Reporter guy is the most insane character even compared to the infected, gets himself trapped in the flesh maze with only dead bodies and sees a girl licking the walls and just says "Hello lady!"
i kinda suspected he might have been infected by the fungus already by then, since he was in the area, maybe breathed in the spores, and it affected his brain to become more unhinged and made him return/venture down into the pyramid, so he was lost as soon as he went into the woods, basically :v
You know, I honestly thought the interviewer(and the company) of the corpse fungus reporter was going to let them suffer in the end and keep asking them questions over and over. They actually euthanized them which actually surprised me for a horror.
@@standard-carrier-wo-chanit actually makes sense that they would burn the body, if not for compassion, for safety reasons. It's a fungal organism that can easily spread and infect other humans, so they might've burned it to get rid of the fungus if nothing else.
The giant mushroom you're thinking about is here in my home state of Oregon on the Eastern side! It's a parasitic, and highly destructive kind of honey fungus called armillaria solidipes (or ostoya, no one can make up their mind). It covers 2,300+ acres, and is dated to be somewhere between 2,400-8,200 years old!
On the first day, the observer referred to the other two people as Subject A and Subject B, but by the end of the first month, they were referring to them as Object A and Object B instead.
14:00 Protag sees his friend's corpse and decides "Hey! I could totally get rich and famous off of this! Sad about my friend though. Pulitzer here I come!" Well, at least he's realistically portrayed.
To be fair to the guy, he starts talking weirder and weirder the more clues you collect. Almost like he's drunk or intoxicated. He starts off cocky and ambitious, becomes horrified and scared for his life, and then out of nowhere he gets cocky and ambitious again. Other folks in the comments have suggested that he may have started to be affected neurologically the moment he stepped into the woods.
I'm not a horror buff or writer, but I always take inspiration from real science and mythology for my own tales. I have a story that's seven-and-a-half years running, granted with plenty of changes over the years, but it's always been based somewhat in fact.
6:04 “why would there be a dead rat underground? Troubling… I better investigate this further”. I heard this research team was also working on the “mystery of the dead fish that washed up at the beach”
It was inside of a previously sealed-off pyramid which, to their knowledge at the time, had no other entrances. Also Makky said flat-out later that he was less concerned about the rat getting there and more the fungus growing out of its brain.
LMAO i love your wording on this. But yeah like the previous guy said it was a sealed pyramid, and the rat had to die somehow. If it starved, why didn't it leave to get food? Maybe it seals you in, which would be a critical detail to know before exploring further
@@rustyfisher2081 Well it must because of what happens to the journalist --- the only question is, how were they able to get him out then? Who were the people asking him questions? MAYBE the fungus some how knew or understood they were going to bring him out and allowed it to happen thinking it was then going to spread from him to others? Only for them to then torch his remains in the end!! I loved this game haha
I've lived in an area with cicada my entire life and though I've seen their shed molt from when they transition from nymphs to adults, I'd never seen an adult until a couple years ago. This year I've seen dozens of infected cicada, many missing huge chunks of their bodies to the fungus and quite a few flying erratically -- I wonder if this is a particularly bad year for the cicada or whether the fungus has taken this long to spread to my area. It's both sad and cool to see this parasitic fungus in action.
@@MM-jf1me And "huge chunks" isn't hyperbole, either. Since the closest thing to a brain (it's more like some clumps of nerves) in a cicada's body is in the middle of their thorax, they can lose their entire head and most of their abdomen and still live for a while if something (like a clod of fungal spores) keeps its hemolymph from leaking out.
@@liger04 Definitely. For those who haven't seen these poor insects, they can practically just be twitching heads with wings -- where the rest of their bodies should be there is a white fungus "cap" or "plug" and then just empty air.
I thought this was going to be like Pathways Into Darkness, but then it took a hard left into The Ruins territory, with a little bit of Mystery Flesh Pit thrown in. The new genre of "drive a drone around our eldritch location" horror is pretty neat, and a decent use of analog horror.
_"A good employee has nothing to hide"_ And some corporation was still looking at all of this. This was great body horror. The found footage style worked perfectly to illustrate the stories of the scientists, the journalist, and the hapless man trying to impress his girlfriend. You understood what happened to them, their motivations, personalities. The jealous notes about Maxine reminded me of Itchy Tasty diary entries. Really good comparison to the real life, very creepy fungus in Oregon, MBH! Kudos to this developer and look forward to more games from them.
Istg I have insomnia and each morning around the dreadful hour of 4:00-4:15 am I can always count on my favorite let's play RUclips to allow me at least 2hrs of sleep before my day begins. He's such a natural part of my regimen now I would honestly be depressed as hell without him. Take care, everyone. 🛌🏼✅
Hi everyone, first of all thanks Manly for such a great video about my game. I always enjoy watching your reflections at the end of the video. Now about the theme of the game. I want to state that the game is purely about fungus. This is stated in the game itself when the cicadas are shown and in dialogs with the object S... I would like to especially point out that there is no hidden message, no meaning in the game except for the scary events that happened inside the game. Max is not a trans person, he was never a trans person, his genitals were eaten by a fungus and the fungus controlled his behavior completely. So there is no hidden message here towards trans people. Just a fungus that does exist in the real world (it just affects cicadas, not people). I understand that different things can be interpreted in different ways, but I really tried to explain as directly as possible and show that the fungus is to blame. It's also not the main feature or theme of the game. The game features horror fantasies about different types of fungus and related events. However, I am grateful for all the attention and comments about my game. I read everything carefully and look at it, drawing conclusions for the future.
@@begui1044They’re referring to the shit with Unity’s proposal to charge developers for every time a game is downloaded (which I don’t think even applies to this game). I don’t think the comment op has very good reading comprehension. They saw the word trans and got angry I guess
Aside from dangerous spores and mushroom beings, seeing that mushroom had me thinking of entering a structure that ended up being a giant plant. It's either waiting to come through or that encounter lets giant versions of normally microscopic critters out into the world. Never mind running it further with it being the tip of a giant life eco-system that will one day encounter the surface... Now back to the remaining 20 minutes.
Uh... There are people who live inside small house in a big, living tree, if you know what i am getting at, lol. i think i will be fine as long as that structure doesnt hide any hazard or "obviously able to directly eat a living being, like a rat, or a human"
Are you perhaps thinking of the Mystery Flesh Pit? Because that's what I immediately thought of, and it did involve the uh, _large, mixed-aetiology lifeform horror,_ if I recall.
@@MononymousM I wasn't thinking of that at the time but now that you mention it there was that 'Cave Crawler' game Manly played. I'll have to read more into the M.F.P. since I never did look into it fully in the past.
Massospora really do exists. _"The genus name of Massospora was derived from two words in the Greek, masso which means 'to grind' and spora for 'spore'. This then describes the complete disintegration of the host-insect's internal tissues eventually leading to a (described by the author as); “pulverulent mass of spores within” that can be seen after the terminal parts of the abdomen fall off."_ (wikipedia)
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme Yeah, I thought this description was cool, wanted to share it. But I understand, I should have went to Nature, find research articles about that fongus, pay for the right to read them, make a summary... I'm such a lazy ass, right?
15:30 I'm telling you... I'm subbed to you because it's not just videos about horror. It's the real deal. Something that you are bound to discover at some time.
There was an episode of the X-Files about a giant fungus that would trap people underground and while it digested them they would have have hallucinations so they wouldn't realize they were in trouble.
Good to see more of this developer, they continue to do good work. Probably my favorite from them so far, it's a good mix of the detached, clinical researcher and that doomed explorer aspect and they got a lot out of that mixture.
Maaan, don't you hate it when you thought a guy you work with is just trans, but instead is actually just got corrupted with bugs that made them literally turn into a woman and made you obsessed over them to the point of you willing to kill people that even just took a glance at her Sucks when that happen
Ah, yes, nothing like an upside-down underground fungus pyramid to really get the primal fear going!!! Worth noting, there's also an X-Files episode inspired by the same type of fungus, I believe.
those giant fungus organisms are large mycelium. mycelium isn't uncommon and it has a very interesting feature... it can send signals like nerves. this allows large colonies to quickly become immune to a disease before it ravages the colony.
this was kinda neat! the stuff with max/maxine was handled better than i expected tbh and i like the fungus stuff based kind of on real ideas; the enormous fungal colony under in oregon, and the idea of growing mushroom bricks/blocks for building, and some combination of those two
Im dealing with a headache flair up so bad im just stuck in bed, and insomnia is keeping me from sleeping off the worst of it. This upload is helping to keep me sane. Thanks Manly!
If not for the horrid side effects this fungus would be quite intriguing- wonder if the transformation from male to female is physical or is it a mind alteration to someone who inhaled the spores (judging by the cicada report and the inspiration it might lean to the physical). And it's cool it's inspired by a real life fungus, I know a bunch of parasitic critters can affect their hosts attraction- as example toxoplasma, that amoeba, makes rats infected with it get sexually attracted to smell of cats (especially their urine) And as for a bit of tag funies- I find it fkin amusing that the autotagging system marked this game as Silent Hill (jeez bots are usless)
It would be interesting if it actually caused a physical transformation so they can reproduce and spread. But that would make us more unrealistic and nonsensical than it already is.
It's an interesting question, and approach towards the concept of transitioning. I don't know if that was the developer's intent, but that's what I got out of it too. As for the real scientific application, human beings aren't giant cicadas, so I don't imagine you could become infected by this. That makes it difficult to study. Insects are very different biologically.
I’m surprised that there aren’t more horror games about specific types of fungus out there! Like, there are lots of parasitic mushroom zombie games and things like that, but it’s really cool to see a game using more specific concepts like the giant mushroom colonies. There is so much untapped horror potential in all the real world funky fungi!
I'm still a bit annoyed how this game is almost a beat for beat copy of another horror game that also had a rover exploring underground structures and finding a plant/crystal/fungus thing that ate human flesh. Like, when I saw the rat, I knew where it was going
@@pmester228 You mean Cave Crawler ? Cause yea I though of that game too when he controlled the rover and scanned stuff in the beginning , honestly I don't think the dev copied the other one , I theorize coincidence or inspiration here lol . Gotta say tho that they are both different in their own way , which is nice if you like that type of horror ^^" . I personally do enjoy it eh , fungus are very interesting and I think caves are cool :] !
someone else already commented about the largest fungal colonies, but at first I thought he was talking about Pando, which is a clonal colony (same roots but multiple different trees) of quaking aspen that is essentially the same organism, although it has nothing to do with any fungus. there is also a clonal colony of Mediterranean seagrass near Ibiza 8 kilometers across and estimated to be 100000 years old. meanwhile humans can live to be supercentenarians, while there are biologically immortal organisms, although they are not as complex as humans.
This reminds me of an old horror movie i saw as a kid. A group of freinds went to explore and ancient Maya or Aztec Temple and wind up being hunted by predatory meat eating vines that fill the temple and the nearby Natives of the area essentially quarantine them on the roof of the ruin not letting them leave and slowly get killed off by the vines. The vines even learn to use a cellphone and imitate its ringing. One guy get cut by the vines while escaping to the roof and as they sit on the roof they find out the plant even planted seeds in his wound and it begins growing inside of him so they can only dump him back inside while he's still alive and in eminse pain
17:29 Those are straight up liberty caps lol. Also, holy shit. Apparently Massospora uses psilocybin to infect the cicadas. That's fuckin wild. Theoretically one could harvest the psilocybe from them but the amount would be very miniscule, you'd be better off just growing the mushrooms themselves. Still super cool though.
Not sure if it's been mentioned or not, but regarding the whole spread-out forest you'd mentioned -- Are you thinking Pando, the quaking aspen colony out in Utah? That's the one that comes immediately to mind for me. Awesome video and content, as always.
@@MyCommentsAreCorrect That's normal bcause Im from France. it is like 8 am here. Im the one who is watching videos in english beside not being from a country who speak it. That's why it's so so unfair😭
This reminds me of "Gemini Home Entertaiment": rover goes underground, finds scary living stuff; an infectious parasite which changes how a person behaves; infection ends in infected becoming stationary in order to get absorbed by underground organic structure; interview with an infected at the last stage
Gonna be real, Manly. I LOVE when you play the indie horror games with old 3D retro graphics like this (even Dream Pools graphics and filter combo I like) that don't have much dialogue or detailed stories, but has just enough to give you a slow, tedious task in a place seemingly so empty and lifeless, regardless (but still unknown) if theres something lurking or not. I dunno why, but for some reason they're scarier to me and I love it, especially when there's there is a "bad" filter (VHS, Old Camera, Noise). Also, Bramble is fully released amd I remember you played the demo, could you play the full version, please?
I'm starting to assume that the lady licking the "fungus" wall is Maxinne. Could be a hunch, but the diary pages did say that she went wild. The owner of that diary might've brought her back, but it's likely so that she might've escaped, and found the Pyramid. Either that, or maybe it's the protagonist in the future. Who knows? Phil did say that it's a thousand years old. Could be another timelapse game?
Hey Manly do you remember bunny graveyard? It seems Like that the full game released not too Long ago... so yeah Just wanted to inform you about that :3 Anyways great video as always love your commentary and the Analasys in the end are awesome and really unique too...at least for me... don't see any Other letsplayer really do that
Hey Manly, Not sure if you'll see this comment or if someone has mentioned it before, but a really fun demo I've been playing is called "Voices of the Void". You manage a satellite array in the alps, keeping the servers running, snagging signals from space, and admiring the local wildlife. There's a lot of content so far, but it's still in development.
I watch manly videos while getting ready, while I eat, while I do my hw, while I cook, to sleep, and watch his videos whenever I want to watch a good RUclips video. Thank you for making videos manly😎👍
I really like this devs games Very interesting perspectives from whatever entity you play as.They did the found footage aspect reaaly well as it looks like some organization was in the middle of monitoring the pyramid. Thee massospora fungus certainly is bizarre. Real creepy to see it something like that applied to humans. Especially the size of that one huge organism. i can see how the fungus was probably messing with scientists to make them perceive it as something not dangerous. I can get why that one scientist was still alive as it would probably use them to bring in more food essentially. Poor jim just had the misfortune of falling in. With the way the pyramid was structured it honestly gave me some backrooms vibes, purely because all the right angles and the plainness of it. Really good liminial horror.
From what I recall, the fungus you mentioned can actually communicate with each other. I think they can create subway line ish railways. Like they can create something like a map of a subway line and it’s believed that it shows that there’s some communication and coordination going on
Welcome to the Last of Us Club how Last of Us are ya? *Note* game is by dev as I live under your house ruclips.net/video/3C6DIivRfuY/видео.html
very last of us ngl
What if im homeless where dies the dev live
I live under your house
Day 552 of asking Manly to play A Cold Love Story through RUclips comments
the Middle of Us.
Reporter guy is the most insane character even compared to the infected, gets himself trapped in the flesh maze with only dead bodies and sees a girl licking the walls and just says "Hello lady!"
He also doesn’t care that his friend is dead, just goes “wow this story will get me a Pulitzer Prize!” Unhinged behavior
@@andreah9587
But at least you gotta admire the dude's dedication.
i kinda suspected he might have been infected by the fungus already by then, since he was in the area, maybe breathed in the spores, and it affected his brain to become more unhinged and made him return/venture down into the pyramid,
so he was lost as soon as he went into the woods, basically :v
why did I imagine Hello Lady! in Gilber Gottfried's Voice.
@@candlestone5397 Baked ziti!
You know, I honestly thought the interviewer(and the company) of the corpse fungus reporter was going to let them suffer in the end and keep asking them questions over and over. They actually euthanized them which actually surprised me for a horror.
About the kindest thing they could do.
We get answers, you get incinerated 🙏🏼
I was surprised too and really happy they did that.
It didn't break my immersion, but it really challenged it. The individual, sure, but the company? I'm actually surprised as well.
@@standard-carrier-wo-chanit actually makes sense that they would burn the body, if not for compassion, for safety reasons. It's a fungal organism that can easily spread and infect other humans, so they might've burned it to get rid of the fungus if nothing else.
The giant mushroom you're thinking about is here in my home state of Oregon on the Eastern side! It's a parasitic, and highly destructive kind of honey fungus called armillaria solidipes (or ostoya, no one can make up their mind). It covers 2,300+ acres, and is dated to be somewhere between 2,400-8,200 years old!
Please kill it, ty
Please, submit to it, ty
Join us, ty
Please make sweet love to it and start a loving family with it, ty
Ostoya is the historical name, the one you mentioned former is the current scientific name.
On the first day, the observer referred to the other two people as Subject A and Subject B, but by the end of the first month, they were referring to them as Object A and Object B instead.
Give them another month and it’ll be Verb A and Verb B
@@DeathnoteBB Give them a year and it's going to be 1 and 2
@STR44NGERD44NGER give them a decade and they are going to be O and T
@@RyoshiLiveGive them a century and it's gonna be OJ Simpson
@@Kanister0give them a millennium and they're going to be 0 & 1
14:00 Protag sees his friend's corpse and decides "Hey! I could totally get rich and famous off of this! Sad about my friend though. Pulitzer here I come!"
Well, at least he's realistically portrayed.
Most empathic journalist.
To be fair to the guy, he starts talking weirder and weirder the more clues you collect. Almost like he's drunk or intoxicated.
He starts off cocky and ambitious, becomes horrified and scared for his life, and then out of nowhere he gets cocky and ambitious again.
Other folks in the comments have suggested that he may have started to be affected neurologically the moment he stepped into the woods.
The National Geographic cameraman taking photos of starving children
oh my god its logan paul
@@legoyoda645 The charities that pretend to help them, and just pocket the money.
I love when the horror is surreal science, like there is scientific background that the devs take and amplify to something horrific
Me too man me too!!! I this game is amazing and the dev is really talented!
Yeah it kinda makes the whole story more believable
I'm not a horror buff or writer, but I always take inspiration from real science and mythology for my own tales. I have a story that's seven-and-a-half years running, granted with plenty of changes over the years, but it's always been based somewhat in fact.
The disbelief in Manly's voice was so genuine at 23:00. I don't know why anyone would enter anything remotely described as a "fungus pyramid"
6:04 “why would there be a dead rat underground? Troubling… I better investigate this further”. I heard this research team was also working on the “mystery of the dead fish that washed up at the beach”
It was inside of a previously sealed-off pyramid which, to their knowledge at the time, had no other entrances. Also Makky said flat-out later that he was less concerned about the rat getting there and more the fungus growing out of its brain.
LMAO i love your wording on this. But yeah like the previous guy said it was a sealed pyramid, and the rat had to die somehow. If it starved, why didn't it leave to get food? Maybe it seals you in, which would be a critical detail to know before exploring further
@@rustyfisher2081 Well it must because of what happens to the journalist --- the only question is, how were they able to get him out then? Who were the people asking him questions? MAYBE the fungus some how knew or understood they were going to bring him out and allowed it to happen thinking it was then going to spread from him to others? Only for them to then torch his remains in the end!! I loved this game haha
Someone forgot to return the slab to the pharaohs 💀
Tell me I thought it was based on Courage the Cowardly dog
*ReTuRn ThE sLaB!~*
@@thatonewitchOR SUFFER MY CURSE!
The man in rags. The man in rags. King Ramsey! He's no 🎅.
Thanks for reminding me to watch that show again; it's actually one of my favorite shows.
The fact that the cicada fungus is actually real is horrifying.
I've lived in an area with cicada my entire life and though I've seen their shed molt from when they transition from nymphs to adults, I'd never seen an adult until a couple years ago. This year I've seen dozens of infected cicada, many missing huge chunks of their bodies to the fungus and quite a few flying erratically -- I wonder if this is a particularly bad year for the cicada or whether the fungus has taken this long to spread to my area. It's both sad and cool to see this parasitic fungus in action.
@@MM-jf1me IT hear you.
IT don't like when you call IT parasitic.
You are just a food.
I remember seeing a species of barnacle that does something similar to crabs.
@@MM-jf1me And "huge chunks" isn't hyperbole, either. Since the closest thing to a brain (it's more like some clumps of nerves) in a cicada's body is in the middle of their thorax, they can lose their entire head and most of their abdomen and still live for a while if something (like a clod of fungal spores) keeps its hemolymph from leaking out.
@@liger04 Definitely. For those who haven't seen these poor insects, they can practically just be twitching heads with wings -- where the rest of their bodies should be there is a white fungus "cap" or "plug" and then just empty air.
I thought this was going to be like Pathways Into Darkness, but then it took a hard left into The Ruins territory, with a little bit of Mystery Flesh Pit thrown in. The new genre of "drive a drone around our eldritch location" horror is pretty neat, and a decent use of analog horror.
The game also made me think of The Ruins especially with the vine like tendrils on the walls and bodies
i feel like any form of hazmat suit could've prevented this
Science isn't about why, it's about why not.
Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much?
Wow. What a plot. The Fungus That Force-Femmes You
🔥THE TRANS FUNGUS🔥
FEMBOY FUNGUS
Conservatives sweat nervously fantasizing about being forcibly turned trans.
There's always that one guy
okay ya i was like… no way… canon transfeminization
_"A good employee has nothing to hide"_
And some corporation was still looking at all of this. This was great body horror. The found footage style worked perfectly to illustrate the stories of the scientists, the journalist, and the hapless man trying to impress his girlfriend. You understood what happened to them, their motivations, personalities. The jealous notes about Maxine reminded me of Itchy Tasty diary entries. Really good comparison to the real life, very creepy fungus in Oregon, MBH!
Kudos to this developer and look forward to more games from them.
Hell yeah manlybadasshero sleepy time
Was confused until I realized diff time zones cuz it’s like almost 12 pm here💀
I’m glad I’m not the only one who fall asleep listening to MBH
Istg I have insomnia and each morning around the dreadful hour of 4:00-4:15 am I can always count on my favorite let's play RUclips to allow me at least 2hrs of sleep before my day begins.
He's such a natural part of my regimen now I would honestly be depressed as hell without him.
Take care, everyone.
🛌🏼✅
Depends massively on the sound design of the game.
Welcome to the manlybadasshero sleepy time Club, how manlybadasshero sleepy time are ya?
Hi everyone, first of all thanks Manly for such a great video about my game. I always enjoy watching your reflections at the end of the video.
Now about the theme of the game.
I want to state that the game is purely about fungus. This is stated in the game itself when the cicadas are shown and in dialogs with the object S...
I would like to especially point out that there is no hidden message, no meaning in the game except for the scary events that happened inside the game.
Max is not a trans person, he was never a trans person, his genitals were eaten by a fungus and the fungus controlled his behavior completely.
So there is no hidden message here towards trans people. Just a fungus that does exist in the real world (it just affects cicadas, not people).
I understand that different things can be interpreted in different ways, but I really tried to explain as directly as possible and show that the fungus is to blame.
It's also not the main feature or theme of the game.
The game features horror fantasies about different types of fungus and related events.
However, I am grateful for all the attention and comments about my game.
I read everything carefully and look at it, drawing conclusions for the future.
I like the way you written up the story in this little game,never stop making these :-)
So only the mushroom is trans, got it xD
@@santiagodelpilar6701what do you mean man?
@@santiagodelpilar6701chad pfps trying not to be toxic challenge (impossible)
@@begui1044They’re referring to the shit with Unity’s proposal to charge developers for every time a game is downloaded (which I don’t think even applies to this game). I don’t think the comment op has very good reading comprehension. They saw the word trans and got angry I guess
Aside from dangerous spores and mushroom beings, seeing that mushroom had me thinking of entering a structure that ended up being a giant plant. It's either waiting to come through or that encounter lets giant versions of normally microscopic critters out into the world. Never mind running it further with it being the tip of a giant life eco-system that will one day encounter the surface... Now back to the remaining 20 minutes.
Uh... There are people who live inside small house in a big, living tree, if you know what i am getting at, lol.
i think i will be fine as long as that structure doesnt hide any hazard or "obviously able to directly eat a living being, like a rat, or a human"
Are you perhaps thinking of the Mystery Flesh Pit? Because that's what I immediately thought of, and it did involve the uh, _large, mixed-aetiology lifeform horror,_ if I recall.
@@vanzeralltheway8638 The remaining 20 minutes definitely surprised me. I learned some new IRL things too.
@@MononymousM I wasn't thinking of that at the time but now that you mention it there was that 'Cave Crawler' game Manly played. I'll have to read more into the M.F.P. since I never did look into it fully in the past.
shut up
Manly ls like an exasperated mother at this point.
“Son, did you enter the flesh maze when I said no?”
“Yes manly mommy.. 😔”
@@TyrannosaurusRex..you have been a very naughty boy. Go to your room!!
@@victorhurwitz5559 I’m not even gonna correct u I’m too tired rn 😔
Massospora really do exists.
_"The genus name of Massospora was derived from two words in the Greek, masso which means 'to grind' and spora for 'spore'. This then describes the complete disintegration of the host-insect's internal tissues eventually leading to a (described by the author as); “pulverulent mass of spores within” that can be seen after the terminal parts of the abdomen fall off."_ (wikipedia)
Wikipedia?
@@TerraCottaCake Never heard of it?
Cool a wikipedia comment
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme Yeah, I thought this description was cool, wanted to share it. But I understand, I should have went to Nature, find research articles about that fongus, pay for the right to read them, make a summary... I'm such a lazy ass, right?
@@bobiboulon I don't think they were being sarcastic? They might just be suprised that it has a wiki page
Edit:typo
Ah, yes, the rat wall. Wouldn't be a pyramid without it.
Ikr, that fungus must have taken some great interior design classes!
It’s in the late afternoon here in Japan and Manly’s videos still make me sleepy ☺️
Time for an afternoon nap
Thanks for the upload Manly :D
Manly has a voice like liquid silk. 😌👌
He's my 1st pick on YT while im awaiting my 2hrs of sleep.
Better than no sleep, I suppose! :)
Lucky!! I hope one day I get to visit Japan!
The noise when you select something is very similar to the one in Silent Hill and it makes my heart so happy. Instant joy.
15:30 I'm telling you... I'm subbed to you because it's not just videos about horror. It's the real deal. Something that you are bound to discover at some time.
There was an episode of the X-Files about a giant fungus that would trap people underground and while it digested them they would have have hallucinations so they wouldn't realize they were in trouble.
Good to see more of this developer, they continue to do good work. Probably my favorite from them so far, it's a good mix of the detached, clinical researcher and that doomed explorer aspect and they got a lot out of that mixture.
Maaan, don't you hate it when you thought a guy you work with is just trans, but instead is actually just got corrupted with bugs that made them literally turn into a woman and made you obsessed over them to the point of you willing to kill people that even just took a glance at her
Sucks when that happen
Yeah I was kinda hoping it was just casual Trans rep but guess not
cope
@@danielthecake8617 ?
Yeah i was thinking it was weird how the dev just randomly put some transgender drama in a horror game but it all made sense in the end
IKR? I hate it when that happens.
Ah, yes, nothing like an upside-down underground fungus pyramid to really get the primal fear going!!!
Worth noting, there's also an X-Files episode inspired by the same type of fungus, I believe.
There's nothing more relatable than Manly seeing a corpse and going, "Later."
those giant fungus organisms are large mycelium. mycelium isn't uncommon and it has a very interesting feature... it can send signals like nerves. this allows large colonies to quickly become immune to a disease before it ravages the colony.
this was kinda neat! the stuff with max/maxine was handled better than i expected tbh and i like the fungus stuff based kind of on real ideas; the enormous fungal colony under in oregon, and the idea of growing mushroom bricks/blocks for building, and some combination of those two
she's even got breasts
Ikr I like that they acknowledged Maxine as part of a illness and delusion not a valid identity!
Im dealing with a headache flair up so bad im just stuck in bed, and insomnia is keeping me from sleeping off the worst of it. This upload is helping to keep me sane. Thanks Manly!
I like Manly's quiet, subtle check for something standing behind him at 10:52
If not for the horrid side effects this fungus would be quite intriguing- wonder if the transformation from male to female is physical or is it a mind alteration to someone who inhaled the spores (judging by the cicada report and the inspiration it might lean to the physical).
And it's cool it's inspired by a real life fungus, I know a bunch of parasitic critters can affect their hosts attraction- as example toxoplasma, that amoeba, makes rats infected with it get sexually attracted to smell of cats (especially their urine)
And as for a bit of tag funies- I find it fkin amusing that the autotagging system marked this game as Silent Hill (jeez bots are usless)
Makky said Maxine was developing tits. Definitely hormonal
It would be interesting if it actually caused a physical transformation so they can reproduce and spread. But that would make us more unrealistic and nonsensical than it already is.
Seems to be physical and mental since Max/ine grew boobs
The fungus alters animals physically. Shown by the end where that jouranlist became an abomination.
It's an interesting question, and approach towards the concept of transitioning. I don't know if that was the developer's intent, but that's what I got out of it too. As for the real scientific application, human beings aren't giant cicadas, so I don't imagine you could become infected by this. That makes it difficult to study. Insects are very different biologically.
He didn’t return the slab
Lol courage the cowardly dog
21:54 holy shi- as soon as I saw this, I knew where the rest of the game was going. Ze Frank explained this cicada fungus in one of his videos
I’m surprised that there aren’t more horror games about specific types of fungus out there! Like, there are lots of parasitic mushroom zombie games and things like that, but it’s really cool to see a game using more specific concepts like the giant mushroom colonies. There is so much untapped horror potential in all the real world funky fungi!
I'm still a bit annoyed how this game is almost a beat for beat copy of another horror game that also had a rover exploring underground structures and finding a plant/crystal/fungus thing that ate human flesh. Like, when I saw the rat, I knew where it was going
@@pmester228 Wait really? Is it one manly played? I’ve gotta go check that out now
@@axuwu6939 Cave Crawler
@@pmester228 You mean Cave Crawler ? Cause yea I though of that game too when he controlled the rover and scanned stuff in the beginning , honestly I don't think the dev copied the other one , I theorize coincidence or inspiration here lol .
Gotta say tho that they are both different in their own way , which is nice if you like that type of horror ^^" . I personally do enjoy it eh , fungus are very interesting and I think caves are cool :] !
someone else already commented about the largest fungal colonies, but at first I thought he was talking about Pando, which is a clonal colony (same roots but multiple different trees) of quaking aspen that is essentially the same organism, although it has nothing to do with any fungus. there is also a clonal colony of Mediterranean seagrass near Ibiza 8 kilometers across and estimated to be 100000 years old. meanwhile humans can live to be supercentenarians, while there are biologically immortal organisms, although they are not as complex as humans.
This reminds me of an old horror movie i saw as a kid. A group of freinds went to explore and ancient Maya or Aztec Temple and wind up being hunted by predatory meat eating vines that fill the temple and the nearby Natives of the area essentially quarantine them on the roof of the ruin not letting them leave and slowly get killed off by the vines. The vines even learn to use a cellphone and imitate its ringing. One guy get cut by the vines while escaping to the roof and as they sit on the roof they find out the plant even planted seeds in his wound and it begins growing inside of him so they can only dump him back inside while he's still alive and in eminse pain
I know the movie it’s called The Ruins! I was also reminded of it during this video
@@psychomania12okay your reply is adorable af!
The fear I felt when I opened my computer, forgetting I was watching this video, and hearing Manly say "I live under you house."
First that N64 mushroom body horror and now this, thanks game devs for giving and reinforcing my fear of mushrooms.
When i hear "Mushroom... Mushroom."
I had big simle on my face.
Maybe the guys think: "We're rich!"
rock and stone brother
Rock and Stone to the bone!
list I never thought Manly would say: DID YOU GO INTO THE FUNGUS PYRAMID??
17:29 Those are straight up liberty caps lol. Also, holy shit. Apparently Massospora uses psilocybin to infect the cicadas. That's fuckin wild. Theoretically one could harvest the psilocybe from them but the amount would be very miniscule, you'd be better off just growing the mushrooms themselves. Still super cool though.
i love the menu sounds in this game, definitely reminds me of silent hill
Glad to see I'm not the only one!
That was awesome. I love that there were a few different modes of gameplay. Love the variety, love the weirdness.
Not sure if it's been mentioned or not, but regarding the whole spread-out forest you'd mentioned -- Are you thinking Pando, the quaking aspen colony out in Utah? That's the one that comes immediately to mind for me.
Awesome video and content, as always.
23:00 I love how Manly say did you go into the fungus pyramid like in a "are you a fricking idiot !?" kind of way.
I love how he's just immediately. "It's aliens."
You are my favourite RUclipsr, thank you for always posting such amazing content 💛🙏
Thanks for this. I'm sick today, and your voice is quite soothing. Staying home and getting some rest today.
Manly uploading a video before I go to school. Isn't that unfair😭
Funny enough for me he posted right after i came back from college
That just means you have something to look forward to
@@MyCommentsAreCorrect That's normal bcause Im from France. it is like 8 am here. Im the one who is watching videos in english beside not being from a country who speak it. That's why it's so so unfair😭
@@Chayyz je veux dire au moins tu de train apprenez ..Mais c'est vraiment dommage que tu aies dû aller à l'école quand il a téléchargé 😑
This reminds me of "Gemini Home Entertaiment": rover goes underground, finds scary living stuff; an infectious parasite which changes how a person behaves; infection ends in infected becoming stationary in order to get absorbed by underground organic structure; interview with an infected at the last stage
Gonna be real, Manly. I LOVE when you play the indie horror games with old 3D retro graphics like this (even Dream Pools graphics and filter combo I like) that don't have much dialogue or detailed stories, but has just enough to give you a slow, tedious task in a place seemingly so empty and lifeless, regardless (but still unknown) if theres something lurking or not. I dunno why, but for some reason they're scarier to me and I love it, especially when there's there is a "bad" filter (VHS, Old Camera, Noise).
Also, Bramble is fully released amd I remember you played the demo, could you play the full version, please?
Love that youtube knew the Silent Hill menu noises enough to tag the video as Silent Hill
Looks heavily inspired by the Gemini Entertainment series. Pretty cool little game
Glad I'm not the only one who thought of GHE.
Gemini popularized analog horror
Ngl the red fungal version of the pyramid really does look like the Iris and the Backrooms had a baby XD
@@PRubin-rh4srnot really
The most believable thing about this story is the journalist trying to turn the horrible murder of a friend into a Pulitzer Prize.
I'm starting to assume that the lady licking the "fungus" wall is Maxinne. Could be a hunch, but the diary pages did say that she went wild. The owner of that diary might've brought her back, but it's likely so that she might've escaped, and found the Pyramid. Either that, or maybe it's the protagonist in the future. Who knows? Phil did say that it's a thousand years old. Could be another timelapse game?
This game was absolutely amazing, hope the creators will do more in this style !
15:53 "Mushroom, mushroom!" SHUT IT! Get back to work!
Hey Manly do you remember bunny graveyard?
It seems Like that the full game released not too Long ago... so yeah Just wanted to inform you about that :3
Anyways great video as always love your commentary and the Analasys in the end are awesome and really unique too...at least for me... don't see any Other letsplayer really do that
Hello manly! New sub here! Been watching ur horror gameplay and enjoying it!
This kinda looks like that cave exploration game he played a few months ago
We going to talk about how Makky looks younger then Max despite almost a 20 year difference?
it's decided, if anyone asks my why I'm transgender it's because of the evil fungus pyramid
Assigned Female At Mushroom
Based
Based
The mushroom done fucked up and took all of my gender
Based
Manly : its moving
Game dialog : it is moving
Manly : THATS WHAT SAYING *flip the chair*
The game seems to be very Cave Crawler-esqe, and I like that! It's all about exploration, a maze you explore that delves into horror!
It's wrong to set people on fire, unless they're ugly.
Hey Manly, Not sure if you'll see this comment or if someone has mentioned it before, but a really fun demo I've been playing is called "Voices of the Void". You manage a satellite array in the alps, keeping the servers running, snagging signals from space, and admiring the local wildlife. There's a lot of content so far, but it's still in development.
i love VoTV! Hope he makes a video on it soon :D
that old game “the bunny graveyard” has its first chapter out now. yay!
I‘m ready for my nightly cup of Manly! 🛌👹
This sounds like an innuendo
Loving the intense Silent Hill vibes. Especially those menu SFX.
Manly yelling exhasperated at horror protagonist(tm) being an idiot will never not be a great watch.
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO IS SANE ENOUGH TO SEND A ROBOT INSTEAD OF THEMSELVES
26:11 I guess we've seen what kind of trouble they could get themselves into.
The rover segments reminded me of Cave Crawler, pretty cool. Always love fungus horror.
Man, poor Phil.
Hey Everynyan
it's Last of Us, but the mushroom turned them in to segs zombie
Perfect, right after getting back from college
I watch manly videos while getting ready, while I eat, while I do my hw, while I cook, to sleep, and watch his videos whenever I want to watch a good RUclips video. Thank you for making videos manly😎👍
While you eat? I hope you weren’t watching this while eating any mushroom dishes 😭
Finally, femboy fungus!
Analog horror is incredibly interesting.
That seemingly normal stuff giving off a subtly creepy vibe, it's intriguing.
"Mushroom, mushroom, enough about the bloody mushrooms!"
A cup of goodnight tea and manly has become a part of my night routine 😊
Looks like someone didn't return the slab
7:07 Rock: ima just stop existing
WAKE UP KING POSTED
In terms of evolutionary kingdoms, fungi are closer to animals than plants.
Poor rat had to deal and end up dying from the Cordyceps mushroom...!!’ THATS the worst mushroom to die from
Shoulda returned the slab man.
I hope rovers scanning stuff and meeting eldritch horrors becomes a genre
15:53
"Look what I found! Mushroom! Mushroom!"
"Mushroom, mushro- Oh, shut up about the bloody mushrooms! We all now it's a mushroom!"
I really like this devs games Very interesting perspectives from whatever entity you play as.They did the found footage aspect reaaly well as it looks like some organization was in the middle of monitoring the pyramid. Thee massospora fungus certainly is bizarre. Real creepy to see it something like that applied to humans. Especially the size of that one huge organism. i can see how the fungus was probably messing with scientists to make them perceive it as something not dangerous. I can get why that one scientist was still alive as it would probably use them to bring in more food essentially. Poor jim just had the misfortune of falling in. With the way the pyramid was structured it honestly gave me some backrooms vibes, purely because all the right angles and the plainness of it. Really good liminial horror.
Manly: Mushroom
Me inmediatly: Mushroom
oh baby oh baby some cozy horror before bed
Looked at the thumbnail and thought the Start Scanning thing said Start Screaming, still fits
From what I recall, the fungus you mentioned can actually communicate with each other. I think they can create subway line ish railways. Like they can create something like a map of a subway line and it’s believed that it shows that there’s some communication and coordination going on
We live we love we lie under your house
i like how when the journalist’s second tape starts, there’s loud cicada noises playing :)
15:53 Bro turned into a space dwarf for a second