I played 1 Souls-Like game you've never heard of

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Published 2024-05-11
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bonus episode of Steam Dumpster Diving with somehow, once again, even more "souls-likes" you (probably) haven't heard of

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Big thanks to:
cobcris for animating the intro: twitter.com/cobcris
Vaati for co-oping with me:‪@VaatiVidya‬
Onua for creating the SFM pose of the knight in the thumbnail: twitter.com/Odynom

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 intro
2:44 The Last Oricru
1:58:23 Outro

games played (in order of appearance)
store.steampowered.com/app/1663640/The_Last_Oricru…

All Comments (21)
  • @VaatiVidya
    For the past year I thought this game was a bizarre fever dream, now I find out it was actually real?
  • @Trio3224
    You can hear Vaati taking mental damage every time there's dialogue.
  • @ClaeFace
    I love IP’s contented “I actually kind of like this,” followed immediately by Vaati’s genuine discomfort
  • @sketchywyvern
    "This is the nation we inherited" girl you've BEEN the queen. for a WHILE
  • @Kira-rn9fl
    Holy shit, the Big Ilvar rap song was the single funniest thing I’ve seen in years. I was actually crying laughing and had to catch my breath.
  • @bennelson6207
    The idea of a character who's just afraid to say no to someone and just does whatever the last person asked him to is hilarious
  • @zach7
    Honestly I love that Ilvar and the broken are completely missed and the only explanation we got in this video is cause they somehow avoided that entire faction. So the Rap is our only lore source here. That he was the one creating monsters to overthrow things to try and get the ship back together so he can leave. Also he's an alien who isn't human or anything and has lived here for the entirety of the fucking history of this planet? I like how there was another human character who was never encountered and somehow "GOK" disappeared from the plot but the post credits scene says he killed the queen, which must have been done quickly considering the ship just nuked the planet. Honestly, if it could have been kinda alright but I'm kinda glad it's janky. this was fucking amazing to watch.
  • 28:44 never have i identified more with someone than when vaati responded “what no I’m not” to IP saying “we’re good at video games”
  • @Jack_Cooper_RFC
    Ratinity = Humanity, as in the collective noun for the entire race. "Let the blood flow for all ratinity" It's dumb lmao
  • @BizarreM
    The dynamic duo of Vaati being the bored, easily annoyed guy who just wants to get through this as quick as possible and Pine being an optimistic guy who sees the best in the game and assumes everything is working as it should be is what made this video for me. Honestly it's like watching Squidward and Spongebob interact with each other.
  • @MrKoalabeere
    I cant belive I watched a 2 hour video about such a game and was entertained the whole time. Its also funny that the Big Illvar rap video gave you more lore about Illver than the entire rest of the game because you just disregarded his questline but at the end just descided for his ending.
  • @firmmatt
    Only while looking at the credits do I realize that this masterpiece of a game was made by Czech developers. I am so proud of my fellow countrymen.
  • @GodsHeart-ej9ti
    Ship: “don’t trust anyone” Proceeds to trust the last person they talked to
  • @JanPospisilArt
    "I'm no assassin....They don't call me the Exterminator for nothing!" Peak writing.
  • @varsa507
    I appreciate the amount of "I just made a positive connection with this character, let's ruin it" options, very bold writing decision!
  • @koalabunga
    Ex-member of the production team here: I can confirm the writing of the main character was intentional, because when you think about it, it is not possible to allow players to make such profound decisions, so many times, with the main character not being mentally unstable / ironic about everything / fully existentially absurd. Mentioning of the Gok in the epilogues is a bug caused by you completely skipping the optional negotiations with the Ratkins where the Queen would be assassinated by Gok and his raticals. The game is intended to be replayed multiple times, in order to try different decisions and slowly put together all the pieces of the puzzle, but I understand, that it is not as pleasurable an experience as the devs wanted it to be, due to all those bugs. But, if it ended up good and relatively bug-free and you would be willing to play it more times, the whole story would start making more sense. It is intentionally written from a limited perspective of the main hero, though I admit that some characters and their reasoning could be explained way better. As for the bugs, this game is much too ambitious for such a small team (apart from the art team there literally just a handful of programmers and a single scripter), there is just too many paths the game can take and the game focused primarily on the melee combat with quite a variety of melee weapons with special abilities (whereas you killed everything with magic ) + you can unlock some weapons only when you choose a specific path etc. and in the end the bugs were just pushed in front of us, nobody having enough time to fix them because there was always something new that had to be added or fix something even more game-breaking. Alas we tried to make something monumental and worked really hard, so I am so grateful that at least you guys had such a good time.
  • @Haysey_Draws
    The best parts are Pine desperately trying to get excited for the game and Vatti just being like "no" lol
  • @boxingodric
    The cut scene at 1:28:50 is so hilarious with Vati just silently hopping back and forth in the background. Genuinely one of the funniest things I have seen on your channel Pine and I've seen a lot of funny moments.
  • Having watched a ton of Vaati content on his channel (and loving how good he is at making sense of the lore), I gotta say him so obviously resenting this game and the snide remarks is absolutely hilarious. Great bonus content!