Echo Night – When FromSoft Made A Horror Game
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[Timestamps]
00:00 – Introduction
01:53 – Overview
16:59 – Ending
20:36 – Closing Thoughts
[Music]
00.00 | Rainy Night – Hotel Dusk: Room 215
00.50 | Ace of Diamonds – Last Window: The Secret of Cape West
01.53 | Insomnia – Hotel Dusk: Room 215
04.20 | Outskirts – Night in the Woods
06.07 | Beauty and Dandy – Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
08.19 | Misty Time – Last Window: The Secret of Cape West
09.45 | Solitary Confinement Darkness Theme – Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
11.33 | This Mysterious Feeling – Persona 3
13.07 | Windy Street – Last Window: The Secret of Cape West
15.33 | Investigation Opening 2013 – Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies
16.59 | Courtroom Lobby New Prelude – Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
18.21 | Robot Laboratory ~ Unerasable Past – Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies
20.03 | Reinhold Manor – Professor Layton and the Curious Village
20.36 | Sunset Men – Hotel Dusk: Room 215
Huge thanks to Out a Bag for helping gather some extra footage!
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Can you play oneshot?
Video 3 of asking Ben to play OMORI.
Sign petition below me if want Ben to play OMORI.
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ECHO NIGHT VIDEO LETS GOO
YES ECHO NIGHT SERIES MENTIONED OUTSIDE OF A NITRO RAD VIDEO YES YES YES YES
With the amount of puzzle horror ghost games Ben has played and reviewed he might as well be in one of
Considering how old this game is, maybe the tropes it used weren't overused back then?
I love seeing old PlayStation games!- makes me think about what I had missed since I was either too young or not born yet to play these games…I still can’t believe I am even an adult now at college and never played these old games!-
…Third time- could you consider playing Purple from Scopophobia Studios?- it has a rating of 17+ but it isn’t even that bad- I know you have played games like The Hanging Man so I think it would be possible you could play this too!- I think you would like it and it’s from only two people!-
Feels very weird to harp on "overused" fantasy tropes in a game that came out in 1998. Especially while acknowledging the era when it comes to the control scheme. Going from your other videos to this, it felt very jarring how vehemently upset you were about fantasy tropes being overused in a game from 1998. Good video otherwise, though
I know how fromsoftware fans tend to over-speculate how every game they made was used to make the following ones but like to think that the dungeons in elden ring where you have to lure invincible shadow versions of basic enemies into a light in order to fight them was inspired by this game
Great video as always!
You should totally check out Dementium: the ward if you haven't! Short little survival horror on the DS thats far from perfect but surprisingly effective. It has a sequel too that I haven't played yet!
Cool I love that more people are covering the More obscure fromsoft titles because they all look really interesting.
i remember watching a playthrough of this game years ago, good game, about as scary as could be expected of a PS1 game (ambiguous origami foes), jfc tank controls (curse of the console, nothing to be done)
narrative is a bit confusing at times but i still enjoyed it
I thought this is Black Souls
Good horror game? Is eldridge horror considered a horror ? then Bloodborne is gor you
Oh, now i know why this game sounded so familiar. It's because way back when the SBFP played the sequel Echo Night: Beyond for the the Halloween series they used to do. Seemed like an interesting game; Your heartbeat being a healthbar of sorts, it taking place on the moon, etc.
I’d love to see fromsoft take the engines they used for the dark souls games, bloodborne, Elden ring, and sekiro to make horror games i promise they’d either make bangers or a….admirable attempt
babe wake up new ben again video just dropped
Soooo ur gonna make a review in the other echo night games
Wait, hang on, I think this is a game I've been trying to track down for years now! I remember that there was a video game magazine I had that had an article on this game, and I have been trying on and off to figure out what the hell game it was for ages because I haven't been able to remember/track down what magazine it was actually featured in.
This literally has all the things I remember in it, collecting the astral pieces, a boat as the primary setting, a mention that there were a limited number of curing potions, and a mention of three possible endings where you got the best ending by collecting all the astral pieces and not taking the knife…
When I clicked on this video I was not expecting to answer a lingering question like this. I guess I too will be able to pass on and hand off an astral piece to you for this video.
Personally- I don't see much of an issue with the Bad thing, Good thing plot element. Sometimes you just need a good pair of MacGuffins to write a tragedy for every victim involved in the chase for them- whether directly or just caught in the wake.
BUT GOD FUCK THE CASINO FUCK IT TO HELL
Now I simply wonder if youll be tackling the other games in the series as well
When you said that Echo Night is a horror mystery game and described the game play, it reminded me of the Spirit Hunter series (Death Mark, Spirit Hunter:NG, Shibito Magire/Death Mark 2)
Always good seeing some old horror games get some love.
Funnily the ps1 had 2 eras without the joystick then with.
Obviously the one with came later down the line due to the games like ape escape and Metal gear solid.
Tho still charming seeing how it looks without
Ben, when playing old games that were made literally before the 2000s don't expect an original plot XD literally most games, even back then, followed popular trends to get players to engage
this is literally like the 2nd or 3rd time you get annoyed at an "unoriginal" plot when the game is so old
This ben is again
how many games can you find that are about solving mysteries by helping ghosts pass on
how many games can you find that are about solving mysteries by helping ghosts pass on
I wonder if Ben is a persona fan; keep seeing persona ost's in videos lol
Will you consider making a video on the game "Antumbra"? its a text-based horror game that was so weird and interesting I spent way too long just trying to find a playthrough of it.(I couldn't remember the name). I recently remembered it and found out that the dev is working on a sequel. I hope that you at least consider checking it out, it's so unique and disappoints me that such a game will be forgotten after all these years.
Yo Ben, I think you´ll really like "I´m Scared"
(also nice plushy at 2:28 of yourself)
Fromsoft is known for soulsborne
cries in my Armored Core
Day 156 of reqeusting you to play Oneshot and your turn to die death game by majority also does youtube think I'm a bot on your channel with these messages me thinking of this day 25.
I honestly named every ghost i encountered after freeing them, and since there’s 26 of em, Yeah I used the alphabet. I’ll come back if I can find my old list
5:39 Had LEDs been invented yet in 1913?
You missed Demon Souls ,when talking about Dark Souls!
Early Fromsoft and clunky camera controls go hand and hand even their early ps2 games don't use the right analog stick to control the camera even though the console came with a dual analog stick controller.
this is the darksouls of horror games *cue laugh track*
The idea of hopping around time and space to help people would be explored again by FromSoft in 2018's Deracine.
Bloodborne is a horror game man. It was my first souls game and fear was always what killed me
Wait till u talk about the other 2 Echo Nights
LET'S GOOOOOOO us Echo Night fans eating with this! Echo Night is one of my favourite games of all time. I absolutely adore its sad and melancholic atmosphere.
Ben… based on what you said about Echo Night… you NEED to play Farewell Planet. It's a beautiful game where you go & fulfill the final wishes of all the robots (people? its never really made clear) in a village before taking them to pass on. It's a very short game (~4 hours I think), but its absolutely amazing. It has an incredible art style… It's just a really awesome game that is not talked about nearly enough!! (It's by the creator of BOKURA, by the way! That's how I found it :-])