this game feels like the dev did a few savage raids and was like "but what if it was the entire game?"

@deatsu

26 күн бұрын

im pretty sure the dev is a high end raider on ff14, so, yes that is exactly what happened

@FlickTakFlakAttack

26 күн бұрын

I do wish Criterion Dungeons ended up like this in FFXIV. A mix of what they are currently with Deep Dungeon mechanics (in regard to pick-up loot). Hell, if they use PvP skills, they could easily scale it up for ability-changing loot like the opal/sapphire/emerald/ruby upgrades.

@deatsu

26 күн бұрын

@@FlickTakFlakAttack yea thats how I wanted the new deep dungeon to go, more roguelike, more ambitious, and less .... potd with a new skin

@RitzyBusiness

26 күн бұрын

Bro 4 of us ultimate raiders had trouble with hard mode 😂

@micaheiber1419

25 күн бұрын

@@deatsu But I like the pain of solo running a new PotD. Guess you could always intentionally skip loot. That would be a fun run.

The fact that a game so deep and cool and expansive and fun and cute was made by a SOLO DEV is so inspiring ngl.

@Zel-Veraan

26 күн бұрын

We're in the era of solo devs right now. Lethal Company and Crab Champions are two really great games both made by a singular human.

@AdamDj-ic3kr

26 күн бұрын

Wait a second,a hard game,made by a solo dev,with cute girls?guys, i think we found the next touhou

@erkot000

25 күн бұрын

​@@Zel-Veraan Did you mean crab game?

@Zel-Veraan

25 күн бұрын

@@erkot000 nope. Crab Champions is a roguelike third person shooter developed by Noisestorm, the artist who made Crab Rave.

@CassetteGlitch

25 күн бұрын

@@Zel-Veraan IIRC both Fear and Hunger games were also made by a singular dev!

It's just ff14 with an all viera party

@mensalveare9130

26 күн бұрын

So a normal WR prog?

@kaidynj2535

20 күн бұрын

just daily roulettes in a nutshell

@ericcarneiro374

12 күн бұрын

The dev themself(?) admitted to have inspirations from XIV

"two players is probably the game at its simplest-" [shows what seems to be an elaborate alchemy diagram / cat's cradle made of lasers]

@kapadocia-sama3449

22 күн бұрын

one player is a hellish bullet hell, two/three/four players everyone must play perfect, but there is less spread patterns when you have only one buddy so its significantly easier to coordinate in very tight spaces, because arena is always the same size

As an FFXIV raider, I already know that the mechanics and aesthetics were heavily inspired by the game. In fact a friend was trying to sell the game to me before it's full release by just describing it as "FFXIV, but 2d and roguelike" and honestly I was sold so fast.

@ThatVia

22 күн бұрын

There are lines on the floor

@KitsuneRogue

16 күн бұрын

@@ThatVia _sometimes the lines are circles_

@FerretBomb

8 күн бұрын

As a WHM, I can only recommend this Disposable Pointy Stick "don't stand in the fire, idiot" training aid highly.

I find it funny how Skooch talks about some of the game mechanics are hard for him to get, meanwhile I feel like I’m developing stigmatisms just trying to look at the screen and analyze what the FUCK is going on!!!

@TheAstralWitch

25 күн бұрын

should i mention touhou? actually, wait, touhou looks a bit more sightreadable, despite the density ^^'

@DanaOtken

25 күн бұрын

@@TheAstralWitch I was thinking the same thing. Touhou IS easier to sightread. I think the primary factors are that there are almost no cases where you see something that you're not trying to dodge (while that does mean attacks based on what your movements aren't so telegraphed, it's about as easy to learn those from trial and error as from trying to sightread) and that everything is synched enough with the music that it becomes an aid. Touhou is harder objectively, but it's easier to tell what's going on.

@TheMagicDragon-mm5dr

19 күн бұрын

Somebody heard astigmatism and thought a stigmatism lol. The word is astigmatism, where your eyes are the wrong shape because why the hell not. I have it, it's mildly annoying.

@RoarTheRapper

19 күн бұрын

@@TheMagicDragon-mm5dr lol I didn’t proof that word! 😂

@gljames24

15 күн бұрын

​@@TheMagicDragon-mm5drSame reason we say "a nickname" instead of "an ickname".

Fun Fact: This game is a sequel to a game called "Maiden and Spell" which is essentially a non-roguelike, single player version of the game. Maiden and Spell is inspired directly by Touhou Project, which means that "Lunar" mode is a direct parallel to the "Lunatic" difficulty. Due to the notorious difficulty of the "Lunatic" difficulty and it's legacy on the Touhou community, there's a good chance that the "Lunar" mode was specifically designed to be almost impossible.

@youtubehandlesux

9 күн бұрын

But the lunatic difficulty is designed to be beatable by ZUN himself though, except Touhou 8 which has reduced difficulty for his wife

@netanelaker4437

8 күн бұрын

I KNEW I recognise this art style! Maiden and Spell is a masters, can't recommend it enough.

ah, multiplayer touhou

Love the video, banger as always. But uh, I noticed you missed something very important about the game; the soundtrack. It is CRIMINAL it wasn't at least mentioned. The whole game has a S tier track, especially Emerald Lakeside.

@redking36

23 күн бұрын

I recommend the One Step from Eden soundtrack as well, same composer (Steel Plus).

@Eevee_Eevo

16 күн бұрын

You’re completely right abt the emerald lakeside tracks! The action vocals are so good, def one of my favs

Somehow, I feel like if this game was made by a big company, all of the bun girls would be a lot more anime

@RyudanX

26 күн бұрын

Considering this game was heavily inspired by Final Fantasy XIV (the dev admits they played a ton of it over the years), you are not far off the mark.

@AgentOracle

26 күн бұрын

If this game was made by a "big" company, all the bun girls would be less attractive.

@chubbyanemone696

26 күн бұрын

​@@AgentOracle?

@TorManiak

26 күн бұрын

​@@AgentOracle That only depends on which "big" company. I mean, any company that makes enough money to be famous across a wide range of people can already be considered big. For example, you cannot really call Hoyoverse(the ones making Genshin Impact) a small studio in any capacity with how much money they're raking in selling Gacha mechanic while still getting a lot of people playing their games and popularity beyond them.

@aninkanamator

25 күн бұрын

@@RyudanX I never said they would be attractive

"...it feels like a choreographed dance routine while having a cannon pointed at your face..." Ah, so you liked the Avy fight too.

@faloughasch9239

7 күн бұрын

Maybe it's just me My voice, my face, my personality What would I have to be? If it's for you then I would change my every thing...! When I look into the jade lakeside My darkened silhouette is all that I can see But soon I'll shine, just as bright as you And then you'll see me NGL the lyrics go hard

aaaaaaaa I'm so happy to see Skooch reviewing this game I've been anticipating it for so long now Additionally very important information: You can pet the shopkeeper :>

"Now I'm going to say my most hated and most beloved zones," Me, instinctively: Yeah Dragons and Frogs.

@puenboy1

25 күн бұрын

Frog is also suffering, but to good music

if i had a penny everytime an ultrahard game with bossfights built around bullet hell mechanics was themed around bunnygirls i would have 2 pennies, which isnt much but its weird that it happened twice. And both this and Rabi Ribi as super fun games to boot.

@pointyyou

26 күн бұрын

Tevi exists too, made by the same guys who made rabi ribi.

@mikamizui

25 күн бұрын

I think legacy of lunatic kingdom deserves a honorable mention!

@PikaPenny17

19 күн бұрын

I havent played it so I am not sure how well it fits this, but maybe Rabbit Hole counts.

A glowing review and doesn't even mention the great soundtrack or the fact that it has local multiplayer and remote play enabled so that you can get your friends in on your runs without them owning the game. Also the character interactions are genuinely very funny (to me) AND YOU CAN PET THE SHOPKEEPER CAT! There's seriously not a bad part of this game.

Good god the moment you said Red Darkhouse, i felt that pain. My favorite area though has to be the Scholars Nest. The moment the boss time stops you and gives you her next three attacks that you have to then play out is a really cool feeling when everyone does it perfectly Though you had mentioned difficult coop games? Idk if youve heard of it, but there's a roguelite coop called Ravenswatch and that's pretty difficult with an interesting skill ceiling for each character.

@rokazeravas4904

22 күн бұрын

Edit (because I’m on mobile): I see you already talked about Ravens Watch in another video lol

Fun fact, you can pet the merchant cat.

6:42 I'mma be real, Skooch: I see you upload, I watch. It doesn't matter what new thing it is you're talking about, I just like hearing you talk about stuff. Keep up the great work.

@Zel-Veraan

26 күн бұрын

Also, this game looks like TouHou had a child with Undertale. I'm buying it.

@zariosmation3462

26 күн бұрын

@@Zel-Veraan How much money does it cost?, seems pretty cool

@Zel-Veraan

25 күн бұрын

@@zariosmation3462 $15 on Steam.

I think someone needs to introduce him to Final Fantasy 14 if he wants to experience more of this game.

@ThatOneAsianKai

26 күн бұрын

Funny thing is that the dev does play FF14 and was inspired by savage raids and ultimates

@venumus1

26 күн бұрын

Ff14 raids are a fucking joke with massive wind ups and telegraphed hit boxes and there is no heat progression

@sonawhite8813

26 күн бұрын

​@@venumus1what is heat progression?

@venumus1

26 күн бұрын

@@sonawhite8813 gear auto correct is stupid

@TheDapperDragon

26 күн бұрын

​@@venumus1Someone hasn't seen the absolute joke that is Mythic raids

LET'S GO RABBIT AND STEEL

Very few games i look at the screenand have absolutely no idea what is going on, im goin to have to check this one out.

I am fine with everything but that *"Haha changed your location!" ALWAYS* THROWS ME OFF FROM MY TRACKS 😭😭😭

been playing this game for the last week or so of release quite a bit, it's really flown under the radar, and nice to see someone get more than a few thousand views on their video about it. Hopefully it brings more in to play as it's really satisfying

Red Darkhouse is also a bit of a problem because of all the Stage colors in the game, Red on Black is ironically the least contrasting color on a black background (The others being Blue, Purple, Yellow, Green and White) while also being the most bullet hell stage.

@teereee_official

21 күн бұрын

There's actually an option to change the colors of the boss attacks, there's one for "Magenta Standard" for maximal contrast if boss attacks aren't visible enough for the player.

Gloomhaven is a Fun unique Co-Op game on steam based off a RL board game. I found it fairly challenging and it has aspects of rogue-like games i think you might enjoy.

Oh so its a touhou game!

@AdamDj-ic3kr

26 күн бұрын

No, it's a touhou game but the bosses figured out bullets are no longer enough

@antoineguerrier2965

25 күн бұрын

@@AdamDj-ic3kr Oh so it's a Touhou game!

@AdamDj-ic3kr

25 күн бұрын

@@antoineguerrier2965 .....yes

@sebamk

20 күн бұрын

That would suit its predecessor more I guess

@Eevee_Eevo

16 күн бұрын

I feel like saying it’s a touhou game sells it short… all of the different abilities and combos of loot you’re able to rack up make the game feel way different :P

These fucking Rabbits got Hands bro

Everyone knows there's only one raid mechanic: Don't stand in fire. Bad Rogue: It's so warm here in the fire!

The game is great, the only bad thing is that it needs a proper training level. Tons of fun and hard as nails

im SO happy to see more coverage of this game

I cant believe this is how I'm finding out one of my favorite games Maiden and Spell got a sequel

The bunny girls is why I'd believe someone telling me it would be one of the hardest games around. games with bunny girl protagonist are often the hardest. See: Bunny Must Die or Rabi-Ribi or some Touhou games.

Love your content no matter what skooch

I love you skooch. You bring me such fantastic games for my brain. Roguelike doesnt scare me, it inspires me. The genre makes failure easier to take. Even though I fail more often. Genuinely you have a knack for these kinds of videos and keeping my attention. Super adhd and easily discouraged. Gonna give this a look! And they have a DEMO?!? games with demos are automatically given big points

5:29 They really got that toad scream after that interaction.

Still havent gotten around to playing this. Loved Maiden and Spell.

oh, so it's easier touhou

@euclidYT

13 күн бұрын

I was gonna say the same lol

Thank for showing this gem to more gamers! This is awesome for Ppl who raided back in the day but dont have time to grind out an MMO and find 10+ ppl for Raiding every week.

I would love to see you and your friends play Overcooked 2! It's silly fun and gets fairly complex the later you get

really does feel like a raid, need to give this one a try.

This gives me life considering the solo dev was highly inspired by FFXIV raiding, especially older content like the E8S or Edens 8 Savage fight with Shiva. I wouldnt be surprised if there's a light's rampant mechanic snuck in there somewhere 😂

@crowdemon_archives

12 күн бұрын

I'm told there's a Pantokrator somewhere, of all things. 😂

Just a heads up, in the options you can change the colors of all the attacks in various sets! Be sure to look at that. Also, this game is 10/10

honestly the goat for this. ive been playing it for the past tenish days and its such a good time

Someone had a bit of inspiration from Tohou

As a FFXIV Raider this game was a must-buy and honestly it was exactly as messy and chaotic and fun as doing a new fight in XIV... definitely can recommand that game!

@crowdemon_archives

12 күн бұрын

With shorter prog session lol

1:34 you forgot that while doing that you also have to maintain your dps rotation because if you dont kill the boss in time on hard it's game over.

Mate I am amazed you managed to sell me on a game that short circuited all motor skills just from watching clips of it, good video. from ur ask at the end, I've played a lot of Vagante with a friend. Definitely way slower of a roguelike than this and probably leans more to the frustrating part of difficult, but somethin keeps pulling me back into it. Also Duelists of Eden came out a couple months ago and the original game was always too fast for my brain but a deckbuilding mega man battle network type fighting game is sick as hell and closer to Rabbit & Steel's speed (also same composer as this game) o7

Thanks for the recommendation

I've legit been enjoying Rabbit and Steel recently! Favorite rabbit's for me would be Sniper rabbit (Go green hair for the full Bucky'O'Hare experience!) and Ancient rabbit, because her orange skin has a bird!

if you've played FFXIV, this is basically a 2D roguelike version, very fun!

This game is 2D Final Fantasy 14 raiding, and I love it

SKOOCH PLAYING RABBIT AND STEEL?!

Finally. We reached the pinnacle of Dark Souls.

I wish the girls were a bit more bunny, but you've sold me on this. Adding to my wishlist!

This game is absolutely amazing! Great video, by the way! Only thing you missed was talking about the top tier OST this game has.

@Skooch

25 күн бұрын

I had a whole bit that I cut out but Emerald Lakeside ost is top 5 songs ever made in history

Keep it up Skooch

I'm just putting this out here right now for anyone that just heard of the game and wants to try it I've played the game non stop from its release and sometimes with some friends for fun and I am also very experienced in bullet hell games as I've played them for almost my entire life and it took me almost my entire 150 hour playtime to be able to beat lunar difficulty solo (the one after hard mode) but don't be discouraged the game is hard but fair the mechanics are easy to learn and with some dedication I'm sure anyone can beat lunar difficulty, just be warned enemy mechanics changes dramatically when playing with more players so gl to everyone and don't forget to enjoy the game and stay calm as in the end this isn't just a bullet hell game its a rouge lite :))

Been grinding Lunar solo, gotten to the final boss of some of the zones a few times. If you don’t get a good item in the tutorial zone resetting is required as even with 100% uptime certain characters cannot meet the damage check.

My jsab reflexes are kicking in looking at this

Rabbit and Steel needs MORE COVERAGE! It's such a fun game with friends!!

I don't know you at all but the fact that a big creator made a. video about this game is awesome, the more people that know about this masterpiece the better

I never thought skooch would make a video about one of my favorite games that has come out of recent. Also hello from the 2.5% of players to clear hard.

If you want some recomendations on coop games i recomend "Lovers in a dangerous spacetime": despite the cute aesthetics the game's quite challenging especially on hard, requiring your team to coordinately and quickly move between the ship's control stations. Local coop only but remote play together might work for you.

I have been able to solo this game on normal multiple times to make sure I've had a route through each area atleast once. And so far I have only been able to defeat the first area boss on hard mode solo by the skin of my teeth once when I happened upon a particularly good build.

this looks so fun to play

Sounds like something the hardcore 2hu crowd would enjoy. The Reisen enjoyers in particular.

Endless dungeon on the hardest difficulties with a coktail is an interesting experience

I'm sure you've heard about Helldivers 2, but I can't recommend it enough! It's a fantastic co-op game that is also very difficult, but not quite as cute as Rabbit & Steel. I guarantee that it will have you and your friends screaming in no time.

my favorite area is emerald lakeside cuz the color mechanic is fun, though at the same time I despise getting chained to my allies in emerald lakeside

If you want to see how insane Lunar gets one day because you're bored, if you join a Lunar mode run with 4 people already in it, you can just spectate their run. And uh. The ones I spectated went to the dragon place, which, I think, is the genuinely hardest area. And OHMYG-

Actrually, for the 'mmo raid like' there is this game called mini healer. It's... interesting, played it a bunch. In that game you play as the healer for a 4 person party and have to try to keep them alive. You can tell the party which enemy to target first, but otherwise it's mostly deciding the optimal healing, dealing with debuffs and interacting with boss mechanics by making sure to stand on the right spot. Game has hit a pause in development due to the dev having RL issues last year but seems that work is being done once again.

yeah, I do agree about the visibility of mechs, I play FFXIV and cleared most savages and ultimates being the shotcaller, and some mechs should need different animations\colors to see it better, like when a Laser will rotate, it only shows arrows and the colors of it always the same as the AoEs\Boss colors, while in FFXIV when it's rotating clockwise the arrows has 1 color, if rotating counterclockwise has another color, so some QoLs would be pretty nice on this game. found this game just yesterday and I really did like it, I like both FFXIV and bullet hell games, this is just perfect, just need improvements of the mechs' visibility as said here. (and heck, I always seen FFXIV as a bullet hell game but it's disguised as a 3D game with mechs lol)

all of those indicators are reminding me of Calamity mod in terraria

During the entire video I was shouting, “I HAVE THOSE ACHIEVEMENTS. I DID THAT.”

a decently challenging co-op game is deep rock galactic (ROCK AND STONE!) there are four classes and tons of areas to explore, challenges to unlock and complete, its four player co-op where you fulfil what the company wants you to do and shoot bugs. incredibly fun

The best part about all this is Renalie is somehow also cute, as a dragon, that kills you harder than any other boss.

There actually were "MMO Raid-like" games on roblox a very long time ago , that one BALLER meme came from one of those old games.

Watching this this video inbetween the 6 ads on my tv was wild

Came back to say “new obsession unlocked”

I may or may not have played one normal run, felt like it was too easy, then went and found a lobby of fandoms with no communication and unlocked all of the rest of the characters in two runs on hard mode.

I would like to ADD that the co-op online and network stability and connection is fucking fantastic as i was playing with my friend who lives in Europe and im in Canada and we never had issues with delay or lag like we do on some other games

Personally I recommend you and your friends to play "full metal furies" (not furrys tho). It's a fantastic game with fun mechanics and also decently hard and a puzzle game. Loved it with my friends, hope you give it a try ^^

Not sure if you played it but Pico Park is an 8 player co-op platformer on Steam. It can be a really fun challenge trying to get multiple people to cooperate on a level

There is a boardgame called Hellapagos which I highly recommend. It's only about 20$, and it's a co-op game until the food runs out and you have to decide with player to kill

Operation tango is a fun coop game for 2 players. Highly reccomended. It relies on players only having half the info and needing to describe things to the other player.

I love raiding in ffxiv. This game looks perfect for me

I think " *RED DARK* house" is meant to be dark, and red

I put this game alongside "Rabbit Hole"! They are such a games to play if you wanna go bnuuy mode

Play Barony. It's a roguelike dungeon crawler that takes a few runs to understand, but its a good time.

You know Skooch, if you wanted you could always try final fantasy 14 for your co-op experience. Yes there is a jrpg's worth of content before the end game hard stuff, but it's a story worth enjoying, especially if you have folks to meme through it with. All of the raids are done in such a way that even the ten year old ones can still be done at roughly the difficulty they were run from, you can do 2/3rds of the game for free, including the first three raid series, and once you get to the end of that free trial, you'll have access to "ultimate" raids, what are generally considered some of the hardest, and best designed co-op experiences in gaming, with their "prog time" the amount of time spent practicing, measured in weeks and months. For what it's worth there's also no pay to win, gatcha or predatory monetization.

Its not as difficult, but you could try emberknights. Its like a coop hades

If you want a difficult Multiplayer experience try playing Deep Rock Galactic on Hazard 5+ with all modifiers maxed out. If that doesn’t challenge you enough add some mission hazards on top. If all that still doesn’t suffice mod the hell out of the game until the entire screen is filled with enemies that instantly kill you. Also the game is quite fun.

Banger incoming

coop recommendations hrm Hammerwatch is a cooperative dungeon crawler. Crawl is a competitive dungeon crawler. Regular Human Basketball makes players work together to operate a basketball robot. Barotrauma makes players work together to operate a not-spaceship

You say that Roguelike is a scary word but seeing this clusterfuck, I'm reminded of an even scarier word ; Touhou.

I WAS JUST LOOKING INTO THIS TODAY

Theres a market for raid mechanic-lite games

What a great morning, seeing a video about a game my friend recently recommended to me. About a recommendation of games with difficulty, I could hit you up with something called SYNTHETIK. It's a bit older top-down shooter but still has one of the most satisfying gun gameplay in Roguelikes. Add to that a good amount of weapons, similar to how Borderlands implemented it. It also has 2 player coop... with friendly fire. Did I mention you can accidently blow yourself up? My explanation won't do the game any justice so I hope you'll take a look yourself but I'll say atleast this: a ricocheting, penetrating sniper rifle where performing a 360 increases it's damage still is fun and all but still didn't allow me to beat the game... once... on default difficulty. And I regularly play Gunfire Reborn on R9, have finished everything in BlazBlue EE, find RoR2 Monsoon without artifacts boring and have a few other roguelikes under my belt.

this game slaps. I been playing it for a couple weeks now.

Difficult coop: Ravenswatch Synthetik GTFO Ready or Not Barotrauma Other coop: Monster Hunter (old & new) Deep Rock Galactic God Eater Exoprimal Rainbow Six (pre-siege) Divinity Baldur's Gate Wasteland The Ascent Castle Crashers