Goodbye Volcano High - "The Future of Gaming", The Parody Game of the Beloved Snoot Game Franchise

[Your Local Paleofag]

So guys, here's what I found by accdent today
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Do you think Nanaki's up to some real gay-ops, or it's just plain old namesearching snoot and wani and being a Caren under posts written in english?

What really makes me confused is that Nanaki says shit like this publicly but a lot of people in the Snoot and Wani community wanna be friends with him or try and make peace with him. I know ex Wani artist Deadassspider is buddies with him.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

or the mouth breathers in the comments playing revolutionary and saying how Cavemananon will regret being in the wrong side of history

And then they wonder why everyone else thinks they are a brainwashed cult.

 

[Precision Anal Strike]

Recently played Wani, got ending 1 (for fuck sake), then got 4 (but cheated with looking at Debug Score one time), 10/10.

Don't you think Olivia's sudden 180 turn in the behavior with ending 1 feels a bit unnatural? From a kiss to the cheek next to the fountain to starting to morph into worse Olivia that we got at the beginning, just in one day.

Don't spoiler ending 2 and 3 please

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

Don't spoiler ending 2 and 3 please

Olivia's behavior in 1 might make more sense with the extra context that 2 and 3 bring.

 

[PetiteFeet]

If those retards put a fraction of that energy, time and effort into playing GVH instead of REEEEEEEEEEing at Snoot Game, maybe GVH wouldn't have flopped commercially.

But they can't masturbate over the content if they knew how awful it is.

 

[Dave.]

So guys, here's what I found by accdent today
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Do you think Nanaki's up to some real gay-ops, or it's just plain old namesearching snoot and wani and being a Caren under posts written in english?

If you like Goodbye Volcano High (I have no clue how in the hell you would), cool. Play it. Have fun. No one is going to personally hurt you for enjoying this game and, as far as I can tell, nobody has done anything more than making snarky comments your direction. I don't think even Cavemanon gives a shit if you like this game.

 

[Noebel]

If you like Goodbye Volcano High (I have no clue how in the hell you would), cool. Play it. Have fun. No one is going to personally hurt you for enjoying this game and, as far as I can tell, nobody has done anything more than making snarky comments your direction. I don't think even Cavemanon gives a shit if you like this game.

Dude, I'm not Nanaki. But even if you were talking to da real GVH OG, there's no reasoning. Nanaki has certain allegence and will abide by it. Them merry crew of Snoot a-logs have an entirety of South America to take on to progress their lovequest.

 

[Dave.]

Dude, I'm not Nanaki. But even if you were talking to da real GVH OG, there's no reasoning. Nanaki has certain allegence and will abide by it. Them merry crew of Snoot a-logs have an entirety of South America to take on to progress their lovequest.

Yeah I wasn’t talking to you. I was just saying what I was thinking out loud in that I genuinely don’t think snoot fans or even GVH a-logs give a shit about this guy.

 

[Inco G. Nito]

Literally everything that could have gone wrong with GVH did. It is very funny just all the ways GVH is notable while the game itself is a boring inoffensive nothingburger. Which is sad because conceptually GVH had incredible potential. I listened through cavemanon's stream where they played GVH and the little narrative ideas they spitballed during it made me realize how enthralling GVH could have been if it had passion behind it.

 

[PetiteFeet]

Literally everything that could have gone wrong with GVH did. It is very funny just all the ways GVH is notable while the game itself is a boring inoffensive nothingburger. Which is sad because conceptually GVH had incredible potential. I listened through cavemanon's stream where they played GVH and the little narrative ideas they spitballed during it made me realize how enthralling GVH could have been if it had passion behind it.

I've said it before and I'll happily say it again. Goodbye Volcano High did indeed have potential and they could easily have written a "diverse, queer" story with fangs (heh) but instead they opted to write the most bland, safe, offensively inoffensive story with no real villains and no real heroes because the people they catered to don't care about anything but virtuesignalling and pandering to THEM specifically and would've cancelled KO_OP for anything less.
KO_OP had so many interesting, fun ideas on how to make their self-playing videogame home movie into a truly unique experience and what did they do with them? They absolutely failed to nail any of said ideas - the music mini game didn't matter and had no effect on the story, the Legally Distinct D&D didn't matter and had no effect on the story or the characters growing, none of the trans stories being told felt authentic and gripping and there was no real meat on them, no heart and I felt nothing towards Sage the femme pooner, Rosa the overweight last-minute latino tranny and Fang, oh don't get me fucking started on how bland Fang as a whole is.

I don't understand making the lamest excuse for a "non-binary UwU" ultra femme "goth" girl. Fang had nothing to her personality or identity besides they/them pronouns. The conflict with her parents felt like literally any other child's rebellion against their parents, with the parents attempting to be understanding but were ultimately "the bad guys" for not respecting Fatima's Coldsteel the Hedgeheg Donut Steel OC persona 'Fang' and her pronouns.
Oh my, such high tier drama. So well written. So captivating.

If Wolf Nanaki wants to keep masturbating to his headcanons for Fang, let's be completely honest he and every other unironic GBVH fan hasn't played or even watched a playthrough of the game, that's his deal. But don't fucking pretend it's high art or challenges any stereotypes or misunderstood QWEER folx because Goodbye Volcano High doesn't even tell a good queer story much less a good story.

Snoot Game is the ONLY REASON Goodbye Volcano High even got any attention outside of the fiasco of the PS5 launch trailer. If the weaponised autism of 4chan hadn't been channelled into what eventually became Snoot, GBVH and KO_OP as a studio would've been forgotten and I bet you the Kate Grey debacle wouldn't have manifested at all, either.

In all honestly, Wolf Nanaki and KO_OP should be *thanking* Cavemanon for making Snoot and subsequently Wani. Cavemanon as a company is the sole reason for their "relevancy" to current pop culture among the most niche of niche fanbases online.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Literally everything that could have gone wrong with GVH did.

There is one good thing about GVH (other than making Snoot Game) and thats the soundtrack.

I listened through cavemanon's stream where they played GVH and the little narrative ideas they spitballed during it made me realize how enthralling GVH could have been if it had passion behind it.

I 100% believe if we had GVH before the re-write it would've been a better product, the story would probably still be the same garbage but at the very least it would feel like a full and complete story instead of the stitched together mess that it ended up being. Its an absolute joke that this 6hr game that was in development for three years has fucking filler in it.

 

[Peru oso donas]

100% believe if we had GVH before the re-write it would've been a better product, the story would probably still be the same garbage but at the very least it would feel like a full and complete story instead of the stitched together mess that it ended up being. Its an absolute joke that this 6hr game that was in development for three years has fucking filler in it.

I already mentioned it before but sans the weird coomer bs Kate Grey was trying to add, the original script for GVH sounded WAY better than what we actually got, with actual endings that got impacted by our decisions, with the worst ending described sounding legitimately haunting and something that you would probably see as an ending 1 for snoot game or wani

 

[Darksy DePhil]

The only redeeming aspect of Goodbye Volcano High​

 

[Disc]

I already mentioned it before but sans the weird coomer bs Kate Grey was trying to add, the original script for GVH sounded WAY better than what we actually got, with actual endings that got impacted by our decisions, with the worst ending described sounding legitimately haunting and something that you would probably see as an ending 1 for snoot game or wani

Remind me, what was the original story for GVH?

 

[Sperg Coalition]

There is one good thing about GVH (other than making Snoot Game) and thats the soundtrack.

Seems that the general consensus about GVH is that the music and backgrounds are the only nice things about it. Everything else is really lackluster.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

So guys, here's what I found by accdent today
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Do you think Nanaki's up to some real gay-ops, or it's just plain old namesearching snoot and wani and being a Caren under posts written in english?

I am beginning to suspect, that he has severe case of autism. And not internet kind but real one, debilitating, that doesn't allow him to just let go

 

[Peru oso donas]

Remind me, what was the original story for GVH?

Apparently the spics made a document with what could've been the original GVH script before they fired the lead writer, here's the original document and also the DeepL translated one into English. They said all this info was gathered from old social media posts from the devs, files and code in the released game and devs that were contacted but the people who made the document can't say who they are. I'll try to summarise it:

This post has the whole leaked plot from the Kate Grey build, but the TL;DR is: minor emphasis on the D&D stuff, various scenes where you actually get to know more about some of the characters who got shafted in the final game like Reed or Sage, cutscenes with different outcomes depending on your choice like Trish beating the shit out of Fang at the beach if you were an asshole to her, and the most important thing: there being actual endings, with the worst one having Stella An Hero herself and Fang getting ditched by her friends as she plays for an audience of no one during the end of the world.

 

[Inco G. Nito]

I'm a bit disappointed that nobody has tried to remake the original script or approxinate it as a snootgame mod. With some adjustments it really does have potential.
Edit: What were some the the central themes? I did sort of skim through the script but it seems like the chracters don't change or progress all that much through the events of the game, which would be a huge missed opportunity to really explore the characters more and how mutual impending doom could accelerate maturation or throw people out of their day to day norms and confort zones. Influence rash actions and decisions, etc. If you want to make it snootgame based you could have the aspect of impending doom force Fang to come to terms with a lot of her insecurities and see her shedding her non binary identity, or demonstrate the denial and lack of maturity in the worse endings by having her still clutch onto these things to the bitter end.

 

[Peru oso donas]

I'm a bit disappointed that nobody has tried to remake the original script or approxinate it as a snootgame mod. With some adjustments it really does have potential.

I was thinking the exact same, mostly because you already have a 4 ending structure:

Spoiler: Sperging on possible endings

Ending 1: The lives of all of Fang's friends go to the shitter, Stella offs herself, Reed could get into a fight with the father of his crush, Sage and Leo's attempt at a relationship goes south, etc. In the end, Fang gets dumped by her friends and family as she plays to an empty audience just as the world ends, and she regrets all of her life choices.
Ending 2: Fang's friends still get it rough but not as bad as E1, an example could be that Stella still tries to commit suicide but she survives, although she is in bed/comatose throughout the remainder of the game. Fang actually gets some company for the end, on the form of Trish, Reed and Naser, and they actually play to a handful of people, probably hobos or people who have no one else to turn to in the end of the world. The world still ends but at least she still has her closest friends and her brother to accompany her, although she still has regrets before parting the world.
Ending 3: All of Fang's friend have a satisfactory/semi satisfactory conclusion to their arcs, they all decide to go with Fang to the concert. Now there's more people, mostly students and teachers. Fang is still a bit sad that her parents didn't decide to watch her, but she at least has all the friends she made. Unlike the previous 2 endings, we are told that the meteor didn't kill all of dinokind, but it still killed a bunch of people and that although very slowly, the dinos will eventually rebuild their society. The fate of Fang and her friends is left ambiguous.
Ending 4: the golden ending, all of Fang's friends get a happy ending. The concert becomes a sort of local event and almost everyone in town decides to go. All of Fang's friend are at the concert with her, and even her parents decided to set aside their differences and to support their daughter until the very end. Fang now plays without a single regret, but miraculously, the meteor doesn't hit, and everyone celebrates that they will keep on living. If you got all of the endings you get a recap showing the lives of everyone, ending on Fang and what she decided to do with her life, with those decisions maybe even being chosen by the player themselves.

 

[Inco G. Nito]

I was thinking the exact same, mostly because you already have a 4 ending structure:

Read my edit, I added some more thoughts I had aftee the fact. And another concept that I feel is shafted is the actual literal end of the world itself. The breakdown of society, of government. The last weeks of the game have no power, the setting feels more naturalistic and bleak as time goes on to compliment or contrast the equally bleak or comparatively well state of the cast, depending on the ending you are leading up to. One idea I really liked that cavemanon spitballed in their GVH stream was that Fang and Nazer's parents, away on business try to make their way back to them despite the complicating geopolitical situations in the wake of the meteor. Then one day they ominously disappear and are never heard from again. Nazer and Fang then have to deal with this ambiguous fate of their parents.