Yeah, laptops had floppy drives. Back when they were about as thick as that Dreamcast.

I’m guessing they meant to type “Salad”, hit the wrong key by mistake, and were too incompetent to fix it. I hope there’s going to be a Dalad Jelly t-shirt. That phrase is just inherently funny somehow.

not the new intro, Spoony ?

Great review. Yeah, I have never heard of Dalad Jelly either. By the way, what happened to the new intro?

Can someone who has watched the whole video confirm if there is a screamer? I really hate screamers. I don’t know if I can ever forgive Spoony.

Dalad Jelly must be what paladins eat, since obviously nobody knows what either of those are and dalad and paladin have same letters. Mystery solved.

the Dalade jelly this could just be a typo or a translation mistake or, you know they could just make shit upp :I

Whether they were mainly jumpscares or not, Resident Evil games were still fun.

I think dalad and jelly are two seperate words. Japanese eat lots of jelly, mostly with fruits in it. Dalad… I think it’s supposed to be salad, really.

Closest thing I can think of when it comes to Dalad Jelly would be Dallas Salad. Its gooey and goo and jelly are pretty much the same thing.
Though I seriously doubt they would use the Swedish word for coleslaw in a crappy Japanese game so that theory isn’t worth much.

Maybe the programmers made a mistake and typed in a D instead of an S? If you look at the keyboard, the D is right next to the S.

That Dalad Jelly bit was pretty funny (I have no idea what it means either). That has to be the single worst sound effect they could have chosen for the title card. I don’t think I’ve laughed at a sound effect that out of place since Deadly Premonition contained a squirrel that sounded like a monkey.

The closest I can come up with is “Doughnut Jelly”

To the best of my knowledge, Dalad Jelly could be a type of jelly made from the people in Dalad, a county in the Inner Mongolia region in China. Perhaps it is considered a delicacy, infamous for it’s taste and texture in China, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, and perhaps other countries in that area. It could probably be compared to us Americans with pizza. New York and Chicago pizzas are the most famous types of pizzas we have in and out of the United States but there are a few different kinds of pizzas that are infamous such as the Detroit style pizza. Likewise, jellies come in many different types in which grape and strawberry is the most known, most popular, and mostly used kind of jelly many of us know but there are of coarse other types of jelly out there that in some regions in the world would prefer and maybe even produce but most people would have never heard of, let alone taste. There is also another point I would like to make about jelly, that is I believe the people in East Asia could call jelly by different names rather than the flavors the jelly inhibits. Going back to my pizza analogy before, we call different pizzas by city names instead of the toppings and style that comes with it. So I must assume that in East Asia or local areas in that part of the world must call different kinds of jellies, jams, and maybe even jellos differently than we Westerners would call them.

Either that or it’s a typo.

YAAAY

I love you Spoony. ^___^

Dalad… all I find on that in relation to food is a vietnamese restaurant in Bangkok. But none of the reviews I’ve seen refers to a jelly from that place.

In other news, DALAD.svg is an image on wikipedia referring to “Diallyllysergamide” (or DAL) which apparently is a controlled (read: not widely available legally) psychedelic substance – and I could see someone theoretically cooking up some kind of LSDish Jelly.

But I think it’s merely along the lines of “hey, we got these letters left over from last night’s scrabble tournament. Let’s use them for a sign and confuse everyone.”

You okey, lady?

As soon as you asked, I instinctively came up with 7th guest and 11th hour

A few random thoughts:
1) Man, good thing we have these 6×7 Prison Cell Offices!
Really saved on the polygon count!

2) Love that “filibuster” style gameplay. I mean, who doesn’t love walking around in basically a broken version of The Sims? You can even go to the bathroom!

3) One of the developers really liked the Resident Evil and Parasite Eve games. He just didn’t like the best parts of those games.

Its just me, or Spoony looks alot like Egoraptor with that hair?… specially when he is laughing on 9:00ish

Did no one notice the Hot Drinks song for Spoony’s ring tone at the end? You know, the Wendy’s song?

That was hilarious.

Why the old opening, I wonder?

I just need the Hot Drinks ringtone…

Dreamcast eh? Well, it’s not horror but what about SONIC THE F**KING HEDGEHOG?! You know, the company’s MASCOT?! Since two of the best games in the series were originally FOR the Dreamcast.

You know…Noah and Doug have a similar problem of drawing jokes out too long, but for some reason, I find it hilarious when Spoony does it, and I find Doug’s grating. I think it’s because Spoony prolongs his jokes by attacking them from different angles, whereas Doug just keeps pounding the same thing over and over in a “GET IT?!” sort of way.

They put Sadako on hold…Would have loved to hear that phone call – “Seven dayssss…” – “One moment please, I’ll put you on hold.” And them – Greensleaves FOR HOURS.

The Dreamcast certainly died before it’s time, but I’d argue that the PS2 is a much stronger contender for “best console ever.”

You should check out 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors for the DS. It is a brilliant adventure game that is similar to the concept of The Cube or Saw. Glad you liked Eternal Darkness.

Nice to see you back. Really like your review. I’m pretty sure that Salad with a fancy S but the pic is so low quality that it looks like a D. Kinda like this http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag159/ravegarden/Dalad.jpg

I’m not a snob but The Dreamcast is very good if you know which games to get. Jet Set Radio is a legend in its own right, Evil Twin is one of the best platformers I have ever played, Skies of Arcadia is widely regarded as one of the best RPGs ever made, Toy Commander is a lot of fun, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 are great despite the Knuckles levels, Rez will melt your eyes with awesome, and I have never met anyone who didn’t like Space Channel 5 or Chu Chu Rocket. That isn’t all either, there is plenty of other stuff to play.

Plus it has one of the best light guns ever made so it is the best thing to play House of the Dead on.

Come on the “Dalad Jelly” thing is obvious. Look on your keyboard, the “D” is right next to the “S”. The guy who wrote it just misspelled it.

Resident Evil didn’t have just jump scares, Spoony. There was a lot of creepy stuff in the early games. For instance, there’s that journal you find of one of the Umbrella employees in Resident Evil 1 which slowly goes through the guy’s disintegrating mental state as he turns into a zombie.

Two words, “Itchy, tasty”, have never been more horrifying.

In Resident Evil 3 (I think… it may have been 2) there’s all those little notes around the Police Headquarters that talk about the creepy predilections of the police chief. They talk about how Umbrella basically was feeding the insane, murderous, psychopathic desires of a sadistic rapist because he’d keep the police force under control and Umbrella’s secret.

Stuff like that was all through the earlier Resident Evil series and were the best parts of them.

I’m pretty sure that “splorch” sound effect was the same one used in Sim Ant whenever a new source of food appeared on the map.

Dalad Jelly: My best guess is that it’s a bad engrish translation of Jello Salad. Jello is a brand, so it’s not really known outside the US, so calling it “jelly” makes the most sense, and then the D is right next to the S on the keyboard- so it’s probably just a typo that got left in. I don’t know, maybe the Japanese programmers thought Jello Salad was a huge thing in America. Or it’s an inside joke about the weird stuff Americans eat. XD

Very excited for the rest of this. I’ve wanted to see this reviewed for a long time.

*I* know what dalad jelly is.

…But I can’t tell you. The truth would drive you mad. And I can’t do that.

What are those Final Fantasy VI characters sprites behind Spoony? Is it homemade?

Condemned: Criminal Origins is another very scary game.

You’re wearing a wrist watch. Why does Spoony wear a wrist watch? What have you done with Spoony?

It’s kinda funny coming off of watching Two Best Friends Play Resident Evil and hearing Pat gush over the value of fixed cameras and tank controls, then coming here to Spoony bashing them. I think it would be fun to see those two play or just discuss a Resident Evil game, given how radically different their opinions are on it.

Someone should play this on an emulator with high resolution. That’s the only way to see the “Dalad Jelly” sign clear.
Also, Spoony actually likes Resident Evil 4. He said “Resident Evil 4 is good. I liked it and played it to death” in one of his old vlogs. I guess he just doesn’t like the old survival horror ones.

love your shirt, it’s even in Cane’s favorite color :)

Nocturne (not the Shin Megami Tensei series) and the first Blair Witch game are good. Made by the same people, incidentially.

I myself wouldn’t call the RE series scary. Personally, I have not played any of the games you listed, but one of my favorites is Dead Space. If you yourself don’t like it, fine. I personally find it scary. The atmosphere, or literal lack of atmosphere, was well applied and I liked how even though Isaac Clarke didn’t talk at all in the first one, you could tell that his psyche was getting bombarded left and right having to fight against these horrific abominations with nothing but actual tools. Coming across all the horrific fates of the crew of the Ishimura and being betrayed by someone whom he thought was a friend and given false hope about his girlfriend being alive. Plus, I loved how they did the space bits. But that is just me and my own personal preference.

I’m wondering, would Parasite Eve be considered a horror game? I mean, sure, it’s an action RPG that relies more on the story than the gameplay to be good (although the action itself isn’t poorly done.)And it does get bogged down with a lot of science jargon and theoretical genetics. But there’s a lot of decent body and creature horror throughout.

SWEET shirt, Spoony! “In The Mouth of Madness” is my favorite horror movie!

Seriously, Fatal Frame series is better than the Penumbra series. I can be fair, having played both.

I’m told the early Siren games were actually creepy.

The Clocktower series has always been really fucking tense, especially if you liked SH4, which kinda felt Clocktowerish thanks to the unkillable baddies.

You’re really missing out with not playing those. You should go back and give em a try. Review em.
And while I’ve never played them, the Persona series always seemed vaguely horrorish, or have I been misinterpreting the whole demonic theme?

Nothing quite warms the heart like a Spoony’s laughter

Super funny review! Best part was the Rick Roll and your reaction to the weird splash sfx. As for Dalad Jelly, I really have no idea… The other categories are just so generic, like ”Drink”, so why is Dalad Jelly so specific? What the heck is it? Must have been some translation mistake…

Spoony, I live in a part of NY that was ruined from the hurricane. We had no power or heat and it’s been dropping to 45º or lower at night. Life has been hard for a lot of people here. I’ve seen things I won’t forget. We got power back today and I really needed my spirits lifted after the shit we’ve seen. Your videos got me thorough dark times in my life before and they have again. It really helped bring my mood up to watch this tonight and I can’t wait too see what else you’ll be putting out. Keep it up and stay awesome.

Awesome review Spoony! Just got forwarded this by a friend, and I’m not sure since there are no credits but I think the video used here is from my playthrough of the game. I only noticed because of the dancing and such when she’s in the office (that stupid bunnyhop is one of the many ridiculous things it has). I have no problem with that if that’s the case, it would be an honor considering I’m a huge fan of your show :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYlsCQJxuLo

When I did this game a few months back I had heard it was bad, they weren’t kidding. Granted it’s not the worst game I’ve ever played (that is reserved for “games” like Virus: It Is Aware), but it’s pretty bad in parts. Thankfully, the background music actually gets better later in the game. The downstairs lobby (from where you can’t go down) is probably my favorite (if I’m remembering this right at least). The bosses are plain stupid, especially the one right before the end heh

Awesome review Spoony :) My friend forwarded me this and I not 100% sure but I think the video used here was from my playthrough of the game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYlsCQJxuLo

I have no problem with it if that’s the case, I think it’d be pretty awesome to be featured here. I’m a huge fan of the show and love your reviews :D

I had heard this was a pretty bad game, one of the worst in existence, but until I played it a few months back, I wasn’t sure if it’s just exagerated. But yeah, it’s bad, and at times very annoying. The bosses are dumb, the flashlight battery thing is cheap, and it didn’t make any sense when it was trying to connect to the movie. The loading times were way too long, the sounds didn’t make much sense, and the music was grating (though there were a couple semi pleasing tracks). Granted though, I’ve played worse games than this (try Virus: It Is Aware…. *shudders*), but not by much.

Anyway, looking forward to part 2, thanks for having such an awesome show :)

Also, I have no idea what Dalad Jelly is either haha. I was using S-video to capture the game, so it’s a bit fuzzy. I suppose if I had had my VGA to component converter working at the time I would have used that, but oh well

(sorry if this was double posted, I wrote something up but since I hadn’t yet verified email I think it deleted the original comment x.x)

S and D are next to each other on the key board. It was probably supposed to be Salad Jelly (even then it should be Jelly Salad but whatever) and they didn’t bother to correct it, because Japan I guess.

Perhaps “Dalad” and “Jelly” are supposed to be separate, just typed on the same sign. Might be far-fetched, but perhaps they really meant to type “Salad”, and instead of “Sauce” they wrote “Jelly” ? Anyway, your guess is as good as mine.

Dalad= Don’t Act Like A Dumbass

Jelly= Jelly

Subtle message by the game producers? Or crappy poor Engwish by translators who don’t double check the end project. Either way Spoony you’re screwed ^^ Happy Halloween!

ok yes Resident evil 1 isn’t scary but 2 and 3 are and not just the jump scares when you first play 3 and see the Nemesis for the first time you run your ass off only to have him hunt you down in the police station and the fact that you beat him countless times and yet he keeps on coming.

“Dalad Jelly” is obviously an Engrish translation issue. They clearly meant “Darad Jerry”.

Title screen. New game. Splorch!

That game went goofy faster than Illbleed.

Dallad Jelly was the name of an obscure Doctor Who villain. Prove me Wrong.

So you’re not a big fan of the 7th Guest? pity. I felt the doll room when the shadows started moving (and weeping) was one of the more terrifying moments in the gaming history, but you do validate your own list well.

Well. Dalad is the name of a Vietnamese restaurant in Bangkok. Perhaps they have a house specialty jelly that’s all the rage among pseudo gourmets, and the cafeteria cook has been ordering a stock of it to offer as condiments. Maybe that’s all he allows his cafeteria to be stocked with. You know those restaurants where the chef will only put mustard on a burger and NEVER ketchup? I think this is like that, just more extreme. Imported Dalad Jelly is ALL you will ever get for your… beef lo mein?

Well. I tried my best. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Yes Sadako is on hold on line one, Jason Vorhees is here to interview for a security staff position on line two, and we have a Freddy Kruger on line three who wants to volunteer for our sleep studies trial.

Resident Evil 1 was a werd point in gaming, we were rapidly phasing out FMV games but we still hd the super cheesy voice acting. In fact Resident Evil 1 was one of the very last games with FMV segments in it.

I completely agree with your assessment of eternal darkness. It seems like the reason that Silicon knights hasn’t made another game in the eternal darkness universe, is due to the huge flop that was Too Human (only game I’ve ever felt ripped off on). Hopefully someday, someway, we’ll have a worthy successor to Eternal darkness, unless of course the company is afraid of money and success.

Never even knew this existed… Intriguing.
As for the virtual reality thing.. Looks like they incorporated some of the plot from the 3rd Ring book Loop.

My favorite Dreamcast games were Phantasy Star and tony hawk 2 =/

WOW

The closest I’ve gotten to the DALAD JELLY is this:
1. In Japanese there’s no R and L sounds, only something in-between
2. Salad is written as sarada (I’ll spare you the kana)
3. Now, there’s no “darada”, BUT there’s “dara dara” which is an onomatopoeia for something dripping – like a jelly that’s melting.

So it could be “dripping jelly”. It’s a long shot, but it’s SOME explanation. -v(^_^)v-
Also, I don’t know if you did it on purpose, but her apologizing to her superiors for everything is a very Japanese behavior. Especially for O.L.’s, which from what I heard is the most likely position a woman can get in any Japanese corporation.

Speaking of “Salad Jelly” my mom makes it every Thanksgiving. Like Spoony I can’t see why anyone could possibly eat that stuff.

I find it more funny that “Drink” gets it’s own spot, nothing specific like tea or coffee…just “Drink”

Hehe, you know another thing that was both horrible and awesome about this game is that by default the main character has a predilection to auto-aim at crotches of monsters when shooting :p

CLONE, clone

This is out of faint memory i think i’ve seen somewhere a picture or something of a laptop with a floppy unit. Otherwise funny video it made my day. :D

duuude. the dreamcast is the greatest system – to us fighting game fans. Arcade perfect ports of third strike, mvc2, and other games. power stone was awesome to. i guess if your not big on fighting games though, i could see how one might overlook the dreamcast and its greatness

So Resident evil wasn’t scary Spoony?

Well I’ve got two words for you, “Itchy, tasty”,

Wait. 18:00. Does Tina Turner have a Hitler ‘stache?

My guess: “Salad AND Jelly” wouldnt fit into that texture and the desiner just didnt care… or spoke english that well. Or maybe they ment “fruit salad jelly”

You ok, Spoony?

Holy shit dude, I was having the worst day, this really hit the spot and cheered me right up. Thanks man.

Also laptops did have floppy drives. I had a 386 laptop that I used to play Wolf3D and Commander Keen on back in the day.

great video noah, and to answer your question near the middle about laptops having built in floppies. Yes there were laptops with them. I actually have one setting in my living room propping up my 360 so can just reach down beside my chair to put a new disc in.

Well, even if google could tell me what “dalad jelly” is it won’t now. Now if I try to look it up it just gives me a quote from this review.

Hey not all Resident Evils are bad, 4 is awesome and 2 was alright, okay one was bad and so was 3 and 5, and zero makes me want to stab myself in the eye with a salad fork, but at least 4 was good.

lol that sound just instantaneously reminded me about the Toonstruck

One of your best yet Spoony. It’s like a throwback to your old style of review. None of the theatrics, just pure rage and humor. I like both styles of work, but this is just fantastic! Can’t wait for part 2.

I’d like to point out that the Dreamcast wasn’t the best for it’s game library (though it did have a few great games), but it was just the best tech of that generation of console that sadly didn’t get the support it needed to sustain itself. What’s funny is that now long after it’s death, it is being supported now by the small devs.

Has that Tina Turner lookalike have a Hitler moustache? =O

S and D are close together on the keyboard, just sayin’…

“Why did anyone like Resident Evil?”

Because not everyone has the same pitifully obscure tastes and unreasonably high standards as you, you cyber bully. Some folks get enjoyment out of shooting zombies and mutants, and even bad voice acting. It doesn’t make them life unworthy of life.

I hope Part 2 comes out soon and this doesn’t turn into another “deadly premonition”.

Any how about the Jump scares. Isn’t part of being scared being “startled” and caught off guard? Things that are scary aren’t scary because they are “expected”. They’re scary because you’re “unprepared” for it. It like going to the Zoo and seeing a lion. You pay your ticket, you go to the lion cage and you look at the lions, it’s not scary at all because you know that’s what you were going to do and see. However, try waking up and have one of those lions standing over you. That be scary because you weren’t expecting that. I disagree with the jump scare theory, As a die hard horror fan I find the best movies to be one that has a combinations of both “suspense” and “jump scares”. The movie that’s able to put you into the characters shoes and feel those emotions like that is the best. Without the “startle scares” it’s just suspense. I think you have building “suspense” confused with “engaging the audience”.

12:20 Insert the music from Halo xD

You okay, lady?

Actually iT’s supposed to be Baked Jelly, it’s just really hard to read…
Source: GameFAQs

Yes, in the 80′s and 90′s there were indeed 3.5 drives on laptops. 1.5MB was actually quite a bit back in the 16 bit OS days. Up until about 1995 even 1TB drives were still rare simply because the operating systems of the time usually couldn’t even count that high. This is back when Doom came on 2 3.5″ 1.5MB floppies, and required a bare minimum of a 386 and 4MB of extended memory.

The advent of newer 32 and 64 bit operating systems means that each instruction to the processor has to be exponentially larger in size. Also, the high definition content that’s in games and systems now take up far, far more memory and drive space, so the 3.5 disk and even the venerable LS120 disk are more or less obsolete.

a simple text file can be absolutely massive and still fit on a 1.5MB disk.

Darkseed, Spoony. Please. Darseed. Crap in my pants game, without jump scares. Just a bizarre and awkward setting. Please, review this game. A game where you’re nobody, getting an alien thing by Fedex… on the first scene… Please Spoony, review this game. I couldnt finished because this game was freaking hard. Let me see wat happens after you go to that other place (dont want to spoil it before you do). PLEASE. DARKSEED!

People liked Resident Evil as, at the time it was new, refreshing and an original concept.

Of course this only applies to people that never had a PC and/or played the Alone In The Dark series.

It was the advent of “3D graphics” (again for people that didn’t have a PC). People didn’t care about bad voice acting back then. We were playing a zombie film…essentially.
Was it “scary”? Not really, it was gory and violent…and that is what we liked about it.

To go from playing Super Mario World on the SNES to Resident Evil on the PS was seminal…at the time.

What amazes me is not that the original RE was liked so much at the time as that is understandable…at the time. What stuns me is how/why RE is still popular today with it’s inane action gameplay.

We are on RE 6 now and countless spin-offs, etc. The games are dull. It’s a franchise that should not have lived beyond RE 2.

Does anybody like ClockTower or Forbidden Siren?

Hearing that cop say “You okay, lady?”, I was half-expecting a weasely guy to pop up and say “Special forces?!”

I lost it in zero seconds.

Brilliant.

If we’re going to talk about decent horror games, though: Clocktower for the SNES was good. Very fun, randomized events, and multiple endings. Find a translation patch for a rom copy and off you go. I also enjoyed Yahtzee’s Chzo Mythos games, but the finest one among them is Trilby’s Notes. It’s a genuinely disturbing Lovecraft-esque adventure game controlled entirely with a text parser interface, and easily the most polished and best looking of the tetralogy. I also enjoyed the first game in the series, 5 Days a Stranger, but I wouldn’t call it scary. It’s more of a thriller/murder mystery inspired by Jason Voorhees, and the puzzle mechanics got to be a bit obtuse as the game progressed, but I still enjoyed the game’s atmosphere and story while it lasted. Love the music. The sequel, 7 Days a Skeptic, can be considered laughably bad, but it takes place in space, has a lot more gore that its predecessor, and a lot more death, so YMMV. Finally, the fourth game, 6 Days a Sacrifice, wraps everything up with a questionable use of science and eldritch shenanigans; not as spooky as Trilby’s Notes, and without having played it you won’t get what’s going on. The characters are much less relatable.

What, no 7th Guest? :D

That actually wasn’t a floppy disk. It’s an MO disc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MO_discs

Speaking just for myself, I liked Resident Evil not for its scariness (which didn’t exist) but more for exploring and slowly uncovering the story of what happened. Also, I played Resident Evil 2 first, then the first one, so I think that might also have something to do with it. Anyway, Resident Evil is a clunky but fun game to me.

This is an homage to Armake21 isn’t it? :DD

I think you should go to this restaurant and ask them for Jelly…

http://sanitykeeper.com/dalad-vietnamese-restaurant-for-vegetarians-in-bangkok/#.UKCGbIaPy4d

Yes!! Game reviews: Spoony at his finest!

So, idk if anyone else has problems, but these videos are unwatchable to me because of this player. These need uploaded to Youtube with a fury… And Spoony, as a long time fan, fix this stupid shit so I can watch them on YOUR website, not youtube. smh

i dont get it? how is resident evil so high up in gamers lists when it sucks so much cock? it will always be a mistery to me

Eternal Darkness was AMAZING!!
And was anyone else creeped out by the fact that Meg just had this vapid grin on her face throughout the entire game? <.< That was kinda freaking me out more than anything else.

don’t forget about slender

OOHH! It’s BAKED JELLY! WTF How did they fuck the sign up!

BTW: a friend (girl) of mine was arguing with another friend of mine and she starts crying. I tried the “You ok, lady?” thing and another friend (who also watches TSE) laughed his ass off… Now I know how a slap across the face feels. But it was worth it.

little tip, look at you keyboard, d is next to s… is salad jelly

I like you, Spoony, but you DO NOT FUCK WITH SHENMUE!! I’ll admit that the game’s not for everyone, but if you’re patient enough to play through it, the game is pure genius.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dalad%20Jelly

http://www.hiroshima-gas.co.jp/good/honoh/recipe108.htm　← Salad Jelly
Dalad Jelly does not exist. Baked Jelly, also, does not exist.

The thing and dirty harry were my favorite, but the toilet monsters have put this one at the top.

Yes, they did come with floppy drives. I’ve got one running windows 3.1 on a 43 meg HDD. It also has a 14.4 modem card. Amazingly, it still runs. And it’s in color (srs bsns back then)

laptops had floppy drivers, but really, freakin’ old ones :P

Alan Wake was a great horror game

I’m a bit sad that Spoony didn’t mention the Fatal Frame series.

All 3 Thief games have segments that alone are scarier than pretty much every full horror game ever.