Humbled beyond belief to have MatPat playing through this: THANK YOU to the Game Theory community for your kind words/comments! Leave any questions you have below (I don't think MatPat will easily find the answer's he's looking for...unless he reads some books!)
The question I’m most curious about is when our character goes out to the retrieve the bodies are the character are presumed still alive before they die right? Excluding Gregor at least..can we assume the same thing happened to the others then?
technically he could just boil it to death. they used to do that back in the 1300s with meat that was rotting so it was edible. but the pace of this is much faster anyway. no one would starve to death in a few days. plus, meat in a cool place would take longer to decay. if kept in newspaper at a cool temp it should last a weak without preservation.
@@suicune2001 I doubt they had any significant amount of salt or vinegar considering they didn't even try. Or we can chalk it up to cabin fever causing irrational decisions. Or vengeful spirits speeding up the decay process out of spite.
@@pingpong607 They could have had the materials and are just really stupid. lol. They did pretty much immediately run out of food and went to cabin without checking the weather forecast first.
I'm so concerned by the fact that very little people are talking about/noticing the fact Anatoly's Squirrel is gone. The Mats didn't even seem to notice.
20:07 Mariah's face can be seen in the cabinet, staring at the main character under the sink and then disappears before Karin walks in, just saying if anybody saw that.
That whispering we heard throughout the game was in Russian Couldn’t hear the first one cause Matpat Was talking, but at 33:00 she said “you better sleep with both eyes open” and at 49:50 she said “still not found”
it’s insane how unsettling this game can be, even when you think you know exactly where the story is going. there was no plot twist, we knew this was coming. but it’s so terrifying anyways, because the game does such a good job at slowly revealing what’s happening. genuinely so creepy
@@DeerDreamStudios Oh no, I've genuinely scared and if this gets worse just tells how good can a person be to write a perfectly predictable story but still freak the crap out of you
The timing of Matt finally getting around to Cooking Companions especially gets me. The game is about the holodomor, and Ukrainian refugees attempting to escape it.
When voting Anatoly out of the cabin, I realized that Mariah said "I won't let you guys starve" or something to that effect. She knew whoever left was dead no matter what, and probably suspected that she would be the next food source.
@@tisrhino If we stick with "she did it willingly," there could be a few explanations. Her violent death, possibly coupled with expecting to drown/starve and be scavenged rather than murdered, could have caused her spirit to become vengeful and angry. On another hand, there's the folklore and Baba Yaga side of the lore that could tie in. The spirits of the consumed might be trapped once dead, and driven to violence and madness by the supernatural forces involved. Or I'm wrong and it's just clever foreshadowing! Either way, game's still really interesting.
@@FreakishGeek I’m assuming you know this already, but later in the game one of the spirits (I think Mariah) talks to the player about how they thought they were all just victims of unfortunate circumstance doing what had to be done- and didn’t initially blame the player for it, until the older spirits informed them of what was truly going on and the fact that it was all a setup all along, which made them become vengeful. God I hope I wrote this in a way that makes sense
@@schlorping5156 Yeah, you explained it well! I know from watching the later videos, but I figured I'd leave this alone. No point in deleting it, though I do know the lore better now! And thanks for trying to clear things up in case I didn't!
Yeah, I'd love to figure out if that was imaginary/symbolic, got quietly eaten, or just knew when to GTFO. I believe it disappears when Mariah leaves the cabin. I'm trying to watch for other things visually changing in the characters but don't think I've spotted anything so far. (Aside from the occasional scary faces and text)
I like to believe that it just sensed danger and ran off and is living a happy life in the woods and maybe got itself a squirrel girlfriend and is having some squirrel babies.
In the Gregor cg scene when he talks about hearing Mariah outside the cabin that explains what happened in mc’s dream. They were actually awake but imagined it as a dream. They found mariah’s body outside the cabin but were most likely too tired to notice it was her, and the body had probably lost some of Mariah’s features anyway. He desecrated the body since it was the only quick and safe source of food and put it away so be rationed. Then wakes up better. That’s whAt I think happened
yep, sounds like what happened. Which explains why the MC thinks Karin's plan is extreme. The MC isn't killing anyone directly, only eating them after they die.
@@masl1740 the blacksmith dream has a different interpretation that would be given to it when things are clearer. Right now the other dreams arent explained properly yet unlike the dream that the OP mentioned because there are clear connections. Another case of the mc describing it as a dream but it being actual events was the dream before day 11. This is when Anatoly left and in the dream it was mentioned that mc had something lying in front of him(most likely referring to the corpse of Anatoly). This is then supported by the fact that the mc took off partially cracked glasses and another notable detail at day 11 where the mc woke up at a different place. Raising a question that if the mc sleepwalked into the kitchen and out of pure chance fresh meat was on the table.
I love the sound design for this game. Not just the whispers but the fact that the "thunder" you hear in the background also sounds like the sounds of someone's stomach growling.
Also the fact that they don't use the cheep "random high noice" during the sacre scenes but are confedent enough in it's own spooky atmosphere to scare you rather than chock you with a loud sound.
the fact that mariah is mentioned to be "gurgling" as if she's "trying to cough water out of her lungs" keeps taking me back to that first nightmare where the player is trying to drown the thing on their back 0-0
The dreams forshadow how everybody dies Mariah - Drowned Gregor - chained onto the couch Anatoly - looks for Mariah? Well.... The other times I was right....
This whole time, the chompettes have said things like “don’t let the other humans see us”, implying the player isn’t human. Karin asks how long it took to perfect ‘the craft’ and after we tell her, she responds “yeah right” like she doesn’t believe us, seeming to imply the player might be older than they look, adding to the “we aren’t human” theory. The ancient texts in the cabin could also be another hint.
Mc is human its just that in the chompettes eyes they dont see him as himan. But mc is still VERY old. Theres a theory that you can take on the role of the butcher in the cabin (which obviously has something supernatural about it) by killing the butcher. By killing who potato used to be, mc took on the role of the butcher making him immortal and cannibalistic. If Karin had killed mc she would've taken on the role of the butcher.
@@koughnut0520 nah the original comment misquoted them. The Chompettes always say “the humans”, I’m pretty sure they never say “the *other* humans” once throughout the game
I was drifting off to sleep for once (it's midnight for me) and I heard a notification from my phone, as soon as I saw it was this I woke up as fast as I can
18:16 I really like the slight implication that Gregor recognizes the taste of human flesh - considering how they were all starving back in Ukraine, it's not that absurd to think some of them might have resorted to cannibalism in the past.
oh they did, russians cut off their food supply and the either resorted to the hidden bread or eating the bodies of people that died in the middle of streets due to starvation
so, we've established that the chompettes are souls of past cannibalized campers, or something of the sort. and then there was the mention of mariah starting to use the mouse holes, and then anatoly's dissection being mentioned as a "dream". Could these "dreams" we're having at night be the death experiences of the chompettes?
*spoilers* according to one of the endings, *someone* dies and a new chompette is added, but is unable to talk yet. so i do believe there is some credence to that
@@lacytaylor1501 Yeah I think all the dreams are based on Eastern European stories or creatures, like the night hag or Hansel and Gretel in the earlier ones.
There's nothing more wholesome than Matpat talking about Ollie, and there's nothing more terrifying than a potato calmly breaking down the science of starvation.
I can't help but think it's weird how you alone are different from all of them. The way they didn't give you any tasks at the begining, the way they don't seem to expect you to do anything other than cook. It's weird
The atmosphere this game creates is bone chilling. When you have your first dream you aren’t expecting the “spoopy jumpscare” but once you get a tolerance for it those just stop and everything gets a bit to real. That line about the “meat going bad” is so good
One thing that I don’t know if anyone noticed but the squirrel that was on Anatoly’s shoulder is gone in this episode. Maybe they DID eat the squirrel. Or this just shows how less lighthearted this game is getting.
I choose to believe that the little guy realized that an I'll wind was coming and ran into the woods. He has a squirrel wife and squirrel babies and is very happy.
It's probably the MC's cabin, and the chompettes are previous victims of ours whose spirits haven't moved on. Probably also that we regularly lure and eat people in this same cabin. That's just my guess
Potato also asked the mc why they were keeping those humans around. And that potato and the ""others"" (whoever potato was with when they were alive) didn't even get the same treatment as the current humans... Potato seems strangely salty about that XD
I can handle any horrific game as long as he's the one presenting it- every other channel just seems to keep it terrifying and dark, somehow I'm not as scared even though it's definitely scary, somehow it feels safe ♡ bless this online theorist family home
20:24 I like how karin looks impatient sorta like "we want more food" Anatoly looks ashamed because deep down he knows what he ate but still wants more And Gregor is just simply sad, he knows what the meat was and he knows that Mariah is gone but he's accepted that this is the way it has to be
I like how, dispite the possible supernatural elements, what's truly terrifying are all real world things. Starvation. Isolation. Mental deterioration. The fight to survive. Can't wait to see where this goes!
Fun Fact: It's implied Gregor had feelings for Anatoly. If you make a certain choice, and you do something on New Game+, you learn more about him. And on the route you're going, you'll learn more about Karin too.
I think the character is a cannibalistic witch (perhaps Baba Yaga) and she had been defeated by people she tried to eat too many times (as told in her nightmares). Hence, she chose the long wait tactic of starving her companions instead of using force.
That ending of "I'm gonna go eat some meat. Eat well." threw me off so much. He said it without his usual happy tone that he ends every video with... I'm glad I ate before this, because I'm not sure I'd want to eat after this.
"I'm gonna go cook up some meat" being the first thing you think of come lunchtime is cognitive dissonance at work. It's the same reason people are ok with eating "livestock" animals but think eating dogs or cats is revolting.
Isn't it interesting that the chompettes and the main cast share name colors? Raspberry and Karin are red, lettuce and Gregor are green, onion and Anatoly are blue, and bread and Mariah are brown. It could be a red herring, but it is still an interesting correlation nonetheless
I'm starting to suspect that this is all in the MC's head, replaying the same scenario, and the chompettes are versions of Karen, Gregory, etc mixed with MC's conscious speaking to him.
Im laughing so hard because the protagonist saw Anatoly crying about his crush being gone and told them a depressing story about a farmer and a cow having poor surviving skills and when they saw it (obviously) didn't help the situation they just left
Sometimes I forget matpat was a theatre kid, and when he voices characters I completely forget it’s his voice and imaging the game just fully voice acted 😂
Matt, the vegatables are the ones giving you the complicated food recipes, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say they're the actual reason for the food being so poorly rationed
I've played Dark Souls, I've played Bloodbore and I'm now playing Elden Ring. None of the literal piles of corpses in those games, nor any others I can think of have made me feel as disconcerted and uneasy as this game has.
I have no clue if you've thought or talked about this since I'm typing this during the video, but obviously we killed Mariah. Based on how Gregor asked, "have you heard her cries too," and how we can't go into the basement, I'm guessing that Mariah might have been in the basement tied/chained up with us potentially slowly cutting off her body parts. That's also why we say that we have the meat "preserved so that we can ration it better." However, the main flaw would be how we ended up getting her in the basement if she was in the flood water.
I don't know if anyone's noticed this yet and I don't know if it has always been there, but on the title screen of the game, above the cauldron it says "голод" which is "hunger" in Russian and Ukrainian, which makes a bit of sense with the references to Ukraine, Eastern European food, and the Eastern European names.
You're 100% right, the willingness and barely even reluctant enthusiasm they have for what's happening is so much more sinister and worse than what we expected to happen. And don't even get me started on the faces.
I love this series so freaking much. It’s up there with Doki Doki. Not quite FNAF or kindergarten S-Tier level. But solid A-Tier. Also MatPat. Please. You and Steph take some time off. You guys are so busy and do so much for us. Don’t worry about prepping videos. Just relax.
Fun Fact: There is no “law” in the US about Cannibalism however how you got said meat is what will get you in trouble. Thanks Couch Q for this wonderful information in high school
@Ky Atonic I mean, there was one guy who had to have his leg amputated, but was able to keep it and he cooked it into tacos and ate them with his friends (they all knew). So... I guess if it's your own flesh. A law *specifically* forbidding caniballism would be a bit redundant, as the act would pretty much ALWAYS involve desecration of a corpse.
@@kyatonic1 Ya actually. You can buy like amputated parts (legally of course) that are meant to be used for practicing surgery and such. It's pricy but I mean if you're rich, weird, and curious you could actually be a legal cannibal.
I'm pretty sure that's the implication, later he dreams of "working" with "another one" right after Anatomy left, and mentions the cracked glasses. Next thing you see is having more meat
Pretty sure it isn't. Especially with how Karin suddenly KNOWS what you're doing, implying that she might have been the one who sneaked up on you in the last dream. Also, as Ghirox says, the cracked glasses seems like a dead giveaway.
@@IAmVianca I believe all of the dream sequences are connected to the creature called Likho. The first one and the BlackSmith one can be linked to the Likho easily, the other two I'm not so sure
“I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE. TURN IT UP!” Edit: I laughed for a solid 2 minutes hearing matpat send his son to dreamland with the dementor voice 😭😭 3:38 Edit: *you’re leaving my cabin for leaving us on a cliffhanger.*
Did anyone else see something in the cupboard under the sink in the kitchen at 20:10? It is behind the text Matpat is reading. It kind of looks like a face maybe? It vanishes before the next bit of dialog. Spooooky!
from what I gather, the tale about the fox is folk tale from hungary iirc. The fox kept swindling people and ended up getting killed pretty similarly to the story in this game.
The fact i convinced myself I eat dinner watching gtlive when actually i am always finished before witty banter ends and then i'm just loitering through the gameplay segment of the video
Yeah… I started watching playthroughs after the first video, and it only gets darker from here, and even though it’s horrifying, it’s just too good not to watch
Does each cabin member have a corresponding chompette sort of watching over them ? Cabbage - mc Raspberry - Karin Bread - Gregor Potato - Mariah Onion - Anatoly They also use the same name tag colours.
Haha, same! I still am so curious about that recipe (and don't want to see other people's playthrough) considering what Potato said before handing it over.
at 23:37 when MC looks out of the window there's definitely movement next to the tree on the left when the whispers start. Almost as if something is slinking back behind the tree.
Did anyone else notice that Anatoly's squirrel randomly disappeared?? I'm not even sure when it went missing but maybe thats one of the sources for the mystery meat
Holy crap those faces in the one conversation (you know what I'm talking about, I'm not timestamping it) actually creeped me out farther than any game he's covered has
Don't know if anyone noticed this but at 23:40, if you look very carefully at the closest tree on the left, you can very faintly see Mariah's face staring at you before fading away
Interesting comments about things you missed, and interesting Deer Dream Studios is here as well, saying there’s books or something you have to read to get all the lore. I didn’t think it would be lore outside of the game, probably should have guessed that
Honestly before I watch any other Cooking companions playthrough, I have to watch this one, if I don't I'll know the Endings and I'll complain bout Matpat missing an ending
I love this series since I saw Manlybadasshero's full playthrough. Glad you like it so much and I hope we'll see a video soon if u finished it. This is the most unsettling horror game out there for me tbh.
I suspected it from the beginning and now I'm really sure: the chompettes must be the characters in some way. Or parallels to them. Onion was very interested in protecting Anatoly, bread is very interested in protecting gregor. To stop history repeating itself I think
When I watched a playthrough of this game the first time, i literally could not sleep the night I watched it. I couldn't keep my eyes closed for more than a few minutes. Actually, I even messaged the creator on twitter to applaud them for making such a scary game, and scold them for keeping me up all night. They said that they were just as terrified of games before this one and that the best way to get through your fears is to make a scarier video game yourself so that you get the chance to scare the heck out of others ^^
Well. That was concerning. And depressing. And horrifying. I think it's worse than DDLC in basically all ways... 11/10, very fun game, compelling story, cannibalism.
I couldn’t help watching an entire play through after the first episode. I really enjoy the commentary that goes along with watching GT Live with Matt and mirror Matt!
I'm sorry but I haven't seen anything, even with low speed and multiple tries, care to give us a timestamp and indications ? At this point I'm wondering if I should start thinking about glasses
chompettes are very closely related to individual members of the group. raspberry to mariah, onion to anatoly, bread to gregor and maybe cabbage to karin. you are potato.
42:00, OMG THIS INTERACTION WITH POTATO!! From not being able to flip the pages anymore, to not getting the same treatment as the leniency the main character is having towards their bunch. I’m starting to realize that the chompets are able to see the other spirits, because they are also other spirits…!!!
Gatta love how right off the bat on the first episode he immediately wants to bond with the obvious murderer and will sacrifice other people’s lives to preserve their relationship, even when it could have been a 4v1 at first before he started killing people off lol
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Humbled beyond belief to have MatPat playing through this: THANK YOU to the Game Theory community for your kind words/comments! Leave any questions you have below (I don't think MatPat will easily find the answer's he's looking for...unless he reads some books!)
Thats so cool! Youre the game devs?
The question I’m most curious about is when our character goes out to the retrieve the bodies are the character are presumed still alive before they die right? Excluding Gregor at least..can we assume the same thing happened to the others then?
I really hope the books are in-game, because i feel like otherwise, someone will definately google this stuff and get on a list or something.
@@gemhunter498 You would be able to find them in any public library, nearly worldwide! Great Eastern European folklore out there.
*mild spoilers* Is MatPat on track for the secret ending? Will nightmare mode trigger/make sense if he gets it?
"Gotta ration this meat so it lasts longer" *Doesn't preserve the uncooked meat at all.* "The meat's gone bad." *surprised pikachu face*
technically he could just boil it to death. they used to do that back in the 1300s with meat that was rotting so it was edible. but the pace of this is much faster anyway. no one would starve to death in a few days. plus, meat in a cool place would take longer to decay. if kept in newspaper at a cool temp it should last a weak without preservation.
@@777SilverPhoenix777 But wouldn't the humidity speed up decay? Also, couldn't they have just preserved it in salt or something?
@@suicune2001 I doubt they had any significant amount of salt or vinegar considering they didn't even try. Or we can chalk it up to cabin fever causing irrational decisions. Or vengeful spirits speeding up the decay process out of spite.
@@pingpong607 They could have had the materials and are just really stupid. lol. They did pretty much immediately run out of food and went to cabin without checking the weather forecast first.
They can still cook the food so I don’t know why they didn’t dry it in the oven, try make some man-jerky.
I'm so concerned by the fact that very little people are talking about/noticing the fact Anatoly's Squirrel is gone. The Mats didn't even seem to notice.
I honestly thought thats where the meat came from at first
I knoooow! First thing I noticed this episode!
I noticed that as well!
EXACTLY I immediately noticed and was wondering if they'd notice too
"The Mats" 😂
20:07 Mariah's face can be seen in the cabinet, staring at the main character under the sink and then disappears before Karin walks in, just saying if anybody saw that.
EWWW that’s so unsettling 😖😖
Nice catch!!!
That reminds me of Huggy in the one part of Poppy playtime
I refuse to click this time stamp 😅🙁😰
Man that's straight up......... horrifying
Therapist: So tell me more about the voices in your head, when do you think this started.
Future Ollie: Oh, I know exactly what started this...
@Some apple bees employe why was there a option that said “translate to English??”
@@that-idiot663 because google is bad at realizing that repeated letters in english words to not equal a different language
@@ellespoonies closest thing i found in google translate was "stoooppo" which is italian for "stupid"
ollie's future is getting brighter by the minute!
@@that-idiot663 clearly cause it’s not English
That whispering we heard throughout the game was in Russian
Couldn’t hear the first one cause Matpat
Was talking, but at 33:00 she said “you better sleep with both eyes open” and at 49:50 she said “still not found”
People have said she says “Can you hear the knocking?” at some times. Could it be that?
I was wondering what that was
Thanks for translating!
it’s insane how unsettling this game can be, even when you think you know exactly where the story is going. there was no plot twist, we knew this was coming. but it’s so terrifying anyways, because the game does such a good job at slowly revealing what’s happening. genuinely so creepy
Just wait :)
They should play lily's well. Kind of similar and game grumps played recently so it'll gain more clicks because of that
@@DeerDreamStudios Oh no, I've genuinely scared and if this gets worse just tells how good can a person be to write a perfectly predictable story but still freak the crap out of you
@@tophatcat9996 yes!! i would love to see them play lilys well
The timing of Matt finally getting around to Cooking Companions especially gets me. The game is about the holodomor, and Ukrainian refugees attempting to escape it.
When voting Anatoly out of the cabin, I realized that Mariah said "I won't let you guys starve" or something to that effect. She knew whoever left was dead no matter what, and probably suspected that she would be the next food source.
@@tisrhino If we stick with "she did it willingly," there could be a few explanations. Her violent death, possibly coupled with expecting to drown/starve and be scavenged rather than murdered, could have caused her spirit to become vengeful and angry.
On another hand, there's the folklore and Baba Yaga side of the lore that could tie in. The spirits of the consumed might be trapped once dead, and driven to violence and madness by the supernatural forces involved.
Or I'm wrong and it's just clever foreshadowing! Either way, game's still really interesting.
She says "I will keep *us* alive. I promise" it includes herself. She intends to return.
@@FreakishGeek I’m assuming you know this already, but later in the game one of the spirits (I think Mariah) talks to the player about how they thought they were all just victims of unfortunate circumstance doing what had to be done- and didn’t initially blame the player for it, until the older spirits informed them of what was truly going on and the fact that it was all a setup all along, which made them become vengeful.
God I hope I wrote this in a way that makes sense
@@schlorping5156 Yeah, you explained it well! I know from watching the later videos, but I figured I'd leave this alone. No point in deleting it, though I do know the lore better now! And thanks for trying to clear things up in case I didn't!
oh god!
Let us stand in silent memory of Anatoly's squirrel. You will never be forgotten.
Yeah, I'd love to figure out if that was imaginary/symbolic, got quietly eaten, or just knew when to GTFO. I believe it disappears when Mariah leaves the cabin. I'm trying to watch for other things visually changing in the characters but don't think I've spotted anything so far. (Aside from the occasional scary faces and text)
Oh crap, I never even noticed when it left 0.0
I wonder when it dissappeared......
I like to believe that it just sensed danger and ran off and is living a happy life in the woods and maybe got itself a squirrel girlfriend and is having some squirrel babies.
I felt sick when I realized Anatoly's little friend was gone.
This is what I choose to believe and I refuse to accept any other explanation.
In the Gregor cg scene when he talks about hearing Mariah outside the cabin that explains what happened in mc’s dream. They were actually awake but imagined it as a dream. They found mariah’s body outside the cabin but were most likely too tired to notice it was her, and the body had probably lost some of Mariah’s features anyway. He desecrated the body since it was the only quick and safe source of food and put it away so be rationed. Then wakes up better. That’s whAt I think happened
yep, sounds like what happened. Which explains why the MC thinks Karin's plan is extreme. The MC isn't killing anyone directly, only eating them after they die.
then please explain what the blacksmith dream would be according to your interpretation
@@masl1740 the blacksmith dream has a different interpretation that would be given to it when things are clearer. Right now the other dreams arent explained properly yet unlike the dream that the OP mentioned because there are clear connections. Another case of the mc describing it as a dream but it being actual events was the dream before day 11. This is when Anatoly left and in the dream it was mentioned that mc had something lying in front of him(most likely referring to the corpse of Anatoly). This is then supported by the fact that the mc took off partially cracked glasses and another notable detail at day 11 where the mc woke up at a different place. Raising a question that if the mc sleepwalked into the kitchen and out of pure chance fresh meat was on the table.
I love the sound design for this game. Not just the whispers but the fact that the "thunder" you hear in the background also sounds like the sounds of someone's stomach growling.
That’s a really cool detail! Thanks for pointing it out :D
Also the fact that they don't use the cheep "random high noice" during the sacre scenes but are confedent enough in it's own spooky atmosphere to scare you rather than chock you with a loud sound.
the fact that mariah is mentioned to be "gurgling" as if she's "trying to cough water out of her lungs" keeps taking me back to that first nightmare where the player is trying to drown the thing on their back 0-0
Same
The dreams forshadow how everybody dies Mariah - Drowned
Gregor - chained onto the couch
Anatoly - looks for Mariah? Well.... The other times I was right....
I DIED laughing at mirror mat's version of saying "hello internet, welcome to game theory" 🤣🤣💀💀
Yeah, who’s gonna animate that?
time stamp?
@@into_the_sketchiverse I think it's at 1:40
I would definitely be down for MirrorMat voicing a Game theory episode.
IKR, it was pretty dang on point.
This whole time, the chompettes have said things like “don’t let the other humans see us”, implying the player isn’t human. Karin asks how long it took to perfect ‘the craft’ and after we tell her, she responds “yeah right” like she doesn’t believe us, seeming to imply the player might be older than they look, adding to the “we aren’t human” theory. The ancient texts in the cabin could also be another hint.
She also said “the old days” or something like that at one point, also implying that mc is some sort of older entity
Mc is human its just that in the chompettes eyes they dont see him as himan. But mc is still VERY old. Theres a theory that you can take on the role of the butcher in the cabin (which obviously has something supernatural about it) by killing the butcher. By killing who potato used to be, mc took on the role of the butcher making him immortal and cannibalistic. If Karin had killed mc she would've taken on the role of the butcher.
That's what I thought too, but saying "other humans" implies that the mc is a human as well. Maybe the mc was at least human at first
@@koughnut0520 nah the original comment misquoted them. The Chompettes always say “the humans”, I’m pretty sure they never say “the *other* humans” once throughout the game
@@schlorping5156 hmm, maybe it's just a Mandela effect? I'll just say that because I don't have the energy to look back in the game lmao
omg that sudden and subtle "I think you should look for food tomorrow" was what got me.
the EUPHEMISM!! 😭😭
MatPat: *Cannibalism jokes*
The game: *Has actual cannibalism*
MatPat: *Surprised Peepachu face*
MatPat: haha y'know, cannibalism in coming
Game: we're forreal serious about this. Watch these characters lose their humanity
MatPat: **oh dear**
Literally dropped everything, this is my favorite series at the moment
I literally cheered out in joy seeing this as I opened youtube
@@leona067 indeed
@@globaldriftmastersofficial8607 same
I was drifting off to sleep for once (it's midnight for me) and I heard a notification from my phone, as soon as I saw it was this I woke up as fast as I can
Yes
18:16 I really like the slight implication that Gregor recognizes the taste of human flesh - considering how they were all starving back in Ukraine, it's not that absurd to think some of them might have resorted to cannibalism in the past.
oh they did, russians cut off their food supply and the either resorted to the hidden bread or eating the bodies of people that died in the middle of streets due to starvation
so, we've established that the chompettes are souls of past cannibalized campers, or something of the sort. and then there was the mention of mariah starting to use the mouse holes, and then anatoly's dissection being mentioned as a "dream". Could these "dreams" we're having at night be the death experiences of the chompettes?
I think it has more to do with what we are, the first one and the blacksmith match up with a creature known as a Likho
*spoilers*
according to one of the endings, *someone* dies and a new chompette is added, but is unable to talk yet. so i do believe there is some credence to that
@@lacytaylor1501 Yeah I think all the dreams are based on Eastern European stories or creatures, like the night hag or Hansel and Gretel in the earlier ones.
There's nothing more wholesome than Matpat talking about Ollie, and there's nothing more terrifying than a potato calmly breaking down the science of starvation.
I can't help but think it's weird how you alone are different from all of them. The way they didn't give you any tasks at the begining, the way they don't seem to expect you to do anything other than cook. It's weird
The atmosphere this game creates is bone chilling. When you have your first dream you aren’t expecting the “spoopy jumpscare” but once you get a tolerance for it those just stop and everything gets a bit to real. That line about the “meat going bad” is so good
One thing that I don’t know if anyone noticed but the squirrel that was on Anatoly’s shoulder is gone in this episode. Maybe they DID eat the squirrel. Or this just shows how less lighthearted this game is getting.
Also there was a comment about eating Mice...
I choose to believe that the little guy realized that an I'll wind was coming and ran into the woods. He has a squirrel wife and squirrel babies and is very happy.
I noticed
It's probably the MC's cabin, and the chompettes are previous victims of ours whose spirits haven't moved on. Probably also that we regularly lure and eat people in this same cabin. That's just my guess
Potato also asked the mc why they were keeping those humans around.
And that potato and the ""others"" (whoever potato was with when they were alive) didn't even get the same treatment as the current humans...
Potato seems strangely salty about that XD
P.s. pun not intended at the end oops lol
Matpat is my horror game comfort blanket. This game is so wonderfully unnerving. Please do all of the endings!
Yes!! Please do all the options and all the endings!
I needed my comfort blanket too with this game, more often than I needed!
@@fragrantbloom knowing him he probably will (probably)
I can handle any horrific game as long as he's the one presenting it- every other channel just seems to keep it terrifying and dark, somehow I'm not as scared even though it's definitely scary, somehow it feels safe ♡ bless this online theorist family home
20:24 I like how karin looks impatient sorta like "we want more food"
Anatoly looks ashamed because deep down he knows what he ate but still wants more
And Gregor is just simply sad, he knows what the meat was and he knows that Mariah is gone but he's accepted that this is the way it has to be
I like how, dispite the possible supernatural elements, what's truly terrifying are all real world things. Starvation. Isolation. Mental deterioration. The fight to survive.
Can't wait to see where this goes!
The "crunch" sound could be caused by the spear going straight through the eye, poking some bone in the process.
You do also have some hard stuff in your eyes, so it could be that instead
It said the poker went through the skull itself though, so the skull crunched
Was very surprised to hear Mariah singing on 33:00 in russian! She says: "Better sleep with two eyes open".
Oh, you have to translate all the other whispers! I can’t even tell if they’re English or not 🥲😭
Yeah, there are more. On 49:50 she says "not found yet"
There something on 23:41 but its hard to hear because of Matpat
@@orliag218 found another walkthrough with no commentary, there I figured out that she says "They will never forgive you" at 23:41
Oo0
"Let's save the recipe for the end!" *Doesn't look at the recipe*
Fun Fact: It's implied Gregor had feelings for Anatoly. If you make a certain choice, and you do something on New Game+, you learn more about him. And on the route you're going, you'll learn more about Karin too.
Fr gregor sounds so in love with anatoly
Wasn't there one part where they were out outside for something and when they came back in it said that Gregor was blushing?
He was just embarrassed at being scared of a marmot
@@Wizardcat0901 I mean he did say he had something to tell him so its a possibility
@@LevizzzDOTcom I think it's not when they're out, but it's when they're doing stuff with the maps in the room?
I think the character is a cannibalistic witch (perhaps Baba Yaga) and she had been defeated by people she tried to eat too many times (as told in her nightmares). Hence, she chose the long wait tactic of starving her companions instead of using force.
Let's go!!! Another episode of Cooking Companions! Time for the spoopies!
That ending of "I'm gonna go eat some meat. Eat well." threw me off so much. He said it without his usual happy tone that he ends every video with...
I'm glad I ate before this, because I'm not sure I'd want to eat after this.
"I'm gonna go cook up some meat" being the first thing you think of come lunchtime is cognitive dissonance at work. It's the same reason people are ok with eating "livestock" animals but think eating dogs or cats is revolting.
Isn't it interesting that the chompettes and the main cast share name colors? Raspberry and Karin are red, lettuce and Gregor are green, onion and Anatoly are blue, and bread and Mariah are brown. It could be a red herring, but it is still an interesting correlation nonetheless
That’s true; however, so believe that these are five previous victims, considering that there were “five in one night”
I'm starting to suspect that this is all in the MC's head, replaying the same scenario, and the chompettes are versions of Karen, Gregory, etc mixed with MC's conscious speaking to him.
@@neolithiumproduction that’s a good theory! where would potato fit into all this tho
@@lolkayleen2757 I think Potato is the MC's version of himself.
CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE FACE IN THE CABINET AT 20:08
Im laughing so hard because the protagonist saw Anatoly crying about his crush being gone and told them a depressing story about a farmer and a cow having poor surviving skills and when they saw it (obviously) didn't help the situation they just left
So glad to see mat continue this series brings me back to the days of Doki Doki
RESPECTFULLY
The cool thing is, even though it seems to have the style of Doki Doki, it still makes it unexpected
19:30 "You slowly opened the door"
I had a moment of panic right then and there
Same I was thinking of sayori from that 💀
Sayori moment
The PTSD was astronomically strong right there
Sometimes I forget matpat was a theatre kid, and when he voices characters I completely forget it’s his voice and imaging the game just fully voice acted 😂
Same here!
Mats save slot managment has to be the most disturbing thing about this game
Ever since their faces started becoming all creepy I have kept my eyes LOCKED on the text.
I've been down in the comments or putting the video in mini player 😅
SAME LMFAOO💀
If you keep watching it over and over again, it gets less scary.
@@thenotoriouspizzajon2677 yeah obviously that's kind of how it works
This game scares me so much-
Matt, the vegatables are the ones giving you the complicated food recipes, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say they're the actual reason for the food being so poorly rationed
The recipes they give you aren't the ones you cook in the game
I've played Dark Souls, I've played Bloodbore and I'm now playing Elden Ring. None of the literal piles of corpses in those games, nor any others I can think of have made me feel as disconcerted and uneasy as this game has.
IKR SAME
20:06 You feel someone's piercing gaze in the kitchen, judging you for your sins.
I have no clue if you've thought or talked about this since I'm typing this during the video, but obviously we killed Mariah. Based on how Gregor asked, "have you heard her cries too," and how we can't go into the basement, I'm guessing that Mariah might have been in the basement tied/chained up with us potentially slowly cutting off her body parts. That's also why we say that we have the meat "preserved so that we can ration it better." However, the main flaw would be how we ended up getting her in the basement if she was in the flood water.
i wonder if the basement is the same as in the demo
I've seen multiple playthroughs, and I still think there are some things left to figure out. I hope they manage a theory video.
Karin did point out that "They always come back". The MC most likely meets them at the door when she (and Anatoly) swim back in the night.
When she leaves it says you dream of desecrating a corpse. Her body probably washed up somewhere near the house.
Another problem is actually getting a piece of "meat" that big of a person the size of Mariah or anatoly. Think about that one.
I don't know if anyone's noticed this yet and I don't know if it has always been there, but on the title screen of the game, above the cauldron it says "голод" which is "hunger" in Russian and Ukrainian, which makes a bit of sense with the references to Ukraine, Eastern European food, and the Eastern European names.
Whispers in game (except title screen) are in russian as well. For example Держи глаза открытыми (derji glaza otkritymi) -> keep your eyes open
*TGT:* “Iʼm so hungry that iʼm seeing things...”
*Me:* _relates too much to TGT while starving at 3AM._
@Don't read profile photo Thanks man almost did that
@Don't read profile photo good thing you stopped me. I might’ve read that. your doing good
You're 100% right, the willingness and barely even reluctant enthusiasm they have for what's happening is so much more sinister and worse than what we expected to happen. And don't even get me started on the faces.
I love this series so freaking much. It’s up there with Doki Doki. Not quite FNAF or kindergarten S-Tier level. But solid A-Tier.
Also MatPat. Please. You and Steph take some time off. You guys are so busy and do so much for us. Don’t worry about prepping videos. Just relax.
Fun Fact: There is no “law” in the US about Cannibalism however how you got said meat is what will get you in trouble. Thanks Couch Q for this wonderful information in high school
Wait then is there a legal way to acquire it is that a thing cause that’s nuts
@Ky Atonic
I mean, there was one guy who had to have his leg amputated, but was able to keep it and he cooked it into tacos and ate them with his friends (they all knew). So... I guess if it's your own flesh. A law *specifically* forbidding caniballism would be a bit redundant, as the act would pretty much ALWAYS involve desecration of a corpse.
@@eddieravenwood true but it’s an interesting fact to know
Yep laws fun.
@@kyatonic1 Ya actually. You can buy like amputated parts (legally of course) that are meant to be used for practicing surgery and such. It's pricy but I mean if you're rich, weird, and curious you could actually be a legal cannibal.
“You dream of desecrating a corpse” what if it wasn’t a dream
I'm pretty sure that's the implication, later he dreams of "working" with "another one" right after Anatomy left, and mentions the cracked glasses. Next thing you see is having more meat
Pretty sure it isn't. Especially with how Karin suddenly KNOWS what you're doing, implying that she might have been the one who sneaked up on you in the last dream. Also, as Ghirox says, the cracked glasses seems like a dead giveaway.
That's what I'm thinking too, honestly
@@leona067 It kinda sheds a whole new light on all the dream sequences we've seen, doesn't it?
@@IAmVianca I believe all of the dream sequences are connected to the creature called Likho. The first one and the BlackSmith one can be linked to the Likho easily, the other two I'm not so sure
This game gave me chills. Cannibalism is one of my sensitive fears, and Im Not gonna be sleeping for a while.
“I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE. TURN IT UP!”
Edit: I laughed for a solid 2 minutes hearing matpat send his son to dreamland with the dementor voice 😭😭 3:38
Edit: *you’re leaving my cabin for leaving us on a cliffhanger.*
The way that the companions start getting weird after eating the meat reminds me of the Wendigo myth
Gtlive has helped me be less frightened of scary games, but man it is really being tested today.
You know Matthew considers us his children when he gives us a full performance of Oliver’s bedtime story.
I am like three years younger than Matt and I still see him as a father figure
Did anyone else see something in the cupboard under the sink in the kitchen at 20:10? It is behind the text Matpat is reading. It kind of looks like a face maybe? It vanishes before the next bit of dialog. Spooooky!
I saw the same thing when i played it.
My pants have never been more shatted.
"OHHH cooking COMPANIONS. like we're cooking the companions. it's a play on words. i get it now. "
Love that chapter name.
The spooky preview, Mirror Matt's great impression, and MatPat doing all sorts of voices in the Witty Banter... this is gonna be a good episode.
from what I gather, the tale about the fox is folk tale from hungary iirc. The fox kept swindling people and ended up getting killed pretty similarly to the story in this game.
The fact i convinced myself I eat dinner watching gtlive when actually i am always finished before witty banter ends and then i'm just loitering through the gameplay segment of the video
Just a random thing you need to know, yes the meat is Mariah, the "Leaving the Cabin" is basically one of the companions giving up themselves for meat
I am so going to regret staying up to watch this, but this series is just too good!
Literally regret watching this at 12 am with matpats voices😭
@@suaki.negative 12 am? its 4m for me
Yeah… I started watching playthroughs after the first video, and it only gets darker from here, and even though it’s horrifying, it’s just too good not to watch
@@GaymerTheGreat oml go to sleep mans gonna be tired all day
RIP to your sleep
Does each cabin member have a corresponding chompette sort of watching over them ?
Cabbage - mc
Raspberry - Karin
Bread - Gregor
Potato - Mariah
Onion - Anatoly
They also use the same name tag colours.
Mirror Matt “i wanna check out Potato’s special recipe”
Matpat “okay we’ll do that at the end”
*me still waiting*
Haha, same!
I still am so curious about that recipe (and don't want to see other people's playthrough) considering what Potato said before handing it over.
@@IAmVianca the recipe is for slaughter stew. it's about what t sounds like.
@@777SilverPhoenix777 That sounds like something the characters in the game would die for 😅
@@IAmVianca indeed they would. XP
@@777SilverPhoenix777 o-0
at 23:37 when MC looks out of the window there's definitely movement next to the tree on the left when the whispers start. Almost as if something is slinking back behind the tree.
That’s really creepy-
Matt you need to start cranking out more episodes for this!! I need more 😩
It's finally starting to get real good now
20:08, I think there's a face sticking out in the cabinets under the sink.
There is! It's creepy cool
Your the 2nd person who comment this but I still refused to click this time scale. The first comment said it was mariah, oh boy this is getting darker
For some reason it kinda looks like bread, but it’s hard to see
24:15 "Chompettes, VeggieTales... You know, canibalistic murder veggies versus 'let's teach you about bible stories' " Yeah, same difference 😂
This took a turn, one we all saw coming, but also one we were not ready for.
Mat and mat should co-host a theory episode, this would be amazing!
Yesssssss
Absolutely!
The meat clearly came from Anatolys squirrel, idk what everyone is talking about 😀
Yeah. Totally the weird squirrel thing.
edit: wait yeah it's gone
Yeah its tooootally the squirrel. Definitely not in complete denial¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Some of it did.
Big slab of meat from squirrel
yes very big slab of meat from a small squirrel!
Did anyone else notice that Anatoly's squirrel randomly disappeared?? I'm not even sure when it went missing but maybe thats one of the sources for the mystery meat
its okay to be in denial
because i am too
Interesting that Anatoly doesn't have his squirrel friend this episode. I wonder what happened to the little guy.
Little squirrel friend is okay, squirrel friend ran away when things got bad. He's living safe in the Woods. He's fine.
I would love to see the browsing history of any researcher matpat has working for him
Holy crap those faces in the one conversation (you know what I'm talking about, I'm not timestamping it) actually creeped me out farther than any game he's covered has
I was really hoping to see Potato's recipe at the end of the video. Oh well, there's always next time I suppose.
It's probably for the best
Anyone else scared that anitoly’s squirrel is gone and they are talking about eating rats
Squirrel?
@@DeerDreamStudios the one he had on his shoulder
@@justatheorist.3864 I don't see anything on his shoulder
@@DeerDreamStudios previous episode
@@justatheorist.3864 bro thems the devs, They messin with you
I really need Mat to cover the story for this because no one else has.
Nothing could've made my day better than Mirror Matt saying the game theory intro
Don't know if anyone noticed this but at 23:40, if you look very carefully at the closest tree on the left, you can very faintly see Mariah's face staring at you before fading away
I literally came to the page to check if a new installment of this had dropped 100% believing it wouldn’t have but now I’m so happy YESSSS
Interesting comments about things you missed, and interesting Deer Dream Studios is here as well, saying there’s books or something you have to read to get all the lore. I didn’t think it would be lore outside of the game, probably should have guessed that
Its probably European folktales and stuff... Not sure though
My guess is it's a FNAF joke
Honestly before I watch any other Cooking companions playthrough, I have to watch this one, if I don't I'll know the Endings and I'll complain bout Matpat missing an ending
Same for me
"Please stop carving meat out of my body!"
Excellent opener.
I love this series since I saw Manlybadasshero's full playthrough. Glad you like it so much and I hope we'll see a video soon if u finished it. This is the most unsettling horror game out there for me tbh.
I suspected it from the beginning and now I'm really sure: the chompettes must be the characters in some way. Or parallels to them. Onion was very interested in protecting Anatoly, bread is very interested in protecting gregor. To stop history repeating itself I think
When I watched a playthrough of this game the first time, i literally could not sleep the night I watched it. I couldn't keep my eyes closed for more than a few minutes. Actually, I even messaged the creator on twitter to applaud them for making such a scary game, and scold them for keeping me up all night. They said that they were just as terrified of games before this one and that the best way to get through your fears is to make a scarier video game yourself so that you get the chance to scare the heck out of others ^^
Yep! If you scare easily make videogames 100%
@@DeerDreamStudios XD you're quick!
The second MatPat said “who lives” I said “who does who tells your story” before him and laughed when he said it too.
i was looking for someone to say this already😂
Well. That was concerning. And depressing. And horrifying. I think it's worse than DDLC in basically all ways...
11/10, very fun game, compelling story, cannibalism.
What especially gets me is the timing of Matt finally getting around to playing it. The game is about holodomor refugees.
33:12 Onion yelling their name like a Pokémon lives in my head rent free
This is one of my favorite games Matpat has played
I couldn’t help watching an entire play through after the first episode. I really enjoy the commentary that goes along with watching GT Live with Matt and mirror Matt!
Gregor: Take a look out the window… do you notice anything?
Me: a face near the bush
a WHAT NOW?😟
@@3syle it's only there briefly
I'm sorry but I haven't seen anything, even with low speed and multiple tries, care to give us a timestamp and indications ? At this point I'm wondering if I should start thinking about glasses
Timestamp?
@@josh343 23:48
chompettes are very closely related to individual members of the group. raspberry to mariah, onion to anatoly, bread to gregor and maybe cabbage to karin.
you are potato.
Out of context *"YOU are potato"*
I’m a POTATO!
Anyone remember that meme?
No it's fine, just casually doing my math homework while Matpat plays a game about cannibalism, no biggie
42:00, OMG THIS INTERACTION WITH POTATO!! From not being able to flip the pages anymore, to not getting the same treatment as the leniency the main character is having towards their bunch. I’m starting to realize that the chompets are able to see the other spirits, because they are also other spirits…!!!
8:37 It's ironic that Karin would choose to discount this option...
Gatta love how right off the bat on the first episode he immediately wants to bond with the obvious murderer and will sacrifice other people’s lives to preserve their relationship, even when it could have been a 4v1 at first before he started killing people off lol
my day just got infinitely better i’m so excited to see the end of this game and your play throughs always make me happy