it’s like the infamous [deleted channel], having fun doing stupid things like drinking or sauna in pee until you reach the half way mark. When you realize the time is running out. If you do not complete all you can do it will end forever. “Time always seems to move faster, when it’s running out” Memento Mori Unus Annus
@General Kenobi not knowing about it until it’s gone feels like an even bigger kick in the balls so now I gotta go and do something better with my life instead of watching fun videos, like watching other fun videos instead :l
Happened to me too, moments ago. I avoided the child because I knew he would be afraid. I waited for him to pass by, and then I went into the well and waited. The bucket came down again, I expected it to be the old man. I didn't think the child would come twice in a row. But, better I died, than wake the King.
Just realized that if the "bottomless pit" really doesn't have a bottom for him to hit, the Shade actually didn't commit suicide at all. He just doomed himself to eternity of nothingness. So more like the King ending.
It's also unclear whether the Shade will die of natural causes in any given case. So even in the second ending, he might have to live through the deaths of everyone he grows to love, and wander the world in torment again. That makes me think that maybe the third was the best. Quick fall, neck break, then the longing has truly ended.
On the second ending if you go more on the left you can see a tomb with written words on it something like "deep below this ground lies a poor souls, which is now lost forever" or "forever bound to the underground". Since our shade and the old blind man both have almost identical noses i presume a shade is his son who died in a young age and his soul was bonded to underground kingdom. Tombstone lies exactly above shade's little cave. I love this game.
I love the good end, I think it's really cathartic. He is lonely and in longing while he waits for the king, but when he goes out and leaves, meets others, he's not lonely anymore. He may still long to see the king, but he can find other happiness. He can go on.
@@PKINGU 4 is def the most disturbing. In number 1 you end the longing by ending yourself, but pain still exists in the world. In 4 you end all longing and pain forever, but you had to sacrifice the entire world. It's either a mercy killing or the largest suicide possible, depending on how you look at it, and the king is willing to carry that out. He is literally going to kill everything if he wakes up. I think he might deserve to die tbh.
Yesterday I was just thinking of a game that could exist where it could last for a whole lifetime, now I discovered this but it lasts for over a year, still worth it.
Aaaaaaactually, the more you decorate your room, the faster time passes while you're in it. I got i up to about 15x, and it was finished when I came back in a couple weeks...
I have a different take on things. I chose the secret ending, and while I was very underwhelmed, after seeing all of the other endings I believe it to be the best. I believe this for one simple reason. It is the only ending in which the Shade is smiling.
The dream ending is the second best imo I think the family one is the best because then the shade gets exactly what he wanted someone to be a friend to end the longing of loneliness and sorrow
i made my little cave all pretty and decorated with all the books and a bed and everything, kept my hands off the treasure, drew pictures for my king daddy to see when he woke up, patiently waited 400 days, and he destroys everything. I was hoping for a female shade to be friends with, or maybe I'm the female shade, I'm not sure. Then we could be a happy underground family carrying on with our mushroom gardens and growing glowing crystals and having picnics in the halls of eternity. But instead all I get is an eternity of awkward conversation with the ultimate doomer boomer. He spent the next 100 years making deep jokes, because, you know, we were deep underground. "I'm 14 kilometers underground and this is deep" - oh gawd kill me. Should've just left his stone arse down there and went to live with the family. At least they had tea.
How could you ever think that? The king's home is a dark desolate cave with absolutely nothing in it except shiny crystals, gold, and empty halls. When you ask the face in the wall about the king, he pretty much tells you that the king will destroy everything. The further away you get from him, the more you find life - a spider, a place where mushrooms grow, etc. Every single bit of the game is hinting at what the king will do.
@@speedos the face just said he'd bring an end to longing. And why would desolation and emptiness imply something bad? My apartment is desolate and dark and empty and I'm not bad.
@@Endymion766 No, the face specifically says: *"As long as there is time, there will always be longing. And once all longing has ended, the world will no longer need time... And those without longing will no longer need the world."* The first sentence is a clearly pointing to the fact that the king will end time a.k.a. destroy everything. The last sentence solidifies this, alluding to the fact that the king, unlike Shade, has no longing and therefore doesn't need the world. And I dunno, I probably wouldn't trust a person whose aparment is completely devoid of life and color but they surround themselves with shiny jewelry for compensation. You'd have to show an inkling of caring for life, which the king absolutely clearly doesn't.
Damn, I went for the 400 days ending and was expecting the King's strength to be fully restored, so he would make the kingdom full again. Like, I hoped that my shade would get a nice life, make some new friends, but no, everything went to nothing.
Part of me knew that remaining loyal to the king wouldn't be as happy of an ending as the shade had hoped. I found one of the books with poems in them and on the last page it had a poem called "The king and his shade" and it told of a sleeping king who would bring about armegedeon when he woke up. iirc it pointed out that a world without sorrow and longing was impossible. When the king revealed that he destroyed everything, I was still very sad, but honestly not surprised. I wish I had decided to actually leave though. I could have. Everything was in place for it. I just chose to stay bc I wanted to know what would happen if I woke the king.
Wow, ending 4. Most likely the true ending, and it's quite a dark one. Although I suppose the king is right. If there's nothing there, there's nothing to wait for.
Sure there is nothing to wait for, but there is still everything to long for, its just that the chance of achieving what the shade is longing for vanished. I would consider that cruel and unusual in the extreme, because it just basically gives the shade the decision between suicide and longing for something that he knows 100% he can never achieve for all eternity.
I think the thing people are overlooking about the King is they aren't just 'the King.' The entire world is built upon their head and the mere act of standing up ends all life. They're aren't a King, they're the King of Kings, God. They're God, and they are tired of sitting on God's throne holding the entire world atop their shoulders. They've probably been doing it for tens or hundreds of thousands of years at this point and they're ready to be done with it. At some point, God must have decided they'd had enough and put the decision unknowingly on the Shade's shoulders. Either 1) The Shade wakes God up and God takes it as a sign to free himself of his duties or 2). The Shade leaves God, and God chooses to die in their sleep. God's corpse will thus be sealed away and continue to hold up the world forever.
I don't get it. It's all the same, whether you live a full life-time, or everything ends in the next moment, the result is the same. So why rush to the end? Sure, life is chock full of pain and disappointment and "longing", but it's full of other things, too. Ultimately the decision is yours, it shouldn't be made by others for you.
All endings Paraphrased Ending 1: Commit cliff fall (Bad) Ending 2: Happy after-life (good) Ending 3: Death by scared little girl (bad) Ending 4: Wakey Wakey king! (Bad) Ending 5: I have dream (Good)
I would argue the 4th ending is still bad and the first may be neutral to some people as you are killing yourself,not anyone else like in the 4th ending
Seeing the design of the king’s crown built into the ceiling made me think “hey, i shouldn’t wake him up….” Then i did. Thank you for posting these endings. At least I know there is a reality where the shade can be happy.
The painting of the King gives clues what will happen when you wake him up finally. In the painting his crown is not connected to the ceiling standing in the dark void holding his Shade.
it’s like the infamous [deleted channel], having fun doing stupid things like drinking or sauna in pee until you reach the half way mark. When you realize the time is running out. If you do not complete all you can do it will end forever. “Time always seems to move faster, when it’s running out” Memento Mori Unus Annus
I think the thing people are overlooking about the King is they aren't just 'the King.' The entire world is built upon their head, and the mere act of standing up ends all life. They aren't a King; they're the King of Kings, God. They're God, and they are tired of sitting on God's throne, holding the entire world atop their shoulders. They've probably been doing it for tens or hundreds of thousands of years at this point, and they're ready to be done with it. Even the Halls of Eternity are there, a very Godly and Heaven-like place. At some point, God must have decided they'd grown tired of being confined there but was conflicted about the implications of standing up (resetting/end of the world). Hence they put the decision unknowingly on the Shade's shoulders. Either 1) The Shade wakes God up, and God takes it as a sign to free himself of the world that had become a prison to him, or 2). The Shade leaves God, and God chooses to die in their sleep. God's corpse will thus be sealed away and continue to hold up the world forever. If this is the case you realize the decision the Shade made was either 'Save the World' or 'Save the World's Creator.' Far bigger and more difficult decision than you might have first realized.
actually I really like this interpretation. It makes it feel less like you're breaking your loyalty to the king by leaving, and instead that you are following his plan all along: to have the free will to choose what you think should happen to the world. It makes the king out to be a slightly more benevolent being and it explains why when 400 days pass nothing happens until you wake him up. He is committing to sleep for eternity, and it is only by the shade's loyalty that the king will ever wake up. If you don't, then the king will hold the world forever--but won't feel a thing, because he isn't really alive anymore. Alternatively, you're point about the king being conflicted is also interesting, because when he creates the shade, the shade has no concept of the outside world. It isn't *supposed* to know anything about the outside world. It's entirely possible that the idea was that the shade was essentially pulling the trigger here. Because the shade wouldn't have any attachment to the world, it could unknowingly bring about its end. The king would therefore only have to take action by simply waking up.
Nah, that's just conflating one who believes the world they imagine to be what's on their heads. Shade going out, finds others, and other Kings. The King is bound to nothingness or being empty, and old, and longing for what was. The King isn't connected to the world out of the cave, the cave feels like the whole world because it's isolated to the Shade's and the King's experience. The Shade needed to find another experience, out of the cave with the King in there.
Do you have ANY idea how pissed I would have been if I had waited the 400 days and THAT was my reward?!! I'm so happy I went to live with blind grandpa!
MalingSendal you can, but the game says no, so you have to click the start game button like 100 times, then the game gives up after saying “this is made to be played only once” IF I WANTED SOMETHING I COULD ONLY EXPRENCE ONCE I’D ACTUALLY GO OUTSIDE! EACH DAY IS ONLY EXPRENCABLE ONCE IRL! LOOK I GET YOUR MESSAGE NEAT, BUT YOU REALLY DONT NEED TO SHOVE IT DOWN MY THROAT!
God this game is so good. I always love games that flip your expectations on its head and absolutely crush you. In a lot of way this game could be considered art for that reason.
Having so much time, so many things to do. When it’s over you will move on but cherish those moments. When it ends it will all be black, the end. But it’s what you chose to do before that happens that matters. “Time always seems to move faster, when it’s running out” Memento Mori Unus Annus
Every game is art. Art doesn't have to be a deep psychological affair to be considered art. If it expresses imagination or skill, it is, by definition, an artwork. People who don't get this is the reason why people think we artists are snobs lmao
The game knows that so if you do that and come back to the game your in a dungeon and the king is yelling at you for your bad behavior then the game ends you just look at the shade being sad trapped in a cell
@@Tacoman2204 how will the game know that, what's the difference between closing it and then reopening it after three minutes with a different clock and coming back actually a lot later It might be reading bios time if it can but that can be changed too
@@danielmallory4687 I don't think that because they would need something to make sure the servers will still run two years later, if they ever die the game is useless and I don't think the devs have enough money to just save it for the server
after agonizing over it (knowing what endings existed but not exactly what they were) I finally decided to awaken the King. Ohhhh... bad, bad move on my part. Should have gone to the surface... (Though I'm glad I didn't get the ending with the troll kid. EEEEAGH! That would've been horrific after waiting all that long.)
@@K16711 will you be able to tell who is pulling you up the well? I’m still pretty early in the game but I’m already so attached to the shade I don’t want ending 3!
I obtained Ending 2 before Ending 3. Kind of wish I obtained 3 and then 2, for a happier impression. This game was really unique, I hope to see more games like this where real time is used that way.
I’m your 300th like but the game is like the infamous [deleted channel], having fun doing stupid things like drinking or sauna in pee until you reach the half way mark. When you realize the time is running out. If you do not complete all you can do it will end forever. “Time always seems to move faster, when it’s running out” Memento Mori Unus Annus
In the story the king actually did want to create a kingdom but the shade wished for a world without longing and so the king promised. That is why after the shade wakes him up he destroys the world as without the world there is no longing.
I didn't want to see any spoilers, especially the endings, because I wanted to fully experience the game, but then the game kept hinting that something bad might happen to shade if I didn't do things right and I hated the thought of anything bad happening to shade after all the time I spent adoring it. So I finally went to youtube. I originally wanted to awaken the king because I'm a stickler for following orders and because I was weirdly unquestioningly loyal to the king even though we literally had one interaction. But after seeing the 4th ending, I was weirdly depressed. Was I really gonna do all this stuff, walking around the kingdom, collecting things to decorate my home and speed up time, just so the king could destroy everything in the world? He slept for 400 days and that was the brilliant plan he came up with? I kinda regretting watching this video now because I kinda don't wanna play anymore because none of the endings gave me any real satisfaction. The 2nd one comes the closest but I didn't like how the king just dies. I'm pretty sure that I'm gonna choose the 2nd ending because I believe that's what shade deserves, not eternal nothingness. It still a tad bit disappointing. I wish there was a better ending than the 5 options here but I guess that's not what they intended for the game. I just want shade to be happy. I'm way to attached to it.
@@Alyeh i mean that is technically right but like, what are they gonna do? Drift in the void for all eternity? The shadow has proven to have its own feelings and can feel sad and happy etc
Everywhere we go there’s lines we’re always waiting, waiting for the next paycheck the next movie, game ,girl , job, car ,raise ect a whole life of longing for more waiting to die
@@ThePastaBolognese You can speed up time by collecting items in the Shade's room. Also, some of the endings don't need to wait for 400 days to get one.
Fun fact: The basis of the game is the story about old Kaiser (Emperor) Frederick Barbarossa. He was probably one of the greatest kings Germany ever had. So great in fact that we simply didnt believe he died. He hid himself in the Kyffhäuser mountain, waiting for the day Germany needs him once more. The Kyffhäuser Monument is a good one to visit if you are ever in Germany, specifically, Thuringia
I feel like it actually is metaphorical for religion. In that, for living beings, to be without our longing is to be without time. Humans passing through time will always want something they don't have yet. The father promises to end your longing if you wait for him. Like God's promise of the kingdom of heaven if you wait for Christ's second coming. We wait and wait. But what is a world without longing? An endless world without time. And what is a world without time? Destroyed. Fundamentally I think the end of all longing is something that is promised in many religions. Buddhists reach Nirvana by defeating their desires. What this game does well I think is wrapping these ideas in such a strong fantastic, lonely, scary atmosphere.
I couldn’t imagine doing this, all the way through. A little bit because of the time I would end up spending, but the guaranteed depression I would get when finishing this game. Spending over a year of my life just too see a one minute ending
The game actually has a mechanic where the cozier you make your little home, the faster time goes by. Even at the start of the game if you leave the Shade in his little armchair before exiting, you can come back to find a lot of time has passed. I basically made the hole as cozy as I possibly could, then waited a couple days to complete the 5th ending.
This game made me appreciate a few characters that had to endure something like the Shade's loneliness so much more, because the game is only 400 days but playing it you really feel how slow the time passes, comparing that to characters like Homura Akemi from Madoka Magica, who was stuck in a time loop for 12 years, over 10 times the amount the Shade had to wait. Furina from Genshin Impact who had to keep up a masquerade for 500 years, or Raiden Ei, who fought against a perfect replica of herself for 500 years, both over 450 times the amount of time the Shade had to wait. And finally Spinel from Steven Universe, who had to stay stood in the same place, without moving, for 6 THOUSAND years, nearly 5500 times the amount of time the Shade had to wait. The sheer scale of that amount of time is incomprehensible when you don't really think about how long it actually is, this game made me appreciate how long even a few minutes or hours can feel, especially if you're repeating the same tasks or walking the same routes over and over, and it gave me a little bit more perspective on just how maddening not only the Shade's isolation must have felt, but how it must have felt for those other characters too, which made me fall in love with their stories and characters all over again with a newfound understanding of how such monumental time scales affected them as characters.
when u talk to a face in one of the caves, he will offer to trade his wisdom for some coals and stuff. and one of the wisdom is along the lines of 'don't trust the eyes of the young as they fear you, trust the old and the blind', referring to the bad and good ending. the face tells you more wisdoms, now thinking about it, he lowkey tells are all different endings
I haven't played the game, but I would assume that it's completely based on RNG. The Shade says that he would have to hope the helper isn't scared of him, which would imply that the shade has no control over who does help him.
HOW????? I really don't understand how you find that ending happy, it's incredibly depressing in that instead of trying to use critical thinking and solve your problems, they just tell u "nah just kill everyone so no suffering ha lol".
If they just had a PC with RimWorld, Darkest Dungeon, Caves of Qud and The binding of Isaac imstalled, protag would be like "ya dad sleep for another 400 days, shit's just started getting interesting"
doesnt actually take 400 days to play. The mechanic is that as you put more stuff in the shades room time speeds up (time flies when your having fun as they say). so the average person can complete the game in ~12 hours of play time
@@KnightSlasher simply being in his room speeds up time, but yeah, if you were to wait in the throne room then it would take 400 days. however, as you have seen, you would get the bad ending.
Imagine waiting for 400 days and going up a well for safety, only for you to get dropped down, back into the darkness.
it’s like the infamous [deleted channel], having fun doing stupid things like drinking or sauna in pee until you reach the half way mark. When you realize the time is running out. If you do not complete all you can do it will end forever. “Time always seems to move faster, when it’s running out”
Memento Mori
Unus Annus
@General Kenobi not knowing about it until it’s gone feels like an even bigger kick in the balls so now I gotta go and do something better with my life instead of watching fun videos, like watching other fun videos instead :l
Why does that ending happen?
@Camo Moose omg 💀
Happened to me too, moments ago. I avoided the child because I knew he would be afraid. I waited for him to pass by, and then I went into the well and waited. The bucket came down again, I expected it to be the old man. I didn't think the child would come twice in a row. But, better I died, than wake the King.
imagine you go to wake him up and he’s just like “5 more weeks”
😂
@Daniel Ashar bin Mohd Fraziali * no it’s a reference to the five more minutes joke that a bunch of tv shows do.
@Daniel Ashar bin Mohd Fraziali * not everything is a reference to quarantine
@Daniel Ashar bin Mohd Fraziali * nope
@Daniel Ashar bin Mohd Fraziali * no
Just realized that if the "bottomless pit" really doesn't have a bottom for him to hit, the Shade actually didn't commit suicide at all. He just doomed himself to eternity of nothingness. So more like the King ending.
It's also unclear whether the Shade will die of natural causes in any given case. So even in the second ending, he might have to live through the deaths of everyone he grows to love, and wander the world in torment again. That makes me think that maybe the third was the best. Quick fall, neck break, then the longing has truly ended.
Actually worse in the king ending he has the king atleast
That probably explains why you can't go back after going in there, as the Shade is probably too busy falling down
@@meep291 Well... yeah... it's an ending... either he dies or he keeps falling, one way or another there's no going back
@@Nat_the_Chicken That sounds so depressing(
On the second ending if you go more on the left you can see a tomb with written words on it something like "deep below this ground lies a poor souls, which is now lost forever" or "forever bound to the underground". Since our shade and the old blind man both have almost identical noses i presume a shade is his son who died in a young age and his soul was bonded to underground kingdom. Tombstone lies exactly above shade's little cave. I love this game.
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I love the good end, I think it's really cathartic.
He is lonely and in longing while he waits for the king, but when he goes out and leaves, meets others, he's not lonely anymore.
He may still long to see the king, but he can find other happiness. He can go on.
The king dies if you go out.
@@abaddon130 good
@FilippoAndMind looks can be deceiving
@FilippoAndMind and then proceeded to destroy the whole world
@FilippoAndMind the king literally dies if you don’t wake him up
Congrats on playing for 400 days! Your ending options are:
1. You die
2. The king dies
3. You die
4. Everyone dies
4 is the best
Yet 4 is still my favourite
5. You wake up and it was all a dream
@@PKINGU 4 is def the most disturbing. In number 1 you end the longing by ending yourself, but pain still exists in the world. In 4 you end all longing and pain forever, but you had to sacrifice the entire world. It's either a mercy killing or the largest suicide possible, depending on how you look at it, and the king is willing to carry that out. He is literally going to kill everything if he wakes up. I think he might deserve to die tbh.
Why does the king die in number 2 and why does the character want to kill himself in 1
Imagine waiting 400 days to get to the surface just for some kid to drop you and kill you
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Yeah if that happened to me I would rage so hard lol
@@Gladionuh it’d be quite the challenge to rage considering you’d be dead
@@jacoborwhatev1 if i died like that I would kill myself
Imagine playing this game for 1600 days just to record the different endings
You could play four games simultaneously I guess
Also that's not how the game works
People cant take a joke around here...
U can speed the timer up by doing in game things
I doesn’t work exactly like that, the more you play and make your little hut better, the faster time goes
Yesterday I was just thinking of a game that could exist where it could last for a whole lifetime, now I discovered this but it lasts for over a year, still worth it.
Aaaaaaactually, the more you decorate your room, the faster time passes while you're in it. I got i up to about 15x, and it was finished when I came back in a couple weeks...
any game can last for a lifetime if you play it multiple times
The Sims is never ending
@@cooldude439 I mean like a game that takes a lifetime to beat.
@@rubixdude1067 oh alright
I have a different take on things. I chose the secret ending, and while I was very underwhelmed, after seeing all of the other endings I believe it to be the best. I believe this for one simple reason. It is the only ending in which the Shade is smiling.
The dream ending is the second best imo I think the family one is the best because then the shade gets exactly what he wanted someone to be a friend to end the longing of loneliness and sorrow
@Alexander Atkinson-Freeman The speed hack ending isn't an ending lol, it lets you go back to your game
if you collect moss and sticks to make a bed and let him sleep then the shade will always be smiling
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How did you get this ending?
i made my little cave all pretty and decorated with all the books and a bed and everything, kept my hands off the treasure, drew pictures for my king daddy to see when he woke up, patiently waited 400 days, and he destroys everything. I was hoping for a female shade to be friends with, or maybe I'm the female shade, I'm not sure. Then we could be a happy underground family carrying on with our mushroom gardens and growing glowing crystals and having picnics in the halls of eternity. But instead all I get is an eternity of awkward conversation with the ultimate doomer boomer. He spent the next 100 years making deep jokes, because, you know, we were deep underground. "I'm 14 kilometers underground and this is deep" - oh gawd kill me. Should've just left his stone arse down there and went to live with the family. At least they had tea.
Lol
I can tell your patient, you actually wrote an essay for your comment...
How could you ever think that? The king's home is a dark desolate cave with absolutely nothing in it except shiny crystals, gold, and empty halls. When you ask the face in the wall about the king, he pretty much tells you that the king will destroy everything. The further away you get from him, the more you find life - a spider, a place where mushrooms grow, etc. Every single bit of the game is hinting at what the king will do.
@@speedos the face just said he'd bring an end to longing. And why would desolation and emptiness imply something bad? My apartment is desolate and dark and empty and I'm not bad.
@@Endymion766 No, the face specifically says: *"As long as there is time, there will always be longing. And once all longing has ended, the world will no longer need time... And those without longing will no longer need the world."*
The first sentence is a clearly pointing to the fact that the king will end time a.k.a. destroy everything. The last sentence solidifies this, alluding to the fact that the king, unlike Shade, has no longing and therefore doesn't need the world.
And I dunno, I probably wouldn't trust a person whose aparment is completely devoid of life and color but they surround themselves with shiny jewelry for compensation. You'd have to show an inkling of caring for life, which the king absolutely clearly doesn't.
The 4th ending is where you wait the entirety of the 400 years and it occurs at 4:00 in the video.
Nice.
400 seconds
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@@GengUpinIpin 400 miliseconds
@@therealgungus160400 metres
It’s not 400 years it’s 400 days
4*60 is 240 seconds.@@GengUpinIpin
Damn, I went for the 400 days ending and was expecting the King's strength to be fully restored, so he would make the kingdom full again. Like, I hoped that my shade would get a nice life, make some new friends, but no, everything went to nothing.
You wanted shit that’s what happened
The king said eternal realm or something, it's the good ending!
Part of me knew that remaining loyal to the king wouldn't be as happy of an ending as the shade had hoped. I found one of the books with poems in them and on the last page it had a poem called "The king and his shade" and it told of a sleeping king who would bring about armegedeon when he woke up. iirc it pointed out that a world without sorrow and longing was impossible. When the king revealed that he destroyed everything, I was still very sad, but honestly not surprised. I wish I had decided to actually leave though. I could have. Everything was in place for it. I just chose to stay bc I wanted to know what would happen if I woke the king.
Wow, ending 4. Most likely the true ending, and it's quite a dark one. Although I suppose the king is right. If there's nothing there, there's nothing to wait for.
Sure there is nothing to wait for, but there is still everything to long for, its just that the chance of achieving what the shade is longing for vanished.
I would consider that cruel and unusual in the extreme, because it just basically gives the shade the decision between suicide and
longing for something that he knows 100% he can never achieve for all eternity.
I think the thing people are overlooking about the King is they aren't just 'the King.' The entire world is built upon their head and the mere act of standing up ends all life.
They're aren't a King, they're the King of Kings, God. They're God, and they are tired of sitting on God's throne holding the entire world atop their shoulders. They've probably been doing it for tens or hundreds of thousands of years at this point and they're ready to be done with it.
At some point, God must have decided they'd had enough and put the decision unknowingly on the Shade's shoulders. Either 1) The Shade wakes God up and God takes it as a sign to free himself of his duties or 2). The Shade leaves God, and God chooses to die in their sleep. God's corpse will thus be sealed away and continue to hold up the world forever.
I don't get it. It's all the same, whether you live a full life-time, or everything ends in the next moment, the result is the same. So why rush to the end? Sure, life is chock full of pain and disappointment and "longing", but it's full of other things, too. Ultimately the decision is yours, it shouldn't be made by others for you.
Nihilist ending, lol.
All endings Paraphrased
Ending 1: Commit cliff fall (Bad)
Ending 2: Happy after-life (good)
Ending 3: Death by scared little girl (bad)
Ending 4: Wakey Wakey king! (Bad)
Ending 5: I have dream (Good)
I would argue the 4th ending is still bad and the first may be neutral to some people as you are killing yourself,not anyone else like in the 4th ending
@@eduardcruceru9004 I guess agree except Ending 1, I do sort of agree but Suicide is devastating, but I see where you're coming from
Ending 4 is the best ending
imagine dying via scared child
Ending 1 is basically Omori
Seeing the design of the king’s crown built into the ceiling made me think “hey, i shouldn’t wake him up….” Then i did. Thank you for posting these endings. At least I know there is a reality where the shade can be happy.
not really? the shade himself wanted a world without longing
@@NotFinnTrado it's called be happy with the shirt on your back and nothing else and you won't have longing.
The painting of the King gives clues what will happen when you wake him up finally. In the painting his crown is not connected to the ceiling standing in the dark void holding his Shade.
correction: THE LONGING - ALL ENDINGS (Bad, Bad, Bad, Good)
wheres the good one?
@@ehehet5801 living with the family
What’s bad about the one where he flies away in the bird
@@willw5868 ima be honest i didnt see the number change and thought it was just a part of the 4th ending my bad
Idk the first one kinda gave me hope
the grandma givin him a bath is cute
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really love that second ending, theyre just like "this thing. this child?..... yes. this is baby. my baby"
0:18
END THE GAME. YOU CANNOT PLAY AGAIN
thanks for that, I couldn't read the red text at all lol
So you have to buy it again D:?
Thank you
it’s like the infamous [deleted channel], having fun doing stupid things like drinking or sauna in pee until you reach the half way mark. When you realize the time is running out. If you do not complete all you can do it will end forever. “Time always seems to move faster, when it’s running out”
Memento Mori
Unus Annus
@@Jacob-zk1jy ah, I see. Your a man of culture as well.
I think the thing people are overlooking about the King is they aren't just 'the King.' The entire world is built upon their head, and the mere act of standing up ends all life.
They aren't a King; they're the King of Kings, God. They're God, and they are tired of sitting on God's throne, holding the entire world atop their shoulders. They've probably been doing it for tens or hundreds of thousands of years at this point, and they're ready to be done with it. Even the Halls of Eternity are there, a very Godly and Heaven-like place.
At some point, God must have decided they'd grown tired of being confined there but was conflicted about the implications of standing up (resetting/end of the world). Hence they put the decision unknowingly on the Shade's shoulders. Either 1) The Shade wakes God up, and God takes it as a sign to free himself of the world that had become a prison to him, or 2). The Shade leaves God, and God chooses to die in their sleep. God's corpse will thus be sealed away and continue to hold up the world forever.
If this is the case you realize the decision the Shade made was either 'Save the World' or 'Save the World's Creator.' Far bigger and more difficult decision than you might have first realized.
I’m easily choosing option 2 any day
actually I really like this interpretation. It makes it feel less like you're breaking your loyalty to the king by leaving, and instead that you are following his plan all along: to have the free will to choose what you think should happen to the world.
It makes the king out to be a slightly more benevolent being and it explains why when 400 days pass nothing happens until you wake him up. He is committing to sleep for eternity, and it is only by the shade's loyalty that the king will ever wake up. If you don't, then the king will hold the world forever--but won't feel a thing, because he isn't really alive anymore.
Alternatively, you're point about the king being conflicted is also interesting, because when he creates the shade, the shade has no concept of the outside world. It isn't *supposed* to know anything about the outside world. It's entirely possible that the idea was that the shade was essentially pulling the trigger here. Because the shade wouldn't have any attachment to the world, it could unknowingly bring about its end. The king would therefore only have to take action by simply waking up.
Nah, that's just conflating one who believes the world they imagine to be what's on their heads. Shade going out, finds others, and other Kings. The King is bound to nothingness or being empty, and old, and longing for what was. The King isn't connected to the world out of the cave, the cave feels like the whole world because it's isolated to the Shade's and the King's experience. The Shade needed to find another experience, out of the cave with the King in there.
Do you have ANY idea how pissed I would have been if I had waited the 400 days and THAT was my reward?!! I'm so happy I went to live with blind grandpa!
Imagine getting number 3. Ouch
I got number 3 expecting the old man to pull me up :| Asking for a refund
My refund got declined because I spent more than 2 hours “playing the game” 🤦♂️
@@hvideon1 you really cant play again??
@@hvideon1 feelsbadman
MalingSendal you can, but the game says no, so you have to click the start game button like 100 times, then the game gives up after saying “this is made to be played only once” IF I WANTED SOMETHING I COULD ONLY EXPRENCE ONCE I’D ACTUALLY GO OUTSIDE! EACH DAY IS ONLY EXPRENCABLE ONCE IRL! LOOK I GET YOUR MESSAGE NEAT, BUT YOU REALLY DONT NEED TO SHOVE IT DOWN MY THROAT!
Wow, the king is a jerk.
not really
how is he a jerk
He destroyed the whole world bruh
Yeah but the shade Wanted a world without longing
@@smuglookinganimegirl3558 True
Shade: I want to end this loneliness and longing.
King: We got longing at home.
Longing at home: Secret ending.
What a cute shade I hope it doesn't obliterate all life and rule an empty void with its eternal king.
God this game is so good. I always love games that flip your expectations on its head and absolutely crush you. In a lot of way this game could be considered art for that reason.
Having so much time, so many things to do. When it’s over you will move on but cherish those moments. When it ends it will all be black, the end. But it’s what you chose to do before that happens that matters. “Time always seems to move faster, when it’s running out”
Memento Mori
Unus Annus
@@Jacob-zk1jy
R.I.P UNUS ANNUS
Every game is art. Art doesn't have to be a deep psychological affair to be considered art. If it expresses imagination or skill, it is, by definition, an artwork. People who don't get this is the reason why people think we artists are snobs lmao
@@xecillmaze4740 yeah I agree. People who say games can’t be art are to upity to enjoy it.
If time progresses without the game running that means it's tied to the systems time and that means we all know how to skip to the end
The game knows that so if you do that and come back to the game your in a dungeon and the king is yelling at you for your bad behavior then the game ends you just look at the shade being sad trapped in a cell
@@Tacoman2204 how will the game know that, what's the difference between closing it and then reopening it after three minutes with a different clock and coming back actually a lot later
It might be reading bios time if it can but that can be changed too
Search up a video about it then you’ll see idk the specific stuff that happens
@@dataexpunged3914 maybe it connects to the internet
@@danielmallory4687 I don't think that because they would need something to make sure the servers will still run two years later, if they ever die the game is useless and I don't think the devs have enough money to just save it for the server
Just came here to say, holy shit this guy is committed
Ever heard of speedhacks
man really played one game for almost 4 years to give us a 7 minute video
Imagine if someone was going for ending 2 and they got ending 3 instead
definitely not me, of course
That was me
I remembered he said the little kid would’ve been scared. I didn’t think it was going to kill him
@User Green This sounds like instructions to install a virus
How do you get ending 3 instead of 2?
after agonizing over it (knowing what endings existed but not exactly what they were) I finally decided to awaken the King. Ohhhh... bad, bad move on my part. Should have gone to the surface... (Though I'm glad I didn't get the ending with the troll kid. EEEEAGH! That would've been horrific after waiting all that long.)
I think you get that if you go to the surface before the 400 days are up
@@MagicCardboardBox You get it if you you let the troll kid pull you up the well instead of the old man
@@K16711 And if you wait until the 400 days are up, the old man will be dead and buried, actually, I just realized. (Sigh!)
@@PhantasyStarLover More the reason to go with ending 2, I wanna spend those last days with that old geezer!
@@K16711 will you be able to tell who is pulling you up the well? I’m still pretty early in the game but I’m already so attached to the shade I don’t want ending 3!
Is it possible to keep playing your save after getting one of the endings?
No, you have to start over
Dyzz damnnn that sucks
if you die, you can reload the save files.
Dyzz
so that was a waste of ur time and sanity?
Cinnamon FØRTRESS seems like it lol
Secret ending is so fucking stupid and anticlimactic I can't even... All others are dope as heck though.
"me have dream"
The end
that's it goodbye
Imagine there was an ending where you wake the king early and he just ends you and dies.
Congratulations!! You waited 400 days for me to wake up! Now, your prize is..... Me destroying the entire world.
I just realized that the further away you get from the king there life you find, he was a genocidal maniac before he went to sleep.
I obtained Ending 2 before Ending 3. Kind of wish I obtained 3 and then 2, for a happier impression. This game was really unique, I hope to see more games like this where real time is used that way.
Imagine waiting for so long for something and in the end, it doesn't even matter
This game basically is what that one Linkin Park song is about.
@@lucasmartinez5703 i tried so hard and got so far in the end it doesn’t even matter
Ending 3 is just sad
Imagine you spending 400 days to complete this and you get the bad ending
edit: 140 likes thanks
@idiot lol you dont play it for 400 days, you play for a 1-2 hours a day, you can even not play it on days, the game still ticks down
I’m your 300th like but the game is like the infamous [deleted channel], having fun doing stupid things like drinking or sauna in pee until you reach the half way mark. When you realize the time is running out. If you do not complete all you can do it will end forever. “Time always seems to move faster, when it’s running out”
Memento Mori
Unus Annus
Which is the bad ending
@@whtusern With kid
@@muksimulmaad7413 time moves faster if you do certain things to make the shade comfy
In the story the king actually did want to create a kingdom but the shade wished for a world without longing and so the king promised. That is why after the shade wakes him up he destroys the world as without the world there is no longing.
_The Longing _*_ALL_*_ endings_
How da fuq-
I love how the old couple is clearly adopting strange children
I didn't want to see any spoilers, especially the endings, because I wanted to fully experience the game, but then the game kept hinting that something bad might happen to shade if I didn't do things right and I hated the thought of anything bad happening to shade after all the time I spent adoring it. So I finally went to youtube.
I originally wanted to awaken the king because I'm a stickler for following orders and because I was weirdly unquestioningly loyal to the king even though we literally had one interaction. But after seeing the 4th ending, I was weirdly depressed. Was I really gonna do all this stuff, walking around the kingdom, collecting things to decorate my home and speed up time, just so the king could destroy everything in the world? He slept for 400 days and that was the brilliant plan he came up with?
I kinda regretting watching this video now because I kinda don't wanna play anymore because none of the endings gave me any real satisfaction. The 2nd one comes the closest but I didn't like how the king just dies. I'm pretty sure that I'm gonna choose the 2nd ending because I believe that's what shade deserves, not eternal nothingness. It still a tad bit disappointing.
I wish there was a better ending than the 5 options here but I guess that's not what they intended for the game. I just want shade to be happy. I'm way to attached to it.
Why would you ever??? Delete everything??? There is nothing in there??? What a fool
What do you mean
@@kirbydied2875 the ending where the big dude wakes up
He literally just deleted everything and went "this place is fucking lit rn lmao"
@@shiny2575 What he meant was that if he removed everything from existence, there would be no suffering because there would be no one to suffer.
@@Alyeh i mean that is technically right but like, what are they gonna do? Drift in the void for all eternity? The shadow has proven to have its own feelings and can feel sad and happy etc
@@shiny2575 That's life.
Wait this game was made in 2019 and this video is in 2020
Hold up?????????
Ur right
400 days to finish....
He waited
The speedrun for the 400 days ending is 40 hours
Actually time passes faster if you make your home more comfortable
This man and the video are insane... power to you fam!
Bad, good, bad, bad, bad
Last one is good too
@@papyrusplays6021 actually the last one is the rightous good end, my dude just reordered endings to correct his feeling. And yeah screw the King.
Imagine he actually played this whole game 4 times just for each ending
@@muksimulmaad7413 you can reload save files and use speedhacks
Everywhere we go there’s lines we’re always waiting, waiting for the next paycheck the next movie, game ,girl , job, car ,raise ect a whole life of longing for more waiting to die
The King only has one attack and it takes 400 days to charge, good thing it’s a one hit kill on the whole world though.
My man played for 4 years to get all the endings, now that is commitment
@@Gosho1488 huh, I didn't know that, it was a joke tho but thanks for pointing that out, I thought the game was more recent
@@ThePastaBolognese You can speed up time by collecting items in the Shade's room.
Also, some of the endings don't need to wait for 400 days to get one.
I really respect you who are willing to spend 400 days just to entertain us
That was good
i spent 40 hours playing my sax and it was all for naught
Fun fact: The basis of the game is the story about old Kaiser (Emperor) Frederick Barbarossa. He was probably one of the greatest kings Germany ever had. So great in fact that we simply didnt believe he died. He hid himself in the Kyffhäuser mountain, waiting for the day Germany needs him once more.
The Kyffhäuser Monument is a good one to visit if you are ever in Germany, specifically, Thuringia
You're the 777th comment, lucky
@@elmoismoneycash2695 really? Huh. Nice.
is the “true” secret ending where everything is destroyed but because you were faithful you were rewarded a metaphor for religion
You have no clue what religion is
I feel like it actually is metaphorical for religion. In that, for living beings, to be without our longing is to be without time. Humans passing through time will always want something they don't have yet. The father promises to end your longing if you wait for him. Like God's promise of the kingdom of heaven if you wait for Christ's second coming. We wait and wait. But what is a world without longing? An endless world without time. And what is a world without time? Destroyed.
Fundamentally I think the end of all longing is something that is promised in many religions. Buddhists reach Nirvana by defeating their desires.
What this game does well I think is wrapping these ideas in such a strong fantastic, lonely, scary atmosphere.
@@godhand291 when the Kingdom of Heaven comes, the world will be undeniably better. We would no longer need longing; we'll be happy for eternity.
Ending one hit me hard
Huge props for playing this game 4 times I wouldn’t imagine playing this once
Can we just appreciate how this person played the game multiple times just to show us the endings
WAIT ITS FROM THE MAKERS OF LUCKY TOWER I JUST REMEMBERED THE ARTSTYLE. It was my favourite game ever
I kinda figured out what would happen when the king wakes up. He's attached to the roof.
Mad respect for the guy doing this all endings in almost total of 1600 days
I like how the music is upbeat for ending 2 but it stops once shown that the king fucking died
Let’s appreciate how he spent almost 4 years recording this
1:50 THIS IS ACTUALLY SO CUTEE
imagine you’re disappointed you got a certain ending and had to play through all over again
4:00
"Awaken my master!"
What's the point of sleeping for 400 days when you're just going to end it all after you wake up.
I think the 4th ending is the creepiest of all of them
a hop and a skip and away we go!
I couldn’t imagine doing this, all the way through. A little bit because of the time I would end up spending, but the guaranteed depression I would get when finishing this game. Spending over a year of my life just too see a one minute ending
The game actually has a mechanic where the cozier you make your little home, the faster time goes by. Even at the start of the game if you leave the Shade in his little armchair before exiting, you can come back to find a lot of time has passed. I basically made the hole as cozy as I possibly could, then waited a couple days to complete the 5th ending.
This game made me appreciate a few characters that had to endure something like the Shade's loneliness so much more, because the game is only 400 days but playing it you really feel how slow the time passes, comparing that to characters like Homura Akemi from Madoka Magica, who was stuck in a time loop for 12 years, over 10 times the amount the Shade had to wait. Furina from Genshin Impact who had to keep up a masquerade for 500 years, or Raiden Ei, who fought against a perfect replica of herself for 500 years, both over 450 times the amount of time the Shade had to wait. And finally Spinel from Steven Universe, who had to stay stood in the same place, without moving, for 6 THOUSAND years, nearly 5500 times the amount of time the Shade had to wait.
The sheer scale of that amount of time is incomprehensible when you don't really think about how long it actually is, this game made me appreciate how long even a few minutes or hours can feel, especially if you're repeating the same tasks or walking the same routes over and over, and it gave me a little bit more perspective on just how maddening not only the Shade's isolation must have felt, but how it must have felt for those other characters too, which made me fall in love with their stories and characters all over again with a newfound understanding of how such monumental time scales affected them as characters.
Is this the same people that made lucky tower and murder? The game designs are familiar
I googled it and yes it is.
Whats the difference between getting the man in the well and getting the girl, like what’s the difference in getting them
it's in the video. the girl (or i think boy) is scared shitless and drops you.
when u talk to a face in one of the caves, he will offer to trade his wisdom for some coals and stuff. and one of the wisdom is along the lines of 'don't trust the eyes of the young as they fear you, trust the old and the blind', referring to the bad and good ending. the face tells you more wisdoms, now thinking about it, he lowkey tells are all different endings
I haven't played the game, but I would assume that it's completely based on RNG. The Shade says that he would have to hope the helper isn't scared of him, which would imply that the shade has no control over who does help him.
@@maxmoons4796 there is a ladder which leads to a place where you can see who is coming
@@Dorak74 ahhh the younglings, time to call for anakin
All of you are ungrateful. The King kept his promise and got rid of longing. I thought it was a happy ending for the shade.
HOW????? I really don't understand how you find that ending happy, it's incredibly depressing in that instead of trying to use critical thinking and solve your problems, they just tell u "nah just kill everyone so no suffering ha lol".
If they just had a PC with RimWorld, Darkest Dungeon, Caves of Qud and The binding of Isaac imstalled, protag would be like "ya dad sleep for another 400 days, shit's just started getting interesting"
What is the difference between the girl picking you up and guy (in the welll)
I believe the man is blind and cannot see you but there are a few interpretations ive came across
Can’t wait for a speed run on this game
So bro waited 400 days to wake up and destroy literally everything but his servant
Great vid
Can we all aprecciate he spent 3 years for this ending video
a question, the game came out in March this year, the game lasts 400 days, so can i ask how you got to the end already, please?
doesnt actually take 400 days to play. The mechanic is that as you put more stuff in the shades room time speeds up (time flies when your having fun as they say). so the average person can complete the game in ~12 hours of play time
@@hb-mek so if you put nothing in his room would it actually take 400 days
@@KnightSlasher simply being in his room speeds up time, but yeah, if you were to wait in the throne room then it would take 400 days. however, as you have seen, you would get the bad ending.
This guy deserve more subscribers
Wow, this guy spent 1600 days playing this game just to get all the endings for us, what a hero 😇😇😇
Respect for this man for waiting 200+ days for this vid
Okay? But which ending is WHICH??
Pros and cons to all
All free you from the longing.
Playing 400 days just to get killed out of fear upon a girl pulling you out of the hole would probably make me break my pc tbh
this game just reminds me of a Felix Colgrave animation
MAD RESPECT FOR THIS GUY ✊✊✊✊✊✊
So... bad, good, bad, sad, and (if we count the dream) okay.
Rika Furude when she play this game : hold my white wine
Can’t believe this guy played 2000 days to get all these endings for us.
Mabey he had 4 tabs open
so long to wait wow i congratulate you
Mad respect for this guy
Imagine playing for 400 days just for your character to fall down a well
Good thing this video isn't 400 days long!
1600 Days.. you are truly a Madlad.. i bow befor u..
This game has so magnificent atmosphere and music, i just love it.