I don't think the fact that this is using users for cryptomining is covered enough.

The undead lich queen pet makes sense, she was defeated in another game and sent to a cutesy dimension to be the thrall of a low-level chibi character. The worst possible hell for her.

I was disappointed the thunder wasn't someone going "booompowpowpow" with their mouth.

The crypto thing might've been them using that as an excuse to include mining code in the game and use your pc to mine.

im actually amazed that even tho you cant reasonably get beyond like lvl 10. there is still a whole world and enemies at lvl 70+

*Kills bunnies for a few hours* Game: Cool, here is your UNDEAD OVERLORD OF ETERNAL DOOM AND OBLIVION pet. Enjoy!

The cutesy charm is a twisted joke, made to draw you in but then after you're tired of the grind, they don't sound charming, they are mocking you.

Oh by the way, I researched the HPB blockchain. It's proof of work, meaning the game (probably) mines coins on your PC. My guess is it sends 75% to the developer, and the rest to you - as an incentive to keep the game running. Furthermore, the FAQ of the blockchain is in Chinese, there is no team listed and the market cap is barely over $12M, which is the hallmark of what people call a "shitcoin". The best part? 1 HPB costs $0.18. They are literally giving you fractions of a cent.

Not gonna lie, I'm actually pretty disappointed it's not an mmo about toast. Like, I've never been crushed this hard before.

If “Enslaved lich queen” was not to your taste, maybe you will find some of these other pets cute, cuddly, and adorable: “Molten magma demon of rage” “Hateful slave reaver” “Guy with gigantic bloody butcher knife” Or... “Two headed wolf marauder of terror”

Why buy a sound library when you have a perfectly good mouth?

'Tale of Toast is not an MMO where you play a sentient piece of toast' my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

Wow this is so malicious. A game that’s all cutesy to draw in kids and the naive, only to turn out to be a crypto miner

8:22 //epic thunder roll for several seconds //scared "ba-a-a" from nearby sheep OMGDAWWWWWWW

"The puns continue! Guess what the character named Berry wants me to collect. That's right, mushrooms." ded

I was having a cute time and they blindside me with a damn cryptominer

Imaging having a cute concept, a core strong idea and variety and if you made it very minimally monetized with cosmetics only you'd legitimately make gangbusters cash and you go "You know what this needs? Oppressive crypto malware."

I legit got excited when you went off to explore places on the furthest edges of the map.

I am actually devastated by the fact that this is not an MMO in which you control a sentient piece of toast in an "I AM BREAD" style physics combat and parkour system set in a ridiculous food fantasy setting.

absolutely INSANE that josh kept playing after the game admitted to being a CRYPTO MINER

"Rick Astley never gave me up" - I legit cried.

Ah yes, the indie dev who knows how to program crypto mining and a cash shop into their game, an MMO, but can't be bothered with a sound library. I'm kind of surprised they didn't add a fatigue system while they were at it, too.

This is why Valve banned NFT/Blockchain tech on Steam.

When crypto is in a game in any kind of way this is a massive red flag your computer is being used for dark purposes.

Dev: We're alpha, please be nice. Josh: Oh, that's fine Also Dev: Would you be interested in 3K crumbs for $249? Josh: Alright, that's it *removes gloves and wields brass knuckles*

im one of those people who made it to level 60 and i can explain the hpb or why i think its there, now alot of players didnt have good gpu like i did (Infact most of them played on crappy laptops) so they didnt notice but this game made my gpu run like crazy and this was during the time games were getting in trouble for using players gpu to mine crypto, i called out the owner on this issue next thing you know hpb was added... additionally this game was cute but was actually ruthless in that anyone could pk anywhere but inside a town this was changed. and that is when player base declined.

the main problem with these games is that they try to cramped in so much mechanics but isn't polished in the slightest. working on one mechanic and making it perfect is better than a hundred but all broken.

Please review "Age of Wushu", it has the terrible situation of that you need food or starve, but the word "Food" does not exist in the manual (it did not when I tried the game three years ago).

The looks designed to draw kids in than teach them harsh life lessons.

wait, the forest bat is literally a devilmon from summoner wars

I simply love Josh's rating system "This game is shit and you simply wish you could get away from it...That is why I rate this game "an actual human baby out of 10" " so brilliant.

I'm surprised at how generous you were to the game after discovering a fucking cryptominer in it

The sound design is painfully adorable and genuinely wonderful, but it's really sad the rest of it is. That sound design deserves a good, charming, child-focused game behind it.

That level up sound was too adorable for me

I never want to hear the words "cute, adorable, human" again after watching this.

This guy has 20m subs quality videos.

"Come on Queen Lichy, I guess you're my pet now!" Queen Lichy: "I....will NEVER serve!"

This feels like a crypto mining application disguised as a "im a poor dev " schtick

33:37 i think the head movement is intentional cause its supposed to be a way to evade or manouver around enemies and you would want to keep an eye on the enemies you are moving around of.

33:06 The strafing is correct isn't it? That's how strafing in every game I play works. Your character looks inward while strafing outward. It works like that in FFXIV and GW2.

This game was a lot better in 2019 I've leveled to 15 in a day, there was no cryptofarming nor pets And mobs did deal ten times less damage And there was potions usable in combat And there was iron crafting, you just needed higher skill level for recipes to appear

This game has so much charm and I adore the sounds, sad to see a cute little game like this have predatory mechanics.

The animal sounds are pretty wonderful, but to be honest, I’ve always felt that real sheep sound like people pretending to be sheep.

So noones gonna talk about how this madlad actually read the terms and conditions Seems like a serial killer to me

I tried this game out about a year ago. There isnt much to do, but It gives me such a special feeling (and I dont know why) but I feel like crying. It is not just cute but weirdly melancholic. I still haven't left the game's discord server cause I just can't bring myself to do so.

The kitchen queen gave me a giggle. Edit: I'm not fixing that. Too funny.

Its sometimes really fun to jump into really bad MMO's and see where you can go,I remember finding some azthek temple looking unfinished area in Bless Online devoid of life . You could only get there by jumping through the mountains. Was actually quite pretty,had some unique assets. Well and then the game died and now I am one of the probably very few people with screenshots of this place.

Yknow this may be drowned out by the ages, but I just want to say it's so nice to see someone be genuine unto themselves and see them thrive. Keep being yourself Josh we're enjoying it and i'm glad you're putting this content out here.

"This is an anime game. All you need to do is believe." Laughed so hard XD

So disappointing, it’s so cute ! It deserved to be good ... but nope :(

Josh is tenacious when bored.

Hidey wants hides but Jekkle or whatever doesn't? They sacrificed a good pun for a barely pun?

at 3:46 that isnt the buildings roof not coming back correctly when you leave, its working just as intended and their method of doing so was actually pretty clever. they used a method called Backface Culling, which makes the back side of polygons invisible, they did this so that when you exit the building the roof will still be invisible if your camera is still inside of it so that your view isnt being obstructed. if they didnt enable backface culling then there would be a brief moment where your entire camera view is obstructed when the roof comes back upon leaving a building. honestly thats the best way to handle such a thing, so I dont think its fair to call that a mistake.

So those snakes and that last dungeon you saw... yeah a bunch us used to grind there and have done that dungeon multiple times 😅 although I don’t like that dungeon much but also there’s probably about atleast 4-5 of us who made it to the max level 64 lol

Whe I saw “Tale of bread” I instantly was like “why has someone made a mmo where u are a piece of bread” then I was thinking of the game “I am bread” but all mmo like. Now I’m thoroughly disappointed about hearing this game isn’t about being a piece of toast in a mmo setting

35:20 I like how they just run through that wall after you went around the whole thing

Rick Astley never gave me up, can't stop laughing.

Just to let you know that last tirade at the final dungeon entrance is what made me subbed. I'm actually crying great work bro

If they're going to give a pet a weapon then that pet needs to help in combat. Also, they should have made that lich queen cute a chibi as well. Imagine a bunch of big, scary liches being commanded by a cute lil queen

I love these videos. I've been bingeing the whole series. Thanks for the quality videos!

When my game is complete I'd be so lucky to have someone tear it apart before release so I don't embarrass myself. Every enemy running past you when attacking is clearly because it only checks the player's position every 0.5 instead of every frame which might save performance. Not being able to close a window might have something to do with how the windows are layered. Tiny bugs that could be ironed out in a few minutes. The graphics however, is going to take a long time to fix.

"It looks fine, it sounds adorable, and it's fun to spend about 15 minutes with..." So... Tale of Toast is basically a small spoiled dog?

This makes me want WoW to have a quest where you experience a child's recollection of something, and while playing as the child, everything appears and sounds like this game.

37:11 Ha I live near Seven Oaks, it’s a town in the south east of England - just over the border from Surrey in Kent. Maybe I’ll nip round there for Patch’s key sometime

I feel it's only suitable to give litch queen to a heartless beast that murdered cute, innocent bunnies without as much as a blink of an eye.

This feels like a potion chugging MMO without the potions. Was there a way to craft any, or much like the cabbages, 'you must be out of combat for 3 sec to use that'?

It's a shame this is such a grindy nightmare, I was hoping for a positive review. It looked adorable and I was hoping to find a new MMO that I could enjoy 😞

33:15 to be entirely fair, when I think of strafing, I think largely of two situations: Either moving directly left and right for situations in which you're shooting at an enemy; moving from cover to cover or dodging fire, and circling around an enemy. In both situations, you'd be in combat. Obviously knowing where you're going is good, but it's also a bad idea to take your eyes off the enemy. In both cases, looking the opposite direction that you're moving while strafing would have you 'looking' at the enemy.

Just wanted to point out about strafing and head movement. It makes sense when engaging an enemy. When your target is in front of you and you're just kinda strafing around them, the head looks in a direction where the enemy would be standing. If they don't have head following target system, this is a nice cheaty way to get this effect. Should be only for combat though as it does look silly in every other situation. But on the movement itself, it does make some sense, it has a purpose. :D Btw, my friend was that "good" at swimming, he did manage to swim backwards when we were taught classic style. :P

woah hang on, first time ive done a double take. the achievement picture for spring heels is the same picture used as the "dexterity" card in monster slayers. totally minor, but caught me off guard. no, wait, as you explain the ranged skill being unusable, i see the icons for the other skills. ALMOST ALL OF THEM are from monster slayers. what the hell? oh, aaand so is the swimming achievement. i know monster slayers is a comparatively small game, but what the hell?

@33:48 had me dying.... "You might be good at swimming, but are you move backwards while swimming forwards good?"

Watching Josh lose his sanity slowly to this game was VERY entertaining! 10/10 would watch again! xD And that actress needs a raise for her top tier adorable sound effects!

9:45 And that is where I would've put the game down immediately, lol. I can't tolerate games where death causes xp loss.

For how 'buttered' up the game's art style is it still left Josh 'burnt'. So many incomplete systems like 'crumbs' in it's coding and with no music to 'jam' out to leaves this piece of toast stale. No I don't regret those bad puns~ (P.S. Not sure if your up for it but I think it'd be fun to watch you and your patrons play some of these bad games together on stream or something...but then again given the incredibly low player count of some of these games you'd probably crash the servers. :P)

"What is the point of crafting" this feels like a question I ask for most RPGs, by the time you level up your worker classes and gain the resources required and make am item. It just end up being a waste of time and resources as it usually is inferior to most regular monster drop equipment. Some few games have made it work but most of them, just make crafting and stores irrelevant for equipment

When you started your whole big anime speech at the end. It was obvious that instant death was coming immediately. Still cracked me up 😂

Listening to you describe this game brings back memories of OG Final Fantasy 14. Soloing was impossible past level 10 as enemies were scaled to a full party of 6 players. Quests did not appear on the map, and they never explained where to go. Crafting took insane amounts of time investment if you wanted to gather your own materials, so a major part of the economy was grinding crafting ingredients for other players. It was just expected of the community to band together to play that game. And for a long while, we did. Good times... *edit: I mistyped and meant XI, not XIV*

actually, the looking in the opposite direction while strafing makes sense. after all, if you were strafing sideways, the thing you're strafing around would likely be in the opposite direction. But what I do want to ask nobody in particular is if this is one of those games made of bought assets/engines?

I lost it at the Whirlwind animation. Haven't laughed like that in a bit.

Can I just say: Your final adventure is how any journey in Everquest 1 was, even just going to a dungeon for your level, especially when it was on another continent. The thrill of traversing creepy areas with monsters that could 1shot you, causing you to lose exp worth hours or days of grind and even all your possessions if you don't manage to get back your corpse while completely naked. I miss those times. Nowadays it's all just "meh I died, no problem", "meh it's on the other side of the globe, I just click this teleporter"...............

Had to give it a like with the "That's just a theory, a game theory" line lol

This game's characters look like those collectible figures from the Sims 4.

LOOOOOL those 3 demons at the end are the same model as a mobile game i played for a few months (Undead vs Demons) so funny xD

Bro You said to replay the level up sound and instantaneously my video cuts to a Burger King ad. I guess Josh was hungry.

lol this isn't a game it's an overproduced crypto mine

Crafting in wow has the same issue. It's basically a waste of time or materials except in niche cases. If I wanted to get heavily into it and play a bit more of an RP style where I gather an make my own gear, the gear is all just junk. Unless it's extremely high level non weapon and non armor items or utility items, it's just useless. The new xpack has fixed this to an extent with crafted armor, but you can only equip one useful crafted item at a time and the grind to craft a better version is huge and expensive... Time better spent grinding gold and just buying the items off the auction house.

35:11 MAN I CANNOT STAND games that take away xp youve earned, makes you scared to do anything risky AT ALL, same for having some super move that takes forever to recharge where you never end up using it because you're too worried to waste it

13:54 parkour jumps over a big green ram sheep lol

Now I can't stop wonder whats in that last dungeon...

The scared "BA!" from the sheep after the thunder was damn adorable 😂😂 8:27

Best Narration starts @42:19 "... Rick Astley never gave ME up." Bro 🤣 great writing

The cutsy noises would have kept their charm if you were still having fun. But now they feel like they're mocking you

Worst? Seems to me like this game has a lot of charm. Some technical problems maybe, but it's cute and earnest and I want to give it a hug. ... okay, I spoke too stone, the block chain thing is a bit disgusting, and undermines the earnestness thing.

I agree, this type of game is like eating pure caramel. The caramel is given to you by your aunt who is also a doctor. She secretly finds you really annoying and gives you caramel to get you diabetes so you have to buy insulin from her.

Such a great start, got worst as it went on, such a shame.

Somehow it cracked me up how this cutsie game has this epic thunder sound

Are you ever gonna revisit any of these to see if they listened and it got better?

i like how the last bit was just exploration of uncharted territories

the kill, rest, opps respawn loop with lower enemies not giving XP but higher enemies kick your butt sounds so much like Everquest, especially the early days

Jekkely is a pun name. I think it should be a reference to jekyll and hyde. The jekyll part wants you to kill the animal and the hide part wants you to get the hide from the killed enemy