @dmdeign7116 Před 5 měsíci

    Awesome video, love Vice City

  • @douglasschultz9808
    @douglasschultz9808 Před 4 měsíci

    Hopefully in GTA 6 we still have Maurice Chaves!

  • @rudolfragis9945
    @rudolfragis9945 Před 5 měsíci

    Can't wait for you to get to GTA 4.

  • @adaml5166
    @adaml5166 Před 4 měsíci

    Oh this is executed very well

  • @MRRGaming223
    @MRRGaming223 Před 5 měsíci

    Rockstar should hire this guy for commercials or something

  • @NabeelFarooqui
    @NabeelFarooqui Před 5 měsíci

    Phenomenal work!