Honestly I think this is one of the more touching, if not even romantic routes. The Skeptic trusts that the Prisoner knows something, has some kind of plan, and that belief and trust allows the Prisoner to survive her "escape," which works out because she in turn trusts you to bring her outside. It's the path defined by skepticism of everyone and everything you see, and yet a mutual trust is what frees them both.
Spoilers for the actual end of the game. Do not continue if you have not fully beaten the game. It is only not the end of their world, but it is the end of his and ours
@@No.fly.zone.taken24163 It doesn't because we can't actually die, it's who we are and it's the whole point of the game. Plus, we are our own world within the construct and it doesn't die, it just moves. Then when he actually dies, his world, the construct, dies with him, because its fabric is a part of us once again, if we choose to break free.
Except where she does the thing with her head, DOESNT TELL ME TO BRING HER, then I leave. Now suddenly I’m the bad guy FOR NOT DOING A THING TO HER! Now she’s gonna hate me FOR HER OWN STUPIDITY AND ‘OOHH LOOK AT ME IM NOT GONNA SHOW MY INTENTIONS AND GIVE U NO INSTRUCTIONS!’
@@Logan-nk4vg It's all about trust. The prisoner is meant to be the opposite of the damsel who signifies blind devotion and defying rules to follow your own. The prisoner is slow to trust and plays with the rules in mind, in her chapter 1, she figured out that something was making us kill her and we were resisting it. That's why she didn't tell us anything and let her action create a presupposition. She wanted the knife to escape, we let her, and that made the skeptic want to take her with us since it was something the narrator (who forced us to attack the princess in chapter 1) would not want us to do since he's hiding something. The princess was gambling on blind trust that we will take her head with us. And because we kept suspecting the head was still alive, the princess came back to life because our thoughts shape the princess, hence why the prisoner dies when we leave her behind.
@@one-wingedangel5107 well, this is true, and I understand where you’re coming from. But if she is betting on us being able to move against the force that she saw the first time by using she uses a double blind, then she cannot be angry with us when that bet that SHE made does not work. And that her instant, aggression and hatred is unjustified and shows this once clever and intelligent individual to now be completely ruled by emotions that aren’t even properly placed. Especially since many of the paths to the ending that I am referencing, are attempts to help her. In conclusion she made a bet lost, then lashed out on her only ally.
@@Logan-nk4vg Well The Grey is the shared third chapter of The Damsel and The Prisoner. The Grey is the result when The Princess encounters a subversion, either she got betrayed despite the endless amount of love and admiration she poured, or her trust for another was not rewarded and you listened to the narrator despite prevalent skepticism. The Grey is basically the outcome when you listen to the narrator even though you've invested yourself in saving the Princess, The princess could not bear to be alone because she's also invested herself in you by displaying blind devotion or blind faith, and you betrayed that investment at the last minute either stabbing her or leaving her behind.
You know, this interactive story, despite having a quite simple design while looking at it outward, has some genuine moments of real horror. My first being seeing those hands claim your first princess. But this one being a close second due it being out of nowhere and her being so casual about it.
Scariest part for me was talking to the shifting mound and understanding the concepts she mentions about life, death and finding meaning and slowly feeling those "I am a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos I cannot understand" thoughts creeping into my head. I love this game, but man the first time I beat it it made me sad for a few days. Existential dread hits like a truck.
@@LORDCAMEL0T He is not good but not perfect and has missed things in games. Though in this case I doubt he missed it and instead was worried about being demonitized. Also I doubt he did not suspect that chapter 3s could have different outcomes if you got there with different voices so it may have been a choice not to show it all for whatever reason.
He did that one offscreen for some reason,i came here because i noticed the "warn her" option in the knife free princess ending was blocked out wich is the one that leads you to the prisoner path
I think it's something along the lines of her seemingly apathetic and not caring about what's going to happen, but actually being pretty smart and calculating, and her making a cautious heart, as I recall
Just saying, if she can cut her own throat AND CONTINUE, there's nothing in my mind that suggests she'd actually be dead. Never heard of this game for sure.
They looked away for when she cut it off, but if you don't you see her get about 1/3 1/2 way through then the weight unbalances and it tears through the rest. I'm not sure about the specifics. But this is indeed a very good game, and I suggest you watch a playthrough rather than disjointed clips. The full experience is very good in my opinion, and its very well done.
To be fair this feels as if both the skeptic and the princess were plotting to fool me and it worked, i 200% though she was though and i just wanted to bury her.
It’s a weird thing to exclude that form of her for the Mound’s inspection. Even the heart of the Razor is displayed if you choose to fight her without the knife.
Honestly I think this is one of the more touching, if not even romantic routes. The Skeptic trusts that the Prisoner knows something, has some kind of plan, and that belief and trust allows the Prisoner to survive her "escape," which works out because she in turn trusts you to bring her outside. It's the path defined by skepticism of everyone and everything you see, and yet a mutual trust is what frees them both.
Agreed, I love this route
she is kinda like thorn in a way a mutual trust that frees both
@@Deflamed_Sphere Only there's more of an emphasis of blind trust in this route
Skeptic: maybe it wasn’t the end of the world. Maybe it was just the end of his.
I mean, that’s not exactly wrong, now...
Spoilers for the actual end of the game. Do not continue if you have not fully beaten the game.
It is only not the end of their world, but it is the end of his and ours
@@bestaround3323Technically, it's just his.
We didn't even have a world to begin with.
@@reubensalter8125 It means immediate end for his and future end for ours, If he died, so we can too, even if we're divine
@@No.fly.zone.taken24163 It doesn't because we can't actually die, it's who we are and it's the whole point of the game.
Plus, we are our own world within the construct and it doesn't die, it just moves. Then when he actually dies, his world, the construct, dies with him, because its fabric is a part of us once again, if we choose to break free.
This is definetely my favorite princess,she feels a lot more real despite beeing able to revive from death lmao
You just like the slight goth aesthetic as I do bro
Except where she does the thing with her head, DOESNT TELL ME TO BRING HER, then I leave. Now suddenly I’m the bad guy FOR NOT DOING A THING TO HER! Now she’s gonna hate me FOR HER OWN STUPIDITY AND ‘OOHH LOOK AT ME IM NOT GONNA SHOW MY INTENTIONS AND GIVE U NO INSTRUCTIONS!’
@@Logan-nk4vg It's all about trust. The prisoner is meant to be the opposite of the damsel who signifies blind devotion and defying rules to follow your own. The prisoner is slow to trust and plays with the rules in mind, in her chapter 1, she figured out that something was making us kill her and we were resisting it. That's why she didn't tell us anything and let her action create a presupposition. She wanted the knife to escape, we let her, and that made the skeptic want to take her with us since it was something the narrator (who forced us to attack the princess in chapter 1) would not want us to do since he's hiding something. The princess was gambling on blind trust that we will take her head with us. And because we kept suspecting the head was still alive, the princess came back to life because our thoughts shape the princess, hence why the prisoner dies when we leave her behind.
@@one-wingedangel5107 well, this is true, and I understand where you’re coming from. But if she is betting on us being able to move against the force that she saw the first time by using she uses a double blind, then she cannot be angry with us when that bet that SHE made does not work. And that her instant, aggression and hatred is unjustified and shows this once clever and intelligent individual to now be completely ruled by emotions that aren’t even properly placed. Especially since many of the paths to the ending that I am referencing, are attempts to help her.
In conclusion she made a bet lost, then lashed out on her only ally.
@@Logan-nk4vg Well The Grey is the shared third chapter of The Damsel and The Prisoner. The Grey is the result when The Princess encounters a subversion, either she got betrayed despite the endless amount of love and admiration she poured, or her trust for another was not rewarded and you listened to the narrator despite prevalent skepticism. The Grey is basically the outcome when you listen to the narrator even though you've invested yourself in saving the Princess, The princess could not bear to be alone because she's also invested herself in you by displaying blind devotion or blind faith, and you betrayed that investment at the last minute either stabbing her or leaving her behind.
Love how the narrator is like "uhhhhm, okay, yeah this works too" at least at the beginning"
You know, this interactive story, despite having a quite simple design while looking at it outward, has some genuine moments of real horror.
My first being seeing those hands claim your first princess.
But this one being a close second due it being out of nowhere and her being so casual about it.
Scariest part for me was talking to the shifting mound and understanding the concepts she mentions about life, death and finding meaning and slowly feeling those "I am a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos I cannot understand" thoughts creeping into my head.
I love this game, but man the first time I beat it it made me sad for a few days. Existential dread hits like a truck.
Porta-princess
That sounded wrong
And kinky
@@nise6699 free head
Mimir would like to have a word @@TheBluePhoenix008
She gave us a head! How nice of her.
Smitten would be proud
Shouldve been me.
I wish i saw this in Manly Badass Hero's playthrough
Anime is palpable
Yeah there was a couple things he missed that I’ve seen on other channels but oh well.
@@LORDCAMEL0T He is not good but not perfect and has missed things in games. Though in this case I doubt he missed it and instead was worried about being demonitized. Also I doubt he did not suspect that chapter 3s could have different outcomes if you got there with different voices so it may have been a choice not to show it all for whatever reason.
He did that one offscreen for some reason,i came here because i noticed the "warn her" option in the knife free princess ending was blocked out wich is the one that leads you to the prisoner path
@@Strix2031 I think the Damsel route locks the Prisoner route though not sure.
I'm curious to hear what the Shifting Mound has to say about this vessel.
I think it's something along the lines of her seemingly apathetic and not caring about what's going to happen, but actually being pretty smart and calculating, and her making a cautious heart, as I recall
"This one gives good head."
“This bitch chopped off her head”😊
@@tuoritto"She protected herself when others could not. She will make for a clever heart."
Just saying, if she can cut her own throat AND CONTINUE, there's nothing in my mind that suggests she'd actually be dead. Never heard of this game for sure.
They looked away for when she cut it off, but if you don't you see her get about 1/3 1/2 way through then the weight unbalances and it tears through the rest. I'm not sure about the specifics. But this is indeed a very good game, and I suggest you watch a playthrough rather than disjointed clips. The full experience is very good in my opinion, and its very well done.
Spoiler:
The princess changes depending on how the player views her, so if we make MC believe she's dead then she's actually dead
@@no-do4pv Technically no. There was a time we walked away but the stubborn believed she was alive and it turned out she remained alive.
@@phantom-ri2tg Voices are fractures of MC, so logic remains correct
@@Ravil322Yeah, that some funny things. You can also go self-hate path and get murked by voices, funniest thing I've ever seen.
This was actually my first complete route and I got so confused seeing the shifting mound show up at the end I audibly shouted
To be fair this feels as if both the skeptic and the princess were plotting to fool me and it worked, i 200% though she was though and i just wanted to bury her.
7:40 So... no head?
Boutta do something malicious and devious
Only head actually lol
She think she is Mimir
Definitely the most smart/clever part of the Shifting Mound’s multitudes.
The noises are so visceral it made me cringe. The scraping noises just ew man, kudos to the sound department for making a sound so disgusting.
Why it feels like she is always winning and you are always on the end of the stick. 😂
Well...she is just as strong as you imagine. And more you know, the more things you can imagine. Like princess being a ghost that can instakill you.
You're both winning here. This is a good ending
Very happy to see this. I haven't seen anyone post this one before.
I wonder what Shifting Mount holding her head sprite would've looked like.
It’s a weird thing to exclude that form of her for the Mound’s inspection. Even the heart of the Razor is displayed if you choose to fight her without the knife.
It holds her separated head but also with the decapitated body
@@theorangeoof926Except it isnt excluded?
This one was my first and also my favorite
So no head?
О да, она потеряла свою голову после нашей встречи
Просто безбашенная принцесса!
Would
And Mark managed to fuck this ending up too. Just take the head Markiplier!
What happens if you don't look away?
Same thing happens but you watch
So the Mimir Method lol
Gana be a lot less work for the hands to carry her unlike the other forms
They carry the body too
Ugh what ManlyBadass Hero is to save the princess
Funkytown
So?
What happens if you leave her behind after the decapitation?
You get the drowned grey chapter 3.
@@bresbyUntil the pristine cut comes out. Then it will lead to a new chapter 3