Nuh uh

Namaste​@@Foekoe

@@Foekoe guh

​@@Foekoe you are very Portuguese

I didn't want to comment this so thank you for doing so.

No

Where did you come from

Oh hello there Niko from the hit indie game oneshot

Niko!

The darkest timeline

helooo!!

so true

Ur video made me buy it

Less go hope we get a review video from you too I'm just searching for some rn.

yea!

-1000 social credit LingDao wants you to disappear

@@justsomeplantcells- Execution date: 明天黎明 Your last meal will be bing chilling

What the hell is shame for our past sins🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹. The portuguese empire shall rise again!!!!! 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹

West european balkans

BORA CARALHO 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

You mean Taiwan?

@@happyjay9168 Taiwan doesn't belong to china but Portugal

That is a pretty good fun fact. You receive the fun fact seal of approval, very cool keep making more fun facts. 😎👍

it like a mix of halo 2 and halo 3

One Hour One Life is also 100% hand made, even the sound effects, the creator made them all with his mouth.

i will wait and see till foekoe makes so many cave story mentions so he'll have to make video about cave story

@@ogn1k110 i would love to see a cave story video, its my favorite game

Well, with Ilsa Formosa being a thing and all, Portugal is close enough. XD

I second this.

yes

yeh, i mean he’s reviewing the game and he’s talking about what he doesn’t like. if you like dialogue then it doesn’t matter.

I generally don't like a lot of dialogue in games. This game made me realize I just don't like game dialogue when it's bad. The characters and story in Nine Sols is great and well worth reading.

@@WuRuiDe What's some examples of games with bad dialogues for you, if it's alright to ask?

Yeah you do you plants vs zombies guy

Dew it

​@@The_guy_wit_no_futureSounds like somebody hasn't watched any of his content in a few years or is still coping with the fact that he isn't making PvZ content anymore. Oh wait he stopped making content as a whole I forgot about that.

Heck yeah. Hesitation is Defeat.

hey aren't you dea- *💀*

Mind if i give some suggestions for other (recent) games with more overt story, voiced cutscenes, established protagonist character and good dialogue?

@@jurtheorc8117 Sure! I’m always up to get ahold of some good games to play!

@@BonazaiGirl Thank you! Heads up: Very big comment incoming The games i want to recommend are Clash: Artifacts of Chaos, Soulstice, Cookie Cutter and No Straight Roads. - Clashs: AoC is a prequel to the Zeno Clash games, which are a very unique and bizarre world, almost prehistoric, with few humans and many sapient monsters, chimeras and freaks. The main character is a lonely, ugly martial arts hermit, who comes across an old man and his bird grandchild being harassed by a mercenary, leading to the accidental death of the grandfather. Pseudo, as the hermit is named, steps in to try and find a new safe place for the Boy, all the while surviving mercenaries, wildlife, maniacs and a theater-themed cult. Throughout the game, there will be moments of the two having talks with one another, like favourite foods, wondering what is across the sea, some teasing such as "Why don't you have feathers? You can sleep on them, like a pillow!" "I could pluck you and make a pillow" "Ah! Bad Pseudo!" "Heh heh heh" and genuinely fantastic music. To note: That last teasing conversation only happens late in the game. Early on, Pseudo is a pretty firm guy that doesn't go out of his way to emotionally attach himself to anyone, but he doesn't dismiss the child either. He's here to get stuff done, has some sass to him (pretty mercilessly against one character in particular), is alright with engaging in conversation, but there's also some melancholy to him. Not feeling like a complete person. The Boy himself can also offer some interesting things, like this following conversation: "I miss Grandpa sometimes." "You shouldn't. The dead are gone. They don't matter." "If they don't matter, why do they make us sad?" "*sighs*... I don't know." and one not long after that: "Pseudo... what happens to us when we die? Do we go somewhere?" "Where should we go? Zenozoik is all there is. Flesh to Dust, Breath to Wind. That's it." "Is that why the wind... sings?" *in a more intrigued, wondering tone* "I... don't know." For the game world itself, there is only one Law: Prior to a physical altercation, you can challenge an opponent to The Ritual, a short game of dice, where the winner gets to enforce a special condition on the battle. It's the closest semblance to any form of order and organization. - Cookie Cutter's about a planet known as the Megastructure that has a rather mystical energy source at its core. The main character is an android woman called Cherry, constructed by a scientist to save that world, who later become lovers She gets intensely, violently brutalized at the start of the game as the dystopian megacorp/government comes to take the scientist away. Cherry gets fixed up by an old friend of the scientist lady and is understandably much more bitter and angry, and is not here to make friends. Though neither is she here to be a deliberate jerk either, Cherry's just blunt and impatient. Many people haven't liked her for it, but all the characters react to her attitude in their own way. Some don't like it, some don't much care, some warrant a biting response back and some find it it refreshing. Cherry does have a separate A.I. companion named Regina who helps to balance out her rudeness and bluntness with a more educated view on things. Fair warning, the game itself can be quite irreverent and provocative. But it's not here to make fun of itself either. Cookie Cutter's quite a passion project of the lead dev, a kind of love letter to a LOT of media that has shaped his and later his team's tastes over the years. It makes no concessions on its weirdness and tone, fully knowing how divisive it can be, embraces clichés and isn't here to reinvent the wheel: but to have a story for the sake, value and worth of the world and story simply existing. - No Straight Roads is set in a city that is powered by music. The lead characters are an indie rock band of a pretty energetic and emotive guitarist (Mayday), and a more level-headed laid-back drummer (Zuke). During special auditions they get brushed off with unanimous negative votes by the jury, who consist of the main music artists that govern the different districts of Vinyl City. Yet the audience's reception seemed very loving. One scene later and Tatiana, the mayor/CEO bans *all* rock music from the city and heavily favours EDM. Meanwhile there's problems of various blackouts happening and most emergency power only gets directed to the main artists' venues. So, Mayday and Zuke seek to strike back. They fight the artists on their home turf, but they're not one-note simple bad guys. The entire game has a theme of music: Bosses don't just have different attacks in accordance with different parts of their themes, but also seem to represent different reasons why people make music, the effect that has on themselves and their audience, music as an industry, and the effect *that* has on artists and their people. From an astronomer DJ to a child prodigy on a piano, to a lady who looks like a living abstract or surrealist art mannequin piece and some others. Between bosses there's also some radio station interviews that the characters can have, discussing stuff like how Mayday and Zuke have their own disagreements-- like Zuke acknowledging that the antagonist company makes genuinely qualitive products, including drumsticks, and that Mayday got quite zealous and broke them. - Soulstice's main characters are technically one singular being. A big part of the game's lore and themes is about bonds and relationships with people, due to an ancient and common threat of extradimensional ghosts attacking a dark fantasy medieval world. This necessitated the birth of Chimeras: Creatures consisting of two souls bound into one body, with the secondary soul having the ability to tap into the intangible and ethereal to make the wraiths vulnerable to physical harm. Chimeras can only be born through two people having a very strong, intense bond. Briar and Lute, the two sisters, dearly love each other, with Briar being quite brash and having a chip on her shoulder about their current state of being, especially regarding Lute being a child and practically dead. Lute is a sweetheart, and is able to keep giving her sister hope, without being overbearing about it. Thing is, the game shows that the bond required to create a Chimera, doesn't necessarily have to be a positive one. And when a Chimera grows unstable, they risk Transcendence, a process of becoming a horrible, powerful monster, every one unique. There's also a snarky shopkeeper/overseernamed Layton who provides extra dialogue for those interested. It can tell more of the world or some insight in what the characters think. Like how Layton used to be part of the great monastery in the city where the game takes place, but always felt that the place was too opulent to really be built in honor of their gods. Too distracting, built more to impress than to revere. (Must admit, Soulstice isn't the easiest character action/hack-and-slash game to get into for reasons of the camera at times, dragging on in either the beginning or the middle depending on who you ask, and varous mechanics, but gameplay and story alike nevertheless have a lot of good stuff to offer and does feel good as well.) Very big comment, thank you for reading through all of this if you did so. I hope i've sparked your interest with these and wish you a lot of fun when you may get to them.

I'm a bit sad that he never mentioned that the dialogue is quite well written and feels like a real dialogue than just lore dump most the time. Ig that's the souls player ADHD for you.

@@jurtheorc8117 Thank you for the recommendations! Funny enough, I have played NSR and Cookie Cutter (both are great games with great dialogue and unique mechanics, although NSR is slightly janky), but haven’t played Soulstice or Clash. They do sound promising from the way you describe them in such great detail with super interesting synopsis. Might give check them out if they’re on Steam or Console.

And I was wondering if there's someone come out and point this out Thank you

he like me for real, no geographic cultural knowledge

Same thing, both are in north america.

I played too much hearts of iron and can tell you, that would have been true if Japan justified a war goal of Portugal

@@The_whales what??

WHY IS EVERYONE CLARIFYING THIS JEFIKJNBGEEJWGKIWE

@@axyndey Because we are not china

@@hmg8224 They not like us, they not like us

Also understanding the narrative is like fighting a boss for three hours but once you understand it, it’s one of the greatest stories to ever story

I agree, there definitely is a lot of dialogue, and you don’t need to read a lot of it to understand the main story. A lot of it does help build the world and understand the land you are in. I think why sometimes it feels like there’s a lot of dialogue because after your done with an area you probably have a lot stuff to give to shaunshaun and shennong

I do like the story, but the ending disappointed me. The true ending is basically just outright worse then the normal ending, but neither are super satisfying. It’s okay though, because the final boss was amazing.

Foekoe try not to make videos on indie games challenge (impossible)

I think he just made a mistake and thought traditional was used in mainland and simplified in taiwan, and claimed it was in traditional chinese as a result even if it was actually simplified.

I can confirm what's shown in 2:44 is simplified Chinese, which is used by people in China (I'm from Taiwan) I think he is just confused which country is using which language 😅

@@j2325138 Ah good to know, thanks!

To my surprise many people take simplified Chinese as a language that Taiwan people use. Stand with FoeKoe, although he might just mistaken something. It’s fine, the history is complicated, we don’t expect every people on earth understand. Just here to clarify, the Chinese in the clip is simplified one.

@@user-mo4tg2gf1j You're right, Taiwanese people wouldn't use that junk font

I agree. While I believe that environmental storytelling is more tasteful than lines of dialogue, I think it works well in this case due to the story being more focused on the characters, rather than the world building. I think it would've been great if there was more use of environmental storytelling when explaining the world, but honestly, I didn't really mind reading the lore.

Yes, agreed. The chat in this game made me very attached to characters, I loved every interaction with Shuanshuan and I even cried at the end of this game, which almost never happens in metroidvanias to me (except in Ori, I cried a lot in both Oris)

AGREED I played through the ending 10 times now, cried every single time

Strongly agreed. At first I wasn't really interested in Nine Sols, but the writing, in-world events and discussions and the character interactions made me much more interested. The stuff with finding gifts for Shuanshuan and poisons for Shennong, and from what i believe Kuafu having something new to say after every story milestone, just grabbed and kept my interest. There's other (fairly recent) games where that, having established characters and interesting interactions and development with one another, was exactly a big part of why i retained interested in a game's world. Those being - Clash: Artifacts of Chaos - Cookie Cutter - No Straight Roads - Soulstice Can recommend all of them, though be warned that Cookie Cutter has a very irreverent and at times weird, provocative tone, but like Nine Sols it's beautifully 2D hand-animated, with a colorful, interesting sci-fi/cyberpunk story with a striking style and world all its own (if not *quite* as complex, but still really lovingly made) - Soulstice is a game like Darksiders and DMC and isn't the simplest in the genre to get into for reasons of gameplay mechanics, camera and pacing. But the story of the two sister protagonists is very interesting and the sisters themselves elevate one another. Plus, every level has the snarky merchant who can supply optional conversations, that give more knowledge of the world or insight to the characters' line of thinking. (plus, gameplay in the moments does *feel* good and there's a lot of options you get throughout the game).- - No Straight Roads is simply short and sweet. Small rock band striking back against a full ban on rock music in a city that is powered by music, but all bosses (who play different genres of music) have more to them than simply being "part of the evil corporation". Including the CEO herself. Both main characters have good writing and chemistry. - And Clash: Artifacts of Chaos is a prequel to the Zeno Clash games, which is already a unique and bizarre, almost prehistoric world full of freaks and monsters, and is about a carrot-looking martial artist hermit trying to find a safe place for a recently orphaned boy. And throughout their journeys, both of them have more to tell and see than they first expected. Alongside Nine Sols, I hope that all these games get more known and appreciated. There's undeniable love for the worlds and characters in them and that shouldn't just be brushed aside

Yeah definatly! Also it makes so much more sense because you get parts of stories through other perspektives which is so helpful to fully understand the story and the motives of characters. Honestly, I think its the right amount of dialogue and, thats my opinion, it also makes it pretty realistic. The characters never interacted with another just because of simply "explaining lore". They all had their own reasons, thoughts etc. all the time which makes this all feel pretty alive

Nice

The dialogue can be super heartwarming and adorable!!

WE ARE KICKING BIRD N*ZIZM OUT OF THE WASTELANDS WITH THIS ONE🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Like the people who go made kubo and paranorman and coralline

@@Caketurtle7 no not them, the game was made by a studio called brainwash gang, I’d recommend checking out their other work.

Oh hell nah

​Oh hell yeah@@Caketurtle7

YOU ARE SIMP ????

mommy?

MOMMY

am I weird for feeling a pretty major wave of hesitation to keep playing this game? I'm literally only an hour in (stuck on the spear boss) and I'm starting to think its not for me Hollow knight gave you a bench right next to most bosses, Nine Sols makes you go through like, 5 enemies before reaching. Now I usually enjoy practicing bosses, but messing up ONCE gets me full-combo'd by this boss, as if there's no i-frames when getting hit. I cant necessarily practice the boss when I die within 2 seconds. Am I missing something?

@@axyndey just keep trying to parry. Ignore the dash unless you ABSOLUTELY have to

@@axyndey also you just get better shit as the Game gets harder. The moment you get the hang of the parries, every Boss should be 2 to 3 tries, tops.

If that's the spear guy on the bridge, with the lasers behind you, yoy are very underpowered at that point. I feel like the idea was to get the boss to charge into the lasers and kill himself. Fighting him fair is way more harder than anything up to or after that point, not counting some of the harder bosses.

@@azureth9544 yesn't. The lasers help a little, but the real reason that fucker is there is to teach you how to deal with spear guys- which, in my experience is STICK TO THEM LIKE A TICK ON CRACK. The biggest problem they have IS their multihits combined with their range, leaving them pretty safe. If you stick close enough, you can both make their long range advantage useless AND sometimes sneak behind the second and third hit of their moves.

YEAH

Money well spent. You'll love it

@@Doggo505 we’ll see about that Doggo505…

transformation kink bros are gonna love to hear this

@@Alphinell I hate the internet... I CAN'T LOVE CATS WITHOUT SMTH LIKE THIS COMING HERE GRRR

@@Lacheln-YO Stay strong and don't give those people any more attention than needed. Easier said than done, but it's worth it to be able to appreciate things on their own, without the fear of others' perversions affecting our perception of those things.

Good point On the contray, Piracy

@@justsomeplantcells-nah you don't pirate indie games

Keyword "you" ^

​@@vladi3862Yeah instead pretend to be a homeless person and harass random people (preferably autistic ones) to get money from them. That's much more morally correct.

​@@vladi3862 if you dont have the money, you do. Not like you would buy them anyways

Who is Yi and why does yi have an ass haircut? 💀💀💀

Why does he sol?

translate: They call themselves the Sun People. The Sun People have ten leaders, and the leaders call themselves sol. In the true ending, nine sols die. (Sun People Linguistics/ solarian Linguistic ) 他們自稱太陽人，太陽人有十個領導，領導自稱是太陽，真結局中九個太陽死亡。

Better call sols

The lore and world is genuinely quite fascinating. No spoilers. For beautifully animated 2D metroidvanias with an unusual sci-fi/cyberpunk angle, i can also recommend Cookie Cutter. Very colorful, though be warned that there's some strange and even quite provocative elements to it. But also a lot of love. Lead dev made the game as a kind of culmination of the media that formed him and his tastes throughout the years, and there's *buttloads* of easter eggs to discover. It's a finished game as is but the lead dev is working hard to supply even more locations, characters and story beats and more in the future.

I mostly like the story, but I didn’t really like the ending. Without going into any specifics, the true ending is an outright worse outcome then the normal ending, despite being significantly harder. It’s okay though, because the final boss is insanely good.

lol, it be like that

Same

Nope... Nine sols is not bad, but it's miles away from Hollow Knight in terms of exploration, lvl/world design, gameplay (and, tbh, general quality). I don't think Red candle even presented it as a "metroivania" (which is a type of game putting emphasis on exploration).

@@laurentoutan5133 1. It's a joke 2. I know, I'm a hollow knight fan with a little over 100 hours in the game. 3. I also happen to be a Sekiro fan with about 170 hours in Sekiro. So it's less about which is better, but more about how Nine Sols better caters to me in both theming and gameplay :)

I'm pretty sure it was a joke man

You mean Anthros?