12:39 - 13:03 brother you're so right lmao Thank you for this video man ♥

*YOU COME INTO OUR CASTLE*

"The combat absolutely BANGS." No Bricky, the combat absolutely PANGS!

Fun fact: That bit there where they show you the nuke for no reason? You can immediately melee the button and hear poor director just sigh in disappointment

TREPANG2 MENTIONED, WHAT THE FUCK IS A BAD JOHN WOO MOVIE

"Who's my favorite little psychopath? hahaha, thats right, you are!" -Bricky talking to Projekt Melody

8.50 FOR A HOTDOG? AMERICA HAS FALLEN

Fun fact!: the reason there's a 2 in the title is because Brandon (the lead dev) made a game called "trepang" for a game jam a while back and is a side-scrolling platfotmer where you play as a sea cucumber. The reason you play as a sea cucumber is because "Trepang" is a Indonesian word for "Sea cucumber"

The inclusion of the SPAS-12 shotgun alone tell us how much the devs love FEAR. The shotgun in that game is legendary for how powerful it makes you feel when using it.

I’d like to add that the game has a sandbox feature called T-Mod that has features you can unlock by completing challenges. Features include spawning in every enemy, spawning in the final boss but an ally, having unlimited ammo, having an immortal cultist suicide bomber following you everywhere while repeatedly setting himself on fire, having enemies randomly spawn and try to kill you (even during cutscenes) and much more. The game also has a horde mode that you can unlock camo’s for your guns and achievements. There is also a DLC in the works where you’ll be able to use a sword. I spent almost 50 hours in this game unlocking everything and messing around with the sandbox in missions as well as enjoying the absolute chaos the cheats provide. If you’re the kind of person that can enjoy the combat for what it is the extra content gives you a lot to chew on.

Jarek The Gaming Dragon has a name for this style of game. “Wu Shooters.” Since FEAR’s combat was heavily inspired by John Wu films.

One thing I really like about the backrooms bit is that they put genuine care into bits you wouldn't expect. Like the fact your shadow will turn around and look at you on the edge of your screen and I only found out about it because I took a screenshot and replayed the mission.

Remember everyone, if Bricky plays Ultrakill, it's with buttplug support. If he says he isn't, he's lying. Don't let him forget it.

Now Bricky needs to play Cultic which is a game that asks “What if Resident Evil 4 was a Boomer Shooter?” And it rocks

It's a shame that you forgot to mention the combat simulator. Combat is indeed the best part of this game, and in the combat simulator they extract arenas from levels as well as original ones and let you fight your way through in the "earn money by killing enemies" style you mentioned on the oil rigg. It adds a lot to the game in my opinion as some of the arenas didn't even have any enemies in them in the original levels. They even change up the enemy typed depending on which arena you're playing. Considering how short the campain can be for some people, it would be a disservice to not mention this asset for the game as well. Pluss the cheats you can unlock from completing missions are hillarious at times.

If Trepang1 was so cool how come there isn't a Trepang2 ye- oh wait...

FEAR is what I like to call a Woo shooter. Slo mo/dodge mechanics inspired by Hong Kong action and of course, the Matrix.

Hey so, as a person who completed the last mission on the EXTREME difficulty. The mission itself is pretty easy but the final area is just bullshit. 40% of it is luck 40% is crouching in the corner waiting for your cloak to recharge and 20% is knowing when the checkpoint triggers. Though usually the luck can be substituted with waiting longer for your cloak to recharge. But the best tip i can give is that when the helicopter appears after you pick up the grenade launcher you have a couple of seconds before the checkpoint triggers so you can just dump the whole mag into the chopper and then when you reload the checkpoint it remembers the damage you've dealt. It's also beneficial to grab a stake launcher before so you can deal more damage.

I don't regret paying full price for Trepang, it was a total banger of a time and I needed more FEAR in my life since that series fell off a cliff and died.

14:15 as someone who has done that mission on the hardest difficulty: stressfully

That reminder that FEAR is almost 20 years old should come with a fucking trigger warning "Trigger Warning, if you're over the age of 29/30 be aware this might give you the all encompassing, crushing violent existential fear of 'OH GOD I'M OLD!!! 😱😭' and could lead to buying a motorcycle and dressing like Steve Mcqueen" 😂

Trepang on hard is 7/10. Trepang on rage mode is 10/10 for me. It turns the game into a puzzle on how you gonna cheese every encounter and i love it.

One of the most underrated shooters I’ve played

Something to point out is that despite its short length, there is a lot of replayability with arena mode and challenges to complete! And you get rewarded with drip for 106 and your arsenal. I recommend this game as a passtime to have some dumb fun with and it's an incredible challenge if you're a completionist.

Trepeng or as I call it ultra kill but the Devs took their meds

One of the most underrated shooters I’ve played.

12:39 The two gods of indie game design. One is valid, but based. The other is based, but valid

Last time I was this early, the god emperor could still kill me for calling him that.

The soundtrack Server Technician keeps me coming back every now and then to replay this

So if Trepang2 is neither a BoomerShooter nor a ZoomerShooter, it's... an OomerOoter.

Ok - I will die on the hill of defending the backrooms segment, because it comes so out of nowhere, and its so unexpected it can actually be kinda, if not unsetteling, then shocking for sure.

It’s unreal how 4 dudes in a basement made a game with guns THIS good.

that black cloud segment still scares the shit out of me. First time I played I got attacked by it 4 or 5 times trying to get to one of the upgrades (didn't realise I could close the door behind me to keep it out) So every time I stood up to move forwards or even bumped into one of the chairs i'd get a jumpscare.

FEAR series is so slept on and the only game that actually creeped me out. I’ll definitely be checking this out.

9:35 insert cloaker noises here

The fact that FEAR still has not been topped almost 20 years after release is insane.

Yep, funny slowmo gun game goes brrrr... Now where's that HoloCure review, @Bricky?

So the secret to Rage Mode is war crimes. Dual Dragon's Breath shotguns and the Homing Minigun. And playing very safe, but mostly the first two.

“Wow, Trepang 2 is so cool! How do I play Trepang 1?” “That’s the neat part: you don’t.”

“Who’s my favorite little psycho path, that’s right it’s yoooooou”

GIANNI MENTIONED *-shits aggressively-*

Another great Zoomer Shooter is Turbo Overkill. All the guns are great (like the sniper rifle that teleports you to the enemy you just killed), combat is fast and fluid, great dystopia cyberpunk look, and the main character has chainsaw limbs. Gianni is also in it

Why yes, you can activate the nuke the second you see it... It's a bit of a pain to actually do but you can melee the big red button

nah the backrooms genuinely creeped me out. theres a room where u hear chuckles n stuff, and if u look around closely, theres a humanoid shadow peeking around corners following u, peepin at u, chuckling. that shit had me crouching the entire way to the exit

I'm so glad you included a clip of Texnoplazm, i helped that dude out with a previous game, and it's really neat to see where he takes this new project.

I couldn't help but imagine Gabriel Ultrakill saying that stuff 😂

I'm just going to say it; With so many of these videos being sponsored by Audible, I want Bricky to do official voice readings for popular novels and even instructional guides... that would sweeten the deal for me tenfold.

If you click on rage mode it literally says “Our publisher asked us to remove this mode”

Appreciate a video with the sponsor at the beginning so I can hit right arrow key 15 times or so and get to the actual video

YOU CAN STILL TAKE ENEMIES HOSTAGE WHILE DUAL WIELDING, you just holster the left gun and get it back immediately after throwing the hostage.

Dude thanks for telling me about this, I frickin loved fear so I'll have to check it out

If it makes you feel better about remembering a game from 20 years ago, I have memories of getting a N64 for Christmas and fiddling with the TV until the Star Fox 64 intro played.

Who's gonna tell him they brought back soap in season 4 MW2023 He was, in fact, *Not in that tunnel*

Fun fact about F.E.A.R.: there's chests you can use through the console command (accessible in the usual command console way). And there's a god mode Lil ol me decided after beating the game once n discovering the console to go once more through it in God mod. And it was really cathartic... Until the shadow men section, which traumatized me the first time around. I thought "finally, i can have my vengeance". And then *I TOOK DAMAGE FROM THEM* The shadow men sections turn OFF YOUR GOD MODE WITHOUT WARNING And thus I got traumatized even harder :D

Yes finally, large youtuber coverage for trepang 2 thank the lord

Trepang2 was worth every penny. I pop it in when I want some dumb catharsis for 30 minutes

3:44 they’re predicting the future lol

thank god a bricky vid. i needed this today

Bricky. It's absolutely criminal you didn't mention how killer the soundtrack is for this game. There are so many tracks for each mission and they all are Mick Gordon levels of good.

bricky wake up, they made dlc for the game, its coming out soon

Also, there's Severed Steel and Maximum Action. All these slow-mo jump-kick FPS games are all equally great imo. Each have their own specific charm.

Like this format 👍

Its still impressive that to this day there hasnt really been as many games with good AI like FEAR. They were truly ahead of the times.

15:56 aaaaaand it's on sale for $18 right now until the 27th of June weird 🤔

with all these slow-mo explosions, guts and sparks it becomes Tripping 2

I would highly recommend playing on Rage Mode. It turns it from a shooter with op abilities to ur the definition of a glass canon and u will have to utilize everything to win.

My one gripe with the new format was that the mic was so different between Bricky and narrator-Bricky, but that seems to be less apparent in this one. Lovely!

If you take one of the enemys hostage and drag them around the map, he will react when you make him watch as you kill his friends if you didn't know.

Ah I remember playing and loving the fear games. Good times.

14:10 - Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh brother, you really don't know how hard it is.

It’d be awesome to see you cover the original FEAR that game was amazing

By the time when Subject 106 said "It's Trepanging time" and started trepanging all over Horizon, I knew it was over for me.

What's funny is before the game was released, the demo had another line in the Rage Mode difficulty description that read something like "our publisher asked us not to include this difficulty". I did the first mission on Rage Mode, and yeah, it's really unforgiving. Doable, but I don't think it would be fun for more than one mission.

Hell yeah, i was waiting for this vid

Theres so many times where theres so many particles i have to look for hitmarkers to know if im hitting anyone

i love this game. One of the few indie titles I picked up after seeing your Fear videos since it seemed so similar. I don't think I've played a shooter as tight and fun as TREPANG2. It's a fantastic spiritual successor to those games in a way, and I'm so grateful to have picked it up and enjoyed it.

... I think Bricky actually SHOULD ABSOLUTELY talk about the ending of FEAR2. Make it an hour long epic.

The screaming reminded me of combat. Myself and my friends refer to this game as PTSD simulator

I absolutely loved playing through trepang, felt so snappy and polished

I've been playing this game since release and it's about time it got some of the recognition it deserved

a very good $30 game vs a very bad pay-to-win/play game for $50-$70. i've beat the game on normal difficult and moved on up to hard difficulty now

I remember trying to beat the demo of the game on the hardest difficulty. It took me like two hours. It changes you.

Hey brick, thanks to you I've read most of the Ciaphas Cain books and getting started on gaunts ghosts on audible

Glad there was outrage at the hot dog price, too. Bought the game today and spent a solid 3-4 minutes looking at the cafeteria prices with a couple of friends.

I loved this game so much. I played FEAR when it first came out on PC and always wanted something like that but with modern stuff. Trepang 2 scratches that itch.

I think it would be really cool if in one of the levels in the sequel or dlc that would take place entirely in the backrooms. You’d start by going through a facility and shooting guys until you come across an area that causes you to fall and suddenly transports you into the backrooms and the entire point of the mission is to find a way out.

It's quite criminal you haven't talked about the banger Music though, how it flows well into the combat and the gunfights basically singing into this symphony of pure, unaldutery destruction.

12:55 "Bricky - Playing Balatro"

I was wondering when you'd review this one. Seems right in your alley.

I beat Rage Mode. It's hard, but you learn to slide dodge constantly, and really exist in a pure flow state.

Fear's ai is the first real example of "GOAP", ive been reading more about it for my own projects and whule its great at a number of things it is actually terrible at teamwork which is what its normally praised for, thats all from clever game design (level design, voice lines, that kinda thinf). From what i understand it essentially treats each goal as its own behaviour tree, you dont directly control the actors you just tweak their decisionmaking and responses. This makes it pretty hard to get them to plan flanks and stuff. Its a great advance in tech for games and deserves a place in more games, even if it needs a fair bit of wrangling

I'm a pretty fanatical fan of the FEAR games, so buying this was a no-brainer for me. I already played the demo years ago. I finished the game on very hard difficulty, I redid some missions on extreme difficulty after beating the game. I got a solid 8 hours out of it before getting bored of doing the same missions over and over again. There is a combat simulator mode that spawns increasingly harder mobs for you to fight wave after wave. It's really challenging but I just didn't find it very fun to attempt. Overall the game is extremely fun for the target audience, to me the value for money is definitely there but I can see why 30$ for 4-8 hours might seem a bit pricey.

The pain of Rage Mode was a unique one, but it is doable when you understand the game better!

Been watching your content for a few years now, don’t normally comment but you’re looking fit bro 💪

This game freaking rules. Hyper violent single player shooters are one of my favorite genres along with JRPGs and 3D platformers

I keep pestering my friends with the absurd things you can do in this game, it absolutely rocks.

i indeed completed the time disruption mission with little to no cover or breathing room on the hardest difficulty that seems practically impossible (i beat the entire campaign on rage mode)

Recommendation: The Ninja Gaiden series (though I think it won't be your type of game). Just recommending mostly because I want to see your reaction. The main trilogy NG 1, 2 and 3 all have different versions. NG 1 has the original that came out in 2004, then in 2005 came NG 1 Black, then NG 1 Sigma in 2007. NG 2 has the normal release in in 2008, then NG Sigma 2 in 2009. NG 3 and the re-release version, Razor's Edge, came out in 2013. We don't talk about it. The difference between the versions, mostly NG 1 Black, NG 2 and their Sigma versions: is graphics, extra levels and difficulty tweaks. For example, NG 1 Sigma's hard mode is NG 1 Black's normal mode, if I remember correctly. While I haven't played NG 1 Black in years. I always remembered that I could never finish the tutorial level because of it's difficulty when I was a kid, whereas for other games in the same genre like DMC and God of War, I could at least get past the first boss.

"I will play Ultrakill at some point" with buttplug, right? I convinced, if Gianni Matragrano is a part of it, the game is gonna be good

‘Hot Dog! $8:50!” - They really are truly evil