[Let's Play] The Neverhood: Chronicles (Finished)

AlexPHott

As I searched through the thread that lists all Let's Plays done here I couldn't find The Neverhood, I'm very surprised because this is an absolutely wonderful game, I had an LP going of the game so I thought "Why not post it here?" the game needs a lot more recognition.

Anyway... Welcome, this is my second LP ever. Like my STALKER LP, all my videos are in 1080p, high quality and it takes a whole day to edit, export and upload a set (depending on how long it is ofcourse).


Doug Tennapel, the creator of Earthworm Jim is the mastermind behind this silly but brilliant adventure game. With Terry Scott Taylor the soundtrack it can't get any better, the music is such a big part of this game.

This game was released 1996 and sold around 41,000 copies, it never really got enough recognition commercially but it was well recieved by the buyers. It's a point and click puzzle/adventure game that uses the technology called "Claymation" which simply means that everything is in stop motion animated clay.

Characters:

You control the protagonist named "Klaymen", a curious and clumsy fella.



Through your journey of the Neverhood you meet a few but noteworthy characters, there's the creator of the Neverhood named Hoborg:



And to help you along the way is Willie Trombone who makes several appearances.



The antagonist named Klogg.

Without further ado, here are the sets, I will keep this post updated and make a new post informing whenever there's a new set:

Set 1: Introduction

Intro Part 1
Intro Part 2

Set 2

Part 01
Part 02

Set 3

Part 03
Part 04
Part 05
Part 06

Set 4

Part 07
Part 08
Part 09

Set 5 - Last set, includes both endings.

Part 10
Part 11
Part 12
Part 13
Part 14 - Good Ending
Part 15 - Bad Ending

cooljammer00

This sounds awesome, but is 1080P necessary? If it bogs down the process so much, you might want to scale back.

Cantido

I've always wanted to play this/see the experience. This was when I was very, very little. Proceed.

Toxic Pickle

Doesn't seem like a game that'd benefit from 1080p for sure. Makes it look like you're playing a 1996 game on a 1993 computer. Very jerky.

tardcore

I had the sequel, Skullmonkeys. Was a fun game.

AlexPHott

Toxic Pickle wrote: »

Doesn't seem like a game that'd benefit from 1080p for sure. Makes it look like you're playing a 1996 game on a 1993 computer. Very jerky.

I agree, you hardly see any difference but it's been a habit for me to export with those settings, it's not really a big annoyance for me and I doubt you suffer from it either.

Oh yeah, Skullmonkeys is the "sequel" that was released only for the PS, it's a platformer so it's very different from this game. You could say that Skullmonkeys resembles Earthworm Jim more.

TekDragon

I knew a guy on the OffTopic forums who LOVED Neverhood and occasionally played RTS games with PC crew. You wouldn't happen to be him?

AlexPHott

TekDragon wrote: »

I knew a guy on the OffTopic forums who LOVED Neverhood and occasionally played RTS games with PC crew. You wouldn't happen to be him?

Nope, I'm completely new here.

Bacon-BuTTy

I played this game for the first time at school, my IT teacher brought it in to show us the amazing "graphics". It does look pretty great, and one has to appreciate the great workmanship that has gone into it. But I remember thinking at the time "It's just photographs and videos of clay .... "

And when i think back, my IT teacher was pretty awesome.

AlexPHott

Bacon-BuTTy wrote: »

I played this game for the first time at school, my IT teacher brought it in to show us the amazing "graphics". It does look pretty great, and one has to appreciate the great workmanship that has gone into it. But I remember thinking at the time "It's just photographs and videos of clay .... "

And when i think back, my IT teacher was pretty awesome.

Sure, it's just photographs and videos of clay, but modern games are just rendered models with textures slapped on them, it just looks different. It's the story, the puzzles, the music and the art direction together that make this such a brilliant game.

Bacon-BuTTy

AlexPHott wrote: »

Bacon-BuTTy wrote: »

I played this game for the first time at school, my IT teacher brought it in to show us the amazing "graphics". It does look pretty great, and one has to appreciate the great workmanship that has gone into it. But I remember thinking at the time "It's just photographs and videos of clay .... "

And when i think back, my IT teacher was pretty awesome.

Sure, it's just photographs and videos of clay, but modern games are just rendered models with textures slapped on them, it just looks different. It's the story, the puzzles, the music and the art direction together that make this such a brilliant game.

Don't get me wrong.

It is a brilliant game. I loved it. Few games come around with this much creativity just oozing out of them.

AlexPHott

Uploaded a new set, finished the game now, hope you enjoyed/enjoy it.