The Game:

A survival horror game from Russia starring Katrine, who must uncover a dark conspiracy.

The Quick Look: Running time of 30:50, starring Vinny Caravella and Alex Navarro.

Vinny’s three things to consider about this game:

1. Making games is hard.

2. Learning a second language is hard.

3. This game is $2.

Vinny decides to show off the game in English initially, loading a save before exploring what appears to be some kind of hospital and using the protagonist’s unique animations to dance. He picks up bullets and batteries wherever he finds them lying around on bedside cabinets or next to communal toilets. This is accompanied by poorly-translated commentary from the main character, with voice over. (“Batteries in such a hole? Well, I’ll do find a use for them.”) Vinny puzzles over why the voice actor, who seems to know better, agreed to record such stilted sentences. There are also a couple of graphic novel-style cutscenes with similar language, but in-game documents that are not provided with audio seem to contain better translations. Alex has fun trying to translate these back into somewhat human speech.

Vinny continues in this fashion, exploring corridors and shooting the many resilient night guards in his path, as well as some zombies, until he accidentally finishes the game. He then sets the language to the native Russian and Loads His Last Save. Vinny remarks that the voice actor sounds more confident in this tongue and encourages commenters to offer their own translations.

Alex provided my favorite quote from this video: “Nature’s greatest obstacle: The already-opened door.” (25:50)

You're doing gods work good sir

This is cool, these short summaries inform me if it's worth watching

It might be worth sticking a recommendation on the end of this as to whether it's worth watching and maybe who's in the QL and how long it is.

@ramone: I've told myself from the start that these aren't going to be reviews of the videos and I'm not even sure what criteria I would use to judge whether they are worth anybody else's time, but more meta-information is always helpful. Thanks for the feedback!

These are stupid but the whole website is dedicated to stuff like this keep up the good work.

Summaries in such a hole

i like

@cooljammer00 said:

Well, I'll do find a use for them

@eccentrix, have you considered adding a rating of how likely it is that something in the video will become a running joke/meme? For example, the Persona 4 ER video where Vinny casts Bufu would be a 20 out of 10, the Sunless Sea Quick Look would be a 0 out of 10, and Darkness Assault would be somewhere above 0.

@bisonhero: Besides meme popularity being kind of impossible to predict, I feel like so few Quick Looks provide running jokes that most videos would just have 0s, making the rating useless most of the time. I will continue mentioning quotes or events that might be referenced later so that people who encounter them elsewhere have some understanding of where they came from, but rating the videos' memeworthiness with a number seems less than useful.

This is a cool idea! I like it.

I don't personally glean any benefit from these, but I'm sure somebody does, and that's cool. Thumbs up brother