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🗓️ 14 May 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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A while ago, I made a video about how mobile game ads LIE to us. Well, I think I've found a game that takes that to the EXTREME! Welcome to Evertale. If you've never heard of it, it is a mobile game that is infamous for its completely fabricated ads. These ads tell you NOTHING about the game you are downloading. In fact, they seem to be telling some other kind of dark and twisted story. So of course, I had to find out all of those secrets for myself. Let's go!
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0:00.0 | Oh, great. And now you will be punished. |
0:25.0 | Now you will be punished. Thank you. Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory, the show that always delivers on what it promises, |
0:53.6 | cringy humor with passable fan theories. |
0:56.0 | Set the bar low, my friends, and you'll never disappoint. |
0:58.6 | Speaking of Seton a low bar, today we're talking about Evertail. |
1:01.8 | A mobile game that saw our creepy lore videos and exposies on misleading mobile ads |
1:06.0 | and said, yes, please, to both of those things. |
1:09.1 | Not only are the Evertail ads we're talking about today misleading, there are also hundreds of them. |
1:14.0 | Three hundred and seventy two in fact, as far as I could tell, |
1:17.2 | ripping off everything from Pokemon to Amori to Final Fantasy and Earthbound. |
1:21.2 | And yep, I watched each and every single one. |
1:25.0 | Don't say I never do anything for you. |
1:27.0 | Anyway, in case you weren't already aware, Evertail is a mobile monster catching game that released back in 2019. |
1:32.0 | It looks like this, it plays like this, and you should |
1:35.0 | never download it. Never, not once ever, because its ads look like this. |
1:41.0 | Psychological Horror. Psychological horror at its finest meant purely to capture your attention |
1:47.7 | maybe get you to download the game in the hopes that at some point it's going to go off |
1:50.9 | the rails doki-doke literature club style |
1:53.0 | spoiler alert it does not no horror element no creepy lore just |
1:57.2 | disappointment this is clearly false advertising to trick |
2:00.3 | unsuspecting creepie pasta lovers into downloading their cash grab game and that is not okay. |
2:05.2 | If you want a scary Pokemon game you could support an indie developer and give beasts of burden a shot. |
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