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Skullmonkeys - monkey

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Skullmonkeys is a platforming game about a funny Klaymen trying to stop the destruction of the Neverhood by the villain of the first game. Yeehaw

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1 - science center
2 - monkey shrines
3 - hard boiler
4 - sno
5 - skullmonkey brand hot dog factory
6 - elevated structure of terror
7 - ynt death garden
8 - ynt mines
9 - ynt weeds
10 - ynt eggs
11 - monk rushmore
12 - soar head
13 - shards
14 - castle de los muertos
15 - the incredible drivy runn & worm graveyard
16 - evil engine #9
17 - the amazing drivy finn & 1970's
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Re: Skullmonkeys - Pan troglodytes

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this game is a powerful artifact
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as a monkey i can say i was born ready for this
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Re: Skullmonkeys - Pan troglodytes

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lmao just found this on tvtrope
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How involved was Doug Tennapel with the making of this game? I recall in the first that (I know raocow isn't gonna play it but spoilering it for everyone else's benefit)

the plot is a thinly-veiled religious allegory where Klaymen literally gives God his crown back and bows to him



Good news: he doesn't own the Neverhood et. al anymore! Bad news: Electronic Arts owns it now! I'm torn between cackling at the irony of Tennapel finally getting a taste of the "eternal condemnation" he's been wishing on LGBT people and that nagging voice in my head reminding me that Electronic Arts is far from deserving of the privilege of meting out justice. C'est la vie.
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Yup, this is still kinda terrifying. But in a fun way.

I don't remember the soundtrack being this bopping, though.
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KobaBeach wrote: 1 year ago lmao just found this on tvtrope
Guide Dang It!: A really heavy offender of this trope, thanks to the fact that not only it doesn't give several Camera Screw-based secret, but it also violates all common sense imaginable by starting the game from the second world. And making the first one available only through passwords.
What???
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Re: Skullmonkeys - Callithrix geoffroyi

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the waterfalls reminded me of alundra and wild arms for some raisin
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Re: Skullmonkeys - Pan troglodytes

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So, uh, if video 1 was world 2 then maybe it's best to give this heads up now... raocow, there's something you'll encounter within the next few videos that could be a potential phobia trigger. Specifically, world

5

has

a boss fight taking place on a flesh-and-bone platform (mainly spine and ribs) against a skullmonkey with a giant photorealistic head for a body, with one of its main attacks involving shooting the head's eyes out of its sockets.



A screenshot of the thing in question just before the last part of the above ispoiler happens:
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EDIT: apparently the skipped world is actually considered world 0, so the numbering isn’t off by one after all.
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KobaBeach wrote: 1 year ago the waterfalls reminded me of alundra and wild arms for some raisin
strongbadman wrote: 1 year ago What???
avant garde gayme design
Grounder wrote: 1 year ago def.jpg
i swear this is king's fielf or a graphical tech demo
Okay I looked into it and "world 1" is super short, like two sections with very little enemies and collectibles. I have no idea why it even exists, let alone why you need to use a code to get to it. It just feels like an intro stage they couldn't figure out how to slot in to make sense.
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Oh, a sequel to Neverhood huh :3c
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KobaBeach wrote: 1 year ago i swear this is king's fielf or a graphical tech demo
supposedly king's field, yeah
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Rixithechao wrote: 1 year ago So, uh, if that was world 2 then maybe it's best to give this heads up now... raocow, there's something you'll encounter within the next few videos that could be a potential phobia trigger.
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just gotta say while im bumping every single thread

@ raocow, your choice of thumbnail has been hounding me like a ravenous hellbeast all over youtube despite my attempts to outrun it and constantly scroll it away and i just gotta say, it's giving "that one episode where meltman was a giant/played by a human, and vomits on like the muscle one at one point" action league now vibes
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I must come clean
the thumbnail wasn't a youtube generated one. I hand picked that frame in premiere, because I knew.
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raocow wrote: 1 year ago I must come clean
the thumbnail wasn't a youtube generated one. I hand picked that frame in premiere, because I knew.
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TiKi wrote: 1 year ago How involved was Doug Tennapel with the making of this game? I recall in the first that (I know raocow isn't gonna play it but spoilering it for everyone else's benefit)

the plot is a thinly-veiled religious allegory where Klaymen literally gives God his crown back and bows to him



Good news: he doesn't own the Neverhood et. al anymore! Bad news: Electronic Arts owns it now! I'm torn between cackling at the irony of Tennapel finally getting a taste of the "eternal condemnation" he's been wishing on LGBT people and that nagging voice in my head reminding me that Electronic Arts is far from deserving of the privilege of meting out justice. C'est la vie.
this may be a bit of a silly remark but we feel like the given example kinda pales in comparision to the (also hi it's another neverhood spoiler)

hall of records literally being basically a bunch of parodies(?) of various bible stories. also note the question mark because for how born-again christian doug tennapel tends to be we generally recall the hall of records seemed a bit. Overly Dismissive? despite supposedly being by an actual christian.

granted this may be because we were Actually Unhinged Enough To Read Through That Thing One Day

also honestly something being owned by mr. tennapel vs. owned by EA is like choosing a stab in the leg vs. a stab in the arm. legally speaking this counts as a morton's fork
raocow wrote: 1 year ago I must come clean
the thumbnail wasn't a youtube generated one. I hand picked that frame in premiere, because I knew.
how dare you. mosts 2022 thread of "biggest fraud" and it is skullmonkeys ep 2 thumbnail inbound in like a half a year. we will not forget. (unless we do)
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camwoodstock wrote: 1 year ago this may be a bit of a silly remark but we feel like the given example kinda pales in comparision to the...

hall of records literally being basically a bunch of parodies of various bible stories.

The whole thing was a jokey retelling of the Creation myth, and borrowed a lot from the Biblical fall of man. A good chunk of the humor consists of bible jokes, and pieces of in-game lore even make fun of lesser-known offshoots such as Gnosticism (the belief that knowledge, rather than faith, is the key to salvation).
camwoodstock wrote: 1 year ago also honestly something being owned by mr. tennapel vs. owned by EA is like choosing a stab in the leg vs. a stab in the arm. legally speaking this counts as a morton's fork
I'm used to accomplished artists being that much of a disappointment in their personal lives; Phil Spector killed somebody, Jello Biafra ripped off his band, Anish Kapoor is an upper class twit, Captain Beefheart was a monster, David Byrne is David Byrne... I'm just pissed off that EA has chosen to sit on the rights in perpetuity, rather than shit or get off the pot (whether Doug gets any money from it or not) when there's still an audience. At best, they were expecting it to have a much bigger market than it was ever geared towards; at worst... they bought it just buy it, just to have one more thing other people could not.
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Re: Skullmonkeys - Cebus kaapori

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QuiEstFaba wrote: 1 year ago Phil Spector killed somebody
I thought this was Warren Spector and i was about to go insane

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Thie may be me misremembering something, but I seem to recall a pretty important feature of the phart clone: it can hit checkpoints, and Klaymen will respawn at that checkpoint when he dies. That means that if you don't have a halo, or if there are just a lot of pits in an area, it's worth using it if you think a part is or is going to be a problem.
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On the note, the smart monkey wrote:Thanks for coming, Klaymen, here, have a ballistic potato, it'll help. I used your eye as a homing beacon, I hope you don't mind. It's not like you used that eye anyway right? Don't worry about it, I keep my worm snacks in my skull too. Oh, speaking of snacks, do not eat the potato, it'll give you The Bumps.

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did rao name this boss?
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