NOCLIP Pocket E88 - Incinerators Hate Him - Signalis

I’m sorry. I couldn’t keep my podcast. Welcome to Halloween! Our
favorite month of year for being our birthday month, it’s also time
for us to play just so many, many horror games, starting today with
Signalis. Signalis is an indie survival horror game, set in a
dystopian sci-fi world in which you play as a “Replika,” a robotic
servant, assigned to a pilot of a spacecraft. When laid out like
that, a lot about the game’s setting and plot don’t really seem
that remarkable. It’s part of the reason I think it’s pretty
difficult to really “spoil” this game in the traditional sense,
because Signalis is much more of a tone piece than it is a
straightforward narrative experience. Yes it has a plot, one that
has development and changes and satisfies in its own ways, but the
visuals, the cutscenes, the sound, all play into what really makes
this game special, in that it creates this eerie, uneasy sense of
not really knowing what is and isn’t real. And the other thing that
makes this game special is just how well it manages to pull off the
classic survival horror style. Limited inventory spaces, enemies
that reanimate if you haven’t burned them and specific save rooms
are likely pretty familiar to you at this point, but it hasn’t been
done this well in a long time. The game isn’t exceptionally
difficult, per se, but that classic Resident Evil feeling is
definitely there, as you make progress through zones you need to
plan routes through as you begin to memorize them, solving puzzles
and making tactical decisions about which enemies to kill and which
to run away from. It really hits both of its points of focus dead
on and is a horror experience I’d recommend to nearly anyone. We’re
going to be talking about the game’s clear inspirations and what it
does to mimic or improve on their systems, the plot of the game and
how it gives you enough to make a certain type of person really
want to engage further with it, and we put our belief in the
eternal universality of waifus. Thank you for joining us again this
week! We know our output has been somewhat diminished recently, but
we will get through four horror titles this year even if we need to
leak into November a bit. Signalis came pretty highly recommended
from a number of people, so it’s good to see y’all have good taste
(please save some of that for Fanbruary!). If you haven’t played
Signalis yet, I do highly recommend, it’s a perfect game to get in
the mood for the season, likely more so than the other games we’ve
got coming up this month, so get on it and let us know what you
think down in the comments or over in our Discord, which is
actually where our next Pocket game is coming from. Next time,
we’re going to be talking about Midnight Manor, so we hope you’ll
join us then.