STASIS: BONE TOTEM Review
STASIS: BONE TOTEM Review
STASIS BONE TOTEM brings you to the terror of the deep sea after deep space, where the ancient ones await alongside fleshy manmade horrors and malevolent AI.
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00:00 – Intro
00:19 – Standalone Sequel
00:52 – Game Premise
03:18 – Visuals
08:40 – Music & Sound Design
11:30 – Gameplay Mechanics
14:19 – Story
16:14 – Story (SPOILERS)
36:55 – Conclusions
37:47 – Credits
38:53 – Voices
#gaming #games #stasis
UPDATE – A NEW BUILD WAS PUSHED AND THE MEANINGLESS AI CLUES HAVE BEEN OBLITERATED. They’ve apparently had this build “a while” but test thoroughly hence the sudden release.
BONE TOTEM on GOG – gog.la/rattlemebones
THE LIST – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_K3ziSxT9zcUUGCddS4sF1uNJTWHSbOwB1CQX2Rx4Uo
“I-I-I got this feeling, yeah, you know
Where I’m losing all control
‘Cause there’s magic in my bones *Marv scream*”
Glad to see a South African game reviewed by you. We don’t make much here so it’s cool to see.
Amogus
No hints on the Halloween video yet, eh?
You did not respond to my Email regarding the Ghost Master Episode on Halloween.
The “hello, my name is Moses, what is your name?” Over the radio followed by a “oh god, he’s found another corpse” is both deeply unsettling and excellent storytelling
Moses is an absolute gift of a character. And a very brave bear.
Imagine not knowing what a corpse is or even the concept that someone could die and finally seeing one in person that would be horrifying
@Spartan X92I don’t think it’d be scary if you don’t understand the concept of death. More likely it’d just be very confusing as to why the person isn’t moving.
I almost laughed but yeah that’s awesome.
Moses: Hello Another Corpse. I am Moses.
Mandy is taking this spooky season very seriously. 2 horror game reviews in 2 weeks and it’s not even October.
boy does mandy delivers horror with some titles.
this is like watching old universal horror movies at noon
This fall is gonna be great.
Either that… or he found an adventure game/series that is absolutely insane, and is getting spooky out of the way now.
@TheDrLeviathan He always had a thing for adventure games with a bizarre art direction.
Halloween is having to take refuge in light of the Christmas invasion
“Heaven is real and it’s also Amazon prime” I’m not sure I was ready for that statement despite it being a stasis video
Rather shallow version of heaven.
As a Christian myself, I think that’s legitimately the most terrifying concept I can conceive of.
That’s easily the scariest thing I’ve heard recently.
that sentence filled me with such overwhelming dread I need a drink at 10am
It would have been scary if a material implant transferring your “consciousness” into a virtual reality seemed even remotely, logically possible. Same with SOMA.
Seriously, it’s like game developers just read Descartés once and never look back. Never learning about the fact that the entirety of european philosophers, including nobility like the princess of Bohemia, essentially dogpiled on the guy over how nonsensical his dualism is.
Also, it doesn’t make sense. Assuming god does not exist, which this game implies. Do you really die if your “consciousness” is just transferred into another virtual world which is ultimately based in physical(non-idealist) reality? Isn’t that just immortality? If they can transfer consciousness why aren’t they creating biomechanical bodies for that consciousness?
“Grief is the final, most painful and purest expression of love.” I was not expecting to find solace here of all places, that line hits really hard as of now, but, in a good way, thanks.
Hope you’re doing okay, brother.
The Balenciaga bit fucking killed me. So true.
11:29 bruh, did you see that?
I was drinking soda and that bit made it go straight to my sinuses ahahahahaha
“You are Balenciaga, Harry” *Balenciaga intensifies*
we may have lost Hope, but we haven’t lost Balenciaga
“School for kids who can’t read well” got me too.
Calaban reminds me in a way of Sovereign from ME1. Inscrutable intelligence that views itself as so beyond humanity but still full of those so familiar emotions, and the voice is so damn close.
Funny how this channel covered enough games to make a pantheon of AI gods from it, from Durandal to Lowry
3 uploads in 4 weeks gotta be the most consistent Mandalore has been in 11 years
it been 11 year ?
Just checked, technically correct
@Up Luck haha you are old now! haha…. oh god…
Meanwhile his “other side” has been pretty dormant. I wonder what he is up to?
@LaifuHaikufighting the voices because he’s off his meds.
Literally just finished watching the first Stasis video damn this is a blessing
Praise Cayne 🙌
The callout about the visual elements as a statement of author intent immediately followed by the direct quote from the art book had me in stitches.