Fun fact: Snails actually love rat poison, they often end up eating whole packages of it. It doesn’t effect them in a negative way, except they might get really fat! So the developer actually did some research, I think this is a great game! (:

I think the kid doesn’t understand death or war seeing the “passed out rat” and thinking he’ll get sick “sleeping” where the snail clearly died. He may have seen his brother get blown apart and thinks that he can put him back together by finding his limbs.

This game actually had good writing and kept me engaged. Didn't see how much the game costs but the developer definitely deserves respect.

Basically Charlie, in Chinese culture, we refer to our elders as Uncle and Auntie. The snail guy is the kid's elder, but not related to him.

I imagine the dev seeing this video and tearing up at the fact that Jesus Christ himself liked his game

You're a true gem, Charlie.

“This puzzle is actually pretty complex” *couple minutes later* “The puzzles in this game are too easy” *couple more minutes later* “That was not an easy puzzle”

Lmao most of the negative reviews are Chinese people, though most seem to have an issue with the translation, some are definitely pissed about the message.

You can see charlie slowly liking and appreciating the game as the video goes on

A 24 minute video instead of the usual 9 minute? The gods have gifted us with glorious times

This was actually a pretty sick game, hope it gets popular from this.

I think this whole thing is about seeing war from the eyes of an innocent child who doesn’t truly understand the concept of death,he thinks the others who are dead in the ground are sick and sleeping,and he also thinks he can just put his brother back together,he sees his people as small creatures being hunted and killed by their predators who are the birds,his little mind does not understand what’s going on so he makes do with what he knows. I feel like the whole thing the game is trying to show is how horrible war truly is and who the real victims of war are,those who have no choice but to live in it,forced to grow within the slaughter,also I didn’t really see the ending but Charlie said it has to with guilt so maybe he was looking for his brother’s body parts not to bring him back to life but have his body laid to rest I believe in some cultures(I’m not too sure) people need to have as much of the body as possible to properly bury the deceased. Clearly he only saw his family members as humans because he saw everyone as snails including his uncle so maybe he thought everyone else was involved and marching slowly towards their end but as child’s mind works he might’ve taken his mother and brother for granted,maybe that’s why he saw them as humans. Personally it looks like a great game I’d love to see a good analysis on it since I personally am not very sure on what’s going on with the symbolism and how deep it goes.

When he says uncle in China that just means older male friend, like saying brother but to someone a little too old to call brother

Most of the negative reviews for this game (based on the 10 I read) Seem to be mainland Chinese people complaining about the message of the game. I can't tell for sure because I can only read bits and pieces but if that is true, it's a real shame that this game is being buried by people who refuse to accept that their government isn't actually sent by the gods and that they have historically and presently treated the people in and outside the mainland like garbage. If someone who can actually read the comments fluently would correct me that would be appreciated but that is what I gathered.

damn this game looks actually REALLY good, And very enjoyable to watch someone play it, needs more attention damn

Always glad to see when Charlie actually enjoys a game he didn't think he would.

As a fellow Taiwanese I am so happy that Charlie like this game! Can someone please let me know on which day did Charlie stream this? I would love to watch the whole thing!

Honestly if Charlie shaved his beard he would be able to pass as an egirl

Legitimately interesting game. Probably going to buy it to support the devs, honestly hoping they do more in the future

Wow, I love artistic games WITH ACTUALLY INTERESTING GAMEPLAY. I hate the pomp some "art" games have that are basically walking sims. It's neat to see a good product!

The next day Charlie gets banned from twitch for mentioning Taiwan as a sovereign country

If I understand this game correctly. It's about the kmt taking Taiwan after the chinese civil war. After the kmt lost to mao's communist party, they escaped to taiwan. The Kmt enacted martial law, they imprisoned and executed a lot of Taiwan social elite and intellectuals. During this time, they reinstated the currency as well so the people already in Taiwan (japanese colony taiwanese and aboriginals) essentially got fucked. You can search up the White Terror for more info. So this game isnt really about Taiwan and china, it's about a dark part of Taiwan's history. All the people in arms about the accents saying its racist is kinda unjustified. The kmt came to taiwan from the mainland with a mandarin dialect where the original taiwanese were from Fujian and were occupied by Japanese so thus the taiwanese (hokkien)/japanese dialect.

No Charlie the real gem is the friends we made along the way

Thats some "Pans Labyrinth" Level storytelling

This is like the game Rule Of Rose, is a ps2 horror game. It's deep too.

In Taiwan people were encouraged to rat on their loved ones who didn’t like the rule. So when the boy turns in those snail shells it could reference him ratting people out for thought crimes.

That game looks like a fever dream.

“Sea of gold obviously a throwback to the hobbit” -MoistCritikal

7:22 Charlie: they need to make the puzzles harder 8:51 Charlie: well this is not Easy

I watched the beginning of this stream and had to go and when I came back 3 hours later he was still playing this and it was a huge surprise lol I was like "is it so bad it's good?" Guess this vid will fill me in.

The only hidden gem is Charlies hair.

*Gary is the type of dude to look up and down before crossing the street*

"I actually really like" Is something id never think could come out of his mouth while playing games.

can we talk about how charlie probably made this developer's life, though?

Anyone else notice that snails glasses weren’t even on his eyes?

Uncle is used as term of respect/friendly relations with/for someone older than you in China sorta like how people call there parents close friends Uncle in the US?

"I played your song of storms now give me lunch meat" had me dead

The best hidden gem is a video you made in 2015 about the perfect human body

an idea on why snails are a main theme: "luo," the word for the spiral pattern in a snail's shell, is said the same as "(xun) luo" which means for military/police to go on patrol

Lol most of the bad reviews on steam are from Chinese people being angry at the meaning, but I did find some Chinese negative reviews where they just gave some criticism of the actual game and not the meaning which is always nice

Achievement Unlocked: You Killed Mu Sheng

3:13 "This store just got a whole lot safer now that my uncle's gone" 😂🤣😂 Holy shit I died!🤣

1:12 I love how his glasses are where human eyes would be 🤣

"What do you mean how did this happen" - Me everytime I cause something to go wrong in my own life

3:30 snails actually like rat poison

*Junji Ito really outdid himself with this masterpiece*

If the 3D cutscenes had higher production value, I think this would be a really solid game

24:51 When you make commentary about real historical tragedy and you have to pretend it's all made up.

This actually looks like a cool game wtf

Birds are the Snail’s main predator. The snail meaning signifies patience in life, just like the manatee spirit animal. No matter fast or slow you go, you will get to your destination. The meaning of the snail also teaches you the value of humor. Life does not have to be so serious and tense all the time, so learn to laugh and have fun!

If anyone's wondering, the game is called Halflight by MATCHB and it's $14.99 on Steam Edit: There are two endings btw

"Uncle" is used by children in mainly Asian countries as a term for a man, kind of like "Mr.". It doesn't necessarily mean that they are family.

The story behind this game seems really interesting. I kinda want to get the game and i hope that it blows up a bit

Why does this penguin guy look like twitch.tv/moistcr1tikal

A 25 minute video??? You spoil us, Charlie

The placement of the dudes sunglasses at 1:07 made me laugh way harder than I should've

It's so fucking cool when Charlie actually likes and enjoys a game. You can just watch his interest grow as he tries to piece together the hidden message. Plus, he gave it an 8/10, which is fantastic.

Charlie actually making the effort to try and pronounce/remember the character's names properly is pretty cool A lot of ppl would go "haha china name funny" very quickly Charlie really proving himself as the ultra chad christ

drinking game: take a shot every time Charlie says “steam new releases”

Oh,spirals. I love spirals. I always wanted to be a spiral.

The style of this game reminds me of another game that almost nobody has played, yet was so amazingly good back then. It's called Alice:Madness Returns. Great game for someone who has yet to check it out.

360p gang. Thank you for all that you do Critikal. We greatly appreciate the smiles :)

The colours remind me if We Happy Few.

this reminds thet episode from spongebob when evryone becoming a snail

Damn, imagine being the developer and seeing Charlie's reaction to your artwork knowing how much experience he got on games and giving the fact that he always keeps it real.

I love the fact that when he actually does find a good game, he admits it's good. He started off making fun of it, then more and more was like "dang, this is pretty cool." I have a lot more respect for this guy, to see that he's not just mindlessly mocking things, but can respect a good game when he stumbles across one.

This is a good watch, Thank you Charlie.

I absolutely love this type of content

The snail people remind me of Uzumaki.

those birds that decimated his brother were literally Toad

Damn, those puzzles are actually pretty unique and creative.

I love that you try new released games helping upcoming developers to get some support :)

[Heavy Weather]

Imagine commenting before watching the entire video

Ima new fan critikal and I love the channel keep up the great work

As a Taiwanese ,thank you to play this game It really means a lot to the us when people know what's going on inthe past of Taiwan Sadly even nowadays 感謝支持臺灣遊戲

17:32 me walking down the stairs at 1pm ready for beakfast during quarantine

"hey Gary" ah I see you're a legend of culture as well

4:51 don't joke. That monster looks better than Kay's dishes lol

I don't know why but I lost my shit at the sudden cut to "What's up gary"

This plot reminds me of the game 'Detention'.

To be fair, this game isn't really about mainland China rn, it seem more likely is about 228 incident. Which happened in 1947, an event around Japanese empire and the previous Chinese government fleet to Taiwan.

Appreciate the lil inclusion of my dono at 1:20 lol fr tho your content has been giving me something to laugh about and i really appreciate it

Found your channel this week during lockdown, loving it, saw you also did tinyBuild Secret Neighbor playthrough, pls play Totally Reliable Delivery Service too! Can get you keys!

'that thing just looks like Kay's cooking' wow😂😂

This games looks like the world took a massive hit of DMT

Making the quarantine bearable thanks bro👍🤣🤣

this game is really odd but extremely charming! loved this charlie!!!

1:09 Tfw the snail's glasses are at the base of it's eye-stalks...

Charlie the monsters are back, please use your powers to help, I think the monsters are getting ready to give up we just need more power!

This is probably one of the most amazing yet really disturbing games I’ve ever seen in my life

Your vids are helping me get through some tough times man, keep doing what youre doing 👌❤️

Such a relief for my mental health to see you uploading some fun shit as always. Feels like I have this funny friend with whom I can temporarily forget how miserable I am lately

“*Left of the painters” if anyone knows what that’s from ;)*

So many unique puzzles I love it

1:09 i like this snail allot, why does he need glasses if his eyes are up there lol

Reminds me of Psyconauts that’s why the hivemind likes it.

This game actually looks pretty okay I would play it

The snail and bird thing, I have an idea. Snails are gentle and peaceful. Birds eat snails and the rivals have long faces. Lines up with historical facts. I agree with Zach. I was yelling at my TV watching the whole time lmao

Someone should make a GoFundMe account to raise a petition for Charlie to donate just an inch of his luxurious, silky, long, smooth lock of hair. We truly don't deserve his luscious god-like tresses.