I played 9 MORE Souls-Like games you've never heard of
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2024
- episode 13 of Steam Dumpster Diving with somehow, once again, even more "souls-likes" you (probably) haven't heard of
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:25 Spirits of Light
5:13 Spark in the Dark
7:38 Mortal Rite
11:53 Runewaker
15:43 Gods Will Fall
20:00 Edge of the Abyss Awaken
23:33 Devil Spire
27:54 Boss Rush Mythology
31:05 Northern Journey
34:52 outro
also big thanks for help from:
Hugo Junstrand for the cool "steam dumpster diving" animation as well as the music in the intro: / hugojunstrand
Onua for creating the SFM pose of the knight in the thumbnail: / odynom
games played (in order of appearance)
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Next week: "I played 1 more Souls-Like you've actually heard of"
I love you 😘
Oh Elden ring
Much love!
Omg is it horizon forbidden west?
We all will.
29:23 That's actually Slavic mythology. The hut with the chicken legs is the house of Baba Yaga, who is basically a very powerful and wise old witch that lures children into her house, cooks and eats them. She is inherently evil, but sometimes can help heroes in achieving their goals. That old lady who came out of the hut, I'd assume, is her.
I think she flies around on a mortle and pestle instead of a broom though.
@@daniels8618 On a mortar, yes, but no pestle. She use broom to drive mortar. Our myth are strange sometimes)
Was about to say it's Slavic mythology 😅.
Btw, for the Witcher game fans both the 3 witches in the woods from Witcher 3 and the witch from the second season of the Netflix show are based on this..... That sure as hell was a lot of witches 😅
@@user-gp7rr3ll5f Slavic Charon
Also on 30:39 he's fighting "Tri Bogatirya" which are basically 3 very powerful warriors, famous for slaying some of the myths and being a part of them.
"The House with Chicken legs" and the Old Woman are definitely Baba Yaga and her home from Slavic Folklore. They are both quite the characters. Baba Yaga is a witch that kind of does what you expect from her. She eats/harms those that fear her while she helps/blesses those that have confisdence and seek help. Meanwhile her House can be controlled by commands but it is alive and doesnt always listen.. (I might be wrong on some details its been a long while.)
Isn't she the villain from Studio Ghbili's Spirited Away?
@@AidanRatnage After a quick google search her name is fairly close with Yubaba however she is a fairly different character overall.
Its not only based on russia, so Id rather call it a myth from slavic mythology in general
@@danielh.8765 I only knew her from russian movies/stories. I am not too well versed in Slavic folklore generally. I fixed it now tho.
John wick?
As a norwegian it was funny to see the northern light gameplay. It was characters i recognised from childhood books and the fact that they all were hostile was hilariously accurate.
"Why was there a bear trap on the table?" ... obviously to stop Goldilocks from eating the porridge ... oops wrong fairy tale.
@oky dishwasher
No that makes sense
But bear traps are traps FOR bears, not BY bears?
Unless...
@@doom4627 "why was there a bear trap on the table?" "uh... You wanted to?"....
Nah, I'm sure they all overlap, all fairy tiles ever written occur in one universe. lol
"What mythology is this from?"
Slavic. A witch lives in a hut on bird legs.
Kikimora?
@@chiefbawor_thegr8966 Baba Yaga
@@DrGruno Welcome back, John.
Baba Yaga
@@chiefbawor_thegr8966 Baba Yaga
Northern Journey is such an experience. Also I think the rock sling might be one of the most satisfying weapons I've ever used in an FPS.
FOR REAL!
Northern Journey seems to lean heavily into the Nordic troll/hag/fey folklore, where anything that might *seem* benevolent at first is more than likely one of the above types of creature trying to lure unwary travellers into a trap of some manner. I particularly like the one that offers to ferry you across but then throws away the paddle to attack you, very clever - and very fitting for the theme.
Love the pause aswell. She doesn't just turn into a monster. She just throws the paddle and looks at you, knowing you're trapped on the raft. Gives you time to embrace the "Oh shit" thought.
The "Hut on Chicken Legs" is from the Baba Yaga myth, a sort of witch from Slavic mythology
One of the recent Tomb Raider games had a Baba Yaga mission in it, iirc.
@@try2bcool second game and it was an entire dlc not just a mission
Its also a killer deathcore song😂
@@GarrettMusic yesssssssssss
Every boss fight was someone from smite lol
Please don't stop making these. Even if you need to change what type of games you cover, it's just fun watching you try out obscure steam games. I always get excited when another of these is in my subscriptions
After all, the series isn't called "I play a bunch of Souls-likes ONLY so everybody shut up" but "Steam Dumpster Diving", so that already leaves a lot of wiggle room
It honestly has built up my steam library haha
Seconded, it’s one of my favorite things on CZcams rn!
This is literally one of my favorite series on YT, so good.
@@number4497 Yeah his takes on things are critical but also chill, and very honest... and did I mention chill?
Best review presentation ever tbh, and not even officially presented as "reviews".
You know as I sit here and play Elden Ring while I watch, I can't help but feel a bit cheated that I get this crap while you're playing these works of art.
XD
15:23 i can see this as a doomlike type game where you move faster around the map constantly picking up the spells and firing them.
The hut on chicken legs is from Slavic mythology, it's the home and steed of Baba Yaga, an old witch who is at times evil and at times helpful.
Except the DnD version who is just pure evil and somehow the mother of Strahd.
I was going to comment this but you beat me to it
yooo, they put john wick in their game?
that sounds like lawsuit territory, man.
Things Baba Yaga may canonically *break into your house to do* according to folklore!
- count your teaspoons
- steal your children for farm work
- bite your sister on the boob
- eat your children, either right there or take away (having iron teeth helps)
- steal your broom to sweep behind her when riding along in her size-changing semi-flying mortar and pestle
Yeah, when I saw it say "Hut On Chicken Legs", I thought "oh hey, we're fighting Baba Yaga".
It didn't occur to me that you'd _actually_ be fighting her house.
This series is getting me through the final week till Elden Ring
Correct
same
same I've been rewatching the whole series in anticipation
Oh GOD it’s only one more week? Gotta get ahead on my school work since I sure as hell won’t have any time for that for a while after release
I’m literally going to book the next week off work just to play it lol
I actually really liked the art style on Northern Journey. It has that low fidelity but on purpose look that kinda works sometimes.
I love how every time you play the "MORE Souls game" dumpster diving experience. The AMOUNT of Souls-like games on Steam is exploding, expoditionally.
I googled "expoditionally", and there were only 3 results. This comment is one of those 3 results.
@@SomeTomfoolery Clearly this commenter is well versed in conflusious verbilocraphy!
@@hazukichanx408 Veratasily, my dear comradarian.
Going out on a limb here, I assume you meant expeditiously?
@@r.j.penfold I assumed they meant "exponentially", tho that could also work. Perhaps, they purposfully combined the two words and we've all been played for fools!
Seven years ago, I saw a man ruin people in PvP in DS2 with two giant clubs while a space jam/lupin the 3rd Mashup played.
Today, I saw that same man fight Baba Yaga's Chicken Hut.
Truly, we live in the best possible time line. I look forward to your Elden Ring content, Pineapple :)
that sounds like a fuckin fire song lol whats it called?
@@revalution1965 Barkley III (Quad City DJs vs. Yuji Ohno) by Botanic Sage [BS]
I used to think "what garbage" but now that I'm toying around with Unity these actually inspire me.
That's how I got writing my novel. I was reading one author and it was so bad that I was like "how do they even published such a peace of garbage?!" then I read another one that was even worse and half way through I was like " ffs I can do better without even having any specific writing knowledge/education/skillset"
I hope you use better spelling in your novel 😉
@@executioner_ecgbert884 🤣🤣 stop it
@@rumotu whats it about?
Remember, it's not the game engine that makes a game bad, it's the writing, pacing and mechanics.
For those also amused by the house on chicken legs, this is actually the myth of "Baba Yaga", an old Slavic piece of folklore where there's this Witch that usually flies around in a mortar and uses it's pestle as a weapon (yes, I know, very strange) and she lives in the forest in a house with chicken legs.
To those that play 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons, it might be familiar to them because there's art in the Dungeon Master's Guide on the page 70 where it is depicted to be stomping an adventuring party! :)
lmao I legit thought "Mortal Rite looked fairly intriguing for a pre-alpha, maybe with a few more years of work they can make this into something worth trying" and then Pineapple said that they're looking to release this spring.
It uh, looks like knock-off Mortal Shell.
No way in hell are their Tik Tok followers not all bought lmfao, the game looks way too low quality to have that many
@@infiniti7773 sadly they have a legit following, sad to say i WAS one of them l, but seeing this and then learning they plan on RELEASING soon lost me completely and ive been following the project for years now
Hi Iron. Thanks so much for your review of Runewaker. There is an upcoming update which will include full voice acting for all the NPC dialogue. Along with that update I will be including other changes, for these I will definitely take into consideration your pointers and what you liked and didn't like as these are really valuable to me. Perhaps after those changes are implemented you might consider giving the game a more proper go! Anyway thanks again and keep bringing us the great content!
man runewaker was really unique if u work a little bit more im sure more people will play it
@@spunchblob2964 Thanks Spunch Blob! I am working on it as well as two new titles so there should be an update at some point in the future.
There is some prety entertainig puzzles later in the game wish he had got further in to it
Gave me Ghostwire vibes. Any inspiration from that game?
it reminds me of superhot in terms of gameplay with a unique twist, if you get the combat down to feel good it's gonna be a great game
It's still surprising to me of both the quantity and quality of the souls-like games that are around. Some are misses but more than a few look genuinely good and seem fun to play.
Yeah I thought it would just be a joke series trashing these games, but it's not. He genuinely reviews the games!
I do enjoy these reviews, but I still have no idea why they're "souls-like". Very few of them are similar to Dark Souls in any way that isn't completely arbitrary.
Makes for a good series title though.
ans also the variety
it really is a bottomless genre...
Subbed. Love the fact you give these unknown games some love. This series is really good.
Ok, this is my new favorite series. I love finding out about hidden gems, and stuff like Norhern Journey is something I would've never find myself. Thanks for these video dude!
Also, I dunno if we can suggest stuff in here, but I'd recommend you try Lunacid! The game's description is that it's inspired in old Fromsoft games aand I think you'd like it!
I really appreciate that you don't just disregard games that don't appeal to you personally and try to see what they may offer other people. Its quite refreshing compared to many people's tendency to equate something not being their taste with it just being bad.
Hi! I am the developer of Spirits of Light 00:25. I'm glad to have featured my game on your channel which I really like!
Your gameplay helped me to see some problems in the game's tutorial. Since it's still in development, I'll be perfecting these things!
Thank you! xD
Cala boca 😎🤙
Keep up the great work
hell yeah
eu demorei pra captar que 'barrra de espaço' tava escrito em português skdjskdj
Your game seems to have a lot of potential, keep up the great work !
Must say, first video of yours I’ve ran across - and I was highly entertained! I love how you review games and how you piece together your videos and gameplay.
I love the concept of your souls like review videos, they are just a treat to watch.
33:16 Honestly that's a really cool interpretation of a siren. I didn't realize at first but after they transformed from the woman into the hideous grotesque thing it clicked in my brain.
She was giving me sus vibes from the start because I love folklore about lake monsters and this looked like exactly the kind of game that'd do you like that. I'm guessing it's apparently what's called a nøkk based on the dev being Norwegian.
I think it might actually be a Rusalka which admittedly is essentially a Slavic Siren
Since it's a Norwegian game, it's probably nøkken. Admittedly that's a male creature, but while the monster form of this one did seem to have breasts, it also had a honkin' big dick.
@@faceless2302 @StraightOuttaJarhois It's actually not nøkken. Nøkken appears in another area of the game. It's the creature seen in the thumbnail for the game at 31:08 and is really similar to examples you'll see if you search nøkken on google.
look up Meg Mucklebones. she’s a monster/swamp hag/witch... thing... from the 1980s movie Legend (best know for Tim Curry’s amazing depiction of Darkness, who basically looks like the devil) and i think this has to be a reference to her because it looks JUST like her! seriously, i will recognize that ugly mug anywhere. that face used to haunt my nightmares as a kid 😬
Wanted to leave a separate comment that wasn’t a reply saying that it’s honestly such a joy to see the content you put out Iron. I remember a few years ago when I may see some DS3 shenanigans get uploaded that were funny, but I never expected to find myself so enthralled watching you play through these games and review them in a sense. Anyway, keep doing you enjoy, and thanks for your work and dedication!
Dude watch out it's a trap! This guys oxide he's gonna turn you into rusty pineapple.
For the next part in this series, I'd recommend checking out Dust: An Elysian Tail. It has really satisfying movement and combat, good level design, nice art, and a good story. Its part of the Metroidvania/Soulslike genre, and its real fun!
My childhood fr
Cool game, but a lot of people have heard of it. Putting it in the “never heard of it” series would be kinda disingenuous
Love this series, very awesome man. Please keep bringing these out.
"I would play like whenever, but you're always busy"
Vaati: "...mh-hmm."
That felt brutal. 😂
3:33 "the trick is to just keep doing your heavy attack so they can't get up" that game really IS a souls-like!
What I really love about this series, and this video in particular, is that it's very easy to tell which of these games you actually kinda like based on how much criticism you give. During the Runewalker segment in particular, you were giving honest critique and advice to the devs to help them improve the game. Unlike in the red riding hood game, where you gave no critique because there wasn't really anything redeeming about it.
Devil Spire is shockingly great - real neat to see it get some more coverage! Hopefully Lunacid will eventually show up in one of these as well, even its early access version already shows a lot of promise.
What Runewaker is missing is an enemy systenm, where they use magic in ways that you could steal it somehow? That might make the combat flow better, instead of being a scramble to run away while looking for wall runes only
Agreed. Enemies cast spells at you, you use a hand gesture for stealing or something, so you can grab it out of the air and redirect it.
This idea could even fuel a multiplayer for that game, being completely honest. Provided the netcode was ABSOLUTELY SOLID, it would be one of the most skillful FPSs to ever exist, because it would be pure reaction time.
Hi dasTofu. Thanks for the input! This is a really interesting idea and I may like to implement something like this in a future update. One thing I will point out is that unfortunately Iron chose the hardest of the 3 routes from the chapel (sort of like going straight to the catacombs from firelink shrine) and came up against enemies of a high level. I think he was put off by the difficulty of this route and then didn't want to try the others.
Also Runewaker has several common consumable items which allow summoning of runes on the fly so that the player doesn't need to only find them on walls. This is really useful for being able to freeze enemies quickly and control hordes that would otherwise cause the player to have to 'scramble'.
The environments in Rubewakee look scarily similar to a rogue like game from four years ago called City of Brass.
It desperately needs cantrips.
I feel like Runewalker would be awesome if it was more like a movement shooter. Imagine doom level design and AI with the spell slinging. That would be super fun.
So Battle Mage? Try it.
i feel if the enemies were actually slowed down a bit and the puzzle design was made much more complex it would be great. Movement shooter would be good too but i feel it just clashes with the idea of looking for a spell in the environment and then casting it. Also because of ultrakill there seems to be a trend of movement shooters littering the store, some good, some bad and this would just get lost in it i feel.
I couldn't help but notice that the environment was almost identical to this roguelike shooter called "City of Brass", as well.
I honestly love these videos for the hidden gems you find that id never find on my own.
Devil spire looks right up my alley and I actually might buy that today. 👍
Just found this channel via some Elden Ring content. I have binged the Souls-Likes you’ve never heard of. I know you are probably still playing Elden Ring, but I would love to see more entries in this series in the future! Great content!! It’s been a blast!
Northern Journey seems like actual madness. Unsettling even just to see.
Reminds me a little of Limbo of the Lost, for those of you that've seen Mando's video on it. Just utterly unhinged character design
its an incredible game, absolutely worth a buy. edit: and by no means in a "so bad its good way" or something, like I've seen some people say. its a wonderful game. period.
It’s such a fun game, and the music and atmosphere is on point
Man I was getting some weird Pathologic vibes from the whole thing (in a good way). I'll be curious to see if it gets more coverage from other youtubers.
It's a hidden jem, it's full of content, locations and setpieces!
If you ask, "could this game technically be considered souls-like?" Then the answer is yes.
Pokemon: Legends Arceus is a soulslike
@@katherinedobbs52 obviously
@@katherinedobbs52 Yeah, it could be.
Soulslikes aren't like other genres which are defined with objective design structures. Soulslikes are just games that have a similar vibe or gameplay to Dark Souls.
@@captncuddlybear9404 Oh, I know! I didn't mean it as a 'gotcha' - I find the idea of a Pokemon soulslike very amusing and love that my most useful prior gaming experience for Legends *was* Dark Souls
... Could Genshin Impact be considered a souls-like?
It has stamina management and literally nothing else in common, but some developers in this series have used thinner connections than that lmao
So this is a STREEETCH recommendation for this series because the only souls-like element is the stamina bar and rolling but Phoenotopia: Awakening is an absolutely incredible game and I'd love to see your take on it.
My favorite part of these videos is when he gets excited when the game actually has barrel/pot breaking mechanics
That Devil's Spire game actually looks legit good.
I picked it up on launch, its great
The spells are all really fucking creative
Ok, this year is already way better than the last one, two souls-like videos from Iron Pineapple in last 10 days, YES PLEASE
I love this series because I've seen so many in development games or new devs that have so much potential
I love all of your videos, you clearly put a lot of effort in and you obviously care very much about souls games and I personally really appreciate that, plus I like your voice, idk if that’s important to anyone else, but I do, please keep up the amazing content:)
10:41 Vaati's "Ok" here is more heartbreaking than any lore in dark souls
Seeing pinapple completely caught off guard by Baba Yaga made my day.
For runewalker, the concept is really cool. A point I would give it, that could make it better in my mind, is when you get a spell you can have charges for the casting depending on how many times you fused it. Like a fresh pickup is 1 charge, but fusing a spell gives 2 charges, and so on so forth. Also more interesting movement spells for a game like runewalker could be really cool, along with more hand options
this is the 10th episode i have watched and you have a long term sub sir. so much time and effort into a single video and you continue to deliver whitty comedy episode after episode. you are a legend man i hope you continue to create
The house with chicken legs is the house of Baba Yaga. She's basically a forest witch from Slavic folklore.
Yup Ik it from smite
glad somebody caught that
Came to the comments to say this.
Not slavic. Finno-Ugric tribes had special kind of hut or cabin where they kept their dead. It was build not on the ground but in the air on the wooden "legs".
Seeing these really makes me realize how much work fromsoft put into polishing darksouls combat and making it complex enough to feel good
Edit: I know from soft is a whole studio and smaller design can't replicate it perfectly, even other aaa studios can't replicate it. Things like jedi fallen order and mortal shell though diffrent in adding some mechanics to the formula don't feel as good compared to dark souls
*laughs in Dark Souls 2*
To give these games some credit, they're not huge studios like Fromsoft, often one person dev teams, is so it's understandable they're missing that polish.
From soft has over 300 employees
@@spideyfan1024 *when dark souls 2 is your favorite one....*
@@popcornjones8003 say what you want about 2, but almost everything is viable
You should try Demon Tower. It's a fully fleshed out game within a game, found in "Night in the woods." It's a top down game with souls like elements where you start with one dodge and max health, and each level of the tower you climb, you get one more dodge and one less health. It's surprisingly excellent and could be its own standalone game.
There is no way Demontower fits into his soulslike video series, however as a Night in the Woods fan I 1000% agree that he needs to cover it
dunno if you have already showcased it but I would recommend "Kamiko", has a nice art style and pretty good boss fights. although not really a huge game it does have replayability with different characters.
As a Norwegian, my favorite showcase was the last game - straight out of the Norwegian countryside and mountains, complete with local mythological creatures like mischievous elfs, the nod on the barge and even a wood nymph on the bridge. Though she looks way too ugly and I think the game realized that so it sent her packing.
Nod? Haven't heard of this one, I personally thought twas one of them näcken.
@@sholahverassa8582 Yes, that's the one, but I had to look it up to find the proper English name.
@@TheREALSimagination Ahh, i see ^_^
@@sholahverassa8582 Yup. Weird name for sure, though.
@@TheREALSimagination * nods thoughtfully *
I feel like they missed an opportunity in gods will fall, they could've used the multiple character thing to have you open persistent shortcuts as you go through so that when you have to restart a level its less of a slog to get back to where you're up to
This is easily one of my favourite series of videos, do more💪🏽💪🏽
This video made me appreciate my favorite games even more
100% never heard of them, and now that I did I want to forget
It’s super cool seeing the unique elements each developer puts in, like the fun launching in the boss rush or the wall magic in the spell souls. Even just seeing the unique enemy designs of gods will fall
It would be fun if you made an april fools episode of this series where you put a bunch of very well known games in there such as Elden Ring or Bloodborne and treated them like the worst game to have ever existed.
This would be phenomenal.
This would be incredible lmao. Seeing the souls games like a game journalist that has never played a Souls games.
YEAH!!!
No
too obvious, for a good April fools it has to be somewhat believable.
Hut on chicken legs is from the underappreciated Slavic mythology. One of my favorite myths by the way, I recommend looking into the Thea series.
Always like these vids man, keep it up!
Northern Journey seems like a hilarious game to gift to a friend without giving them any information on it
Gift it to someone Norwegian without giving information, it would be fun to see how long it takes them to realize what things are since a lot of the game seems to be based on Norwegian folklore and stories.
@@asgth6147 I honestly wouldn't mind getting this as a gift. The environment definitely looks like a proper northern Norwegian mountain forest, the kind I personally love hiking in.
@@HoodedHavoc That would be an accurate assessment i would say. If you want, i could gift you the game?
@@asgth6147 nah, that's fine. Thanks though.
I enjoy your reactions to these games, even when it's bad you seem like you're having fun and your laugh is so satisfying to hear
Also, Northern Journey was so freaky to watch, I absolutely love it.
It’s such a great game. I stumbled across it last month and I wish I could have seen his reactions to some of the other shit in that game haha
Northern Journey is awesome. More people should play it.
I absolutely love the energy of Northern Journey!
Whenever you do another episode of this series, I highly recommend checking out The Tarnishing of Juxtia. It's got a demo on Steam right now with a release date of "Summer 2022." I was really surprised and impressed by the demo. The game doesn't have a super unique "hook" or anything, but the devs really nailed the fundamentals. Character actions feel great, and enemy movesets are hard but fair. Environments and character designs aren't anything unique as far as Souls-likes go, but they're well rendered in an appealing pixel-art style.
Red Riding Hood + Soulslike is actually a pretty good idea when you think about it, works with the "weak nobody goes up against huge monsters" theme of the soulsborne games.
So happy you got around to Northern Journey!! The dev deserves more for what he's doing! He's currently working on a barbarian-themed game and so looking forward to what it comes out to be.
Best thing about his Videos is the Intro the Piano always gets me hyped for what games are shown in the Video
Fell off watching these vids but I'm back to pick up where I left off! Glad I did because I'm definitely going to check out that 'Northern Journey' game - looks right up my alley for weird first-person experiences!
I recommend watching the creator's videos, he has a CZcams channel where he posted ``dev-logs´´, seeing the way he created his project made me appreciate the game more, he really put effort into its creation . His channel name is Slid studio.
I'm loving the increase in production of these. These never get old and are like a small event whenever they pop up in my feed. Keep it up
I'm really happy to see the amount of support you've gotten for this series. I have been watching since episode 1 and what you do for these small devs is great. Giving them a real review and giving their product exposure to improve is an amazing tool for these aspiring developers. Thank you!
1:15 Thanks for the clarification. I've heard that Incompetech track in so many YT videos.
Loved your videos Pineapple
I've just got into the soul-ish genre recently due to Elden Ring.
Then I realize the Monster Hunter series is kinda like a soul-ish franchise in a way?
Also I had game that was like a childhood nightmare to me,
it was "Onimusha 3" on the PS2.
Maybe it could be easier for me now, but it was an absolute nightmare when I was a child.
I was so traumatized because I can get stuck in levels for hours and die over and over.
Also the amount of recoveries is so limited.
You collect herbs throughout the levels but they're very scarce and will soon run out.
There was a tutorial level that teaches you about the "reflex attack(?)" system, which requires you to sheathe your weapon then immediately attack (or block?) when an enemy's attack is going to hit you.
I can't even get pass that tutorial level (it is optional though).
It was so difficult and I don't even think I can do that easily as an adult now.
Sadly I think my PS2's cables are too old and they're having contact problems, so I couldn't just go back and challenge it.
I'm kinda curious if you or anyone has also played the game and your thoughts about it?
I am so glad you covered Northern Journey. It's genuinely incredible and the amount of updates the dev brings for bug fixes and janky areas is really impressive.
The one with magic runes would be a lot more fun if enemies were also using magic against you so you hadnt to run away from them, but you had to dodge magic or even use theyr magic against them. Running away like that is kinda annoying and not fun.
itd be cool if they missed then their rune would get placed on the ground and you could then use it
@@khronos9816 so basically dodgeball?
As someone who's actually played a little bit of Runewaker before I watched this video, I will echo a lot of your sentiments. I stuck with it for a long time, because the nature of grabbing runes left a very satisfying feeling once you got the hang of it. One thing I will say, however, is the game's brutal. I didn't complete it, so I can't say this with 100% accuracy, but there is only one bonfire, and it's in the nexus. Once you start needing to really head out further into areas, you either have to have incredible patience to consistantly slowly clear out every enemy (and trust me, there are A LOT), or you need to get very good at running. I think I would describe it as enjoyable and unique, but very frustrating at times. Also, something I only learned during my second stab at the game: you can use the sword you pick up in the nexus as a decent melee attack when you can't grab spells. All in all, I'd give it a 5.5/10.
You would definitely want to take a look at Lunacid as someone has mentioned before. Souls-like, Shadow Tower and King's Field inspired, the whole package. It is in early access, but I have heard good things so far, I haven't gotten to play it though.
Runewalker may want to go for a slower genre than a souls like, it looks like it would be a really cool game in the flavor of Dishonored or the old Thief games where you sneak around enemies and find the runes needed to complete an encounter/kill a boss.
It reminded me of of Ghostwire Tokyo a bit with the first person magic caster type of thing.
Alternately, it could try for an even faster genre. While It would need a lot of reworking (Literally from the ground up), and would probably be much too difficult for a solo dev, it could be a really interesting Doom-like fps. The idea of zooming around an area and dodging around enemies, all the while building up a variety of powerful spells to use sounds super fun.
Unfortunately, it would be difficult to keep design cohesive, and probably wouldn't be well balanced... oh well
It reminds me a bit of the 3d puzzle game QUBE, which was in itself something of a Portal clone, as well as the late levels in HL2, where you had to proceed by using the gravity gun on plasma orbs in various Combine machinery.
The environments are unbelievablely similar to City of Brass.
I know the concept is insane but Wonderful 101 and Dark Souls combined would be putting two of my favorite games ever together and I wanna see it done well
An open world Pikmin *would* be amazing, you're right.
Never heard of you, already 5 seconds in and I'm hooked. Don't know what that tells you as a content creator, but this stuff is guuuuuuuuud :)
Edit: Nevermind I just noticed this is episode 13 soooooo, time to binge watch
I would love a video in which you go through the updated versions of the most decent games that have been since worked on, and give your fresh opinion on them.
I honestly love this series of videos. You do an amazing job and I'm glad to see how big and diverse the soul born community is.
the souls community 2016-2022 is exploding like the FPS community exploded in the 2000-2010 era
Going hard with the uploads in this series. I appreciate it and I'm sure the rest do as well. Thank you for the quality content.
THE TIMBS LOL
I’ve binged this series thrice now, please, I need a new episode, I love Elden ring, but this too is gold.
It's almost like I want the magic system of Runewaker in another game that has other combat styles like melee and such. It's a unique magic system that I think should be a part of a game sometime.
It honestly gave me vibes of Dark Souls meets Portal.
see: Lichdom: Battlemage? unless you're trying to play it on a 360... then never see it. Was actually a decent game.
@@yeti4954 Lichdom: Battlemage is something I'd recommend too! It's extremely satisfying to use magic in that game. I can't tell you how utterly powerful I felt even just casting the 1st fire spell. I was shooting at pots for like 30 minutes just giggling like a madman.
You could try City of Brass if you like the levels.
Northern Journey has a real "random game for the original xbox you found at a pawn shop and fell in love with" vibe to the artstyle and i am here for it
I'll miss this series it was great to watch you play games that I would never be brave enough to waste time in
Mister @Ironpineapple, I rewatched all your Souls-Like games series 3 times already, when will you post more? I need this.
Lotta unfulfilled potential in this one it feels like. Other than the last three, they all seem like they have something of value or something unique, but just don't have solid enough core design elements to be worthwhile. Devil Spire and Northern Journey look intriguing, but pretty niche. Not sure if they are my niche, but they certainly seem well developed. Love the series as always. It'll be interesting to see what you put out for Elden Ring.
I'm not even super into souls like games but this is by far my favorite series on youtube
Hi, I've been looking for this type of content for ages. I really like it.
I legit forgot about this series... Glad I stumbled upon a new one
This is my favourite series on CZcams right now. Now only is Pineapple hilarious, but it also has given me like 5 games to play
Devil Spire is crazy fun, I have been playing the Rogue-Lite mode with permanent progression upgrades at the start of each run and it gets crazy quick. The abilities you get from gems along with the insane spells and how they play off one another is awesome.
I feel like you gotta check out Tunic. Been playing through it myself and it ticks almost all of the “””souls-like””” boxes: sword/shield, parrying, stamina management, i-frame dodgerolls, health flasks, bonfires, dropping runs on death. Plus the art style is beautiful 🥲 love the videos btw!
Runewaker looked really cool as a base concept. Such a novel, refreshing idea. I think the "one bullet" nature of it can make it maybe a touch too punishing. I'd like to see the movement be a bit quicker. You mentioned it feeling like an FPS, and I think pulling more from that would be good. More like DOOM style movement or something. Evasion is pretty much the cornerstone of the game while looking for spells and waiting for them to refresh so it needs to deep and engaging to be constantly moving/dodging, plus a sense of speed would make the act of moving more fun.