One of the best games I've played this year...
A2
Welcome everybody, or should I say top
of the morning to you laddies.
Welcome to the Metal Garden. This game
looks sick as hell. Some of the visuals
in this alone is what I want to play it
for. The atmosphere seemed right up my
alley. So, why not give it a shot? I'm
not doing anything. I'm not changing
anything. I'm leaving it the way it is.
Is this this is off, right? Yes. Okay,
we're not doing infinite health cuz
what's the point?
In tuned in a vast mega structure,
countless civil civilizations live
through their long ages.
Though they have attempted every method,
the walls and ceiling of the structure
remain unreached, the path outside has
never been found. And in the structures
overgrown far reaches, many nomads
wander, living off the remnants of
battles fought among the many waring
states and corporations.
I like I'm so in.
We need more stuff like this in media.
Look at this.
So, the entire game takes place inside
this like metal dome area.
The entire thing is encased in
something.
Why are we choppy as all hell? I don't
understand. But it's so [ __ ] cool
looking. There's like weather within it.
That's how big this is. These look like
the guns in Subnotica. What is this?
Examine
the smoking engine of your old mech.
MC076
aftermarket cannon. It's beyond repair.
No tools you possess can make it run
again. What about knife?
Can that make it run again?
C for melee.
Okay.
Wow.
Like I just I'm a huge fan of things
that put you in a world and then it
doesn't really say much, but there's
hints of everything everywhere. That's
why I like the FromSoft games so much.
It just reminds me that I ain't [ __ ]
but I can make a big difference in this
world. Maybe. Can I do some with this?
Whoa. Whoa. Okay. Okay. Nice.
I get guns and [ __ ]
Pistol ammo. Thrust boots.
Oh, baby.
Okay. So, it's just a double jump. It's
not like uh jetpack. Okay. I want to get
up there.
Yeah. Pistol ammo. Yeah. Let me in.
Am I doing my washing on my on my mech?
I'm probably supposed to go that way,
but
Oh, so close.
This rules. This rules so hard. I'm so
into this.
Whenever people I don't really like C as
my melee. I usually do like middle mouse
button, but whenever you are playing FPS
games and you're like really good at
them, are you hitting C with like your
finger or your thumb? I never know.
Like what am I supposed to do? Another
knife. Do I run out of knives?
Yeah, those windmills. There's like
windmills in this that I saw that in one
clip and that was enough to sell me on
this game. I was all in right from that
point. And I love games like this that
are kind of like niche and no one's
heard of them.
Very few people are playing them. Wait,
there's a guy over there.
Sir, do I shoot him?
Oh, I'm shooting you guys.
Oh, they're mad. Oh, they're so mad.
Okay.
You're going to be even madder when
you're dead.
Oh, that was such a cool shot. Dude, I'm
playing Titanfall now. Like, now I
immediately want a TV show about this.
We always get TV shows about like, oh,
people are mad at each other and
swearing at each other. It's high drama.
And then we get shows about, you know,
some [ __ ] [ __ ] They're all good
shows and they're all nice and whatever,
but
I want shows like this where we're just
like, just don't give the audience
anything.
Just get you sat in slowpaced.
Can we make stuff that's just about
making cool [ __ ] and not about making
money all the time?
Oh my god, they're so good. Shoulder
injury. Having sustained an injury to
your shoulder, you can no longer
accurately aim down sights. After
getting an injury, your health will
reset and you have four injuries before
you flatlight. Oh crap. Okay. I didn't
know it was going to be this intense. I
have no health packs.
Jesus
Yeah, there they are.
Oh,
just give it to me. I need a book about
this. this. I need a TV show. I need a
manga. I need Well, blame,
but we're not indoors yet.
Whoa, big meat cleaver. Who are you
guys? You're a cheetah person or a
leopard? Are you king from Tekken?
Okay. Can I not?
Ooh. Beneath this soldier, you find a
military operations journal. It spans
numerous entries going back many cycles.
It begins by listing provisions for
several hundred soldiers and marching
orders for a tremendously long distance
mission and continues by exhaustively
describing the travel up through two
separate mega structure stratas. It
often remarks on the struggle soldiers
are having with controlling their
movement as a result of the lower
gravity in the upper stratas. Their
bodies unused to the lack of
gravitational friction. But it also
makes note of increased effectiveness of
hitherto less used tactics such as the
unexpected advantage their large bodies
gained in melee combat. Huh.
Unfortunately, the journal cuts off
abruptly right in the middle of a supply
inventory count before it can imply
anything more than the solders's
missions.
And I love this idea as well of like
it's a big mystery. No one's ever made
it out. You're like, I'm going to make
it out and what we see is going to be
cool.
Like if you guys have recommendations
for books and stories and things like
this then shotgun ammo. Yes, sir. then
please let me know cuz I'm all about it.
Oh yeah, nice.
Charges have three so I can heal three
things. Oh man, I look cool.
Yeah, these look awesome
cuz I'm also a big fan of um things like
Stalker the game. Well, let's I've never
really been like super into the game
loop of those games, but I [ __ ] love
the atmosphere and the feeling of those
games and Metro, you know, and even I
didn't really like Roadside Picnic as a
book. I like the concepts and the tone
and the vibe in it, but something about
the writing style just didn't gel with
me. But I I want it's I'm not going to
say it's a bad book because I really
want to love it.
The royalty-dressed man or the royally
dressed man before you is bleeding out.
Even at a cursory glance, you can tell
that his wounds are not treated soon. He
will die. Can I treat your wounds?
What humiliation?
Defeat. Defeated, but a step from our
goal.
You probably shouldn't talk right now.
Uh, what happened here? A betrayal and a
bloody tragedy. And oh, with what noble
intentions we came. Can you imagine it?
We finally found it. An exit from this
mega structure. The culmination of
millennia of searching. A dream of so
many civilizations born inside this
prison world. Oh, we assembled with all
haste. I stood at the helm of the great
army of my kingdom, my beloved Ria
secrettorum, and knew the glory was
ours. We would find those heavenly
fields beyond an army that's now been
collapsed like so many packs of cards
and its great leader receiving
ministrations from a wandering mongrel.
All right. Like no need to say all that.
I'm trying to help you here.
Tie bandage a little tighter than
needed. Yeah.
Oh, cool. He roars in shock as you bind
his wrap tightly. It's all It's all the
fault of these damped cell swords. See,
we had spies inside the central Serenian
mining group, the local industrialists.
That's how we knew then. When one of
their great dam projects hit on a hole
in the world, it was our time to
mobilize. But foolishly did I march. The
mercenaries they hired broke our lines.
And my men, my men, and my my own men
who were taken prisoner, they turned
their swords on me, screaming of my own
treachery, the impedency, the gall. The
fallen king continues to lose himself in
his laments, his words fast becoming
less and less comprehensible. It is then
that you notice a key by his body. Its
design plain compared to the proud
royal.
I'm stealing your key.
I want to
Yeah. Wow.
Unrivaled atmosphere.
I should be doing this with my movement.
I shouldn't be hiding behind [ __ ] and
like peeking out and shooting. I should
be flying around them with a shotgun.
Cuz this reminds me of um can any of you
remember the name of that game? It was
based on Wool, which is the silo TV show
Book. and I was like drilling through a
wall. It was a very short indie horror
game and then I finally made it out and
it was like no one's ever made it out
and you shouldn't go out there or
something bad happened. Then I went out
and there was a big like robot came
after me. The I think the game was only
like 15 minutes but it left a lasting
impact on me. The neighborhood just got
more interesting.
Oh, okay. I'm going down.
Nice.
Nice. See what I mean? Mobility.
Oh,
god damn.
Yeah, you can't shoot for [ __ ] when I'm
moving. Yeah, buddy. What are you guys?
Are those like gas masks?
They're also kind of dressed like
Bloodborne characters. They have the
Bloodborne hat. Um, or what's the name
of the movie? Brotherhood of the Wolf, I
think that's what it's called. I've
never watched it cuz I heard it's kind
of mid, which I try not to do that. I
try to just watch stuff anyway, but it's
kind of hard not to be swayed by stuff
sometimes, but it's basically
like the outfits they have are directly
from Bloodborne, like that era. Um, and
I'm not I'm usually not into mech stuff
either, but sometimes when it's done
right, like the world of Armored Core,
especially Armored Core 6, is really
cool. And Evangelion is, if you haven't
watched Evangelion, go watch it. You can
either watch the movies, there's four of
them. Um, that's probably blasphemy to a
lot of people, or you can just watch the
anime. Um, either way, if you're just
watching it, that's a win. But it has so
much stuff in it that has inspired like
all of these things. It also has mega
structures in it.
Okay, I should be using my grenades
more, but I'm trying to hold on to them.
You know, when you're playing uh
Resident Evil and you hold on to all
your Magnum ammo.
This also feels like a very early 2000s
PC game, like HalfLife.
There's a lot of guys over there.
Whoa, I want those guns.
Damn, that's cool.
Okay, I have a feeling if I get hit by
those, it's game over for me.
Okay, I hit him. Oh [ __ ]
Oh god.
Oh [ __ ] I have to
God damn it.
God damn it.
Your max health has been reduced.
I should switch to my pistol. [ __ ] This
game is hard.
I'm not used to playing these Quake type
of shooters.
Can I have your gun?
Oh, it's so cool. I want it. I'm also
almost dead again.
Like I've been playing a lot of
Battlefield 6 since it came out, but Oh
yeah. Oh, shotgun. Um, but that's more
like boots on the ground type of like
running around targeting this sort of
like fly around and shoot people like
this is hard for me. Have you finished?
Yes, sir. This whole section is rigged
to blow. Good. Start packing up. I want
to be as far away as possible when it
all goes up. Please tell me I can kill
you guys now and I get to blow it up.
That's really what I want.
Okay, just keep moving.
Ow, my leg.
I need like a sniper.
God damn.
Okay, health pack.
Is that a surgery thing I can use?
Do head shots count more? Whatever.
Okay. Ow. Ow.
Nice. Oh, wait.
I didn't know I could do that. Oh,
that's sick. Hell yeah.
Love this. I'm having such a good time.
And I want to be able to play more stuff
on YouTube like this where it's just
weird and out there and it's not [ __ ]
algorithm crap all the time.
I'm coming in. Let me check over here
first.
What? This
opens elsewhere. Okay.
I'm assuming this all
goes around to each other.
Is this the bomb? I just realized that
that's what that is. I thought it was
like a pipe.
Holy god. Can't wait to see this thing
go boo.
Can I sneak up on people?
Whoa.
I keep thinking these are like flags in
their hands, not machetes.
They're like Mildred from Dark Souls 1.
Gran,
I was just about to say, is that a mine?
Boom.
Ow.
Okay, so I can slide.
Oh god, there's a lot of them. Okay,
grenades time. Wait, what was my grenade
button? Ah crap, I thought it was G.
Q.
Oh.
Nice. That was sick.
How many greens I have left? Two. Wow,
that was so much fun.
Mirror's edge. Yo. Oh, I guess I could
have just stayed up here and shot them
cuz they can't Oh, they could probably
jump.
Opens on the other side.
Oh.
Oh,
neat. What the hell is that doing?
Is that powering the door to open?
Interesting.
Maybe it's powering these.
Nice.
I want it. I want the stuff.
I'm too eager.
Oh yeah, baby.
Wait, this isn't my A crap. Can I get
back up?
That doesn't lead back to here, does it?
Like I want to
I want to go in there
h
that's bothering me now
cuz I feel like once I go down, I'm
down. I'm never going to get back up.
Once you're down, you're down. You're
never going to get back up. Okay, now
let's just as those This must do
something.
And it said everything was rigged to
blow outside. Like I want that to
happen. Oh, there's another way to go
outside.
The hell is that? Is that Nessie?
Okay, you're not going to come kill me,
are you? I just wanted to see what would
happen. Oh, look at that bridge.
I'm so curious why this place was built.
Like, are we It's always like, are you
keeping us inside for a reason or are
you keeping something out? It was the
same when I played Stray the cat game.
There was so much cool stuff in that
about mega structures.
Ow. God, I didn't think you would hit
me.
Nice.
Guess I should heal.
I want your guns. Whoa. Damn it. Damn
it.
Okay. Nice.
Eat [ __ ] Eat [ __ ] You ain't [ __ ] bro.
What do we got? Sniper rifle ammo.
I mean, ammo is great, but a sniper
rifle itself would be awesome.
Ow. Ow.
[ __ ]
Oh god.
Nice.
There's rules. I hope I get to go into
that room.
Otherwise, why am I here? You know.
Oh, you got melted, son.
And now this feels like the way to go.
I'm so confused.
What we got?
Okay. Health. Thank you.
I'll take it.
Oh, this is where the guy was
that I definitely didn't shoot and hurt.
He was fine. He got in the water and he
went away. You guys saw it.
I'm a good guy.
What this?
Yes.
Give me everything.
Okay. A little bit of parkour.
Those like Oh, bits of the towers.
Terminology of scale. Oh man. Maybe I
was supposed to go in.
I'm going back.
[Music]
Okay, boys. Fan out. Move. Move.
>> Small soldiers are invading Burger King.
One toy inside every
>> I'm going down.
This could be a mistake, but either
direction actually seems viable. Oh, I
want that
legend. Absolute legend.
Oh, unreal.
Ooh.
Yeah, buddy.
Oh, they are everywhere.
Oh god. One by one.
Okay, they're jumping all over the
place. Yeah, jump into my sights, yo.
Uh-oh.
Pretty easy when you guys are that slow.
Turns out they kill me in one hit if
they get me.
Oof. Boof. Oh, so satisfying. What a
nice shotgun.
What was down more of those pipes?
There's so many ways to go.
I'm getting lost.
Maybe that's the point.
Oh my god.
Oh my god. Okay, we're not doing that.
This probably all leads around to the
same place anyway. Maybe the other
direction I was going to go outside is
also going to do this.
I also really love a game that has a
double jump, but you can cancel any fall
damage by double jumping.
It's such an underrated feature in video
games.
Oh, so this
big building.
Can I get up on any of this?
Oh, I can.
Nice.
Whoa. Nice.
Wait, is there anything behind these?
Oh, can I do one at a time?
Okay. Nothing. Is this a dead end?
Yeah, but it's got goodies.
Okay. Yeah. But see, now I want to be
over there. And I can do that because
this
check this [ __ ] out. Nope.
Did I just not jump?
I did, but it's not far enough.
What if we get over here?
Oh yeah, baby.
What are we moving?
There's nothing here.
Oh man.
Hm.
This is so confusing cuz I'm like maybe
it's for later, but then not everything
is looping back on each other. So maybe
it was that.
Didn't feel like it was that.
I ain't using a ladder. You kidding me?
Okay. Well, I'm stuck down here, so I
might have to use a ladder. Oh yeah, I
knew you had to have goodies lying
around. Give me the goodies.
[Music]
Wait, let me pay attention this time.
Not enough. Okay, I didn't take fall
damage. That's good.
Ah, it is moving that.
Oh, you have to wait ages for it.
and
stop.
Yes.
Nice. I feel like I'm being rewarded.
It's like a reward.
I don't need anything from you.
I don't need anything. Doesn't that feel
good?
Okay. Well, now I got to get out of
here, weirdly.
And let's bring you all the way left.
Nice.
Here I come. You better watch out.
Don't break. Now, you know, it's another
game. Wow.
Another game that gives vibes like this
that I feel like a lot of people don't
realize is Legacy of Kain.
Feel like Legacy of Kane has some of
these like vibes in Nosgo.
I love Legacy of Kane. I would love to
see more of that franchise get put out
there.
[ __ ] everywhere.
Oh god. This could all go wrong very
fast.
[ __ ]
Oh, I have to reload. Heal.
Where did the other guy go?
There was a guy down here with me.
Did I get him? God damn, I'm getting
hit.
I feel like there's guys like right next
to me. Oh, maybe they're up there. Oh.
I was hearing him.
I'm coming.
That feels so good.
Nice.
Anybody else want a piece? Are you not
entertained?
Oh, [ __ ] yeah. Go through the vagina
wall. Very Dark Souls 2.
Whoa. Is this like Roman Greek stuff?
really ancient architecture.
I want a Snipy.
Baby wants Snipy. Also, that other
location I went to outside, now I'm not
sure if I'll ever get to go there again.
I'm here.
It did loop back around and I get snipy.
It all worked out.
That's cool.
I get into some Dark Souls [ __ ]
Hell yeah.
God, what a good video game.
I can see why it was so highly rated on
Steam. Now,
don't forget, we're domed in.
Don't forget we can't escape.
That feels so satisfying to do to go all
the way around and then get back up.
Oh, my friend is back and he's not hurt
this time. Hello, friend.
Friend. Hi, friend.
Okay, I want to know how the sniper
rifle works. Do I press click and then
it charges up and shoots on its own or
do I have to hold charge and shoot?
We're going to find out.
Okay, it's not one of their guns.
It is a sniper rifle.
It does a lot of damage. Who's shooting
at me?
Nice, bro. Show yourself. Don't be
scared.
Oh, baby. A triple. Mom, get the camera.
Diary of Arisa Reed, junior CSMG, drill
specialist. Entry for cycle 12 of Trist
713.
You just said a whole bunch of stuff I
don't know. It's common knowledge in the
field that CSMG build their vast
architectural projects over the
stratapform ruins of the old states of
the old states and kingdoms. This isn't
the first drill site like this I've been
to. And yet I was still unprepared for
the real thing. Me and the other crew
keep uncovering plates and markings,
mentions of a cities and countries we no
longer have record of. And I have to
wonder deeper down below. Who knows what
else they found? Are we on top of like
the real world? Like the world I live in
and you live in.
Oh, what's this?
Well, you look at that.
Very interesting. It's also so weird to
see roads inside a building.
You know,
you feel me?
Sniper ammo. Yes.
I'm getting better, though. I'm not
getting messed up like I was before.
Although, I am getting more materials.
The movement in this game feels so good.
I don't think I can do anything in the
roads. I think I actually have to go
through the hole in the ground over
there.
But I'm going to look
plus a lot of this stuff. Oh, we get a
machine gun as well. Oops.
What that? Oh, it's just a sign.
A sign of the times.
I better get rewarded for all of my hard
work to get up here. Oh, you can leave.
Ah, this is the thing. when it gives me
two options of what to do and where to
go. Now I'm like, "Ah, which one do I
do?
I should probably go down first cuz last
time I went down, it worked out."
And it was a secret. This seems like the
actual way to go. Okay, let's go over to
the hole in the ground.
No fall damage for me. No, sir.
Unless the game has no fall damage, then
I don't know.
Oh. Uhoh. Uh oh. Uh oh.
Oh.
Oh. Oh. I think I would have been fine.
Cool. I think I probably should have
gone out first.
Yeah. Maybe I should shoot the guys who
can shoot back first.
Oh god.
Hi, sir.
Uh-oh. Uh-oh.
Oh, I ain't even worried about it. I
ain't even break a sweat, bro.
Nice.
Ouch.
Ah,
[ __ ]
Damn it.
Okay,
I think we all learned a lesson. Don't
mess with me.
Is that like a coliseum?
It's not like a coliseum, Sean. It is a
coliseum or a tower of babel.
Unmistakably marked by their distinctive
pictographic script, these ruins must
belong to the Villamir people. The most
famous story we know of them says that
long ago they tried to build a tower to
reach the very ceiling of the world,
Tower of Babel. They failed, of course,
and now their greatest relic lies buried
underground as deep beneath layers of
sediment as one can reach.
Fools. Fools. A testament to mankind's
hubris.
Now, I'm sad that I didn't go up cuz I
I'm thinking now if I went up, I could
have seen the entire world.
Maybe I would have gotten a cool view.
push platform down. Huh?
Oh,
excellent.
Oh, I thought I think I see an entrance
in the wall over there.
Oh, I am supposed to go down first.
Never doubt yourself. Never give up.
Never kill yourself. Nice.
I'm back, [ __ ]
Oh god.
That was moving fast. Nice.
I'm back. Yo,
is that music or is it like a horn of
some kind?
That both of those things could be true.
I know.
Nice. I know.
We go.
Oh, I see the ceiling again.
It's like um Hollow Knight's kind of
like that as well. Hollow Night and Silk
Song.
You're underground for the entire games
and then when you get like glimpses of
the surface, it's like,
"Oh, I do not trust standing on this."
Oh, Jesus.
Yeah,
there's rules.
I can't overstate how passionate I am
about this aesthetic and this feeling.
Yeah, we're going through the windmills,
turbines, things.
That's the way forward. But I want to go
over here.
Not today, sunny boy. Maybe today, sunny
boy.
Oh yeah, look at those grinders.
Everyone who goes on dating apps, look
at those grinders.
I don't know what Grinder is.
Oh [ __ ] I didn't see you guys.
And you didn't see me coming.
Nice.
I mean, come on.
Oh, there's animals down there. Does it
get better than this?
Oh.
Well, you're dead.
Hey,
I didn't see you guys. I was admiring
the view. Leave me alone.
God,
grenade.
Love this. Loving this. Having a good
time.
Like, what are you guys grinding?
Hard for me in 2 seconds.
Can I go over there? Uh-oh.
Uh-oh. Big risks. Big plays.
I guess I have to go over there. Oh,
[ __ ] me.
What's going on? I I can't make contact
with the advance team. You don't think
something happened to them? Huh? As if
anything could happen to those bastards.
Nah. Must be electrical storm overhead.
Keep trying.
Or was it?
I
No, there's no way anything happened to
them. Boom.
Ow.
Ow.
Ow.
Guys, your words, they hurt, but your
bullets hurt more. Ow. [ __ ] Stupid.
Maybe I should just drop in on him
like so. Jacuse. Ha.
Whoa. How did you survive?
I got hurt again. It's okay. I have two
more uh things. My kids.
What y'all doing in here? Dying.
Got him.
Whoa. Okay.
Don't fall down to big a pipe.
Big risk. Big risk.
Oh, mother of god.
Yeah, you guys run. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Fight me back over here on my turf.
Boom.
Boo. Nice.
I wanted to kill one of the midair to
see if he would fall all the way down.
Oh, they hit me.
Damn it. You guys died like such good
little boys.
I have so much shotgun ammo.
Oh, secrets.
Yes, sir.
Could have waited.
Could have not wasted a medkit.
Oh, you're a secret for sure,
right?
Okay, you don't work. Cuz if I go this
way,
those from management, as part of our
ongoing initiative to improve employee
health, we have decided to limit the
amount of smoke breaks made available
per worker. When you'd like to access
the smoking area, you can now apply for
a key in your shift manager's office
just up through the elevator.
Oh, requires key. Okay, so I have to go
this way. Nice. That settles that.
I do still have an elevator room key.
Move, please. What you hiding?
Oh, nothing.
Whoa. Okay.
Oh, but I want to Oh, I want to do it on
both sides. Damn it.
We'll do it on both sides.
Don't you worry about that.
Although, how do I get back up to it?
Oh.
What the hell?
What the hell? Oh my god. No way.
That sucks.
How am I supposed to do it?
Oh,
I'm back.
Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. I get it. I get it. I
get it.
Oh, can I make it?
I made it.
Oh, I have loads of time.
Up, please.
Yes, sir.
I thought you would be much closer than
you are.
Can I double jump and hit that ladder
down?
Maybe I should have gone over there
first. Oh, big ladder.
Oh.
Oh, it doesn't hurt me. It was close.
Only
problem is now I have to do this.
Okay. I feel like halfway is enough,
right?
Yeah. Plenty of time.
What if I get extra from this?
Oh, you son of a [ __ ] Come on. I'm so
close.
Okay, let's go the other side.
Let's check this out first cuz I feel
like I can just come back around the
other way. I don't think I'm supposed to
be able to hit that ladder from where I
am. I think go up and around and back
over there and then the ladder is to get
back down onto that.
Wee.
Oh, that didn't get me up as high as I
thought.
I want to get up there.
H
can't double jump up to that, can I?
Interesting. Very interesting.
Actually, I could probably just clear
the gap, right?
Clear it easily. Clear it easily.
Barely even broke a sweat.
And this one, do I want it to go right
or left?
Go right first.
Oh, cutting it close.
Okie daisy.
Nice.
Hell yeah.
Epic.
Almost [ __ ] it.
This is going to raise. Will this raise
that as well?
Oh, I didn't have to hit the ladder. I
had to hit the switch.
Where does it go?
Oh, I see.
Nice. Cool. It's fun how it all fits
together. This one's broken, though.
I knew there'd be something.
That was it though. I kind of explored
everything.
I wanted to get down to this side and
that side. And now I've done that.
Oh, I accidentally double jumped.
Do I have to get all the way around?
[Music]
How would a guy do that?
by sheer force of will.
Whose will? I don't know.
Yeah. Wait, that one can't go all the
way either. I have to go back.
It's not going to fall off, is it?
Oh my god, these jumps. are getting
outlandish.
Unreal.
Really makes you feel like you're
Spider-Man.
All righty. We made it, yo.
Pistol ammo. Haven't used a pistol in
years. Medkit. I can take
a key.
Dude, you have all of this to look at.
Flip your desk around. Why are you
looking at the wall? You're looking at
your two biggest fans.
Okay, so that must be the key, right?
Nice. That was really fun.
Smoking area key used
a wasteland hike. Oh Jesus. Almost
didn't make that.
Didn't make that. Damn it.
I like that it shows you how far down
that is. Oh, I only lost a tiny bit of
health for that.
Oh, you're showing another thing up
there, though, which makes me think
there's more to see. But I am That
actually gave me the willies doing that.
God damn it. Ouch.
On this fallen mercenary's neck, you
find a curious cranial incision.
Cranial neck.
An external brain you've seen spies use
to store valuable memories. It might be
possible to use a neural interface to
connect and briefly browse what this one
thought would important enough to hide.
Yeah.
Processing.
After a short query, you find most of
the external brain scrambled following
fast after the mercenary's own decaying
neurons. But at least a few of the
memories seem as of yet unaffected. Of
course, connecting to unknown implants
is not without danger. Even more so when
their owner can no longer owner no
longer breaths.
But the memories contained on the
external brain could have some important
information.
There is a tug and your mind falls like
a device.
Oh, so quiet. Whose cord had been
forcibly pulled. Your sense of self
disappears and your own memories go
hollow. Briefly, there is nothing.
You were a guardsman, one of many,
standing poised in a dark corner of a
large concrete hall. The industrial
lamps of the room cast their hard
shadows on the group in its middle. The
corporate leaders of Central
Sireenian Mining Group. You remember
they've been arguing for hours. You were
mad. Blow it up. The greatest discovery
of our age. Consider it. If people start
leaving the interstructure, so much of
what we have created here will cease in
its relevance. Our assets value will
plummet and our concern will struggle
for mere survival.
It is the sensible course to take. We've
been granted this opportunity to see
ahead of the pack and we should take
whatever actions are necessary to keep
it that way. Could we really do that?
And what of our condition? Don't be koi.
We can deal with the that perfectly well
here. We've seen nothing. We know
nothing. All that we have ascertained is
one of our dams wasn't built to hold and
broke under the pressure. The engineers
responsible have already been dealt
with. There's more arguing, more shapes
moving angrily, and the half half
illuminated halls, but you are beginning
to have a harder time differentiating
between them. As your sense of self and
your own memories begin to return, you
realize what is happening. The
corruption has begun to reach this
memory as well due to the external
brain's increasingly deteriorated state.
That's cool.
Unfortunately, all other memories you
can find external brain are even more
corrupt than this one.
[ __ ] yeah,
bro. I didn't know we were going to do
neural linky.
Sick
neurolinky brainy wayy.
Really cool. Are you guys just shredding
up rocks?
Cows or whatever they are. Yeah. Look at
these [ __ ] things.
Hi
Oh, you're doofy. I like you. Oh,
trouble.
Troubles are brewing.
Take out the ones that can shoot me
first.
You guys are so slow.
that I was wondering what that jetpack
sounded like.
That it sounds like the VAT system in
Fallout when you zoom in on someone,
doesn't it?
I also like that there's items hidden
everywhere
cuz the dev knows that you're going to
explore all of this.
Love that [ __ ]
Can I save my game here?
No, I can do chapter select. I want to
take a thumbnail here. This is a cool
looking area.
Items, please.
There's mines everywhere. Good god.
It's also giving me a little bit of Halo
vibes. I don't know why, although I
haven't really played
Halo games that much.
Yes, so much stuff. Barely even need it.
Oh, I have 10 grenades on me.
Oh, is that a hole in the wall over
there?
Is that where I have to go?
cuz there might be more [ __ ] that way.
Let's check it out.
I really hope we get to see what's
outside the mega structure. Although I'm
I won't be sad if we don't cuz the
mystery of it is always
more important.
You guys been busy though.
[Music]
Holy crap.
Oh god. This is Oh, this is
nerve-wracking.
Okay. I was worried I'd have to go back
across it. Oh,
you may try, but you shall not be
successful.
Where are they?
You guys are all shooting, but I don't
see you.
You're wasting your bullets.
I'm not.
I'm killing it.
That looks really [ __ ] cool.
Is that like a
Is this the edge of the structure? Like
this goes
This goes way beyond that.
But is it like if I get through this, am
I in an area that no one's ever been?
That's what I'm curious about.
I want to see somebody like speedrun
this. I feel like the movement is really
good for that.
Oh [ __ ]
Oh,
wait. Am I supposed to be Oh, Jesus.
Yeah, I'm supposed to be
piss off.
You think you're cool with your big old
thing? Also, yes. Blow it all up.
I want to see this whole place go up.
Want to just be a smoking crater where
this place was. It would be so cool to
see.
Shh.
H.
How do we get up there? Oh, I wish you
could wall run.
Ow.
We're good.
We're good. Don't even worry about it.
Son of a [ __ ]
See these moves? You see these moves?
Yeah. Go crying back to mama.
Go purring back to mama.
Contract ledger written on a traditional
rolled paper. It details a pact made
between a dis disaffected splinter
faction of Ria sectorum, a military
officers of central Serenian mining
group. Ria sectorum is to give military
support and act as a helping hand in
mining states plan to bomb the area and
hide its truth. In exchange, they would
be afforded provisions as well as either
citizenship or safe passage back to the
lower stratas. One in particular jumps
out to you. No heavenly fields awaited
us beyond the structure and no god to
fill our empty stomachs. Dude, that's
badass.
That's like those Tik Toks that are like
banger lines and stuff that you don't
expect them to be in.
That's a banger line that I did not
expect in this game. All right, where
are we working towards? Sniper rifle.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, Jesus. Scared me.
Am I supposed to jump back out over
here? Oh, I'm doing it.
Oh, I'm doing it.
Oh,
I totally misconstrued what was
happening. I thought this was a giant
gorge and I had to jump the gap.
Oops.
I also wonder if I could kill those
things, but I don't want to try. They're
nice little friends.
I'm definitely climbing this thing.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. We got anything up here?
I see no gods up here except for me.
[ __ ] yeah.
I see you, buddy. Hold on. I'm
reloading.
Thank you. Thanks for waiting. You
should have attacked with all the other
guys. You could have died sooner. Oh,
there's a mine there.
I'm sure falling from some height would
hurt, but
I have yet to find that height.
God, they're hiding everywhere.
Oh, so satisfying.
It's just satisfying. Sniping is so
back.
Video games are real.
[Laughter]
Is there going to be more of you?
What do you need all this fuel for?
We've been carrying this [ __ ] for ages.
I hear
I hear the guys here just got some fresh
hardware to patrol the border with. Must
be burning through fuel like crazy.
Well, I'm spent. What are they going to
need to get me as a new back once this
is over?
That could not have been more perfect.
losers.
Nice. I got six medkits. I'm chilling.
Okay. Easy. First try. Watch this.
No problem.
No problem.
This man has never known defeat.
He doesn't know what failure looks like
until he looks in the mirror.
What? Oh, I'm not dealing with that
[ __ ]
I'm sorry, guys, but you are
way too far away for me to care about
you.
I'll just use so much ammo.
I might kill like a couple of you.
Nice.
Might kill like all of you.
Oh. Oh, that was going to be You just
You survived today, buddy.
Nice. Got them all.
Oh, no. That's where I came. I was going
to say if there's anything on it. All
right, moving on. Like the badass that I
am.
Yeah. Yeah, that's what I thought.
We Oh, no.
It's okay. It's just ammo. I have an
abundance.
I'm not locked here in with you. I'm
locked in with you. You're locked in
with you. What?
Come on. Give me some good. Give me some
good.
Nothing.
Cheap ass. You know what? I'm going back
down to get the ammo. I can't live with
myself knowing that that was down there.
I got to get it.
Okay, I feel better now. Thank you. Now
we can move on. I can kill more things
now. I have so much [ __ ] ammo.
261 plus a 12 clip.
Holy moly.
And that's why we do it. Oh yeah. I was
wondering if I would come up here. Oh,
thank god that that one's empty. Was
that it?
Is that the only reason I did all this?
No. How do I get in there?
There's got to be a Oh,
how did I not see that?
Yeah.
Nice. Oh, give me the goods. Give me the
goods.
Hiding in the woods.
Stop acting like you know the way, man.
Like you know the rules. There are no
rules, man. We're lost.
Nice. Feel happy about that now. Feel
very happy about that now. Feeling good.
Is there a faster way back?
I'm also very happy I shot all those
guys over there.
Feels good.
Wonder if I'll go over there.
And now I've put the work ahead of
myself.
Just I've I don't know what failure
looks like. Stop telling me.
I wouldn't know it if I saw it. I don't
know how to get out of here, though.
Huh?
What?
Oh,
damn it.
What do I do?
Uh-oh.
Me stuck.
Where did I come in? Like down here.
Okay, I'm fine. Oh, right. I just went
in there. I thought it was so much
further away. Whoopsies.
[ __ ] yeah.
Liking it. Oh, people are going to pop
out of everywhere, aren't they?
I don't trust it.
It's dead. He's one shot.
[Music]
Ow.
How do I get in?
I must be able to get in if you blow me
up like that.
Wait, is there anything over on this
side?
Maybe I can just drop in here.
Go on, squeeze. Go on, squeeze. You're
not that big.
Oh,
but I can't
I can't Oh,
never mind.
Good lord, this place is booby trapped.
That's the one I shot before.
Nice.
Oh, already got it. Already got it.
Ah.
Oh, I see.
Scary.
I was just about to say, do you think
there are any guys in here?
God damn. God damn. I entered the room
and they're like, bam,
[ __ ]
Extendo. Oh yeah.
Eat [ __ ]
eat [ __ ]
Okay, thank you.
Thank you for all the work you put in,
but also I hate you.
Why have you got these? What What are
What are you blocking yourself from?
Like, oh, I can't be hit now. Idiots.
That which escaped the notice of map
makers.
Whoa.
What y'all doing?
Okay.
Ah, yeah. Unlock the armory inside the
dam.
The crackle of electricity dances before
your eyes. This control panel has been
irreparably damaged. On examining the
exposed circuitry of the panel more
closely, you notice somebody tried to
link the lever's execution wire to the
siren warning system. A sloppy piece of
work here, but not unachievable.
Okay.
So, what do I do?
Can't like break these, can I? No.
Huh?
I thought this was like victory.
Like there was a new chapter. Where the
hell do I go then? Oh, wait. I bet you I
have to stand on one of these things.
Yep.
Ah, god damn it. I wasn't fast enough.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't trust
what's going on here.
Oh yeah, we're definitely going to have
to fight a a Geigle in here.
Jesus.
These guys are a hop, a skip, and a jump
away from being shot in the face.
Okay, I'm getting hit like an idiot.
You guys going to fall down? Ow. Jesus.
Okay, now leopard guys.
Yeah,
knew this had to be like the final wave.
Uh-oh. Did I get him anyway? Oh, I hurt
myself with that like an idiot.
See, I could snipe from distance, but I
really like the shotgun.
Like, I really like it.
That it or is there more up there?
Assuming there's more up there. Yep,
there's always more.
Woo.
Anymore.
Ah, I knew you didn't have it in you to
take me down. No one can.
Yes. I'm still not really out, though.
It's not like it's the first time I've
ever seen trees in this game.
Oh, this looks menacing, though.
Oh [ __ ]
Oh [ __ ]
What?
What do you want me to do against that?
Hold on. Let me stick a grenade on him.
That did barely anything.
Ow.
[Music]
Okay.
[Music]
Hide.
Jesus.
Do you think I could shoot those out of
the air?
Ow.
Okay.
Did he hurt himself?
As long as you don't throw a wave of
other dudes at me, we're good.
Oh god.
You have a weak spot.
cuz I have no weak spots.
Woo!
Ah!
Holy God! I ran out of bullets. That was
my last shot.
Woo!
Who's in here? Huh?
Why was I able? Oh, was I able to jump
on top and do way more damage that way?
Oh, I didn't know that. I I fought you
like a chomp.
Opening last sent message. The the
generally held belief is that there is
no such thing as a completely closed
structure, a completely isolated system.
This would violate the laws of
thermodynamics that we understand, not
to mention create a simple energy supply
problem in the case of a mega structure
as massive as the one we find ourselves
trapped in. Therefore, even if the mega
structures supposed outer walls have
always been far too difficult to drill
or bomb through, and especially Minister
should know the exuberant cost that
drilling even the smallest amount have
incurred in the past. The hope of
finding a maintenance tunnel or a
ventilation shaft has at least always
been present and it is exactly one of
these passages that we believe we have
now found. Message from head researcher
Lucien Arvagen to Holden. Okay, way too
many. And to answer your other question,
Minister, off the record, of course. The
UV light diffusion we have measured in
the outer structure has been at far
below standard levels where it can even
where it can even be measured at all.
I'm tremendously happy to report such a
space would indeed solve our most major
concern.
Okay,
interesting. Can I go in here?
Yeah.
I about to have all my hopes and dreams
fulfilled.
Oh, I want to slide the whole way down.
Oh my god.
Oh my god. This is like really freaking
me out.
Oh my god. I just made it.
Oh lord.
I also love the idea of getting out is
to go down instead of like up and over
or out through
Oh,
are the bombs going off?
Dude, this rule is so hard. I could not
be happier right now. I know I'm not
really showing it, but
Oh yeah, cool.
Surely I won't find any enemies down
here, right?
This is so sick.
What?
That music's great. Really adds to the
somber atmosphere.
There's a window in it, though. Like,
what are you observing?
Restart power. Whoa.
[Music]
The ancient terminal horrors to life. An
endless wall of code cuts across its
dusty display. The pure language of
machine. Line by line, you begin
deciphering the message.
Current working hour. Oh my god.
Wait, I got to find out. Should just be
able to divide that by 24, right? 2734
2549
243.
Oh my god. Is it 27 billion?
Holy [ __ ] It's a billion days.
1 bill139,272,885
days, which is 3 million years.
Did I do that math right? Cuz that's a
lot. The number of operating hours has
exceeded the statuary of the artificial
intelligence safety convention. Please
contact the maintenance committee for
machine euthanasia and replacement.
The same message keeps repeating again
and again. Other functions seem
unrestorable.
Well, if it that isn't just the coolest
[ __ ] ever.
Does that lever up top work now?
What the [ __ ]
[Music]
Whoa.
You guys had far greater technology than
I thought.
I nailed it.
Well, you were drilling.
Yeah. Planet surgery.
Is that the name of the planet?
Holy
crap.
I can't believe I'd never heard of this
game before a couple of days ago.
The amount of like hidden gems there are
out there. Oh [ __ ]
Like this is blowing my mind
cuz you have all these AAA games that
are trying so hard to get made and they
take $300 million in seven years. And
then you have something like this, which
obviously the graphics aren't like the
highest grade ever, but it doesn't
matter. Like the atmosphere and the vibe
and everything is there. It's adding to
it.
Oh, is that more bombs going off? What
is that sound?
Oh, [ __ ] yeah. Oh, [ __ ] yeah.
I'm outside the wall.
Weird floating storm orb in the middle
of nowhere.
You better believe it.
A portable device of familiar design has
been connected to this terminal. It
seems to be plowing for data and
functions far deeper than the ancient
mainframe would ever willingly give up.
Loading log. Oops. Mega structure
designation HF artificentric 7R16
structure type counterweight world.
Excuse me. A counterweight world is a
type of physically smaller, although
much heavier mega structure built within
a far larger one.
Are you saying you're a mega structure?
I am inside one of these but way bigger.
A Yeah, this is the counterweight world.
a physically smaller, although much
heavier, mega structure built within a
far larger one. It's like a neutron
star. Counterweight worlds were created
with the purpose of gravitationally
binding orbits of planets and other
celestial bodies that would find
themselves in the way of the outer
structures expansion.
Having been created before most of the
nearby outer structure, they would
restrain and prevent the intruding
celestial body from striking its walls
or ceiling, thus ensuring the structures
future stability. They were most often
built in the very earliest ages of
construction, especially in what we now
regard as the former inner solar system.
Additionally, like what like with many
other utilitarian yet crucial complexes,
a large maintenance team would remain
inside these structures. The species
they were known to seed often had their
origins tracing back to well patterned
gene pools, their biological parameters,
usually chosen to best assist in
specific tasks of tasks of the
structures future preservation. However,
mega mega structures expansion past the
Kyper belt. That's the belt outside the
solar system, right, of the asteroids
that like our solar systems gravity is
kind of like keeping at bay. I don't
know if I explained that right, but I my
mind's in the right place. And with
maintenance teams have having left the
structures, contact with many of these
counterweight worlds has been lost.
As such, it is very difficult for us to
verify their present stability. Log end.
unlocking rail module doors. Rail mod
door locked. Okay,
that's so cool.
So, is this like the center of
everything?
Whole thing explodes.
Where am I going down?
Dude, this is giving me huge Outer
Worlds vibes or Outer Wilds.
Outer Worlds is a far inferior game.
Outer Wilds, if you haven't played it, I
know I did one video of it on the
channel and then never went back or a
couple of videos, but I have finished it
in my own time.
Oh, and it's one of the best games I've
ever played. The gears that have not
been used in eons grind in violent
resistance against your demand for
movement. Before you, millions of miles
of concrete and steel stretch out,
dwarfing a great crimson sphere. You
watch as endless tides of hard matter
unfold, one solid, stacked surface after
another.
And as the slow descent of the elevator
continues, you begin to glimpse for the
first time the true vastness of your
escape. Many hours later, the elevator
descends to its lowest point, at last,
coming to a halt above raging oceans of
liquid coolant. the industrial towers
holding up the ceiling like mythological
giants of ancient tales. Finally
preparing to leave the elevator and
facing an ever stranger landscape, you
nonetheless find the familiar step of
your nomadic wandering returning. The
promise engraved in every mile traveled
that is that the seeking itself is the
answer. Wow.
Unreal.
That blew my mind.
just an incredible game. It leaves me
asking so many more questions, but I was
really worried at one point that when we
found like the Tower of Babel type of
thing, I was like, "Oh, we didn't just
like build on top of our world and then
we're like living." I thought it would
be like the ground underneath us is all
around our planet and then we built a
dome over it to stop like
global warming or the death of the
universe or like the sun died and we had
to build a thing around Earth to kind of
like protect it sort of thing. I mean
maybe that is what's happening but I was
worried that it would be a lot simpler
and then seeing that thing at the end
absolutely nailed it. I love that. That
was really, really, really good.
Like, right up my alley. It's exactly my
kind of game. Wow. Just I mean, I don't
really have anything else to say about
it. The aesthetic, the vibes, the
feeling. I did see a review that
somebody said the gunplay was kind of
terrible, but I'm like, I thought it was
really fun. Even the gunplay and the
movement system, like being able to
double jump and fly around everywhere
and making those massive sweeping jumps
towards the end, it just kept adding on
top of itself and made it really, really
fun to play. and then didn't over say
it's welcome. It was an hour and a half,
which I think is perfect. 2 hours, 2 and
1/2 maybe if you had a little bit more
to say with it, but it's just it's
perfect the way it is. I am so glad I
found this. So glad I played it. I hope
you guys enjoyed watching it. I would
love to know your opinions and thoughts
in the comments if any of you know this
game and are like talking to other
people on the Steam servers or whatever
and like coming up with theories about
what it all is. I'm so excited to kind
of like dive into other videos. This is
like, it reminds me of when I found Iron
Long the first time. I found it through
a YouTuber named Power Pack, which many
of you have probably seen his video. He
was also the one that made the video on
my house.wad,
the Doom mod that I played. I This also
kind of feels like that, like a hidden
gem that you played and you're like, my
god, I'm so happy that I played this and
know it exists and got through it. Same
with My House. It feels like the type of
game that people like those channels
would talk about. And now I'm like, I
got to find an essay about this and talk
about it and find more games that have
this vibe. It's incredible. Like the
video I found, I should shout them out.
Actually, this person, no caps, 34K
subs, 75K views on this video, though.
They did a whole video about Mega
Structure Games, and this one was in it
as well. There was a whole bunch of
other ones that I'm like, uh, some of
these are kind of cool, but not really
my thing. Like Lauren's lure looked
cool, but then I found out it's like 9
hours long and it's really, really hard.
But it has a really similar vibe to it.
So, I'm really glad that this person
made this video because it showed up on
my timeline suddenly and the thumbnail
was really cool. It's basically what I
wanted to do for my one. Just really
cool. I want more games like this. I
want this vibe. I want this feeling. It
feels like I'm tapping into the surface
underneath the like algorithm and
finding these like really cool indie
games that are they like this is a
horror game. It just doesn't wear the
skin of many other indie horror games,
but this is horror. This idea of like
the mega structure is [ __ ] awesome. I
love it. Anyway, thank you guys so much
for watching. Talk to me in the
comments. Let me know more suggestions,
more feelings, more vibes, anything at
all. Thank you for watching. And see you
next time.
