Bumbles using the Garten of Banban segment to talk about new indie games is such a fucking power move.

One thing I should mention about my friendly neighborhood's inventory system: the game won't let you discard any keys until you've completely exhausted their usefulness, by that I mean unlocked everything you can unlock with them. So when you click on a key item of any kind and see the 'discard' option pop up, that means you're safe to chuck it and free up some inventory space.

Deeply appreciate the stealth episode of Indie Game Roundup that came free with my trick-or-treat candy.

Calling Garten of Banban ‘Arven of Bad Dad’ and then showing footage of Professor Turo shouldn’t have made me laugh as much as it did.

I love how the joke for Banban was to show cool upcoming games that people probably ahvnt heard about. Slave Zero X is something that gets my fancy real quick.

45:12 Fun fact: THATS TRUE. The voice director, youtuber and voice actor Jelloapocalypse, said in a stream that the direction for Gordon waa to act as if all of this is completely normal, and he's done all of this before

One of the few things i despised about dark revival was how it gaslit the community, you see joey drew studios were compared to joey drew himself, being egotisitcal and awful to their employees, so in the dark revival they turned joey into a loving sympathic boss who only wanted to do whats best and got lost in the game, aka trying to turn joey drew into a good person so any comparsion of the real life joey drew studios and the ficitonal joey drew was much more favorable. It's scummy as hell and the community lapped it up and clapped

You really gave Banban the disrespect it deserves.

I cannot get over the fact that the studio behind Bendy named themselves after the guy who was supposed to be the horrible villain in the game. It's like if the studio behind Bioshock named themselves "The Andrew Ryan foundation"

"His power is infinite" they say, as he fails to climb through a gap in the wall and kill you instantaneously.

I wanna say after the Who's Lila? segment I mediately went and looked for a "story explained" video (I am a wuss when it comes to horror games ok) and the only video was nearly 8 fucking hours long so yeah this game is something else

I feel so bad for Amanda and MFN, both are great games that got overshadowed by worse releases that either came shortly after or before.

Honestly, talking about other completely unrelated games is exactly the amount of respect Ban Ban deserves.

Now to be perfectly fair, there is a way to make Nemesis go away whenever I want: it's called a Handgrenade

Honestly just by seeing snippets of gameplay, My Friendly Neighborhood seems to be what Dark Revival wishes it could be. Where Dark Revival pretty much stole from Bioshock, Friendly Neighborhood drew inspiration while adding some Muppets charm as a bonus. Where Dark Revival wastes time with pointless stealth, mind numbing puzzles and Hello Neighbor backtracking, Friendly Neighborhood has you think through encounters and respects the player's time and intelligence. Where Dark Revival contrives exposition and plot points to either give an illusion of a story or exist as theory fodder, Friendly Neighborhood is organic with its storytelling and doesn't force the extra world building down your throat.

MFN also varies heavily on difficulty, easy is "oh my god i have too much shit" Meanwhile unfriendly is "holy shit i have too much space"

Upon my last doctors check up they called me a viral horror, but you don't seem me getting attention for it. I just get attention for my ability to drink raw sewage without any negative repercussions.

I need more videos of ‘Bumbles Recommendations’ cause those games mentioned at the start added to my wishlist.

I love how the best ending in Amanda the Adventurer is putting a brick through the TV. Why didn't they think to try that in The Ring?

You clever bastard Jack I tried to put the playback speed to 0.25 to hear the lore of Amanda the Adventurer and it was still too fast to comprehend. Well played.

i would say christmas came early, but i don’t want to get shot. happy halloween.

THE KNOCKING GOT ME TWICE, COME ON MAN

The new bendy game is “we have bioshock at home, for kids”. Which is a choice.

I still love how instead of talking about Garten of Banban, he just talks about games that aren’t even horror adjacent but are just better games lol

Bumbles and Pastra are on complete opposite sides of the Bendy spectrum

You know, judging by the brief clips of FNAF Security Breach’s DLC in the intro, I was kinda expecting you to cover that, but after seeing how well the final couple games turned out and how much you enjoyed them, I don’t mind this in the least! You always cook something up with these compilation styled videos, man.

Man put out more effort into the Garten of Banban review than the developers put effort into the game.

37:34 Jack, I need you to know it was your Bumbles McRumbles videos that got me into pro wrestling about a year ago. And since then, I’ve gotten so deep I immediately recognized that pronunciation of “Directly” as coming from The Rock when Jericho made his WWF Debut

As one of the three people who played Dodgeball Academia (those being me, you and the Top 10 Best Obscure 3DS Games article author), I was pleasantly surprised to see it mentioned! It's a super charming game that definitely deserves more attention

Benis and the Dark Revival kinda looks like they wanted to turn it into bioshock for some reason and failed really hard at that.

I love how in the Bendy section he put epic mickey music really sets the mood

We let banban become popular. What have we done? WHAT HAVE WE DOOOOOOOOOONE?!!

I love how little Bumble cared about Garten of BanBan lmao

Helpful tip for My Friendly Neighborhood: If there’s a checkmark next to an item in your case, that means you don’t need it anymore.

Halloween not being on a saturday really is the scariest part of the video.

0:54 Garten of banban (PLEASE GIVE US MONEY WE'RE LITERALLY BEGGING YOU) 3:23 Amanda the adventurer (Wooly fucking dies) 18:13 Bendy and the weird-ass lore (KZfaq kids sensation) 44:28 My friendly neighborhood (Who) 1:02:31 Who's Lila? (I SHIT MA PANTS!)

A feature length video? NOW it's a Halloween special. Thank you for the halloween treat,Jack.

Good news, Bumbles. October will be on a Saturday in 2026. So if we still exist by then, things will finally line up for you! :D EDIT: October THIRTY-FIRST will be on a Saturday in 2026.

The true horror of Amanda the Adventurer is what happens when you look it up on KZfaq Shorts

we don't talk enough about Jack purposefully adding knocking sounds that are specifically on certain sides of your headphones in a Halloween episode is evil as fuck

Garden of ban ban is certainly a thing that exists, it is something that exists in the world, and is made of lines of code and data. Truly a thing

Imma be real, I like listening to you talk about games you like more than ones you don't lol. This was great, and I'm interested in trying some of these games myself.

The possessed TV Ending in Amanda is legitimately one of the creepiest things I've ever seen in a horror game. It is so well done.

My Friendly Neighborhood is one of my favorite horror games because the puppets are just a natural part of the word and dont actually want you dead (until the end but shh). They are just people with deep trauma that have been abandoned by the people that wouldve helped them. They dont want to hurt you, most are just so excited to see a human and forget their own strength. Its really refreshing to have a story that involves notmally inanimate things that are alive that isnt "they have dead people in them and they want to kill you out of revenge"

I was really into Bendy and the Ink Machine when I was a pretty young teenager, and even though I'm distinctly aware that it's bad, I felt that BATDR improved on it while not actually taking advantage of the potential, and the good, that was set up in the first game. It just feels like they leaned into the Bioshock angle but forgot to keep the... you know, Bendy?

I enjoy the amount of references to "Woolie the liar stole my pie"

the intro cutting to green screen implies that it was being live filmed despite noone being on screen which is hilarious

I screamed when you brought up Who’s Lila. It’s one of my favourites of all time and I’m ecstatic any time I see someone talk about it. Lila is the mystery of not knowing who Lila is.

I wish Jack would talk about tattletail. Legitimately the best mascot horror game

I do appreciate you talking about Bendy, even if you hated it. It’s good to hear multiple views on media, especially when those views are actually well thought out and explained. I mostly enjoy the visuals in character design and environments (it’s strongest suit in my opinion) and glad this game was actually a complete package opposed to chapters, which helped the story be more coherent and feel fully thought out opposed to original with story threads dropped in the end due to story was made as the chapters were. But I can agree with many of your criticisms of the game. I wish the game was being handled by better people sadly. Also so glad hearing more praise for Amanda and Neighborhood as I’m excited for Amanda’s second enstallment and look forward to the neighborhood dev’s next project

Just letting you know for my friendly neighborhood if an item has a check mark near it you can just dispose of it

OoooOOOooooOoo spooooooky Jack tiiime But fr hearing him even mention GarageBand of Dahr Mann was true horror

I’m very glad that Amanda and My Friendly Neighborhood are well received. It really feels like devs are trying to take mascot horror somewhere great, rather then just abandoning the concept. FNAF worked for a reason, even if the execution was lacking. Let’s explore it, make it better, and create more amazing games. Let’s push the envelope and use mascot horror as a baseline for creativity and fun. Ban Ban on the other hand makes me want to cry.

thought batdr was a massive improvement on the first one, quicker running speed, unique abilities which i used a lot and the visuals are crazy good. characters are much more explored too, especially audrey and joey's reltionship

Ah yes my favorite punch out guy talks about Garten of Peakpeak

When I thought of a Bumbles McFumbles Halloween special, I thought about random creepy places in video games, this is a surprise, but a welcome one at that. Also, I need whatever that barn in the zoo episode is having. That guy is on another plane of existence.

If at some point you wanna do a Viral Horror Games 3: Special about a single game, but it's only a minute long followed by half an hour of Indie Game Recommendations, I would watch it.

can't wait for viral horror 3!!!!!! (thank you bumbles mc fumbles for giving me something to look forward to this spooky season)

Ohh Im so glad you covered these games. I actually didn't think Ananda the adventurer, wasn't going to be any good but was surprised, Im quite interested for the next chapter. Also, Batim never really had interesting (or consistent) lore, so I dont understand why anyone believes that batim chapter 2 got any better... because it didn't. Also also MFN is such a heart-warming game I absolutely love Muppets! ( also you didn't heard this from me but Im pretty the only reason Joey Drew got a gf is to beat those gay allegations)

Mental note, never ask Bumbles to help with facial expressions ever again. Asked him one time and then he had to butt into the rest of my day.

This guy puts a random knocking sound at a random point in each one of his Halloween specials, and it gets me EVERY TIME!

Did not expect some Dodgeball Academia footage. Grabbed it from GamePass during a depressive episode and it's so charming that I beat it in a couple days

While ananda does separate itself from lost indie horror games it did keep the undeniably best part of them Absolutely banging fan songs

Oh boy, a feature length video on my favorite game, Gaten of Banban! Edit: my soul is shattered

Legitimately surprised that Wooly the liar didn't steal that pie

Most useful review of BanBan on the platform!

Thanks for mentioning Dodgeball Academia while you were suposed to be talking about Banban. It got me interested and I quickly went to put it on my wishlist for later. :)

My Friendly Neighborhood is honestly one of my favorite horror games in recent memory, and probably the best mascot horror game for me. I like how it doesn't do some dark twist with the puppets, like "Oh they're dead kids stuffed in suits" or "Oh they're demons pretending to be friendly!", the puppets are just...puppets who went a bit loopy in isolation and are desperate for friendship from someone. Hell, I love how it takes the logic of the muppet series and has no one question why sentient felt people are a thing, just that they are. Gordon is a fun character who feels believable in the scenario (that and the game explaining WHY he can kick puppet ass like no one else), Ricky is a good antagonist (Not a villain, mind you, but an obstacle), and I appreciate that, by doing the events to pacify the unique enemies, you actually see Gordon's character development through, rather than it being out of place. Even if we don't get a sequel to My Friendly Neighborhood, i'm excited to see what John and Evan Szymanski do next

I love the detail of the useless greenscreen at the beginning

My main take-away from this video so far is that Slave Zero X is something I am definitely gonna keep my eyes on in the near futute. Just beat the demo and I am itching to play more of it

i'm glad you made me find out about who's lila. it feels like those games from creepypastas where the protagonist gets them from a yardsale of some crazy old man or from a friend who begs them to destroy it

Love how this video is mostly just gushing about three great horror games, just touching on a bad one, and roasting a dumb sequel

Don't worry, you just have to wait 3 whole years and then finally Halloween will be on a Saturday

23:42 me explaining to my parents what a metroidvania is

Oh god Bendy is literally just budget Bioshock at this point, THE HUMAN CHARACTERS AND INGAME FONTS ARE EVEN IN THE EXACT SAME ARTSTYLE.

Thank you, Jack, I can’t wait to see this and procrastinate while I’m at work. ❤

I can't wait for 2026 when we finally have Halloween on a Saturday!

So glad we got a sequel to the first one!

0:54 absolutely horrifying

2:07 usually I'd skip advertisements like this but my other option is garten of banban so I'll give it a pass

I think this is a BIRD UP

I wasn’t anticipating to hear the words ‘Chip and Skip’ again in relation to the game. It was another horror game, it was fun to watch. I’m sure if you look up the name you’ll find it, I know Manlybadasshero did something with it

when he was about to talk about bento box who the fuck cares I was very happy when he just started talking about upcoming indie games he enjoyed

Playing Andy’s Apple Farm literally yesterday and then immediately seeing it referenced in a Bumbles video when I’d never even heard of it before yesterday was definitely an interesting experience.

I hate how Bendy was wasted. I like the character design, and Boris should have been a companion.

36:32 You missed the note that explains it

"Imagine not having to take out a mortgage to play Custom Robo." Same could be said for Megabyte Punch, bro.

At first, Jack's sorrow over his name having five letters confused me, but then I remembered that he spells it with two x's and a z.

I was playing dmc5 when you made the hack and slash joke. AND I WAS PLAYING VERGIL Also i liked the scary picture

Gee Thanks JACK, that last image scared me so bad I'm dead now.

1. obligatory "Viral Horror Games 2 Electric Boogaloo" 2. disappointed you didn't upload this on the scariest time of the year, October 29th!

i personally liked my time with ink machine and dark revival but everybody has their own opinions.

43:37 "His power is infinite" And yet he somehow can't find you hiding in that spot That's like hiding in your kitchen cabinet in hide and seek and leaving the door open

Okay, you have sold me on Who's Lila?, which I wouldn't have played probably otherwise.

I love videos where a Narrator calmly explains a horror game.

17:09 Glad to see a reference to the great cinematic masterpiece "Street Fighter: The Movie".

Pastra and Phisnom expressed their joy at seeing the game be better than the depths the Ink Machine sink into Bumbles was never enchanted by the premise to begin with and was not shy about pointing out how much of BATIM was reinforced in the Dark Revival.

With how much No more heroes this channel is inspired, I'm surprised there isn't a dedicated NMH video

Don't worry, we'll get our Saturday Halloween in 3 years time.

I hope next year Jack talks about Shipwrecked 64. It’s not as popular as other mascot horror games but it is a masterpiece. Easily the best horror game I’ve ever played.