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Fear & Hunger, the cruelest RPGmaker dungeon crawler you've never played, has been getting some attention recently by the likes of Super Eyepatch Wolf and CDawgVA. In this video I explore how Fear & Hunger has slipped under the radar for a while and what makes this underground RPG such a hidden indie gem (if you have the stomach for it).
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Timestamps:
0:00 - don't even THINK about skipping my intro
1:51 - AtlasVPN
3:18 - Video Essay Meta
4:05 - Unfair
5:04 - Bizarre
5:37 - Actually Fair
6:48 - Saving/RNG
7:21 - Infection
7:58 - Wiki
8:57 - Infection pt. 2
10:07 - Combat/Squad Members
11:24 - Fear & Hunger
12:30 - Characters
13:22 - Girl
14:07 - Cahara
14:50 - Enki
16:16 - Le'garde
17:16 - Moonless
17:44 - Nas'hrah
19:59 - Outro
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16:10 yes you are. You are rewarded for showing "love" to the corpse
i think if he made cute moans that wouldve been awesomesauce
Play Ragnvald, start the game n keep going to the bookshelves right at the start and looting em, (takes like 1 min)using ur lucky coins, in like 1-5 tries you can get an empty scroll. Use it, 1st verse: O LORD 2nd verse: GIVE 3rd verse: RING OF WRAITHS. Go save at the first time bed, and keep looting random stuff till u get the eagle shield. (if u don't get it, steal from the iron shakespere and get another empty scroll and use the code to get it) Quickly go to cahara, just 1 tap his head n kill him, take his soul, use it on the hexen table at the start, get his skills. Get steal, go to trortur, cut off his arm, he's helpless, steal from him the vault key, kill him. Go to the secret vault that'll reveal ull see if u light all the torches in the area trortur is (also at start of game) Get the penance armour/helmet (Berserk armour) put em on, (will make u bleed forever, but the ring counteracts it) With this armour, the shield, the ring, you're pretty much invincible tanking dmg wise, and it makes you immune to everything but bleeding and burning, meaning u can't lose limbs or nothing. You'll also never have to deal with hunger as u can just eat all ur enemies, enjoy lol. Congrats, ur guts.
there's only two types of enki fanart. Decrepit Ghoul and Gorgeous Twink
Honestly he is both, yanno.
hes both
Make sense cause like nosramus said alchamist like enki and him/her are hard to know if they are a man or a women base on facial features and appearance
2 states of being
He’s both and it’s a very interesting combo
Fun fact: This game was actually a product of the creator's master thesis on horror in video games
I think it's time to call Fear and Hunger "The new Pathologic": watch 3 different video-essays about it counts as play and complete the game.
lol i couldn't agree more
They're both worth playing though
@@Nechrome9 Fuck no i have self esteem
There's a surprising number of parallels between Fear and Hunger and Pathologic. Both have multiple characters with different routes and endings, with the characters you don't pick being NPCs. Both have difficult to avoid semi-permanent status effects that make your playthrough exponentially harder, and both will probably kill you in the very first combat encounter, which is probably best to avoid entirely.
@@DOG_EATER_1887 🥱
The crucial part I think you're missing is experimentation. Ex. That zombie enemy that gives you a lot of trouble? You can literally kill it without getting hit with the talk action.
DRAMA [Formidable Success] I would often go there..... ....to the tiny church there
the problem with experimentation is that u can't save before trying something because there are designated spots to save and then if you want to try different things you have to walk all the way back every single time
@@zaketenyu1932thats part of the game. You will not succeed on your first run. Try to experiment with our character until they break, then start from the beginning. It is frustrating, but also very rewarding.
@@zaketenyu1932 yep, thats why i only fuck around experimenting if i did little or no progress after the latest save. if i have a lot of progress i prefer to look out for a place to save the game.
The zombie still attack You and give You an infection
I'm a simple girl, I see my socially-inept, chaotic-neutral bug-wisperer Enki and I click.
Enki is my favorite protagonist because he’s the only guy with an ending that leaves you content if you sit on it for a little
Mood
Just an FYI, to cure infected limbs you can equip and the unequip the Salmonsnake Soul on a character. However, you need to beat the Salmonsnake first and use a soul stone on it's corpse. So there are unlimited infection heals, you need to earn it.
This sounds so fake but it's probably real
@@Shireke01 it’s real, its how I beat my first run w/o any characters losing their limbs from infection. It’s cheese, but I beat the salmonsnake with Ragnavaldr, moonless, and the girl
In my book there is no such thing as cheese in F&H, only out-bullshitting the game
@@Shireke01 Remember that if a character dies with the Salmonsnake Soul equipped, you will lose it.
@@Shireke01its real, it's also often used with the Funny Penance armor
This is something that's been sitting in my library, taunting me. I don't remember why I bought it, and I don't know if I even want to play it, but I'm glad it exists.
yeah its that "own but never play" type of game
It just looks at you like a unsatisfied wife after sex. ‘That’s it??? Are you not going to do anything with me??’
@@svolozhanin7627 and then the wife r***s you with the aggression of a bear. That is the game.
Learning fear and hunger is like learning a bike without training wheels, no brakes too, no handles as well, no front wheels, might as well take out the back ones too, you know what? No seat either, you just got a metal rod up your ass and have anal bleeding, that's fear and hunger. But for real, of course it's popular in Russia. Truly a painful experience.
You can always save fairly, if you killed all the enemies in an area.
oh i didnt know that
...WHAT
wait WHAT? REALLY?
@@ianmaeda5938 Yep that is correct
It's true, you'll still have to pass a coin toss though. Or your character will be to afraid to sleep
super eyepatch wolf stole 1.2 million views from me i am so mad 😡😡😡😡
@@compinku so true anyways see you in 6 months
@@chromerot NOOO NOT 6 MONTHS AGAIN
Daaaaaaamn, I'll remove that person from this planet.
I bet you just played through the whole thing and then made this video in 10 days just to steal his views smh
@@alvin_row for sure
If you really wanna go into some untapped material try the sequel, fear and hunger: termina. There’s even less content and info surrounding that game, plus I think it makes some quality of life changes that the first game sorta lacked
im good on f&h for the rest of time
@@chromerotfair enough, though personally I would recommend Termina to more people than the first game
@@chromerot it’s also easier than the first game and you don’t need to toss a coin to save anymore
Termina is in an interesting place, where polishing and streamlining original F&H might have hurt it. F&H is noticible for it brutal difficulty and unfair game design, so tonning it down kinda cheapens the expirience. Or so it seems to me, from how much attention first game get, and how little second. Aren't that a pickle to suck on?
@@chromerotTermina is better than the first...
the worst part is that the wiki is fucking wrong like 30% of the time, youtube is mostly safer with correct info
For some reason I keep seeking more info about this game but I can't bring myself to actually play it, despite it slowly taking over my mind and kind of sort of driving me insane slowly but hey that's just another mental illness on the good ol' brain meat so its got some friends in there.
tbh just watching vids about it is just as good as playing it
I would honestly play it because it is very rewarding to overcome the game, and since you know a lot about it, it's going to be a lot easier for you. Generally if you get to the point where you have a few party members the game becomes a LOT easier.
@@leonsegade-garcia2936 watching vids it's better than playing ngl
I going to play termina eventually. I already got to many spoilers for the first game.
I'm all for Fear and Hunger content. Finished Termina and it was a great and haunting experience
It was fucking bullshit, a heroin child soldier didnt know how to sprint until he read COMBAT MANUAL after the war.
I’m still going through termina right now. I don’t know how it’s kicking my ass this hard but literally can’t stop playing it
@@GioGioPietromica425 To me its still easier than the first one.
@@whoareyoutoaccuseme6588 good for you 👍
@@GioGioPietromica425 termina is a crazy ass game I tried beating it in one day my first play through and it literally drove me insane 😭😭
Them: "Attractive enki isnt real he wont hurt you" Enki:
have you SEEN the portrait in his s ending? i'd smash so hard holy shit.
He won't hurt me, he'll treat me right 😩
@@marseillejoh I can fix him 😫
As if Enki isn’t normally attractive
I have a tip for you, I've been playing the game for a few months and I only recently found this out. Zombies were always fking up my runs even with how good I got. If you talk the zombie and tell him prepare to die they stop attacking and will die afterwards if you tell them they're a product of necromancy. The later zombies only stop attacking for a moment
Also yellow mage strat is to take 1 leg out because after that they can't use hurting anymore, then take an arm out. If its on T&S or hard mode you have to take the both arms out. This will let you get the Eclipse talisman without the mage fighting back. Then the head, body shots are pointless because yellow mages have high body HP.
Thanks!
I love the dev of this game. His only two games are both horrific and fantastic times
YESSS KZheadrs are starting to notice this game, the bad thing is I don't think they would make a video about this game because of reasons that KZhead obviously would not like. Like the ever mention tags that game has XD.
yeah i'm even a bit late to the wave, wish i uploaded earlier cause i started working on the vid like 2 months ago. and yes i did my best to not go in detail about the explicit parts but you never know with the algo gods lol
You can perma sleep in the tower bed without fighting the skin granny, you just have to do it in the present world.
Fear and hunger is a one man solo project and he made it for a college class and even wrote his thesis paper on his game. Last year he made a sequel to his game.
I saw Enki in the thumbnail and already knew what time it was. Seems the masses are learning about FH
Brilliant to see the recent burst of Fear & Hunger videos.
still don't know why it happened, I feel like I've known about this game for years... maybe I've gone insane
My favorite part of the game is how it let's you make objectively bad decisions like jumping into a latrine.
Thank you for exposing the game essay meta, that shit is so annoying.
see, games are called games because you play them
I've watched so many of these types of videos about this game, and I'll never get tired of the suffering and awe you all seem to go through. Truely delightful. Also, if you struggle with hunger... just become a cannibal.
you mentioning the seven second rule made me realise just when you started recording this and how long it took to finish
Surprised you didn`t talk about "the guard scene"...
Oh yah, the weirdest thing about this game is you can combine 2 characters into 1 on a ritual circle, to do it ofc you just need 2 characters ofc and "make love", and do not mean like a kiss your partner and some magical stuff happen, no you literally just gonna "go down" with your partner and you will see a cut scene of them doing "making love" until thye umm... proceed to fused together and become "MARRIAGE" :) Not as beautiful as I thought it was the first time I heard of this lol.
one of few RPG realism horror game where killing an enemy rewards you by surviving another day, it discourages you from fighting haphazardly and i think thats a pretty cool concept
I know nobody can expect you to be an expert at this game after a few days of playing, but you're getting some things wrong. No big deal, just pointing it out. Appreciate the video anyway, the game is a gem. And yeah, it can be pretty annoying as well. Just to be that guy and go 'well, actually...' real quick; there's 3 beds you can make completely safe. The one you already mentioned, the one with the crow statue after killing the Crow Mauler and the one just before Trotur, if you defeat Trotur and every Guard on the floor. You can save the game at all of those without risk, once you killed the specific enemies. Also, infection (and bleeding) is a joke if you know how to deal with it. Before you reach the caves, you need to use your herbs, true. But killing Salmonsnake and using a Soulstone on it will give you an accessory that cures bleeding and infection just by equipping it. So you can just unequip that from whoever and slap it on your infected guy/gal and you're fine. Permanent cure. I am aware though, that figuring this stuff out on your own can take quite some time. I don't expect every reviewer to know the game in and out. I actually like that knowledge is the one thing that makes you powerful in this game and the sequel. Most enemies you can kill without ever taking damage just by figuring out their attack patterns, for example. Combat is more of a puzzle than actual RPG-style fighting. Either way, sorry for writing a novel, lol. Just happy the game is getting more and more attention. Thank you so much for the review.
So for the infections, it's kind of a niche thing, but if you defeat the Salmonsnake you can put its soul into a soulstone, and equipping that to a character makes them immune to infections, and also cures any infection on equip, so it's an infinitely reusable infection/bleeding cure. It's also just really powerful because having it equipped also prevents limb loss. That's honestly what makes Fear and Hunger so fascinating. You don't increase your survivability by killing monsters, you get it from learning the game.
Love every single video you make. Amazing work as always
tysm buddy
Fun fact if you use the skill Talk with the zombies they will let you kill them, because they want to die
Can't wait to see you again in 2024 ! Honestly I don't really care how long it takes between videos
sure but 2 a year is embarrassing
i have put..... 70 hours.... into this game..... gotten 5 endings in counting..... spedrun the game even on stream...... AND I DIDNT KNOW YOU COULD RECRUIT MR FLYING HEAD TILL NOW
"High Level Enemy" Yeah this game has no levels. It just has enemies.
Both games are great ... Full of personality, with their references and inspirations on plain sight, but still original and special, unlike most of whatever AAA devs want You to consume
Welcome back
I’m really freaking glad that fear & hunger is getting the recognition it deserves!
watched Connor (Cdawgva) play it and someone described as "Berserk Undertale". Never have I found a more fitting way to describe it.
😂😂😂 Glad to see you back Mr. Rot, chromeboy, the great rotted one, etc.
mr aluminium smudge
got f&h a few months ago but finally got around to beating it once eyepatch wolf dropped his video... its just so engrossing somehow and i dont even care if i have to go through the same thing 13 times to get it right i just. Do. i cant stop thinking about it im kind of insane i havent even TOUCHED the other difficulties (except dungeon nights) and half the events but god its hypnotic. i dont even wanna say fun per se, like i feel as if i open the game, Get Posssessed for 4 hours, and then close it
I just recently dived my head into this game searching and oh boy, I still am unsure if I wanna play it myself I love your humor though, so i will be looking forward for more content ;)
NEW ROT UPLOAD WOOHOOOOOO
ah finally sex 2 the game
Blue Sin- Book of Maharb Infections- Salmonsnake soul Saving- Clear the area(with no enemies in an area you get a safe save I recommend Totrturs area cause it has the easiest enemies) Limb Loss- Guard, defense stance, or salmon snake soul
I really love your editing style, it's funny
thank you thank you 🙏
welcome back :) love the new branding.
yoo good to be back, and thank you so much 💙💙💙
I gotta say this video has great editing and commentary. Got me into the rabbit hole of this brutal sadistic game.. Scorpio’s dream. NEW SUB
Honestly, if I get lost in the F&H dungeons, I 100% get someone not coming to rescue me.
Entertaining video about what seems to be an interesting game. I know I can count on something fun and insightful every 6 months from No Cap.
Stepping on a rusty nail = Dies Cutting your own limbs = No problem
Very entertaining to watch hope you get 100k sub soon
are you gonna make videos more often? please, i love them
the only thing i can say is I'll try 😬
10:38 if you talk to the zombie and say "prepare to die" he wont attack back anymore
9:42 "excruciating" that sounds like a comb
Fear and hunger is honestly such an incredible game! I don’t really agree that you should google all the stuff you don’t know about tho. Fear and hunger is in my opinion a game about knowledge. Learning about the game and its systems is basically the progression. Each time you lose and have to go back the only thing you keep is whatever knowledge you gained. Eventually that knowledge will allow you to progress and beat the game. Also, many of the books tell you useful stuff. For example anathomia tells you about the different status effects. I recommend saving your lucky coins for bookshelves (especially in the beginning) and ALWAYS reading any new books you get. Also, going to the wiki isn’t always helpful, some of the info is incorrect (or at least it used to be on the old wiki, they’re switching over to a new site atm). Plus, reading the wiki might inadvertently spoil stuff. If you get stuck I’d honestly recommend watching a video on it, Frapollo usually has good tips but there are a few tip channels. Honestly I really recommend this game to anyone with the stomach for it and I’m so happy it’s getting more attention
I guess it's just how my luck went, but I swear whenever I had the girl attack an enemy's head, it was an instant kill more than half the time, she so rarely missed. It kinda became a joke that this musclebound cannibal barbarian of a man needs to be protected by a little girl in a mouldy black dress xD
THANK YOU, 2nd best video on the game and i'm really grateful that you talked about the random deaths and darker aspects (that people skip), i got an epiphany. I'm also relieved by how well executed it was, the others weren't, this left me wanting more.
2ND BEST???
@@chromerot You watched Eyepatch Wolf too... don't lie to me!
@@GustavoSilva-ny8jc i didnt actually, i was pissed off that he uploaded that exact topic before me cause i was working on the vid for so long so i didnt wanna watch it lmao
@@chromerot WHAT?! Plot twist 😂. Does the sudden attention to the game have something do to with Termina release? It just feels too coincidental.
@@GustavoSilva-ny8jc i think an older video on it started getting recommended to everyone, that's how i found the game and decided to play it. assuming its the same for SEW
Wiki is NOT always right. If you need some info, search it up on yt: there are like 3 channels that do ACTUALLY good guides
Chromerot upload LETS GOOO!
LFGGGG
And I thought Rain World was a torture game
Good to have you back! again
i deserve to be bullied 😔
One tip I learned is that if you press and hold shift when you select head or tail in the flip coin election it throws 2 coins, it is most likely to not fail (but it can fail sometimes haha)
I've got notifications on for your channel but KZhead didn't warn me about your video... Sad :( Anyway amazing work as always Chromerot, thanks for the great content and discoveries
ah that's such a shame, i have to start promoting my other social media more (twitch mainly), it's so tiring to constantly have to tip-toe around the algorithm without any clear direction. thank you for finding your way back anyways ;)
@@chromerot My pleasure! It'd be a shame to miss your content. I think I'm already following you on twitch but I don't remember seeing you there, I should check it out more often
9:24 Brilliant, and the ball comment 😂😂 Subbed
YOURE BACK !!!
YES
@@chromerot WEE :D
the videos great n all but when u plugged ur merch i was blown away. like holy shit. a youtubers merch that doesnt suck ass for once. havin a good time i rlly love the designs would cop if the price was localised in my region
god damn 🗿 that means a lot, honestly. i spent a lot of time tinkering with it.
I hated when during my run I kept having to reload because my repeated attempts to heal with the orgy rabbits and resaving afterwards kept failing because of that annoying coin flip mechanic. When I finally passed the coin flip for the healing and was almost at the save bed I realised I forgot to give Cahara a green herb for his infection when he died before I got to save… …he got the infection when I stepped on a rusty nail too. Its so easy to not notice those 😒 And another annoying gameover I got during that time was when I managed to heal but failed the saving coin toss so that bastard torturer guy came by and took Cahara away and tortured him to death. Sliced off his pee pee and everything. Its still a great game though. The gameplay is very interesting and I love how dark and morbid the game is. Though I’ve been getting through it with a guide so a lot of my game overs have resulted from bad coin flips.
a talented videomaker you are . got me hooked .
Thank goodness I have the bell notification for your channel just so I can get notified two days later 😀
youtube dot com is just a fantastic website isnt it
bro I really wish you could upload more frequently because istg you're one of the funniest and most interesting gaming youtubers I've ever watched!!! I hope youre doing well despite playing this godforsaken game and I hope your next upload wont be only in 2024 🥹 gonna binge your old vids after this one lmao take care dude 🫶
1:41 it's actually a diploma thesis project or something like that xd
My man has the most impeccable vibe on yt
This is my first time coming across this channel, good banter will come again :)
welcome ;)
1:07 need this beat for my next s-ending run
Great video about a video game I will never play but instead I will watch every video essay that I can find about it
Well, that explains all the Steam reviews I saw saying "Don't climb in the toilet."
with the ghoul, if you talk to it and tell it to prepare to die, it will beg for death and not fight back.
I skipped the intro AND the sponsor 😎
banned
have you tried talking to the ghoul and telling it you want to kill it? Bam turns from awful to literally the easiest enemy in the entire damn game
You REALLY need to try Fear & Hunger 2 Termina!
i will never touch this franchise again
2 recommendations for new players 1.- Got Frapollo on YT he has all the guides 2.- If you fight the Ghoul or zombie as he calls it in the video talk to him and choose "Prepare to die" he will stop attacking
Kid: gets pulled in the darkness and fuckin dies KZhead subtitles: "music"
4:46 i know you didn't just hit me with the "BRBRBRBREAK YOUR LEGS"
You can actually get Blue Sin by using Passages of Ma'habre just before the cave in. Always worth using an empty scroll to get Passages.
Id love to play it myself despite everything, I’ve seen countless tens of hours of content on it, streams, normal videos, video essays, reviews, and I can’t because I don’t have a pc or steam deck. God knows though as soon as I buy myself one that’s one of the first things I’m getting, especially since the games, 1 and 2, are so cheap despite the countless hours you can put into them both
I thought ur voiced sounded familiar and I forgot you changed your channel's name haha
this game is so amazing dude i just finished the ragnavaldr s ending which is so difficult but definitely playing another run
Prime content, like always.
Wasnt expecting the Yameii music in there. Fuckin love yameii and i also love this game a lot. Sick video
yameii in the building
Am I going insane or did you put Um Jammer Lammy music in the background of your Fear and Hunger video?
“And I had fun playing it, even though I hated every moment” I sub
10:40 did you know that you can say "Prepare to die!" to any of the ghouls(except the Mahabre ones) and they won't attack you?
just found your channel you’re really funny 😂
Found this video randomly and i was so entertained thank u
thank u phoobie
fear and hunger really brought be back into the rpg community its just so unique
I'm glad you're not dead, man. Glad you're covering this hidden gem, this game has been gaining traction since Eyepatch wolf made a video about it.
i actually refused to watch that vid even tho he's one of my fav channels because at that point i'd been working on my video for like 2 months while being very sick and i felt mad at myself bc of how long it took me to finish it lmaoo but yea there are a couple vids about the game that blew up like 4 months ago which gave it a boost in popularity
PS: you can safely save in any given bed if you kill all/specific enemies in the area