episode 33 of Steam Dumpster Diving with somehow, once again, even more "souls-likes" you (probably) haven't heard of my stuff: twitter: https://twitter.com/IronPineapple_ bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ironpineapple.bsky.social twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/iron_pineapple merch shop: https://ironpineapple-shop.fourthwall.com/ Big thanks to: GoogleyGareth for animating the intro: @googleygareth Razbuten for being my bug buddy: @razbuten shar for climbing down a hole: @shar Joshua for joining me on some very interesting games Grapfic for helping with editing and the thumbnail: https://twitter.com/grapfic TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:24 False Hero 12:54 Holo-Kingdom 20:46 Gloomveil 34:23 Ultimate Drummer 58:41 Alabaster Dawn 1:16:12 Idols of Ash 1:23:51 Ungaland! 1:30:45 Ritter & Rotwein 1:41:45 Verho 2:00:05 Nocturnal 2:05:31 Alstan 2:12:34 Explosiovania 2:24:44 Outro games played (in order of appearance) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2538870/False_Hero/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/4511570/HOLOKINGDOM/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3156020/Gloomveil/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3646020/Ultimate_Drummer/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3110760/Alabaster_Dawn/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/4450800/Idols_of_Ash/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3367020/UNGALAND/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2994200/Ritter__Rotwein/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3017330/Verho__Curse_of_Faces/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1634080/Nocturnal/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/4293970/Alstan/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3737610/Explosiovania/
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Developer of False Hero here! I'm incredibly happy you enjoyed the playtest! For anyone interested, I've been working a lot on polishing animations, graphics, adding more fashion (like hats) and other things and the final Demo will launch in the next weeks :)
Bless you brave drummer 🥁🥁🥁
At this point IronPinapple we don't really care if it souls like or not. We just love watching you play rpg games that we never heard of.
Remember, switching to your book is faster than reloading your sword.
I love fighting Ignorance by throwing books at it, very appropriate.
False Hero genuinely looks so fun
Verho developer here, huge thanks for place in video! ^^
Pine's iconic catchphrase, "Fuck-a-doodle-doo!" is my favorite part of this series.
Thanks for checking out my game Explosiovania! I really appreciated the feedback and that you stuck with the demo it even if it was a bit rough around the edges. The platforming has now been improved to be less finicky, and i'll improve the creativity of movement options for the full release!
Ah yes, the Cool 3D World pipeline of "This looks like garbage asset flipping" to "This is the most inspired and unique experience of all time", it's a classic
I love when he finds a game with bad reviews and then decide to invite his friends to suffer with him
Holo-indie basically is a "come at us with a game, and if you are within certain boundaries we'll let you sell it using the IP". Also to note that not a few of the games were born as fan games before the whole idea started. That kinda explain why the quality varies A LOT, you have professional-made games with teams behind them side by side with ones literally made by a guy in its basement. This one...Well, likely wasn't the finest showing out of the bunch
Thanks for trying out Verho! I voice acted in that game. I voiced as the dwarf merchant, i'd love to know what you thought! hahaha. It was a great time to work with Sai on the project and he is actively working on more games that are looking very promising.
Ultimate Drummer has absolutely no business being as good as it is, but it might be somehow the most ingenious, polished, and genuinely enjoyable shitpost I have ever seen. Someone clearly genuinely wanted to make a good game similar to the ones they themselves loved, but also are REALLY into drums, and has a sense of humour with an orbit somewhere beyond Pluto's but importantly is not just throwing random things at the wall hoping that random will equal funny.
The animations in Alabaster Dawn are SO insanely smooth and good looking.
Fun fact. a Centipede does not use its very front pair of legs to walk. They have been adapted into "toxicognath" and is how they inject their venom, essentially meaning that they have a venomous kick. Their bite is actually not all that dangerous. They are also, arguably, the most devastating and effective predator creature in the world for its weight. Centipedes are able to overpower and consume creatures 15 times heavier and larger than them, including mice, bats and snakes.
"You ever look at a place and think; Miyazaki would love this?" Every time I take off my shoes.
I know everyone says you can play anything and we'd watch, but I personally love you stretching the definition of Soulslike as wide as possible with whatever silly justification you can come up with while playing.
"This is a really buggy game... ... LAUGH." I did... I did :')
I think the first game dev seems to have mastered one of the most important things for souls like combat. Telegraphing. Awesome