Thursday, March 12, 2015

"Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2- TIME" Youtube Video Review

Hi, I'm the Whatsoever Critic. I review just about anything.

Ever since I did my review on the Youtube video Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, I decided to do a review on its sequel, which came out more than a year ago- Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2- TIME.


Opening Scene:

So after the title card, we see our three characters from last time sitting in front of a TV, which is having a spaz-out attack with the black-and-white screen.

Hairy Red Guy: "Come on, guys. Stop monkeying around. We only have five minutes until our show's on."
-The TV is spazzing out because their TV program isn't on? Guys, there's this thing called a remote. Why not use your remote to surf other channels while waiting for your program to start?
Crow: "It's not enough time!"

-What do you mean that's not enough time? Five minutes sure beats five hours!
Now, as if waiting for a TV show to start, even for five minutes, isn't awkward enough...
Clock: "There's always time for a song."
-A talking clock? Well, I guess we can expect that, even after the last time with the talking writing pad. And to be fair, at least this clock doesn't move around or dance or...
(the clock dances to the beat of a clock)


-F***!
Clock: (singing) "Time is a tool you can put on the wall, or wear it on your wrist..."

So the clock starts singing about time...

-Oh look! A family picture!

-Look! The Yellow Guy's painting of a clown... that was painted all over with that black paint/sludge from the original video.

-Oh look! A picture that says nothing... No really!
Yellow Guy: "What's the time?"
Clock: (singing) "It's a quarter 'til nine..."

-Actually, a quarter 'til nine is 8:45, not 9:15. Well, to be fair, this video was made by Brits, so I won't dwell in that too deeply.
Clock: (singing) "Time to have a bath!"
-Um... that was random.

On with the next scene!

Clock: (singing) "Time is a ruler to measure the day. It doesn't go backwards, but only one way..."
Then, out of nowhere, the clock just takes our three characters into a space-or-time-continuum type thing...
Clock: (singing loudly) "Let's go on a journey, a journey through all time!"

-(giggling) Boy, that clock is taking this whole lesson on time very seriously!
Clock: "Don't be stupid, friends!"

-Whoa! There's no need to get cocky!

Anyway, through awkward changes from live-action to animation and back, the clock tells the threesome about different ways to view time,

from dying trees

to rotting apples to "having fun" with a house of cards.
(the clock purposefully knocks down the house of cards)

Clock: (singing) "There's a time and a place for monkeying around!"
-Man, this clock is not only rude, but also sketch! He's just as sketch as that talking writing pad from the last video!
Okay, what is this? We're now being introduced to staring creepy people?

(the creepy guy staring into the camera, while the background behind him changes color)

-Line?
Hairy Red Guy: "And then what happened after the olden days?"
-Thanks for tearing us away from that awkward moment there.

Clock: (singing) "Time went new, got old like history..."
-This all isn't too bad. However, if you saw the original video, you'll probably that weird shit is about to happen soon. It hasn't happened yet.
Yellow Guy: "An old man died..."

-Uh, thanks for pointing that out... not that it's anything important, except that it comes from this video series' long line of randomness.
Clock: (singing) "Time is now, the future anew!"

-There's mind-control in the future?
Yellow Guy: "My dad is a com-com-computer..."

-And there's Internet porn in the computer? By the way, this guy's dad is not only creepy, but also a pervert.
Clock: "Look at the time!"
And then we get a few moments of characters being near raw fish.

Hairy Red Guy: "There's fish everywhere."

-Yeah, we see.
So just when we think that things may not get any more sketch, the characters ask the questions that would definitely seal their fate. Take a listen to these questions.
Crow: "But when did it start?"
Yellow Guy: "And when will it stop?"
-Uh, guys. You don't need to know that right now. Just pretend y'all didn't ask...
Hairy Red Guy: "If we run out of time, where does it go?"
Yellow Guy: "Is time even real? Does anyone know?"

-Shut up! Y'all don't need to know!
Crow: "Maybe time is just a conscious of human perception..."

-Now another philosophical lesson...
(the clock making an alarm sound that increases in volume)

-WTF?
(Yellow Guy's ear bleeds)

-Who does this clock guy think he is? He's rude and sketch!
The clock goes on to explain that time goes on every day.

With that said, the three characters start to age rapidly... and not the way we like it.
(Hairy Red Guy's hair growing)

-Okay.
(Crow's flesh peeling off his bones)

-Wait a minute. What?!
(Yellow Guy turning into an ugly old guy)

-Okay this is getting stupid now!
Yellow Guy: "Make it stop!"
-What stop? Time or y'all's aging?

-By the way, we knew this was coming. It's the dreaded erratic atmosphere coming to scare us with its malicious shock value. We've waited 3 minutes for this, you guys.
Clock: (singing) "It's out of my hands. I'm only a clock."

-Yeah, it's "out of your hands," because you caused all this. Who would do that? And who would say that?
Clock: (singing) "Don't worry. I'm sure you'll be fine, but eventually everyone runs out of time."
-(sarcasm) How encouraging, especially for someone who is dying! Geez! This guy is so not moral!!!

And then we realize that this was all just a TV show that the three characters were watching on their television.
-(pause) Was that the program that they were waiting five minutes for? If so, then they're so messed up and not right in their heads! Then again, this ending felt like bullshit. Maybe the video decided to throw in a deus ex machina, so that we wouldn't be too disappointed to learn that time is valuable to where we'll eventually run out of it someday... Now I'm starting to sound like that damn clock!

End Credits:

We finally get to the credits where... there's larva wiggling through blue fur?

-IDK. I'm far too shocked by this video to comment.

And that was the sequel to Don't Hug Me I'm Scared.
Well, to be fair, the weird, creepy moment took longer to appear in this video than it did in the first video. Nonetheless, just like in the first video, the "teacher" figure was sketch and rude. You can definitely tell that more work was put into this video than the first, because the characters got to go somewhere (at the very least), instead of just being at home for the whole video.
For what it is, it's creepy, yet it has a stand-out message... which people are still theorizing about, and we have our speculations.

Whatsoever Critic:
Source: Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2- TIME

Courtesy: Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling/A Blink Industries Production in collaboration with Channel 4 and Dazed Digital.

"Five Nights at Freddy's 3" (iOS version) Is FINALLY Here!

Hi, I'm the Whatsoever Critic. I review just about anything.

FINALLY!

I woke up this morning and saw on the App Store (iTunes) that Five Nights at Freddy's 3 is already out for iOS. As soon as I saw it, I immediately took action and ended up finally playing it for myself.
-FINALLY!
For me, this game wasn't that bad. Here's what happened...

Night 1:

The first night allowed me to be familiar with my surroundings, which was okay, because I need to know where rooms and vents are at and everything.

One thing that struck me as awkward was the new phone guy (knowing that the old phone guy died in FNaF 1)...
-Spoiler alert if you haven't played the first two games yet.
...It was odd to get a new voice here.
-I wonder who Scott Cawthon hired to be the voice actor for this new phone guy. Or is this still Scott Cawthon, except he had to alter his voice some? IDK.

Minigame #1:
After Night 1 is over, I was taken to a minigame.

-I don't know if it does the same on the PC or Android versions or not.
I had to put Mangle together in that minigame.

Night 2:
This was where the so-called Springtrap bunny comes out and messes with you.

Before that though, the new phone guy plays audio from the previous phone guy, which was nice to hear again, even though he died in the first FNaF.
Now, for Springtrap, I learned that if you play audio of children laughing and talking in another room adjacent to the room that he's in, he'll go towards the noise. There were a couple of moments where I caught him in the vents. There were other times when I had to reboot some of the equipment.

-I gotta admit: the rebooting process can be a bitch, because it takes a while for the systems to reboot.

As for jumpscares, I experienced that when the hallucination of Balloon Boy happened. Afterwards, I could hear my character breathing hard, which was pretty new to me, because the security guard character in the first two games didn't do that.

Minigame #2

After Night 2, I got another minigame, but this time, it featured Toy Chica.
-Yeah, imagine! The slutty chicken from the second game manages to make an appearance in this game... Uh. I don't know any better. Anyway...

The goal for this minigame is to collect cupcakes and then serve them to the kids.

Night 3:
In this night, instead of the new phone guy you hear, you get to hear the original phone guy's audio recordings.
This time, Springtrap is a little harder to track down. And this time around, my cameras dysfunctioned sooner, and the system reboot thing bothered me more so. And of course, Balloon Boy's hallucination got me again, and I was scrambling to reboot my systems.
However, the creepiest part was when I saw Springtrap lurking outside my office... and I made the stupid mistake of turning to my reboot systems, and he got me.

So, seeing that I only made it to Night 3 in this game, what do I think about this game?

For me, this was a big improvement of all three games. The premise; the greenish scenery (it reminds you of the novel Asylum by Madeleine Roux); and the pace. However, I didn't see Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, or the toy versions.
-Unless they come in later nights? Who knows?
Overall, it was really fun to play. Right now, I'm tempted to play some more, but for now, I can finally watch Let's Play videos of this game. I wonder how WatchGirlsPlay, BlastphamousHD, Smosh Games, and Smike reacted to this game...

Whatsoever Critic
Source: Five Nights at Freddy's 3

Courtesy: Scott Cawthon

COMING SOON ON WHATSOEVER CRITIC!!!
I will soon post a video of me waiting for the iOS version of Five Nights at Freddy's 3 to come out. I was vlogging every day until now, waiting for the iOS version to show up. See what I have been up to since then! I will have that video uploaded ASAP.

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

"Don't Hug Me I'm Scared" Youtube Video Review

Hi, I'm the Whatsoever Critic. I review just about anything.

A Youtube video to review today? Duh!

Ever since I was introduced to this video through WatchGirlsPlay's React video, I was curious about the video. It seems to mock kid shows like Sesame Street, but there's also some weird shenanigans on the horizons- but they give them to you in such an unpresided way.
Interestingly enough, this video is at least 3 years old on Youtube with over 23 million hits; and the video had spawned two sequels to date.
So why are people blown away by this video phenomenon? Well, let's look at the Youtube video Don't Hug Me I'm Scared.

Opening Scene:
The video wastes no time starting...

or maybe it does.


-We get to stare at random house objects for 20 seconds. Oooh...
And then we get our main characters...

who's names we may never know in this video... who are sitting at a kitchen table just chilling until...

Writing Pad: (singing) "What's your favorite idea?"
-Whoa. That came out of nowhere. And even the puppet characters are shocked to see inanimate objects talking to them. Well, to be fair, if this is supposed to be a parody of Sesame Street, then go right ahead.

Musical Number:
Yellow Guy: "How do you get the idea?"
Writing Pad: (singing) "I just try to think creatively. Now when you look at this orange, tell me please, what do you see?"
Crow: "It's just a boring old orange."

Writing Pad: (singing) "Maybe to you, but not to me."
-This is identical to Sesame Street. That's the one thing that you can compare this to, is Sesame Street. The shows are identical.
-In fact, the characters themselves seem like Sesame Street rejects.

-Now let's go back to that orange...
Writing Pad: (singing) "I see a silly face walking along, smiling at me."

-The animation is just as cheap as the set-up and characters. Then again, it's not so bad. At least there was still effort put into this thing.
Crow: "I don't see what you mean."
Writing Pad (singing): "'Cause you're not thinking creatively."

-Geez! Have patience on a person that's trying to learn all this stuff!
Writing Pad (singing): "So take a look at my hair."

-You have no hair, except a wad of colorful string that someone decided to superglue to your pages.
Writing Pad (singing): "I use my hair to express myself."
-Then actually do something with it, like braid it, curl it... no? That's creativity with hair for you.

So then we're taken to the window with our characters (for some reason), and the Writing Pad tells them to use creativity there.
Writing Pad (singing): "Now when you stare at clouds..."
-Do our characters understand creativity now?

The Three Puppets: "I can see a hat. I can see a cat. I can a man with a baseball bat..."
-Uh, that's fun and all, but can y'all do something a little more artsy?

-(sarcasm)By the way, that crow looks pretty invested by all this talk of creativity.
Yellow Guy: "I might paint a picture of a clown."

-There it is! Something artsy!
Writing Pad: (singing) "Whoa there, friend! You might need to slow it down!"

(black paint or sludge drips onto the painting for a few seconds)
-What the hell? That was art right there! What, that's not allowed in your so-called creativity? That's really bad when trying to teach kids about creativity.

Writing Pad: (singing) "Here's another good tip..."
-And the video goes on without explaining why the Yellow Guy's art had to be vandalized by the black paint/sludge. That was awkward... and so random!

Anyway, the Writing Pad goes on to have the friends collect sticks to spell out some words, specifically names of colors.

Hairy Red Guy: "Blue."

Crow: "Red."

Yellow Guy: "Green."

Writing Pad: (singing) "Green is not a creative color."
-What? Of course green is a creative color! Unless you're wanting the friends to pick out the major colors (red, blue, and yellow), then you are out of your mind! So far, this writing pad is rude!
Then the Writing Pad goes on to explain the essential to "think creatively."
-By the way, I'm simply going to call the pad a Writing Pad, because this video doesn't give us names.
Writing Pad: (singing)

"Listen to your heart.

Listen to the rain.

Listen to the voices in your brain."
-The heart and brain part, I understand. But listening to the rain to think creatively? Anyone want to try that, or has tried it?
Writing Pad: "Come on, guys! Let's get creative!"

-I don't know about you guys, but that writing pad seems so sketch! Call her a sketch pad! Or [fill in your own pun at the comments section below].

"Creative" Mode

So the characters get into "creative" mode and...

(the character takes the time to spaz into animation mode until returning to live-action)

-Huh?
(a heart sitting on a surface)
-Wait... was that a...?!
(characters dancing wildly)

-Wait. What?!
(the sky turning stormy outside their window, while violin solo sounds more and more erratic)

-Okay, who put LSD in this video?
(the characters cutting a cake)

-Now they're having a cake...?
(flesh exposed inside the cardboard cake)
-Eew! What?!
(one of the characters spelling out the word "death")

-Really?!
-I'm sorry, but for those of you with a heart condition, stop reading or scroll down to the consensus part of this review... even though I'm not going to put up pictures of the gruesome details.

Ending:

Well, after that... scariness, we see that all is calm, and the characters are at the table, just like at the beginning. Then our sketchy sketch pad ends with a... Just take a listen to this.

Writing Pad: (singing) "Now let's all agree to never be creative again..."
(the pad falling flat abruptly)

End Credits:

As the credits roll, we see the same black paint/sludge pouring from a mouse hole, while an erratic oboe/clarinet solo plays out.

-(mimicking creators of this video) We gotta spew out randomness one more time!

And that was... an awkward video that I've ever came across on Youtube. Now, to say the least, I think the video is addictive yet still odd.
This felt like something that you would find in a Creepypasta realm on the Internet. It has that shock value that either worked to the video's advantage or didn't. In this case, that was forced.
Now, be warned, parents. This video would NOT be suitable for kids, because it might trick you into thinking that it's something like Sesame Street, but isn't. I think, though, the intended audience for this video is people that are either addicted to violence, addicted to weird and crazy stuff on Youtube, or both. As for me, I came across worse on Youtube.
So, for what it is, I don't think that this video is the worst thing that's ever happened. There's just that awkwardness that turned into disturbing imagery. Again, I've seen worse.
Now answer me this: why is the video called Don't Hug Me I'm Scared? I don't think the video itself explains that.

Whatsoever Critic
Source: Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

Courtesy: This Is It (www.thisisitcollective.com)