Here's one for all ten of you who wanted me to do another video on an indie game no one's ever heard of. Doing Factorio City and Part One of Space Exploration back to back had me a little drained, so consider this my vacation. Now, back to Space Exploration. I'll try to get it out by the end of next month but no promises.
@@BloodyMobile He's right. The rant at the very end about needing that chapter 3 is about 20s. Dosh made a nearly 55 minute long video, just to beg for 20s at the end for more of this game to grind away at his sanity with. Lol
Just highlighting the fact that getting spotted into the start of the Temple Bells weaponless and still going through the special door by ringing all bells is an amazing feat, what an absolutely mad rush that was.
I was at the edge of my seat through the entire video, I can't imagine how many years of your soulspan you've lost by going for the true ending this is truly the dark souls of tower of heaven
Haven't heard that name in a while, remember loving tower of heaven then when I came back once to play it finding out that there's actually a bunch of secrets
I totally understand listening to nonfiction while playing that type of game, but wouldn't you be getting way less of an immersive experience out of fiction if you're also paying attention a game rather than using your imagination? I don't know maybe you're great at doing both simultaneously, but that would really detract from the point of reading fiction, for me.
@@eb6510 basically, given how much detail is explained on a fucking blade of grass in a meadow, I'd rather just have my mind numbed over while listening to WoT, as then I can actually imagine the scene instead of agonizing over the thought of how that blade of grass has exactly 4 drops of dew on it, and the sun is shining at the dew from a 66 degree angle. Is that explanation overdramatic? yes. Is the WoT basically written the exact same way? *_Also yes._*
@@jedgrahek1426 Personally, I don't really find games that aren't story focused to distract me from audiobooks. Obviously I can't follow a story while playing a game where I'm also trying to follow a story, but one of the reasons I love purely mechanics based games is because I can choose whatever story I want to be immersed in while enjoying whatever type of gameplay I want. That said, I've spent around 10,000 hours listening to audiobooks so maybe I'm a bit of an outlier (I'm not exaggerating, almost up to 8000 hours in the audible app and I listened to audiobooks for years before I ever had the app.)
@@jedgrahek1426 I used to play Isaac and Hexcells when listening to audiobooks. I knew these games inside out, so I was essentially playing on autopilot. This gave my hands and my eyes something to do without actually having to pay attention to the game, which in turn kept my mind from drifting off every 30 seconds.
MAN I feel this pain. The highly pixelated style of this game combined with a promise of a giant update, that haven't been fulfilled in 7 years makes me think of one of mine favorite childhood games - Dino Run. JUST GIVE ME DINO RUN 2 IT'S BEEN 8 GODDAMN YEARS
@@Zanfitto-sc1lg LOL I guess quite a few people did actually XD. Also to update on the Dino Run 2 situation: they recentely released a donator exclusive demo, it's basically physics sim with no other content but I guess it's something. I'll just need to wait 3 more years and if I'm lucky the game will be finished :D yaaay (pain)
Thank you for doing a nearly hour-long deep dive into the mechanics of a game I will absolutely never, ever play for I value my sanity and my arthritic body won't keep up. Your sacrifice for our entertainment is a noble one.
Factorio isn't exactly my thing, but I watched through both this and the Marrow video and I am utterly blown away by how good they were. Your style of summarizing the game but still making people want to play them, and presenting points without huge bias or assumptions and everything else is so damn good. The games you chose to cover as well were really interesting and I'm definetly going to try them both. I really cannot wait to see what you create next!
Update: I have two thousand hours in both spelunkys, and have now sunk 3 hours into towerclimb. I'm sorta getting the hang of item jumping, I hate the ammount of worms in the hatchery, and I just now finally made it to Heart. I cannot figure out any way to hold more than two revives, but I feel like it's possible. It took so long to change from the "rush and dodge artfully" strategy of spelunky to the careful planning and navigation of towerclimb, but I gotta say I love this game. Update 2: I have reached heart twice more, but died on level 1 of it each time. The little pixels of lava are bastards. I'm getting way better at taking the path of exiles and also now understand how to get more revives, but I know it won't matter yet. I think learning how to craft items better might be the way to go, cause I usually only have corrode berries and crates by the time I'm at the heart.
Fantastic analysis of a fantastic game. It's my favorite, but I can acknowledge that it's flawed. Keep up the good work! This definitely ensures ch.3 will come out even sooner.
It could use some more critique and analysis on the game and his feelings, like how shauden-fraude of a streamer failing that becomes a profit strategy in our Capitalist economy, was top notch, but I would've liked more if there was analysis about tje skill ceiling, the pipeline to get there in contradt with rewards of more content and nudging of the philosophical "But why are you still going with the game with the difficulty?", as he is a veteran player who should have a grasp on the idea.
Seeing this video has caused me to seek out and buy the game within a day. I've been playing it with a friend and together we've managed to get to Chapter 2 while also putting in work to eventually beat the game. Playing alone I managed to get to the temple and together we've gotten to Zardoland. Game really is harder in multiplayer just because of the greater need for mobility and the fact that deaths use up a lot of berries, requiring 1 per dead teammate. I swear we've spent at least 20 in a run cause of back to back deaths, sometimes in 1 level. I'm very excited for my friend to see Z-Ball for the first time as I'm sure he'll love to do some doubles against Zardo. Thanks for showing this to me. It's easily become one of my favorites even though I haven't even beaten it yet.
@@Bloodlyshiva Celeste comes to mind, but i think it's just generally a jab against the type of games where the gameplay is just a representation of something that someone is going through as opposed to just "person climb tower". Not to say that these games are bad, but having a simple premise that's self explanatory is rare these days
A lot like how when a book says that the "drapes were blue" doesn't mean they were sad, regardless of what the professor thought, the author literally meant the physical color.
@@dukem8774 The problem is people stating and taking it as fact. It's fine if someone wants to find symbolic meaning behind every little minutiae of detail, art is open for interpretation after all, but ninety nine times out of a hundred, it's probably not remotely something the author considered when they created it.
I cannot fathom the amount of hours that just the production of this video alone must've added to your total for this game. Holy moly... Amazing work. Also, I'll admit, that ending caught me *highly* off guard. =ᴗ='
This video is an in depth exploration into the mind of someone with more stubbornness than sense. Great vid Dosh looking forward to the next one, whatever topic it may be.
I wish I could make any game that would inspire an hour long video, especially one that's really a desperate plea for a continuation. That's some motivating stuff, knowing your work resonated with people like that. Seconding some of the other comments mentioning Roguelikes. I've only played a handful of true ones, like Nethack and such, but I'd love a video from you about one you might love.
Your quickly becoming a favorite channel of mine. Finding games with "Actual difficulty" has been difficult itself. I'm almost done climbing Getting Over It for the 50th time, and Marrow was fascinating but a little too spartan for me. This looks likes it'll be interesting.
Finding standalone games that are difficult and aren't multi-player, a soulsborne game, or a rhythm game really is tough, I usually end up modding games I already know which skews the difficulty and removes part of the learning curve element. TowerClimb is definitely one I'm also going to try, looks fun and the difficulty seems extreme. But it's not to the point where your smashing your face into a brick wall until the wall breaks. Unless you've already played it and decided whether or not it's for you, I highly recommend going into Noita blind. The game is disgustingly "unfair" until you figure most of it out. Downside of going blind is that once you get to doing the challenge runs like sun quest and 34-36 orb you're pretty much hopeless when trying to figure them out blind. The secrets in that game are very much community driven.
I'd also recommend "Noita" It's your average RNG permadeath indie game but you get to play as a wizard with a bunch of different spells and wands that you can customize. The game itself also has a good physics engine and if you have a crappy PC, instead of lag the game speed will start to slowdown to compensate.
@@MadDogGaming The irony of you correcting someone over political correctness, for using "they" the way it was grammatically intended, is extremely hilarious to me.
As someone who writes serial webfiction, that comment about authors getting better over time is both deeply true, and a personal attack. Nothing hurts quite as much as looking at your own earlier work and thinking "this sucks, but I'm committed now..."
the best kind of walkthrough commentary videos i've ever seen. you cover every single detail of games with amazing voiceover, jokes and mechanics. never thought factorio videos could ever bring me to such an astonishing gem of a youtube creator. please keep that stuff up, it's wonderful.
Though I did find it funny to hear that in a review of a game with real-time gameplay and metaprogression, the staples of the roguelite side of the spectrum
27:40 i played this game around the time of its release by chance, i know exactly how hard the moves your preforming are as i regularly drop what im holding ether in the wrong direction or more likely, by accident, watching you speed through these levels without making any mistakes and fully utilizing the environment has captivated my viewership, this must be what its like for a musician to listen to jazz, but instead of listening to elevator music that's extremely hard to play its just me watching you pull off 3 consecutive mid air item throw jumps like its nothing.
Agreed. I started watching streamers playing Noita because I bought it and I couldn't figure it out. I had to turn down the difficulty with mods for my candy ass, but the true game doesn't begin until you can break it and move to different parts of the world.
There's something about this video, the methodical explanation and putting it into practice that really vibes with me. This is like my third or fourth time watching it, Great stuff.
I have no words to explain how and why I absolutely love your content, never have I watched something for an hour without even realizing it’s been an hour. Each factorio video neither feels too long nor too short. And I loved the video about that game that seems like it tries to screw you over at every turn lol. Lastly, I loved this video because it’s such an interesting look into an extremely obscure but very intriguing rouge-like game!
finally, someone put out a comprehensive video essay about this game!! so many points to be made, and all of them articulated so well. i'm happy to see this game get more coverage.
Imagine building a tower, that some guy just want to climb, then want to steal your precious sword and if this wasn't enough kills you while you're just defending your property
I really liked the game and you described it so well. Sadly as someone who 100%'d both Spelunky games, I do love achiev hunting and setting goals like that so I can't wait to see the dev giving proper achiev support.
LET'S GOOOOOOO Thank you for making videos like these they're genuinely interesting and fun to watch. It's really nice to see people not only post videos with the goal of getting tons of views
I do not understand why i've watched this video so much, but i have watched this a bunch. Its not just this video either i've re-watched your space exploration, krastorio and marrow videos a bunch.
I honestly love these videos on obscure games. I found you through the Marrow video, since I had never ever heard that game and was just curious. Your factorio content is amazing, I've watched all of it lol and can't wait to see more of this space exploration stuff which seems wild. But your dedication to these games is just awesome. Thanks :)
I found your channel through this video, just finished watching the Marrow video as well. I hope you continue to put out content covering these more niche indie games. TowerClimb has been on my radar (and somehow in my library) for many, many years, but I have never given it a try for one reason or another. I think after watching this video, I have an inclination to give it a proper shot. Great video, thank you
Started with your channel with the Death World video, I think your narration of gameplay and your subsequent thoughts is fantastic. I can't wait for more content, and I hope this channel continues to grow!
I really love your videos. Your style of editing is great, it takes the viewer on a journey with you, making us understand all the challanges and frustrations you've experienced. Love your Factorio videos but I always look forward to these small, obscure indie gems that only you seem to cover.
This was my first video from you Dosh, and certified a damn obsession with the game in me even though I've never played it. Obsession as in I went and remade sprites by eye/scratch to replace old images on the TC wiki, which hasn't been updated in years. Good vid 👍
This video was amazing. Deserves way more views for your dedication and thorough analysis of every facet of a game I didn't think was possible to stay under my radar considering its genre. Great job
Was disappointed when this was SE p2, but after watching this you've completely enthralled me in this game. Great video, even better then the last indie review. You're gonna steadily get bigger if you keep up content like this, Sethh level big is the vibes im getting.
The sudden NBA Jam reference and the ending make this video an 11/10. I was a bit sad when I saw an update that wasn't more Space Exploration, but this definitely delivered. Thank you good sir for making your videos!
another awesome video! Your patience and determination is crazy, I know I wouldn't be able to beat these games let alone complete them, and seeing you do it is just great.
For anyone wondering i dont think part 3 will ever be released to be honest most of the teasers are 5 years old and the dev seems to have moved on from the game.
I've just recently 100%'ed Spelunky HD, and I've been keeping my eye out for something to replace it. This... I like how this looks. I appreciate the video
I can understand how there aren't that many videos out yet for how long they take to make, but I am still surprised how few have subscribed so far. In my opinion the narrative plus editing is one of the best so far, on top of the content which is shown.
Easily my favourite video of this year. You have a great way of storytelling and I'm now really looking forward to not-factorio as much as the factorio stuff! Great job :)))
I came back and watched and re-watched this video more than 10 times in the past 2 month and since I don't consider myself clever with word I'll just say that I appreciate all the effort you put into it. I hope you will continue making videos about games and subjects you like with a similar or an even greater level of passion. Thank you very much..
Hey. Thank you for making this video. This is a game I saw and was fascinated by, but I could never get to grips with the control scheme. I'm glad I can experience vicariously through your coverage of it.
Coming back to this video made me realize this is one of my favorite videos of all time, easy to rewatch, calming voice (sort of), and it's pretty long and entertaining I love this video
Thank you very much for covering another interesting game that is interesting but has it flaws, it shows gives a new perspective of game market, at least for me If you ever care to do another one of these, could you take a Look at necropolis, it's in my opinion an interesting game with glaring issue, just like the ones you covered, I would love to see it featured and I will give you a why I love and despise it My winning run took me 3 days
I absolutely love your style, Dosh. This may not be the game for me, but I was absolutely rapt watching this. The sheer determination it requires to achieve what you did is gobsmacking, and you deserve the highest gamer commendations for it. I think a game you'll like covering that is both quality and relatively esoteric would be Cryptark. It's a 2D zero-grav twin-stick shooter roguelike with highly procedural and modular levels with a focus on long-term strategy in the form of loadouts and assessing the map [[ prior ]] to entering the level and short-term tactics when you inevitably need to adapt to the absolute chaos that game devolves into with the later firefights. You know that scene in Star Wars where Lando destroys the Death Star power core and then has to escape while the whole thing goes critical? You do that. Some explosions cannot be avoided or tanked, only [[ outrun ]]. Two words: Nuclear grenades.
"The tower is not a representation of depression, and the character's 32 pixels are not an allegory for the horrors of living inside an american suburb. It's just a tower, go climb it." I see you have experience about indie games. It's refreshing to see a videogame not getting 12 years old philosophical sometimes.
What does "12 years old philosophical" mean? And is this an allegory for the decreasing verbosity of society and how it gets harder and harder to understand what people are saying
I play mostly indie games on steam and there's been three bigger indies that are even philosophical in nature in the last 2 years, the majority have no particular themes of that nature. The idea that a game not being philosophical/allegory/whatever is "refreshing" or "unusual" requires the one making that statement to be INCREDIBLY butthurt about the existence of a tiny number of games. Or incredibly clueless about indie games. Possibly both.
I've found this channel due to a friend linking a Factorio video yet you have some form of essays on games that aren't very well known and instead of bullshitting us you give us your raw réflexions on them, it's very interesting and very welcome. Thanks mate
i watched through all of this and felt like i had to comment something, even if it's hard for me to express in a second language to atleast make justice for this jewel of a video, something about the game just charmed me (even though i don't think i will play it) and your narration and determination to complete it were just amazing, i truly feel a little empty after finishing the video and feeling like i will not experience this again, maybe your other videos could make me feel something similar, idk i just fell in love with the 7 fragments trial, it reminded me of Noita where like half the content are just secrets and similar "quests" that you have to do and the game barely makes you suspect that they exists but doing them is fantastic. ok i think im done with this rant of a comment, i loved this video and im definitely subbing, ily Dosh and hope you read through this massive rant c:, and keep doing videos about unknown indies, i fucking love them
YES! Thank you so much for covering Towerclimb. Played hundreds of hours back in 2018, and could never understand how it didn't take off. Music in this game is second to none.
I stumbled at this game years ago, and it always gave me an impression it was hiding some potential, and by seeing this video I feel so validated, even though I was never good enough to actually get good at it but from time to time I come back to it
This video really takes you on a journey -- you're right that I don't know much about TowerClimb (I HAVE heard of it though!), but now I feel like I got a luxury guided tour and know it from front-to-back. I like the corrupted temples and their grinning watchers... horrifying, in the best of ways. And a Downwell reference? Heck yeah!
This has got to be one of the best videos I have ever seen about a videogame. I cannot express to you how much I love it. I really can't. Bless you, man. You are one masochistic bastard aren't you. I am in awe of your skill and dedication.
you are a monster for putting so much time into beating this game and i am a monster for watching this video all the way through and enjoyed every minute! cant wait for more content.
Love your content man, even if these videos don't get as many views as factorio ones, I love them. Played the hell out of this game back in the day and I'm happy it's getting some light.
i really like long form videos like this, especially on games ive never heard about (actually i might have seen this before but never looked into it). just good shit and i like how you talk in the video, just feels unique and just not too serious and chill and ya just say what YOU want and it good. i dont know what else to say just really like it
I played this game in Alpha back in 2010 and followed its development for years. I'm glad someone has recognized it, it's a real gem. Reminds me of other games in that era like Captain Forever (and its clones), Super Crate Box and all those old Cactus games before he did Hotline Miami. Catacomb kids is a lot like this as well, but I think it got abandoned.
Here's one for all ten of you who wanted me to do another video on an indie game no one's ever heard of.
Doing Factorio City and Part One of Space Exploration back to back had me a little drained, so consider this my vacation.
Now, back to Space Exploration. I'll try to get it out by the end of next month but no promises.
As a mf who wrote an indie game that no one's ever heard of, all I could say is P O G
ty i love this videos
there has to atleast be a dozen of us by now
idk where you live but for me its the 31st of aug so it'll be kinda difficult to get that space exploration vid out
@@OPORANGE_ "end of next month"
Mad respect for the abrupt ending of this one
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I expected anything BUT that ending xD
bro made a 54 minute video for ~20 seconds of speech
@@kurtanaika pretty sure I've heard him talk for more than 20 seconds but ok
@@BloodyMobile He's right. The rant at the very end about needing that chapter 3 is about 20s. Dosh made a nearly 55 minute long video, just to beg for 20s at the end for more of this game to grind away at his sanity with. Lol
Just highlighting the fact that getting spotted into the start of the Temple Bells weaponless and still going through the special door by ringing all bells is an amazing feat, what an absolutely mad rush that was.
I was at the edge of my seat through the entire video, I can't imagine how many years of your soulspan you've lost by going for the true ending
this is truly the dark souls of tower of heaven
Haven't heard that name in a while, remember loving tower of heaven then when I came back once to play it finding out that there's actually a bunch of secrets
Play Noita if you havent... Noita has so many secrets that are hidden for no reason other than to challenge you.
@@sirrealism7300 Noita is incredible, could hardly even call it the same game if you removed the secrets
soulspan is a good word I'm stealing it for my book hahaha
I actually used Spelunky to grind out the Wheel of Time audiobooks a while back. I kinda felt called out with this vid lol
I totally understand listening to nonfiction while playing that type of game, but wouldn't you be getting way less of an immersive experience out of fiction if you're also paying attention a game rather than using your imagination? I don't know maybe you're great at doing both simultaneously, but that would really detract from the point of reading fiction, for me.
@@jedgrahek1426 WoT becomes an absolutely awful slog after a certain point, so I definitely understand it lol
@@eb6510 basically, given how much detail is explained on a fucking blade of grass in a meadow, I'd rather just have my mind numbed over while listening to WoT, as then I can actually imagine the scene instead of agonizing over the thought of how that blade of grass has exactly 4 drops of dew on it, and the sun is shining at the dew from a 66 degree angle.
Is that explanation overdramatic? yes. Is the WoT basically written the exact same way? *_Also yes._*
@@jedgrahek1426 Personally, I don't really find games that aren't story focused to distract me from audiobooks. Obviously I can't follow a story while playing a game where I'm also trying to follow a story, but one of the reasons I love purely mechanics based games is because I can choose whatever story I want to be immersed in while enjoying whatever type of gameplay I want.
That said, I've spent around 10,000 hours listening to audiobooks so maybe I'm a bit of an outlier (I'm not exaggerating, almost up to 8000 hours in the audible app and I listened to audiobooks for years before I ever had the app.)
@@jedgrahek1426 I used to play Isaac and Hexcells when listening to audiobooks. I knew these games inside out, so I was essentially playing on autopilot. This gave my hands and my eyes something to do without actually having to pay attention to the game, which in turn kept my mind from drifting off every 30 seconds.
MAN I feel this pain. The highly pixelated style of this game combined with a promise of a giant update, that haven't been fulfilled in 7 years makes me think of one of mine favorite childhood games - Dino Run.
JUST GIVE ME DINO RUN 2 IT'S BEEN 8 GODDAMN YEARS
@@Zanfitto-sc1lg LOL I guess quite a few people did actually XD. Also to update on the Dino Run 2 situation: they recentely released a donator exclusive demo, it's basically physics sim with no other content but I guess it's something. I'll just need to wait 3 more years and if I'm lucky the game will be finished :D yaaay (pain)
I randomly woke up at 3 AM and decided to watch this entire video before heading back to sleep and I don't regret it, this was an amazing video
Mood
OH BOY, 3 A.M.!
Thank you for doing a nearly hour-long deep dive into the mechanics of a game I will absolutely never, ever play for I value my sanity and my arthritic body won't keep up. Your sacrifice for our entertainment is a noble one.
Factorio isn't exactly my thing, but I watched through both this and the Marrow video and I am utterly blown away by how good they were. Your style of summarizing the game but still making people want to play them, and presenting points without huge bias or assumptions and everything else is so damn good. The games you chose to cover as well were really interesting and I'm definetly going to try them both. I really cannot wait to see what you create next!
Update: I have two thousand hours in both spelunkys, and have now sunk 3 hours into towerclimb. I'm sorta getting the hang of item jumping, I hate the ammount of worms in the hatchery, and I just now finally made it to Heart. I cannot figure out any way to hold more than two revives, but I feel like it's possible. It took so long to change from the "rush and dodge artfully" strategy of spelunky to the careful planning and navigation of towerclimb, but I gotta say I love this game.
Update 2: I have reached heart twice more, but died on level 1 of it each time. The little pixels of lava are bastards. I'm getting way better at taking the path of exiles and also now understand how to get more revives, but I know it won't matter yet. I think learning how to craft items better might be the way to go, cause I usually only have corrode berries and crates by the time I'm at the heart.
he made you want to play marrow? gah damn
@@TechnicalOveride he made _me_ want to play Marrow, and I don't even like metroidvanias!
Fantastic analysis of a fantastic game. It's my favorite, but I can acknowledge that it's flawed. Keep up the good work! This definitely ensures ch.3 will come out even sooner.
It could use some more critique and analysis on the game and his feelings, like how shauden-fraude of a streamer failing that becomes a profit strategy in our Capitalist economy, was top notch, but I would've liked more if there was analysis about tje skill ceiling, the pipeline to get there in contradt with rewards of more content and nudging of the philosophical "But why are you still going with the game with the difficulty?", as he is a veteran player who should have a grasp on the idea.
The man the myth the legend
Seeing this video has caused me to seek out and buy the game within a day. I've been playing it with a friend and together we've managed to get to Chapter 2 while also putting in work to eventually beat the game. Playing alone I managed to get to the temple and together we've gotten to Zardoland. Game really is harder in multiplayer just because of the greater need for mobility and the fact that deaths use up a lot of berries, requiring 1 per dead teammate. I swear we've spent at least 20 in a run cause of back to back deaths, sometimes in 1 level. I'm very excited for my friend to see Z-Ball for the first time as I'm sure he'll love to do some doubles against Zardo.
Thanks for showing this to me. It's easily become one of my favorites even though I haven't even beaten it yet.
same, bought this game immediately after this video and i love it
This mumbo jumbo spent 50 minutes talking about the game and didn't even mention that it's multiplayer!? That changes everything, I am buying it
Oh boy, another game I'm going to sink 200 hours into and then have difficulty explaining to other people why.
Fun
That is all the reason you need.
Time you enjoy wasting is not time wasted.
@@SneakyLittleHobbit Of course, the underlying reason is "Fun", but as we know from Marrow, it can be a nebulous concept to explain and reconcile
The explanation I give when people ask me why I sink so many hours into brutally hard games is pure masochism
"The tower is not a representation of depression" is just such a great jab
At what?
@@Bloodlyshiva Celeste comes to mind, but i think it's just generally a jab against the type of games where the gameplay is just a representation of something that someone is going through as opposed to just "person climb tower".
Not to say that these games are bad, but having a simple premise that's self explanatory is rare these days
A lot like how when a book says that the "drapes were blue" doesn't mean they were sad, regardless of what the professor thought, the author literally meant the physical color.
@@dukem8774 The problem is people stating and taking it as fact. It's fine if someone wants to find symbolic meaning behind every little minutiae of detail, art is open for interpretation after all, but ninety nine times out of a hundred, it's probably not remotely something the author considered when they created it.
It's not, it's an embodiment of anguish.
I cannot fathom the amount of hours that just the production of this video alone must've added to your total for this game. Holy moly... Amazing work.
Also, I'll admit, that ending caught me *highly* off guard. =ᴗ='
Goes straight into the category of vids I can rewatch over and over again
This video is an in depth exploration into the mind of someone with more stubbornness than sense. Great vid Dosh looking forward to the next one, whatever topic it may be.
I wish I could make any game that would inspire an hour long video, especially one that's really a desperate plea for a continuation. That's some motivating stuff, knowing your work resonated with people like that.
Seconding some of the other comments mentioning Roguelikes. I've only played a handful of true ones, like Nethack and such, but I'd love a video from you about one you might love.
Your quickly becoming a favorite channel of mine. Finding games with "Actual difficulty" has been difficult itself. I'm almost done climbing Getting Over It for the 50th time, and Marrow was fascinating but a little too spartan for me. This looks likes it'll be interesting.
Finding standalone games that are difficult and aren't multi-player, a soulsborne game, or a rhythm game really is tough, I usually end up modding games I already know which skews the difficulty and removes part of the learning curve element.
TowerClimb is definitely one I'm also going to try, looks fun and the difficulty seems extreme. But it's not to the point where your smashing your face into a brick wall until the wall breaks.
Unless you've already played it and decided whether or not it's for you, I highly recommend going into Noita blind. The game is disgustingly "unfair" until you figure most of it out. Downside of going blind is that once you get to doing the challenge runs like sun quest and 34-36 orb you're pretty much hopeless when trying to figure them out blind. The secrets in that game are very much community driven.
Have you checked out crosscode
@@axouru check out celeste ;) not only is base game hard, there is a lot of great mods that make it much harder
I'd also recommend "Noita"
It's your average RNG permadeath indie game but you get to play as a wizard with a bunch of different spells and wands that you can customize. The game itself also has a good physics engine and if you have a crappy PC, instead of lag the game speed will start to slowdown to compensate.
@@wpsp2010 ah yes, the roguelike made for the mentally deranged
underrated youtuber, no matter the content they choose to cover
Facts
*he
@@MadDogGaming yes because "he choose to cover" makes sense go back to bed old man
@@MadDogGaming The irony of you correcting someone over political correctness, for using "they" the way it was grammatically intended, is extremely hilarious to me.
As always - love your content. This should cover the Patreon for both vids - keep it up!
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As someone who writes serial webfiction, that comment about authors getting better over time is both deeply true, and a personal attack. Nothing hurts quite as much as looking at your own earlier work and thinking "this sucks, but I'm committed now..."
the best kind of walkthrough commentary videos i've ever seen. you cover every single detail of games with amazing voiceover, jokes and mechanics. never thought factorio videos could ever bring me to such an astonishing gem of a youtube creator. please keep that stuff up, it's wonderful.
Taking an hour to build up to a >1 minute complaint is something we can all relate to feeling
Hey! more people still play actual roguelikes, there are dozens of us, i say, DOZENS!
Though I did find it funny to hear that in a review of a game with real-time gameplay and metaprogression, the staples of the roguelite side of the spectrum
Looks like TowerClimb and roguelikes have something in common: player count.
@@vidyagaems4063 player count isn't everything buddy
@@godlyvex5543 sure it is, you can't say you play niche games if they all become widely popular.
They're so few and far between. Even noita, the best roguelike of recent memory is still technically a roguelite
27:40 i played this game around the time of its release by chance, i know exactly how hard the moves your preforming are as i regularly drop what im holding ether in the wrong direction or more likely, by accident, watching you speed through these levels without making any mistakes and fully utilizing the environment has captivated my viewership, this must be what its like for a musician to listen to jazz, but instead of listening to elevator music that's extremely hard to play its just me watching you pull off 3 consecutive mid air item throw jumps like its nothing.
I love when games go all on an epic style, only to become super absurd with their humor, like when you play basketball with the zardo
Love indie projects like this. Reminds me a lot of Noita.
Looks and starts simple like this game but goes 10 times crazier after the "endboss"
Agreed. I started watching streamers playing Noita because I bought it and I couldn't figure it out. I had to turn down the difficulty with mods for my candy ass, but the true game doesn't begin until you can break it and move to different parts of the world.
There's something about this video, the methodical explanation and putting it into practice that really vibes with me.
This is like my third or fourth time watching it, Great stuff.
I just want to say this is one of my favorite videos on the platform I watch it weekly
It’s been 6 months and still holds true this video is goated
I fucking love this video
I have no words to explain how and why I absolutely love your content, never have I watched something for an hour without even realizing it’s been an hour. Each factorio video neither feels too long nor too short. And I loved the video about that game that seems like it tries to screw you over at every turn lol. Lastly, I loved this video because it’s such an interesting look into an extremely obscure but very intriguing rouge-like game!
Bought this because of this, game goes hard. Thank you for bringing this suffering into my life.
i don't understand why they named him "brobash" when all he does is broslash.
finally, someone put out a comprehensive video essay about this game!! so many points to be made, and all of them articulated so well. i'm happy to see this game get more coverage.
The last thirty seconds of this makes it perhaps the best video on all of CZcams. Bravo.
"We give this guy's cake, which I won't exain further." Is the the best line of narration I've heard in a minute.
Ive watched this 50 times by now, it entertains me, relaxes me, helps me fall asleep, best video on the platform, good fucking yard dosh.
Imagine building a tower, that some guy just want to climb, then want to steal your precious sword and if this wasn't enough kills you while you're just defending your property
Ah yes, the long-anticipated sequel to TowerFall
I really liked the game and you described it so well. Sadly as someone who 100%'d both Spelunky games, I do love achiev hunting and setting goals like that so I can't wait to see the dev giving proper achiev support.
LET'S GOOOOOOO
Thank you for making videos like these they're genuinely interesting and fun to watch. It's really nice to see people not only post videos with the goal of getting tons of views
I do not understand why i've watched this video so much, but i have watched this a bunch. Its not just this video either i've re-watched your space exploration, krastorio and marrow videos a bunch.
Clearly I'm just that charming
@@DoshDoshington You do have a great personality and a charming voice to be fair
I honestly love these videos on obscure games. I found you through the Marrow video, since I had never ever heard that game and was just curious. Your factorio content is amazing, I've watched all of it lol and can't wait to see more of this space exploration stuff which seems wild. But your dedication to these games is just awesome. Thanks :)
I found your channel through this video, just finished watching the Marrow video as well. I hope you continue to put out content covering these more niche indie games.
TowerClimb has been on my radar (and somehow in my library) for many, many years, but I have never given it a try for one reason or another. I think after watching this video, I have an inclination to give it a proper shot. Great video, thank you
Started with your channel with the Death World video, I think your narration of gameplay and your subsequent thoughts is fantastic. I can't wait for more content, and I hope this channel continues to grow!
Love your work, this style of presentation is exactly what I love watching
7 crazy factorio challenge videos and Dosh is now established batshit insane gaming god, you know this gonna be good
I really love your videos. Your style of editing is great, it takes the viewer on a journey with you, making us understand all the challanges and frustrations you've experienced. Love your Factorio videos but I always look forward to these small, obscure indie gems that only you seem to cover.
This was my first video from you Dosh, and certified a damn obsession with the game in me even though I've never played it.
Obsession as in I went and remade sprites by eye/scratch to replace old images on the TC wiki, which hasn't been updated in years. Good vid 👍
Dude you're fantastic at these types of videos. Legit the only person I watch playing 50min+ some game I've never heard of before
This video was amazing. Deserves way more views for your dedication and thorough analysis of every facet of a game I didn't think was possible to stay under my radar considering its genre. Great job
Watching this video was like watching a movie, and I was absolutely fucking hooked the whole time.
Love your videos on obscure games! Never heard of towerclimb before, but now I really want to master it. Truly a hidden gem
Was disappointed when this was SE p2, but after watching this you've completely enthralled me in this game. Great video, even better then the last indie review. You're gonna steadily get bigger if you keep up content like this, Sethh level big is the vibes im getting.
I love to watch your ramblings about very obscure games, while also flexing your mad gaming skills. Very entertaining. Keep up the good work champ!
28:25 at the time of writing, this videos has about twice as many as the aforementioned spelunky complication
The sudden NBA Jam reference and the ending make this video an 11/10.
I was a bit sad when I saw an update that wasn't more Space Exploration, but this definitely delivered. Thank you good sir for making your videos!
another awesome video! Your patience and determination is crazy, I know I wouldn't be able to beat these games let alone complete them, and seeing you do it is just great.
For anyone wondering i dont think part 3 will ever be released to be honest most of the teasers are 5 years old and the dev seems to have moved on from the game.
The dev posts like one or twice a year in the Discord assuring people it's going to happen, they're just really slow.
Absolute legend for beating sucha CBT game.
You have my respect for that.
I feel like Noita would be tight up your ally.
I loved this video, your commentary over different niche indie games is honestly great; if its what you enjoy, you should do more of it :)
I've just recently 100%'ed Spelunky HD, and I've been keeping my eye out for something to replace it. This... I like how this looks. I appreciate the video
Just found your channel, incredible content, completely unjust that you do not have more subscribers man, your videos are all a fantastic treat.
I can understand how there aren't that many videos out yet for how long they take to make, but I am still surprised how few have subscribed so far. In my opinion the narrative plus editing is one of the best so far, on top of the content which is shown.
Thanks for the upload, this is going to make my morning ❤️
Easily my favourite video of this year. You have a great way of storytelling and I'm now really looking forward to not-factorio as much as the factorio stuff! Great job :)))
I came back and watched and re-watched this video more than 10 times in the past 2 month and since I don't consider myself clever with word I'll just say that I appreciate all the effort you put into it. I hope you will continue making videos about games and subjects you like with a similar or an even greater level of passion. Thank you very much..
"I was one hit away, I counted"
If I were a real villain I'd said something like "actually it's was 2"
This video is seriously something else.
Man, the pace at which you release your videos is insane! Love your content!
I don't know if you plan to make a trend out of covering obscure games, but I am all for it if so.
Yes!! Another video about an obscure game. Your style, narration and editing are god tier.
Hey. Thank you for making this video. This is a game I saw and was fascinated by, but I could never get to grips with the control scheme. I'm glad I can experience vicariously through your coverage of it.
Coming back to this video made me realize this is one of my favorite videos of all time, easy to rewatch, calming voice (sort of), and it's pretty long and entertaining
I love this video
the fact that this guy comes out of no where on my recommended with like 11 videos is crazy... love the videos, good editing too!
Thank you very much for covering another interesting game that is interesting but has it flaws, it shows gives a new perspective of game market, at least for me
If you ever care to do another one of these, could you take a Look at necropolis, it's in my opinion an interesting game with glaring issue, just like the ones you covered, I would love to see it featured and I will give you a why I love and despise it
My winning run took me 3 days
It was called a souls like rougelike before rougelikes were all the rage
I absolutely love your style, Dosh. This may not be the game for me, but I was absolutely rapt watching this. The sheer determination it requires to achieve what you did is gobsmacking, and you deserve the highest gamer commendations for it.
I think a game you'll like covering that is both quality and relatively esoteric would be Cryptark. It's a 2D zero-grav twin-stick shooter roguelike with highly procedural and modular levels with a focus on long-term strategy in the form of loadouts and assessing the map [[ prior ]] to entering the level and short-term tactics when you inevitably need to adapt to the absolute chaos that game devolves into with the later firefights.
You know that scene in Star Wars where Lando destroys the Death Star power core and then has to escape while the whole thing goes critical? You do that. Some explosions cannot be avoided or tanked, only [[ outrun ]].
Two words: Nuclear grenades.
this game is actually a really neat aesthetic, it's like a mix of atari-era graphics and modern pixel art
My favorite genre, video essays on games way too hard for me to play but allows me to have an opinion on it
"The tower is not a representation of depression, and the character's 32 pixels are not an allegory for the horrors of living inside an american suburb. It's just a tower, go climb it."
I see you have experience about indie games. It's refreshing to see a videogame not getting 12 years old philosophical sometimes.
What does "12 years old philosophical" mean? And is this an allegory for the decreasing verbosity of society and how it gets harder and harder to understand what people are saying
I play mostly indie games on steam and there's been three bigger indies that are even philosophical in nature in the last 2 years, the majority have no particular themes of that nature. The idea that a game not being philosophical/allegory/whatever is "refreshing" or "unusual" requires the one making that statement to be INCREDIBLY butthurt about the existence of a tiny number of games.
Or incredibly clueless about indie games. Possibly both.
Such a good video! love these kinda deep dives. Thank you.
you have very quickly became my favorite channel its always a joy to see a new video of yours pop up.
I've found this channel due to a friend linking a Factorio video yet you have some form of essays on games that aren't very well known and instead of bullshitting us you give us your raw réflexions on them, it's very interesting and very welcome.
Thanks mate
i watched through all of this and felt like i had to comment something, even if it's hard for me to express in a second language to atleast make justice for this jewel of a video, something about the game just charmed me (even though i don't think i will play it) and your narration and determination to complete it were just amazing, i truly feel a little empty after finishing the video and feeling like i will not experience this again, maybe your other videos could make me feel something similar, idk i just fell in love with the 7 fragments trial, it reminded me of Noita where like half the content are just secrets and similar "quests" that you have to do and the game barely makes you suspect that they exists but doing them is fantastic.
ok i think im done with this rant of a comment, i loved this video and im definitely subbing, ily Dosh and hope you read through this massive rant c:, and keep doing videos about unknown indies, i fucking love them
Hell yeah, any content from you is lovely! Love these vids so much!
YES! Thank you so much for covering Towerclimb. Played hundreds of hours back in 2018, and could never understand how it didn't take off. Music in this game is second to none.
I stumbled at this game years ago, and it always gave me an impression it was hiding some potential, and by seeing this video I feel so validated, even though I was never good enough to actually get good at it but from time to time I come back to it
After watching this video again today, I decided to buy downwell.
Looks really good.
I love these videos as it proves that you are a great entertainer regardless of the topic
I know they don't do as well as the factorio vids but I love these reviews so much, so thanks for showing me some great indie games :)
This video really takes you on a journey -- you're right that I don't know much about TowerClimb (I HAVE heard of it though!), but now I feel like I got a luxury guided tour and know it from front-to-back. I like the corrupted temples and their grinning watchers... horrifying, in the best of ways.
And a Downwell reference? Heck yeah!
This has got to be one of the best videos I have ever seen about a videogame. I cannot express to you how much I love it. I really can't. Bless you, man. You are one masochistic bastard aren't you. I am in awe of your skill and dedication.
you are a monster for putting so much time into beating this game and i am a monster for watching this video all the way through and enjoyed every minute!
cant wait for more content.
Love your content man, even if these videos don't get as many views as factorio ones, I love them. Played the hell out of this game back in the day and I'm happy it's getting some light.
I really enjoy these long review videos, keep it up my guy
i really like long form videos like this, especially on games ive never heard about (actually i might have seen this before but never looked into it). just good shit and i like how you talk in the video, just feels unique and just not too serious and chill and ya just say what YOU want and it good. i dont know what else to say just really like it
I love this
I also watched your ADOM video today and it is just great.
For the love of god please keep doing these.
One of the best videos I have ever watched, and I can’t wait to start playing this masterpiece of a game
Loved this. I had already been playing this, but it was too hard for me. Thanks for showing off the later areas.
Thanks for making another one of these videos, I loved the one on marrow!
i can feel the constant suffering of hundreds of hours of this emanating from the screen
I played this game in Alpha back in 2010 and followed its development for years. I'm glad someone has recognized it, it's a real gem. Reminds me of other games in that era like Captain Forever (and its clones), Super Crate Box and all those old Cactus games before he did Hotline Miami. Catacomb kids is a lot like this as well, but I think it got abandoned.