He's trash and his aim is as bad as ever, but the game is so unbelievably forgiving he's not even coming close to death, or low ammo. The guide reading is painfully obvious and the twitch acting is not good enough to sell it. Phil wordlessly beelines every puzzle solution/gottem moment/gimmick enemy and then acts """surprised""" when everything comes up Milhouse. Aced the baby section. Rolled the DAHL section. Took him half an hour to do it, took a suspiciously well timed break before, so I suspect he's literally just altering his pinwheel schedule for the sake of appearing like a god gamer. Humble bragging afterwards about how he's never scared by this sort of thing (Walking simulator jumpscarefests) and he's good at it because he's played so many. Yeah man, I can fucking roll Amnesia with a walkthrough too. The whole point of this sort of game is to beat it yourself.
As for his battle strats, he just shotguns everything he sees, not even at point blank range. He doesn't even bother with parries, just regular old blocks are enough. He himself has stated how Ethan seems unkillable by default and if you block it just breaks the game. He's still rolling everything because the game is just toothless on Standard. The biggest thing is how he's in Silent Hill 2 mode and using health items to cure a stubbed toe and a little booboo, but again, the game just kinda encourages that with how generous it is. He's got ammo and health to shower in.
"Ahaaa" he says as he barrels towards a well and uses the well wheel. "Oh the DAHL head! Nice! See, I'll combine the DAHL head with the DAHL bAHDY! Yeaah! Very valuable! Nice!" and shitty, annoying one-liners when he shotguns a basic zombie from three meters away, thinks it's a headshot, triumphantly chants "HEAD PAHPPER!" as the zombie gets back up with a wound clearly visible on it's arm. He's super giddy about how """"""good"""""" he's doing and all the tips, too.
Least we got an acknowledgement shoutout today:
Hi Phil. I still insist you go faster.
This after literally 8 minutes of nothing happening in an action title, purely because Phil applies the same formula to death: Walk slow, look at thing, give opinion on thing. Things Phil has given takes on during this playthrough:
-Art
-Food
-Vampires who eat food
-Barrels
-Torture instruments
-Wallpaper
-Wells
-Statues
-DAHLS
-A DAHL'S nostrils
-Ghosts (If Hobos, Dogs and Ghosts, why Dhalphins, Frahgs, Ghalf and Dahls? -Think emoji-)
-"You need items to progress huh? Weird!" (It's a Resident Evil title)
-Pools of blood
-Whatever can be misconstrued into actual shit for some tried and true Darksfadil Scat Fetish Humor™
I don't know about you, but I always wanted to know what Phil thought of the possibility of a DAHL's nostrils being the hideout for a spooky scary ghost. I certainly don't come to Phil to watch him play the fucking game, his completely unfunny jokes, room temperature takes and just fucking capacity to bore are MORE than enough to keep me
