Vinny - Home Safety Hotline (An Analog Horror Cryptid Hotline)

Stream date: January 27th, 2024

January 27th, 2024 Stream:

#Vinesauce #Vinny

[FunkyGhost]

Vinny went from "I have to read all of this?" to knowing what entry was needed before they could finish talking. That's how creative this game was when it engrossed you in what the hell was going on in this fucked up world.

[rotomfan]

i love how the game is completely neutral to moles but just instantly calls mice "worthless"

[twisted_autumn]

2:32:30 even though it really was a fae feast, what with chat saying its a trash gnome i really love the idea of this woman finding a massive pile of feces on her dining table and vinny sending her instructions to consume it all as quickly as possible

[Gabriel_Blair]

i love that half of the solutions are just "lol ur fucked"

[monkeymita]

I love that Vinny assumes the hotline employee aura of reading things and being like "ooooh, sorry man. You had a false artifact. We can send you a complimentary memory wisp as compensation :)"

[mitchellgift]

57:35 "idiot didn't listen and now he has a boggart" kills me 😂

[cho-wsbf]

The concept of fairies and the fae being pests to call an exterminator on with is really funny tbh. Hats off to the dev, this keeps in line with the vibes of fae folklore. Including the child eating

[itsumayo]

*Current Caller: Joel*
Transcription:
“Hey… uuhhhh, I think I brought something to Earth. I work for SETI or whatever and a signal talked about a leg being boiled. Now the garage is flashing green and chat is telling me to check bathroom. I’ve been carrying a crowbar everywhere for protection. Please help.”

[micahfurlow]

Honestly I thought I was gonna be a pretty standard spoopy game but it seems to be more of a chill game that doesn't take itself *too* seriously, but at the same time has a pretty terrifying world and some kinda spoopy scenarios.

Also the fact that the sentence "idiot didn't feed the hob and it became a bogart, he's fucked" becomes normal at some point is hilarious

[unclekoopus]

I got the impression that the subtext of the game was also implying, or straight up shouting that the HSH were in the real estate business as well as being fae themselves, and so a lot of the advisories are encouraging or actually instructing people to vacate their homes. The parade of homes for sale (including the one overgrown by spriggan leaves) seemed to imply this. Also, the fact that so many of the entries are written to encourage cohabitation and also to downplay the obvious risk would seem to show that they're less exterminators and more encouraging this kind of infestation to continue.
I wouldn't mind, just never give them your real name, don't eat the fae feast, and always carry a metal talisman with holes in it. I'll be around with my pet pooka and my farting troll boyfriend, thriving in the new fae world order.

[Saritnem]

Gotta respect the prank caller's dedication, got turned into a mouse but still went out of his way to bother you one last time

[moshikito]

Vinny messing up the cockroach call because he didnt read, but then getting the mole one correct, which i've seen a lot of people mess up is classic

[Blues_Light]

I see people using the word cryptid a lot for this game, but I was honestly surprised and happy to see that it was actually faeries/fae that were the subject of this game. You don't see it a lot. Fae creatures are way more scary in myth than how many often see them today ( some fiction has gone back to those roots in the past few decades, at least. D&D always had hostile/dangerous fae creatures).

This game had plenty of humor (especially the end) but I appreciate that it didn't betray its sense of dread throughout. Which is in a way fitting for faeries. They're silly and inviting one moment, then the next your child is kidnapped and replaced with a monster or you have a little freak destroying your house and attacking you because you forgot to leave it some milk last night.

[vermis]

feeling personally called out by all the "just clean your house" prevention tips

[nobodyimportant]

This is what living in the pokemon universe would be like.

[David-wont]

I hate that fucking False Beet so much for some reason, even if it's hardly the strangest one - the line "Can not be removed" just freaks me out,
just gonna live with this God damn beet parasite for the rest of my life.

[metrizans]

2:03:06 Chat was sooo close to throwing him off on the Soap Sprite. Proud of Vin for sticking with his gut instinct. That one is stupid tricky. It messes with you by omitting details from the actual text entry. You'd only catch it if you pay attention to the photo.

[chelsicalhoun]

I really enjoy how this game mixes supernatural fae horror with the mundane and how it slowly ramps up till the normal is bizarre and the bizarre is normal. Some of the VAing is fantastic too. The mom who lost her 10-year-old broke my heart. I want more analog horror games like this.

[MrTheil]

I love the idea of a bunch of Fae setting up an emergency hotline to help people deal with mundane or paranormal problems

[JamienautMark]

1:48:59 the idea of these fantasy creatures singing wonderwall and other 90s hits is hilarious to me