The Best Faust Adaptation? Faust: Seven Games of the Soul Review @PretentiousHipster

Pretentious Hipster 0:00 Intro/Skit
3:18 Review
13:56-15:33 Spoilers
15:57 Closing Skit

Faust is my first venture into the games of Arxel Tribe and Cryo. It is a point and click game that looks into the darkness of humanity, not unlike the games I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, and The Dark Eye. Don't expect anything even close to Goethe's adaptation, but it is definitely the strangest yet one of the most interesting ones. Mephisto takes Faust to an abandoned amusement park, and he becomes a sort of objective arbitrator to help figure out which souls belong to Heaven, and which belong in Hell.

Cryo is definitely one of the most polarizing companies out there, but this entry got quite a bit of praise. Is it worth playing? Find out here.

Music is from Epidemic Sound. All songs are by the Magnus Ringbloom Quartet, except for the song A Dark Road to Nowhere by DEX 1200.

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The Best Faust Adaptation? Faust: Seven Games of the Soul Review

Pretentious Hipster 2021-09-19 | 0:00 Intro/Skit
3:18 Review
13:56-15:33 Spoilers
15:57 Closing Skit

Faust is my first venture into the games of Arxel Tribe and Cryo. It is a point and click game that looks into the darkness of humanity, not unlike the games I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, and The Dark Eye. Don't expect anything even close to Goethe's adaptation, but it is definitely the strangest yet one of the most interesting ones. Mephisto takes Faust to an abandoned amusement park, and he becomes a sort of objective arbitrator to help figure out which souls belong to Heaven, and which belong in Hell.

Cryo is definitely one of the most polarizing companies out there, but this entry got quite a bit of praise. Is it worth playing? Find out here.

Music is from Epidemic Sound. All songs are by the Magnus Ringbloom Quartet, except for the song A Dark Road to Nowhere by DEX 1200.

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Radu is the Greatest Vampire Youve Never Heard Of

Pretentious Hipster 2025-02-13 | MJAOR SPOILERS 10:28-11:48

Vampires are definitely one of the most common mythos with a huge fanbase to boot. There are MANY iterations of them, some going beneath the radar. In this video I, alongside some friends, have brainstormed some criteria for vampires (such as blood access, combat, etc), and I prove that Radu from the Subspecies films is the most memorable vampire that I have seen thus far, by showing that he falls under an extreme in all criteria. Not to mention the fact that the films are fantastic as well.

Thanks for watching!

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Dillon Knighton - Lamentation, Pyre, Scavenged
Blue Saga - It's Just Noise, Tension

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Proto-Cozy Games and The Improvement of Sequels | Reviewing the Endless Ocean Series

Pretentious Hipster 2023-09-23 | 0:00 Intro
11:16 What are cozy games?
18:40 Scuba diving games and Arika's history
27:00 Endless Ocean 1
51:35 How sequels work
55:48 Endless Ocean 2

Endless Ocean, and its sequel Endless Ocean: Blue World, are one of the very few budget titles published by Nintendo for the Wii. The company Arika was known to make the more "git gud" games until they changed to a sort of proto-cozy game. In this video I explore the current cozy game movement, and how sequels should improve upon the original entry.

Footage is either taken from pexels, pixabay, freepik (I am a paid member so not attribution is needed), archive, and various public domain sources. The rest will be referenced below.

The music is taken from Epidemic Sound or the games' soundtracks. The following songs were used:

Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - Aeternum, Lumina, With Tenacity
Peter Sandberg - Etude No 1 For String Quartet
Johannes Bornlof - Eye of the Storm
Howard Harper-Barnes - Forests in Mist
Christian Andersen - No Time for Fear, Amazing Grace
Spirit of Our Dreams - Another Spectrum, As Life Decides, Beyond Gravity, Breath of the Mindful, Meteora, Minds Traversed, Silent Orbit, Stratosphere Voyage, Winds Amassed
Jon Algar - Funeral Pyre
Isobelle Walton - The Colours of Autumn
The Shakeabouts - Amazing Grace
Pip Mondy - Can't Win Me Over
Traditional - Amazing Grace
Mac Taboel - Gold Rush
Cushy - I'm Still Dancing
T-Shirts & Sweats - OMG
Rannar Sillard - Rise From Hell
Sightless in Shadow - Turn This World Around

The following references were used:

INTRO

youtube.com/watch?v=BotNuevl9tM
youtube.com/watch?v=eh_HUIJkRzU
youtube.com/watch?v=E1jXo4_1YtM
youtube.com/watch?v=2iThuUtYhM4

Part 1:

youtube.com/watch?v=-eiPQr3tKcU
youtube.com/shorts/i4uwEN8ZVfk
youtube.com/watch?v=mgtz4Iv4uO4
youtube.com/shorts/J7av4DBBgr8
youtube.com/watch?v=nji5zvkuuFg
theverge.com/2022/12/27/23523251/cozy-games-animal-crossing-stardew-world-of-warcraft-dragonflight
gamesradar.com/cozy-gaming-why-a-wholesome-trend-became-a-recognized-genre
web.archive.org/web/20210802013314/latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-07-01/wholesome-games-movement-cozy-video-games-anti-violence
mtv.com/news/uovryr/nintendo-prez-raves-about-wii-mario-kart-defends-manhunt-2-shares-endless-ocean-secrets
youtube.com/shorts/LiBe7YMElG0
gamefaqs.gamespot.com/wii/954373-endless-ocean-blue-world/faqs/59342
youtube.com/watch?v=YNIl3RWHx3I
youtube.com/watch?v=_G-RdjJP-4o
youtube.com/watch?v=iIGcUd9W6Cw
youtube.com/watch?v=-_b6H8dHHm0
youtube.com/watch?v=kYDGc9OLFaw
youtube.com/watch?v=pHSQBrPdweE
youtube.com/watch?v=BL_PC5uKaos
youtube.com/watch?v=kJZ5b9xTlk8

Part 2:

theoi.com/Titan/TitanOkeanos.html
cnn.com/travel/article/thonis-heracleion-egypt-scli-intl-scn/index.html
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/EndlessOcean
crystalviden.com/can-lapis-lazuli-go-in-water
archiveofourown.org/works/29912352/chapters/73620780
fanfiction.net/s/11652464/1/EOBW-Oneshot-Reverse-Beastiality-ThanatosXOC
ign.com/articles/2009/02/12/endless-possibilities
http://www.gamerevolution.com/review/wii/endless-ocean-blue-world

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Channel Update & Why You Should Start a YouTube Channel

Pretentious Hipster 2023-08-02 | Yep, I'm making one of THOSE video. A mix of what's going on with my channel, and the things I've learned since starting it, and how it can actually improve one's life.

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Dj Eely - Return to What Is
Dj Eely - One Thing Left

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Tingle & The Manosphere: The Subversive DS Games

Pretentious Hipster 2023-04-24 | 0:01 - Intro
1:30 - The Manosphere
2:20 - Existentialism
3:59 - Capitalism
6:35 - The Grift
7:56 - Who is Tingle?
10:20 - The "Get Rich Quick" Grift (Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland)
15:27 - The "Get Laid Quick" Grift (Ripened Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love)

Tingle is one of the oddities of the Zelda franchise. Hated in the west, it is not as well known that there are a few spin off games starring him. Two of them are made by Vanpool who have an indirect connection to making games like Moon, Chrono Trigger, and Super Mario RPG. They were extremely interesting games to me because they both reached an overt topic that I didn't expect. These 2 DS games are titled Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, and Ripened Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love.

The manosphere may be a new term, but get rich/get laid quick schemes are as old as time itself. These games subverts standard game mechanics and even affects you, the player, to show the flaws of such grifts. This video essay not only shows the connection between these games and those grifts, but the partial nature as to why younger men tend to fall for them.

For the thumbnail:
Background Image by Freepik
Image by master1305 on Freepik

Video by Freepik, pexels, of pixabay.

The music is from Epidemic Sound. The following songs were used:

Apio Acido - This Outer Space
Hothouse Venus - This Other Space
Its in the House - Pableno
Melancholy Deep - This Other Space

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#zelda #thelegendofzelda #grifters #videoessay

This LucasArts Clone References Everything | The Gene Machine

Pretentious Hipster 2023-03-10 | The Gene Machine is a point and click adventure game for the MS-DOS. It was released in 1996, being developed by Divide By Zero, Ltd, and publised by Vic Tokai, Inc. Divide By Zero has been known for also releasing The Orion Conspiracy, Innocent Until Caught, and Guilty. This was received well, with Just Adventure comparing it, and saying it's as good, as the works of LucasArts and Sierra.

This game is FULL of references. It includes the work of H. G. Wells, mostly The Island of Doctor Moreau, but it also includes a reference to Around the World in 80 Days. Its subversive yet incredibly British humour has also been compared to Blackadder.

Is this a hidden gem? Should it be compared to the works of LucasArts and Sierra? Find out here.

The music is either from the game soundtrack, or from Epidemic Sound. The following songs from the latter are used:

One Two Feet - Automatic Lovin'
Martin Landstorm - A Real Class Act
Mac Toboel - Gold Rush
Luella Gren - The Haunted Concert Hall
Experia - Trapped in the Sewers
Jo Wandrini - To War!

Commercials, interviews, etc are taken from archive.

Stock footage are taken from pexels and pixabay.

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#thegenemachine #msdos #90sgaming #pcgaming #hgwells #moreau #british

An Exploration in Snoopy’s Heroism Through His Video Games

Pretentious Hipster 2023-02-01 | Greetings! I am part of the Specialized Liberation Division, and I am here to talk about the story of the young WWI heroes Snoopy and Woodstock. They are both part in the Charlie Brown series, and Snoopy found himself inspired to fight in The Great War against the German ace pilot, Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthhofen, or The Red Baron. The battle was so successful that even The Royal Guardsmen made a chart-topping hit.

This explores the many dramatizations of the battle. Firstly there is Snoopy and the Red Baron for the Atari 2600, Snoopy vs The Red Baron for PS2, and Snoopy Flying Ace for the Xbox Live Arcade. Are these dramatizations faithful to Snoopy's heroic spirit? Find out here!

0:00 Intro of Snoopy and WW1
6:27 Snoopy and the Red Baron - Atari 2600
9:58 Snoopy vs the Red Baron - Playstation 2
20:38 Snoopy Flying Ace - Xbox Live Arcade
24:45 Outro

Image by dgim-studio on Freepik for logos on thumbnail

Stock footage are either from Pexels or Pixabay. WW1 footage taken from the US National Archives which was listed as Public Domain as per WikiCommons.

The songs and sound effects are either from the games, or Epidemic Sound. The following songs were used:

Sons of Hades - Battle Cry
Nocturnal Spirits - Every Time Our Eyes Meet
Nocturnal Spirits - Greene St
Nocturnal Spirits - Not That Serious
Nocturnal Spirits - One Less Lonely Man
Cercles Nouvelles - I Cannot See You
Edward Joe Myers - In Love and War
Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - In the Name of Glory
Bonnie Grace - March Towards the End
Mary Riddle - Maximus
Edward Karl Hanson - Sons of Fortune
Jo Wandrini - To War!
Traditional Star-Spangled Banner (Orchestral Version)
STRLGHT - Everyday

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Pretentious Hipster: A Channel Primer

Pretentious Hipster 2023-01-22 | What is a Pretentious Hipster exactly? All of your questions will be answered with this video.

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Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - Before Daybreak
Ethan Sloan - Dark Forebodings
Edward Karl Hanson - Leap Second
Edward Karl Hanson - Mysterious Lights
Rannar Sillard - Rise From Hell
Franz Gordon - Memories of Sardinia

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Legend of Zelda Boss Battles Are... Eye-Opening

Pretentious Hipster 2023-01-16 | A pretentious performance art piece where I show the use of eyes in The Legend of Zelda games and their significance. I hope you enjoy this art piece.

The song is Heyson - Hellion, from Epidemic Sound.

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#zelda #thelegendofzelda #videoessay #performanceart #ocarinaoftime #n64

The Phantasmagoria Games and My Descent Into Madness

Pretentious Hipster 2022-10-27 | Phantasmagoria tends to be mentioned alongside the other classics by Sierra: King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest, and Gabriel Knight. It was revolutionary for its time, and the lead designer, Roberta Williams, considers it the most challenging game of her career. It was an FMV point and click adventure game/interactive movie hybrid for the MS-DOS, that spanned 7 CDs. It's known to be a throwback to 1960s horror, dealing with the occult, and with obvious references to Stephen King.

The sequel, Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh, wasn't nearly as famous. It was designed by Lorelei Shannon, and was shot on location for the vast majority of the time, as opposed to the complete blue screen use of the first game.

The first entry is being considered a date game by today's standards, but the sequel is starting to gain a cult following. Me, a Pretentious Hipster, decided to once again explore these games, going through their journies, seeing what opinions are formed, and was hoping that no descent to madness would be caused by it. Was I successful? Find out here:

0:00 The first game
23:30 Flashing lights warning
24:40 Back to the review
48:15 The second game
1:27:20 Flashing lights warning
1:28:15 It's time to actually be serious
1:31:33 Bigoted language/views warning
1:32:26 Safe to finish the series part

The music is either from the game soundtracks, or Epidemic Sound. The following tracks were used:

Farrell Wooten - Rainy Landscapes
View Points - The Corner Store
Claude Signey - The Way It Has to Be
Experia - Deepwater Creatures
Yomoti - Before Chill
Sum Wave - Friendship
Zoe Goodman - Grace
Def Lev - Olympus Mons
White Drift - One Nation
Martin Landstrom - Zoo Zoo

Stock footage is from pexels

The following links were used for research:

archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19950917&slug=2142084
anthonylarme.tripod.com/phantas/phintrw.html
nme.com/news/gaming-news/sierra-made-phantasmagoria-after-being-turned-down-by-stephen-king-3190589
http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/interviews/198
fandom.com/articles/history-phantasmagoria
archive.org/details/phantasmagoriaof0000shan/page/n3/mode/2up
anthonylarme.tripod.com/phantas/phantas2.html
web.archive.org/web/19990220040704/http://www.gameslice.com/review/phantas.html
gamespot.com/reviews/phantasmagoria-2-a-puzzle-of-flesh-review/1900-2545835
web.archive.org/web/19970617023020/gamesmania.com/english/reviews/new/ph2/ph2.htm
csoon.com/issue24/phant2.htm
onlysolitaire.substack.com/p/game-review-phantasmagoria-a-puzzle
https://adf.org.au/insights/mdma-ptsd/#:~:text=Because%20MDMA%20appears%20to%20reduce,help%20increase%20insight%20and%20memory.&text=Negative%20memories%20may%20feel%20less,overly%20anxious%20due%20to%20stress.

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#sierra #msdos #retrogaming #90sgamer #vintagegaming #pcgaming #robertawilliams

The Santa Fe Mysteries: How a Video Game Reviewer Fell Victim to FMV Games

Pretentious Hipster 2022-08-21 | The Santa Fe Mysteries series comprises of 2 entries: The Elk Moon Murder, and Sacred Ground. They are FMV games for the MS-DOS created by Activision. They were known as a powerhouse company in the 80s, and arguably the 90s, with many under-rated entries such as Spycraft.

This deals with a murder mystery, and a kidnapping in each respective entry. This is known for its surpirsingly great acting, a cool user interface, and a good depiction of the indingeous community.

But, is this worth playing? Find out here.

Stock footage are used from either Pexels, Pixabay, or Envato.

Image by vilmosvarga on Freepik for one of the logos in the thumbnail
Image by macrovector on Freepik for one of the logos in the thumbnail

Sound effects and music are from Epidemic Sound. The following songs were used:

Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - Human Revolution
Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - Covert Affairs
BLUE STEEL - Daytona
Johannes Bornlof - Awakening
Yi Nantiro - Informed and Prudent

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#fmv #msdos #retrogaming #90sgamer #vintagegaming #pcgaming #activision

Zelda 2 is a Great Game | The Legend of Zelda Games Ranked Trailer

Pretentious Hipster 2022-07-30 | Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link is great sorry not sorry.

The songs used are from Epidemic Sound. The following are the tracks used:

Philip Ayers - Together We Rise
Def Lev - Olympus Mons

The following videos were used:

youtube.com/watch?v=sXNqPiGc5R4
youtube.com/watch?v=BIW9Q7osuCo
youtube.com/watch?v=ZVzuhKMxRZI
youtube.com/watch?v=s2anbTIHK8U
youtube.com/watch?v=Kwlgw3NMScs
youtube.com/watch?v=dlWc-p5CPSE

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Phineas and Ferb: Across The 2nd Dimension is a Bootleg Ratchet and Clank Game

Pretentious Hipster 2022-06-10 | Phineas and Ferb is an American animated musical-comedy television series created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh for Disney Channel and Disney XD. Produced by Disney Television Animation, the series was originally broadcast as a one-episode preview on August 17, 2007, and again previewed on September 28, 2007; the series officially premiered on February 1, 2008, on Disney Channel, and ran until June 12, 2015.

The program follows Phineas Flynn and his stepbrother Ferb Fletcher, who are between eight and ten years old, during summer vacation. Every day, the boys embark on a grand new project, which is usually unrealistic in scale given the protagonists' ages (and are sometimes physically impossible). This annoys their controlling older sister Candace, who frequently tries to reveal their shenanigans to her and Phineas' mother, Linda Flynn-Fletcher, and less frequently to Ferb's father, Lawrence Fletcher. The series follows a standard plot system; running gags occur in every episode, and the subplot almost always features Phineas and Ferb's pet platypus Perry working as a spy named "Agent P" for the O.W.C.A. (Organization Without a Cool Acronym) to defeat the latest scheme of Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, a mad scientist driven largely by a need to assert his evilness (although he is not genuinely evil and has a good heart in certain situations). The two plots intersect at the end to erase all traces of the boys' project just before Candace can show it to their mother, which usually leaves Candace very frustrated.

Phineas seems to be getting a strong nostalgic following these days. There obviously had to be some licensed games for it. What better way to do that than to release this game on both the Wii and PS3, since they had to utilize the motion controls of both consoles. Even better. There was a movie called Across the 2nd Dimension. Wouldn't that make the perfect tie-in? Also, out of all companies, they had High Impact Games develop it. Some employees were from Insomniac Games from Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter, Spyro, and Spider-man fame, and utilized mechanics from those games to make this. Is this your standard shovelware, or did I uncover a super cheap wii hidden gem? Find out here.

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Stationary Sign - Antique Shop
Stationary Sign - Baby Tricks
Stationary Sign - Dizzy Mind
Stationary Sign - Like That I Guess
Stationary Sign - Rough Around the Edges
The Fly Guy Five - Coffee Reading
The Fly Guy Five - Day at the Fair
The Fly Guy Five - Sneaky Grandma

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Is Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer LucasArts Competition?

Pretentious Hipster 2022-05-17 | Touché is a point and click game that was made by an incredibly small development team, with the lead programming doing it in his office attached to his house. It's obviously inspired by LucasArts, down to the voice acting, puzzle style, and lighthearted humour. It's basically a parody of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers, the 19th century French classic novel. It seems to be getting somewhat of a resurgence in popularity, at least among the people who dig deep for point and click games, but the physical copies are so obscure that there weren't any ebay listings for years. Is this a hidden gem? Find out here.

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Stationary Sign - Manhattan Mystery
Lenzer - Calling

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Titanic: An Undersea Adventure is Just Depressing in a Bad Way

Pretentious Hipster 2022-04-26 | For my next entry in playing point and click myst clones, or games lost in the mysts of time, is an incredibly obscure entry called Titanic: An Undersea Adventure... no, it is not the famous Titanic: Adventures Out of Time game. This one was not received well at all, with its average score being in the 30s. Does it deserve the hate it received? Find out here.

The music was from Epidemic Sound, except for the track SunRiders from a secret game tease :P The following tracks were used:

Calm Shores - Mysteries of the Forest
Brendon Moeller - Distinction
Rand Aldo - Lullaby Beach
Joseph Beg - Ocean Meditation
Kikoru - Trapped Underwater
Deskant - Underwater Findings

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Reviewing Dogs Life A.K.A. How Could a Kids Game About Dogs Be So Cursed?

Pretentious Hipster 2022-04-12 | 0:00 Intro/Overview
1:11 Intro Jingle
1:42 Background of The Game
7:33 Start of the Game
22:48 Second Area
27:53 Third Area
31:25 ENDING SPOILERS

What happens when the creator of Elite directs a game described as "Grand Theft Auto with dogs"? This. Dog's Life was a huge part of my childhood, although I never got far into it. It's a budget Playstation 2 title that was received quite well, but is gaining somewhat of a following now just for being so strange. What made this game so strange? Find out here.

G4 Video on Dog's Life: youtube.com/watch?v=FM90b0K1-YM

The music is from the game's soundtrack, except for the following and sound effects that are from Epidemic Sound:

Jake and Jake - Flatout
Jon Algar - Funeral Pyre
Rannar Sillar - Malicious Rise

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Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars is a Collectathon Masterpiece

Pretentious Hipster 2022-03-29 | 0:00 Opening Intro
1:35 Background on Mushroom Men and Collectathons
5:32 Plot
6:20 Gameplay/Music
13:50 Spoilers
14:18 Conclusion

To begin my new series of wii hidden gems I will explore the entry Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars. It's basically a callback to the collectathon era of the late 90s to the early/mid 2000s, with games like the Banjo games, Jak and Daxter, Sypro, Donkey Kong 64, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, Psychonauts, and arguably some Mario games. It became a genre that was outdated upon this game's release. Should it have been a more famous entry that might have even revitalized the genre? Find out here.

The music is from the game, aside from the following track which is from Epidemic Sound.

Jones Meadow - Shores

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Bethesdas Point & Click Games: Istvan Pelys Majestic Trilogy

Pretentious Hipster 2022-03-15 | Istvan Pely, who is known for doing the graphics, art, and dungeon design for various Bethesda games such as the #ElderScrolls and #Fallout series, had to have a more humble past. This a trilogy that he has started while in college, with the 2nd and 3rd part being published by Bethesda. Did it show his potential? Find out here in the next segment of Games Lost in the Mysts of Time.

0:00 Intro Skit
0:50 Background on Istvan and the Company
2:05 Intro Jingle
2:39 The First Majestic Game
8:10 Spoilers
9:30 Is This a Myst Clone?
11:12 The Second Majestic Game
20:22 Spoilers
21:48 Is This a Myst Clone?
23:09 The Third Majestic Game
28:55 Spoilers
31:36 Is This a Myst Clone?
33:06 Closing Skit

The following music is either the soundtrack of the game Zero Critical, or the following tracks from Epidemic Sound:

Farrell Wooten - A Mysterious Guest
Phoenix Tale - Another Path
Liru - Game Show

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Plague: In the Maze of the Mind is an Avant-Garde Failure

Pretentious Hipster 2022-02-21 | Plague is SoftForum's attempt at making a high art puzzle/fps hybrid for the MS-DOS. Pretty much no information about this game can be found, but I felt like it was suitable to play considering that it has to do with a major virus. They're certainly aiming for a high-art game, so a high-art review is only suitable. Is this worth playing? Well, this review might not answer that question.

Background music is from the video game. Other music and sound effects are from Epidemic Sound which includes:

They Dream by Day - Mellifera

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Hidden Gems: Wii Shovelware Edition Teaser

Pretentious Hipster 2022-02-20 | The opening for a new series I'll hope you enjoy. Me exploring cheap wii games and seeing if they're worth playing before they start getting expensive.

Music is from Epidemic Sound. The song used is: A Pure Force by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen

Pixabay is used for the vector graphics.

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Heaven: This Horny Christian Game is Cursed | Games Lost in the Mysts of Time

Pretentious Hipster 2022-01-29 | 0:00 Intro Skit
1:50 Background on Christian Video Games
3:13 Intro Jingle
3:46 Background of the Game
5:37 Setup/Plot
8:45 Oh God This is Cursed
12:45 Gameplay
25:05 Is This a Myst Clone?
26:18 Conclusion/Outro Skit

Sorry for not including the final cutscene. It has copyrighted music... even though it's stock music.

Heaven, otherwise known as Journey to Heaven, is a Christian Myst clone. This seems to be an unknown entry which honestly shocks me. Its graphics are amazing, but there is one strange part about it. They seemed to have went for the sex sells factor, and what better way to sell sex than to show off Grandma's in stripper boots. Does this point and click adventure game deserve its infamy? Find out here.

The songs used are from Epidemic Sound. The following songs were used:

Trabant - Ancient Italian Church
Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - Before Daybreak
More than Family - Choice of Angels
More than Family - In the Catacombs
More than Family - The Stories Time Tells
John Abbot - Church Choral
Strom - Graso
Cercles Nouvelles - I Cannot See You
Cercles Nouvelles - I Will Live Again
Cercles Nouvelles - Sacral Message
King Sis - My Your Place
Jon Algar - Sunday Service
Liru - Game Show
Calm Shores - Mysteries of the Forest

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Pyst Wasnt Very Good... John GOODman | Games Lost in the Mysts of Time

Pretentious Hipster 2022-01-23 | 0:00 Intro Skit
1:58 Background/Jingle
3:52 "Gameplay"
14:05 Is This a Myst Clone?

The Hipster has chosen to take a break from playing the point and click adventure series called Myst, and will distract himself from playing some Myst clones. What better way to start it off than Pyst? A parody of Myst from Parroty Interactive.

This is seen as a super infamous game now. Is its infamy deserved? Find out here.

Music is from Epidemic Sound. The following songs were used:

Farrell Wooten - A Mysterious Guest
Joseph Beg - Genetic Waves
Dew of Light - Hiber Nation
Storm - Kvikkjokk
Liru - Game Show

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#SaveTheDodongos - The Legend of Zelda

Pretentious Hipster 2021-12-18 | The Dodongos are a creature that has the undeserved reputation of being a fierce creature, and are poached by Gorons and Hylians to use their parts to make bomb bags and tunics. However, the Dodongos are actually quite friendly towards humans. We are the HDF, or the Hylian Dodongo Foundation, and we believe they deserve another chance. To no longer be demonized. Help spread the word, and #SaveTheDodongos

Songs used from Epidemic Sound:

Philip Ayers - Together We Rise
Def Lev - Olympus Mons

Stock footage from pexels

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Theres a Clone of The Secret of Monkey Island? Rent-a-Hero Review

Pretentious Hipster 2021-12-13 | 0:00 Intro Skit
5:35 Intro of Game/Channel
6:59 Background of the Game
9:23 Game Review

Rent-a-Hero, a point and click adventure game by Neo Software, later renamed to Rockstar Vienna, that fell into obscurity. In fact, it seems like when I mentioned it in various places they confused it with the Sega Genesis title. This has been quite praised, with a humour style that was compared to The Secret of Monkey Island. Considering it's subversive, self-aware humour, alongside the pirate theme, it would be safe to call this a clone. But, is it worth playing? Or it should it remain forgotten. Find out here.

The rest of the music are from the game soundtrack. Thank you to liljames2k for remastering it! Link here: youtube.com/watch?v=Awv1i8RbxkU

Music used:

Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod
incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4071-monkeys-spinning-monkeys
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Recollect by _91nova, and various sound effects are from Epidemic Sound.

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Murder on the Mississippi is an 80s Adventure Game Masterpiece

Pretentious Hipster 2021-12-02 | Murder on the Mississippi is one of my first ventures into playing Commodore 64 titles. The computer is known for having lots of in-depth, and frankly inaccessible titles, and I wanted to ease my way in. This is an adventure game with a detective/mystery theme, and is known for an original control scheme that only uses the joystick. Is this worth playing? Find out here.

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Stationary Sign - Baby in the Bushes
Stationary Sign - Manhattan Mystery
The Fly Guy Five - Lurking Behind
More than Family - Young Detective

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Rugrats + Ren & Stimpy + Pixar + Eugene Levy + Martin Short = Creature Crunch

Pretentious Hipster 2021-11-26 | Creature Crunch, a Halloween-theme point and click adventure game, is one with a super impressive background as shown in the title. It is clearly one made for kids from the late 90s, with it sporting over 20,000 unique drawings. Is this one that's worth playing? Find out here.

The music is from the game.

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You Can Make Me Do The Duck Walk

Pretentious Hipster 2021-11-14 | After around 2 years of playing the games I am finally starting to film my passion project. Coming (hopefully) at the Summer of 2022

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If LucasArts Made a Halloween Game | Alien Incident Video Game Review

Pretentious Hipster 2021-10-13 | Alien Incident is described as the first Finnish point and click adventure game, and the first title by Housemarque Limited, who were initially known for working in the demoscene, and have recently made the game Returnal. As per the company, they described it as a game heavily inspired by LucasArts titles such as Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, & Loom. It is also full of references from films such as Star Wars and Back to the Future.

The best way to describe this game is if LucasArts made a Halloween-themed game for kids. Is it worth playing? Find out here.

The music is from the game.

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Going Down the Vampire Diaries Rabbithole Thanks to This Bad FMV Game

Pretentious Hipster 2021-10-06 | 0:00 Intro/Skit
2:07 Intro of Game
3:07 Theme Song
3:56 Background of HER Interactive Inc
6:12 Plot of the Game
9:36 Going off Tangent/Recommending Vampire Films
12:09 Comparison to Gabriel Knight 2
13:26 Gameplay
14:51 Dialogue Trees
17:17 Puzzles
21:21 The Game's Ending
23:23 Conclusion

I was looking for a bad retro FMV point and click adventure game to play, and this seemed amusing. I initially knew nothing about what Vampire Diaries was. Little did I know that I was entering a huge rabbithole.

This review mostly focuses on the game itself through a fan of point of click adventure games, but with at least surface level knowledge I talk about how this compares to the Vampire Diaries lore. Hope you enjoy it.

Music is from the game, Gabriel Knight 2, and Epidemic Sound. The following Epidemic Sounds songs were used:

Stationary Sign - Haunted Playhouse
Sightless in Shadow - Disposition, In Darkness, Sudden Death, Turn This World around, and World on Fire
Deaf Election - Left With Nothing, Suffocating

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Commander Blood Is an Acid Trip of a Game

Pretentious Hipster 2021-09-27 | 0:00 Intro/Captain Blood Background
3:30 Plot
8:20 Gameplay
11:25 Gameplay Compilation

Time to continue my next Cryo Interactive rabbithole with the game Commander Blood. A sequel to Captain Blood. It's a game that goes beyond genre, description, and everything about it is incomprehensible. I can see this being considered as weird as Total Distortion. I can imagine this being similar to an acid trip as well. Is it a fun trip? Find out here.

Music is from the game, composed by Stéphane Picq and Philippe Egret.

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Myst 3: Exile Video Game Review | Games Lost in the Mysts of Time

Pretentious Hipster 2021-08-31 | 0:00 Intro
8:40 J'nanin Age
12:30 Edanna Age
17:25 Amateria Age
22:40 Voltaic Age
24:00 Narayan Age
33:00 Saavedro's Background

The Pretentious Hipster, having been trapped in the myst linking books from his alter-ego, is still stuck there after many years. Here he continues his new adventure, stopping Saavedro from stealing the Reeleshahn book. How will he fare in this adventure? Find out here.

Myst 3: Exile, was surprisingly not developed by Cyan. It was developed by Presto Studios, who were known for developing Myst clones such as The Journeyman Project series, and the Myst Masterpiece Edition, so they are a good choice for this. This review will show how it compares to the previous entries in the series.

Music is from Epidemic Sound. All tracks were by Strom, except for Walk of Destiny by Kikoru.

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Flash Traffic: City of Angels is Essential for 90s Action Film Lovers

Pretentious Hipster 2021-08-24 | What happens when the screenwriter Chuck Pfarrer of Barb Wire, Darkman, and Hard Target fame decides to get involved in a video game? The result is a bad, yet cheesy and fun FMV game! This was released in 1994 during the later DOS period, had mediocre reviews, and fell into obscurity.

The box of this describes it as a "gripping battle of wills, politics, and deadly intrigue, played out against the gritty reality of Los Angeles.". It's known for its incredibly shallow gameplay which just consists of choosing between 3 dialogue options and seeing the resulting cutscene.

This video will show you how ridiculous this game really is.

Music is from Epidemic Sound. The following music was used:

Macy's Voice - The Charleston
Rockin' For Decades - Beat the Odds
Rockin' For Decades - Wild in Seattle
Tigerblood Jewel - Bring My Friends
Easton - Poison Lips
Jaw Square - Burning Rubber
Jaw Square - Now Slowing Down

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Y2K: The Game Just Might Be the Worst Game Ever

Pretentious Hipster 2021-08-17 | 0:00 Intro/Info on Y2K Scare and Game
3:04 Plot
4:40 Gameplay

The Y2K scare was one of the most fascinating, and frankly ridiculous mass scares out there. Of course, some companies had to capitalize on this. Y2K: The Game, was developed by Runecraft, and published by Interplay. It was a budget point and click adventure title, but had some incredible voice actor roster which includes Dan Castellaneta, Michael Bay, Tony Jay, and Grey Griffin. I knew that this was going to be a product of its time, and it was a curiousity. Just to get it out of the way, this is the worst game I have ever played since starting this channel. Find out why here.

Music is from Epidemic Sound. All songs were by King Sis.

Animal footage taken from pixabay.com

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Riven Review | Games Lost in the Mysts of Time

Pretentious Hipster 2021-08-08 | 0:00 Intro Skit
10:15 Pros
13:30 Cons

The Hipster continues the journey to find Catherine, as per Atrus' request. This requires him to enter another age, and stop Gehn. Will he be successful?

Riven: The Sequel to Myst, was created in 1997 by Cyan. Another point and click adventure game known for having even more goregeous pre-rendered images.

Although it lacked the huge success of the first entry (but still really successful), it's known today to have even more praise, including Glitchwave having it in the top 100 games of all time.

See Jordan Rogers' playthrough of Riven here: youtube.com/watch?v=eTpsb8qgFh0

Music is from Epidemic Sound. All songs were from Lucention.

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Harvester Is a Smarter Game Than You Think | A Review

Pretentious Hipster 2021-06-14 | 0:00 Intro Skit
9:00 Game Review
24:57 Outro Skit

Harvester is a point and click adventure game that is considered to be one of, if not the most violent game ever made. It has a reputation for this, but I feel like this does a complete disservice to the game itself. It is actually an incredibly smart satire on various topics. I show what they are here.

This video ended up being a lot more avant-garde than initially expected lol

Music is a mix of the game's soundtrack, and of the following songs from Epidemic Sound:

Heyday Highway - Bingo Night Boogie
The Best Ofs - Bip Bop Baby
Heyday Highway - From the Jukebox
Heyday Highway - Polka Dots
Heyday Highway - Settle Down
Chris Shards - Shake n' Bake
John Runefelt - Shots All Around!

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Myst Series Review Part 1 | Games Lost in the Mysts of Time

Pretentious Hipster 2021-05-31 | 0:00 Intro
6:21 Start of Myst
13:25 Pros of the Game
20:55 Cons of the Game

Myst + That Neil Breen Aesthetic

A start of a new series of playing forgotten Myst clones called Games Losts in the Mysts of Time. But, shouldn't one complete the Myst series before doing so? A start of a hopefully long-running series.

Myst was created by Cyan in 1993. It was known to have revolutionized the point and click adventure genre with its gorgeous pre-rendered images, and an in-game world that most definitely achieves its escapism. It was also the best selling PC game until The Sims came in.

I have already reviewed this, but being trapped in the world I must go through it again, and in more detail. Where will this series take me? Find out here.

Recommended videos of the in-game lore:

youtube.com/watch?v=b8knjFfbhPQ
youtube.com/watch?v=y18OE9VxXMY

Music is from Epidemic Sound. The following songs were used:

Uygar Duzgun - Cristal Wave
Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - Desert Hideout
Calm Shores - Mysteries of the Forest
Ten Tower - Still Waters Run Deep
Joseph Beg - Genetic Waves
Dew of Light - Hiber Nation
Strom - Kvikkjokk
Lama House - Otherworld
Brendon Moeller - Smouldering
Strom - Sylarna

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The Precursor of the Souls Games | Severance: Blade of Darkness Review REDUX

Pretentious Hipster 2021-05-23 | 0:00 Intro/Skit
4:05 Start of Review/Plot
6:55 How to Get the Game Working on Windows 10
10:25 Gameplay
22:25 Slight Spoiler Warning

Windows 10 Guide comment taken from here:
youtu.be/4J7_m6HOxzU

Severance: Blade of Darkness is an abandonware title developed by Rebel Act Studios and published by Codemasters. It is known for having a huge cult following, and a sort of precursor to the Souls series. I guess you could say that this is the Dark Souls of Soulslike games. It is known for having a simplistic plot, but the combat making up for it, being considered to have some of the best combat-systems that any video has ever made. In fact, it was never replicated to this day, and is even more complex than in the souls games!

I did a review of this quite a while back, but I felt like I didn't give the game the praise it deserves, and was frankly wrong about a lot of things. So, here is my redux review. Enjoy!

Music is from Epidemic Sound. The following songs were used:

Rune Dale - River Glen
Deskant - An Ordinary Day
Deskant - Battle of Aonach More
Deskant - Dance of the Wildcats
Bonnie Grace - Deer Hunt
Sage Oursler - Ethelda's Last Breath
Sight of Wonders - New World Order
Deskant - Riverstone Walk
Deskant - Sins of the Fathers

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Legendary Graphics From a 90s Game... & its Edutainment! | Crusader: Adventure Out of Time

Pretentious Hipster 2021-04-15 | It seems like Windows 3.1 games mostly aimed for edutainment multimedia. I found out about this entry: Crusaders: Adventures Out of Time which looked like it had a ridiculous budget. It was developed by Index+, now named Microids, which seemed to only make stuff like Still Life, and Syberia now, which I really gotta try both, but it was published by Europress, and it seems like they actually got assistance by the European console for doing it. And like, look at this, it seems mindblowing having all of these actors moving around in what is amazing graphics. So, does this stand out as a fantastic edutainment title? Or is it just like a boring lecture. Find out here.

Pulp Fiction Meme taken from: youtube.com/watch?v=k0M-O3ednHM

Music is from Epidemic Sound.

Songs Used:

Deskant - Sins of the Fathers
Deskant - Forest Myths
Trabant 33 - Medieval Feast
Deskant - Shifting Sands

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Terror T.R.A.X: Track of the Vampire Is a Trainwreck of an FMV Game in the Best Way

Pretentious Hipster 2021-03-01 | Ah yes... Windows 3.1. This is something I definitely gotta look more into. I imagine this having a GUI must have been absolutely huge at the time, and the most interesting part about it is that no one really knew what to do with it. Of course, tons of adult games were made, but the more fascinating thing is the huge about of edutainment, and especially interactive movies. I definitely gotta jump on the last 2 more often for this channel now. Since trends weren't set, no matter how good or bad it is, the result tends to at least be interesting. Terror T.R.A.X.: Track of the Vampire seemed like one of the more interesting ones of the bunch. Unfortunately no, this is not in reference to the terror traxx label, but because of that I had to make the background music some hardcore techno and gabber. The reviews for this are well, not the best, but surprisingly the only one that is a retrospective review enjoyed this quite a bit. It is cheesy as hell, so I guess I can see why. Is this cheese worth eating? Or is it best to leave it to turn moldy. Find out here.

Stock footage is from from pixebay. Sound effects and music are from Epidemic Sound.

Songs Used:

Datura - VELDA
Light Echos - This Outer Space

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Star Wars Droid Works or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my Droid

Pretentious Hipster 2021-02-18 | Edutainment is something I've always had a fascination with, but I never really experienced as a child. The only one I ended up playing was Math Circus, and I'm pretty sure they had that at like every grade when I was in school. I assume it must have been a huge craze since, well, there's these Star Wars ones. It's actually so vast with how many they have. They had their own company called Lucas Learning Ltd. This entry, Star Wars Droidworks, was one that stuck out to me the most. Physics was the science topic I was most interested in when I was in high school, and I took a few courses in university. I imagine that this would have been perfect for me to play in school back then. There had to be some quality in this too, at least for edutainment standards, since it was using the same engine as in Dark Forces 2. The highlight however doesn't come from the physics angle, but that it's a droid builder, and at that point I knew I had to get into it. I assume most of you that are watching this played this as a kid, so I try to answer this question. Is this fun to play now? Or would nostalgia be the only reason for one to try this. Find out here.

Music is from Epidemic Sound:

Sum Wave - Bouncers
Brendon Moeller - Commute
Chelle Ives - Shamrock
Dvine - The Space Mechanic

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SSI Doing a Sci-Fi Dungeons & Dragons Clone | Skyrealms of Jorune: Alien Logic Video Game Review

Pretentious Hipster 2021-02-03 | Intro - 0:00
Lore/Plot - 3:23
Pros - 7:22
Cons - 15:24

I do love to dig the bottom of the barrel for MS-DOS games, and found out about this very interesting entry called Alien Logic: A Skyrealms of Jorune Adventure. It's my first venture into the Strategic Simulations, Inc (SSI). games. Now these guys made a ton of stuff. They've got some stuff I wanna play like Veil of Darkness, but their highlights include the Panzer General games, and most notably The Dungeons and Dragons games, including the Advance DND ones. This leads me to what makes this an important point. This game is an adaptation of the Skyrealms of Jorune series. It's a science-fantasy DND-style tabletop made in the mid 80s to the early 90s.

It's quite rare in terms of its gameplay mechanics, especially for an RPG. You don't have XP, levels, armour, character creation, loot from enemies, and practically no melee attacks. So you're probably wondering. How do you get stronger? How do you find more skills? And, ios this game worth playing? Find out here.

The music used is the in-game music aside from the funk song in the beginning.

The funk song is from Epidemic Sound

Duke Harrington - A Tribute to Gold

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