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Quick Look: Apsulov: End of Gods

The gods may be angry, but they sure as hell aren't as angry as that indignant robot.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Aug. 16 2019

Cast: Vinny, Alex, Abby

Posted by: Abby

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Apsulov: End of Gods

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Oh Sean Connery and Bjork guest starring

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Okay, the first 5 minutes of this seems terrific. Let's hope it keeps up.

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Her using the wrong hand every time is really annoying.

Edit: It's really a shame that the visual design isn't great. Inside the facility looks pretty boring and the other realms just look like low-poly biomes from actual Earth. The monster design is pretty good and I like the idea, but it's hard to take any of it seriously when the voice acting is sub-par basically across the board.

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Wow. 2027. Do you think the world will even live that long?

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I really liked SOMA except for all the monster stuff which I hated. This game seems to triple down on the monster chasing stuff to the point where I don't think I can play it. Also it does seem unnecessarily dark.

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@bathala: I would like them on the beastcast now

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Interesting usage of Norse Mythology!

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Edited By thello

The voice acting isn't outright bad, and it's largely (for the better) covered up with compression effects, but it does ride that suspension of disbelief line. This is a sound guy thing, I admit, but the breathiness of the Harlan Ellison AIâ„¢ in the mic is distracting, particularly when it shouldn't have lungs or vocal cords :P.

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I am getting a very Nostalgia for Infinity (Revelation Space) kind of vibe about these environments.

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Nice Brand from Berserk ripoff on the wall.

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Edited By L1fef0rm

I might try this.

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This seems neat. Thanks

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Edited By drkscyde

cool setting, but man... everything seems like a hassle

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I'd watch one of the GB crew play them, but I couldn't be able to stand playing this.

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I just want to read this story.

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Edited By Lazyaza

I like some of the ideas of this game and the presentation is neat but yeah seems to be a lot of misguided design that really reminds me of very tedious pc games from the early 2000s.

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okay something is wrong with easts audio setup because their audio is always so inconsistent in terms of mix... this is super quiet but like most other things are fine but the playdate was also quiet idk whats happening

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Random Norse Mythology References: The Video Game

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I would not be able to play this myself but would happily watch Vinny play it.

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If Abby is looking for robots programmed to play instruments, might I suggest checking out the band Captured! by Robots.

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@humanity: yup! I hate any game where I have to run instead of fighting/shooting monsters. Amnesia, SOMA, absolutely fuck that...

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@humanity: yup! I hate any game where I have to run instead of fighting/shooting monsters. Amnesia, SOMA, absolutely fuck that...

I actually decided to look up a playthrough of the game because I just wasn't going to play it and yah it's a lot of that. A lot of running but the puzzles aren't nearly as interesting as the ones in SOMA and, in my opinion, neither was the story.

The best thing SOMA ever did was include a mode where the monster chasing part is completely negated letting you get a scare, but then being able to progress to better parts of the game.

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@alex The game was talking about the spirit coming through and taking over their computers 2 mins before you were asking why they weren't explaining that. You were giggling about Vinny missing locks at the time. The whole fetch quest of the game seems to be finding keys to get rid of the angry spirit and presumably they talk some more about it later.

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I wish people would stop putting monsters in games like this.

I love the atmosphere and story and delivery and everything but running from monsters in the dark is such a tired mechanic.

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This has a real cool look and I like the story bits, but I agree that the whole "running from enemies you can't ever really fight" stick is overdone and boring by now. So I'll probably only get this in a sale or something.

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This is the sort of game I wouldn't mind watching Vinny and Abby play, but I would never actually play by myself.

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28:10 I'm practicing Mandolin while watching this video and Alex freaked me out for a moment

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The first few minutes of the QL made me think I'd like to try this, but by the 20 minute mark I'm definitely out. I cannot take the "run away from these one- or two-hit death monsters" shtick.

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This QL was hard to watch for me. I got instant motion sickness once it got really dark. Anyone else get this?

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me, seeing still: oh this is what hopsin has been doing

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Reminiscent of SOMA in all the right ways ... and unfortunately the sole wrong way: monster avoidance. Really wish it was just a doomy shooty or had full stealth mechanics so I could stomach playing it.

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@longevitous: yeah, I couldn't figure out what was happening for more than half the video

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This started promising and went nowhere fast. Looking at Steam reviews, seems this doesn't change. The beginning reminded me how much I love SOMA and sci-fi horror in general. Really wish we had another game like that. Or movie even. I looked up if any good sci-fi horror films came out this decade I missed and there really isn't any. Such an overlooked genre.

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@l1fef0rm said:

Nice Brand from Berserk ripoff on the wall.

Pretty sure those are runes rather than something from Berserk. With the whole norse mythology angle and all