The Inscryption Story ARG: Mystery of the Old Data

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  • Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025

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  • @completedGrimoire
    @completedGrimoire 2 года назад +959

    Leshy’s final game actually choked me up. After all his absolute bullying of me in Act 1, him giving me back my winning deck and playing with me, complimenting how great I played, made me feel almost distraught that he was being deleted.

    • @kweeble2415
      @kweeble2415 2 года назад +150

      During Act 1, I had gotten so mad at losing a run I named a Death Card “Damn You Leshy”. Guess what was the final card I pulled during that sequence.

    • @jordintheanxious8008
      @jordintheanxious8008 2 года назад +37

      I still miss Leshy :(
      And the others but mostly Leshy

    • @zenithobsidian6554
      @zenithobsidian6554 2 года назад +11

      Dude it made me so sad

    • @zenithobsidian6554
      @zenithobsidian6554 2 года назад +15

      I genuinely liked Grimora 😭

    • @NGO9000
      @NGO9000 Год назад +25

      I wish there was more to the game. I fell in love with it, and was thinking "what if the robot (forgot his name) had some type of redemption? What if we had more phases of the game? The game was never released because of tragic events, what if you teamed up to fight the real reason why the game was the way it was?" It left me wanting more.

  • @DustD.Reaper
    @DustD.Reaper 2 года назад +394

    I have only just realized that that the bone structure in the Bone Lords room in act 2 is supposed to be Hitlers reamins with the original Karnoffel Code in his chest pocket

    • @clockwork_bard2871
      @clockwork_bard2871 2 года назад +21

      i had been wondering about that

    • @VerbDoesStuff
      @VerbDoesStuff Год назад

      So like, what, is this LITERALLY Hitler’s body, digitized? Or is it the OLD_DATA trying AS HARD as it can to spread?

  • @AidanBueling
    @AidanBueling Год назад +275

    People call Inscryption a horror game, and I always thought of it as just a game with a dark atmosphere. But seeing some of the things that can happen if you go through the ARG, like the Bone Lord replacing Leshy or the S T O P , those people might be onto something.

    • @saphiriathebluedragonknight375
      @saphiriathebluedragonknight375 Год назад +35

      It's horror, but more of the cosmic kind. It's what you don't know that scares you. Inscryption speaks of the Devil being responsible for everything, and as a Christian it sends shivers down my spine.

    • @Caladir
      @Caladir 3 месяца назад

      I couldn't finish the game, at one point I got so scared I just deleted it from my hard-drive, I never had something like this happen to me, never knew the term of ARG. I finished it some time ago, and loved every second of it. But man, the first time I was trying to play this game, 100% blind, it put fear in me like no other piece of media.

  • @BroudbrunMusicMerge
    @BroudbrunMusicMerge 2 года назад +305

    Excellent video!
    I dunno what's more impressive -- Mullins for designing all this, the fans for figuring it out so thoroughly, or this guy for making it so digestible

  • @lordzombieboy
    @lordzombieboy Год назад +37

    19:17
    Game: "Stop"
    Aechbishop Wex: So continuing deeper into the ARG that Luke also dived into before his demise...

  • @sarenareth689
    @sarenareth689 2 года назад +154

    Lol this is amazing, incredible what people manage to figure out when they all work together. You've put together a clear and concise documentary, good job!

  • @thepocketemily
    @thepocketemily 2 года назад +83

    This is so helpful. I’m a VERY casual gamer but I had the best time with Inscryption and wanted to know more. I NEVER would have figured this out. Thank you for this video (and to all who dug through code and in the forest to figure it all out)!

  • @lmuchii
    @lmuchii 2 года назад +99

    This was a seriously well done video why is it so underrated

  • @aurawarrior1367
    @aurawarrior1367 2 года назад +44

    Daniel Mullen isnt just playing Chess at this point. He’s playing “The Campaign for North Africa”

  • @R4V3-0N
    @R4V3-0N 2 года назад +47

    Huh. Person [2b] mentions 11 o'clock in that polish bit of dialogue (here around 22:00). It's also one of the times used to open the cuckoo clocks doors in act 1, 3, and Kaycee's mod. I don't think this has any significant connections other than it being a coincidence but I found it kinda neat.

    • @notNyxiann
      @notNyxiann Год назад +1

      interesting!

    • @VerbDoesStuff
      @VerbDoesStuff Год назад

      I don’t think it is a coincidence. I think Daniel Mullins intentionally designed a lot of things to be weirdly aligned. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the OLD_DATA making up things based on the data available to it; such as an encrypted chat log.

  • @a_deputy
    @a_deputy Год назад +25

    i finished inscryption yeaterday, this is a brilliant game, and this is a great video that easy to comprehend. now i want the whole 3d battles with grimora and magnificus😭

    • @squidynk
      @squidynk Месяц назад

      There's a playable grimora mod available online if you have the pc version !!

  • @FOHS_Edits
    @FOHS_Edits 2 года назад +30

    I really appreciate the update on the games Arg after leaving it for a few months, I love this type of content and hope you enjoy making it as I would love to see more like it

  • @St3ely
    @St3ely 2 года назад +32

    Its my third time playing through inscryption and leshys final game still gets me kinda emotional

  • @9volt65
    @9volt65 2 года назад +31

    Incredibly high-quality video to have such little views. Good stuff, man.

  • @vikistanton
    @vikistanton 2 года назад +12

    So glad there are people down enough to do this so I can sit back and watch a youtube video about it

  • @Terrifika
    @Terrifika 2 года назад +19

    This is the kind of video I was looking for. Thank you so much for summarizing everything so well, and I hope to see a future summary video of Inscryption spoilers (if more content arises) from you!

  • @clockwork_bard2871
    @clockwork_bard2871 2 года назад +6

    i hadn't known all the details from the ARG, and most sources were too long winded for me to process what was happening.
    so thank you! this was perfectly digestible!
    bravo!!
    i do hope to see more content from you, in the future!

  • @skoooblebkoooble4513
    @skoooblebkoooble4513 10 месяцев назад +4

    My favorite bit of this game throught the arg and the game is when the entire house groans as leshy wakes up

  • @cherry414
    @cherry414 Год назад +2

    I'm honestly impressed with how everything is orchestrated and how the community actually figuring this out.

  • @TheRaven-WingGaming
    @TheRaven-WingGaming 13 часов назад +1

    My autistic ass is definitely not meant for trying to decode things, so I'm glad there are people who know how to decode things.
    When it comes to things like this, I just get confused and don't know where to proceed from there, and to me I wasn't aware of like two of the boss battles that was shown in the video here, and never encountered them despite pretty much 100% in the game

  • @Uooooooooooooh
    @Uooooooooooooh 2 года назад +47

    I assumed the old data was something demonic/paranormal since it turned the AI sentient but I guess not? Seems kinda strange... Thanks for the great summary anyway

    • @erlandir9121
      @erlandir9121 2 года назад +6

      To be honest I still don't get the Old data. It's... really hard to wrap your head around. Even more if you're just new player.

    • @dumpsterDeity
      @dumpsterDeity 2 года назад

      @@erlandir9121 same.

    • @LoserLilith
      @LoserLilith Год назад

      I believe the karnoffel code was made by Satan himself, and the old data is the karnoffel code encrypted into a file, so yes, it does have a demonic nature, but exactly how it works is unknown.

    • @polocatfan
      @polocatfan Год назад +32

      the old data is absolutely paranormal. the floppy drive it ended up on should not be able to store the amount of data it does.

    • @kjullthedemon
      @kjullthedemon Год назад +11

      @@polocatfan It's actually not clear if it's paranormal, or if it's some kind of special technology. Game Theory's video on, still doesn't answer what exactly it was. Just that it was connected to the USSR and Germany. It could just as well be some alien disk as it could be paranormal.

  • @cadoized
    @cadoized 2 года назад +4

    wicked video, thank you for compiling everything

  • @lukamagicc
    @lukamagicc 4 месяца назад

    Inscryption is such a good game, I delved into my first ARG lore. Even through something so wild that someone can make this sound so monotone. Well documented and structured though. It’s just insane Allen from Smiling Friends can make this video.

  • @bob-lt9ns
    @bob-lt9ns 2 года назад +4

    Awsome video mate!

  • @Z_E_B_O
    @Z_E_B_O 5 месяцев назад +1

    In the second act we learn that the skull with the ice shard is infact Kaycee and when meeting her in the third act blocking a way Po3 has the dialogue "You want to pass? A little fire should do the trick" for her and then he laughs, which is all sorts of fd up knowing she actually died in a fire.
    It's also interesting that when you beat Skullstorm you get a decrypted Entry #11, which reads smth along the lines of "nobody will ever play this mod, but Id like to think that thousands of players love it, make artwork about it and comment on it. It makes me feel like my work mattered.. Well, I'm off to finish the squirrel fish challenge, maybe hit comics land later."

  • @raadbekatyzakov2029
    @raadbekatyzakov2029 Год назад +3

    One of the greatest games of all time, holy shit this is insane

  • @sonicstage1
    @sonicstage1 2 года назад +14

    I wonder if the step with editing the save file wasn't the intended way to find that clue

    • @Graknorke
      @Graknorke 2 года назад +7

      giving the number of the flag and name of the variable would me meaningless if it wasn't, even if there was a way to activate them from within the game the clue itself wouldn't help at all

  • @StoneReed-ii9pc
    @StoneReed-ii9pc 2 месяца назад +1

    Not sure if it helps, but in the first floor of magnifucus's tower, in the top left corner, if you walk past the books into the darkness, you can see a piece of the old data

    • @daniels1986
      @daniels1986 Месяц назад

      I went there and had literally no idea what I was looking at lol

  • @haltux
    @haltux Год назад

    Great video, thanks. That being said, I guess most people were frustrated because at the end of the game they did not know more about who killed Luke and why, and it's rather infuriating that even after the ARG we still don't really know. We vaguely know why, even though it is rather implicit, but as far as I know we don't know who.

  • @maniacalmurderer4123
    @maniacalmurderer4123 2 года назад +94

    …And we thought the older games had harder to figure out and understand lore messages.
    Mullins must have spent more time organizing this, then actually developing the game.

  • @Codypro134
    @Codypro134 3 месяца назад +2

    p-03 lives.

  • @blackpl9668
    @blackpl9668 Год назад +5

    22:00 It's funny that it's easier to read in english than in polish

  • @etrusco2898
    @etrusco2898 Год назад +2

    also an incredibly creepy 2d face shows up in the girl's face for a frame when Luke gets shot.

  • @lololol24ttttt36
    @lololol24ttttt36 2 года назад +12

    Wait so .. if p03 was able to upload the game does that mean p03 was actually the good guy? Of this story or the bad guy????

    • @normalguycap
      @normalguycap Год назад +1

      he wasn't a murderer like leshy.

    • @saphiriathebluedragonknight375
      @saphiriathebluedragonknight375 Год назад +7

      It means the Old Data is everywhere.

    • @democard1199
      @democard1199 Год назад +1

      P03 wants control. He's not the bad guy just antagonist because in the end he's the one that upload Luke video with the game.

    • @artemispage6405
      @artemispage6405 Год назад +7

      I say.. yeah, it does! He was likely smart enough to realize that Gamefuna wouldn't be able to hide their wrongdoings with the copies unleashed, and thus, nobody in the real world (aka us) would get hurt by them. Unfortunately, since his upload was delayed from the whole. Head thing. Luke did end up getting shot by one of Gamefuna's hitmen for knowing too much, which Poe likely didn't intend.
      Also, while I think while Poe might indeed have some control problems, I don't think that's unique. All of them were looking for the Old Data, and apart from Grimora (who likely would've just wiped everything, as we saw), the other three totally would've taken over the game, like Leshy. And despite what I said about Grimora, she still had her own unique 3D board, so maybe she also would want to control everything.
      Poe was different in the fact that he wanted things to change. And sure, in the moment he gloated about being in control in most of the copies, I'm sure Leshy and Magnificus would gloat just as much in his position. And honestly.. can you blame him for that? He'd obviously want revenge for being turned into a stoat, and especially a stoat card. While the others were already flesh and bone, he was not, and I'm certain every moment for him was unbearable.
      Tl;dr, I've pretty much always suspected P03 to be a secret good guy for us in the real world, and the ARG ending solidifies that for me.

    • @dazedandconfused5711
      @dazedandconfused5711 4 месяца назад

      Sort of. It would out GameFuna but it would spread the old data.

  • @Alkumist
    @Alkumist 2 года назад +4

    better than game theory

  • @Minister_Ziola
    @Minister_Ziola Год назад +4

    I don't know what the developers were smoking while coming up with all of this.

  • @chopcat7902
    @chopcat7902 7 месяцев назад

    Thanks for the video

  • @scorp-ion-battery
    @scorp-ion-battery 2 года назад +17

    stuffed wolf? lol

    • @archbishopwex8601
      @archbishopwex8601  2 года назад +18

      I can't believe I'm just now noticing it's stunted and not stuffed lol

  • @zetterburger
    @zetterburger 2 года назад

    Great video, thanks 🙏

  • @dumpsterDeity
    @dumpsterDeity 2 года назад +4

    I watched the whole thing and I still didn't get the sequence of events.

    • @dumpsterDeity
      @dumpsterDeity 2 года назад +2

      How is Gamefuna both a secret intel organization and a legit videogame company? what did they need the disk for?

    • @dumpsterDeity
      @dumpsterDeity 2 года назад +2

      But yeah, thank you for doing the tremendous work of compiling all that data together. I can say that I'm at least 20% less confused about the plot of the game than I was when I first finished it

    • @dustrose8101
      @dustrose8101 Год назад

      @@dumpsterDeity GameFuna is run by Satan who wants to be/is a bad video game dev but his company might also be datamining via its video game software and also seeking the Old Data for current reasons unknown.

  • @Gandalphus
    @Gandalphus Месяц назад

    very This War of Mine vibes

  • @LuisXDotCom
    @LuisXDotCom Год назад +3

    Not a bad way of selling multiple games!

  • @uncool254
    @uncool254 Год назад

    will everything not happen if Luke carder just don't feel suspicious about the coordinates

  • @BraydenOgilvie
    @BraydenOgilvie 8 месяцев назад

    If you slow it down there's a weird girl that.pops up on the woman that shot Luke after he says I told you and it glitches

  • @valeriotardio1746
    @valeriotardio1746 Год назад +4

    This mf made the most complicated treasure hunt know to mankind just because he want it ☠️

  • @JasonLucio-g2h
    @JasonLucio-g2h 5 месяцев назад

    The Discripian Ark

  • @GraceSavidesKeller
    @GraceSavidesKeller 2 года назад

    Really good video! I

  • @JasonLucio-g2h
    @JasonLucio-g2h 5 месяцев назад

    Ponie island? Danny?

  • @aceplace3357
    @aceplace3357 Год назад +1

    Holy shit how did people find this

    • @normalguycap
      @normalguycap Год назад

      they are insane and have no lives.

  • @austinrimel1150
    @austinrimel1150 Год назад +2

    Po3 is the correct pronunciation, according to mullens.

  • @NathanaNobody
    @NathanaNobody 2 года назад +1

    I thought it was the stunted wolf?

  • @Kindlesmith70
    @Kindlesmith70 Год назад +3

    # is hash, not hash tag. Been on phones for years, and has always been referred to as hash.

    • @bbbbbbb51
      @bbbbbbb51 11 месяцев назад

      It hasn't always been referred to as hash. It was referred to as the pound sign as well.

    • @Kindlesmith70
      @Kindlesmith70 11 месяцев назад

      @@bbbbbbb51 What location was it referred to as a pound? And why does that sound familiar? I think I've actually heard this a long time ago. Damn I feel old.

    • @MrDontSmokeKids
      @MrDontSmokeKids 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@Kindlesmith70 I think I remember hearing it referred to as pound mostly from automated voice messages

    • @Kindlesmith70
      @Kindlesmith70 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@MrDontSmokeKids Asking google "what i does # mean" results in every other symbol on the keyboard but # 🤣
      I did track it down by just typing in "hash pound" and found out it was also referred to as "sign". This was completely unfamiliar to me. So yeah. # means the number hash, pound, and sign. I learned something new from something old.

  • @donovian111
    @donovian111 2 года назад +1

    Wait wtf was that pirate one?

  • @Nedscape
    @Nedscape 2 года назад +7

    why does the old data have the power to turn the game sentient?

  • @DeadEyeDog
    @DeadEyeDog Год назад +2

    Very cool, but it did hurt me to hear “hash” being described as “hashtags”.

  • @thespot2438
    @thespot2438 2 года назад

    you complete my life

  • @NamePending878
    @NamePending878 Год назад +1

    What an unsatisfying conclusion to an overly complicated ARG. Great game but this really dissappinted me. (Not the video the videos great)

    • @bbbbbbb51
      @bbbbbbb51 11 месяцев назад +2

      Cosmic horror always loses its lustre when explained and revealed. At that moment, it's stops being cosmic, wondrous, and incomprehensible. In my opinion, he should've just left it unsaid. Maybe told Kasey's story, but left Kaminsky to be sprinkled in with no explanation. Mystique is the power behind great horror, imo.

    • @NamePending878
      @NamePending878 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@bbbbbbb51 I completely agree, it more fun to speculate than to know everything

  • @normalguycap
    @normalguycap Год назад +7

    ARG's are incredibly unreasonable and way too long. What vague insanity required to solve it too. And all for nothing.

  • @blisterfingers8169
    @blisterfingers8169 2 года назад +2

    The ARG part ruined this game for me. ^^

    • @daniels1986
      @daniels1986 Месяц назад +1

      I finished the game having no idea about all of this, so how did it destroy the game for you?

  • @hellsing8152
    @hellsing8152 Год назад

    могу заверить, что перевод с русского на английский верный