You are here to slay the princess. If you don’t, it will mean the end of the world. Incredible Merch slimestory.com/ Follow me / slimecicle Edited by @KenIkarus
The irony behind the fact that Charlie choosing the knife at the end to have more options making him lose the option that would give him the ending he desired it amazing
@@mry77 He was saying his computer was shut off while the game and stream were still running... its either a joke or the programmers for this game hacked into the fabric of reality 😹😹
@@michaelking7391 Counterpoint: it is. Paranoid, along with the rest of the voices, represent a lot of different ideas. Paranoid is partly the idea that focusing on everything, having an understanding of things, and ultimately that being a negative (paranoia) is important. Heart, lungs, liver, nerves keeping you alive - paranoia and focus and willpower - is important to the scene.
Paranoid is my favorite of the voices! Out of all of them, he was the one I felt was the most reasonable and the one that tried the hardest to save us (I’m not projecting I swear)
@@e-man7418 Yeah haha I get that- I just meant that every other playthrough that I've watched either gets the ending where you don't take the knife at the end and escape with the princess, or leaves with the princess with both of them still deities. (with the exception of pointcrow, who got the same one that he gets here but goes back to get one of the better ones) Ofc there are much worse ones that (thankfully) I havent seen anyone run into yet lol
@@palmtree7327 Oh yeah, that's fair. Every playthrough I see I cross my fingers that they walk away from the cabin immediately to unlock the Strange ending. Which is my favorite.
The reason Charlie was able to slip the shackles off the princess while he was following the voice of smitten is because the voice of the smitten is literally just Gillian tidestrider. The moisteness is a perfect lubricant
@@ycb955 that ending specifically anyway. You've reset everything so it puts you back to the very beginning. There are other endings and I highly recommend you play the game for yourself if you can.
I love the Moment of Clarity, how if you think about it, it’s the horrific truth of the narrator’s goals. A world without change, a repeating agony that never ends. It was so much for the one echo that he gave up, utterly broken that his grand ambition is nothing but misery.
@@cakeisthebestintheworldand it was the narrator that created the construct. What do you think that means should his plan succeeds? He himself described it as a world of forgetting and rediscovering, how different is that to the construct, to the endless loop? The nightmare shows the cracks in this world, one where there is no release, no change, just a life doomed to repeat ad infinitum. Change means letting go of the notion of a cycle, letting the worms have their meal, nourishing the earth with your body, letting the stardust that formed you scatter once more in an ecosystem that will also one day be devoured in starlight. The narrator’s goal matches the description of the nightmare for me, just how horrible of a world he’d create, and hence why the echo in that path couldn’t bear it.
Oh wow, I've seen that scene several times and was so confused---I had no idea that's what it all meant. This gives me so much more perspective on the Narrator and on one of the endings, thank you! Now I have even more of a reason to obsess over this game even harder for even longer lmfao
@@dazeymazey3516drThat’s not true. Moment of Clarity’s entire sequence is built upon the idea of a life of suffering, leading to death. Then another life. The same occurs. Shifty herself doesn’t believe in the idea of death, she only views it as a transformation. Unless you believe Shifty to be wrong. But if you don’t, the moment of clarity is what Shifty truly is. An endless repeat of a single short, temporary (which doesn’t exist in a post shifty universe) life, then a moment of death, another life of loneliness and decay and suffering, again and again. It’s why the figure is represented by the princess, it’s why the shifting mound speaks of moment of clarity as revealing herself to you. That’s what she is. She is those thousand microscopic wounds that slash every second. The rats and mice and flies and worms that fill a body. She is change, and within it, entropy. Even the ending lines of Moment of clarity confirm this was all the suffering Shifty brings into this world. To even quote moment of clarity. “Time erodes all things” and one of those is you. Moment of Clarity, and the repeated endless deaths, is what’s broken Quiet down, the slow march of entropy, into a point where all voices have been reduced to the same nihilism, the same thoughts of oblivion. You say the construct repeats ad infinitum, but we see it break, we see it mold and decay, we see The Shifting Mound and what it does. Just as the cabin as with the entire universe. The moment of clarity is an embrace of what the shifting mound is. The inevitable decay of all things. It’s as the narrator said, keeping her alive guarantees her a way out eventually. And by then, you had been reduced to nothing. This isn’t the reflection of the narrators unchanging world, not with all the change after all. This is a reflection of the one where we and all beings exist within. The nightmare that is The Shifting Mound.
“i just want to make you happy” when she slowly started getting simpler and simpler until she was taken, that was kinda saying that she’s only a reflection of what you want, of the choices you make, she will never be her own person. oof
That only happens if you think she is a cardboard cutout. If you think she's fine then the ending is that she's fine and you support each other through the power of love.
I love how the Voice of the Smitten sounds and talks like a less NSFW version of Lazlo from “What we do in the shadows”, he even has the same cadence in his voice!
I kinda prefer the old title "The hardest Choice You'll Ever Make." because it humorously contrasts with the intro, but I understand the benefits with the new one
Chapter 3: The Moment of... Not That Kind of Clarity You 𝐹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀 [SKIP PATH/CABIN DIALOGUE] The Narrator: "Her voice carries up the sta-" VotGooner: "PLAP PLAP PLAP" VotSmitten: "I WILL ALLOW NO SUCH ACTIONS TOWARDS OUR BELOVED!" The Narrator: "For once, I agree with him." VotGooner: "But does it jiggle?" VotOpportunist: "Act right and we can find out." VotContrarian: "No actually. MA'AM! THE OTHER VOICES IN OUR HEAD ARE MAKING QUESTIONABLE COMMENTS ABOUT YOU!" VotHero: "You do know she can't hear you, right?" The Tower?!: "I can hear them. And I will kill them." VotGooner: "Sounds like a fun time actual-" The Narrator: "But before you finish that thought, you feel a sharp pain in your ribs. She is out of her chains, and she isn't happy. You slash once forward, but she avoids it, and you feel an elbow collide with your skull. The last thing you feel is a hand constricting your windpipe. Everything goes dark, and you die." [SKIP MIRROR SEQUENCE] Shifting Mound: " This one is... How did you acquire this vessel? WHAT DID YOU DO?"
I love this game because it is somehow so many things yet nothing is like it. It’s a psychological horror, it’s a dating simulator, it’s a story about coming to terms with the unyielding force of change. The fact that a story that is shown through a medium that is almost a slideshow can hold such depth and meaning is incredible to me. Nothing else can compare to this game also pretty women 🥺
From an interview with the writer of the game (Tony Howard-Arias), he said one if the inspirations for the game was eastern religion. He also studied philosophy. I can see why one of the analysts say that this game has quite the Daoist tone. As Narrator says, The Creator made sure the tear between the cycle of life and death was rough, so that a piece of the Long Quiet was in the Shifting Mound, while she has a piece of him. Getting rid of one or the other also gets rid of a piece of them. LQ is a dark avian creature. SM is a princess of light whose forms include feline ones. While the Princess is the one chained up in the cabin, she's the active force that pushes LQ to free her and himself (as he's also stuck in the Construct) while he reacts on the choices he has. Certain scenes have them switch like during the Stranger route where it was Princess who was in shadow and eyes glowing this time. While her shifts are extreme, Long Quiet was more constant with his form, save for growing, withering, and untethering. They're Yin and Yang. It's never explained why the Long Quiet is named that (as the developers decided on the Lynchian approach of not explaining the story), but it certaintly feels like the "long quiet" in-between the chapters- the pause between different states. He is life, stability, stasis and stagnancy. She is death, chaos, change, and potential. But, they also alternate and have pieces of each other- they are not absolutes. Aside from Daoism, I also saw some inspiration from creation stories in general, like the biblical story of Genesis and Adam, Eve, and the serpent in the garden of Eden. To gain freedom and self-actualization, Shifty pursues enlightenment and wishes to share it with the Long Quiet, who in turn can also decide to also rebel against the similarly avian Creator. It ends with the LQ, or LQ and Shifty to deal with the rest of creation.
@@oceanicGrimalkin I don't think the Long Quiet and Shifting Mound need developer sanctioned name explanations. LQ is stagnant. The Long Quiet is him, and it is an infinite and silent void. SM is ever changing, shifting. But as SM said, names are but a pale imitation
Just so you know, October 24th is when a new update releases for the game, bringing new routes, 2,500 new dialogue options, new endings, new characters, new animations, and existing routes getting updated/expanded. The pristine cut (the update) is free for whoever bought the game and the game will now be accessible to console players
Some guy deciding death was so scary that he split a god in half so that he could send one half through tests to attempt to teach it to kill the other half, which would ultimately result in the death of death, is one heck of a premise for a dating sim
The game has multiple endings depending on the player’s choices. These endings include the Long Quiet accepting the end of the universe and watching the birth of a new one alongside the Shifting Mound, killing the Princess permanently to preserve the current universe, the Hero and the Princess agreeing to forget everything and reset the construct to remain in the loop indefinitely, or the two mutually rejecting godhood and leaving the cabin to face an uncertain future together as lovers.
"my job is to describe facts as facts" is a really interesting and deceitful line, facts are not the same as truth, and can can be fallible/subject to amendments after gaining new information, yet the narrator is saying his job is to describe the 'facts' available to him as infallible facts which are true 2:31:15
25:55 the power in my house completely turned off when the narrator said "dark" and I've never been more terrifyingly immersed I almost needed to convince my body that I did not in fact die
Alright Cheezcicle, let’s begin. You’re on a path in the woods, and at the end of that path, is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a princess. You’re here to slay her. If you don’t, it will be the end of the world.
For those that want to see which routes Charlie went through quickly (Spoilers Below): 0:00 Round 1: The Tower/The Fury 46:30 Round 2: The Damsel 1:24:24 Round 3: The Nightmare/The Moment of Clarity 2:03:40 Round 4: The Witch 2:24:30 Round 5: The Stranger A pretty wild first playthrough, all things considered.
@@auxanelabananemoment of clarity and stranger are some pretty wild ones to get on your first playthrough. I played this game myself a bit ago, and if you enjoyed what you saw in these streams I HIGHLY suggest you go and play it yourself to try and get some different routes.
Moment of Clarity is interesting but The Tower and Damsel are in basically every playthrough I've seen, and The Witch and Stranger are common enough. Still a great playthrough, but the route's aren't all that special
I have a thought about the end lines, she says "we could just do this forever" but the whole point of the character is that he has free will and is the only one there who does, therefore every time he went back to the start, odds are that he would do something different. That's the creators way of implementing the fact that the player technically controls the game, because the game reacts off of the players choices, because the player (debatable) has free will. Cool.
aww man ive been slimcwatching too many vods that any new videos are things ive already slmcseen edit: holy shit its been 9 months since slay the princess came out what the guck? well my memories are wiped so I guess I'll watch this again
He should play Slay the Princess again! Being October and with the release of the Pristine Cut update for people who already played this is the perfect reason too.
This is such a good game man. It perfectly captures the horror of godhood without glorifying it. It perfectly portrays the dyadic interplay of forces present in so many origin myths. It actually has the correct stance on death and mortality, even if the player chooses something else. And it doesn't handhold you about consequences.
@@curvingfyre6810”death is a natural part of life” is a very human perspective form of categorisation. Death as we categorise it based on our experiences comes at the end of life, but many living things self replicate, creating exact copies of themself, some simply change, some come back to life again like caterpillars do during metamorphosis. Our very limited notion of “death” is applied broadly to such a wide range of phenomena that it seems silly to use just the one word, and to use it with such totality
@@turntech4776 those creatures can still die. Nothing is immortal - and a clone isn't you unless it shares your memories. If a creature doesn't have memories, then arguably there ian't any 'you'
This was one of the most "mind-bending" games I have ever seen. So chaotic, and yet it all makes sense. Excellent video. Great Game. I was enraptured for 3 hours, 4 minutes and 12 seconds straight.
Never thought I needed several Johnathan Sims in my head while Charlie tries to keep his chat from romancing an eldritch god, but apparently I did, cause this video SLAPS
wasup slimy goopers. i got some time stamps for ya (WARNING SLIGHT SPOILERS) 1:00 - the hero and the princess (tower route) 7:41 - the tower (voice of the broken) 25:59 - the fury (+voice of the stubborn) 40:25 - the long quiet (fury) 46:30 - the hero and the princess (damsel route) 1:03:12 - the damsel (voice of the smitten) 1:18:16 - the long quiet (deconstructed damsel) 1:24:23 - the hero and the princess (nightmare route) 1:32:54 - the nightmare (voice of the paranoid) 1:46:51 - the moment of clarity (all voices) 1:58:48 - the long quiet (moment of clarity) 2:03:40 - the hero and the princess (witch route) 2:07:39 - the witch (voice of the opportunist) 2:22:21 - the long quiet (witch) 2:24:35 - the hero and the princess (stranger route) 2:28:15 - the stranger (voice of the contrarian) 2:45:48 - the long quiet (final) 2:52:21 - the shifting mound 2:54:29 - the shifting mound fight 3:00:05 - the cabin in the woods (slay yourself ending)
It’s very three dimensional. It covers toxic relationships, and the mirror represents self reflection, which tends to be lacked in those relationships (such as the mirror disappearing). In the tower, you believe the princess is invincible , stronger than you, like how someone who abuses you may appear to you. Like you HAVE to submit. It’s actually very interesting.
watching this was so flipping surreal. Especially with slimecicle playing it, I can only imagine that playing it would feel something along the lines of creating a social experiment of epic proportions with yourself as the test subject and not remembering what it is you're doing
HOLY SHIT?? A *3 HOUR* SLMCCL VIDEO OF HIS SLAY THE PRINCESS PLAYTHROUGH?? WITH A CUSTOM INTRO?? literally this is what got me to buy and play the game myself 🥺 now i wanna play it but with charlie as the narrator 😅
My third time watching(live,vod,slmccl) and i finally realize that (spoilers) The princess is change, including death and since the narrator wants to stop change, you keep going in circles, repeating the same thing. And once you accept the change, you can die in game and be free from playing again. Or something. Im sure someone phrased the meaning more eloquently somewhere!
Im like drawing while listening to this and every few moments I have to double check whose talking. Charlie's voice some how fits into the game 😭 The voice of the Slime
My favorite voices are probably hero, paranoid, broken and contrarian. Hero knew everything cuz he was the first voice and his mood was going down after every chapter, paranoid was scared of helping her out due to the chapter, and repeating organs names were just scary but a nice detail, broken was just forgiving and was trying to find a way to escape the situation easily, and contrarian was just fully sarcastic and it was all funny but then he realized the situation. Thanks for this video, now ill try to sleep tonight- xP
@@lennykyou3526that would be an amazing game for him to play but it might be on the longer side. I don't remember how long it took me from start to true ending but I'm sure it was much longer than this game
this game is incredibly dear to my heart. I love how it explores the different kinds of relationships via the different vessels, and yet it's also just a good story. seeing Charlie actually get invested and being sincere about it was nice since a lot of streamers would just fuck around and not pay proper attention. Slay The Princess is a brilliant game and I recommend Scarlet Hollow, the other game by these devs that has the same art style. also fun fact: nearly everything in this game was drawn traditionally by hand! only minor shading and lighter colours are digital!
Narrator: No one else can do this job. I don't think you even know the way back to your 'home'. If it's any solace, I have faith in your ability to do what's right for everyone.
@@richardgibson8403 Narrator: Again, you're the only one that can do this. There's no time for relaxation when the fate of everyone and everything is on the line.
![Noob To Max With DRAGON REWORK In Blox Fruits [FULL MOVIE]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/LnBMOinoOvA/mqdefault.jpg)
Charlie gets called a bird once and immediately wants worms
its in his blood
He saw her, said worms, then was called a bird, then a worm. I cannot get enough of this (ranting to my bae when they wake after work)
@@reens814the worms?
Worms
Charlie slimecicle
The fact that he guessed the premise of the game within the first 15 minutes and then continued to struggle for 3 hours is so funny
not just a guess - he's clever
What guesses?
@@orang1921 he really is, just below the surface of haha funny slime man - he's genuinely a smart person, and that makes his content so much better
What was the guess or timestamp?
10:33@@echowhat3482
The irony behind the fact that Charlie choosing the knife at the end to have more options making him lose the option that would give him the ending he desired it amazing
wait so was the bit at the very end just a joke or was that part of the game?
@@mry77 He was saying his computer was shut off while the game and stream were still running... its either a joke or the programmers for this game hacked into the fabric of reality 😹😹
@@OmnipotentNoodle oh okay thanks
@@OmnipotentNoodleit happened live twice every stream after this his computer kept shutting down😭😭
what’s the ending and how does it work
Voice of the Paranoid is op as heck, he just says names of the organs and you've literally popped a totem of undying
not the point of that scene but ok
@@michaelking7391 Counterpoint: it is. Paranoid, along with the rest of the voices, represent a lot of different ideas. Paranoid is partly the idea that focusing on everything, having an understanding of things, and ultimately that being a negative (paranoia) is important. Heart, lungs, liver, nerves keeping you alive - paranoia and focus and willpower - is important to the scene.
@choccy_bagel brother I meant that it wasn't magic, and instead was a display of willpower.
@@michaelking7391nevertheless, he's op
Paranoid is my favorite of the voices! Out of all of them, he was the one I felt was the most reasonable and the one that tried the hardest to save us (I’m not projecting I swear)
as someone who watched charlie playing this game when he was live, i can in fact tell you that when chat saw the princess they were DOWN BAD LOL
As someone watching it on RUclips I was also down bad
I was watching live too but I didn't look at the chat so I had NO idea, I rewatched it and some of these people must have a kink or somthing.
Charlie slimecicle
AND RIGHTFULLY SO
@@YourLocalNintendo Nahhhhh you were one of em 💀
"Slimecicle" was absolutely shocked by the positively abhorrent words spoken by the "chat".
"Schlimecicle" was shook
I love watching slimjims content
I can't even tell which one he is anymore.
Charlie slimecicle
@@The_real_Gorgo "Charlie slimecicle" Yeah...
This man has the worst luck at story games he's the first person I've seen who has managed to get a bad end in slay the princess AND killer frequency
There are no premature endings. There are no wrong decisions.
The loop ending is far from the worst ending, the one he got is honestly fitting since there’s still more paths to see.
@@e-man7418 Yeah haha I get that- I just meant that every other playthrough that I've watched either gets the ending where you don't take the knife at the end and escape with the princess, or leaves with the princess with both of them still deities. (with the exception of pointcrow, who got the same one that he gets here but goes back to get one of the better ones) Ofc there are much worse ones that (thankfully) I havent seen anyone run into yet lol
@@palmtree7327
Oh yeah, that's fair.
Every playthrough I see I cross my fingers that they walk away from the cabin immediately to unlock the Strange ending. Which is my favorite.
@@e-man7418its the second worst tho
The reason Charlie was able to slip the shackles off the princess while he was following the voice of smitten is because the voice of the smitten is literally just Gillian tidestrider. The moisteness is a perfect lubricant
l
“Gillion Tidestrider, champion of the undersea, hero of the deep, Loffinlot liberator, defenestrator of the adulterous
The Voice of the Smitten sounded exactly like Douglas Reynholm and I love the fact he was Chudd's favourite
@@Echoe-14 i need to catch up on the 60 episodes that I've missed ;-;
ever since i started listening to jrwi whenever he does the gill voice i recognize it and die inside 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Voice of the paranoid was seriously carrying the whole team.
Fr mans was manually forcing your organs to work.
H E A R T L U N G S L I V E R N E R V E S
@@Greatestswordsman69HEART LUNGS LIVER NERVES❗❗❗❗
Heart.
Lungs.
Liver.
Nerves.
Heart.
Lungs.
Liver.
Nerves.
Heart.
Lungs.
Liver.
Nerves.
Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves. Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves. Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves. Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves. Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves. Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves.
46:30 I don't think he mentions it but the Steam achievement he gets here is called "The Real Slay the Princess Starts Here"
so like what happened after the computer crashed? did he play anymore?
@@ycb955nah the stream ended. I'm bummed that we didn't get to see the credits :(
@@cakeisthebestintheworld that was the games ending?!? Man.. what a bummer
@@ycb955 that ending specifically anyway. You've reset everything so it puts you back to the very beginning. There are other endings and I highly recommend you play the game for yourself if you can.
@@ycb955 there's multiple endings but i think he accidentally got himself locked into one of the worse one unfortunately
I love the Moment of Clarity, how if you think about it, it’s the horrific truth of the narrator’s goals. A world without change, a repeating agony that never ends. It was so much for the one echo that he gave up, utterly broken that his grand ambition is nothing but misery.
How do you figure that? From my perspective, it looked like the memories of the shifting mound when it was first put in the construct.
@@cakeisthebestintheworldand it was the narrator that created the construct. What do you think that means should his plan succeeds? He himself described it as a world of forgetting and rediscovering, how different is that to the construct, to the endless loop? The nightmare shows the cracks in this world, one where there is no release, no change, just a life doomed to repeat ad infinitum. Change means letting go of the notion of a cycle, letting the worms have their meal, nourishing the earth with your body, letting the stardust that formed you scatter once more in an ecosystem that will also one day be devoured in starlight. The narrator’s goal matches the description of the nightmare for me, just how horrible of a world he’d create, and hence why the echo in that path couldn’t bear it.
And the sun smiles down at you with eternal malice.
Oh wow, I've seen that scene several times and was so confused---I had no idea that's what it all meant. This gives me so much more perspective on the Narrator and on one of the endings, thank you!
Now I have even more of a reason to obsess over this game even harder for even longer lmfao
@@dazeymazey3516drThat’s not true.
Moment of Clarity’s entire sequence is built upon the idea of a life of suffering, leading to death. Then another life. The same occurs. Shifty herself doesn’t believe in the idea of death, she only views it as a transformation. Unless you believe Shifty to be wrong. But if you don’t, the moment of clarity is what Shifty truly is. An endless repeat of a single short, temporary (which doesn’t exist in a post shifty universe) life, then a moment of death, another life of loneliness and decay and suffering, again and again. It’s why the figure is represented by the princess, it’s why the shifting mound speaks of moment of clarity as revealing herself to you. That’s what she is. She is those thousand microscopic wounds that slash every second. The rats and mice and flies and worms that fill a body. She is change, and within it, entropy.
Even the ending lines of Moment of clarity confirm this was all the suffering Shifty brings into this world. To even quote moment of clarity. “Time erodes all things” and one of those is you. Moment of Clarity, and the repeated endless deaths, is what’s broken Quiet down, the slow march of entropy, into a point where all voices have been reduced to the same nihilism, the same thoughts of oblivion. You say the construct repeats ad infinitum, but we see it break, we see it mold and decay, we see The Shifting Mound and what it does. Just as the cabin as with the entire universe.
The moment of clarity is an embrace of what the shifting mound is. The inevitable decay of all things. It’s as the narrator said, keeping her alive guarantees her a way out eventually. And by then, you had been reduced to nothing.
This isn’t the reflection of the narrators unchanging world, not with all the change after all. This is a reflection of the one where we and all beings exist within.
The nightmare that is The Shifting Mound.
"I think you are like me. We are oceans, reduced to shallow creeks."
god I love this story
I can confirm that chat was horrendously down bad whenever the princess was there
The comments too but i have no say in that when i am one of them
Relatable
understandable
“i just want to make you happy” when she slowly started getting simpler and simpler until she was taken, that was kinda saying that she’s only a reflection of what you want, of the choices you make, she will never be her own person. oof
I mean she *is* her own person in one of the final endings but you barely get to see it
she just like me fr-
Timestamp
you figured out the way the construct works ‼️
That only happens if you think she is a cardboard cutout. If you think she's fine then the ending is that she's fine and you support each other through the power of love.
I did not look at the length of this video before clicking on it, so when he said "3 hours long" I had an "Oh shit" moment
same 😭😂
Same, but I watched it all anyway LOL
Sameeee
same :))
Same 😂
The narrator is my favorite voice actor. I LOVED his work in the Magnus Archives
I IMMEDIATELY RECOGNISED HIM!!! Jonathan Sims is awesome
I KNEW IT WAS JONNY, LOVE THAT GUY
MAGNUS ARCHIVES MENTIONED RAHHHHHHH
I KNEWW IT WAS HIM
Statement by Johnathan Sims head archivist of the Magnus institute
"Calm video"
"Audio recording by Johnathan Sima head archivist for the Magnus institute London"
Dude I didn't realize it was the same voice actor for a long while. I actually finished all of TMG before ever seeing anything on slay the princess
When I tell you I screamed when I heard this man’s voice.
👁👁
@@duppythepuppy2636 I LITERALLY LEARNED IT JUST THIS SECOND FROM THE COMMENTS DAMMIT HOW DID I MISS IT 😭😭😭
I AM SO FUCKING NORMAL ABOUT THE MAGNUS PROTOCOL AAAAAAAAAAA
I love how the Voice of the Smitten sounds and talks like a less NSFW version of Lazlo from “What we do in the shadows”, he even has the same cadence in his voice!
The smitten is blinded by love.
The broken is just down bad.
I heard Lazlo too! Made him my favorite voice
Dude to me the Voice of the Smitten sounded like Argenti from HSR. Like, so much so to the point that I could not get that picture out of my head.
JONNY SIMS AS NARRATOR SCREAMING!!! my two biggest special interests TMA and Slimecicle in one thing so happy
RIGHT????
yessss
I jumped when I heard him
WAIT HOLD UP THE NARRATOR WAS JONNY SIMS?!? I KNEW THE TWO SOUNDED FAMILIAR--
@@spiteberi2686 IT IS I legit got so hype when I realized
I kinda prefer the old title "The hardest Choice You'll Ever Make." because it humorously contrasts with the intro, but I understand the benefits with the new one
Slay The Princess makes it sound simple which fits the game. It provides shock when it isn't simple at all. When you don't do the title card.
This title gets all of the down bad people though
Real shame Charlie missed the "Voice of the Gooner" route
Yeah
which one is that?
the voice of the gooner was chat
@@totallynotanerd9571 ohhh, thanks!
Chapter 3: The Moment of... Not That Kind of Clarity You 𝐹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀
[SKIP PATH/CABIN DIALOGUE]
The Narrator: "Her voice carries up the sta-"
VotGooner: "PLAP PLAP PLAP"
VotSmitten: "I WILL ALLOW NO SUCH ACTIONS TOWARDS OUR BELOVED!"
The Narrator: "For once, I agree with him."
VotGooner: "But does it jiggle?"
VotOpportunist: "Act right and we can find out."
VotContrarian: "No actually. MA'AM! THE OTHER VOICES IN OUR HEAD ARE MAKING QUESTIONABLE COMMENTS ABOUT YOU!"
VotHero: "You do know she can't hear you, right?"
The Tower?!: "I can hear them. And I will kill them."
VotGooner: "Sounds like a fun time actual-"
The Narrator: "But before you finish that thought, you feel a sharp pain in your ribs. She is out of her chains, and she isn't happy. You slash once forward, but she avoids it, and you feel an elbow collide with your skull. The last thing you feel is a hand constricting your windpipe. Everything goes dark, and you die."
[SKIP MIRROR SEQUENCE]
Shifting Mound: " This one is... How did you acquire this vessel? WHAT DID YOU DO?"
i could feel the "then whos watching foxy" joke from a mile away
I love this game because it is somehow so many things yet nothing is like it. It’s a psychological horror, it’s a dating simulator, it’s a story about coming to terms with the unyielding force of change. The fact that a story that is shown through a medium that is almost a slideshow can hold such depth and meaning is incredible to me. Nothing else can compare to this game
also pretty women 🥺
From an interview with the writer of the game (Tony Howard-Arias), he said one if the inspirations for the game was eastern religion. He also studied philosophy. I can see why one of the analysts say that this game has quite the Daoist tone.
As Narrator says, The Creator made sure the tear between the cycle of life and death was rough, so that a piece of the Long Quiet was in the Shifting Mound, while she has a piece of him. Getting rid of one or the other also gets rid of a piece of them. LQ is a dark avian creature. SM is a princess of light whose forms include feline ones. While the Princess is the one chained up in the cabin, she's the active force that pushes LQ to free her and himself (as he's also stuck in the Construct) while he reacts on the choices he has. Certain scenes have them switch like during the Stranger route where it was Princess who was in shadow and eyes glowing this time. While her shifts are extreme, Long Quiet was more constant with his form, save for growing, withering, and untethering. They're Yin and Yang. It's never explained why the Long Quiet is named that (as the developers decided on the Lynchian approach of not explaining the story), but it certaintly feels like the "long quiet" in-between the chapters- the pause between different states. He is life, stability, stasis and stagnancy. She is death, chaos, change, and potential. But, they also alternate and have pieces of each other- they are not absolutes.
Aside from Daoism, I also saw some inspiration from creation stories in general, like the biblical story of Genesis and Adam, Eve, and the serpent in the garden of Eden. To gain freedom and self-actualization, Shifty pursues enlightenment and wishes to share it with the Long Quiet, who in turn can also decide to also rebel against the similarly avian Creator. It ends with the LQ, or LQ and Shifty to deal with the rest of creation.
@oceanicGrimalkin also pretty woman 🥺
definitely NOT a dating simulator but yeah it's pretty much everything else a VN can be
@@oceanicGrimalkin I don't think the Long Quiet and Shifting Mound need developer sanctioned name explanations. LQ is stagnant. The Long Quiet is him, and it is an infinite and silent void. SM is ever changing, shifting. But as SM said, names are but a pale imitation
@@potatotaxi Up to you, really. It's a highly interpretive story.
voice of the yapper vs voice of the tier 4 sub
“Chat, objectively, you *cannot* fix her.”
My favorite quote of the stream
9:17
"YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF THIS ROUTE BEFORE CHAT SEES THE REST OF IT"
why what happens?
@@elliottoneill785she gets sexy
@@elliottoneill785 They are down bad for the Tower.
@@SarzaelX oh
The voice of the paranoid actually clutched up with his little heart, lungs, liver, nerves rap
Just so you know, October 24th is when a new update releases for the game, bringing new routes, 2,500 new dialogue options, new endings, new characters, new animations, and existing routes getting updated/expanded. The pristine cut (the update) is free for whoever bought the game and the game will now be accessible to console players
charlie’s the type of person to see a princess in a basement and ask, “is anyone going to slay that?” and not wait for an answer
Narrator: "The air feels heavy, and damp."
Charlie: "Like me."
black mold
Honestly I'd be 100% down to have him play more of this
He'd get to play 5 more routes, and get the good ending
Yes.
Just yes.
Especially the princess and the dragon.
Some guy deciding death was so scary that he split a god in half so that he could send one half through tests to attempt to teach it to kill the other half, which would ultimately result in the death of death, is one heck of a premise for a dating sim
i would die for the voice of the paranoid
nah bc me too 💀💀💀 never been this down bad for a set of words and a voice
Same 😋😋😋
No fr tho--
Heart Lungs Liver Nerves
yeah the chat was down bad for the princess and i was over hear hyperventilating to the sound of the paranoia
Voice of the Smitten is like Voice of the Broken if he was cool
literally lmao
this game is the definition of "THE VOICES THE VOICES"
No, IT'sz the definition Of DID
The game has multiple endings depending on the player’s choices. These endings include the Long Quiet accepting the end of the universe and watching the birth of a new one alongside the Shifting Mound, killing the Princess permanently to preserve the current universe, the Hero and the Princess agreeing to forget everything and reset the construct to remain in the loop indefinitely, or the two mutually rejecting godhood and leaving the cabin to face an uncertain future together as lovers.
That’s so interesting!! Do you know of any play throughs that include those endings?
"my job is to describe facts as facts" is a really interesting and deceitful line, facts are not the same as truth, and can can be fallible/subject to amendments after gaining new information, yet the narrator is saying his job is to describe the 'facts' available to him as infallible facts which are true 2:31:15
he says "if you do not slay her the world will end", which _is_ true,
25:55 the power in my house completely turned off when the narrator said "dark" and I've never been more terrifyingly immersed I almost needed to convince my body that I did not in fact die
by any chance are you planning to go to any woods soon?
Alright Cheezcicle, let’s begin.
You’re on a path in the woods, and at the end of that path, is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a princess.
You’re here to slay her. If you don’t, it will be the end of the world.
a certified "heart lungs liver nerves" moment
hold on princess give me a moment to discuss with my inner voices was basically the entire game and yet it was still fun to watch
31:41 literally my favourite part of this entire 3 hour long video 😭
“The world is meat where are you going to go?” 😂
"BEEF LAKE???"
Every Magnus Archives fan booted up this game and were activated like fucking sleeper agents by the Narrators voice
Real
fr fr
That exact thing happened
For those that want to see which routes Charlie went through quickly (Spoilers Below):
0:00 Round 1: The Tower/The Fury
46:30 Round 2: The Damsel
1:24:24 Round 3: The Nightmare/The Moment of Clarity
2:03:40 Round 4: The Witch
2:24:30 Round 5: The Stranger
A pretty wild first playthrough, all things considered.
oh yeah? why? Only watched his let's play do I'm wondering what's so special 'bout it?
@@auxanelabananemoment of clarity and stranger are some pretty wild ones to get on your first playthrough. I played this game myself a bit ago, and if you enjoyed what you saw in these streams I HIGHLY suggest you go and play it yourself to try and get some different routes.
Charlie slimecicle
@@istompkulaksstranger was the very first one I ever got because the narrator gave me “ew icky sticky” vibes
Moment of Clarity is interesting but The Tower and Damsel are in basically every playthrough I've seen, and The Witch and Stranger are common enough. Still a great playthrough, but the route's aren't all that special
This is the complete opposite form techno's Minecraft Story Mode. Techno: Genocide run,
Slime: Thank you Narrator
Charlie slimecicle
Charlie slimesickle
Charlie schlimecicle
charlie schlimeshlicle
Charlie schileshmcickle
Just realized that every voice was once the hero. 🤯
I have a thought about the end lines, she says "we could just do this forever" but the whole point of the character is that he has free will and is the only one there who does, therefore every time he went back to the start, odds are that he would do something different. That's the creators way of implementing the fact that the player technically controls the game, because the game reacts off of the players choices, because the player (debatable) has free will. Cool.
Charlie figuring out how it works at 10:35 when most people don’t realize for majority of their play through is crazy
Chat spoiled him. He was not supposed to
what? he figured it out himself@@rabbitfoot633
aww man ive been slimcwatching too many vods that any new videos are things ive already slmcseen
edit: holy shit its been 9 months since slay the princess came out what the guck? well my memories are wiped so I guess I'll watch this again
SAME
Yup
Your on a computer. And on that computer, is a website. And in that website is a RUclipsr. Your here to watch him.
SAME x2
If you don't, it will be the end of the world.
Voice of the Smitten more like Voice of the Live Chat
Voice of the broken? More like voice of the twitch chat.
It's crazy that Mr. Cicle got the point of the game (being based on perception) as fast as he did
2:34:46 Oh my god this is so TMA
This game is like all of the horrors of TMA was made into a game
Johnny Sims DID do the voice acting so
What does TMA stand for I’m interested
@@hotdog10_ The Magnus Archives. It's a horror podcast.
39:56
"Alright! Let's go!" Charlie Dalgleish moments before getting disemboweled.
you're telling me his last name isn't slimecicle?
He should play Slay the Princess again!
Being October and with the release of the Pristine Cut update for people who already played this is the perfect reason too.
1:15:49 I'm surprised Slimecicle could find someone with hands as small and dainty as his
This is such a good game man. It perfectly captures the horror of godhood without glorifying it. It perfectly portrays the dyadic interplay of forces present in so many origin myths. It actually has the correct stance on death and mortality, even if the player chooses something else. And it doesn't handhold you about consequences.
What do you mean by correct stance on death and mortality?
@@RedFlame796 That death is a natural part of life, just as any other change
@@curvingfyre6810”death is a natural part of life” is a very human perspective form of categorisation. Death as we categorise it based on our experiences comes at the end of life, but many living things self replicate, creating exact copies of themself, some simply change, some come back to life again like caterpillars do during metamorphosis. Our very limited notion of “death” is applied broadly to such a wide range of phenomena that it seems silly to use just the one word, and to use it with such totality
All life dies eventually, even those that self replicate. It is a finality that is true for all life @@turntech4776
@@turntech4776 those creatures can still die. Nothing is immortal - and a clone isn't you unless it shares your memories. If a creature doesn't have memories, then arguably there ian't any 'you'
This is so much nicer to watch without looking over and seeing chat being weird
It's part of the experience
was it that bad? looked pretty tame from the glimspes in the video
@@SalomSandsthere were quite a bit of "step on me"s in the twitch chat, mods had to remove some messages
Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves
Heart.Lungs.Liver.Nerves
Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves
Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves
Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves.
Heart.lungs.liver.nerves
Every time there’s a new princess, there’s a new voice, the voice of the broken appears before meeting the Adversary princess.
This was one of the most "mind-bending" games I have ever seen.
So chaotic, and yet it all makes sense.
Excellent video.
Great Game.
I was enraptured for 3 hours, 4 minutes and 12 seconds straight.
the "Nuh uh" at the beginning being drug through was hilarious
Never thought I needed several Johnathan Sims in my head while Charlie tries to keep his chat from romancing an eldritch god, but apparently I did, cause this video SLAPS
I don't know why but the way he says "nuh-uh" at 4:18 just sends me
He seems so confident in such silly words
The voice of the narrator is Johnathan Sims who also made and is the primary actor in The Magnus Archives
2:13:00 "Yeah, sorry I have extensive internal monologs it's so bad like minutes at a time"
Story of my life
15:20 The fact he had to hide the game from twitch shows how worried he was something was gonna happen XD
wasup slimy goopers. i got some time stamps for ya (WARNING SLIGHT SPOILERS)
1:00 - the hero and the princess (tower route)
7:41 - the tower (voice of the broken)
25:59 - the fury (+voice of the stubborn)
40:25 - the long quiet (fury)
46:30 - the hero and the princess (damsel route)
1:03:12 - the damsel (voice of the smitten)
1:18:16 - the long quiet (deconstructed damsel)
1:24:23 - the hero and the princess (nightmare route)
1:32:54 - the nightmare (voice of the paranoid)
1:46:51 - the moment of clarity (all voices)
1:58:48 - the long quiet (moment of clarity)
2:03:40 - the hero and the princess (witch route)
2:07:39 - the witch (voice of the opportunist)
2:22:21 - the long quiet (witch)
2:24:35 - the hero and the princess (stranger route)
2:28:15 - the stranger (voice of the contrarian)
2:45:48 - the long quiet (final)
2:52:21 - the shifting mound
2:54:29 - the shifting mound fight
3:00:05 - the cabin in the woods (slay yourself ending)
THANKYOUUU
"this is a love story"
* promptly gets mauled *
It’s very three dimensional. It covers toxic relationships, and the mirror represents self reflection, which tends to be lacked in those relationships (such as the mirror disappearing). In the tower, you believe the princess is invincible , stronger than you, like how someone who abuses you may appear to you. Like you HAVE to submit. It’s actually very interesting.
There are few things funnier than slimesickle saying “ok” to being asked to commit murder, and chat being straight up unhinged
watching this was so flipping surreal. Especially with slimecicle playing it, I can only imagine that playing it would feel something along the lines of creating a social experiment of epic proportions with yourself as the test subject and not remembering what it is you're doing
HOLY SHIT?? A *3 HOUR* SLMCCL VIDEO OF HIS SLAY THE PRINCESS PLAYTHROUGH?? WITH A CUSTOM INTRO?? literally this is what got me to buy and play the game myself 🥺 now i wanna play it but with charlie as the narrator 😅
new comfort video fs now
ohhe changed the title and thumbnail. man
53:30 Don’t worry, she’s just been eating the second chain. That’s why she only has one.
chat being the voice of the "down bad" is fucking perfect
also why does the "voice of the smitten" sound so much like TommyInnit to me??
It's fucking true
read this and all of the Hero's voices suddenly kind of sound like him
stop ic unhear it now 😭😭
british
people in these replies equating _jonathan sims'_ voice to _tommyinnit's_ have evidently never heard a third british person speak before
Three hours of Jonny Sims's narrating and, charlie's sillyness nothing more i could wish for
My third time watching(live,vod,slmccl) and i finally realize that (spoilers)
The princess is change, including death and since the narrator wants to stop change, you keep going in circles, repeating the same thing. And once you accept the change, you can die in game and be free from playing again. Or something. Im sure someone phrased the meaning more eloquently somewhere!
"iF thE pRincEsS liVes HerE, sLAyyInG hER wiLl pRobAbly bE dOinG HeR a fAvoR"
Spoiler...
BRO YOU FUCKING PUT HER THERE?!
I wish he would do the final ending where you choose to become the god you are, it is beautiful
12:22 “you guys should witness Jesus” is my new favorite twitch chat message ever
I have NEVER been this invested in the story of a game. Holy shit
imagine charlie is going through security in a airport and says: Slime you later. then he just dies in front of the TSA
1:08 JON??? JONATHAN SIMS???? the way I yelled ih ym gof
"statement of the deranged little voices in my mind, regarding their repeated attempts to kill a woman. statement begins."
Charlie constantly looks like he's in a limbo between getting out of the shower and waking up in the morning.
Chat going crazy when she stepped on the Hero is wild.
Im like drawing while listening to this and every few moments I have to double check whose talking. Charlie's voice some how fits into the game 😭
The voice of the Slime
I hope this encourages Charlie to listen to the Magnus Archives. Love Jon’s voice.
That ending... Oh my god, literal chills!!! Charlie needs to do another stream of this game!!!!
My favorite voices are probably hero, paranoid, broken and contrarian. Hero knew everything cuz he was the first voice and his mood was going down after every chapter, paranoid was scared of helping her out due to the chapter, and repeating organs names were just scary but a nice detail, broken was just forgiving and was trying to find a way to escape the situation easily, and contrarian was just fully sarcastic and it was all funny but then he realized the situation. Thanks for this video, now ill try to sleep tonight- xP
a charlie slimecicle/ jon sims dynamic is NOT something i thought i needed in life but here we are
Man I love when my favorite normal streamer makes a normal video playing a normal game
Charlie is such a slimy boy, he spends 3 hours making a single choice
There ain’t no way he’s gonna play a game like this ever again
Thanks for 1k likes!! But there ain’t no way we’ll reach 2k
Yeah, it's honestly cool to see him play a game like this
He should play the house in fata morgana. I would love to see it
Charlie slimecicle
@@lennykyou3526that would be an amazing game for him to play but it might be on the longer side. I don't remember how long it took me from start to true ending but I'm sure it was much longer than this game
I want to see any big creator play Disco Elysium
The constant pressure and stress from this game is just immediately ripped away when slime cicle says anything
It is impressive that all the voice acting is just from two people and yet each personality is distinct.
Stabs you cutely "oh sorry it was meant to kill you" stabs you again. "Sorry oops"
this game is incredibly dear to my heart. I love how it explores the different kinds of relationships via the different vessels, and yet it's also just a good story. seeing Charlie actually get invested and being sincere about it was nice since a lot of streamers would just fuck around and not pay proper attention.
Slay The Princess is a brilliant game and I recommend Scarlet Hollow, the other game by these devs that has the same art style.
also fun fact: nearly everything in this game was drawn traditionally by hand! only minor shading and lighter colours are digital!
This fr is “I can fix her” simulator
If it were up to me,
I’d have stayed home the entire time and just said “let someone else do it”
Narrator: No one else can do this job. I don't think you even know the way back to your 'home'. If it's any solace, I have faith in your ability to do what's right for everyone.
@@TheYeetedMeatVoice of the Lazy: But do we REALLY have to be the ones to do it? Why can’t we just stay home, and relax while someone gets it done.
@@richardgibson8403 Narrator: Again, you're the only one that can do this. There's no time for relaxation when the fate of everyone and everything is on the line.
Why did that ending genuinely make me cry, it was either rlly sad or I just get emotional at midnight.
Time to struggle through this video without imagining the Archivist reading this
Im failing
Help
Being someone who used to listen to the Magnus Archives religiously, hearing Jonny in something other than a horror podcast scared the shit out of me
Freaking love the writing of this game.
"Do you think we're lovers in every universe?"
this video has made me realize how desperately I need a slimecicle disco elysium playthrough