The Greatest Evil A Game Can Commit

🕹 Get a browser that’s literally better at everything: Sponsored by Opera GX! Video games go to a great many lengths to subvert our expectations as players. But there is one way games do this that I find to be particularly evil. Let’s talk about it. Support Daryl Talks Games on Patreon! ▶▶ Bonus content, early access, YOUR name at the end of videos, and more all for $1/month! Twitter ▶ Twitch ▶ DTG Intro motion graphic by Icaro, if you’d like to hire him for a Twitch overlay/motion design just like this one, hit him up here! ▶ What is Xenia? (0:00) Opera GX is just better (3:06) Are checkpoints a right? (4:52) Adding a mental stack to save points (8:02) Why you don’t often see Xenia broken (12:51) Resting in Lisa The Painful (15:51) Fear and Hunger hates you (18:09) The Greatest Evil (21:41) Quick update! (23:58) ▶Games Shown Stellar Blade (2024) Final Fantasy XIII (2009) Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020) Hollow Knight (2017) The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023) Elden Ring (2022) Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024) Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (2024) Final Fantasy X (2001) Persona 5: Royal (2019) Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (2022) Final Fantasy VII (1997) Signalis (2022) Alan Wake 2 (2023) Metroid Dread (2021) Ghost of Tsushima (2020) Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (2017) Death’s Door (2021) Haven (2021) Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023) Resident Evil 4 (2023) Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance (2024) Doki Doki Literature Club! (2017) Eastward (2021) Super Mario Odyssey (2017) Shovel Knight (2014) Dark Souls (2011) Persona 5 (2016) The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (2011) Deltarune Chapter 2 (2021) Inscryption (2021) Florence (2018) Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997) Undertale (2015) Final Fantasy V (1992) Guilty Gear Strive (2021) Balatro (2024) OMORI (2020) Axiom Verge (2015) Final Fantasy XII (2006) Chrono Trigger (1995) I Wanna Be the Guy: The Movie - The Game (2007) Earthbound (1994) Final Fantasy VI (1994) Resident Evil 2 (2019) Lisa: The Painful (2014) Dragon Quest XI (2017) Dead Cells (2017) ▶Movies/TV/Anime Shown Les Miserables (2012) Beauty and The Beast (1991) Game of Thrones Frieren (2024) ▶Media/Clips/Considerations: All the things that can happen when you are resting in Lisa: The Painful Resident Evil 7 biohazard Developer Interviews: The ’Safe Room’ Theme ▶Music Sources (in Order): Gate of Time - The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword OST Catacombs - Diablo OST - Parasite Eve II OST How much? - Persona 4 OST Safe Room - Resident Evil Code Veronica OST Descendant of Shinobi - Final Fantasy VII OST UNATCO - Deus Ex OST Reflections - Hollow Knight OST Save theme - Resident Evil 4 OST Second Mission - OST Warm Welcome - Hollow Knight OST Maternal Heart - Silent Hill 3 OST Safe Room - Resident Evil 7 OST Devil’s Bath Boys - LISA: The Painful OST Deep Inside Me - LISA: The Painful OST Down Time - Silent Hill OST Menu Theme - Sword of the Berserk: Guts’ Rage OST Ephemeral - Shin Megami Tensei V OST ▶Research Sources (A) Excitation Transfer and Sexual Attraction (B) Enjoyment of Mediated Fright and Violence: A Meta-Analysis ~dlowe2/documents/ - Bottom of page 3 (C) The Psychology of Horror Games (D) Bonfire Mimics Art (E) Game of Thrones: The Laws of Hospitality, Explained (F) Red Wedding Historical Influences (G) The Guest Right #Quotes (H) Examples of Xenia in Homer’s Odyssey (I) TV Tropes: Treacherous Checkpoints