Alone in the Dark ► Story Explained
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- Опубликовано: 22 мар 2024
- In this video, we'll be explaining the storyline of Alone in the Dark. This is a reimagined version of the 1992 Alone in the Dark, and has some big-name actors in. A full review of Alone in the Dark will be out in the coming days, as there's a lot need to say about this game.
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You forgot to mention that at the location with the cemetery you can find the corpse of a black woman next to a wheelchair. As I understand it, this corpse is Cassandra's (writer). It is her voice that sounds when we open our notebook with objectives. It's like she's a ghost or something, writing a story about Edward and Emily.
Much of the "missing information" are in the collectibles, that explains a good amount of things (forbidden knowledge included). Also Cassandra's writings in the objectives menu tells us more about. So, when you beat the game with both characters, the story is complete and everything is clear.
Because mainly the story goes in this way: before everything else, Derceto is a place of worship, where voodoo magic is still practiced. They worship the Goddess of Fertility, aka Derceto, then Astarte, then Shub-Niggurath, who requires a sacrifice to be satisfied (Grace). In the previous years, Derceto (who started as a slaves's coffee plantation) was destroyed and rebuilded, and now it goes on as a "care home" for the black sheeps of the rich familes of New Orleans mainly. At some point, it was a colony for artists, but they vanished (because of the hurricane, as theorized).
Almost all of the Staff of Derceto are Worshippers of the Goddess, and they try to convert to their cult the present patients and even the other members of the Staff, namely Cassandra the writer, Jeremy, Perosi the singer, Chance the gardener and Waites the clerk. But none of them is interested in join the Cult and so, they're killed (aside Jeremy).
Jeremy finds out about the Cult because of this and decided to strike a deal with Nyarlathotep, the Black Pharaoh, the Dark Man, to prevent the Staff unleashing the Goddess on Derceto, while protecting everyone of them, at the cost of his "life" (because he will not die, he will be "just" trapped in the sunken temple forever). In a last act, before starting to hide, he tries to send a message to Emily, his niece, to tell her to stay away from the villa, but at this point, paranoia got him so Grace sends the letter instead of him (we can see this in Grace in the Dark, the demo/prologue of the game).
Emily receives the letter and decides to go to Derceto and hires Edward Carnby in case "something goes wrong". The two arrives at Derceto, and here starts the game. Mainly, Edward (i take him, because is canon for me) ends up in Jeremy's Memories (or otherworlds, like Walter Sullivan's ones in SH4), thanks to the magic that surrounds the villa and thanks to them, he finds Jeremy and learns about the Contract with Nyarlathothep and at the end, he frees Jeremy by stabbing him with the Snake Dagger, solving the case. We know that the entire Dark Man thing was real thanks to the power of the villa, but the important thing is that at this point, the Staff is ready to celebrate their New Year's Eve and sacrifice Grace to Shub-Niggurath to satisfy her.
Emily finds out about this and intervenes in time, helping Edward in saving the kid. Shub is not pleased, so she brutally kills everyone. Edward chases her and after a fierce battle, he beats her and Derceto is destroyed once again (and maybe forever, this time), with Edward, Emily, Jeremy and Grace then leaving and returning to New Orleans.
My guy, tell me something, what kinda games you play?
@@shaafahmad2724 nearly every genre. i have no limits
You didn't mention the strange connection between Dr. Grey and the Dark Man.
There was a scene in Edward's company where we can see that under the Dark Man's mask is Dr. Grey. Also in Emily's bad ending when she joins the Dark Man, we hear Grey's voiceover in the temple.
Too many weird connections between these two. As I understand it, in Jeremy's perception, the doctor was the Dark Man because he was getting inside Jeremy's head (through therapy) as the DM.
@@Garth_Brown are you up for a chat?
Id like that considering your taste and enthusiasm regarding games
@@timlarick2052 i didn't mention it because i put up a summary of the general story, as i wrote (mainly). I voluntarily put aside everything else, to encourage everyone to pay more attention to everything.
But yes, there is this connection too. But i believe that we see Gray as Nyarlathotep because of Nyarla/Dark Man itself, that likes to play with his victims.
I posted another comment about the theories on this game under the video of Gaming Harry
And also to fully analyze the story, Emily's company should be studied. The developers said that it would be easier to understand the story if you go through both companies.
I'm playing through her story now for my review!
I haven't noticed any kinda of analysis anyway. Haven't even touched a matter about a name of the game "Alone in the Dark" referring not to any character but a God Shub-Niggurat who was alone in the dark wich is basically what the game is about.
@@ardour1587 Good point! I didn't even consider that.
That wasn't Jeremy sitting dead, it was Mr. Waites. The eyes that sprout on him when you find him are referenced in Grace's note.
Yay! I was hoping you'd review. This game is amazing.
I enjoyed the video. Keep up the great work Wizzo.
I love your reviews and breakdowns!! They help me study and your voice calms me
I just finished playing as Emily and I loved it definitely try it for yourself. It might not seem that fun gameplay wise but the story is pretty good and it's fun to listen to all the notes.
Just like another game the invincible, not much gameplay wise but that is not what you need sometimes - just some good story
So there was actually two enemies here, the dark man and the tree right?
yep: Shub-Niggurath (The Tree) and Nyarlathotep (The Dark Man)
I'm at the end of my first run with Emily, and the take ive got so far is that The Dark Man was contracted by Jeremy to keep the worse evil away from Derceto (tree monster). The Dark Man himself wasn't inherently after anything in particular, but he was brought by Jeremy & Emily due to their family curse. Jeremy got worse due to the black mould left by the Spanish Flu epidemic, of which Emily's husband was caught up in. The Dark Man was testing Emily to see if she had the fortitude to keep the tree monster at bay without him. At this point, I'm guessing Carnby's side of things fills in the rest in a more 'sceptical' or 'rational' mindset.
I'm sorry to say but this video does not explain anything... I finished this game and still, haven't been able to figure out what the h³ll happened. 😢
So as far as I was able to tell the story is this, jeremy encountered Nyarlathothep as a child at a magic show in disguise as the black pharaoh. Nyarlathothep who is an elder god from hp lovecrafts stories then set about driving jeremy mad and tormenting him because chaos and suffering is kind of his thing. Decerto has been a temple devited to the worship of a fertility goddess for a very very long time worshipping astarte, and decerto and others, this is the tree monster in the garden. Dr grey and the patients are the newest fanatics influenced by the fertility goddess to serve her. Dr grey in the course of therapy finds that jeremy has had previous contact with an elder god snd tries to force the information from him on how to properly conduct the ritual to summon the fertility goddess now calld shub niggurath. Jeremy knowing this will release evil on the world strikes a deal with the dark man / Nyarlathothep he will kill himself and in be trapped forevwr in the dark mans sunken tomb if he stops shub. Jeremy tries to keep his bargain by hanging himself in the attic but something goes wrong and he fails to die which starts a chain reaction of him being tormented by darkman for breaking his bargain and dr grey manipulating him and using his fears and psychosis to try and get info for ceremony. You lobotomize jeremy by accident and essentially seal off the darkman in his brain but this also makes him compliant and he easily tells the cultusts everything they try and sacrifice grace and bring shub to their world but mess up the sacrifice and chaos ensues and you gotta take down shub. In the end dark man is sealed thanks to lobotomy and cukt is ended atleast for now
Hi there! Could you please explain what was the contract between Jeremy and the dark man? What is the connection between Jeremy's mind to the cult? Everytime we are in Jeremy's mind or character is daydreaming at the mansion? Thanks in advance!
i really enjoyed it. couldn’t put it down. did not wear out its welcome either
I think that Grace was possessed by that demon, the hateful mound Beast, whatver it is. Though im not sure if its connected to Nyarlathotep or Shub. Maybe Shub?
i just cimll0eted the game , and its great , and has some Alan wake vibes
thanks my guy it was confusing!
Watched it, played it, still dont get it. We can take everything literly but isnt the entire story a facade from the doctor to cover up the cult. Jeremy was onto them so he indoctrinated him. Same for our 2 protagonists. They keep waking up next to dr.Grey, Emily gets syringed by the little girl? Why? What does it do? All the others are already mad as a bird, I assume they have already been turned. Fk my life, what the hell 😅
That's how you know its a bad game. 90% into the game I didn't know what was really going on. It's ridiculous. They're trying to make it "strange" without any rhyme or reason and that's the part that sucks the most. If the gameplay is lukewarm and clunky then the story should be good and be captivating.
Nope. Jeremy discovered the Cult and decided to strike a deal with Nyarlathotep to save them from themselves. For the Emily part, Grace itself acts in this way, both because she's traumatized and because she knows what's going on (and this is evident in the prologue/demo).
One thing I don't understand is the empty room? Was Edward a patient at Derceto and had somehow forgot that he was?
I thought this at first, but no. Both Edward and Emily can go into the empty room. This is simply a psychological horror moment, like Silent Hill. Edward and Emily were never patients, but they are both losing their sanity and questioning what is and isn't real. The Dark Man is making them confront trauma they have kept pushed away and tried to forget about.
It was an alien who ifluenced minds of humans to the point where they would make a cult and occasionaly give him free food (sucriface) :)
Sorry if the question is dumb or obvious. But is the Dark Man Nyarlathotep at the end?
yes
Can you do a full story of infamous and infamous 2
I've never played then, but that's a shout!
@@_Wizzo I think you'll like the game
Thanks for the summary, but I don't really feel you explained much of anything.
I get the impression that Edward was already "touched in the head" from the get go, and something about the atmosphere in that Mansion, just triggered a lot of trauma and repressed memory, made him see weird eldritch horrors (for some reason?) and imagine loads of overly convoluted nonsense, and at the end, when the building burns down, that's basically him "losing it completely" and turning into a vegetable.
I'm sure, I've no clue what I'm talking about, but that's kinda the effect that stories like this one tends to have on me.
I'm at the end of my first run with Emily, and the take ive got so far is that The Dark Man was contracted by Jeremy to keep the worse evil away from Derceto (tree monster). The Dark Man himself wasn't inherently after anything in particular, but he was brought by Jeremy & Emily due to their family curse. Jeremy got worse due to the black mould left by the Spanish Flu epidemic, of which Emily's husband was caught up in. The Dark Man was testing Emily to see if she had the fortitude to keep the tree monster at bay without him. At this point, I'm guessing Carnby's side of things fills in the rest in a more 'sceptical' or 'rational' mindset.
good job but it would have been better if you muted ingame sound little annoying hearing it and trying to hear your voice
i did the detectives story,is it worth doing the female one or is it roughly the same ?
Yes, it's worth it. I completed both, and there are some very notable differences. Cutscenes play out differently, character relationships are different, and the empty room section completely changes with a different puzzle as well.
@@salazar556 ok cool but what about the puzzles that aint new are they the same solution as the detectives ?
@@TheRapidVengeance Mostly the same, though they do have differences in their 'personal trauma' levels, the story cutscenes have different dialogue with different info, and some collectibles are exclusive to one or the other character. The bones are the same, but the meat on them is different.
This is only One part of the Story.
I enjoyed the game but I felt like half the story was missing. I was expecting that the character stories would be more different. I thought one character would investigate the dark man and the other the cult. I felt like they missed a trick not following the RE2 format
How is the little girl still alive if she died in an old case? And how is Jeremy still alive ?
If you check the objectives during this part, the narrator actually tells you that Carnby saved Grace, but chose to let her father die, even though there was time to save him. And Jeremy’s still alive because stabbing him through the eye didn’t kill him, but lobotomized him.
@@leylinea6866 exactly. Cassandra (the writer) is like Alan Wake, she tells us what's going on.
The story was really boring imo.
This game is more like Silent Hill than Resident Evil. And that isn't authentic for a Alone In The Dark game.
Eh. New Nightmare is the only Alone game that is anything like RE at all. And sure Alone is usually far sillier and less self serious than Silent Hill but it's also far, far more story focused than RE and supernatural with a hint of psychological horror is a common trope for the series.
I'd say it's much more authentic for Alone to be more Silent Hill than RE. And tbh this game is so authentic to the original trilogy particularly I find it suspect anyone would doubt that had they actually played those games. Everything from the story (down to incredibly niche references some of which are built into whole plot points) to the gameplay (more puzzles and reading than fighting), to the spoken letters as a primary part of the storytelling, everything here is on point for Alone 1-3. And whilst closer to SH than RE, ultimately Alone has always been it's own thing not a perfect match for either RE or SH.