fun fact, the gif of zane being punched used to be of him being decapitated with a sword. the reason it was changed was because a younger cousin of one of the devs was playing the game

@JFenixGG

Жыл бұрын

Uh no, it was made for the lil cousin, but changed because it was "corey-ish" 🤓

@smivan.

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure the sword decapitation gif is still in the game anyway. It's in the second act.

@JFenixGG

Жыл бұрын

@@smivan. no it is not

@frankg7786

Жыл бұрын

Really think it's better this way, the previous gif was too much

@_zigger_

Жыл бұрын

Сuсk move by dev ngl

I'm sad it's so hard to sell people on this game when they assume it's gonna be a one note "Wasn't old internet so goofy guys?" joke instead of an evolving narrative with puzzles. There's so much humanity and life in this game which makes it all the more saddening when it's over.

@Chronische

11 ай бұрын

Yet... it isn't over! There's more to come, a sequel has been announced! Early 2000s Newgrounds-era internet, looks like. Cannot IMAGINE what that might look like in comparison.

@Tripleat117

9 ай бұрын

Ideally that's how you end up getting people initially into the game, only later realizing after exploration all the depth in the game.

@ZigealFaust

Ай бұрын

I walk around and will randomly hear the "ZONES" poem when looking at people or buildings. Then I realize that game had more community and humanity in it than the stores I've been visiting for years or the people I see everyday at work.

@arandompasserby7940

28 күн бұрын

I haven't played it, but watching part of a playthrough, I think the core """problem""" with the game is that I think you have to have lived at a very specific time / be within a certain age group to really connect and have the game "click" for you. I didn't have the internet until much later in life, so I only caught the very tail end of the internet the game portrays - even so, the Angelic Hampster immediately gave me flashbacks to being a very young kid on my parents' Windows 98 computer and playing with the Sheep program (on a floppy with a hand-written title) that one of my older siblings acquired from God only knows where. And the music player with different elaborate skins sent me back in time to playing around with this kind of static "3D music visualizer" program (the name of which I have no recollection of and I can't find anything about it) while listening to "I'm Blue (Da Ba Dee Da Ba Di)". For me, there's something very sweet and beautiful about this game and the memories it brings back. But let's be real, if you're someone, say, under the age of 20, this game would probably come across like a big sh!tpost.

@ZigealFaust

28 күн бұрын

@@arandompasserby7940 Yeah, as someone that lived thorugh that era there were moments of playing this game where I forgot I was playing a game. I would try to use windows hotkey commands IN GAME or go "good for you Tiff, screw that guy" out loud.

I still cry at the little girls spinning planets page. Such a beautiful game

@Year_of_the_Dell

Жыл бұрын

Honestly said thank god when it didn't mention her dying to the crash

I think the mindcrash victim thay got to me the most was Tiffany. Her page reminded me of how i used to be when i started up on the internet. I related to her, and to see her inevitable death really struck me hard. It made me think about it more. In one of her early posts, she states that she has epilepsy which makes me think that the headband crash wasnt actually what got her. Instead it makes me think that tims mindcrash "virus" was flashy enough to trigger her into a seizure. Making tim responsible for at the very least the death of his romantic infatuation.

@Elenkeon

10 ай бұрын

I think for me, it was Zane. It was just some kid who, ostensibly, is quite innocent despite his bullying. He could've been a cool cartoon artist had he grown up.

@EpslionBear

10 ай бұрын

@@Elenkeon At least SlayersX makes saving him Canon.

@madelinebitts2766

9 ай бұрын

The actual crash flashed a LOT. It definitely wasn't Tim here.

@qwertyuiopoiuytrewp

9 ай бұрын

Epilepsy doesn't necessarily have to be photosensitive; infact, photosensitive epilepsy is very rare compared to other forms of it.

@greenhowie

9 ай бұрын

@@EpslionBear I get the feeling it's a bit more complicated than that, especially considering Hypnospace is in an alternate reality. Just a hunch though, have to wait for the next game to be sure.

Jay Tholen, the designer of Hypnospace Outlaw, talked about the very thing you're describing in this video being his design philosophy when developing Hypnospace. It's a very inspiring message which almost made me tear up because it really shows the respect and care he has for people as unique individuals, something that is felt so clearly in Hypnospace: > Aw dang, thank you. It makes me extremely happy that the game reads this way for you. What you've described was a major priority in the construction of characters/worlds in both Hypnospace and Dropsy. > Browsing the Geocities archive really struck me because you can usually get a sense of the person behind the page with a small amount of digging. Even sites with the most theatrical "ENTER MY DOMAIN" facade will often have a buried "About Me" section that rewards you with more context about the person. Sometimes it can be quite sad. It's like you're seeing a person perform in costume, and then you get to go backstage and see what they're actually like, and maybe why they chose to perform the way they did. > Personal home pages were also often concerned with subjects we might consider mundane or boring. Pets, recipes, riddles, poems, etc. Many times imperfect or downright bad, both in content and execution. But it's what they had to share and something they thought may be valuable to others. Sharing something in this way requires vulnerability and I find it super inspiring. > In many games there's a tendency to pattern characters characters after traditional archetypes and exaggerate their personality quirks so that audiences immediately 'get' the kind of character they're dealing with. Conversely, Non-villain characters in stylish indie games tend to seem diverse initially but don't end up having any actual diversity of thought or differing moral frameworks. > In both cases the characters tend to look too COOL or character designer-y, which I guess can be seen as the game equivalent of those shows where the actors for high school students are clearly 30 years old. > All told though, I think honoring the uniqueness of each person in our world (fictional as they may be) lends itself to the spiritual/theological framework that I try to build my games within. People are made in God's image as valuable and truly unique, no exceptions. > Some folks we encounter may make terrible choices or believe awful things, and maybe they're abrasive and rude to us directly. We can't possibly know what led them to this point, and they're going to continue to exist either way. If only we had an "about me" page or some internet history to spelunk, right? > For our small part in their lives we can either vilify them and push them deeper into darkness or offer a small amount of warmth that, given their current state, they may not have seen from another human in a long long time. This can shock a person who has only experienced bile in return, and ultimately may be the first step of their way out of hell. > I was a 16 year old internet edgelord (some of the content in the game is from my high school Livejournal) and this kind of unexpected warmth continues to remind me to choose the path of gentleness & understanding in my own interactions.

@WonderstoneTraining

Ай бұрын

Wow, that's incredible. Thank so much for sharing. What a visionary.

Man, this was a tough watch for me (in the best way possible) Hypnospace is so good at pinching your nerves and making you feel so many conflicting emotions all at once. No other game feels as real as this one, or has characters as real as this one. When I first discovered Chowderman's last song I broke into tears, not only from how sorrowful and defeated the guy was, but from the fact that this song could've been this most successful song in years, and he chose retirement instead. Carl Parker was the death at the end that hit me the most, because his page is so campy yet so genuine that I really got attached to him. The rest of his family passed away and, at the beginning of the game, he's desperately trying to get in contact with his old high school friends. And then he FINALLY becomes part of a community, he becomes friends with Mavis, with Arlan, with the rest of Good Time Valley, and he decides to spend his New Years with them. And then he dies. The worst part of Carl's story that you CAN save him, but you HAVE to ban him from Hypnospace, thus shutting him off from the only friends he has left. I honestly don't think there's a right answer here. With Zane, he deserved to be banned from Hypnospace anyways, but Carl? I don't think you SHOULD ban him. At least he'd die surrounded by the people he loved, rather than sad, bitter, and alone. This game does stuff to me, man.

@MrSmegheneghan

Жыл бұрын

the way one of my friends put it, with how you _can_ save some people in that incident, is that in order to do this, you have to essentially act like a petty mall cop looking to exercise new-found power on whoever breaks the rules like, Zane bullying some kid? yeah that can be reportable the first time, and he cools off on Corey, but if you don't pay attention (as I did) you miss that he's also making awful pages about Tiffany as _well_ as harrassing her on ChitChat. going after him at that point makes sense because to cultivate a kinder space, some people need to be disciplined properly; I still remember seeing the e-mail about reports going to Tiffany because they're on her page and thinking "wow this kinda sucks huh?" but the other guy, Carl, I vaguely remember smacking him with reports, but I never put him up for investigation (or the others who got reported for the same thing) cause it was just that dang fish again. some corporation getting tetchy over their fish being "misused" or whatever. I took the pics down and got the fake coins, but left 'em alone afterwards cause they're just there to hang around with folks. That, and to say I could anticipate that mean-spirited actions could _save_ a guy's life in an unprecedented incident is insane. that's moon logic right there, real conspiracy-level stuff that only a paranoid individual could anticipate Though I will admit, part of not _properly_ reporting users for investigation came from not really getting any reward for it (that I can remember), just a notice saying how their report was handled along with a comment from the handler (eg "he's just a kid, give him a warning, if he acts up again it's a ban"). If the reward of a report is more dialogue, I could see folks eating that up, but I'm a bit too nice to be a content moderator in this regard 😅 it IS interesting to see how the reports would actually affect these people, along with the consequences of those actions on others following the reports I came away from the game feeling down, but in the sense of "I can't truly experience this in the same way without several years to blur the initial memories of the game" more than anything. VERY solid stuff under the patina of 90s pastel-grunge that the game utilizes.

@jpkurihara

Жыл бұрын

Considering how he equips the Beefbrain Pro shield after the first timeskip, and still has some skeptcism about it on New Years Eve, I imagine he still had enough value for his life and well being to justify saving him as the better outcome

@Year_of_the_Dell

Жыл бұрын

​@@MrSmegheneghan you get paid money for each Infraction.

@MrSmegheneghan

Жыл бұрын

@@Year_of_the_Dell I know, I _did_ mention that. I'm more on about reporting them for rule-breaking once they HAVE the infractions, such that they get time-outs or bans for 'em. The most you get there is notices on what happens to the reported, but no monetary returns.

@robots2124

8 ай бұрын

I agree that it's good at the emotion stuff. A lot of characters have something deeper going on underneath the surface. Like when you first meet Zane, he's an obnoxiously macho and sexist caricature of every annoying teenager who thinks they're way cooler than they actually are. But then you start digging into his comics or his FLST, which basically spell out his life story, about how he doesn't know his dad, about how he's poor and how his mom works minimum wage constantly just to support them. It's good, and it definitely contextualizes Zane's behavior. Of course he wants to be seen as the top dog, he's a poor kid from a broken home.

Holy fuck dude that lost Chowderman song hit me like a ton of bricks. I didn’t find it until the epilogue and it really added to the depressing and dead atmosphere. Also it’s just a pretty decent song.

@RedSaint83

10 ай бұрын

Hot Dad brought his A game when he did the Chowder Man songs.

@OdaSwifteye

8 ай бұрын

@@RedSaint83 He really did. I considered Chowder Man pretty mid but not for this game!

This video was absolutely remarkable in so many ways. The stories that the game compiled are deep and personal, but the way you were able to examine these via acute character studies was very fascinating. Your key thesis, that Hypnospace Outlaw examines the internet and the people who use it via a lens of humanity, is incredibly potent, something well worth carrying over into our more contemporary studies of this wild online world that many of us take for granted. This video took a lot of work and research; that's clear as day. Be proud. You made something really special and I'm looking forward to seeing more from you in the future. Excellent work.

You can actually get through the first case with Gooper by just flagging the Gifs that Arlan made, completing it without marking all of the children's artwork of the character for deletion- however there is more than one enforcer on this job canonically, so even after completing it someone else has flagged all of it to be removed resulting in the same outcome. They really wanted that Hypnocoin!

@jomarcentermjm

6 ай бұрын

weirdly most moderator from companies nowadays are paid. michaelsoft got really cheap in paying their users.

@kotzpenner

3 ай бұрын

Yeah haha seen that too. I only removed one of them to see if it works but it made me feel bad and I left the rest.

@equalibrius8691

2 ай бұрын

yeah in my first play through I thought that I wouldn’t be able to take down the drawings since it’s fair use or whatever

@ZigealFaust

Ай бұрын

I went out of my way to make sure I wouldnt do too much damage to her page, I just tagged the single gif of Gooper slipping halfway down the page and it cuts out a tiny peice of it all. I still felt like shit when I saw her reaction to being flagged doe.

I actually did find Gus very interesting and sort of felt bad for what I did to Sherri. The thing that hits me the most is that the game nails the "even if you don't see them someone is effected by your actions" feeling as I didn't even pay attention to Gus at all until my 4th or 5th playthrough

Now that its Canon that Zane survived the mind crash, its funny that Dylan was sad Zane couldnt grow as a person, cus 20 years later he still made Slayers X

@carlsojos

6 ай бұрын

There's a couple people you can potentially save in the game. Zane will have a breakdown and trash his own page during the Mindcrash, and if you flag him Sam will ban him immediately, breaking him out before the crash can kill him. Similarly, if you shirk on reporting Sherri for Capacash a second time (she pleads to not be reported because Hypnocoin can't be redeemed back to money), she will be logged in and killed by the mindcrash on New Year's Eve.

@jomarcentermjm

6 ай бұрын

@@carlsojos pretty weird for a ban resulted in shutting down the device. I mean the enforcer kicked out of their device. Instead of disabling their moderator functions the machine turn itself off. while the gooper ban would save one of the user since its a ban prior to the crash day. Zane would have received the update and dies regardless if he get banned or not.

@carlsojos

6 ай бұрын

@@jomarcentermjm Your hardware is disabled immediately when you get banned during the music piracy case, so that is what happens on the user end. Zane's self-destruction on New Years Eve is also very extreme- his site was very pink.

@Gamegobazooka

4 ай бұрын

@@carlsojosPretty sure Zane was hacked by Tim and wasn’t written due to some weird mental breakdown due to how it’s written

I’ve always been a big fan of hypnospace outlaw, I’m glad it finally got a big ol’ video essay. Also great choice of music during the copyright section. SPVW the game has a great soundtrack

hypnospace is also incredibly memorable. I remembered specific lines of text as you referenced them, without having to look at the video. "no offense to you all but I am not a communist" is still one of my favorites. Especially when, later in the game, you can find out one of the people in the cafe actually *is*.

@DONTRONEDITS

Жыл бұрын

Wait what???

@theonlybilge

Жыл бұрын

And the guy who is pretends he isn't and that the other page he made is just "a neat page he found", pretending that he isn't sockpuppeting.

Hey everyone! This is my biggest video yet and culmination of months worth of work. I want to give a big shoutout to Petronious for his wonderful work on this video's thumbnail. On top of his excellent logo work he has his own KZread channel so go check him out.

The story about the creative force behind Freezer using the funds received from his satirical anti-capitalist art being coopted by corporations to bankroll projects designed to hit back against those same corporations reminds me of Chumbawamba. When Chumbawamba released Tubthumping on a major label and it became a massive radio hit, reaching audiences outside of the anarcho-punk scene that they came from they channeled a significant amount of the proceeds into supporting anarchist projects and funding legal challenges against the same corporation who owned their record label. Obviously, it's a bit different but I do recognise some parallels beyond Freezer being a very on the nose parody of vaporwave.

It’s such a tragic game on all fronts. Going in blind, I didn’t expect it to break my heart

This video has shed some light on a game I've recently played end to end. I thought I wasn't going to replay it because "I couldn't save everyone", but this has shown that there's a lot of value on what such a wonderful video offers to show me what I've missed, which characters I've misjudged, and most importantly, what new things I've learned due to this lengthy video. Thank you, you've done an amazing video.

@sahar1213

Жыл бұрын

check out the game's wiki, has some good reads

Honestly, this video takes a whole other perspective on Dylan Merchant as a character than I did originally and watching this video hit me harder than the end of the game itself. Such a well written and beautiful game and and a great video essay to go along with it

Hypnospace was not a game I thought I would enjoy for the people aspect. Initially, I played the game for the quirky 90s internet aesthetic. But overtime, I found myself reading pages rather than just looking at them. The way you get glimpses into people's lives is so fanatically done, that I eagerly kept checking on certain pages to see what they talked about next. My favorite was Ashley's Planets, this 8 or 9 year old girl would post updates about her fictional planets she makes. Like a planet named after her sister whom she loves. I adore this game, and cannot wait for the sequel.

This video covered things i had even missed when i played. It also brought back memories of the feelings at the end of the game. It truly is a hidden gem masterpiece. I cant wait for the sequel netsettler. Thank you for such a great essay.

This game is criminally underrated

@MustyYew

Жыл бұрын

True

This video is widely underrated, underviewed. It's like the game, a hidden gem. Top of the notch analysis of it and the characters. Im glad i got to watch it, listed on my feed. Keep it up buddy!

this game, and especially this video, made me realize so much about my own self, my own morality, my own actions that put me where i am, who i am as a person, that i cried. im tearing up as i type this right now. this was a legitimately amazing game that really got to me on a personal level. i could find myself either going through similar hardships or problems or even mistakes in my life, and this video was the cherry on top for me feeling connected to these characters in one way or another through the detailed analysis you did. well done. thank you for this amazing video.

This is worthy of 1million views+ Genuinely one of the best video essays I have ever watched.

Absolutely Beautiful. Hopefully the sequel will be able to keep this level of pathos, or at least be able to recreate the feeling of 2003 internet

@irisillychno6189

11 ай бұрын

I just worry it won't have the shock sites. You can't have an early 2000s internet without goatse.

i really love how much effort is put in the characters of hypnospace. even when he's mouring over his lost friend and trying to find himself, his lyrics are cheesy and dumb. but in a very hearthfelt way. godspeed chowderman. god fucking speed.

Every time I play, I gotta do Gus's wallpaper and put hot dogs in his hands.

42:51 fun fact that it was an animation of zane getting his head cut off with a sword before the game got updated

@reade_me

Жыл бұрын

I remember watching someone stream the game after the update and got confused if I misremembered that lol

@polocatfan

Жыл бұрын

iirc they did that so one of the devs younger family members could play it.

@Sweterino

Жыл бұрын

yeah that's true

@arctix6113

Жыл бұрын

For some reason, the hilt of the sword is still in the animation.

Sincerely, I have yet to see someone who portrays the world of Hypnospace Outlaw as well as you did. Everyone you talked about was portrayed with such sincere emotion. What a video. Truly. I hope this video somehow gets snagged by the algorithm, you deserve it.

that this video doesn't have move views is absolutely tragic, because this is probably the best breakdown of this masterpiece of a game i have ever seen. c'mon, algorithm!

This video is really *really* good holy shit. Be proud of this one.

I felt so bad when I had to copyright strike Abby's Gooper pics and seeing her shock reaction to it. Wasn't long into the game when I had that "...are we the baddies?" moment.

@siliconecheese697

10 ай бұрын

especially when they completely reverse it with you dealing with obvious harassment, scams and hackers. it does a good job messing with your morals but not making you the villain or the hero. you're an enforcer, some random person who moderates the online world, sometimes its unfair like abby's student's pics, sometimes it's a malicious virus, sometimes its some kid on the internet making fun of other kids on the internet. you affect the lives of some deeply, but there is just as many people who wouldn't have even noticed you existed. the amount of control you have in this world is more or less the hammer and flagging.

I'm not really a person of many words but I just want to thank you for this video. Hypnospace Outlaw means alot to me and this video really shows just all the parts that make it such a human experience. Thank you.

This was the best review and summery of Hypnospace I’ve seen Your so good at this BWL

This game was the basis of so many papers in my college years. This whole world goes so deep, it’s basically why I love storytelling in my games and look for such a depth in narrative when I pick up a new game to play. So excited for Dreamsetter and I hope it has the same feeling and accomplishment.

@phoebeaurum7113

8 ай бұрын

People wrote papers about Hypnospace Outlaw?

@grlyeetswrld

8 ай бұрын

@@phoebeaurum7113 quite a few! I studied media literacy and storytelling as emphasis for my major, so games and books I was very interested in/featured included topics were always used! I even wrote a series of poems about the NieR series for a class. You use what you have ☺️

one of the stories that made me sad was RebeRuthPin who was a huge squisherz fan that won an art contest, but because of her hyper Christian parent, her headset was thrown away from fear of squisherz being evil, so she never found out that she won. i guess the plus side is that she avoided the Y2K incident.

Ok, but how is nobody talking about the unironic banger "Ready to Shave"

I just wanted to say what an excellent essay this was. Hypnospace is one of my favorite games, and this really articulated why, while also making me think about the game in a different way!

I sat there in awe and listened to the oneleggedman song in game, and when it was over it immediately auto played *GRANNY CREAM HOT BUTTER ICE CREAM*

Got recommended this video and have to say it's a fantastic breakdown of Hypnospace Outlaw. I was a bit skeptical on this game when it came out and I hadn't played it until just a week ago, but I easily sunk hours into it afterwards, it's really fantastic and I'm definitely looking forward to the sequel and what that brings to the table, hopefully it wasn't a case of catching lightning in a bottle. Something that I was thinking about and find interesting is Tiff's death. While it can be assumed that she died during the Outlaw crash just as the others had, she does mention that she has epilepsy, and Tim's Mindcrash hack definitely could have triggered that, so there is a very real chance that Tim was wholly responsible for Tiff's death. I feel like it was almost deliberate for them to mention that she's epileptic, it makes Tim's feeble attempt at confessing his love and apologizing to her a lot more tragic if you consider that he likely caused that to happen. Sure, he wasn't responsible for the actual Mindcrash event, but my belief is that he was absolutely responsible for Tiff's death. It's fucked up and sad.

Criminally underrated game, criminally underrated video.

Why doesn't this video have more views by now? This is one of the best video essays on this website lol

Excellently put! HSO really captured that "human" feeling well.

Great work! This was a fantastic watch, considering I was interested in playing the game but never finding the time to do so.

This is the kind of video i have been searching for! This game deserves these hour long video essays, I was thinking of attempting to make one myself, maybe I will, but I don't think I would be very good at it. Excellent video, will probably re-watch more than I should.

YES! I'm so glad to see a video like this! Hypnospace is my all time favorite game and you covered a lot of reasons why. My only real complaint is that the rant about online copyright law was way too long, and completely derailed the flow, but aside from that it was a good video. I really hope more people make analysis videos about this game in the future!

i really love your video style of using clips from movie/TV to display what you're talking about

Awesome video, thank you for all the effort you very clearly put into it. I'll definitely be sticking around to see more of your work because this was a delight to watch 👍

Well, that went from "BWL" to "right in the feels" quickly.

With how true-to-form this game is, I imagine we're not shown what happens to Dylan after he's come clean on account of how much of a downer it'd be. As a consideration: an early tech start-up hits it big, has a huge boys-club problem with no proper management outside of a handful of people who aren't being paid enough for their responsibilities, where everything comes crashing down thanks to an apparent outside force compromising device stability for everyone on the network? That's bad enough. But a couple decades later, and Dylan's still kicking, sending e-mails from his D-Phone _(which could just be a colourful signature, but with the alternate-reality setting, it could be his company's now in the phone-development sector?)_ and generally available enough to join in on the archival team. I imagine whatever damages had to be paid in the weeks after the Mindcrash were rough, but could be weathered _(especially since not everyone got paid? if the RodsAntiGovernmentPage's eulogy is any sign)_ before moving on to the next big project, letting MerchantSoft (or whatever they'd become in the future) make a comeback. More to the point, if Dylan was legit about giving himself up and being done for what he caused... there's not much that could really be done. Tim already did his time for the crime pinned to him; the case was likely open-and-shut because the novelty of *"TEEN HACKER CAUSES Y2K MINDCRASH WITH SIX FATALITIES"* was far more titillating than contacting users who were _on_ HypnOS at the time for pertinent information. Or maybe they _did_ contact people, and assumed that the "Outlaw" thing that caused trouble was part of the Mindcrash virus made by Tim, as you can bet your beef that MerchantSoft wasn't going to be on the level about it. Two decades later, the dead have long since been buried and everyone's since moved on. The only people who'll care to learn that the tech wiz-kid COO of MerchantSoft was the _real_ culprit would be any surviving family members of the victims; maybe they get a hefty payout for loss of life undeniably caused by MerchantSoft, but the revelation won't bring back their loved ones. And with Dylan being such a star in the tech world, he wouldn't get jail-time. Or if he did, it'd be maybe half a year, as the justice system wouldn't want to dampen the creative output of such a genius, right? The most likely outcome is he'd get hit with a huge fine and a slap on the wrist before then getting to move on with his life. Thoguh it could be that alternate-reality America is more likely to crack down on this stuff and he _does_ get due punishment, but that WOULD be fantastical!

Beautiful video, definitely shone a light on some aspects of the game I'd overlooked, deserves way more views Realising that Chowder Man was the guy who might "I really really really like this image" was a total mindscrew P.S. I thought "seepage" were called "See Page", I thought it was a weird name for a grungy band 🤦‍♂

This is a really amazing video essay on one of my favorite indie games of the last decade. Thank you for putting the time into making this! keep up the great work.

Funny that Zane surviving the Mindcrash is canon because SlayersX exists

What a great video and what a great game! great delivery and editing, I was glued to the screen for an hour. It's so apt that you focused on the humanity of it as it is what stands out when playing the game and when listening to interviews with Jay.

A heartfelt and in-depth take on one of my favorite games! Thanks for the excellent documentary :)

phenomenal video! I didn't know a lot of the tiny tidbits you mentioned like mavis getting better at hypnospace over time

this video is beautiful i played hypnospace after seeing a youtuber i liked playing it, but i didn't go into with the mindset of checking every page out, but just playing the game through and out watching this video and seeing all of these storys that i never saw makes me really just wanna start a new save and see what happens see what storys you didn't mention

the gumshoe gooper case can be cleared without a single report on a childs drawing, reporting the gifs instead on both that page and her personal page, she still does the stand with gooper thing, but i kept the kids drawings unreported

@bitmikealerts_lol

11 ай бұрын

What if you WANNA report the kid's drawings?

This is one of my favorite games of all time. Your analysis made me love this game in a whole new light, and it was fun learning new things about a game that I thought I knew everything about! You went super in depth, I even cried. Amazing video!!!

I think it’s such a testament to the strength of Hypnospace Outlaw’s quality of writing that nearly everyone I’ve spoken with or watched talk about this game has a different character they personally say is their favorite or most interesting: A lot of people say Zane, in my opinion for very good reason, as he’s the most extreme personality you meet early on, but has a LOT more depth when you look at his comics and potentially learn about his death. Nitro Rad talks at length about Rebekah, the Christian teen who loves Squisherz, but is forced to stop engaging with it because of her conservative parents believing the game series is Satanic, unfortunately all before she can learn that she won a Squisherz fanart contest. Holly “hollowtones” ends up ECSTATIC when she learns that the quirky, passionate poet Tamara Frost not only funds the Archival Project, but ended up becoming a famous author after her time on Hypnospace. This video is the only one I’ve seen that actually talks about The Chowder Man beyond him being Hot Dad or the Granny Cream jingle, which is great because I ADORE his arc. Of course a lot of people latch onto Dylan as he’s one of the most engaging antagonists in recent memory, his fatal flaw being his inflated ego due to living as a cushy rich kid, but still having lofty creative ambitions. And for me… Man I think about Roddy Wall. The programmer, the comic book nerd, the disgruntled employee, Dylan’s best friend who stayed to help out despite everything. Hell, he’s even the first character you “meet”. That funny, out of place voice that interrupts the tutorial sometimes? That’s Roddy. Compare Roddy’s Hypnospace Tips video with the Enforcer tutorial.

I cried watching this video. I already loved this masterpiece, but you video made me love it 10x more. Thank you so much ❤

what a great video and exploration of this game's themes. thank you for making this

I don't comment often on videos, but yours was really great and actually gave me some insights about facts i just straight out missed during my playthrough of the game. You deserve so many much views ! Hope you'll do well, keep going :D

Man what a game, can't wait for the sequel

I used to say Hypnospace Outlaw was the best game of last gen. Honestly as every day goes by and I still think about it? It’s probably the greatest and most artistically told story in games ever.

I just finished this game, and WOW it took me back. I've been surfing the net since 95, so HO was an incredible nostalgia trip. HypnOS really nails the Windows98-ish/OG Macintosh look and feel. I got lost looking through the character's corners of the 'web'. Social Media really killed the fun in a lot of ways, I feel. MySpace really was the last gasp of the old Net. No spoilers here, but there are a few points in the story where it's a sort of "hard-stop", page-turn, chapter transition. For full immersion, I recommend logging out of the game and coming back in a few hours or the next day.

One of my favorite things about the Gumshoe Gooper case is that one of the kids' drawings is so bad that the system doesn't detect a violation.

Should have put the spoiler warning at the beginning, really. Finding out about these Characters by yourself is so much fun. If I could forget a game and play it again like it would be my first time, this is the game I would play.

Doing my part for a great essay to boost the algorithm on the hypnospace

insanely good video, with the release of slayers x, and getting a glimpse inside's zanes psyche ive been feeling more and more nostalgic about how good hypnospace was, and this video just randomly showed up in my recommended (after i briefly mentioned the game on twitter? huh) but im glad it did

Hypnospace might be my favorite game of all time, and I'm so excited for its sequel, Dreamsettler, which is supposedly releasing sometime this year

Great video! You didn't mention one of my favourite characters in the game, which was Rebekah and her family (especially with the y2k anthem being about them). But I guess that just goes to show how many actually fleshed out and great characters there are in this game.

Great video. Shoutouts to all my brothers and sisters roleplaying as actual Hypnospace users in the comments section of the OST uploads bwlll

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Amazing video! I just beat the game last night and this is a great essay to follow up that experience

This is a wonderful essay about a wonderful game.

Well, I thought I had just finished the game only to discover that the archiving part wasn't the post game, it was the 3rd act. I don't think I have the patience to sit through this for as long as it deserves. I had given up on logging in to the eye web because I wasn't finding anything relevant. I kind of feel like a failure, like I should look further into this I've glossed over most of this game's content to the point where only the names of Tiffany and Carl Parker were relevant when I saw the list (Zane was banned in my playthrough). Anyway, I loved the video, good job.

@JayTholenJr

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search 'hint' inside the game for a hint guide if you want to just breeze through the rest.

@AofCastle

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@@JayTholenJr I ended up seeing how to enter M1NX through a KZread video a few days after this comment (which cascaded into discovering everything else). The game has been amazing and I'm waiting for Dreamsettler. I want to say that I really loved the experience, everything was way more fleshed out than I expected. I hope the development of the next game is going smoothly and you don't feel the need to rush it.

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The 3rd act is (as I found it) rather challenging, don't sweat it! Grateful for that hint system LOL

i love hypnospace outlaw, this game means so much to me... thanks for making this awesome video about it!!

I've never had a game make me care so much about its characters before

Very good video! Keep up the good work!

Hypnospace Outlaw outwardly looks like a comedy. In reality, it's a tragedy. Perhaps it's both!

i just wanted to point out.. that you dont have to take down all them children's drawings of gumshoe gooper, theres enough of the 3d models (plus the original comic) alone. its still pretty horrible tho, like i love arlin and he doesnt deserve to have his lovingly made gifs of gumshoe being taken down, and it is still fanart youre taking down also fun fact! if youre really methodical, you can get to those... certain pages with important evidence (yes, even the island) before getting to the final timeskip. i actually learned all that shit way early because i was deranged and stamped literally every page i saw and went back every time skip in an attempt to see everything

22:40 Regarding about KZread shutting down, who knows about that ....... but what I do know is that so many videos have been lost. It's really hard to find old videos from the first couple of years. There's plenty of videos I saw when I was younger that are now gone forever because someone closed their account, or the video got taken down, or the channel was taken down because they had content strikes against them. I started trying to save videos (especially older ones), and even a few old classics got removed after I had originally saved them, including "Washington Washington" and "I Feel Fantastic". Please people, if you see a video you like, try and save a copy of it, because you never know when it'll be gone forever. Hypnospace Outlaw is truly a classic!

Hypnospace outlaw videos are always good videos!!

I like the idea of the Dylan storyline but I think they tried to hard to make him seem like a villain for tension at the end. I really don't buy his really sarcastic passive aggressive remarks in emails for the epilogue into 180 complete apology and regret. His text document about Rod is also extremely strange to me? Keep in mind he's had at least 15 years of not being associated with merchantsoft anymore and he doesn't attempt to compensate or publicly sympathize with them after? Another thing is if I died due to a person ignoring safety and rushing out a broken mess and lying about for 15+ years I wouldn't want them to make some forgiveness confession from the same car game that killed us. Recently saw Joseph Anderson play through it and during that ending people were like this is sociopathic. He also specifically waits until you find the evidence because he knows he's screwed at that point so how is it even that honest when he is actively delaying his confession. He made this new version and made this great song instead of confessing THEN doing this. With all this said though this is still in my top 20 games of all time but It's really disappointing to me because the potential of the epilogue is so great we could've gotten back and forths from tim and Dylan directly. Like I can't imagine Tim had no thoughts about Dylan joining and Samantha would want him to know the full extent.

Squishers.. are really cool

This video was very good, thank you.

this video is awesome!!! watching this made me realize how much i missed :0

When I played this game, I cringed a bit at Chowder Man's rebranding, but I also didn't get very far in it because I'm awful at investigation-type stuff, so discovering he's the game's de facto lolcow and that I was supposed to react that way proper made me chuckle.

The Slushmoush music guide seems like a parody version of Ishkurs music guide which is pretty cool

Very nice, great work :3

Really good video, kind of gutted to see this is the most recent one but I know how motivation goes sometimes... If you ever feel like doing another exploration of deeper themes hinted at with background details you might enjoy Umurangi Generation. I'll say nothing about it just in case you haven't heard of it but after watching this I'd be dumb not to mention it.

Hypnospace outlaw changed how I see the internet. It really is just random people shouting recording themselves into the void, and it’s beautiful that way

Great video champ, thank you.

Having just discovered Hypnospace thanks to Pirate Software, I'm fully dedicated to making a full story mod, I don't know why no one took advantage of the amazing tools avalaible, I'm guessing it's because of the same issue I'm gonna have to deal with at some point : Designing pages that truly reflect different people, age groups, and of different interests, all of that through a single page. It's a hard work for sure, a dauting task, one that Hypnospace Outlaw has done so wonderfully that it is frightening to think about when you have to do it yourself haha

i’ve been wanting to find a video like for a long time, or even make one myself, because this game is often summed up to being a funny internet simulator and when you really look into it and study the characters it’s just such a beautiful collection of human stories, it’s full of personality and love and insecurity and all of this shit that gets lost in translation because “funny grandma ice cream haha”. while i do love the games humor i wish more people saw how beautiful this game really is!!

I was really not expecting this game to make me cry

Damn this was a great video

what a great video! thank you!

I came here because I like Hypnospace Outlaw but I also like Eddie Kingston so I had an especially good time.