SCRATCHES - THE CURSE OF JERRY
Added 2021-10-10 14:40:04 +0000 UTCIt's October, and that means spooky stuff!
I've wanted to cover this game for the longest time. I've also wanted to do a point-and-click again for less than the longest time but still a while. The last one was Blade Runner which was in January. Of 2020.
Scratches is one of those games I still have a physical copy of. The deformed jewel case in the video is a real picture of it. It feels funny because I'm 90% sure I bought it in the same Target that I bought Evil Dead: Regeneration in.
I feel like last year when doing Death Wish and Evil Dead: Regeneration, there was a lack of actual horror in the game selection. Both games were horror themed, but not exactly scary. Scratches is scary. The game that Senscape is working on now, Asylum, hopefully continues the tradition of scary adventure games. The genre of point-and-click adventure games saw a slight revival in the early-mid 2010's with Telltale's Sam and Max, Wallace and Gromit, and Back to the Future games. Then Telltale leaned hard into making games about sadistic choices after The Walking Dead did super well. I'm sorry Clem I tried so hard but I couldn't... I'm so sorry please forgive me
Not only that, but next time we're doing a real trash game, a botched 2000's horror shooter, and I feel like I haven't done a real trash game in forever either! Not since Alpha Prime. Unless you count Hexen. Or Redneck Rampage. Or the Hellraiser game. Stay tuned until the end to see some brief thoughts on the Fallen Aces and Postal: Brain Damaged demos. Been considering making short blurbs in each video about demos that come out because everyone asks me to play them and if I dedicated videos only to demos I'd only ever be making videos about demos.
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Comments
Kinda crazy seeing this game after so long. That part where that dude jumps out of the darkness at you still haunts me. Never knew it had more to the story though, first point and click I ever played and enjoyed. Cool, thanks for reminding me this exists might go back and revisit this one.
A Guy in a Jacket
2021-10-24 04:27:36 +0000 UTCWould you ever play the Soldier of Fortune series or System Shock 1 and 2?
Shaun
2021-10-22 18:22:35 +0000 UTCthere's one slavjank game I want to recommend but english voices are awful - Gorky17 - one probably can switch subtitle files tho
Karol Kowalski
2021-10-21 17:49:46 +0000 UTCWow Senscape is still working on Asylum? Already forgot about that game a long time ago, thatβs awesome. Also Scratches is probably scaryβ¦ but it really doesnβt come across as such in this video.
Zubaz
2021-10-13 18:40:14 +0000 UTCLove the video. Love your adventure game videos Civvie. You should do more.
Michael Cazares
2021-10-13 18:29:39 +0000 UTCI have used a rotary phone and they didn't model how it works correctly. You needed to rotate the dial all the way to that hook bit that covers the dial. ----- Nice fucking model! RING! RING!
CasualKitty
2021-10-13 00:43:10 +0000 UTCThanks for mixing it up. It's got me replaying this game right now, Good choice.
Jerom Sanders
2021-10-12 17:44:24 +0000 UTC*strolls by in a dark trenchcoat* Psst...https://steamcommunity.com/games/asylum
Sweet, Succulent Content Nectar
2021-10-12 08:39:20 +0000 UTCFor some reason it's giving me Realms of the Haunting vibes, by Gremlin. Now THAT is a weird yet fun game with heaps of FMVs all throughout. Awesome vid, Civvie!
2021-10-12 06:25:02 +0000 UTCOh hey, wasn't expecting this game! I liked it enough to back the game the dev team put up on Kickstarter, Asylum. And.... that was over 10 years ago :/ I don't really have much faith in them by this point.
Samuel Albert Mell
2021-10-12 02:33:34 +0000 UTCOddly enough I had a weird ad on YouTube few days back discussing the effects Thalidomide did back in the mid 1900s and how bad it effected many people and how it still is making reprimandations today. So I don't blame you for not wanting to get into it
YourBestCupid
2021-10-12 01:04:11 +0000 UTCGreat episode as always Civvie. Really interesting game!
2021-10-12 00:37:48 +0000 UTC"It's very moody and unpleasant outside but it is England" Can confirm.
Peter Ryder
2021-10-11 15:43:40 +0000 UTChey Civvie, have you considered playing Shivers and Shivers 2?
2021-10-11 09:27:51 +0000 UTCNice! Was one of my favourites growing up and I ended up Kickstarting the spiritual successor called Asylum Augustin was making... That was like 8 years ago and it's nowhere to be seen. It's as Vapourware as Scratches is Abandonware so...good job I guess?
Peaky
2021-10-11 05:11:21 +0000 UTCDuuuuuude, I remember getting this game off of a trade on Goozex (I checked, it's not around anymore lol). I'm surprised anybody else cares enough about this game, much less would do a video covering it. Kudos to you, CV11 ππ
Snowflake3114
2021-10-11 05:04:07 +0000 UTC2000s trash horror shooter? Only one that comes to mind is HellForces. ...you're not doing HellForces are you?
2021-10-11 02:32:11 +0000 UTCMan. Fuck Jerry.
Merjia
2021-10-11 01:19:46 +0000 UTCThis game very accurately describes what it's like to be a writer. It's 10% writing, 90% finding excuses not to write.
Planescaped
2021-10-10 22:51:34 +0000 UTCI haven't been able to get it to run lol
Civvie
2021-10-10 21:39:30 +0000 UTCNo Kreed sequel? :D
Silentphil9
2021-10-10 21:33:14 +0000 UTCI still have the Director's Cut back from when GOG sold it. And I remember playing it a few years ago, but never making it past day two. First-person adventure games from that era could be so damn obtuse without walkthroughs! It's a shame because I also remember the amazing atmosphere and a well-told, creepy story. Thanks for doing a video on it!
SteelyGaze
2021-10-10 19:49:50 +0000 UTCpancakes
2021-10-10 19:28:13 +0000 UTCFuck yes
JOE MOTHERFUCKING TREEFELNER
2021-10-10 19:02:56 +0000 UTCI've wanted to do something different for so long but y'know, a lot of stuff in the backlog.
Civvie
2021-10-10 17:29:19 +0000 UTCA very atmospheric spooky game with some obstuse puzzles. Didn't expect to see this from you. Nice surprise.
2021-10-10 17:06:11 +0000 UTCoh man do I hate this game
fatdink420
2021-10-10 17:02:14 +0000 UTCmood improved
Karol Kowalski
2021-10-10 16:47:36 +0000 UTCEnjoyed this one. I still have the CD around here somewhere. Great, creepy atmosphere.
Darth-Morella
2021-10-10 15:11:54 +0000 UTC
