I love how the blob grunts and actually suffers through movement. I don't think they're dead after they escape, either. They're just "We're free, imma sleep now."
I just noticed the boy didn’t “join” the huddle, they litteraly just pulled him into them and then he became a part of them. The boy had a moment of panic, he tried to escape.
I like to believe he's still alive in there and managed to claw his way out after the credits. I don't acknowledge the secret ending because it's too depressing.
thescreamingfish I swear I remember playing where the boy got out of the blob when they went down the hill but I just replayed it and it didn’t happen are there multiple endings
Out of all the crazy "holy shit" moments in this game, my favorite one has to be the Huddle's breakout in 4:46. After a long quiet ambiance, when the loud sounds hit you... Hearing the glass cracking and breaking, hearing the people scream and run... After an entire game where you were a powerless little child, suddenly feeling all this power is simply incredible. It's the moment where the game switches from "Inside" to "Outside"
I think people get confused with playdeads overall philosophy, there is no story to follow, just concepts Limbo was about a literal limbo, stuck repeating the same path forever INSIDE is based around the concept of being "inside" aka trapped 1) Inside in a Dystopia 2) Something getting inside your mind as in the mind control elements. 3) And literally being trapped in your own body or a bag of flesh in this case. thats just my theory though
I feel Limbo was the better game since the concept was easier to understand. Inside lacked the simple aspect that Limbo had, when you finished Limbo you understood what was happening, the ending however hopeless it seemed brought closure to the overall story. With Inside I'm left with more questions than answers, this isn't necessarily a bad thing but it does make Inside the less desirable game in my opinion.
6:13, the model of the beach the blob landed is the same thing as the ending where the blob was at. Especially when the sunlight beaming at the blob is the same as the light beaming on the model. Just pointing something out.
Holy shit guys did you see that? On 4:29 he didn't want to be inside the humanoid monster. It just took him. What the character really wanted was to set everything free but he died in the process.
tbh he would die anyway from either not being able to hold the weight, body parts falling off when falling, or just suffocating..thousands and thousands of ways
Ah yes I remember this very well, I went through the same thing during puberty, wanting to get inside of everything and once I did I had to burst through 8 concrete layers and lie belly up in the sun gasping for breath.
I firmly believe that a huge influence for the Playdead development team for this scene in the game has come from legendary film director Terry Gilliiams work; with inspiration taken from his 1980s film hit, Time Bandits. In that film there are several scenes towards the end where there are visual references to how the film will end. Then in one of the final scenes where the firemen break through the door, on the floor you see the earlier film scenes laid out on the floor with the kids toys complete with the chess board wall. Difficult to explain but once you watch the the film you’ll see what I mean!
Best explanation I've found: Now firstly, how did this all come to be? All the wrecked and damaged environments throughout the game suggest some kind of disaster, give the scale, likely apocalyptic. This idea is not only supported by the wrecked buildings, but by the fact that the protagonist travels through fully grown cornfields with nobody harvesting them, through barn and doors which have clearly been boarded up. And all those carts full of dead pigs, something happened before the starting point of this game, and I think it was the apocalypse. Now where does the blob come into this? Well at this point we all know about the secret ending where the kid pulls the big yellow plug and when he does, he goes limp and the towards the end of the game how he kinda gets assimilated into the blob easily? Well we can tell the boy is therefore part of those non-thinking husks, but he does think and when he's near the blob, it was clearly reaching out to him. My theory is that the child wasn't being controlled by the blob, he was the original or perhaps "consciousness" or the blob, separated from the body to enslave the blob. And perhaps, the blob was a lot bigger than we think, the size of the tank it was living in combined with the fact that they boy assimilated easily and when experiencing heavy impacts limbs fell off, these indicate that the blob was in fact a collective entity. It's several beings all combined together, and noticing how the boy controls the husks, he's the central consciousness of this collective hive mind. This explains why the humans had the blob entrapped, and why the boy was so far away, because that means they wanted to separate the boy from the blob as much as possible to minimise his influence. And the blob was in fact what they used to mass produce drone workers! Which I believe they're producing to rebuild their society which had previously fallen. This game clearly demonstrates an unexplained class system, but broken down, it becomes Husk (mindless workers), Masks (The people who are seemingly supervising the operations), and the researchers. Now the researchers didn't wear masks, perhaps the masks are relevant only to distinguish themselves from the Husks in the work environment. This also suggests the idea of how society could behave in the event of an unparalleled natural disaster, mass producing the work force, turning labour into some kind of product which can be purchased. Security is no longer human but robotic and the laborers are mindless husks which require no sustenance, which follows into what this game represents. So does the blob truly escape? That is hard to describe. It seems by the end of the game the humans were guiding the blob in a way, despite the people who have died, they watch the blob like it's a spectacle. a large group of people watched as the blob desperately reached for the cube on the end of the chain, only for it to get dropped under water. Were they simply trying to trap the escaped blob? But everyone seemed rather calm, more like an audience. And as for the escape, the landscape the blob lands in later, is identical to a scale model which the blob falls into earlier in the game. And the curvature of the wood supports at the end suggest a giant cylinder, like the case containing the scale model. Therefore, the blob sadly did not escape, and to be honest, it seems like the blob was guided there, to feel as though it had escaped. Which brings a final point to this. What does the blob represent? Well it's the "masses". The audience of a TV show, the voters in an election, the work force of a company.... effectively, the blob represents how authorities perceive and treat the masses, a giant mind controlled blob from which they can produce workers, who they can guide and trick into thinking they'd found their way to freedom but they got trapped inside a false freedom. Perhaps the media, politics, laws, and our environment, all control us from the outside, in order to put us inside. Inside the shapeless blob.
When the kid its approaching the blob, the scientist outside the tank are pretty much scared of the kid getting closer to that think, so i dont think that they planned everything
@@megalogo3000 they are not scared, they are cheering, when i tried to open the window for myself they were giving me indications, and pointing to the blob
I really liked your thinking out of the game, because some games like these has a real meaning, little nightmares had it too, these games are awesome so ambiguous and open to interpretation, so you can use your imagination, and the fact the devs never give an explanation of their art, because thats art for.
Very different way to theorize this game and i gotta say its really plausible, boy indeed gets sucked into middle of the blob and not ataching itself to the surface among other bodies indicating it could be the main piece, your idea was really well thought, how it's still trapped, and everything until politics came up. Not saying its not true, on the contrary it makes sense,but i dont think game would have aimed for such meaning nor it should, but still good aspect of seeing things
Holy shit. I didn't notice the wooden walls at 14:23. They could actually be the perimeter of the lab, but considering the blob lands in an exact scale-model of the beach, the "false freedom" thing makes total sense. Wow. Crazy stuff.
The clock at 6:42 is in real time! I noticed it because it showd the exact time I was playing at. So I paused the game and came back a few minutes after and saw the time was updated. Kinda creepy...
The boy's only thought from the beginning of the game was "I have to get inside." Then the only thought that reaches consciousness when he is absorbed? "We have to get outside."
I think the blob wanted to die because it's a bunch of humans fused together. And I think they would rather die than live as a horrific monster... It is the better option than live as a monster who does what? Eat more people? >_>
My theory: This is some 1984 shit. This game right here presents the concept of people of a higher power controlling everyone's way of thinking. From the beginning of the game to the end, you see their experiments evolving from something morbid to something even more disturbing. Mind control worms --> Developed technology. The blob represents an entire population - the Collective Mind. And when the Boy unplugs it from the machinery, he frees the people and joins them in their pursuit of free will. You may notice that the people progressively escape from the blob, until they die from falling down the hill. Their dying represents how much dependency they developed towards the scientists. Without them, they do not know how to make decisions for themselves (their doom). And at the end, in which the blob is just laying there, it is dying. Because without a master, it is empty - just a shell without a conscience.
I think what actually was happening is that the boy was the only person that could be controlled that wasnt a captive. So the full time the boy is just another slave to the blob and he is just a tool to be used in the blobs escape.
You said people escape the blob, no one escapes. Unless you mean the limbs falling off when the blob takes damage. Also who is to say it dies? We do see worm thing coming out of the blob at the end but your theory doesnt really match up that well whith what is physically going on.
I was frankly surprised by the developers work on this blob, for a creature that seems so unstable it is greatly animated and it controls just as you would think it would behave, using just 1 button and the stick to perform a great variety of actions that feel as an extension of your own body.
What I got from the ending is that together, as a community, they were able to defeat the system and break free from inside. Which is really beautiful.
The blob part is my favourite part of the game. The animation is VERY amazing (you have to play it yourself to feel it), and the execution has some kind of anime quality to it. It reminds me of Miyazaki Hayao's films.
If you watch the alternative ending, if you collect all these hidden mine-looking things, you will notice, that the boy will stay in the animation like the other "brain deads" which mean you are the whole time controlled by some one "inside" the complex". The weird thing, all these yellow cables goes to this one mindcontroll, like one is controlling all.
What. A. Game. Absolutely incredible, I loved every single second of it. Anyway, my working theory is that everything is being controlled by the scientists and that the whole game is just a gigantic experiment. The various obstacles the boy faces are simply tests to see if he (and the huddle) are able to overcome them. I think the hidden orbs lying around act like network hubs and enable the huddle to manipulate the boy as long as he is near them, drawing him ever closer as the game progresses. This explains why the boy 'powers down' (secret ending) when they are all destroyed; the boy's free will was ultimately stronger than the huddle's manipulation and the experiment has failed. I believe the scientists started out using pigs (to see if they could get their technology to work) as highlighted near the beginning of the game with the slug-thing, then moved on to humans (who are being sold as slaves) as they are seen walking in lines to show the general public what they can do, before finally creating the huddle (who I believe is some sort of hive mind); a living being comprised of various strong-minded people that is capable of controlling multiple individuals at once. The scientists were always in complete control of the situation however, as the beach where the huddle eventually dies was shown in model form in one of the glass rooms. In short, the whole thing, including the huddle's escape, was planned from the very beginning by the corporation to test their technology. That is why some of the scientists even go as far as to facilitate the huddle's escape. What do you guys think?
Sorry that I’m late. Very good theory, I agree. But how do we explain the mermaid thing? I suppose the mermaid is just another experiment of the scientists. But does she have a will? Who is she helping? Is she being controlled? We were trying to go a different way but she dragged us down while modifying our body. So at that point our objective might have changed.
At 6:10 the place the blob falls into looks like a model of the beach at the end where it lays and the the credits roll. If you look at where the light is shining it kinda looks like the blob on the beach, its not easy to see but there is a small thing there, you can see it best at around 6:35. What do you all think? Am I mad or is it really there?
The ending its very depressing All those people, their lifes, what they were...all of them turned into... This... What's the point of living, if you are a ball of flesh...
Limbo and Inside have some of the best sound design I've ever seen. I don't quite understand this game's story, but there is definitely something beautiful about that ending.
The thing about the ending that struck me was there was nowhere to go. They seemed to be stuck on an island, there was no escape really. But it found its moment of peace in the sunlight at the end.
So he went through all those shits, dodge some bullets, outrun the dogs, gone stealth against guards, pretending to be a zombie, swam through deep lakes and being chased by a freaking mermaid like, doing parkour stuff just to become a freak, multi legged, ball monster
Did anyone else think of Six from Little Nightmares? The game styles of Inside, LN, and Limbo are so similar, I can’t help but feel that they’re probably siblings.
I believe this game represents BIRTH as the boy is meant to be sperm and the blob is meant to be an egg. The ending shows the blob(fused egg) not really escape as at 6:13 you see the same yet modelled landscape. Therefore, maybe there was an abortion, shown by the attempts of something trying to kill the boy. ALSO, seeing as they're the creators of LIMBO, LIMBO is where christians said that unbaptised dead babies go. Maybe some sort of link. and INSIDE being inside the womb. Also at times you would see that white ghost thing with black hair, it would have some sort of unbilical cord. yet again some sort of birth related thing...maybe it was a ghost of the child
My theory is that the game is an allegory for either a cancerous or viral infection. The factory and warehouses of Inside represent the human body (including the water portions, which represent the bloodstream), the boy, in his red shirt, represents a single red blood cell that at some point became infected (perhaps by the pig tail). The mindless drones that help him are cells that have also become infected or cancerous, as they assist him towards his goal to reach the main cancer cell (which is the blob or tumor). The "evil" workers are, in fact either white blood cells or cancer drugs trying to stop the red blood cell from reaching the mestacized, yet contained tumor. However, the boy/red blood cell successfully reaches the tumor, allowing it to grow large and strong enough to break free from the restraints of the drugs/white blood cells. As it roams free and unimpeded, it wreaks havoc and destruction within the body until it finally achieves it's goal, as it breaks through a cell wall and rolls to a stop, signifying it's own and the death of its host human being.
My theory is that the game is about fear. The boy was running away from the people trying to shoot him. In pursuit of his fears he uses other to get what he needs to continue the pursuit. (That's why the mind control people were there). And when other people were running from the same fear, they were too caught up in trying to escape that they self destructed. The hill represents them coming closers to safety but with risks. The lake represents happiness but right as it approached them, they were killed. The spotlight represents the light they saw coming for them to help them escape. The blob is saying that they were unclear what exactly happiness is.
The thing that horrified me was when the big blob crushed that man that fell from the window and I saw the blood and body parts lying there, as his body was crushed to pieces. Dang this stuff is horrific.
Another theory... well is a fandom theory. =P "INSIDE" is a misspelled acronym of "DISNEI", that means, the mind of the children has been put something thanks to DISNEI for when he grows up convert in something more in line with the things the party want from you as a kid. That is why the animals and "mermaids" are helping or stoping you because are creations of DISNEI, experiments, and react with the children, even the adult workers of the system are helping you because knows what is going on (notice their reaction when the kid is naked before active the blob). The boy is the last ingredient of this magic formula, the innocence and "determination" for start the thing cannot stop, however, when is out of the system just die or cannot move anymore because out haven´t valor, power, or sense, is part of the system, out cannot survive. With the alternative ending is just disconect the boy of this theory. xD
Never played or heard about this game until i saw that Ign unboxing of the blob, it was weird but then it came with a small child that goes "inside". That's when i knew it was some cronenberg style philosophical horror story/ game. Then by the gods when i started this video i was intrigued by the silence, but once the blob escapes.. The moans and screams and tearing and all the destruction. Im not gonna go into theories but having it running right now while I type, the multiple steps as it walks, the sound of glass breaking and metal being slided across the ground. The pain and struggle in all their voices at once. Absolute horror, dont need to see more ( did watch some gameplay from earlier stages ) and yeah, Masterpiece 10/10
So I just finished the game and uh... I really don't know what to say. I stared at the blob laying still on the grass and thought, "what's going to happen next?" The whole time I was pressing buttons, expecting something... then the credits start rolling and that's when my jaw hit the floor.
The boy was the sperm and the blob was the egg. When they fussed together we got a fertilized egg. But the fertilized blob at the end died I think. Or maybe it's developing into some creature. we can't know since the game cut off. The alternative ending suggests abortion since I guess the boy (sperm) unplugs himself and dies before reaching the blob (egg).
This is an interesting theory, as it deals with the concept of birth and all that. And the idea that the alternative ending was symbolizing abortion is interesting too. However, what was the blob supposed to be after it "fertilized"? What exactly *is* the "fertilized egg"?
The blob is essentially this story's Shoggoth. An advanced race built it to function as its "laborer", and given enough time and cruelty a rebellion ensues.
My theory is that the boy was originally part of the huddle but was separated from it somehow. He journeys back to it in hopes of rejoining and helping it escape.
Couple of questions: 1: Did the boy take control of the Blob? 2:Can someone please explain the ending of this video? 3: What is the Blob and why was it made? Whoever answers this, thanks!! :)
1: yes, as the boy not only seems to be very intelligent, but the blob also hadn't moved into the boy formed into it. 2 LOL HEALL NAW 3. Yeah, same thing. This game is difficult to understand
1: yes2: I got no idea what the flip just happened 3: the blob I believe was a combination of human bodies, the reason why it was made is still unknown.
I'll try to piece together what I know from the plot. The boy in red is the brain of a hive of shapeshifting or parasiyic aliens that shared a consciousness and were planning to invade earth. Something went wrong, so the hive ejected its mind, disguised as a small boy, before the government could catch it. That's why the government was after you the whole game. The government was somehow able to figure out how to control the hive of aliens and used it to create the strange creatures we saw and the mindless people, since the aliens were either parasites or shapeshifters. This explanation actually covers why you need a very specific code when you find the secret ending. The secret ending is the boy returning to the hidden mother ship and activating the self destruct.
my opinion : the thing is controling the boy to release him from the people who create that thing because that thing is suffered and that thing controlinv the boy separately to release him/her self. and so much thing in my opinion..
yeah thats pretty basic theory but shit gets weird in the alternative ending... who is the puppetmaster? is he representing the player? or the real "blob"? mind controlling shuts down thats for sure, but why? is it what the blob wants, or is the boy rebelling against the mind control and killing it?
The one thing that made me cringe, the guy that was crushed by that “Meatball” and that wondering why no one cared if their boss was killed.. wait why did no one try to kill that thing? I knew they had guns because, In the forest when you die you get shot with a gun, so why not kill that thing?
In very horrifying way, the blob is adorable. Watching it problem solve and say “ow” when it falls was....strangely..cute. It also sounds like it has multiple voices.
From what I can tell, I'm not sure where the boy came from, but I believe that the time is set in a future where the govt. has advanced in technology and used it against civilization for better or for worst. It started when they began testing on reproducing humans through a different form of reproduction as seen in the lab where it looked as if they were growing them or something, this could be assumed by the differences in each where some have larger and missing limbs. That's another point, there were limbs seen growing too. This leads to why they are mindless and don't act on their own. Then they experimented with mind control and needed a being that could use the device to control everyone, so they made the perfect/smartest being? idk, and hooked it up in the tank (the jumbled mess of bodies), if you look back at when it's in the tank you can see that it is hooked up with the mind control device for further evidence. As for why the boy is unhooking it, and why he can breathe underwater I have no clue. But that's just a theory, thx for reading. XD As for the actual ending tho, no clue, maybe it was his journey to make it to the other side of the world, or maybe to find land un-touched by civilization? Honestly no clue :P
I think that the boy was being controlled by the blob creature from the very beginning and in the alternate ending he unplugs himself so he can escape.
+Midna I think the blob represents the game itself controlling us because every time we buy/get a new game we always wanna finish it accomplish the goal, and the real goal in this game was to free the creature from the facility. Another thing is that maybe WE the players are the blob in the game and are trying to escape by using the child. But these are just thoughts
We need an ending where the boy ends up controlling a kaiju and destroying the city and all controlled humans and he just controls it riding on the kaijus head as it blazes everything on a skillet Makes the game all the more confusing and mysterious.
Do you guys think that one day we will become so detached from the real world , that because we choose to reject it that when we finally decide to see the sun again, that it would be too late
It depends. Some people like you, who see outside of their own boxes, may be able to still see the sun in time. But me, I'm not so sure. I think that's why I'm so obessesed with the ideas of change, control and strenght. I think I want to evolve fast enough in order to shape everybody in the world to not only see the sun, but also stay below its light, while there's still time.
Here is a theory I have involving Limbo and Inside. The boy in the beginning of the game Limbo is actually the same one from Inside who died after the huddle tumbled down the cliff at the end of the game. The boy soon wakes up and tries to find his sister whom was possibly turned into an albino and merged with the huddle. It was also possible that she was the one who called him to her trying to free her. As the boy faces numerous obstacles in the game Limbo I soon realize that obstacles where from the game inside as they both exist in the same universe. The spider was possibly similar to the huddle, the kids in the game the guards from the facility, the city the same one in the game. Of course these are my thoughts
I think the boy is a activator for the mutant human ball thing. Maybe he is the only one who left to control the other human. He tried to save all human that trapped inside the ball until he got suck. From inside, he control them because of his ability.He tried to help them
I love how the blob grunts and actually suffers through movement. I don't think they're dead after they escape, either. They're just "We're free, imma sleep now."
The 3D model at 6:10. They're not free.
They are still "inside"
@@DASH596 wouldnt there be a model of the blob in the model to?
@@TheStop ... Nah
@@DASH596 why not
I just noticed the boy didn’t “join” the huddle, they litteraly just pulled him into them and then he became a part of them.
The boy had a moment of panic, he tried to escape.
You can actually hear moans, groans, gasps, and even yelling from the boy along with the rest of the humans that have been morphed together
Edward Kenway 333 Yet you’re here commenting on this video? If “no one cares”, why do you respond?
I noticed that to. Poor boy
I like to believe he's still alive in there and managed to claw his way out after the credits. I don't acknowledge the secret ending because it's too depressing.
thescreamingfish I swear I remember playing where the boy got out of the blob when they went down the hill but I just replayed it and it didn’t happen are there multiple endings
Out of all the crazy "holy shit" moments in this game, my favorite one has to be the Huddle's breakout in 4:46. After a long quiet ambiance, when the loud sounds hit you... Hearing the glass cracking and breaking, hearing the people scream and run... After an entire game where you were a powerless little child, suddenly feeling all this power is simply incredible. It's the moment where the game switches from "Inside" to "Outside"
That's exactly what they want you to think.
Nah, still Inside.
The people there were tricking you, making you think you had escaped.
This game gain It's name "INSIDE" by the alternative ending.
4:46 Me when I’m finally powerful:
My theory: you were always playing as the blob. The boy is a fragment of it trying to return.
Could be
@BlackToad the game isn't out for 4 years bro, it's been out since 2016
I don't think so. The boy was "transformed" by the mermaid into someone who could breathe under water. The boy got transformed/District 9'd
Mabye
LEGO JOEY “Mabye” lol
7:35
The pillar leaves a trail of blood as you drag it through the puddle. What an amazing little detail.
These guys are kings of game designing
I think people get confused with playdeads overall philosophy, there is no story to follow, just concepts
Limbo was about a literal limbo, stuck repeating the same path forever
INSIDE is based around the concept of being "inside" aka trapped
1) Inside in a Dystopia
2) Something getting inside your mind as in the mind control elements.
3) And literally being trapped in your own body or a bag of flesh in this case.
thats just my theory though
I feel Limbo was the better game since the concept was easier to understand. Inside lacked the simple aspect that Limbo had, when you finished Limbo you understood what was happening, the ending however hopeless it seemed brought closure to the overall story. With Inside I'm left with more questions than answers, this isn't necessarily a bad thing but it does make Inside the less desirable game in my opinion.
+Barrack Obama But it opens space for a lot more games in this same (extremely good) universe!
Crowborn As long as the developers take that opportunity to expand the universe, which is exactly what this game needs if done correctly.
+Barrack Obama Im sure playdead will make the right decisions. These guys are fucking artists.
could u please comment this on pewdiepie vid so people will understand it thats a great theory
6:13, the model of the beach the blob landed is the same thing as the ending where the blob was at. Especially when the sunlight beaming at the blob is the same as the light beaming on the model. Just pointing something out.
Oh shit you're right I never noticed it before !
Oh shit you're right
Holy shit guys did you see that? On 4:29 he didn't want to be inside the humanoid monster. It just took him. What the character really wanted was to set everything free but he died in the process.
Even worse. Rolled into a giant living meatball, alive. The kid ain't dead, he's trapped.
tbh he would die anyway from either not being able to hold the weight, body parts falling off when falling, or just suffocating..thousands and thousands of ways
7:36-8:00
This felt so... real.
This simple struggle portrayed to me the helplessness of the blob better than any of the actions before or after.
Well on the other hand they succeeded being more horrifying than Limbo
Don't be shy, i knew you are a VietNamese haha me too =)))
+Lotus hey you guy i'm too
Not being mean or racist but quest wat dose my raise or our raise (sorry again :p ) hav to be with my first comment? .3.
+Lotus oh no I am I just wonder why u guys got excited to see another Viet on this video ;p lol
lol người Việt thì nói tiếng Việt đi :v
Ah yes I remember this very well, I went through the same thing during puberty, wanting to get inside of everything and once I did I had to burst through 8 concrete layers and lie belly up in the sun gasping for breath.
relatable
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Ya those were the good ol days
YOU WIN THIS
um.. I'm pretty sure that never wanted to get in..
At 6:31 you can see the model-miniature looks exactly like the ending scene.
We can imagine that the light at the end is also a fake light and he is still inside a bigger cage.
@@xelnev YO, THAT'S THE CRAZIEST INSIDE THEORY I'VE EVER SEEN
Bravo
Respect !!!
I firmly believe that a huge influence for the Playdead development team for this scene in the game has come from legendary film director Terry Gilliiams work; with inspiration taken from his 1980s film hit, Time Bandits. In that film there are several scenes towards the end where there are visual references to how the film will end. Then in one of the final scenes where the firemen break through the door, on the floor you see the earlier film scenes laid out on the floor with the kids toys complete with the chess board wall. Difficult to explain but once you watch the the film you’ll see what I mean!
Best explanation I've found:
Now firstly, how did this all come to be? All the wrecked and damaged environments throughout the game suggest some kind of disaster, give the scale, likely apocalyptic. This idea is not only supported by the wrecked buildings, but by the fact that the protagonist travels through fully grown cornfields with nobody harvesting them, through barn and doors which have clearly been boarded up. And all those carts full of dead pigs, something happened before the starting point of this game, and I think it was the apocalypse.
Now where does the blob come into this? Well at this point we all know about the secret ending where the kid pulls the big yellow plug and when he does, he goes limp and the towards the end of the game how he kinda gets assimilated into the blob easily? Well we can tell the boy is therefore part of those non-thinking husks, but he does think and when he's near the blob, it was clearly reaching out to him. My theory is that the child wasn't being controlled by the blob, he was the original or perhaps "consciousness" or the blob, separated from the body to enslave the blob. And perhaps, the blob was a lot bigger than we think, the size of the tank it was living in combined with the fact that they boy assimilated easily and when experiencing heavy impacts limbs fell off, these indicate that the blob was in fact a collective entity. It's several beings all combined together, and noticing how the boy controls the husks, he's the central consciousness of this collective hive mind.
This explains why the humans had the blob entrapped, and why the boy was so far away, because that means they wanted to separate the boy from the blob as much as possible to minimise his influence. And the blob was in fact what they used to mass produce drone workers! Which I believe they're producing to rebuild their society which had previously fallen.
This game clearly demonstrates an unexplained class system, but broken down, it becomes Husk (mindless workers), Masks (The people who are seemingly supervising the operations), and the researchers. Now the researchers didn't wear masks, perhaps the masks are relevant only to distinguish themselves from the Husks in the work environment. This also suggests the idea of how society could behave in the event of an unparalleled natural disaster, mass producing the work force, turning labour into some kind of product which can be purchased. Security is no longer human but robotic and the laborers are mindless husks which require no sustenance, which follows into what this game represents.
So does the blob truly escape? That is hard to describe. It seems by the end of the game the humans were guiding the blob in a way, despite the people who have died, they watch the blob like it's a spectacle. a large group of people watched as the blob desperately reached for the cube on the end of the chain, only for it to get dropped under water. Were they simply trying to trap the escaped blob? But everyone seemed rather calm, more like an audience. And as for the escape, the landscape the blob lands in later, is identical to a scale model which the blob falls into earlier in the game. And the curvature of the wood supports at the end suggest a giant cylinder, like the case containing the scale model. Therefore, the blob sadly did not escape, and to be honest, it seems like the blob was guided there, to feel as though it had escaped. Which brings a final point to this. What does the blob represent? Well it's the "masses". The audience of a TV show, the voters in an election, the work force of a company.... effectively, the blob represents how authorities perceive and treat the masses, a giant mind controlled blob from which they can produce workers, who they can guide and trick into thinking they'd found their way to freedom but they got trapped inside a false freedom. Perhaps the media, politics, laws, and our environment, all control us from the outside, in order to put us inside. Inside the shapeless blob.
When the kid its approaching the blob, the scientist outside the tank are pretty much scared of the kid getting closer to that think, so i dont think that they planned everything
@@megalogo3000 they are not scared, they are cheering, when i tried to open the window for myself they were giving me indications, and pointing to the blob
I really liked your thinking out of the game, because some games like these has a real meaning, little nightmares had it too, these games are awesome so ambiguous and open to interpretation, so you can use your imagination, and the fact the devs never give an explanation of their art, because thats art for.
Very different way to theorize this game and i gotta say its really plausible, boy indeed gets sucked into middle of the blob and not ataching itself to the surface among other bodies indicating it could be the main piece, your idea was really well thought, how it's still trapped, and everything until politics came up. Not saying its not true, on the contrary it makes sense,but i dont think game would have aimed for such meaning nor it should, but still good aspect of seeing things
Holy shit. I didn't notice the wooden walls at 14:23. They could actually be the perimeter of the lab, but considering the blob lands in an exact scale-model of the beach, the "false freedom" thing makes total sense. Wow. Crazy stuff.
The little boy's will to live was the strongest that's probably why he could control the poor creature out of the other human beings
He is actually just another mind slave and he's being controlled by you
it's a secret ending
You use the dead body of a boy to save those poor creatures from the hands of those cruel humans. So in that case. your identity will stay hidden.
+Jr NeoGames87 he cant be dead. right? why else would he NEED air in the beginning in the water sections
no, the hive mind was controlling the boy so that it could escape. Thats why you turn into it.
I also think that he is still alive and can die just that he is being controlled but if his human parts are destroyed so is he
"It all started when I was born"
-Squidward
lol
The clock at 6:42 is in real time! I noticed it because it showd the exact time I was playing at. So I paused the game and came back a few minutes after and saw the time was updated. Kinda creepy...
ROR5CH4CH detailed
The boy's only thought from the beginning of the game was "I have to get inside."
Then the only thought that reaches consciousness when he is absorbed? "We have to get outside."
Ok, I think I understand but I have one question.
What?
6:14 ... 14:45
WUT !!?
That's not a real question u idiot
@@Kaathe249 no it is idiot
@@fedemona1
negga... thats SAD ;__;
I think the blob wanted to die because it's a bunch of humans fused together. And I think they would rather die than live as a horrific monster... It is the better option than live as a monster who does what? Eat more people? >_>
This is the cluster All over again
I don’t think so, we could’ve just thrown ourselves in the oven if that was the case
My theory:
This is some 1984 shit. This game right here presents the concept of people of a higher power controlling everyone's way of thinking. From the beginning of the game to the end, you see their experiments evolving from something morbid to something even more disturbing. Mind control worms --> Developed technology.
The blob represents an entire population - the Collective Mind. And when the Boy unplugs it from the machinery, he frees the people and joins them in their pursuit of free will. You may notice that the people progressively escape from the blob, until they die from falling down the hill. Their dying represents how much dependency they developed towards the scientists. Without them, they do not know how to make decisions for themselves (their doom).
And at the end, in which the blob is just laying there, it is dying. Because without a master, it is empty - just a shell without a conscience.
I think what actually was happening is that the boy was the only person that could be controlled that wasnt a captive. So the full time the boy is just another slave to the blob and he is just a tool to be used in the blobs escape.
Woah. That's a really cool interpretation
You said people escape the blob, no one escapes. Unless you mean the limbs falling off when the blob takes damage. Also who is to say it dies?
We do see worm thing coming out of the blob at the end but your theory doesnt really match up that well whith what is physically going on.
Logical theory
I just finished that book and knew this concept seemed kind of familiar to something before reading your comment and you hit it right on the nose
I was frankly surprised by the developers work on this blob, for a creature that seems so unstable it is greatly animated and it controls just as you would think it would behave, using just 1 button and the stick to perform a great variety of actions that feel as an extension of your own body.
It’s a masterpiece! All the engineering that went into these final 15 minutes. When games become art!
@@bjorn2625 all games are art
If you look at 6:11, it's the exact scale model of the ending area. So it would've been an indication that the blob didn't escape at the end
Play 4:33 and then on with the Catamari Damacy theme.
There you go.
Nothing could have prepared me for that.
Exponentially more funny to watch, thanks random person on the internet!
brilliant
You're a genius
looool thanks
What I got from the ending is that together, as a community, they were able to defeat the system and break free from inside. Which is really beautiful.
That's what they want you to believe.
But they could never break outside :( At 6:31 you can see the miniature model of the ending scene
Hence making the game named Outside
@@shuaybyousuf6189 did you seriously just ignore everything everyone said
this ending wrecked my spirit
The diorama the blob falls into at 6:09 is an exact replica of where the blob ends up at the very end.......
Remember: you spend basically the whole game going in a downwards direction. How can you escape if you've only ever gone down?
You can't. Not without help. Which is exactly what no one in the game wants to offer you.
The blob part is my favourite part of the game. The animation is VERY amazing (you have to play it yourself to feel it), and the execution has some kind of anime quality to it. It reminds me of Miyazaki Hayao's films.
Reminds me of Junji Ito lol
If you watch the alternative ending, if you collect all these hidden mine-looking things, you will notice, that the boy will stay in the animation like the other "brain deads" which mean you are the whole time controlled by some one "inside" the complex".
The weird thing, all these yellow cables goes to this one mindcontroll, like one is controlling all.
So the boy was nothing more than a puppet to the blob/hivemind?
he was nothing more than YOUR controled (and i guess.... bought) being. dont know why the owner wanted to get him inside the lab complex.
+Fabian Meyer in my opinion ,the blob controls u so u can't know why u should control the boy to go in the lab
Watch an alternate ending video and look at the comments. I think it'll make more sense
no we are the blob.. we are the hive mind.. the boy was chosen to set us free from the mind control experiments
Also boy could be the mind of the blob trying to reconnect with it
This game was truly a master piece for this day and age.
What. A. Game. Absolutely incredible, I loved every single second of it. Anyway, my working theory is that everything is being controlled by the scientists and that the whole game is just a gigantic experiment. The various obstacles the boy faces are simply tests to see if he (and the huddle) are able to overcome them. I think the hidden orbs lying around act like network hubs and enable the huddle to manipulate the boy as long as he is near them, drawing him ever closer as the game progresses. This explains why the boy 'powers down' (secret ending) when they are all destroyed; the boy's free will was ultimately stronger than the huddle's manipulation and the experiment has failed. I believe the scientists started out using pigs (to see if they could get their technology to work) as highlighted near the beginning of the game with the slug-thing, then moved on to humans (who are being sold as slaves) as they are seen walking in lines to show the general public what they can do, before finally creating the huddle (who I believe is some sort of hive mind); a living being comprised of various strong-minded people that is capable of controlling multiple individuals at once. The scientists were always in complete control of the situation however, as the beach where the huddle eventually dies was shown in model form in one of the glass rooms. In short, the whole thing, including the huddle's escape, was planned from the very beginning by the corporation to test their technology. That is why some of the scientists even go as far as to facilitate the huddle's escape. What do you guys think?
Sorry that I’m late. Very good theory, I agree. But how do we explain the mermaid thing?
I suppose the mermaid is just another experiment of the scientists. But does she have a will? Who is she helping? Is she being controlled? We were trying to go a different way but she dragged us down while modifying our body. So at that point our objective might have changed.
Amazing analysis
@@jimmoefoe1471 Thank you!
hearing all the different voices struggle as the meatball thing tries to escape is both creepy and sad
At 6:10 the place the blob falls into looks like a model of the beach at the end where it lays and the the credits roll.
If you look at where the light is shining it kinda looks like the blob on the beach, its not easy to see but there is a small thing there, you can see it best at around 6:35.
What do you all think? Am I mad or is it really there?
The ending its very depressing
All those people, their lifes, what they were...all of them turned into...
This...
What's the point of living, if you are a ball of flesh...
It's really horrifying. And apparently it's alive so I guess it's all just mushed together human brains or something
I would just go to a camper forest and scare the shit out of people that go there
@@Omega14343 LOL
Limbo and Inside have some of the best sound design I've ever seen. I don't quite understand this game's story, but there is definitely something beautiful about that ending.
That's a weird dog. Maybe he's sick or something?
Guys I think my dog Is sick the dog:
The thing about the ending that struck me was there was nowhere to go. They seemed to be stuck on an island, there was no escape really. But it found its moment of peace in the sunlight at the end.
Even the ending seems to have been planned by its creators, which can be seen at 6:10
theories aside, the sound design, physics, and attention to detail are top shelf.
It must have felt incredibly comforting to escape such a cold and dark place and find a spot to rest where the sun can warm you
This game is fucking amazing. The last 10-15 minutes or so where you merge with the Huddle and wreak havoc is just unreal.
What if the blob is actually the collective players themselves that have all participated in playing this game? i.e., what if it's all of us?
Yea, like all the people who tried to escape like the boy got trapped in the tank
EPIC THEORY
7:10 hey guys look it’s Michael soft the creator of the connect!
This game is simultaneously beautiful but disturbing as fuck by the end.
So he went through all those shits, dodge some bullets, outrun the dogs, gone stealth against guards, pretending to be a zombie, swam through deep lakes and being chased by a freaking mermaid like, doing parkour stuff just to become a freak, multi legged, ball monster
This game and his physics amazed me, this is the real videogame art, i got the whole game trough in one sit, so amazing..
Did anyone else think of Six from Little Nightmares? The game styles of Inside, LN, and Limbo are so similar, I can’t help but feel that they’re probably siblings.
One of the most "WTF" moments in video games...
Yup, definitely rule 34 material
If it exists, and before you kill it with fire. . . .
???
+Seth Ryan ya don't need to know trust me
Meiji Marts ?
Wut do ya mean??
so this is what homeworld thinks of fusion
Logan Zahari HA
Logan Zahari I thought the same thing!
we couldn't know they will do this
The truth about homeworld fusions.
I believe this game represents BIRTH as the boy is meant to be sperm and the blob is meant to be an egg. The ending shows the blob(fused egg) not really escape as at 6:13 you see the same yet modelled landscape. Therefore, maybe there was an abortion, shown by the attempts of something trying to kill the boy. ALSO, seeing as they're the creators of LIMBO, LIMBO is where christians said that unbaptised dead babies go. Maybe some sort of link. and INSIDE being inside the womb. Also at times you would see that white ghost thing with black hair, it would have some sort of unbilical cord. yet again some sort of birth related thing...maybe it was a ghost of the child
zadbf zdb uh....no.
My theory is that the game is an allegory for either a cancerous or viral infection. The factory and warehouses of Inside represent the human body (including the water portions, which represent the bloodstream), the boy, in his red shirt, represents a single red blood cell that at some point became infected (perhaps by the pig tail). The mindless drones that help him are cells that have also become infected or cancerous, as they assist him towards his goal to reach the main cancer cell (which is the blob or tumor).
The "evil" workers are, in fact either white blood cells or cancer drugs trying to stop the red blood cell from reaching the mestacized, yet contained tumor. However, the boy/red blood cell successfully reaches the tumor, allowing it to grow large and strong enough to break free from the restraints of the drugs/white blood cells. As it roams free and unimpeded, it wreaks havoc and destruction within the body until it finally achieves it's goal, as it breaks through a cell wall and rolls to a stop, signifying it's own and the death of its host human being.
thats one cool theory
My theory is that the game is about fear. The boy was running away from the people trying to shoot him. In pursuit of his fears he uses other to get what he needs to continue the pursuit. (That's why the mind control people were there). And when other people were running from the same fear, they were too caught up in trying to escape that they self destructed. The hill represents them coming closers to safety but with risks. The lake represents happiness but right as it approached them, they were killed. The spotlight represents the light they saw coming for them to help them escape. The blob is saying that they were unclear what exactly happiness is.
The thing that horrified me was when the big blob crushed that man that fell from the window and I saw the blood and body parts lying there, as his body was crushed to pieces. Dang this stuff is horrific.
Another theory... well is a fandom theory. =P
"INSIDE" is a misspelled acronym of "DISNEI", that means, the mind of the children has been put something thanks to DISNEI for when he grows up convert in something more in line with the things the party want from you as a kid. That is why the animals and "mermaids" are helping or stoping you because are creations of DISNEI, experiments, and react with the children, even the adult workers of the system are helping you because knows what is going on (notice their reaction when the kid is naked before active the blob). The boy is the last ingredient of this magic formula, the innocence and "determination" for start the thing cannot stop, however, when is out of the system just die or cannot move anymore because out haven´t valor, power, or sense, is part of the system, out cannot survive. With the alternative ending is just disconect the boy of this theory. xD
Never played or heard about this game until i saw that Ign unboxing of the blob, it was weird but then it came with a small child that goes "inside". That's when i knew it was some cronenberg style philosophical horror story/ game.
Then by the gods when i started this video i was intrigued by the silence, but once the blob escapes..
The moans and screams and tearing and all the destruction.
Im not gonna go into theories but having it running right now while I type, the multiple steps as it walks, the sound of glass breaking and metal being slided across the ground.
The pain and struggle in all their voices at once.
Absolute horror, dont need to see more ( did watch some gameplay from earlier stages ) and yeah, Masterpiece 10/10
So I just finished the game and uh... I really don't know what to say. I stared at the blob laying still on the grass and thought, "what's going to happen next?" The whole time I was pressing buttons, expecting something... then the credits start rolling and that's when my jaw hit the floor.
4:06 it looks like the scientists are cheering... almost like they were waiting for the boy to arrive
Jason Li nah it seemed more like they were trying to warn him/get his attention
The fact is that you can spare the CEO if you wait, the waiting causes him to move out of the way
This game made me feel things. Things I have not felt before.
The puzzles in this game are beyond genius.
Everyone finds it terrifying but i find it so cute and adorable
The boy was the sperm and the blob was the egg. When they fussed together we got a fertilized egg. But the fertilized blob at the end died I think. Or maybe it's developing into some creature. we can't know since the game cut off. The alternative ending suggests abortion since I guess the boy (sperm) unplugs himself and dies before reaching the blob (egg).
i agree
WOW. i thought ive heard every theory but this was just fucking mindblowing.
This is an interesting theory, as it deals with the concept of birth and all that. And the idea that the alternative ending was symbolizing abortion is interesting too.
However, what was the blob supposed to be after it "fertilized"? What exactly *is* the "fertilized egg"?
Zoe Thomas
youre overthinking it. i think its a great theory. deep. philosophical.
the player starting the game must be the penetration and playing it gloves is the condom.. it was revealed by the developers to be true
The blob is essentially this story's Shoggoth. An advanced race built it to function as its "laborer", and given enough time and cruelty a rebellion ensues.
I was equal parts disgusted, horrified, amused, and inspired while watching this.
Kinda reminds me of that anime movie Akira
That's what I thought haha
lol, same
devilman?
Is this the new olympics event?
that is one of my favourite movies so thank you for mentioning it
7:10 When the “CEO” was looking at the Huddle, his final thoughts were probably *No! NO GOD PLEASE NO!*
Lol 😂😸 smash * blood
Dude... The ending was messed up... Cant wait for Mark to react to the ending!
This is the example of teamwork makes the dream work.
My theory is that the boy was originally part of the huddle but was separated from it somehow. He journeys back to it in hopes of rejoining and helping it escape.
Couple of questions:
1: Did the boy take control of the Blob?
2:Can someone please explain the ending of this video?
3: What is the Blob and why was it made?
Whoever answers this, thanks!! :)
1: yes, as the boy not only seems to be very intelligent, but the blob also hadn't moved into the boy formed into it.
2 LOL HEALL NAW
3. Yeah, same thing. This game is difficult to understand
he escaped the inside
1: yes2: I got no idea what the flip just happened 3: the blob I believe was a combination of human bodies, the reason why it was made is still unknown.
I'll try to piece together what I know from the plot.
The boy in red is the brain of a hive of shapeshifting or parasiyic aliens that shared a consciousness and were planning to invade earth.
Something went wrong, so the hive ejected its mind, disguised as a small boy, before the government could catch it. That's why the government was after you the whole game. The government was somehow able to figure out how to control the hive of aliens and used it to create the strange creatures we saw and the mindless people, since the aliens were either parasites or shapeshifters.
This explanation actually covers why you need a very specific code when you find the secret ending. The secret ending is the boy returning to the hidden mother ship and activating the self destruct.
+Aequitas Interesting....
Good thinking! :)
7:10
Uh, we have a dead body on floor 420 if the janitor would please clean that up
Wow that was...wow. Thanks for not doing commentary it made the experience more immersive.
3 years and my jaw still on the floor with the final chapter
I would join the huddle if I could. We all want to be part of something bigger than ourselves.
my opinion : the thing is controling the boy to release him from the people who create that thing because that thing is suffered and that thing controlinv the boy separately to release him/her self. and so much thing in my opinion..
yeah thats pretty basic theory but shit gets weird in the alternative ending... who is the puppetmaster? is he representing the player? or the real "blob"? mind controlling shuts down thats for sure, but why? is it what the blob wants, or is the boy rebelling against the mind control and killing it?
Yup basic stuff..
I wonder if playdead will make inside for gplay and appstore too..
7:13 the way he died is so gruesome
We can feel the panic and death in the scream of this boss.
wtf, did i just see a giant superstrengthed potato
The one thing that made me cringe, the guy that was crushed by that “Meatball” and that wondering why no one cared if their boss was killed.. wait why did no one try to kill that thing? I knew they had guns because, In the forest when you die you get shot with a gun, so why not kill that thing?
There's a theory that the escape was an experiment. Look it up, I guess.
You can actually spare him. if you approach slowly, he moves out of the way
In very horrifying way, the blob is adorable. Watching it problem solve and say “ow” when it falls was....strangely..cute. It also sounds like it has multiple voices.
The megalitic structures reminds me of some sci fi atmosphere, blade runner, 1984, etc...
they all are watching it and helping it get through because its probably a cycle that's rare and happens possibly once in a very a long time period
Utterly appalled yet oddly fascinated
From what I can tell, I'm not sure where the boy came from, but I believe that the time is set in a future where the govt. has advanced in technology and used it against civilization for better or for worst. It started when they began testing on reproducing humans through a different form of reproduction as seen in the lab where it looked as if they were growing them or something, this could be assumed by the differences in each where some have larger and missing limbs. That's another point, there were limbs seen growing too. This leads to why they are mindless and don't act on their own. Then they experimented with mind control and needed a being that could use the device to control everyone, so they made the perfect/smartest being? idk, and hooked it up in the tank (the jumbled mess of bodies), if you look back at when it's in the tank you can see that it is hooked up with the mind control device for further evidence. As for why the boy is unhooking it, and why he can breathe underwater I have no clue. But that's just a theory, thx for reading. XD As for the actual ending tho, no clue, maybe it was his journey to make it to the other side of the world, or maybe to find land un-touched by civilization? Honestly no clue :P
i think the ending was the boy sacrifice himself to destroy the creature... as it deflates
I think that the boy was being controlled by the blob creature from the very beginning and in the alternate ending he unplugs himself so he can escape.
+Midna i thought it was "us"/the player controlling him
That's the way I interpreted it, you could take it even further and say that the blob creature is controlling us/ the player too
+Midna I think the blob represents the game itself controlling us because every time we buy/get a new game we always wanna finish it accomplish the goal, and the real goal in this game was to free the creature from the facility.
Another thing is that maybe WE the players are the blob in the game and are trying to escape by using the child.
But these are just thoughts
Look at 13:15 if you want to understand what people mean by youtube compression artifacts.
one of the most cinematic and impactful games ive ever played
Watching this all I can say is TETSUOOOOO!
person A: OH NO IT'S COMING FOR US WHAT DO WE DO!?!?!
person B: QUICK LET'S RUN INTO THE BACKGROUND IT CAN'T REACH US THERE!!!
We need an ending where the boy ends up controlling a kaiju and destroying the city and all controlled humans and he just controls it riding on the kaijus head as it blazes everything on a skillet
Makes the game all the more confusing and mysterious.
6:10 in the glass cage thing it mirrors the where you are at the end ending
Good job they added the credits, I thought the game had crashed 🤦♂️
Do you guys think that one day we will become so detached from the real world , that because we choose to reject it that when we finally decide to see the sun again, that it would be too late
It depends. Some people like you, who see outside of their own boxes, may be able to still see the sun in time. But me, I'm not so sure. I think that's why I'm so obessesed with the ideas of change, control and strenght. I think I want to evolve fast enough in order to shape everybody in the world to not only see the sun, but also stay below its light, while there's still time.
Watched beau is afraid and couldn’t help but notice the clear Inspiration from this game.
this is actually a good plot for a movie, are there ever any movies that is close to this game's plot?
One masterpiece right here ladies and gentlemen!!
Here is a theory I have involving Limbo and Inside. The boy in the beginning of the game Limbo is actually the same one from Inside who died after the huddle tumbled down the cliff at the end of the game. The boy soon wakes up and tries to find his sister whom was possibly turned into an albino and merged with the huddle. It was also possible that she was the one who called him to her trying to free her. As the boy faces numerous obstacles in the game Limbo I soon realize that obstacles where from the game inside as they both exist in the same universe. The spider was possibly similar to the huddle, the kids in the game the guards from the facility, the city the same one in the game. Of course these are my thoughts
The area you fall into at 6:10 is a smaller version of the coast you "Escape" too at 14:45
Play this part of the game with the katamari theme and you got your game theory answers lmao
6:04 *Jonathan I want those files on my desk by Tuesday!*
I think the boy is a activator for the mutant human ball thing. Maybe he is the only one who left to control the other human. He tried to save all human that trapped inside the ball until he got suck. From inside, he control them because of his ability.He tried to help them