"Let em' do a Drakengard" is the most glowing endorsement I've ever heard for a company. You got me, I'm adding this to the list of things to play over the summer

Wanted Dead looks like the sort of janky but charming B-tier game I might actually really like... for a good sale price

I like how you get car ears for easy mode, as if that was something that people would feel punished by, when really cat ears just make everything better.

Actually the reason why Hugo's gameplay might appear so simplistic has to do in great part to the reason of his popularity as a TV game: you basically had to play it on live television *through a phone line,* so you can imagine the awful levels of latency you would get back in the day, thus the design was accommodated for that (the home version would "betray" what kids watched on TV if it had adapted its design to a more permissive environment) As for Wanted: Dead, I got the impression that the publisher wanted to spin it as the next "so bad-it's good" game, which it's a very misguided thing to aim for without end up phoning it in (see Deadly Premonition 2). "So bad it's good" it's not something you can force to be as much it's something that happens by accident, or it's the way rather mediocre games mask their failings claiming to be "self-aware" until it just becomes genuine cringe.

I love the running gag where the title card comes later and later in every "So I've Been Playing" video, it keeps blindsiding me RIGHT after I've settled into the groove thinking the video's just about one game. In a couple more years it'll be in a separate video, released the day after the actual episode.

My general advice on how to deal with enemies in this game. If they have a rifle, cut them with your sword; If they have a sword, keep the distance and shoot them with your rifle. Works extremely well during the first hours of gameplay until you unlock all the melee skills and master parrying.

The voices in my head said “wanted dead is no more heroes but made by someone other than suda51” and that perfectly sums up the game and why it failed.

I'll be having the worst day. Just a boot nasty awful day. Work email inbox overflowing, distractions everywhere, no time for creative projects or a good book, just angry and depressed, worried about money -- and then I'll see a new ThorHighHeels joint and my face literally lights up. Thank god for these videos. This lane of video essay is so refreshing and really ideal for this time in my life.

Hugo as a TV show was full interactive in which you use a regular phone pad to do actions on the screen. Imagine the latency in which the select contestant have to deal to reach the Tower’s peak and confront the witch in LIVE television. And this is before TwitchPlaysPokemon was a thing.

heads up, I genuinely appreciate that you put in the effort to make the shorts their own thing so many people just can't grasp the idea behind shorts, "it's just tiktok/stream clips" and not put in any further thought so I really do enjoy the little mini-review format you've been doing and I hope it can continue, it also works really well with your style

When life starts to get boring, one of these always appear. Great stuff as always.

a week has passed since I bought the game based on this video. unironically one of the... well, not best game, but best experiences I've had this year. the supa hot fire 1:1 loading screen recreation and the strangely awesome bop that is Stefanie Joosten's No Back Seats in the HQ, I fucking love this game. it reminds me so much of the late 2000s, early 2010s crazy bullshit that you see in niche Japanese shooters such as binary domain, vanquish, bullet witch, or yakuzie dead souls. your knack for portraying games widely considered as trash in a different light has gotten me to play several games I never would have touched. dude. I played Left Alive because of you. That's saying something.

1:54 I always appreciate when Thor goes into turbo wordplay/rhyme mode in the middle of his scripts. Always goes hard

Just happy to see Stefanie Joosten getting work

Aw hell yeah. I saw the Jacob Geller video about this and totally thought it was something you should cover

This is my literal first exposure to this game. It looks fun but the fact that I'm on the internet pretty much every waking moment and still never heard of it has me worried, so thanks for making this video

Hugo was big in Brazil during the 90's, as a child, I've always tried to call the tv show to play it and win prizes. Wild shit, bring back memories.

Man, the memories of watching Hugo on TV as a kid and how nobody ever seemed to be capable of beating the game, back then I didn't know what input latency was or how horrendous it must have been considering the whole thing was played through the phone. I can clearly remember how the girl that hosted the show here in Argentina had to ask almost every single kid to please lower the TV's volume cos otherwise the return messed with the audio big time, shit was so low tech looking back at it. Ah, nostalgia. BTW Wanted Dead definitely gives that vibe of an action game I'd love to play... as soon as it gets a good discount, no way I'm paying full price for that.

ThorHighHeels is the Xavier Renegade Angel of video game reviewers

The pizzariabatepapo pizza with the tire on top caught me off guard, congrats thor, you are now an honorary brazilian

This is the best early-to-mid era PS3 action game to be released as a early-to-mid era PS5 action game.

13:05 My thoughts exactly. The "synthwave" "aesthetic" is homogenized, lowest-common-denominator plaster. It's as tasteful as your grandma's dining room wallpaper.

I'm from San Juan, Argentina and in my town there was even a shop called Hugo. It's been closed for ten years but the marquee with the character is still there. I also can´t forget his slimy voice "Una vida más... para jugaaaar"

Hugo has scarred me since I was a child, he keeps following me through life everywhere I go, and I’m Scottish, we don’t scar easy…

Holy crap Hugo! I've had memories of this game in my head for 20 years, but couldn't figure it out, thank you!!!

It's International Hugo Was Not A Fever Dream From Your Childhood, He Really Existed Day!

While I didn't expect you to make a video about this game, seeing this pop up actually makes... so much sense.

THAT'S WHAT IT IS! The voice stuff reminded me of something I had played recently, but I had no idea what... It was that Valkyrie Elysium demo.

Here in Israel things were always backwards as fuck. Back in the 90's Hugo was our sole live television video game, by which I mean that the kids channel (we only had the one) used to call kids at home and have them play it over the phone. Thing is there wasn't even a system to handle that input- it was a poor student who heard the specific beep of the numbers 4 and 6 and had to input the commands for the kids on the channel's PC, basically working as a human controller. No one has ever won that shit, they kept promising prizes like a PlayStation but shit was more rigged than the lottery.

I got through Wanted Dead on normal and I thought it was hard too, but there was some revelations I made about the gameplay that kept jumping me forward for a while until I hit another wall. It’s really great! ALMOST GOTY!

Played Hi Fi,Pizza Tower,RE4R and Wanted Dead still lives rent free in my head.

The second i got to the karaoke minigame where u can only play one song i knew it was a thorhighheels goty contender fr 😂

Definitely a game I think people could have a general appreciation for but selling it at full price is the death blow. Looks and plays alike a game from generations past but they are charging full price. If they had came in at a lower price point many would have taken the plunge now people are just gonna wait for deep sales.

I'm Scared of opening that Collector's Edition of Wanted: Dead, I feel like I'll be cursed.

Clicked on the 'highlight' part first out of curiosity, heard the Tekken Tag Tournament character select theme. THH is just an absolute legend when it comes to music selection.

I just love your videos so much. It's just like a get a very particular but pleasant feeling from each of them. And also the fact that it's like all the stuff that a should love but never new before you just makes it even better. And ngl you vids help me to go through some tough times, dude. I really happy to be alive at the same time as you :)

thanks to your channel i discovered alot ps4 game that's right on my alley from Stranger of Paradise, Valkyrie Elysium,, Wanted Dead, Like a Dragon Ishin, No More Heroes etc, only Gungrave GORE failed to captivate me, but atleast it still paved way for me to Discover Evil West

This game also has a really good review by Jacob Geller if any of y'all are familiar. Genuinely a good follow up video to this one.

as soon as i saw jacob geller's vid on this game i was like "oh, there's the next thor video"

Love watching your videos on a calm,slow day and think "yep ill try this game coming summer. Looks fun!" You always pick the interesting games, that made me pickup some titles on sale already.

Every time you come out with a new vid im like "i can just listen to this one, i can just listen to this one i can just listen to this one" and then i don't even get a minute in and realize i need to dedicate my full sttention to it. How dare you make such good shit. *i'll be back*

Sometimes i wonder how high these heels are

Thor is one of the few youtubers who I can say with full honesty that I've watched every video from. This man could describe paint drying and find a way to make it a vibe, LOL

Believe it or not, I was a big Hugo fan as a kid. when you priviliged kids played Mario Kart, I played Hugo: Buckazoom Race, when You played Banjo Kazooie I played Hugo: The Evil Mirror. In my 10th birthday a friend burned 2 CDs with those games shown in the video as a present, and I couldn't contain my excitement. I mean seriously I have a ton more things to say about Hugo.

I've been waiting on your video about this game! I knew you would cover it!

this has to be the only channel where i come watch a vid and half way trough it my man rolls the intro :D

There's something magical in your voice, my dude. It just makes me feel like everything's going to be alright.

Yes! I’ve been playing Wanted dead since it’s launch on PlayStation and love what it offers. I’m so glad to see you do a video on this, thorhighheels, thanks for the upload!

Dreams do come true! When I first saw this game I wanted nothing more than to see you'd a video on it

Videos like this are the reason why I love Thor's content, mans can really appreciate some good Kusoge, flaws and all, unlike other reviewers who just say, "ERM THIS IS THE WORST GAME EVER IT'S JUST BAD."

I want to play this game so bad so I can't finish your video but I'm so glad you covered this game :3!! Love your work!

You got me to smoke Left Alive so Wanted Dead just radiates that same energy for me. For sure want to smoke this shit. Bless you my man. A goated video once again : )

Gungrave gore is basically What i wanted wanted dead to be. 🎉 So that was pleasant. Play it almost every weekend. Endlessly fun.

Why this game looks like a janky 2010's dev project ported over to UE5 engine?

Love you mr high shoes. also ur music in lunacid is very interesting. that library theme is a banger

Hey just want to thank you for posting. You're the best at these whole game video essayist.

The only channel I watch without playback speed up ❤

10:12 ha, funny you mention the deep freeze voice acting, my journalism teacher was involved with that one.

As soon as I saw this game I knew you'd have a video about how it's probably got some cool shit going on with it, lol. Not in a bad way, I've been meaning to check it out as well.

Funniest thing about the game is that it was uploaded on steam by the developers full 3 months prior to launch and not touched ever since.

Fkn love u bro ❤ greetings from cologne / germany ❤

I am dying to know why that woman was having so much trouble using her utensils. I have no idea why I found that so funny.

i really enjoy ur videos!!

Finally a new video. Lately some imposters have been trying to steal your gig

I love these high budget AAA titles that get dropped with 0 fanfare, I didnt even know this game existed.

As much as it is flawed, I love this so much !

Games like these make me more apt to buy NOT on sale since I know reviewers shat on it and I love that games like these are still being made. Great review Thor, I also recommend The Electric Underground's review since he looks at it in a quasi-shooter-character-action lens. Also side note, I enjoyed your guest appearance on Insert Credit. Those guys are mad chill, did you have some fun off-mic banter that you can share?

just seeing a few seconds of clay fighter reminds me how much i wanted to have this game when i was young (and got it eventually). cant exactly recall why, tho 😅

love s'mokin on these vids thor!

That Travis Strikes Again music though. Sensational

2:35 Ah yes Thor showing some Byniot Vinesauce inspiration with the RP voice

Can’t wait till the end of the year to play this on clearance!

"I don't desire 2b the best at anything that isn't being Mii" imma quote that now thanx homie ✊✊

I'm two for two on KZfaqrs I follow (and nominally take game recommendations from) covering this game. What an honour for Wanted Dead maybe!

Who else just KNEW this video was coming as soon as this game was announced lol

I love the Maserati Shamal in there.

never thought i'd see pizzaria bate papo on a thor highheels video

Thanks for the vid

Hugo just LOVES a good burlap sack

God, Thor i really love your videos, its also pretty cool that you got a "MISTER", that thing really cool and might be better to play psx games than a actual psx nowadays lool. Also look up for Baroque, pretty unique and cool psx game.

Love the Jeugd van Tegenwoordig style lyrics on the Colums bit.

_shenanigussy_ is now my word of the week thanks THH

I'll never get tired of hearing you do the BOOTI voice

pizzaria batepapo moment

WOOOOOO I love you Thor!!! Turning my frown upside down on my lunch break!!!❤❤

Never been to a video so early it's practically right out the oven before.

hugo was a TV game here in switzerland, you could call in and play somehow on the phone. but i was too much of a lil shit to remember the dreadfulness, of watching none gamers loose time and time again ^^

had to pause the video because the first two seconds sent me into a minute-long laughing fit

12:36 Is that a Aussie, mate? 😆 But seriously, the game looks interesting, and if you didn't say anything about it, I wouldn't give it a second look. If I'm in the mood for something like it, I'll get it. Hopefully, I can get past that hurdle at the start. Oh god I had a chicken or the egg paradox. "Is the protagonist tall, or are the other people short?"

fuckin KNEW you would be talking about this the moment i saw it

Hugo TV interactive game was super popular in Russia in 90s, i was born in 93 and even played it live once, i still have a vague feeling that it was impossible to progress

dog the paperboy 2 music is so good!!

Wanted dead has a 99 luftballons karaoke minigame best game of the century

The only person’s opinion/review I wanted to hear for this game.

I went from never having heard of 10,000 Bullets to immediately making it my next to play.

damn, you should get one of those albernic portable devices and go wild with it

So glad for Team Fortress 2 Scout's transition, she looks happier now.

ever since i saw gameplay of this i knew it was only a matter of time b4 thorhighheels or austin eruption made a video about it.

Just found this channel. 2:27 SWAG

Argentinian here: There was a Hugo TV show were you would play the game live via...inputting commands on your phone (phones used to have physical buttons!). As you can imagine, the input lag was insane, making the game almost unplayable. If you somehow managed to get to the end, you had to pick between 3 doors to save Hugo's family or whatever, so winning or losing was randomized, on a phone service that would charge you a premium per minute. It was on the air for several years....