"hes kinda of just a mantis shrimp which is fine because god already overdesigned them" has gotta be one of my favorites quotes

Don’t know if it was explained yet but the reason by the spider crab enemies shoot lasers is a reference to the “Silence BRAND” meme

The weapon Magista wields is used for making tea. You put the tea leaves in the ball and dip it in water like a metal teabag. That and I believe it's supposed to represent a ball and chain.

omfg the way Topoda dances around after finding out you don't want to kill him, so cute!!

22:14 fun fact, if you look behind the Prawn Shop you can actually see the Loan Shark half buried in the sand. Confirming that he was the one holding the stick

28:50 the worm is actually coming out of his eye - he lifts the eyepatch and it comes out of the eye socket... ...which is arguably even worse.

Magista's weapon is a tea infuser. Because she's british.... she's an incredibly well designed character that allows us to see into the lack of order and justice in the shallows. Her character is also a call back to many "mad king/queen" characters found in pretty much every other soulslike.

A game with adorable characters which I WILL get attached, smiling just by thinking about them and then right after, I'm forced to watch every single one of them get killed, ripped alway from me, leaving me feeling unbelievably depressed? Ah, My favorite type of game

If youre still wondering what crustacian Chitan and her gaurd friends are, shes a lobster, cause during the intro for inkerton boss fight Roland mentions Inkerton “couldnt beat the damn lobster” which was chitan And yes firth’s boss fight is Phase 1-mirroring Krill’s Physical Damage moveset Phase 2-mirroring Krill’s magic and Adaptation moveset

The game looks genuinely charming. 11 mins in and I want to play as a crab and then come back to watch the rest.

now all we need is Monke soul, so we can have the choice between Return to Monke or proceed to crab

There are 2 people in this world: Maid Kril and Mr. Kril

I played this game and was pleasantly surprised by how... well this game does everything it wants to do. the only thing I would complain about is that there was a lack of enemy variety and that none of the stowaways visually affect your character, but otherwise? it was a wonderful experience and had moments where I was genuinely taken aback by the game flexing its skill.

As a person who shredded roly poly guy in 10 second on my third try, I never heard him swear

Fun fact: Pagarus has a *secret weakness* that a random character in flotsam vale can teach you which makes the fight a lot shorter, though it seems you made do without it. Also the pistol adaptation is busted AF when fully upgraded with an umami build. The final bosses were easily and quickly dispatched with a little rat-a-tat-tat from the gat

Cartoon style? Heckin whacky characters? Taxes, being forced to find a job, social anxiety? Main antagonist is capitalism? Bra this game isn't made for children its made for and by millenials

18:44 I have one of those things. It's for brewing tea. You put the tea leaves in the round cage, and either put it in the kettle once it's done boiling or put it in your cup once the water's poured. I think it's her weapon just because she's an aristocrat

I was so dumb while playing i went to flotsam village before defeating the mantis boss, i just jumped over the purple block things using the enviroment lol

When the most low budget, silly soulslike is the best one since nioh

You know the funny crab game is good when they give it a Caelid Edit: also i paid like $30 on Xbox and didn't know it was free but its still worth it.

the queen's weapon is one of those metal balls where you put tea in it instead of buying teabags so it goes pretty well with the theme

15:00 i died and lost 200 k microplastics in the old ocean cuz of the frame drop

I believe the diseased lycanthrope can suck up his crab add or at least he could in the demo

5:56 in sekiro the danger Kanji is also above wolf's head, not sure what you're talking about.

Wow! What a game, I don't mind the criticism I'll probably get but this game ticked all my Environmentalist boxes. Anyone with any interest in our beautiful, exciting Oceans and the damage we are doing to them wants to see more like this.

Its interesting to get some different takes to see if my frustrations were warranted or if i was playing wrong. Like I didn't notice hiding in your shell helps avoid fear. But i did notice intimidation crabs fear attack specifically goes in a straight line, so you can completely dodge it by going to the side then parry the followup.

Ok, more games need an option to literally just give you a gun in case you're having trouble.

I'm glad you covered this. I saw a lot of those "retro gaming" types hype this up. But I have no respect for their opinion since they will give a 10/10 to anything that panders to their nostalgia with zero substance. But if you're hyping it up then thay for sure is gonna make me paust and consider purchasing it.

The bobbit worm trap is one of the strongest adaptations

Is that michael reeves voicing the loan shark?

you know those X's in the sand, you can "fish" those up for extra treasure. You are welcome. Also, the bobbit trap adaptation carried me through the whole game, even un-upgraded (I didn't find the mantis shrimp until post game unfortunately). interrupting an opponent's moves, and stunning them for a charged attack is a great strategy

The Crab Who Stole The Whorl, i love a mgsv reference! Literally had me dying.

since nobody asked, Prawnathan sells your shell for 999 999 999 and if you manage to get that amount of microplastic and buy it... nothing happens, you just get the shell... kinda sad there wasn't any jokes, special dialogs or anything, did it using cheat engine after 100% the game btw

I feel like I’ve been blessed getting to experience Lies of P and Another Crab’s Treasure so close together. Both super fun in very different ways. Had a great time playing this game in reverse order and the maps just telling me where I’ve already been and the historian calling it out. One of my favorite moments was going to the grove from behind through the junkyard area and fighting the intimidation crab through the shortcut to him. Also, it’s unfortunate that it looks like you didn’t experience the one saving grace of Voltai which is that she can whip out a fucking vibrator in the middle of the fight.

You deserve way more views man… your grounded commentary is great. Happy I’m subbed now.

i want someone to make a souls game but toys, there could be so much customization and variety of characters and enemies maybe lack in story but it could absolutely bring a different vibe to the souls like genre

1. The queen's weapon is a tea ball strainer, and yes, the grab attack traps you in it and flings you around. 2. I liked LotF :( 3. Great video. Just enough comedy and confidence in your voice to be entertaining while still being a straight-laced review.

I actually went the whole game without finding topoda , i didnt know you could upgrade adaptions till after i beat the game and started looking for opinions online

18:39 it’s what you use to put in the tea leafes so that they don’t spill on the water

The rusty nail stowaway has a reference to hollow knight in the description

Another Crab’s Treasure might be my favorite soulslike? It’s relatively simplistic design and extremely well telegraphed bosses make it an ideal first soulslike IMO.

Based on your speech on the beginning with mentioning Iron Pineapple, i want to say something about one of the games he's covered, by name of Clash: Artifacts of Chaos. That one's not a full outright Soulslike. It's got the bonfire checkpoints, health flasks, world design with shortcuts that loops in on itself, but it's a bit more difficult to define it beyond that due to the Ritual and the 3D brawler/fighter mechanics. With the way customizing your own fighting style works, it's a bit more like God Hand (PS2), Absolver or Sifu, though not as difficult. And like Another Crab's Treasure, it's very colorful. Not all that grim, nor overly positive or happy. Environments can be very pretty while inhabitants can look like they are made by Stan Winston Studios for a Dark Crystal type movie. The aforementioned Ritual is a very centarl and important piece of worldbuilding connected to the One Law : it's literally the only law that exists and that people obey. And completely optional (bar three or so encounters). It's a short game of dice that works as following: - You place down the mat, - You and the opponent choose an Artifact. The winner gets to spend their artifact in exchange for the effect it represents. - you and the opponent throw their dice, - and then you take turns placing dice modifiers called Tchaks. This can get pretty technical and strategic with the different Tchaks -- they can affect only your dice (white Tchaks), the enemy's dice (red Tchaks) and both (red-white pattern chaks), affect dice based on Vicinity, Area of Effect and Straight Line, and have effects such as halving a die's value, reducing one point of value, protecting from dice alterations in the next turn, outright destroying dice (for that round). But as i said: it's completely optional. Or you can just let the bird on your shoulder play it. Now here's the *real* interesting thing. For me, anyway. With the aforementioned Artifacts, the winner gets to impose a condition on the ensuing fight. Stuff like the loser being tethered to a small pole that limits their movement area, the loser having to drink spider or snake venom that depletes their health bar slowly or gives them periodic stun/disruption, banning weapons outright, placing down a fence of sticks and the first to get knocked out of it has to accept a free hit with a big stick by the opponent, or even being tied to a Summon artifact if you won with the Pact artifact, so you can summon that enemy in a later fight if you win the Ritual there. Again, it's completely optional. Clash has a generic name that probably hasn't worked in its favour, but it is *well* worth checking out. Solid gameplay, very good writing and voice acting, awesome art direction and music and great atmosphere because of it. Hope this comment made you interested in it. Let's hope it gets more known alongside Another Crab's Treasure.

Thank God for Miyazaki. Without him there would be no games like this.

i just like listening to this guy talk 😭

I'm pretty sure "Petroch" is pronounced "pet-rock" 😂 Furthermore, those laser spider crabs are a reference to the "SILENCE ___" meme, in which a king crab fires a laser to shut up whatever detestable demographic he wants to shut up

Great video! BTW the Magista's weapon is a tea infuser for loose leaf teas btw.

31:16 If you or anyone sees this, it's the shell dash. If you get sucked or hit away hard enough while in the shell dash, you'll deal damage. It's like how a few shells have the rollout damage ability built in.

praya dubia was a simple boss fight because it was meant to be more like an interactive cutscene to lead up to krill stealing the whorl, but they didn't want to make the thing hyped up for the whole of the unfathom and old ocean to be just a cutscene or at least thats my take on it

The bobbit worm trap is pretty good. It immobilizes enemies for a second or two.

I agree that the game def should’ve implemented more platforming into bosses but I really love that some attacks when blocked will make you roll away fast, and you can roll back into them for decent damage

12:02. It's the system of Hollow Knight so, it's not innovation per se, although it fits this gameplay perfectly. 19:08. Her weapon is a tea spoon. You place your tea inside it, instead of in a bag.

I recently did infact complete a naked run (with no vitality or res upgrades either), and honestly it wasn't all too different from the shell run. You can't use stowaways without a shell which does damped the experience a bit, but even with 0 vitality or resistance upgrades you can still take 2 or 3 hits from the end game bosses, provided you collected some health upgrades from exploring. In the end I managed to stunlock multiple bosses with the wavebreaker and bobbit trap adaptation. I rarely had to go out of my way to farm upgrade points either, only once I can think of to get the shell-less block upgrade.

One thing i learned from my playthrougj of the diseased lichenthrope is that he is so polluted that eating the shells gives him health hack.

Wasn't interested in the game at all at first, but this video was really enjoyable. Really interesting and entertaining, maybe I'll even play it myself now.

Jester, I love you for understanding that an easy mode is not for weaklings that need to git gud, but an accessibility features that puts everyone on a level playing field. It's rare to see this in the souls community, and you have my respect for it.

I just beat this game earlier today (took me 33 hours) and it was amazing, it has it's issues, but for their first try at a souls-like it absolutely delivers (have 3k+ hours in FromSoftware games) and is a solid 8/10 game. My biggest issue is the endgame damage, an issue that it shares with Elden Ring, they could have dialed it back a little bit (if there was a slider for the damage I would have dialed it back to about 0.75x-0.85x, keeping it high still, just a little bit less extreme). I did use the assist that turned off damage when falling into the void but that's it, too much bad experience from FromSoftware games with platforming issues, that and a pretty cheap death in the reef area involving two seahorses. The Worm trap is actually quite good, it interrupts attacks, and when upgraded to the max deals damage over time AND has the same effect as the first adaptation you get. I had one game-breaking bug as seen here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/brCVhshp07CoZps.html, but this was the only real one I had on this scale. I had a few frame-drops, none of which were that severe, some enemies clipping into the ground and weird physics moments. However this bug would have allowed me to obtain the Eel adaption early and sequence-break the game (getting it before the second or third map-piece), sadly I don't see speedrun viability because the only way to fix it is to completely close the game. I don't recall a lag spike like that at 34:36 happening there for me, then again I'm playing on a roughly 2020 gaming laptop, so it's pretty powerful. I also found two-maybe three inexcusably bad hitboxes that tarnished bosses: 1. Inkerton's "gunshot" is bad enough that standing to the side of it (outside of the visual effect btw) can get you hit (it nearly one-shot me) 2. Heikea's grab has serious Dark Souls 2 energy with how I was clearly out of it's reach and was somehow STILL GRABBED with me teleporting into his hand for it. To say that death felt unfair would be an understatement, it really soured that fight for me. 3*. The Consortium's overhead tentacle slam (on top of doing a bit too much damage) hits a bit too early. I'm not too sure if this one is actually a shitbox (shitty hitbox). I'd say that despite some of the issues, the endgame bosses are better than the Elden Ring endgame bosses, which I know I have an EXTREMELY UNPOPULAR opinions of (Elden Beast>Radagon). Overall they made a better final boss than Radagon/Elden Beast, which is embarrassing on FromSoft's part. Not only that it handles teleporting in a way that doesn't feel like cheap bullshit unlike Radagon, seriously fuck that teleport of his and how he can decide to SPAM IT.

well im now very interested in playing this game. didnt finish the whole vid cause I wanted to leave some stuff for me to be interested in tha tI havent seen yet. gotta save some surprises for myself.

For me, I never found New Carcinia annoying because the design and npc’s surrounding it was so charming and fun.

i love this game so much, but i definitely do not recommend playing it on switch- it runs soooo badly. the worst was during the false moon fight, the game froze and shoved me out of bounds, forcing my hand to restart the fight :( i don’t think the switch can handle all the constant particle effects. banger game tho

17:15 I had the exact same thought.. I honestly feel they should have changed the text to "visit the Moon snail" after unlocking Shelleportation.

By the end of the game, I stumbled into an absolutely stupid umami build using Shell Sanctum. Shell Sanctum's Twinkle only uses durability, and there's a skill that gives you an umami charge every time you defeat an enemy with an umami skill. As long as you can defeat ~3 enemies using twinkle, you have unlimited shots. Using the Whelks, you get a massive damage increase to the point where you can easily shoot down any boss afterward.

I'm at the end of this game and never had the first encounter with inkerton only the boss fight. Did I miss something?

On the 'popups above Kril's head Sekiro-style to indicate dangerous attacks' nitpick, having gone through the game and seeing how big some of the larger enemies/bosses are, and how fast and erratically some of them can move, I actually think it's fine the way it is. With Kril always in the middle of the screen, it means from a UI standpoint the alert is always somewhere centre stage, you can guarantee the player at least *can* always see it. Couple that with the very clear sound that plays when they occur, the fact that, unlike in Sekiro (unless you can read Kanji), the symbols are very visually distinct and the fact that they are telegraphed with enough time for the player to register them before an attack comes, I think it works amazingly well Better than Sekiro, at least. Anecdotally, I never had any issue seeing them in combat, and once I could intuit what colour meant what with experience, never confused which reaction was appropriate for each attack. You hear the sound, you dart your eyes to Kril, you see the colour and you know what to expect next

Btw breadclips only refer to the breadclaw not all of the claws like he said

28:51 actually it comes out his eye, you see him lift his eye patch and the worm comes out then it goes back in and he puts the eye patch back on. he also raises a arm to hold the eypatch off, why would he do that if it was his mouth?

the “stowaway” system is cool, its pretty much the hollow knight charm system

But the real question is why does the eel boss attack you with a hitachi wand...

Just beat the game and I'm watching this.. I never realized mantis punch broke the purple walls 😭

First time I ever saw this game was when it appeared on a IronPineapple video.

one bad thing Soul game taught us is the stubbornness of refusing to use every tools the game gave us. we got spoiled by Soul games for giving us too many options of playing the game, we forget that for many other game, you supposed to use every tools available to win, these tools are not options, these are nessesary tools for most game. and maybe we should do that in Soul game as well, and stop being elitis and stubbornly playing the game in 1 way only because we only every playing them that way.

Thanks for the recommendation, awesome game!

the pain i feel when he called the Colt..a "nine" hurts me, in ways i can't explain.

Nooo! The bobbit worm ability is the best, It was the only one 1 used other than the shell one

Magista's weapon is supposed to be a tea ball infuser

the very end is the shell left abandoned for some other hermit crab to use? y/n?

shelless runs are actually pretty enjoyable imo

Not using Bobbit worm was probably a mistake (it is literally the best ability in the entire game)

Thanks for this video. I was 10 minutes in and decided to buy the game, I'll come back and finish the vid once I'm done with the game!

erm ackshually roland is a giant isopod! which while being very similar creatures(like cousins) are indeed different! but yes the giant isopod like the rolypoly can become ball

Did anyone else think that it was part of the SpongeBob game and you play as Mr crabs

15:00 I never got any shuddering while I played it

I played the game in order (aka beating pagurus when you are supposed to) and honestly this game gets extremely easy in the mid game especially considering that this is my first soulslike game. Seriously it only took me 2 attempts to beat the cerviche sisters, the consortium, and pagurus which felt really weird, even Topoda didn’t feel that difficult to me

I want you to know that i only stopped watching the video, because you sold me on the game, and i dont want any more spoliers. Great stuff my guy!

I didnt find topeda till after the eel

Aggro Crab has become one of my new favorites. So far their style is 'Fun to play' and 'You know, capitalism has more cons than pros right?'

Superb critique, mate!

The Lords of the Fallen shade really set the tone of this video LOL.

love the video, keep up the good stuff

Indy game of the year 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I just finished the game on Game Pass and i kid you not, only 4% of players have beat the final boss...

I'll be honest. I like this game right up until the end.

1:50 … Made by crabs for crabs***

In Sekiro the perilous attack warning also appears on top of the player character, not the enemy. That said, it's still a lot more noticeable compared to this game.

Did you ever find a shark egg?

30:00 actually your third xD

Isn’t Roland a isopod?

the only thing you i hated while playing this game is that they can hit you through the walls.

Yes indeed

I eish it was on mac

I liked it until I got to Unfathom. -50 fps, and I fucking hate it. Never woulda got through without the gun cheat