Mum had postpartum depression, never liked Louis, the parents ended up divorcing, mum blames Louis for eveything, girl dissapears, life becomes hell, Louis is probably killed by his mum
This game clearly was just in the boy's head.... like in Among the Sleep where it's the kid's mind making things look different as there is no way a monster could have gotten all of those things that belonged to Lucy and all the notes pointed to the mom abusing the boy... I think the beast is the mom.
Not to trauma dump on main but I was trapped in a basement for 3 years Abusers sometimes pick a main target to... Keep, for who knows what reason. But overall to have someone or something consistent. My abuser happened to be too old to see new targets, and still wanted his spawn to live, so I was, in the vaguest sense, allowed to live.
@@Tree-House69 It really depends on the type, it can be everything from power and control to wanting someone to suffer and more. I mean I have had a friend who pretty much had the same thing happen with being locked in a basement for a few years. It's also why I made sure to mention child eating monster, human monsters tend to be far more horrifying.
@@Tree-House69 I'm glad you're free now! That sounds really terrifying. You explain their mentality perfectly. I would read a book that you wrote if there was one!
Yeah, I'm pretty confident the sister is long gone. She's apparently been missing for two years, that lie only works because the protagonist is a child. A tragic end for all involved, but some good atmosphere I can appreciate.
"They've been fone for years, that lie only works because the protagonist is a child" You've never played Resident Evil 7 & The Evil Within series, thats whats confident here.
I understand the undertones of the story, but imagine an 80's Disney-esque monster tiptoeing around and planting keys and creating these puzzles with a giggle.
This was a good, uncomfortable, unnerving game to play, as an adult, you can see the obvious shadows in between the lines, you can't help but few bad for the young that lack that level of awareness or perception to such things
This game is pretty cool for symbolism, I like when games do that. The monster was either symbolism for the mom, for guilt, or for both and I think that’s really interesting.
@@JoceBeggar even if the game isn't great, it's quite fun to try and figure out the meaning and symbolism behind things, even if there isn't one :D imo that's the cool thing about analysing something, certain things can have a very deep message, or none at all! but regardless of that, just the act of theorizing about what this or that *could* represent is already a fun thing to do, at least that's how i feel about it :)
It's quite generic, actually, and it annoyed me but then I saw it was a student project and it made sense. The "symbolism" is just the same trope of abusive parental figures we always get and, of course, she's suffering from a mental disorder (PPD, most likely, worsened by alcoholism). It's really not that deep, it's scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of originality and it's not all that scary, either. Still, for a first run (assuming it is their first), it's not that bad and shows potential.
_Poor Louis_ The kid is 6. He's hardly old enough to be _responsible_ for his little sister. Terrible mother, the father was kind but didn't help. Agree I don't think the sister was actually alive either - just enjoyed tricking children and making them feel hopeful. For a student game, it had good atmosphere and a scary monster too!
It was depressing to see a child being abused when he did nothing wrong, recieving all the blame for tragedies he had no control over. It resonated with me because I had a mother who was very similar, sometimes physically abusive and mentally abusive to an extreme. I was never good enough, so each note filled with hatred was like a blade in the gut. I heard many of those words in my childhood.
@@H0r53f7y Oh for certain. I have a healthy friend group that I think genuinely care about me. I also gained a grandad out when I moved into a coworkers house, which was nice.
had a feeling it was gonna be the monster mimicking the sister's voice from the start; the game in general had me thinking it was supposed to be a metaphorical thing where the monster is representative of guilt & whatnot, rather than an "actual" monster
Manly immediately forgetting about the locked clock and then completely missing the noose over the stool 😭 This is a neat game though, I like more symbolic games like this. Student projects are always so fun to, props to the team behind it!
I think the bottles of alcohol who can be seen at some places is quit telling : the monster is the mother, and we see the reallity through her remaining kid. It makes me think of Binding of Isaac and Among the Sleep.
The atmosphere is cool and is horror in a more sadness kind of way, due to the abuse, and since the beginning I was thinking, if kids lost are younger than 10 years old, then maybe is not a real monster, is what they perceive.
Spoilers for the game below. Red Flag #1: Lucy has apparently been trapped here for two years, by a monster that specifically eats people. Why is she still alive? Red Flag #2: Getting thrown out the door will apparently be a worse outcome for Lucy than being killed. Red Flag #3: If Lucy is confined to her room as she says she is, and a later note makes it clear that her music box didn't disappear with her, how would she know that it was stolen and a key was put inside it?
Biiiiiig amnesia vibes with the puzzles and lore heavy texts, and I looove the Victorian era setting! Even the monster is pretty damn spooky at points :D Very solid horror game!
The little girl's voice sounded like French girl speaking English. EDIT: Seems I was right. "Ravenous is a French student project from the Esma Game school."
is anyone else not seeing manly's videos on their home page? also his name no longer shows up when you type "manly" in the search bar. You have to type the full thing and search it, it no longer suggests his channel. is manly like shadowbanned or something, his videos used to be all over my home page and i still watch his stuff daily. so weird youtube like silenced him, at least that what im experiencing
So despite it being a very clear there is a predator that is targetting kids around the town. The parents just casually let their kid(s) wander around alone. Makes sense
Personally, I think none of this is real. Why would notes like that be scattered around? It's probably just psychological. The kid might be lost in the forest for real, and there might be an actual boogeyman, but I wouldn't take what we see literally either way. Like all those texts that's supposed to guilt your character? Got to be psychological manifestations. OR, this boogeyman is an expert at psychological torture. Alas, that kind of parent makes me angry. All I can hope is, there will be some sort of justice in the sequel, if the dev is continuing this. Otherwise it's just plain enraging to me. It seems like a lot of work have been put into the game though. The presentation and everything is good, and I like the fact that there actually is reasons for things. All that's left is resolving the family issue, and maybe revealing the truth about the boogeyman/monster, if there is one.
I thought so too. It's almost the exact same toy except the one in Skinamarink had a rotary dialer on the top instead of push buttons. But otherwise it seems to be the same design for sure
the newspaper said there was a predator psycho lurking around stalking kids, so the sister was probably one of the unfortunate victims; there was no saving her from the start. She was missing for 2 years. The monster we see is probably from louis’s perspective of his mom abusing him.
This was an interesting one. Great atmosphere and I like that it's all potentially just in the imagination of Louis who's subconsciously trying to escape his reality with a drunk, abusive mother. Or is it? There were a few moments that pulled me out of it, however. Like the note at 17:25, "I need to get some fresh air and get away from it all" Is something a 20-30 year-old who works an office job in a city would write, not a 6 year old
When the monster rose up at the end it gave my pet bird a jumpscare, first time thats happened lmao! But damn this game is actually sad, that kids Mum is a freaking psycho :(
3:15 story guess so possible spoilers. this is where the suspicious figure takes all their victims and we’ve stumbled upon it. I may or may not be wrong but we’ll see. Update: I was right.
At first I thought it was actually a boogie man, but it really is a metaphor for child abuse. The end is so sad yet surprising? Like the thing in the corner was a Wendigo for sure, given the name of the game and overall apearence and the mimic thingy. I trully believe is a metaphor for the mother's heart becoming colder and colder (since the lengend comes from colder places, where winter is harsh and starvation was a real threat. Once a person becomes a Wendigo, their heart becomes ice and they slowy start losing themselves to the hunger), so she slowly losed her sanity and sense of humanity, finally killing her child in the end :(
13:44 Yeah kinda saw that coming. The monster is a stand-in for an abusive mother. Minute I read the note before that said she started to feel angry looking at Louis, I realized she was the monster. Metaphorically or otherwise. Now she's talking about drinking and being left by her husband to raise a kid she hates. Obviously it's her. These games are getting way too predictable. Do all horror games have to be metaphors for trauma? Can't it just be a weird monster that kidnaps children and eats them and rely on interesting symbolism that doesn't pertain to obvious tropes about abuse and mental health disorders?
Can you play a game called 'A transient Experiment' by Wight? It's really good and I've only seen one person play it online. It's a visual novel that allows you to draw and interact. I found it while searching for things to play, and I'm shocked that I don't see people talking about it more. It's a really quick play, too.
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Day 838 of asking Manly to play A Cold Love Story through RUclips comments.
pretty locked
I'm in your basement please let me out
Manly: "I think we're fine"
Monster around the corner from Manly: "Yep, totally fine."
Mum had postpartum depression, never liked Louis, the parents ended up divorcing, mum blames Louis for eveything, girl dissapears, life becomes hell, Louis is probably killed by his mum
I think that his dad is Charles, mentioned in the newspaper, so he might have k.lled himself
This game clearly was just in the boy's head.... like in Among the Sleep where it's the kid's mind making things look different as there is no way a monster could have gotten all of those things that belonged to Lucy and all the notes pointed to the mom abusing the boy... I think the beast is the mom.
@Based_Gigachad_001 Not that there's a difference. lol
Among, Among, Among, Among, Among, Among, Among, Among
I thought it was super obvious the beast was the mom.
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the being trapped in the basement for two years when the monster eats children should have made it obvious it was a big fat trap.
The monster certainly had a big fat 🍆 trap when it stood up 🤣
I mean yeah, the entire game is about as subtle as a brick to the head lol
Not to trauma dump on main but I was trapped in a basement for 3 years
Abusers sometimes pick a main target to... Keep, for who knows what reason. But overall to have someone or something consistent.
My abuser happened to be too old to see new targets, and still wanted his spawn to live, so I was, in the vaguest sense, allowed to live.
@@Tree-House69 It really depends on the type, it can be everything from power and control to wanting someone to suffer and more.
I mean I have had a friend who pretty much had the same thing happen with being locked in a basement for a few years.
It's also why I made sure to mention child eating monster, human monsters tend to be far more horrifying.
@@Tree-House69 I'm glad you're free now! That sounds really terrifying. You explain their mentality perfectly. I would read a book that you wrote if there was one!
Yeah, I'm pretty confident the sister is long gone. She's apparently been missing for two years, that lie only works because the protagonist is a child. A tragic end for all involved, but some good atmosphere I can appreciate.
I mean, even if he knew that the sister is dead, there is nothing else he could do, beside what the monster wanted him to do.
"They've been fone for years, that lie only works because the protagonist is a child"
You've never played Resident Evil 7 & The Evil Within series, thats whats confident here.
was not expecting the monster to be cheeked up in the end. craziest plot twist
Bwhahaha you saying the makes think of degendom
I was hunting for this exact comment because I was wondering the exact same thing but didn't want to say it first
@darknesskingdom1184 I got you King! 🤴
Goddamn it, completely spoiled the ending
Think the monster might need a snickers bar
Youre not you when youre hungry
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you can't be serious with twizzlers
I like how the monster took the time to hang dolls and redecorate the entire house after the jumpscare
I understand the undertones of the story, but imagine an 80's Disney-esque monster tiptoeing around and planting keys and creating these puzzles with a giggle.
So let's see, the parents knew the kids were disappearing but allowed to be alone day and night, okay got it.
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Im too used to it due to being a toku fan.
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I think the Mom was hoping Louis would be gone, which is why she was so mad when it was Lucy
0:33 "ALL WE HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN, CJ!"
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Hey...nice reference
This was a good, uncomfortable, unnerving game to play, as an adult, you can see the obvious shadows in between the lines, you can't help but few bad for the young that lack that level of awareness or perception to such things
This game is pretty cool for symbolism, I like when games do that. The monster was either symbolism for the mom, for guilt, or for both and I think that’s really interesting.
Lol trying to get some deep meaning from a bad game
@@JoceBeggar even if the game isn't great, it's quite fun to try and figure out the meaning and symbolism behind things, even if there isn't one :D imo that's the cool thing about analysing something, certain things can have a very deep message, or none at all! but regardless of that, just the act of theorizing about what this or that *could* represent is already a fun thing to do, at least that's how i feel about it :)
@@JoceBeggar Oh I never said it was good, but the signs pointing to it having a deeper meaning are pretty obvious considering the notes.
It's quite generic, actually, and it annoyed me but then I saw it was a student project and it made sense. The "symbolism" is just the same trope of abusive parental figures we always get and, of course, she's suffering from a mental disorder (PPD, most likely, worsened by alcoholism).
It's really not that deep, it's scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of originality and it's not all that scary, either. Still, for a first run (assuming it is their first), it's not that bad and shows potential.
_Poor Louis_
The kid is 6. He's hardly old enough to be _responsible_ for his little sister. Terrible mother, the father was kind but didn't help. Agree I don't think the sister was actually alive either - just enjoyed tricking children and making them feel hopeful.
For a student game, it had good atmosphere and a scary monster too!
It was depressing to see a child being abused when he did nothing wrong, recieving all the blame for tragedies he had no control over. It resonated with me because I had a mother who was very similar, sometimes physically abusive and mentally abusive to an extreme. I was never good enough, so each note filled with hatred was like a blade in the gut. I heard many of those words in my childhood.
Hope you've found a genuine support unit to help nurse the wounds from those dark days🙏💖
@@H0r53f7y Oh for certain. I have a healthy friend group that I think genuinely care about me. I also gained a grandad out when I moved into a coworkers house, which was nice.
@@matthewrobinson3048 Glad for you
Me too...
Very sorry for our pains .
"So what kind of accent do you want Lucy to have?"
"Yes."
I was feeling really tense and spooked up until I saw how caked up the monster was 😭
4:35 "x marks the mark spot on this door" LOL thats a cool one ^^
had a feeling it was gonna be the monster mimicking the sister's voice from the start; the game in general had me thinking it was supposed to be a metaphorical thing where the monster is representative of guilt & whatnot, rather than an "actual" monster
Manly immediately forgetting about the locked clock and then completely missing the noose over the stool 😭 This is a neat game though, I like more symbolic games like this. Student projects are always so fun to, props to the team behind it!
Tbf about the noose, he’s always actively avoided showing those on screen because RUclips is weirdly strict about that 😭
The girl sounds like she has a French accent. Since it's a student project, they probably did the voices themselves.
wait what do u think about my tweet
"yup im in a monsters basement" you make it sound like its a 9-5
considering the premise of this channel it is his 9-5
2:06 "Is your children in danger?"
I don't know, is they? 😏
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I think the bottles of alcohol who can be seen at some places is quit telling : the monster is the mother, and we see the reallity through her remaining kid. It makes me think of Binding of Isaac and Among the Sleep.
Manly this is weird but I always put your videos on before bed, thank you for helping me sleep
You've been kidnapped and locked up in Mother's Basement- same thing basically.
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The atmosphere is cool and is horror in a more sadness kind of way, due to the abuse, and since the beginning I was thinking, if kids lost are younger than 10 years old, then maybe is not a real monster, is what they perceive.
I have no idea what to comment, other than how fun it is to watch Manly having a good time playing games.
*horror games
Spoilers for the game below.
Red Flag #1: Lucy has apparently been trapped here for two years, by a monster that specifically eats people. Why is she still alive?
Red Flag #2: Getting thrown out the door will apparently be a worse outcome for Lucy than being killed.
Red Flag #3: If Lucy is confined to her room as she says she is, and a later note makes it clear that her music box didn't disappear with her, how would she know that it was stolen and a key was put inside it?
yeah, i had caught tht too when she said the worst would be to be thrown out the door, i rewind it to make sure i heard correctly lol
Biiiiiig amnesia vibes with the puzzles and lore heavy texts, and I looove the Victorian era setting!
Even the monster is pretty damn spooky at points :D
Very solid horror game!
The little girl's voice sounded like French girl speaking English.
EDIT: Seems I was right.
"Ravenous is a French student project from the Esma Game school."
My brain automatically inserted “You’ve for some ‘splainin’ to do” when Manly said that last Lucy.
😂😂😂😂 Damn we are old! 😂😂
ffs if i saw a toy train magically moving on its own in the woods i WOULD NOT follow it thats some pennywise manipulation
it starts with hide and seek.
I didn’t even finish the video and I know it’s not gonna end well
Let’s play hide and seek…..No! Cue credits
LMAI
Nice, I got jumpscared just by opening the subscription tab on youtube ahahah
When i see a game gaslight the main character into blaming himself, it makes me very angry. I’m not sure why.
Wait "trapped in a monster's basement"? That sounds familiar.
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Its not me its my basement reference
Yea
@@Panzystubbedtheirtoesuch a Goaded game
I'm trapped in Manlys basement
thank you mr manly for uploading
CONGRATS ON 1000TH PLAYLIST VIDEO🎉!!!
is anyone else not seeing manly's videos on their home page? also his name no longer shows up when you type "manly" in the search bar. You have to type the full thing and search it, it no longer suggests his channel.
is manly like shadowbanned or something, his videos used to be all over my home page and i still watch his stuff daily. so weird youtube like silenced him, at least that what im experiencing
The skinamarink phone toy @20:13 really solidifies for me, thats the entity was just straight up a demon
It's an emotional outcry on behalf of the monster. Monster desperately needs a hug, like Vader needs a throat.
hes just a widdle hungry. youre not you when your hungry
So despite it being a very clear there is a predator that is targetting kids around the town. The parents just casually let their kid(s) wander around alone. Makes sense
20:40 had to rewatch that part for... research purposes
It's not even a Thursday afternoon yet 😭
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Yep..definitely double-cheeked up
There's literally nothing there
@@deltap6967shhhhh you can't appreciate some cheeks
Personally, I think none of this is real. Why would notes like that be scattered around? It's probably just psychological. The kid might be lost in the forest for real, and there might be an actual boogeyman, but I wouldn't take what we see literally either way. Like all those texts that's supposed to guilt your character? Got to be psychological manifestations.
OR, this boogeyman is an expert at psychological torture.
Alas, that kind of parent makes me angry. All I can hope is, there will be some sort of justice in the sequel, if the dev is continuing this. Otherwise it's just plain enraging to me.
It seems like a lot of work have been put into the game though. The presentation and everything is good, and I like the fact that there actually is reasons for things. All that's left is resolving the family issue, and maybe revealing the truth about the boogeyman/monster, if there is one.
Yeet the meat because that monster ain’t catching me
Yessz another manly video
lewis instead of lou-ee is killing me lmaoo
16:30 Hey it's the Skinamarink phone! :D
My guy....that's a popular children's toy...
@@DeathlyDrained Chatter Phone appearing in a horror media kinda revoke that Skinamarink feel.
@@DeathlyDrained Oh I know, but it's a decades old toy. This generation would only know it from the movie at this point lol
I thought so too. It's almost the exact same toy except the one in Skinamarink had a rotary dialer on the top instead of push buttons. But otherwise it seems to be the same design for sure
@dankynfrshtv yeah we had the same toy too
Has a lot of tropes from other horror games. It's kinda cute though.
Okay, so obviously the sister is dead and the mother blames him for it. But what ACTUALLY happened to her???
the newspaper said there was a predator psycho lurking around stalking kids, so the sister was probably one of the unfortunate victims; there was no saving her from the start. She was missing for 2 years. The monster we see is probably from louis’s perspective of his mom abusing him.
seriously when i saw the red train first , my first thought was ...SQUIRREL YAY .. cause we have a lot of them around...
Uncle Touchy's puzzle basement. You won't wear a shirt and you'll cry.
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My coworker introduced me to this game and now I have to look up a playthrough.
...not because im scared or anything >_>...
I don't do commitment, however you maybe my favourite RUclipsr.
80's hide.. and.. seek.
Better times.
Idk about that man...
So it might be the mom who’s the monster and has the boy locked up blaming him for the death of the sister? I didint fully get it but so sad wow 😢
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This was an interesting one. Great atmosphere and I like that it's all potentially just in the imagination of Louis who's subconsciously trying to escape his reality with a drunk, abusive mother. Or is it? There were a few moments that pulled me out of it, however. Like the note at 17:25, "I need to get some fresh air and get away from it all" Is something a 20-30 year-old who works an office job in a city would write, not a 6 year old
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(that Word giving me Flashbacks😅)
When the monster rose up at the end it gave my pet bird a jumpscare, first time thats happened lmao! But damn this game is actually sad, that kids Mum is a freaking psycho :(
Dang, that monster's cheeked up 😂
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"Your not you when your hungry!!"
Grab a Snickers!!! 😂😂
In real life, someone could always kick the door latch inward instead of solving puzzles.
HORROR GAME TIME! YAY!
3:15 story guess so possible spoilers.
this is where the suspicious figure takes all their victims and we’ve stumbled upon it. I may or may not be wrong but we’ll see.
Update: I was right.
we all knew what would happen after they said they were trapped for 2 years.
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This game gives off Among The Sleep vibes
Superb video manly.
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poor kid
me when i've been kidnapped and locked in a monster's basement (a sexy one?)
At first I thought it was actually a boogie man, but it really is a metaphor for child abuse. The end is so sad yet surprising? Like the thing in the corner was a Wendigo for sure, given the name of the game and overall apearence and the mimic thingy. I trully believe is a metaphor for the mother's heart becoming colder and colder (since the lengend comes from colder places, where winter is harsh and starvation was a real threat. Once a person becomes a Wendigo, their heart becomes ice and they slowy start losing themselves to the hunger), so she slowly losed her sanity and sense of humanity, finally killing her child in the end :(
if this game weren’t metaphorical and was literal, i hope the mom feels regret for losing her son too
New way to answer the phone
*ring ring
"Mush Mush"
Its "Moshi Moshi". It's a casual telephone greeting in Japanese. It roughly means something like: I'm speaking, I'm speaking.
@@maysee2515 oh interesting. :) Did not know that thank you for explaining.
i like turtles
wonder how that kid is doing today
@@luazul_ i bet he still like turtles
@@luazul_He became a turtle
@@beepbleepjoe6709 he's THE turtle
I like trains.
14:14 is that from Toys Story 3?
thought that countdown at the start was gonna end with "gotta blast"
last video before the bedtime
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Looks fun, is it like granny?
Omg! Voice acting!
I felt more emotional pain then fear
Hi :3. I like how this game looks SO real. Like the visuals are pretty good looking.
Do you know about this game called Of the devil? Demo is available I think, and it might be just the right vibe for this channel
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You really HANDLED that first puzzle well. V:
Im curious why the Mother would be spiteful towards Louis before the sister died
That monster is such a bastard! He toyed with the child pretending to be hsi sister and even hurt him with his trauma. I hate it!
13:44 Yeah kinda saw that coming. The monster is a stand-in for an abusive mother. Minute I read the note before that said she started to feel angry looking at Louis, I realized she was the monster. Metaphorically or otherwise. Now she's talking about drinking and being left by her husband to raise a kid she hates. Obviously it's her.
These games are getting way too predictable. Do all horror games have to be metaphors for trauma? Can't it just be a weird monster that kidnaps children and eats them and rely on interesting symbolism that doesn't pertain to obvious tropes about abuse and mental health disorders?
It's a student game, so I'll cut it a little slack.
I was waiting for you to say "nice butt" when the monster stood up.
The art direction on this is so GOOD
Locked and loaded, my guy
Thank you mr manly
20:35 unzips*
Can you play a game called 'A transient Experiment' by Wight? It's really good and I've only seen one person play it online. It's a visual novel that allows you to draw and interact. I found it while searching for things to play, and I'm shocked that I don't see people talking about it more. It's a really quick play, too.
Lookout for the monster in the basement bro
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Manly forgetting he was already on the zero button with the phone 😂
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That was a great one :)
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I mean the monster is a man of his words, he said that she's trapped here forever, and he really meaned it.
This looks like it'll be a great game
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That cake though?