The appearance of the mom, the way she moves and the sounds she makes while talking totally reminds me of the "I feel fantastic" mannequin. Truly disturbing.
Yeah, mother had you sleep outside because, as she said, she "had to see" and so she suggested you to do something insane, that no human would agree to. I'm kind of curious if there's some ending you can get where you defy the programming and actually wrestle control in favor of Liana, by learning on previous playthroughs everything that she would do, and then doing all of those things in one playthrough. Though it's possible... that the point of the game is that Liana - as with every other character, mother father, etc. - are literally inaccessible to you, The Librarian, since you are controlling the Angel, via the Interface (literally you, sitting at your computer playing the game). ...Maybe this is why mother tells you to "quit." YOU are controlling the angel. Only by quitting the game can you relinquish control and let Liana take over. So by playing the game, you are actually preventing Liana from controlling herself. So you're literally incapable of behaving the way Liana behaved, because you are LITERALLY not Liana. Liana is/was a person that exists in the world of the game. All you can ever do is follow what the game tells you to do and interface with the angel.
I keep hearing this game has multiple endings, each based on the idea of going against the system. Quitting isn't really an answer since that isn't "closure".
@@dalejhunter1 In story of the game it would be. As they said and Librarian noticed- you are the Angel, The Enigma Machine, The Interface. You as the player follow instructions given to you like the machine. So if you leave, you the process of the machine, you leave the in-story character of Liana to controll the body. You as an outside force relinquish controll to an in-story character. You, as an ouside force, give controll back to a character.
First of all, I'm glad you read all the memory leaks, you're the first youtuber I've seen that takes the time to do so, and it cements all my understanding of this game and another one called The Enigma Machine. Thanks for that, Librarian. Now, I absolutely love this game. It's truly horrifying, sad and fascinating at the same time. It is a prequel to The Enigma Machine, and together they make such an interesting, disturbing, and fascinating story. Please, please, play The Enigma Machine. It's honestly a must if you liked this one.
This is a typical horror story regarding the concept of Android Reanimation, the idea of placing the "soul" or memories of a dead being inside another body, to reanimate them, in an attempt to "revive" them. In this case, Liana is a Android - effectively in a Cyborg body/computer body. The reason why there's the critical errors is effectively part of the (imaginary) laws of robotics, and by rejecting the action, you oppose and thereby, have been "contaminated" by the soul of the being itself - aka the target being revived. The mother is scared simply because humans cannot process the idea of revival, thus by leaking any voice, they do not know if the being inside the reanimated body is a computer, a human or a demon
exactly my thoughts. and core one is the machine brain and core two is Liana's and I remember mother said something along the lines of it was father's plan to contaminate core one. like it's an autopilot that was made to carry Liana through the memory-reviving experience so she could wake up and take control over her new body (likely mechanical, or otherwise interchangeable)
This one`s really unsetteling. It does manage to capture the feeling of childhood in a way, or at least my distant memory of it. Got the chills when you walked into the bedroom and the mother was lurking in the darkness, also the double mother moment in the living room. Unraveling the plot it reminds me of a lot of things - Solaris (1972), Demon seed (1977) Deadly friend (1986) ~
Just wanna clarify that instead of trying to go into the parents room on Friday _evening_ as was explicitly stated, you only checked the door Friday _night,_ when they were already arguing in the room. That’s the only thing I was a bit disappointed you missed. You were supposed to find the parents arguing scene before you find the whole underground basement scene and revelation in the second playthrough. It wasn’t a case of being hard to find, it was just a simple mistake of misremembering what time you had to go into their room. And that’s okay.
The problem is that this requires you to abandon a task you were already doing while time is rapidly advancing. This is clearly deliberate, as they don't want you to do it on your first playthrough, but nevertheless, you have to basically terminate one of the emotional crescendos of the game midway through. It would make more sense IMO if you had the option to investigate from the moment you were told to go to the graveyard. This way it would be more of a choice of whether to obey or defy, rather than "notice that we changed the time here and ditch the scene."
I think the developer's intention was to follow through several loops, receiving hints about where to deviate in the next loop. Early on, you're told that father will call on Thursday evening. In that call, he'll tell you that he talked to mother on Thursday morning while she was at the orchard (1:03:35). So the hint is that, next loop, you want to be at the orchard on Thursday morning. In that conversation, mother mentions that on Friday evening, she will leave the bedroom door unlocked so that they have a conversation on Friday night (58:58). So the hint is that, next loop, you want to check the bedroom on Friday evening. In that conversation, they talk about a hidden switch which it's possible to activate on Wednesday afternoon (2:29:58). So the hint is that, next loop, you want the check the prized possession on Wednesday afternoon. And doing so will trigger the golden ending. There's clearly a route that the developer intended to follow. The problem was that Librarian accidentally triggered a conversation in the first playthrough (in the orchard) that he shouldn't have found until the second playthrough, and thus got quite confused. Thursday morning and Friday evening can be done in the same loop, but that means you skip the event at the cemetery... It doesn't matter if you're doing it on your second playthough, but Librarian was doing on the first playthough.
Hi Librarian ^^ I just wanted to let u know that ur my fav RUclipsr of all time ! I love all the games u play and ur narrations are THE BEST. Keep up the incredible work !! I’ll be here to watch every vid :]
It's to keep the electrical system away from splashes and wet hands as far as possible. They are outside the bathroom in my house (UK) - nobody has yet succumbed to mischief, fortunately!
This was probably one of the most fascinating, creative games I've ever seen. I typically regard myself as being pretty good at being able to predict where things are going or what the end will be, but this game kept me on my toes literally the entire time. It was also quite emotionally charged for me, as I've lost a sibling. This concept reminds me of that story "The Monkey's Paw", wherein it explores the idea of interfering with fate; wanting to bring someone back from the dead without considering the possibility that they're simply meant to be gone, and that bringing them back will not only provide complications and pain for the lost loved one (which we wouldn't want), but that it's not what we thought we wanted, either. There is no way to intercept fate without perverting normalcy as we know it, without changing all of the things that we wouldn't otherwise want changed. It's been a long time since a game gave me so much to think about. Fantastic game. Definitely will be looking out for more from these creators.
This was one amazing video for one amazing game! The story telling is simply magnificent with how it is always obtuse to not give itself right away and feel like everything is a red herring, but when you finally start catching on to it, it hits straight to recontextualizing everything in such a smart way, the story itself being pretty interesting and sad. One little example I noticed was the monologue mother gives after you pick the apples "when I'm out here it makes me feel alive. it connects me to this world ... if I didn't have those tangible things it would be nothing more than another menial task, something to get over and move on to the next thing", like she is trying to get to the robot that it shouldn't be doing tasks because it is told to, but to live as a real person When she has the thought of having you sleep outside, the says "there's something I need you to show me", as how that would be an experiment to see if you would actually follow the order For what I could understand, many of the visuals of the game along the glitches in the first run is how the world you're seeing is being translated into it by the interface, it is the programming of the machine, and you are the underlying consciousness (besides the core of Liana) controlling it; It translates all the information of how the world is, how people act and what you do into what you see as the game. Many of those time skips seem to happen because it doesn't know or doesn't deem necessary to translate what is happening into the game for you to complete the task And the underlying issue being with how over the time, the interface, the machine side of the mind of this surrogate Liana, starts taking over both you and her, forcing you into being a machine and not an actual self conscious being like what they want to happen Anyway, really good. I want more games about "btw, you are the AI" (yes, I know SOMA)
this is, without hyperbole, among the most well-written games ever created. im too tired to go into any further depth, but im nearly speechless, and its made all the more impressive given it was written and produced by a single person. and while i personally wouldnt really consider this horror, moreso a thriller, a cerebral story like this is such a breath of fresh air and came at such a good time given how stale, intentionally underwritten, pretentious, boring, and overbearing the current crop of indie horror games of late have been. i fucking love this game, and ive never even played it
Totally agree. You know your hearing some quality, subtle writing when you sympathize with literally every character while still being on the edge of your seat.
@@humbug2308 lmao @ genuinely believing that morrowind deserves rank among the best games ever written. its probably the most well written bethesda shitfest, but it pales in comparison to some of the writing titans like half life 2, bioshock, bioshock 2 (especially minervas den), prey (2017), fallouts 1/2/NV, deus ex, system shock 1 & 2, pathologic, the outer worlds, and others. bethesda's weakest link is and always has been their writing, and its rapid deterioration over the course of their time producing games is categorical proof of that.
@@humbug2308 This ain't it, chief. One of the greatest games of all time, but that isn't even because of the writing; which is decent for the genre but not amazing.
Honestly such an interesting game. I feel like the whole terminal thing was a bit too much of an exposition dump, alot of it could have been left unsaid. Other than that though, this game really hit some high notes for me. No jumpscares, just pure unsettling confusion. Beautiful.
Man, this was a good one! I keep coming back to your channel because you’re thorough, thank you for taking time to read and see everything you could :)
Best playthrough ever! Never watched a better one. Please, please make more of these videos. I usually dont watch your long videos but after this one i will never miss out! Just amazing. Sorry for miss spelling Best regards, Yellow Lemon
I love how emotionally invested you were from this game and immersed you acted throughout. It was just like me playing a game LOL. It made the playthrough so much better.
The opening car-ride gave me dream-like vibes. It's one of those dreams where you feel like something about the world is so, so wrong, and you have a gut feeling that you're dreaming but it feels so real and you can't wake up.
Hey librarian, this video was my first intro to your channel. Just wanna say your videos have been such a comfort so far in my undergrad and that youre so sick for maintaining such frequent quality uploads. Keep it up, goat
I was intrigue by your mention of phobias, as I believe it was also meant to convey Athazagoraphobia, the fear of forgetting or being forgotten. The way things fit together in incomplete ways, its as if the game itself is saying, "you s hould rememher that if you're yourself..but you're not, are you? "
Librarian shes a robot! You play as an AI in a robot throughout the game. That's why it mentions PC desynchronization whenever you disobey a direct order. Essentially you are an AI struggling against your programming. Everytime you the angel/character gets deactivated and have to repeat the loop is when you "father" takes you back to reprogram you.
Just found your channel for the first time looking for playthroughs of this game after I heard interesting things about it. I really like your playstyle, and how thorough and thoughtful you are with exploring and commentary. Definitely subbing and looking through your other videos!
I had no idea this game went so deep.. I never thought going back for a second playthrough would actually change things, or would be another loop! I already really liked what this game had going, but I didn't realize I missed so much..!
This game was awesome. Love these longer videos on titles I would never have heard about if not for you!! If I can suggest a title, I saw a livestreamer cover "The Heilwald Loophole" which I think would be great to hear your analysis on.
To answer your question. The bathroom lightswitch is on the outside of the bathroom for safety reasons, makes you less likely to touch it with wet hands or get water in there which would obviously be bad. I understand that in the US you have GFCI isolators in them and so don't see the need to do this added safety thing but in a lot of countries it's a legal requirement.
The lightswitch in the bathroom comment made me chuckle because, on the one hand, you could read it as creepy and/or reflecting a lack of agency on the part of the player character... but on the other hand some old houses are just built like that (e.x. my great grandparents house)
Librarian, I love ya, im only half way through the video right now and im sure you get it eventually, but please, for gods sake it is so obvious you are playing a robot in the form of their dead daughter.
That's one of the very few games that actually made me sick while I watched a playthrough. I don't know what it was, exactly, but something about that unnatural, almost dream-ish atmosphere along with the inability to understand what the hell is going on just stuck in my mind and refused to go
idk if you still read old comments, but this game is actually a part of a trilogy. it also has a hidden version when you play the original haunted ps1 demo with a full save file. there's also the 2 other games in the series, the enigma machine and echostasis, which just released!
12:28 I've been in a house like that, it might be in older houses, and I'm not sure why they do it. My guess is that it might have been unsafe for the switch to be in the bathroom, so they have it outside.
Wow that part at 2:14:55 reminds me of bio shock where that one guy can make you do stuff just by using the phrase “would you kindly” or something similar.
Another way to look at it is that while the father was playing god hes forced the mother to kill her daughter for god knows how long every week. They have unknowingly killed their own daughter over and over again. That is why the almighty knows and says this very thing sin corrupts all no matter how noble the endeavor and there is no other who is capable but the most high. Regardless of what you believe this game is very thought provoking. Honestly I dont think liana was still in there. The soul is not something you can capture or download. All he was using was data. Probably a core of her data and brain patterns. Memories ect ect so in reality it was an imitation. If you take apart a ship and build it with new part is it still the same ship?
40:48, havent finshed the video yet, but my current theory is that you are not there original child, am feeling like this is some kind of "mother steals a baby form hospital kind of deal" and the real liana is dead. maybe something to do in the barn, maybe that why the father won't let her see his face or why the mother typed up the mirror, so she doesn't realized they look nothing like them. I'll comment my reaction to the rest
1:33:09 ok so you are liana, but your controlling a robot, maybe that is why you are not allowed to see the mirror in the bathroom, still dont know about the father tho
I liked that more than I thought I would. Some of it came off as full of tropes early on but the execution of everything honestly went better than I expected. Very nice.
I feel as tho the movie is more akin to AI a movie that came out in 2001 where a family tried to bring back their dead child with a robotic boy with artificial memories. realizing it was too much for the grieving mother and she abandoned the robot in the woods and the story really continues from there
Horror games: warning! May contain scenes of death. Play at your own risk. Shooter games: you get 1 skill point for every 10,000 kills, you can use foe's limbs as a weapon, you can craft armor from foes' skin. To get the skin, hold F looking at the body. Getting skin from still alive foes yields 30% more material. Skinning 3 people alive at once grants you a "screams around" achievement. Blood on the ground increases exp gained by the amount covered. Use chat to insult your foes implying dead relatives. Have fun.
Shooters are so over the top they are almost never relatable to real life or real trauma. You might as well be pacman gobbling up dots as you mass murder a city. You're far more likely to empathize with your gun and it's attachments then the people you're killing and it's by design. Horror games are far more intimate and can actually trigger responses and feelings you thought laid dormant.
@@josephmatthews7698Bro has not played literally any shooter beyond the most basic ones. Spec Ops the Line, Stalker, Metro, Halo and Tarkov all do a great job of immersing me in the enviroment and making me care. The first four are horror/FPS games though.
There's some brilliant foreshadowing in this game that you only get to understand if you play it again. Now, yeah, a lot of games have foreshadowing, but something about this one's feels different, in a way I can't really describe
BTW the name of the game directly connected to Enigma machine. At the end of real ending when father is about to give name to this new entity the game flashes the screen with more contrast letters motheRED. RED is the biggest and most important connection to the previous game.
Find the right way down through the maze, to the food, then find the exit. Push the exit button. If the food tastes awful, don't eat it, go back and try another way. They want the same thing that you do, really, they want a path, just like you. You are in a maze in a maze, but which one counts? Your maze, their maze, my maze. Or are the mazes all the same, defined by the limits of their paths? Existence is simple: find the food, push the button, hit the treadmill. But sometimes it gets much harder. Sometimes the food makes you sick, or you can hear nearby feet racing you, urging you on. Sometimes the button only gets you landed right back in the beginning of the maze again, and the food won't satisfy. There is only one path and that is the path you take, but you can take more than one path. Cross over the cell bars, find a new maze, make the maze from it's path, find the cell bars, cross over the bars, find a maze, make the maze from it's path, eat the food, eat the path.
Another awesome video, love ur stuff! Not sure if u want to or not but I would love to see u play poppy’s playtime they made a new chapter it seems very interesting
I believe this game has some kind of continuity with the creator's other games ECHOSTASIS and The Enigma Machine. The former of which is supposed to release this October.
Ah yes, Nutrients. My mother had this old tin she kept things in such as flour from when she was a small child in East Germany, and on the bottom, written on ink or marker or something, was the word "Nutrients". I have cooked with "Nutrients" many times. My favourite ingredient
commenting mid way through. I think the daughter in this case died in the fire, so the father working on some project found a way to upload his daughters consciousness to an android/robot, hence the errors and the use of more technical language.
This game kinda looks like what it is probably like to have Capgras Syndrome, or a disorder of the brain where it can no longer recognize familiar faces, so everyone’s faces either looks slightly off or exactly the same.
I like ther premise and story of the game, it hits quite similarly to SOMA but on smaller more indie scale. But ever since I saw the title I had a bullshit in my head: "YOU JUST GOT MUMD!!" Edit: I also love the way of recontextualizing the player as "noticible" outside force. In here the player is the robot body- The Enigma Machine. As for what the "procedure" Father did to Liana in hospital- my thinking is that he either scanned her brain then and there or extracted her brain for scans in the lab (not unlike how Revenant from Apex Legends works). At the lab he probably has Liana's brain to make more insertable cores to the robot body, that's how there can be 2 Liana Enigma Machines at once.
Man i got anxiety attack when at the time you slept in the dirt you didnt thought in checking the parents room either the other bathroom that was locked. I know its almost a year ago to do that commentary, but...
Love this game a whole lot, though I actually went to this vid cos it was 2:30am and I couldn't find the damn apples on the 3rd playthrough (only part of the game not basically perfect) 👏
Liana is the program that keep rejecting what was told. The program that confuse. The program who act more like confuse human. The angel is the AI who follow the instruction. By following the more human, confuse program, you become more core, more Liana. When you follow instruction, you become more angel.
Oh cool now I get what was in the box on the couch mother left for father in the beginning…. And now I get why mother had a rough couple of days and was tired from dealing w the angel and cutting the core out and stuff on Sunday… she literally just got done with all that lol fascinating !
this game feels like the mc liana is disassociating, or perhaps suffering from prosopagnosia (inability to recognize faces) or some kind of mental/medical ailment where you struggle to recognize anything as familiar. i have heard stories that people experiencing amnesia often find things oddly disconcerting, so perhaps that’s what this game is representing.
Faux Retro is overdone? So are people playing horror games, everything is overdone. The question isn't if it is over done rather if it is done well. It is a good thing to learn. After all hyper realism doesn't work as every few years graphics get better.
The appearance of the mom, the way she moves and the sounds she makes while talking totally reminds me of the "I feel fantastic" mannequin. Truly disturbing.
TARA! I actually dig her song, hope she releases a new one.
If I remember correctly, this game is a prequel to another one called The Enigma Machine, so it would be dope to see you playing that game too
Once I watched the playthrough to that one, this game was so much darker than before.
Now I really wanna see him play that too tbh
We need him yo play it
Yeah, looked on it at Steam and I see connections, at least in the just of the story.
Hope Librarian will also look at this one
Didn’t know that, thanks!
Yeah, mother had you sleep outside because, as she said, she "had to see" and so she suggested you to do something insane, that no human would agree to.
I'm kind of curious if there's some ending you can get where you defy the programming and actually wrestle control in favor of Liana, by learning on previous playthroughs everything that she would do, and then doing all of those things in one playthrough.
Though it's possible... that the point of the game is that Liana - as with every other character, mother father, etc. - are literally inaccessible to you, The Librarian, since you are controlling the Angel, via the Interface (literally you, sitting at your computer playing the game).
...Maybe this is why mother tells you to "quit." YOU are controlling the angel. Only by quitting the game can you relinquish control and let Liana take over. So by playing the game, you are actually preventing Liana from controlling herself. So you're literally incapable of behaving the way Liana behaved, because you are LITERALLY not Liana. Liana is/was a person that exists in the world of the game. All you can ever do is follow what the game tells you to do and interface with the angel.
I keep hearing this game has multiple endings, each based on the idea of going against the system. Quitting isn't really an answer since that isn't "closure".
@@dalejhunter1 In story of the game it would be.
As they said and Librarian noticed- you are the Angel, The Enigma Machine, The Interface. You as the player follow instructions given to you like the machine.
So if you leave, you the process of the machine, you leave the in-story character of Liana to controll the body.
You as an outside force relinquish controll to an in-story character. You, as an ouside force, give controll back to a character.
I'm sorry, bjt that is peak student film supervision
First of all, I'm glad you read all the memory leaks, you're the first youtuber I've seen that takes the time to do so, and it cements all my understanding of this game and another one called The Enigma Machine. Thanks for that, Librarian.
Now, I absolutely love this game. It's truly horrifying, sad and fascinating at the same time. It is a prequel to The Enigma Machine, and together they make such an interesting, disturbing, and fascinating story. Please, please, play The Enigma Machine. It's honestly a must if you liked this one.
This is a typical horror story regarding the concept of Android Reanimation, the idea of placing the "soul" or memories of a dead being inside another body, to reanimate them, in an attempt to "revive" them.
In this case, Liana is a Android - effectively in a Cyborg body/computer body. The reason why there's the critical errors is effectively part of the (imaginary) laws of robotics, and by rejecting the action, you oppose and thereby, have been "contaminated" by the soul of the being itself - aka the target being revived.
The mother is scared simply because humans cannot process the idea of revival, thus by leaking any voice, they do not know if the being inside the reanimated body is a computer, a human or a demon
exactly my thoughts. and core one is the machine brain and core two is Liana's and I remember mother said something along the lines of it was father's plan to contaminate core one. like it's an autopilot that was made to carry Liana through the memory-reviving experience so she could wake up and take control over her new body (likely mechanical, or otherwise interchangeable)
This one`s really unsetteling. It does manage to capture the feeling of childhood in a way, or at least my distant memory of it. Got the chills when you walked into the bedroom and the mother was lurking in the darkness, also the double mother moment in the living room. Unraveling the plot it reminds me of a lot of things - Solaris (1972), Demon seed (1977) Deadly friend (1986) ~
westworld too.
@@Immolator772 True. Both the original movie and the series.
Just wanna clarify that instead of trying to go into the parents room on Friday _evening_ as was explicitly stated, you only checked the door Friday _night,_ when they were already arguing in the room.
That’s the only thing I was a bit disappointed you missed. You were supposed to find the parents arguing scene before you find the whole underground basement scene and revelation in the second playthrough. It wasn’t a case of being hard to find, it was just a simple mistake of misremembering what time you had to go into their room. And that’s okay.
The problem is that this requires you to abandon a task you were already doing while time is rapidly advancing. This is clearly deliberate, as they don't want you to do it on your first playthrough, but nevertheless, you have to basically terminate one of the emotional crescendos of the game midway through. It would make more sense IMO if you had the option to investigate from the moment you were told to go to the graveyard. This way it would be more of a choice of whether to obey or defy, rather than "notice that we changed the time here and ditch the scene."
I think the developer's intention was to follow through several loops, receiving hints about where to deviate in the next loop.
Early on, you're told that father will call on Thursday evening. In that call, he'll tell you that he talked to mother on Thursday morning while she was at the orchard (1:03:35). So the hint is that, next loop, you want to be at the orchard on Thursday morning.
In that conversation, mother mentions that on Friday evening, she will leave the bedroom door unlocked so that they have a conversation on Friday night (58:58). So the hint is that, next loop, you want to check the bedroom on Friday evening.
In that conversation, they talk about a hidden switch which it's possible to activate on Wednesday afternoon (2:29:58). So the hint is that, next loop, you want the check the prized possession on Wednesday afternoon. And doing so will trigger the golden ending.
There's clearly a route that the developer intended to follow. The problem was that Librarian accidentally triggered a conversation in the first playthrough (in the orchard) that he shouldn't have found until the second playthrough, and thus got quite confused. Thursday morning and Friday evening can be done in the same loop, but that means you skip the event at the cemetery... It doesn't matter if you're doing it on your second playthough, but Librarian was doing on the first playthough.
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Hi Librarian ^^ I just wanted to let u know that ur my fav RUclipsr of all time ! I love all the games u play and ur narrations are THE BEST. Keep up the incredible work !! I’ll be here to watch every vid :]
yeah, i agree, i won't look at 2 hours and a half of gameplay otherwise, this guy has the most intriguing reactions to stuff
So is the dirt that mother feeds you ashes of your previous lives because she's trying to make you absorb whatever is left of Liana's soul
I like that theory, but I kinda doubt it
12:24 having the bathroom light switch on the outside is pretty common outside of the US
Yea I was surprised when I came to Japan and it was like that. Lots of dubious behavior can go on
Yeah we have them outside the bathroom in the U.K.
It's to keep the electrical system away from splashes and wet hands as far as possible. They are outside the bathroom in my house (UK) - nobody has yet succumbed to mischief, fortunately!
ditto Norway
This was probably one of the most fascinating, creative games I've ever seen. I typically regard myself as being pretty good at being able to predict where things are going or what the end will be, but this game kept me on my toes literally the entire time.
It was also quite emotionally charged for me, as I've lost a sibling. This concept reminds me of that story "The Monkey's Paw", wherein it explores the idea of interfering with fate; wanting to bring someone back from the dead without considering the possibility that they're simply meant to be gone, and that bringing them back will not only provide complications and pain for the lost loved one (which we wouldn't want), but that it's not what we thought we wanted, either. There is no way to intercept fate without perverting normalcy as we know it, without changing all of the things that we wouldn't otherwise want changed.
It's been a long time since a game gave me so much to think about. Fantastic game. Definitely will be looking out for more from these creators.
This was one amazing video for one amazing game!
The story telling is simply magnificent with how it is always obtuse to not give itself right away and feel like everything is a red herring, but when you finally start catching on to it, it hits straight to recontextualizing everything in such a smart way, the story itself being pretty interesting and sad.
One little example I noticed was the monologue mother gives after you pick the apples "when I'm out here it makes me feel alive. it connects me to this world ... if I didn't have those tangible things it would be nothing more than another menial task, something to get over and move on to the next thing", like she is trying to get to the robot that it shouldn't be doing tasks because it is told to, but to live as a real person
When she has the thought of having you sleep outside, the says "there's something I need you to show me", as how that would be an experiment to see if you would actually follow the order
For what I could understand, many of the visuals of the game along the glitches in the first run is how the world you're seeing is being translated into it by the interface, it is the programming of the machine, and you are the underlying consciousness (besides the core of Liana) controlling it; It translates all the information of how the world is, how people act and what you do into what you see as the game. Many of those time skips seem to happen because it doesn't know or doesn't deem necessary to translate what is happening into the game for you to complete the task
And the underlying issue being with how over the time, the interface, the machine side of the mind of this surrogate Liana, starts taking over both you and her, forcing you into being a machine and not an actual self conscious being like what they want to happen
Anyway, really good. I want more games about "btw, you are the AI" (yes, I know SOMA)
this is, without hyperbole, among the most well-written games ever created. im too tired to go into any further depth, but im nearly speechless, and its made all the more impressive given it was written and produced by a single person. and while i personally wouldnt really consider this horror, moreso a thriller, a cerebral story like this is such a breath of fresh air and came at such a good time given how stale, intentionally underwritten, pretentious, boring, and overbearing the current crop of indie horror games of late have been. i fucking love this game, and ive never even played it
Totally agree. You know your hearing some quality, subtle writing when you sympathize with literally every character while still being on the edge of your seat.
Completely agree.
Someone has never played The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, then.
@@humbug2308 lmao @ genuinely believing that morrowind deserves rank among the best games ever written. its probably the most well written bethesda shitfest, but it pales in comparison to some of the writing titans like half life 2, bioshock, bioshock 2 (especially minervas den), prey (2017), fallouts 1/2/NV, deus ex, system shock 1 & 2, pathologic, the outer worlds, and others. bethesda's weakest link is and always has been their writing, and its rapid deterioration over the course of their time producing games is categorical proof of that.
@@humbug2308 This ain't it, chief. One of the greatest games of all time, but that isn't even because of the writing; which is decent for the genre but not amazing.
let me tell you i had the BEST sleep ive gotten in weeks while watching/listening to this video. thanks for uploading❤
Honestly such an interesting game. I feel like the whole terminal thing was a bit too much of an exposition dump, alot of it could have been left unsaid. Other than that though, this game really hit some high notes for me. No jumpscares, just pure unsettling confusion. Beautiful.
Man, this was a good one! I keep coming back to your channel because you’re thorough, thank you for taking time to read and see everything you could :)
Best playthrough ever! Never watched a better one. Please, please make more of these videos. I usually dont watch your long videos but after this one i will never miss out! Just amazing.
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I love how emotionally invested you were from this game and immersed you acted throughout. It was just like me playing a game LOL. It made the playthrough so much better.
This game is incredible. A story of this quality is what Westworld season 2 deserved
The opening car-ride gave me dream-like vibes. It's one of those dreams where you feel like something about the world is so, so wrong, and you have a gut feeling that you're dreaming but it feels so real and you can't wake up.
Hey librarian, this video was my first intro to your channel. Just wanna say your videos have been such a comfort so far in my undergrad and that youre so sick for maintaining such frequent quality uploads. Keep it up, goat
I was intrigue by your mention of phobias, as I believe it was also meant to convey Athazagoraphobia, the fear of forgetting or being forgotten. The way things fit together in incomplete ways, its as if the game itself is saying, "you s hould rememher that if you're yourself..but you're not, are you? "
47:36 I love how he uses a Undertale joke in this bro, this is why i love the librarian
"disney world animatronic"
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"Mom you left me out here!"
She doesn't care about liana🤣🤣
Librarian shes a robot! You play as an AI in a robot throughout the game. That's why it mentions PC desynchronization whenever you disobey a direct order. Essentially you are an AI struggling against your programming. Everytime you the angel/character gets deactivated and have to repeat the loop is when you "father" takes you back to reprogram you.
Watch until the end next time before you spoil. He figured it out.
Very glad I played The Enigma Machine before this, it really gives you a deeper insight into what is happening.
Just found your channel for the first time looking for playthroughs of this game after I heard interesting things about it. I really like your playstyle, and how thorough and thoughtful you are with exploring and commentary. Definitely subbing and looking through your other videos!
More psychological horrors for my wishlist. Second game i get from here on my radar. The first one was No one lives under the lighthouse.
27:30 jumpscared me unreasonably hard. Like my heart was pounding for a good few seconds after that
I was asleep, and woke up about 5 seconds before it after RUclips auto played this video. Almost crapped myself
This was an amazing game and I am excited to have shared this experience with you and your viewers. Bravo 👏
i think the scariest part was apples on birch trees
Perfect pick for a game with its title given it was mother's day! Good to see ya back and my god this is a long vid, time to bring the snacks again🍔
I REALLY hope you play The Enigma Machine and Echostasis (the first and third game in this trilogy). There's more to this story :^)
I had no idea this game went so deep.. I never thought going back for a second playthrough would actually change things, or would be another loop! I already really liked what this game had going, but I didn't realize I missed so much..!
This game was awesome. Love these longer videos on titles I would never have heard about if not for you!!
If I can suggest a title, I saw a livestreamer cover "The Heilwald Loophole" which I think would be great to hear your analysis on.
To answer your question. The bathroom lightswitch is on the outside of the bathroom for safety reasons, makes you less likely to touch it with wet hands or get water in there which would obviously be bad. I understand that in the US you have GFCI isolators in them and so don't see the need to do this added safety thing but in a lot of countries it's a legal requirement.
This reminds me so much of that movie A.I. with Haley Joel Osment.
The lightswitch in the bathroom comment made me chuckle because, on the one hand, you could read it as creepy and/or reflecting a lack of agency on the part of the player character... but on the other hand some old houses are just built like that (e.x. my great grandparents house)
I like your demeanor and analytical edge to these kind of games. Sub'd!
Librarian, I love ya, im only half way through the video right now and im sure you get it eventually, but please, for gods sake it is so obvious you are playing a robot in the form of their dead daughter.
That's one of the very few games that actually made me sick while I watched a playthrough. I don't know what it was, exactly, but something about that unnatural, almost dream-ish atmosphere along with the inability to understand what the hell is going on just stuck in my mind and refused to go
lol this guy was so lucky he ended the game in 2 playtroughs instead of 4
Really enjoyed this one. Thank you for playing.
idk if you still read old comments, but this game is actually a part of a trilogy. it also has a hidden version when you play the original haunted ps1 demo with a full save file. there's also the 2 other games in the series, the enigma machine and echostasis, which just released!
I'm about halfway through the video but it's obvious that they put her brain in a robot body to try and keep her alive
12:28 I've been in a house like that, it might be in older houses, and I'm not sure why they do it. My guess is that it might have been unsafe for the switch to be in the bathroom, so they have it outside.
Wow that part at 2:14:55 reminds me of bio shock where that one guy can make you do stuff just by using the phrase “would you kindly” or something similar.
Over 2 hours of Librarian? It must be my birthday, ya love to see it
Aw sick, now I got something to watch at work lmao
Another way to look at it is that while the father was playing god hes forced the mother to kill her daughter for god knows how long every week. They have unknowingly killed their own daughter over and over again. That is why the almighty knows and says this very thing sin corrupts all no matter how noble the endeavor and there is no other who is capable but the most high.
Regardless of what you believe this game is very thought provoking.
Honestly I dont think liana was still in there. The soul is not something you can capture or download. All he was using was data. Probably a core of her data and brain patterns. Memories ect ect so in reality it was an imitation.
If you take apart a ship and build it with new part is it still the same ship?
40:48, havent finshed the video yet, but my current theory is that you are not there original child, am feeling like this is some kind of "mother steals a baby form hospital kind of deal" and the real liana is dead. maybe something to do in the barn, maybe that why the father won't let her see his face or why the mother typed up the mirror, so she doesn't realized they look nothing like them. I'll comment my reaction to the rest
1:09:17, slight change, maybe the surgery did something like make her have skyrim waiting mechanics. maybe she and her mother are cursed somehow
1:12:47 maybe your are some kind of weird child robot build to replace the old one, like astro
1:27:41 am predicting that the barn will be on fire and this whole thing is some kind of crazy time loop
1:33:09 ok so you are liana, but your controlling a robot, maybe that is why you are not allowed to see the mirror in the bathroom, still dont know about the father tho
I liked that more than I thought I would. Some of it came off as full of tropes early on but the execution of everything honestly went better than I expected. Very nice.
I feel as tho the movie is more akin to AI a movie that came out in 2001
where a family tried to bring back their dead child with a robotic boy with artificial memories.
realizing it was too much for the grieving mother and she abandoned the robot in the woods and the story really continues from there
For as analytical as you are, I’m shocked you didn’t get some of the tropes.
You definitely did rise some views I haven’t thought of though, but the spying and code are a dead giveaway.
10:29 "goodnight daddy"
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Daaamn... how do you make so much good content. I can't keep up
Horror games: warning! May contain scenes of death. Play at your own risk.
Shooter games: you get 1 skill point for every 10,000 kills, you can use foe's limbs as a weapon, you can craft armor from foes' skin. To get the skin, hold F looking at the body. Getting skin from still alive foes yields 30% more material. Skinning 3 people alive at once grants you a "screams around" achievement. Blood on the ground increases exp gained by the amount covered. Use chat to insult your foes implying dead relatives. Have fun.
Shooters are so over the top they are almost never relatable to real life or real trauma. You might as well be pacman gobbling up dots as you mass murder a city. You're far more likely to empathize with your gun and it's attachments then the people you're killing and it's by design.
Horror games are far more intimate and can actually trigger responses and feelings you thought laid dormant.
@@josephmatthews7698Bro has not played literally any shooter beyond the most basic ones.
Spec Ops the Line, Stalker, Metro, Halo and Tarkov all do a great job of immersing me in the enviroment and making me care.
The first four are horror/FPS games though.
This game is what it's like to not wear my glasses
There's some brilliant foreshadowing in this game that you only get to understand if you play it again. Now, yeah, a lot of games have foreshadowing, but something about this one's feels different, in a way I can't really describe
your gameplays are always interesting
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the smell of the ball air
BTW the name of the game directly connected to Enigma machine. At the end of real ending when father is about to give name to this new entity the game flashes the screen with more contrast letters motheRED. RED is the biggest and most important connection to the previous game.
I was gonna sleep but, oh well...
I was gonna keep working. Break time.
Bro I freaking wake to to the sound of “you need me father, you need me” and I was SO CREEPED OJT
I swear that such a "would you kindly" plot twist. GOD DAMN.
Find the right way down through the maze, to the food, then find the exit. Push the exit button. If the food tastes awful, don't eat it, go back and try another way.
They want the same thing that you do, really, they want a path, just like you. You are in a maze in a maze, but which one counts? Your maze, their maze, my maze. Or are the mazes all the same, defined by the limits of their paths?
Existence is simple: find the food, push the button, hit the treadmill.
But sometimes it gets much harder. Sometimes the food makes you sick, or you can hear nearby feet racing you, urging you on. Sometimes the button only gets you landed right back in the beginning of the maze again, and the food won't satisfy.
There is only one path and that is the path you take, but you can take more than one path.
Cross over the cell bars, find a new maze, make the maze from it's path, find the cell bars, cross over the bars, find a maze, make the maze from it's path, eat the food, eat the path.
Another awesome video, love ur stuff! Not sure if u want to or not but I would love to see u play poppy’s playtime they made a new chapter it seems very interesting
I believe this game has some kind of continuity with the creator's other games ECHOSTASIS and The Enigma Machine. The former of which is supposed to release this October.
There's a DLC that's called "Home" that was released not so long ago, you should play it
Ah yes, Nutrients. My mother had this old tin she kept things in such as flour from when she was a small child in East Germany, and on the bottom, written on ink or marker or something, was the word "Nutrients". I have cooked with "Nutrients" many times. My favourite ingredient
commenting mid way through.
I think the daughter in this case died in the fire, so the father working on some project found a way to upload his daughters consciousness to an android/robot, hence the errors and the use of more technical language.
What a fascinating game! The writing in this was phenomenal!
Its time to get Hot and Mothered.
this was more sad than anything it left me without a sense of closure 😢
The font of the letter R made me read "Good morning" as "Good moaning". Lmao
might be a bit immature, just wanted to point this out
Good but sadly the very first time it disengaged for bed I was like "robot"
This game kinda looks like what it is probably like to have Capgras Syndrome, or a disorder of the brain where it can no longer recognize familiar faces, so everyone’s faces either looks slightly off or exactly the same.
Something about repeating text and giant letters with a calm font is so creepy
Yayyy!! Another video is up!!!
I like ther premise and story of the game, it hits quite similarly to SOMA but on smaller more indie scale.
But ever since I saw the title I had a bullshit in my head:
"YOU JUST GOT MUMD!!"
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I also love the way of recontextualizing the player as "noticible" outside force.
In here the player is the robot body- The Enigma Machine.
As for what the "procedure" Father did to Liana in hospital- my thinking is that he either scanned her brain then and there or extracted her brain for scans in the lab (not unlike how Revenant from Apex Legends works).
At the lab he probably has Liana's brain to make more insertable cores to the robot body, that's how there can be 2 Liana Enigma Machines at once.
Recommending one more time for you to play the game "Dead Seater" Its such a great game, it needs to be shared.
This actually gave me lots of Westworld vibes, the plot is pretty similar to it except it's more about horror.
This game really hurt me ngl, I was crying so hard at the end
Man i got anxiety attack when at the time you slept in the dirt you didnt thought in checking the parents room either the other bathroom that was locked.
I know its almost a year ago to do that commentary, but...
OOOOH I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SUGGEST THIS ONE!
Love this game a whole lot, though I actually went to this vid cos it was 2:30am and I couldn't find the damn apples on the 3rd playthrough (only part of the game not basically perfect) 👏
Now there is a sequel called "Home", I hope you play it!
funny that the RED in MOTHERED is more brighter, indicating code RED.
Liana is the program that keep rejecting what was told. The program that confuse. The program who act more like confuse human. The angel is the AI who follow the instruction. By following the more human, confuse program, you become more core, more Liana. When you follow instruction, you become more angel.
29:40 that’s a physiological disorder I have heard it too
it's a bit sad that psy pawlowa by the polish band republika was already used for superhot's credits, it would have been absolutely perfect for this
steam engenius by modest mouse would work really well too
"Angel"? Is that company behind the upcoming First Impact on Evangelion?
Oh cool now I get what was in the box on the couch mother left for father in the beginning…. And now I get why mother had a rough couple of days and was tired from dealing w the angel and cutting the core out and stuff on Sunday… she literally just got done with all that lol fascinating !
In this game, Librarian spends over an hour not noticing any of the staggeringly obvious metatextual clues.
Unnecessarily rude
This video game is a fucking drug trip. Wow.
Good content!
Ahh my favorite video game genre childhood trauma
this game feels like the mc liana is disassociating, or perhaps suffering from prosopagnosia (inability to recognize faces) or some kind of mental/medical ailment where you struggle to recognize anything as familiar. i have heard stories that people experiencing amnesia often find things oddly disconcerting, so perhaps that’s what this game is representing.
i'm gonna call it early, i'm guessing the daughter is a robot with the brain of the original daughter or something
why do you just go sleep when you can explore outside and go see what the glitches text floating means ughhhhh
Faux Retro is overdone?
So are people playing horror games, everything is overdone. The question isn't if it is over done rather if it is done well. It is a good thing to learn.
After all hyper realism doesn't work as every few years graphics get better.