32:50 the implication could either be bc if this is from mom’s pov she might not catch everything since he speaks fast and it’s her second language. Another is that he’s a child. Unfortunately many children are thrust into the responsibility of interpreter/translator but they lack the experience to gauge nuance and may not have the right words for the situation. The muddiness could be his imperfect interpretation of what the mom is trying to ask.
When you read "dad's anniversary" from the texts I assumed it was a death anniversary 😭. Kavin arguing with his mom about overpacking (smelly) food is so relatable lol. Being a 1st and 2nd gen immigrant is tough... to juggle assimilating and retaining cultural traditions simultaneously (I am a 2nd gen Viet American). Kavin coming around trying to reconnect to his roots is also relatable and where my cousins and I are at now in our adult lives with our aging parents.
😢 this hit home for me big time. I was effectively a single dad for about 6 years, and food was my love language, for both myself and children. Cooking is art, culture, family, expressions of love and care, and so much more.
This makes me think of my mom. My maternal grandmother was always so worried about standing out as an immigrant that she wouldn’t let my mom do certain things because she was worried that she would be targeted for them- but she also really struggled to assimilate. Every time my mom asked to be able to do the same thing as her peers, my grandmother would always dismiss the request and say: “that’s some American thing.” I think it was really hard for my mom not having a cultural anchor at home or at school.
My grandpa was the first of his Japanese family to be born on Brazil, almost 100 years ago. His name was supposed to be Yoshioka Noboro, last name Yoshioka, first name Naboro. When he was registered, they wrote Yoshioka Nabor (without the O), being Yoshioka the first name and Nabor the last. To add to the confusion, he also had the "social name" Roberto, not sure if it is written on his documents or not. No one ever called him Roberto, even if it is a "Brazilian name", everyone just called him Nabor, not because they know it was supposed to be his first name, but because it is easier to say. Anyway, his entire name is my dad's middle and last name M. Yoshioka Nabor, and Nabor bacame my last name S. T. Nabor. Even if it is spelled wrong, I still love my last name 😊
You say you're fragile, I HEAR empathy. Its a great quality to have. Treasure it. And anyway being jaded and cynical is soo '80's. ❤ Edit: I'm not crying, your crying. Ok I'm crying, too🧅
A beautiful story! As a child of immigrant parents i can relate to this and it's true whether we grew up ashamed or not of our culture we really don't fully appreciate it and what it means to our parents until we are much older. To them it isn't just tradition it's what gives them their identity.
Funnily enough, I am sort of proud of my name. So the story goes, my parents weren't sure what to name me after I was born and they were going over a few options in the hospital. Christine came up as an option, and my grandfather claimed, "girls aren't smart enough to spell a name that long." Hi, my name is Christine. 😆
@@doggycatalan Grandpa was very much a man of his time, for sure. He did get better as his grandchildren grew, though. I remember him as a funny, strong, proud man until his last day, and I'm happy to have my name attached to him, even in a sort of dark comedic way 😁
Watching you play this made me cry, so i bought it to show my mexican mom. She moved to the us at 18 but she still felt so distant from us. Shes liked it so far.
Totally got me, I still cry when I think of my mom's cooking. I always wanted for her to be here cooking with me and my kids. I only wish my daughters had the some of what my son was able to briefly experience....
As a Tamilian I am actually so excited to see a game about my culture played by you, since I’ve been watching you for a long time now! Edit: wth game! I didn’t need to cry while I did my psych homework!
@@krithikavinod8844 yeah like I expected all the popular dishes like dosa and biriyani, but the inclusion of lesser know south Indian dishes was so cool, made me hungry lol
Hey there... An Indian Tamil here.... So proud of this game... So happy my favorite gamer played it... I love my origins, and I love my Morph... Funnily, when u said "Chopping the fish" The song in background said caught the fish and chopping it up and dried with salt
At the mention of moms getting cold food because they're busy making food for their kids, I was reminded of how when my mom makes pancakes, she'll make some for me and my brother with chocolate chips (she prefers her pancakes without) and ask us how many we think we'll eat. At the end she makes a giant pancake with all the batter left so her "mom pancake" is always hot for her to eat (dad always has cold pancakes because he doesn't want to stop whatever he's doing to come eat lol)
This game is a surprising emotional gem. It hit me hard as I lost almost my entire family. It's up to me now to be the roots for the ones that depend on me. Life captured in a short sweet game.
Had to pre-watch this for the missus, just in case the sadness level was too high, but I think it's just the right level. Very moving game, rather eye-opening tbh. I've never had to consider this sort of situation beyond the theoretical, being a standard American--but my lady is from Latin America, and I've watched her struggle with the divide between the culture she knew and the one she's absorbing. It's fascinating to see this angle on the struggle someone faces when they move to another country, and the struggle of growing up between worlds. Thank you for playing this. It gives me some things to think about.
I started full on crying during the fraud part and then i nodded because i knew if you werent reading the text it was because you were crying too morph. This is a good one, i like this game
I don't know how you keep your composure sometimes! You manage to read on and I'm just sobbing thinking 'how is his voice not cracking?!' Haha. Lovely lovely game 💜
i cried when i played this a few weeks ago, and i cried again watching this 😭 it’s such a sad, but relatable story … whether you’re the kid or the parent. such a good story game
for the muddied speech bubbles - my take is that Venba has trouble understanding those phrases of english, they are more often more complicated phrases, the easier phrases - like thank you etc - are easier to understand for her
@@-Anouck-yeah it is that. You can also see that when it's from Kavin's pov we don't get any muddled speech since he didn't see how she couldn't quite catch what he was saying.
Oh my Dear Lord, I'm literally sobbing. I haven't seen my mom in over 13 years and it's not out of choice. I live in Canada and she in Syria. Every time I tell her that I want to visit her, she begs me to not to come because of the war in Syria. My heart is aching so much. I plan not to listen to her and just one day show up once I save enough money. There honestly is nothing more important that family to me. That is where home is.
It really goes to show, always be there for your parents, because they won't be around forever. What a beautiful game... It's got me emotional... gosh 🥺
Definitely. There's also an in-between when people just can't or won't pronounce it correctly. My confidence increased when I picked a name that people can pronounce and that I like, because I don't have to keep correcting people
It's interesting, I didn't get emotional watching this, but by the very end I actually stopped and had a long think. My mom is 1st gen, I'm 2nd South American...I honestly didn't connect food as a love/cultural language growing up, heck, even now it kinda just hit me. Now that I'm living a whole state away from my parents, and as I get older, I notice I converse with my mom about the foods I'm cooking a lot! LOL Just this evening I sent her a picture of something I made & she called me right away. We spent the rest of our convo doing little bits of catch up, but I'm amazed how much was food-related in retrospect. She talked about what she made & wanted to share the recipe. This, inadvertently has become part of our 'love language' to one another I've realized, and THAT is making me emotional now. 🥺Truly time passes so quickly the older you get, and tomorrow is never promised, so thanks for sharing this gameplay...it was a gentle reminder of love, cultural change over generations & how we are all just figuring it out the first time on this earth. xoxo
crazy how morph got all those recipes right the first time with no mistakes!! great work :D also im really curious about that bit of dialogue where venba said she was getting a lot of pushback for being with her husband -- are they from different religions or ethnic groups?
I assume they're from different castes? Please, anyone who knows more about this weigh in, but India has a caste system which - while there is action being taken to make things more equal - is pretty ingrained culturally.
I suspected when it was an Indian couple living in Canada it would be around Toronto. I briefly suspected Vancouver, but that tends to attract more east Asians, and Montreal takes all the French-speaking immigrants.
Morphy cry, I cry. That's just my bear cult upbringing, tho. Daddy stuff... gets me evvvryy time.😢 But enough about that! I make a very wonderful vegetarian chili. Have it over a baked sweet potato. A little spicy, savory and sweet. Very filling, very comfort. Big 🐻 hug💕for lovely playthrough.
Very sweet & cute. Thank you. You must’ve said separate rice and chunks like 15 times-poor kid starving😂. My go to is my grannies goulosh or taco salad. Love the frame & picture analogy too ❤
I’ve seen that you have played some of the Life is Strange games on your channel and I’d love for you to do a little throwback and play the original Life is Strange game. (You may have already played the game on your channel, I just haven’t found the video yet) I love that game and your videos so much!! 😊
So when Kavin speaks English (the yellow text) the mum can’t understand fully and that’s why it’s muddy. When he speaks their native language (the white text) the mum can understand and it’s clear at least I think that’s how it goes
this game made me sad that my immigrant parents stopped feeling like china was home, and feel uncomfortable going back due to america and chinas strained relationship ;,(
Yeah when you were reading back on the texts the mom said to the son it was his anniversary and to message what I assume wa the uncle. So sad and I'm not sure i want to know how he passed cause it would make it worse 😞
It's interesting that you bring up the subject of names. A lot of South Asians in the UK keep their names as in its quite unusual to have westernised names in that community. Though one of my friends at school was born in the UK to a mother who had immigrated from East Asia. She had been given a western name by her mother. I think she struggled with a lot of the issues a lot of first generation immigrants struggle with looking at the comments under this video. Also I may be completely wrong on this but isn't English one of the main languages in India? I doubt that an Indian immigrant would struggle to understand English. For anyone reading this please feel free to correct me on anything I have said as I am not from a immigrant background. I obviously I have no personal experiences of anything I have written about and this is only what I have observed.
Pls listen to the message of the game. Appreciate your parents and family and the time you spend with them thought it may be often tough. Also, please don't be ashamed of your culture. People who don't mean well for you and who aren't true loving family are not worth listening to. Be careful who you listen to and what for. A lot of ppl won't even stay with you for the rest of your life
This cooking game CUT SOME ONIONS OK 😭
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The way it told him to start with the spices and he started with the onions. And then he saw the spices… and started with the onions again 😭
32:50 the implication could either be bc if this is from mom’s pov she might not catch everything since he speaks fast and it’s her second language. Another is that he’s a child. Unfortunately many children are thrust into the responsibility of interpreter/translator but they lack the experience to gauge nuance and may not have the right words for the situation. The muddiness could be his imperfect interpretation of what the mom is trying to ask.
When you read "dad's anniversary" from the texts I assumed it was a death anniversary 😭. Kavin arguing with his mom about overpacking (smelly) food is so relatable lol. Being a 1st and 2nd gen immigrant is tough... to juggle assimilating and retaining cultural traditions simultaneously (I am a 2nd gen Viet American). Kavin coming around trying to reconnect to his roots is also relatable and where my cousins and I are at now in our adult lives with our aging parents.
😢 this hit home for me big time. I was effectively a single dad for about 6 years, and food was my love language, for both myself and children. Cooking is art, culture, family, expressions of love and care, and so much more.
Beautiful 🥲🙏🏻
😢 Wow now you got me sad that I never had kids
This makes me think of my mom. My maternal grandmother was always so worried about standing out as an immigrant that she wouldn’t let my mom do certain things because she was worried that she would be targeted for them- but she also really struggled to assimilate. Every time my mom asked to be able to do the same thing as her peers, my grandmother would always dismiss the request and say: “that’s some American thing.” I think it was really hard for my mom not having a cultural anchor at home or at school.
My grandpa was the first of his Japanese family to be born on Brazil, almost 100 years ago.
His name was supposed to be Yoshioka Noboro, last name Yoshioka, first name Naboro.
When he was registered, they wrote Yoshioka Nabor (without the O), being Yoshioka the first name and Nabor the last. To add to the confusion, he also had the "social name" Roberto, not sure if it is written on his documents or not. No one ever called him Roberto, even if it is a "Brazilian name", everyone just called him Nabor, not because they know it was supposed to be his first name, but because it is easier to say.
Anyway, his entire name is my dad's middle and last name M. Yoshioka Nabor, and Nabor bacame my last name S. T. Nabor.
Even if it is spelled wrong, I still love my last name 😊
You say you're fragile, I HEAR empathy. Its a great quality to have. Treasure it.
And anyway being jaded and cynical is soo '80's. ❤
Edit: I'm not crying, your crying. Ok I'm crying, too🧅
A beautiful story! As a child of immigrant parents i can relate to this and it's true whether we grew up ashamed or not of our culture we really don't fully appreciate it and what it means to our parents until we are much older. To them it isn't just tradition it's what gives them their identity.
Funnily enough, I am sort of proud of my name. So the story goes, my parents weren't sure what to name me after I was born and they were going over a few options in the hospital. Christine came up as an option, and my grandfather claimed, "girls aren't smart enough to spell a name that long." Hi, my name is Christine. 😆
Yikes. Gramps needs to get with the times 💀
@@doggycatalan Grandpa was very much a man of his time, for sure. He did get better as his grandchildren grew, though. I remember him as a funny, strong, proud man until his last day, and I'm happy to have my name attached to him, even in a sort of dark comedic way 😁
That's a better story than mine lol. My mom gave me the name of her favorite soap opera character
@@Aphelia. its so cool tho!
Watching you play this made me cry, so i bought it to show my mexican mom. She moved to the us at 18 but she still felt so distant from us. Shes liked it so far.
Totally got me, I still cry when I think of my mom's cooking. I always wanted for her to be here cooking with me and my kids. I only wish my daughters had the some of what my son was able to briefly experience....
As a Tamilian I am actually so excited to see a game about my culture played by you, since I’ve been watching you for a long time now!
Edit: wth game! I didn’t need to cry while I did my psych homework!
Malayali here and same! I was so excited by all the dishes, I wasn't expecting to be crying throughout the vid
@@krithikavinod8844 yeah like I expected all the popular dishes like dosa and biriyani, but the inclusion of lesser know south Indian dishes was so cool, made me hungry lol
biryani is my favorite food AND SEEING U BUTCHER IT- im literally screaming at the screen
Hey there... An Indian Tamil here.... So proud of this game... So happy my favorite gamer played it... I love my origins, and I love my Morph...
Funnily, when u said "Chopping the fish" The song in background said caught the fish and chopping it up and dried with salt
At the mention of moms getting cold food because they're busy making food for their kids, I was reminded of how when my mom makes pancakes, she'll make some for me and my brother with chocolate chips (she prefers her pancakes without) and ask us how many we think we'll eat. At the end she makes a giant pancake with all the batter left so her "mom pancake" is always hot for her to eat (dad always has cold pancakes because he doesn't want to stop whatever he's doing to come eat lol)
This game is a surprising emotional gem. It hit me hard as I lost almost my entire family. It's up to me now to be the roots for the ones that depend on me. Life captured in a short sweet game.
Had to pre-watch this for the missus, just in case the sadness level was too high, but I think it's just the right level. Very moving game, rather eye-opening tbh. I've never had to consider this sort of situation beyond the theoretical, being a standard American--but my lady is from Latin America, and I've watched her struggle with the divide between the culture she knew and the one she's absorbing. It's fascinating to see this angle on the struggle someone faces when they move to another country, and the struggle of growing up between worlds. Thank you for playing this. It gives me some things to think about.
Nothing makes an evening cozier than seeing Morph upload! ❤
fun fact: when you were making rice flour, the "lump" on the blue square was actually just a mound of fine rice, not a lump.
I started full on crying during the fraud part and then i nodded because i knew if you werent reading the text it was because you were crying too morph.
This is a good one, i like this game
This game so cute, reminded to appreciate my family and culture as well. Thank you for playing it :)
I don't know how you keep your composure sometimes! You manage to read on and I'm just sobbing thinking 'how is his voice not cracking?!' Haha. Lovely lovely game 💜
i cried when i played this a few weeks ago, and i cried again watching this 😭 it’s such a sad, but relatable story … whether you’re the kid or the parent. such a good story game
No wonder they cant make rent with all the ingredients you used and threw away🤣🤣 thanks for the vid morph, a cosy tuesday night 😍
ever since a friend of mine wrote a paper on this game I wanted to see you play it! Love to be able to watch you play through this one!
for the muddied speech bubbles - my take is that Venba has trouble understanding those phrases of english, they are more often more complicated phrases, the easier phrases - like thank you etc - are easier to understand for her
@@-Anouck-yeah it is that. You can also see that when it's from Kavin's pov we don't get any muddled speech since he didn't see how she couldn't quite catch what he was saying.
Man this game made me cry... made me wanna hug my nani and i am so ever grateful for everyone who brought me up
Oh my Dear Lord, I'm literally sobbing. I haven't seen my mom in over 13 years and it's not out of choice. I live in Canada and she in Syria. Every time I tell her that I want to visit her, she begs me to not to come because of the war in Syria. My heart is aching so much. I plan not to listen to her and just one day show up once I save enough money. There honestly is nothing more important that family to me. That is where home is.
It really goes to show, always be there for your parents, because they won't be around forever. What a beautiful game... It's got me emotional... gosh 🥺
Definitely. There's also an in-between when people just can't or won't pronounce it correctly. My confidence increased when I picked a name that people can pronounce and that I like, because I don't have to keep correcting people
44:09 gotta bloom the spices, that's why everything be tasting so good 😋
the fact that this actually made me cry so much, it makes me rethink of what my parents have done so much for me ❤
I've had this game on my Xbox for a it and can i say: THIS GAME MADE ME GO THROUGH ALL 5 STAGES OF GRIEF
1:15:00 morph, in the texts between her and her son, she literally mentions the dads anniversary and he asks her if she’s ok 😭 yes he’s passed
I dont make it often but my signature dish is Salmon fettichini alfredo with brocolli. I even make the alfredo sauce myself 😊
After the absolute horrific day I’ve had today finding there is a new Morph upload. Life isn’t so bad anymore. Sending hugs to everyone ❤
Awww Morph! Sending you big hugs! 🤍🤍🤍 Lovely play through! Your videos make it easy for me to relax and go to sleep ! Cheers!
It's interesting, I didn't get emotional watching this, but by the very end I actually stopped and had a long think. My mom is 1st gen, I'm 2nd South American...I honestly didn't connect food as a love/cultural language growing up, heck, even now it kinda just hit me. Now that I'm living a whole state away from my parents, and as I get older, I notice I converse with my mom about the foods I'm cooking a lot! LOL Just this evening I sent her a picture of something I made & she called me right away. We spent the rest of our convo doing little bits of catch up, but I'm amazed how much was food-related in retrospect. She talked about what she made & wanted to share the recipe. This, inadvertently has become part of our 'love language' to one another I've realized, and THAT is making me emotional now. 🥺Truly time passes so quickly the older you get, and tomorrow is never promised, so thanks for sharing this gameplay...it was a gentle reminder of love, cultural change over generations & how we are all just figuring it out the first time on this earth. xoxo
Been waiting for this one! It's such a lovely aesthetic and you've just the right softness to relate the story 😄
nothing better than a morphy upload after a long day. excited to watch this! 🙌
Proud of you morph, that's some A grade cooking😊❤
I’m looking forward to watching this 😁 I love the art style! It’s so cute
Yessss ☺ I really want to play Venba. I am happy to watch your playthrough of the game!
crazy how morph got all those recipes right the first time with no mistakes!! great work :D also im really curious about that bit of dialogue where venba said she was getting a lot of pushback for being with her husband -- are they from different religions or ethnic groups?
I assume they're from different castes? Please, anyone who knows more about this weigh in, but India has a caste system which - while there is action being taken to make things more equal - is pretty ingrained culturally.
Fellow Leo here, can’t imagine having kids. Cats are my children.
I suspected when it was an Indian couple living in Canada it would be around Toronto. I briefly suspected Vancouver, but that tends to attract more east Asians, and Montreal takes all the French-speaking immigrants.
Morphy cry, I cry. That's just my bear cult upbringing, tho. Daddy stuff... gets me evvvryy time.😢 But enough about that! I make a very wonderful vegetarian chili. Have it over a baked sweet potato. A little spicy, savory and sweet. Very filling, very comfort. Big 🐻 hug💕for lovely playthrough.
Very sweet & cute. Thank you. You must’ve said separate rice and chunks like 15 times-poor kid starving😂. My go to is my grannies goulosh or taco salad. Love the frame & picture analogy too ❤
Dude you always manage to find great games like damn
This game was amazing! I mean, I didn't cry, because I have no soul, but it was so adorable and just nice. I really enjoyed this.
Ohhh Canada! Thank you for another wonderful cozy play through 😊❤
Morph saying ' Kanna' makes me so happy
Hope I said it right!
@MadMorph Ha ha yes, it was adorable the way you say it.
This was really good. Thanks for playing so i could see it. Great game
What an amazing game. Life is short, we have to use it well.
My comfort food is grilled cheese! I love making it for me and my siblings at the end of long days
Wow even the characters don’t want to stay in Canada lol 😂 I don’t blame them lol
Watching you play this honestly just stressed me out so much 😅 Like, nooo the order is right there
I’ve seen that you have played some of the Life is Strange games on your channel and I’d love for you to do a little throwback and play the original Life is Strange game. (You may have already played the game on your channel, I just haven’t found the video yet) I love that game and your videos so much!! 😊
Oooooh i love this game! I'm so happy you played it!
Canadian living in the US!! Applying for my dual citizenship in February 🥳🥳
i miss my mother as she sadly passed away last month and we had her funeral recently..
I’m so sorry for your lost ❤
Much love to you🙏🏻💕please take care of yourself ✨️
@@galaxyclan2666 thank you~ ❤
thank you and i'll try~ ❤
I'm so sorry you are going through this loss. :'( Please make sure you take care~ sending you warm hugs xo
So when Kavin speaks English (the yellow text) the mum can’t understand fully and that’s why it’s muddy. When he speaks their native language (the white text) the mum can understand and it’s clear at least I think that’s how it goes
brb texting my mom i love her immediately. (I did before this video, its her birthday!)
Please play Pentiment next! It's so underrated and not enough people know how good it is!
I love your videos!! 💖
1:19:07 Morph, I’m proud of you 🐻
Actually you fry spices first to release the taste. Anyway that scene when Kavin taste his dish remind me of Ratatouille scene.
What a sweet and sad game. Thank you ❤
this game made me sad that my immigrant parents stopped feeling like china was home, and feel uncomfortable going back due to america and chinas strained relationship ;,(
oh canada!! i’m a canadian viewer of yours, thanks for the shoutout 🇨🇦❤
O Canada 😆🇨🇦. I hope you get to visit again someday. 👋🏻
wow you did all the recipes right the first try 👏👏👏
You should play cemetery mary! It's a multi ending game and pretty fun! I would love to see how you would react to what happens
I'm Tamil just like the characters and I feel like I'm cheating because I can read all the untranslated Tamil recipes/text hehehehe
Damn this game has some banger music
Wow im impressed by the first try ❤️❤️
omg i've been waiting for you to play this
I wanna make the dishes from Venba. I would love to try these!
Am not crying you are 😭😭😭
I see that Dad died somewhere between 2006 and 2014. Do we get to know what happened to him?
I don't think we do- I think they didn't mention how he died because that's not what mattered.
Yeah when you were reading back on the texts the mom said to the son it was his anniversary and to message what I assume wa the uncle. So sad and I'm not sure i want to know how he passed cause it would make it worse 😞
oh Canada! :P Canada is cold, but nice.
Cooking mama with feels, yay!
1:27:25
Arik Einstein's songs are my go to music
O' Canada 🇨🇦 you should come back!❤
You should try The Wild At Heart! I genuinely cried at one part.
Now that I’ve finished watching.. I am a WRECK 😭😭😭
The story really kept me watching, but holy did I get super frustrated watching the cooking part
lol same
It's interesting that you bring up the subject of names. A lot of South Asians in the UK keep their names as in its quite unusual to have westernised names in that community. Though one of my friends at school was born in the UK to a mother who had immigrated from East Asia. She had been given a western name by her mother. I think she struggled with a lot of the issues a lot of first generation immigrants struggle with looking at the comments under this video. Also I may be completely wrong on this but isn't English one of the main languages in India? I doubt that an Indian immigrant would struggle to understand English. For anyone reading this please feel free to correct me on anything I have said as I am not from a immigrant background. I obviously I have no personal experiences of anything I have written about and this is only what I have observed.
Pls listen to the message of the game. Appreciate your parents and family and the time you spend with them thought it may be often tough. Also, please don't be ashamed of your culture. People who don't mean well for you and who aren't true loving family are not worth listening to. Be careful who you listen to and what for. A lot of ppl won't even stay with you for the rest of your life
Not me crying at work
Was wondering if you were going to check out this game, I liked it.
Oh Canada! I am Canadian :)
46:01
Wow❤
Perfect🤗 💎
Wow! ♥
I agree, adding a few Tamil words on screen to give you more of a glimpse into the culture would've been really interesting.
42:35 - the definition of insanity is...
wow 💕
Oh Canada!
You should try amarican Arcadia