I AM A SURGEON

Was watching your second vid of this and say you placed this at like a 5/10 and sometimes a 2/10. Now that you have experienced SEVEN chapters of this monstrosity of a 'game', what doeth ye rate thus?

Very powerful

Day 784 of asking Manly to play A Cold Love Story through KZfaq comments.

Get well soon!

From what I can understand is Chapter 1 - 4 is about exploring the kindergarten. Chapter 5 is a prequel. Chapter 6 - 7 is about finding the scepter piece to defeat Sir Dadadoo and Naughty ones. Chapter 8 is about finding the origin of blue banban and red banban.

I think what sets it apart from poppy playtime and bendy is that they seem to be focused on keeping the hype train going as long as possible, given the shorter dev time per chapter (The break between 6 and 7 is the biggest to date). I think Poppy Playtime waiting a whole year before chapter 3 came out was a good idea, really, since it meant the controversy with the devs and banban had blown over by then and wasn't there to hamper the good reception that it got (I think that chapter 2, when divorced from the devs, is a great horror game).

​@@luphuong5239 Which chapter is finding the child and going home?

@@GotchardandGo the only issue is that there isn't really a hype train and most people only play it to see if it will eventually be a good game or if it will become even worse

@@YurinanAcquiline that chapter will come when the devs can't milk any more money from the game

We still don't know who exactly the protag is or how long the kids have been missing.

Finally someone realized that the more this chapter goes, the more we forget about our main task. TO GET THE CHILD Like there's not even a single dialog where the main character takes a second to ask "have you seen my child?" We only know that the Stinger has something to do with the kid's secret place but we will never make our chance to say "how do I get there?" The main character at this point is just accepting that (users) trust this madness ahead.

The games plot is told to you, it's to get to the beach, but the journey to the beach is always nonsensical and at some point something weird happens and you crash, the game reveals this plot to you to show you the entire plot of the story and outcome and even characters mention The Beach. It is the developers way of saying there is no plot or outcome, it is a perpetual limboistic journey where you search for some non existent child in random ways but never reach it because at some point you get distracted and Banban goes evil mode and you crash (literally the ending of every chapter is some kind of crash or violent cliffhanger). Before Banban the devs mainly made surreal, avant garde, symbolic or thoughtful games that had a kind of dreamlike property to them and I unironically think after the pushback on the first two episodes they tapped back into those roots and decided to make the game some kind of limbo inside joke that perpetuates as long as people buy it. The Jellyfish appearing every time to "Show you something you need to see" is the key to that since the visions are consistent. Everything else is a very loose skeleton stretched out of what was probably supposed to be like 3 or 4 games now over the span of infinite potential games.

​@@ManlyBadassHero This is quite the analysis. 😅😅😅 But, probably true.

We know the MC’s kid is a boy, he’s drawn himself relatively masculine to his crush Claire, and used pink to signify that Claire’s a girl. My only thing is that he’s in kindergarten, so how has developed a crush when he can barely write?

Content farms, most likely

I have no clue

Ipad kids

TBF, this series doesn't need that much of a sustenance.

It’s become so absurdist to the point where people can just turn their brains off and watch the madness unfold. It’s also good filler content for gaming channels.

Wait... Nah, don't hear. 0:03

You can hear the hatred dripping off that Seven.

​@@Chilling_pal_n01anad91ct when he says 7 lol

This has become his Fnaf

He just sounds a bit sick to me.

It feels like the main original sub plot of "that thing down there" has been solved and now the game is starting a new arc. Like ANIME

@@nihilisticpancake308 More so like a Manga with no direction, but very similar in a sense

Garten of Banban is just an isekai

@@aliceiscalling based

It’s like a DND campaign with a DM who sucks at storytelling, and none of the players listen to him anyways; they’re all trying to derail the plot into significantly different directions. (We’re lucky there’s no Bard trying to romance Stinger Flynn.)

The arms race

It's like watching a car crash in slow motion, except it's more like that one gag scene in Family Guy where a horde of Amish people keeps on rebuilding a barn as it was destroyed again and again.

It's such a funny, spiteful show of belligerence

Is Banban Refund% listed on speedrun leaderboards?

I feel like that would be such a good idea if only it wasn't executed so damn poorly in the current game

Well yes, it's a hidden laboratory.

I hated the Brazilian portuguese VA, it sounds just so weird... Although the German one was also pretty bad. The Spanish one was kinda good

​@@rowrysang4053 A lot o the VAs might be youtubers or internet celebrities (or at the very least i think the bartender was @uhyeah. And the brazilian might be @AssopraFitas? Im not too sure on that one though.)

@@rowrysang4053 the brazilian va sounded weird bc hes probably a youtuber with 0 training... it sounded really amateurish which is a shame because the dialogue itself is very natural!

So we meet aliens, who speak (as Manly meets them): German Russian Portuguese Japanese.

hey goku i heard your pretty strong

good that's already almost 10am for me

Bro honestly. This is exactly what I needed to wind down.

I literally came home two hours ago and I’m just chilling watching this video (with homework hopefully done)

I woke up at 3 and this is the first video I saw

I absolutely hate this idea and wish I didn't read this comment

These games could end up creating a whole generation of horror fans by being baby's first spook-em-up. It's an interesting thought. I wonder how many kids will go on to make their own horror content, and what it'll be like if they get started so early. We may end up having to look back on these games with a grain of gratitude in ten years, if they're credited by some talented creators as their intro to horror.

The thought of this series being a child's exposure to horror is... surprisingly wholesome? I mean, a kid who is still naive to the world of gaming WOULD probably love this stuff. Ngl. This series has gained new value in my eyes for that alone.

I'd like to think they will one day come back to this and be like, "Wow, this is NOT how I remember it" lol

@@caylachaye2986 thats exactly what i hope for xD

fnaf 1 called, they want their jumpscares back

​@CallyEmeraldaz that's literally every indie horror games death screen

The Bitter Giggle jumpscare implies he eats you. Maybe Nabnab also tried to do that in the earlier games as well

Nah, still recovering from a cold. He's elsewhere in comments basically defending the game. It's weird.

​@@oxymoron02He thinks the game is ass, but just because it's ass, doesn't mean it can't have any good parts. It cannot just be completely bad. There is definitely some enjoyment to be had, albeit very very little, haha.

Number 8....takes us to the whole underworld with a realm of monsters (At this rate)

At least Playtime Inc's insane underground lair is in a natural cave

I've long given up on this game making a lick of sense. With each new installment, this feels less and less like a Bendy/Poppy Playtime clone and more like we're tumbling down the rabbit hole with Alice.

its like Synechdoce NY if it was good

Maybe the kindergarten is a gateway to hell. 69 installments later we're gonna see crappy mascot version of Lucifer, I'm telling you.

He was speaking Brazilian Portuguese, what did you expected from a Brazilian? We don't make sense.

Unhelpful, uninformative characters is part of the mood in Banban.

I'm on the 'Manly has already made a 'Welcome to the Peak of My Power Club' comment club' rating of the scale

That’s very “Manly hasn’t made a ‘Welcome to the *Blank* Club’ comment” of you, you’re in.

Welcome to the Club how are ya?

@@eRic-hr3yl Now that's the spirit.

This is Banban VII, Manly ain't superhuman, you know. That well of creativity hit the bottom on 4.

yeah, something to be said about that Definitely

Exactly. Even though it was established early on in the series from one of the notes that the "kindergarten" the series takes place in is located in Montreal... and yet nobody even speaks a lick of French, apparently

Those languages caught me off-guard ngl. I don't even know what's weirder. That they speak so many different languages or that the mc understands all of them.

@@feliciaroseantonia This series…takes place…in CANADA!?!?

I think the dev is just trying to be "interesting". The languages are completely random so there's no way they're trying to get across some message--the dev also isn't capable of nuance like that.

In this one, he's not a man, nor a hero. His badassness is still intact though.

@omegahaxors3306 that's true. He's at the max level, so he can do this.

Can't be a hero without being manly or badass or the combination of those

Six banban games. They skipped number 5.

Capitalism

Quality takes time. So when the devs don't care about quality...

ever herd of 'sex sells', well so does anger.

I heard thats 15 chapters of this sad excuse of a game

Many braincells died to deliver us this voice recording.

Honestly, I'd rather watch fumo spinning for 3 hours than this.

An hour? This is much longer than an hour (and i'm not just talking the video length, playtime too, or well ... stalltime?),

He's the father I never got to bore with my "awesome" ideas. 😢

yes and he's very calm and chill and doesn't yell so I can just relax and turn my brain off

Same I just want to see how it ends up

I can’t look away.

It’s so horrifyingly bad yet, it’s so intriguing to watch 😭

It looks like a joke but I think the devs know it and just go with the meme flow tbh 😭

agreed, ik it's pretty horrible gameplay-wise but i'm so strangely invested in the lore 😭

russian language gobb jumpsacre kdjdjd

That was my reaction when I heard Portuguese shortly after that

And not крик камикадзе из Серьёзного сэма, dude?

@@RORCHACH478 i'm honestly surprised anyone even realized that sfx was from serious sam lmao

Only took 7 episodes to finally reach a likable character. That's development!

I dunno. The way all the characters in this game do a complete 180 whenever you do even the smallest task and go from being your doom to being the most helpful guys you ever met... I mean I get it the magic goo they are made of is supposed to drive them kind of crazy, but it annoys me from a writing perspective. It reminds me of when an anime forces a character to 180 their whole personality after something bad happens, that's not how humans work.

Dude sounds like one of the dwarfs from deep rock galactic

Given the game series, I feel like that that's a low bar to clear, heheh.

I fuck with the Sheriff guy tbh

That's because that's what it is. Look at the genre for the game and their is no link to horror. (If checking steam do not look at the user defined genres).

I'm kinda here for it, TBH. There were a few moments that actually got me to chuckle. Or at least smile a bit. Reminds me of the tongue-in-cheek point and click days of yore.

Yeah I believe he just got over a cold, but I also think it's probably both.

yeah, I mean it's a passion joke progect, it's clear what it is already, and I love it that despite the hate, they keep going anyways. based. haters gonna hate.

Well, they sure are getting better but still don't know if i can call them good

while the script and direction and character design and everything else really is quite bad, the VA are doing an okay job for the mess that it is

Idk bout that lol

Yeah, 20:43 Razzbowski did great

I can feel Garten of Peak Peak 7 coming inside of me right now.

true and based garten of peak peak keeps getting better /hj

Deep state bio weapons research facility gone rogue?

They gotta have a character they created that is just a builder. And it's building more and more rooms and shit.

@@Lufia4 DON'T GIVE THE DEV ANY IDEAS.

@@Lufia4 Very likely. Bob the Builder ain't too far of a fetch considering we have a literal city now

thank you banban expert

well they skipped 5. why? who knows

​@@annajane7860 five is a prequel

They're episodes, not actual new games. They're just released as games because the Steam algorithm prioritizes promoting games over promoting DLC.

@@luphuong5239 ??? it never got released. it still needs to come OUT to be a prequel to the series lmao

The VA has been one of the very few non-shoddy parts in this series. It always sound like someone is trying their best but the words always filter through a weird blobby technicolor thing with no facial expression. Who might be forcing you to listen by slowly walking down a ramp and making you wait.

"How deep is this kindergarten?" "Yes."

I think Crow County is already out

He was the only character that wasn’t awful.

"ARE you the Handler?"

You realise his channel is monetised, right? Between view counts and ads (which I thankfully don't get), he more than makes back the cost of these games.

@oxymoron02 Yeah, I do. I've been a fan of his content for a long while, just made a joke as a reference to his content ;b

oh hi glados

On the other hand, at this point, you know what you're getting into. If someone paid for one or two parts of this game and felt like they didn't get their money's worth, I absolutely feel for them for falling for this game's advertisements. But by game 7 if someone paid for all individual parts and then claim they're being scammed out of their money...idk man, I think that's on them, lol. I'm just here to enjoy watching LPers suffer.

sorry how much is it? 35 for the entire series seems pretty good. Im not sure if i just misunderstood though.

@@isaacsimpson8098there’s 6 games, so I’m assuming 5-7 dollars per game.

My mistake. If you want every Banban game beyond the free first episode, it’s $40, Episodes 2-3 are $5 each & 4-7 are $10 each. You can get them collected for 10% off aka at round $35. To put that in perspective & sticking solely to horror or horror-adjacent games of varied genres: Pacific Drive, the weird horror driving sim that just came out is $30. World of Horror - the Junji Ito inspired mystery horror roguelike RPG is $20. OMORI - The Earthbound-inspired fantasy horror RPG is $20. FAITH The Unholy Trilogy is a complete version of the retro computer styled exorcism adventure game & it’s $20. Slay The Princess - a subversive horror Visual Novel is $18. Fear & Hunger and its sequel are Dark Fantasy Horror RPGs that come out to about $20 with zero discounts. The various games in the catalog of Chilla’s Art start from around $3 and peak at around $10 depending. Lobotomy Corporation - an SCP-inspired unthinkable horror facility management game with an enormous amount of depth & story and it is $25. Hell, SCP Secret Files one of the better SCP universe games is $15. The Horror Dating Sims in the Sucker For Love series come bundled at about $18 or around $23 if bought individually. My Friendly Neighborhood - The Sesame Street/Jim Henson-influenced Mascot Horror game that manages to do everything Banban attempts but better in every single aspect is $30. And all chapters of Poppy’s Playtime that have been released so far are around $25 all together a game which though I’m personally not a big fan of absolutely has better mechanics, puzzles & art design than Banban. There’s really just not a single bit of grace I’m willing to give these games when that alone is a fraction of what is out here.

​@@isaacsimpson8098this trash is not worth playing even for free

Doesn't explain why he's basically defending them elsewhere in comments though.

Syringeon, mayor of Cityngeon xD

I didn't realize that he voiced the bartender until I saw this comment, I'm pretty sure that JackSepticEye is also in this as well, I mean the NPC with the Irish accent afterall.

He's just mad because he's actually at fault. Could've just given you your kid and you could've left

@@acamera367 I got your point. But it's not kinda annoying his relationship with the parent is just "it's all your fault" and "you are to blame"? When the main responsibles for the chaos are Jester and even himself?

​@@CannoliSlugYTThat's kinda his personality dude. He blames it on everyone except him when he caused this mess by taking the children at the collapse.

@@moewCalv Sooooooo, okay. But could've it been better.

@@CannoliSlugYT In your opinion how do you think it could be done better?

It won't drag out if the trolls don't keep trying to refund it. And this time they made a city instead of just a few hallways

The games aren't horror games. Haven't been since 3.

Part 6 really since 5 was skipped like many others already said.

Nah you're fine this "series" is just a twitching corpse still moving because of the maggots in it.