HYLICS 2 - Nitro Rad
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- čas přidán 12. 07. 2020
- The sequel to one of the coolest looking indie games ever. Hylics 2 takes all of the original's weirdness, and cranks it up with some seriously impressive visuals. All still handmade with clay!
GET THE GAME HERE:
Itch: mason-lindroth.itch.io/hylics-2
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/12...
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James! Let it be known that I watched this video and only cried like 3 or 4 times. You’re the best, man. Well researched, interpreted, and spoken. Mason and I really appreciate the work you did on this review. Also, I’m glad the music embellished you’re gaming experience. I’ll cherish this video always, man. And thanks for using your one “fuck” this season on us! Sending you appreciation and love (the weirdest love.) - Mason and Chuck -
Dope game!
Thank you for your hard work with the game, it's so gorgeour and it's visible how much heart you poured into it and I hope people will bump your comment to be seen
Good luck with your future projects and thank you for this masterpiece
Thank you both for your hard work!! :)
That music is /AMAZING/.
I am definitely into the soundtrack
“Deploy the cookie!”
The inverse of,
“Ness abandoned the cookie.”
Wayne shall pick up the pieces Ness left behind
Crepsecular Corvus someone’s gotta save those cookies, mate
idont undersans
@@crepsecularcorvus1674 deep
Ah yes, Hylicbound, my favourite game.
“They have these bugs in the overworld that you can slap to recover your characters”
In the context of this game that sentence makes perfect sense
yes
Random npc in hylics 1
"I grow the bugs"
@@jojojojojojojojojojojojo4181 he made the bugs.
Hylics in a nutshell:
It's Beautiful
I've Looked At This For Five Hours Now
its still beautiful
ay parks and rec
I swear this game raises the bar of independent RPGs so high, it's going to take some time before anyone rivals it
i just found out about this franchise, but another surreal rpg i found a few months ago (which isn't out still) called She Dreams Elsewhere seems promising, but Hylics definitely is one heck of an experience with what i saw :o
Maybe if you drop acid while you're playing it.
I wish developers make a claymation horror type game ... it would be so trippy and uncomfortable in a good way
Seriously though, when I first found the maze I felt some of the worst dread. If they did a horror it'd be terrifying
Agreed. There's a lot of claymation horror shorts and horror movies out there, it would be amazing for there to be a claymation horror game.
It helps that most of the time you aren't even sure of what you're looking at. It's unsettling...
The first person sequences on the Neverhood had this creepy vibe too, I totally understand this
I agree, Hylics is not even a horror game and it kind of freaks me out...
It's hilarious hearing James say "EXPLODE" with such giddy vigor. You can really tell that he enjoyed himself
His delivery of lines are underrated
As soon as you released this, the game updated, Mason added a "perish" option to the gestures in combat that takes you straight to the after-life, and added auto-saves.
I finished playing it this morning, before the update, not sure if anything else is changed.
You gotta love a game that lets you chose to literally Perish.
Ignacio Olguín
Have you ever wanted to die? Ever want to escape from the terrors of life? With this new update to Hylics 2, you can now do exactly that!
Only in Hylics can the run button be literally dying and that being reasonable
imagine you are your buddies group up to fight a group of opposers and you just hear "this isn't worth it" and then they all just perish
This game condones suicide. Just joking, the whole duology is a mess of insane anyway.
Aww this review is so passion-driven that I wish more games made people talk about it like this. I really hope the devs take a look at this video, I'm sure they would love your take on it
they have now! one of them left a comment
It’s more likely the moon will crash unto the earth than for the devs not to see this.
it doesn't read condescending at all, the poster just really enjoyed the video and found it charming how passionate he got about the game
@@thestranger4894 LMAOOO
I've always viewed Pongorma's face as a knight's helmet since he's supposed to be one of the Dread Knights of Yiithorn! As a result, I used to think the art of the showed otherwise was weird (meaning art that had his head being shown as his actual face and not a helmet). However I think that shows that the characters are so abstract that you can interpret how they look in many different ways. That's really cool to be honest!
It looks like a mix between a knight's helmet and a beetle to me.
Pongorma also looked drastically different in Hylics 1
I get super confused on how to draw his Hylics 1 design because of this. Sometimes I make it a helmet and sometimes I interpret it as his face. That's what I love about his design too tho!
I like to think that he just got a new helmet to look a bit more menacing; after all, his title is _dread_ knight.
It’s like Meta Knight: scary guy with a ridiculous little face underneath a mask/helmet.
It's like someone took Shovel Knight's helmet, mixed it with Shredder's helmet, then Beetle Kirby's helmet, then an Inkling's ears, then shaped it into the shape of a dolphin for some reason
Wow. Wasn’t expecting a sequel for this one. Kudos to the developers.
*developer
Developers
one more
The step from Hylics to Hylics 2 is really amazing. 2 is basically everything that 1 wanted to be, because, as cool as it looked, it really was just a funky looking RPG-maker game in the end. Now the cool graphics got a gameplay that actually feels fitting to it.
For your analysis of the characters' goals it might be interesting to know that in gnosticism a "hylic" is a person completely bound to the physical world and material concerns.
What's the term for the ones that are more in contact with the spiritual world, or metaphysical realm, or whatever it's called?
@@Mike14264 I think they are pneumatics. Or psychics.
Hmm, I guess that makes Wayne and Co. Hylics themselves. Somsnosa has a ranch she's working on, Dedusmuln is an archeologist, etc. Gibby, on the other hand, might be a Psychic, as you said, as he wants to completely wreck the material plane for absolute freedom.
I'm absolutely surprised at how I'm able to remember Wayne's friends' werid-ass names out of my head.
The game looks like an eye-sore dont @ me
Pongorma is a called a "black Knight" in the first game, so I interpret his head in this game as a sort of helmet with beetle features.
“DEPLOY THE COOKIE!”
It's great to see more and more indie games stand out from the crowd in terms of visuals, it establishes an identity for them, compared to other modern games that, do feel a bit samey in some regards.
And I can appreciate any game that goes to great lengths in animating sprites.
m e a t
Been meaning to check this game out! It looks great. Enjoyed the vid. =)
PBG?! You watch Nitro Rad too?!
To see YOU here!
Hi
PBG go to mcdonalds
When you see PBG in the comments.
This happened more than I expect 🤷
14:00 you can forcibly end a battle as of the new update. there is a "perish" gesture that all characters have. it's not a "run", but it's something.
In a game where you can almost instantly get back to where you died in a hurry, it's as close as it needs to be, so that's excellent.
The entire game looks like Earthbound on LSD, and it's so amazing!
And the music makes me feel like I smoked presicly 1 weed
yeah it's obviously inspired by it at least a tiny bit. Everything Earthbound inspired seems to end up fantastic. This game, Undertale, and most of all the LISA games.
This looks like Juice Galaxy on drugs!
*more LSD
Man, all the talent, passion, and raw creativity put into this game makes me almost feel guilty for not buying it, despite it being a type of game I more or less never play. Serious respect to the devs.
"Deploy a cookie? What does that mean? IDONTKNOWBUTILOVEIT" seems to sum up the charm of this game
"You can warp back and forth with these fountains."
Are they... Are they Fountains of Wayne?
Oh my godddd
OH GOD DAMN IT
This deserves a pin
*the power of the wayne in this land are great*
*Badum-tish*
22:20
Gibby: “You dare approach me?”
Wayne: “I can’t kick your ass if I don’t get closer.”
... Garson, there's a JoJoke in my MultiJuice! D^B(
'TV face dudes are so cool'; *shows a radiator-face
oh James, its a good thing you're awesome.
He just meant characters who have a TV-esque shaped head. (Radio, boombox, radiator, etc)
*Also please don't woosh me I know this is a joke*
@@ENTR0PY Its been a year and i still don't know what woosh means...
@@wolfclaw719 6 months late but just in case you never picked up on it, it refers to being called out for missing a joke/taking a joke seriously. Someone saying "whoosh" at you is in reference to the joke "flying over your head"
When you see the wacky thumbnails and nitro you know you are in for a ride
the 3D models you were talking about are also clay, just scanned with a lot of cameras.
No they’re not. He literally said it in the video that you can turn off the filter to reveal the actual 3D models.
@Nonday Z they're talking about _3d_ photoscanning
its used to recreate the forms and texture of a real world object and making it digital so you can place it in a 3d software
the way you do it is basically (and i mean *basically* ) take photos of an object from different angles and after youve done that, you chuck those into some photogrammetry program, leave it for the computer to process the models, and there it is; your real world object is now a digital one
mason and chuck actually did a QnA livestream on their instagram and mason showed some his clay figurines there. i'll get the link in a bit but it should be archived by someone on youtube
@Shiva R that is correct, yes
edit: well actually for the areas and landmasses i think he did it in segments to make it easier on himself but im not sure to what extent
@@najwan3672Very good to know, thanks for saying!
The time has come
And so have I
And so have I
And so have I
And so have i
And so have I
I'll laugh last, 'cause you came to die.
The damage done, the pain subsides
And I can see the fear clear when I look in your eye.
8:20 The thing about Pongorma is that his model changed in between games, in the first one he had a hellboy like face with 4 horns and in the second one he’s wearing a helmet with a dolphin model on top and a visor
oh ya, realmente parece um golfinho...
"Dedusmuln is tec nically a support, but I just found Somsnosa better"
*laughs in charged foam armor*
But seriously though, I am so happy you finally got around to reviewing this. Probably one of my new favorite games of 2020
Reading the first half of this comment is like reading the dialogue from the NPCs in this game
*laughs in converter worm*
wut
@@kalmah456 Converter Worm + Dedusmuln is the best tech in the game hands down. You will never need to use items again, seriously. I only used items 2 times after I discovered how powerful it makes Dedusmuln as a support character.
My man mistook support with healer and continued talking like nothing lol
You didn't even mention the platforming and "dungeon crawling" parts of the game.
But it's great to see how much you liked the sequel considering the praise you gave to the first one. Game's hype.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone explain the feeling of music so perfectly. Letting the music speak for itself at 22:02 was so hype, I love the passion in your reviews, man.
If Hylics was a fever dream, Hylics 2 is a full-blown acid trip.
I'm not criticizing the art styles or the artists, to be clear.
I love how the enemies look like they're dancing to the music.
Me: casually waits until he makes a video about the neverhood
Holy shit yes.
Oh my god yes
Please yes
Yes. He must do that. And Skullmonkeys. It is a platformer after all.
@@Mike14264 I imagine that to be the most likely due to the first ones bullshit. I just watched vinny play it.
Combat reminds me of smt Nocturne, you can’t just save up on a random encounter because if you mess up and use the wrong attack you might lose a party member, it also reminds me nocturne because of that focus on debuffs.
I was thinking the same!!! That's one of the reasons I love SMT, and this game has a bizarre environment??? Shut up and take my money!!
Hylics 3 will feature Dante from the Devil May Cry series
@@hrgrhrhhr Nah, Raido Kuzunoa
Any game that actually makes buffs and debuffs useful is great in my book.
@Aria Khalaji I took it from 4chan. You're the first to comment on it. Thank you.
Me and the Nitrorad Community when we see James make a review of the Hylics sequel: : )
I’m speed.
Me and the hylics community when we see that James made a review of it: :D
Hylics 2 looks like a fever dream I had when I was 10 and first saw Earthbound. i saw Magicant and the game’s battles, and then had a nonsense dream that still comes up every couple days for me.
What was the dream about, if you can remember?
Ngl I love how James/Nitro's plushie collection keeps growing, now he has two Lucarios and a Guilmon. Not to mention his back walls. Idk, it's always been fun to notice small things in vids that mean absolutely nothing and see how things change over time
''Deploying cookies.'' That sounds like a cookie jar would be a cluster bomb.
Cluster heal
Cookie jar would be a cool item in this game
You know there’s a theory that Wayne is related to Gibby I mean Wayne does have a lot of connections to the moon with his weird head and name being related to a stage of the moon a Waning Moon while Gibby is a Gibbous moon
And considering the fact that the rest of the gang haven’t changed I don’t think Big Wayne is Wayne from Hylics 1 maybe after defeating Gibby Wayne didn’t want to become the moon king but because of weird moon king biology or something he became a type of hive mind
I mean it was kinda happening in the first game Wayne’s cat looking very similar to him and all and well one of clones split off even further to become a sort of wise leader to the Wayne’s and Wayne himself he is leader after all and I guess he needs himself to leader him or something honestly I’m not sure I was just making some messy story out of nonsense but since that’s the whole point of the game it lines up well
Alright...cool...now if you could distribute those periods before "so I really like this game" evenly throughout your sentence I might understand it a bit better.
i felt happy reading this for some reason
@@tedbobinski5537 sorry Weird game weird description for some reason
@@Ribbons0121R121 Yay
Or maybe, you know...
A gibbous moon?
Finally here, so glad I was able to be part of the amazing Hylics community as the beta tests came out
So glad he talked about the final boss theme, it truly is what made it feel so final and epic and just... straight up intimidating! I think gibby is way scarier in this game than the first, and it's not just because of his size, but just how he walks towards you so menacingly, and has a body made up of parts that were enhanced with the "terrestrial juice" he was bathing in, but the fact that they weren't pieced together made me feel like his body wasn't finished forming yet but that he was confident that it didn't need to be in order for him to take you down. Dang it was awesome.
I just watched vinny play this and re-watched the first review AND then decide 20 minutes prior to search this. Didn't find it and then my phone needed to restart so this is the first thing I see.
Well I sometimes think I'm lucky
I spammed muscle appliques on Somsnosa and genrally kept her focused on raw power stat. The combo I did for mostly every battle after setting it up gear wise on the endgame enemies & bosses was Turn 1; Get Somsnosa charged up, Dedusmuln Charged, Pongorma (equipped with the gear that gives perma-burning to user and perma-vulnerable). casts the mollusk spell (gives enemies your current status effects), have Wayne give Somsnosa Poolwine (gives Mania). Turn 2; depending on the party members speed (I usually had the gear on Dedusmuln for perma caffinated) Dedusmuln should foam the party, Somsnosa casts "charged" Wave gesture and nukes the enemy squads hard, Wayne can do dissolution if u are fighting Poolmagne, Pongorma can either cast another bout of the Mollusk spell or Charge + lightning next turn for nuking a boss etc, Somsnosa could wave again next turn for clean up or in worse enemy encounters charge up a 2nd time.
13:28
Rad: But this Weird Looking Dude Here
Me: I see a lot of weird looking dudes here :) :)
I’ve always wanted to try these games because they straight up feed into my abstract 90s animation fears and feels, and that’s also probably the reason I’ve never tried them. I’ll have to get past it some day because you make it sound amazing.
Damn boi. Already seen that comin' when discovered the release
I respect the pfp
This is like a Warioware microgame or some bizarre music video you’d see on MTV in the 90s made into a full RPG. I love it.
I saw the trailer for the game finally like maybe a couple weeks ago, so seeing ya review it here Nitro is a blessing. Super happy to see this!
As an amateur clay artist, this game gave me a lot of inspiration. Clay is limitless.
I love how exited you were during the review!
I actually finished it today, and oh boy what a cool game it was! Definitely one of the best games of 2020, period!
If i could tell Jason or Chuck anything, i would say:
NEVER STOP CREATING
That intro... Dude, I love your videos, thank you!
Man I love your content, ever since I learned about Lisa the painful through your channel I’ve discovered so many more badass games. It’s really cool, keep it up man
The feel of Hylics and Hylics 2 makes me think about Kenshi.
They both have a strange theme going on but that theme makes sense because the characters act like everything weird going on is just normal to them.
I like how the world is made out of hands. Fingers turned into rocks, etc
15:11 Perhaps the real Wayne was the friends we made along the way!
Happy to see Hylics 2 exist , I was genuinly exited to see this on my suggestions
I think the sequel can finally get me to buying this series. Music has a lot to do with it, but visuals surely are outstanding!
Hell yeah that intro still kicks ass. You did a great job on it dude!
God I rewatched that intro about several times it’s the zoom out on the clay tv that really gives me goosebumps
16:17 I bring to your attention Nelnal and his universe, Soul Monitor (if it isn't in your radar already). Lots of cool designs and some TV-headed dudes
I really like hearing James so passionate. I saw this on steam and thought "isn't this the one game he really liked?" After seeing this review I definitely wanna check it out.
I love the intro in the Hylics theme! You really care about every detail in your video’s and I love that!
I was waiting so much for this!!! Amazing vid as always!
Hylics is a bizarre series, in a good way. The characters, the music, visuals, and the stop-motion are amazing. I wish I could do stop-motion just like the artist.
I smiled so big when the title screen came up. These graphics blow me away.
Passionate love you have for this game really makes me wanna pick it up the game & you were absolutely right about the music, it’s a banger. Lemme tell you buddy, the new outro background looks leagues better than before. You’re really making a ton of improvements since I first saw ya & I can’t wait to see what you come up with next.
Bro, it's a pleasure to watch your content, you diserve so mucho more subs. I've been around your channel for a long time and it's great to see you are as passion driven as the first day. Keep going, I'll support you till the end of the journey.
This really looks like a big improvement over the first one :o. In another point,when you talked about the whole buffs and debuffs importance,the difficulty of the battles and stuff...it reminded me for some reason to the whole shin megami tensei franchise(maybe because im playing nocturne rn?)
Well, the complaint about not being able to run from battles is obsolete as of today. They literally just patched it in to add the ability to instantly go to the after life mid battle.
I'm just 10 seconds in and I'm already loving the video! That slick claymation transition caught me completely off guard xD
Man that custom intro was amazing
15:45 you could also use the cups you've collected to drink some water from the water jug to increase your mana? idk what it's called and I only learned about it near the end of the game
also beat the end boss with 3 characters...bc I couldn't solve the sand castle puzzle....
this game looks so amazing, 18 bucks for this game its such a steal
Yeah, stealing your money.
Glad to see u going back into the RPG maker style games definitely my fav videos on this channel and seeing Hylics 2 does bring a smile
As someone who really wants to create video games in the future, I've watched some of your videos and they're very fun lol. I love that you're so passionate about what you talk about and how excited you get makes me happy too. Hylics and it's sequel is so amazing and I really love the style aswell, holy shit it's so unique
20:20 So basically Bill Cypher
I look at this and I see a western Digital Devil Saga.
Love how passionate you were for this video. I definitely want to get this game soon
Its always great to hear someone gush over something they really like.
Great review! It really makes me want to play both games
The game is focused on Debuffs and Buffs
Charge moves are important in dealing damage...
The regular battles take ages and are a pain of an ass
Oh my god Hylics became an SMT game
some of the enemy animations remind me of Cyriak, a surreal animator on youtube.
the stop motion animation!!! you were gushing about this game for weeks on twitter. I'm hyped!!!
When I saw that Hylics 2 was coming out I COULD NOT WAIT for your video on it. Great, great video.
After a few weeks of beating the game, I was wondering when you'd review this...
Sounds like this game has the Mt. Itoi curse when it comes to the final area.
These visuals are outstanding. The way the title screen is all stop motion it's brilliant and such a unique look. I'm surprised this didn't blow up like a lot of the other peculiar games with an unusual art style.
Starting out and the intro is just amazing
I feel like Tool's music would fit well with this game
Nah it's perfect with this early Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd trippy psychedelic rock. Fits the whole theme of it much better. Tool is great but yeah that early creatively fertile Pink Floyd before they started doing progressive rock instead, it's still the trippiest music there is, and it's clear the guy got inspiration from their first album while making the music for this
the amount of detail to things concerns me as an artist.... like seriously there is something wrong with the creator to make such things.
i love it
Ahhh I was excited for this one, I managed to get it and play it through before the review but you're the one that brought me to the first Hylics.
I was waiting for you to cover this game!!
18:02 It is so weird to hear james say fucking instead of freaking
He says "freaking" though (Or so I hear)
You’re deaf if you heard him say fucking. Clean your ears out
@@dykishandfriends they meant 18:12 lol
HOLY SHIT! ISOMETRIC VIEW IS AN ISSUE?? Add a lil' shadow circle underneath the lil' main dude and PORT IT TO VR
i put hylics on my steam wishlist bc of your previous video. it looks like an even weirder take on weird RPGs like Paladin's Quest which is a favorite of mine, and Hylics 2 looks incredible in comparison. I can't wait to play both of them. now i'll leave before the spoiler section starts. great to see a new video, love your channel dude!
Stumbled on your channel by seeing your comment on the Bomb Rush Cyberfunk teaser, glad I did. Your genuine enthusiasm is refreshing, cheers mate
Hylics 2 : The Electric boogaloo
Junge of the Georgle, is that you?
I Hope that he will Talk about Bug Fables Someday.
I still hope that he plays Bug fables someday.
This video is so good, I keep rewatching it over and over again I can't stop
ur positive energy in this video is absolutely infectious, love this