Cry Plays: A Bird Story [Complete]
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
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Note: I HIGHLY recommend you play this game yourself before watching, but if you are not able to for one reason or another, then hey it is what it is and feel free to view. It's a very linear game, so if you've played it yourself you probably won't want to watch someone else play it, but I still want you to experience the game how it is meant to be expecienced: Alone, sipping some tea, in a dark, quiet room.
Kan Gao, aka Freebird Games, aka my favorite indie developer since ever, has made a new little game for the world. This is a good day.
A Bird Story is a short, wordless tale of a boy and his encounter with a small bird. Not much else to say but, well, birds are people too - not really but bird.
Yes.
Also this just might be the first in a series involving this nameless character fella, or I might have just perceived the ending wrong. I DON'T KNOW BUT IT'S A BEAUTIFUL AND TOUCHING LITTLE TALE AND I HOPE YOU LIKE IT CUZ I SURE DID GOSH.
Have a great time, folks. :D
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Cheers Cry, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Consider the blender in it your virtual property. c:
Kan, thank you so much for yet another amazing game. I look forward to the ones to come.
Great job on the game! Continue the good work^^
goddamn, you make me cry again..... and... I can't wait for Finding Paradise
You are amazing! Thank you for such beautiful games!
Amazing game!! :0
Cry: It should have a blender
Kan: I gotchu fam.
*Kan
AwesomeJaneUniverse Woops
The Hayolee O
Kan Gao has got some wicked talent. The music (hoT DAMN) and the visuals were amazing.
Haha, I can't believe a story about a bird made me cry my eyes out.
i almost never cry on videos by Cry (he he , word puns .) i hardly cry at all to be exact , but i did shed a few tears , the music , visuals and the story hit you in the feels at the same time , its hard to not watch this and feel nothing
I always cry when it's a jrpg or something tho.... they have terrible pixel quality but the best stories.... ; A ;
MikuHatsune159
I feel ya. Video games (especially JRPGs and RPG maker games) absolutely destroy me.
I watched Cry's LP of Ib, and the bad ending made me cry for *months*. It's surprising how attached I get to fictional characters. :x
Risuyu Ikr? I cry more in games than real life......XD lol but the games have such deep stories and the characters..even though they might not say much I can feel the feels seeping out
MikuHatsune159 trust me , real life can be a real bitch when it comes to the feels . dont wanna bother you with a sad story ... just letting you know ...
I don't think I've ever heard Cry laugh as much as he did during the little chase scene in this game. It was super adorable. Cry, your laugh is super adorable and I urge you to do that more often. Anyway, this game was so pretty and I loved the music. It was nice and calming and fit the scenes.
You think that Cry laughed a lot during that? Then compared to that you should know that Cry laughs like a maniac when he ruins marriages with pots. Also I agree, this was a beautiful game :)
Allis Clear Honestly I think I've heard him laugh just as hard before, it's just been a while, I kinda forgot what it sounded like, hah
EminEmily you haven't been fully reminded of his crazy laugh that was a chuckle just him being incredibly amused and slightly touched by this game
Ben Johnson I know :c I need to go back and be fully reminded.
You need to see his Bioshock Playthrough, thats when you really hear him laugh.
This channel is the only channel in which I never see any hate on the person's videos. The entire comments section can prove my point. Cry, you are amazing
Me too! I've only seen one or two hates in the comments, and they weren't about Cry, just another person in the comments. Cry is so awesome! :3
Hah, yeah. Even if anyone DOES happen to hate, they're demolished by everyone else for it. Cry's fan base is awesome.
I couldn't find any reason not to like cry.
What's not to like?
*****
Exactly, Cry is too amazing and likeable to hate, atleast to any sane person c:
The ability for Kan to tell a story through nothing but music and visuals is astounding. That talent is amazing, my friend. Absolutely great. Definitely looking forward to more from him.
Music, talent, AND the RPG Maker engine. That's a sign of a damn fine gift if you ask me. :D
Cryaotic I agree. Has he wrote the music for the game Quintessence, too? I absolutly love it, even if the game isn't finished yet. Hope they complete it soon ^^
Cryaotic
you are one in a million cry and you have a dramatic voice
A game is nothing without music, and any youtuber that takes the time to comment on that is epic.
That goes for you too apocalypse hunter
Not sure I got this right.
This game was made by ONE man?!
It's fucking amazing!
Either if one person or a group did this, it's mother-f-ing beautiful.
Fucking wow, that's all I'm saying.
IK!! and I have a question... Cyr and Cry are 2 different people right?? Or are they the same? MY WHOLE LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE
Maylara Two different people. ;3
Maylara Nah, Vincent Cyr and Cryaotic are two different people :D
blueberrykill Including the art its made by one guy.
Oh crap THEY SOUND SO ALIKE AND ARE BOTH THE SAME AGE. 2 YEARS OF MY LIFE ARE A LIE.
I remember as a kid I would always bring home injured animals or abandoned animals and try to nurse them back to health. And if a vet said nothing could be done I would bawl my eyes out and repeatedly say sorry to the little thing. I still bring home animals. I have taken care of a whole litter of baby bunnies when the mother was killed by my friends dog.
You are a good person. I like you.
When i was little i would murder baby birds and remove their insides :D
I have the upmost respect for you, my friend. Keep doing what your doing.
😄👊
You're a good person and you should feel good
The world needs more people like you
"I told men to put a blender in the game and he did I'm really happy right now"
-Cry 2014
+Kailey Allen XD
+Kailey Allen
*Kan
„...He asked me the same thing, for this game and I told him to put in a flaming jojo. I'm so happy.“ -Cry2017 (Finding Paradise)
I remember when I was a kid (I live in Australia, so there's lil animals everywhere) and I saw an abandoned joey on the side of the rode (joey = baby kangaroo). I took it in straight away and got a vet-person to look at it.
That lil guy became my buddy for five years before it had died. Miss that cheeky shit everyday ;~;
;-; R.I.P Your joey....
Amazing. I feel my feels being touched.
And, this is probably my first time watching Cry, but I extremely appreciate him not yelling and saying inappropriate things during nice and sad moments, how refreshing honestly. I love how he remains silent sometimes, its peaceful. Thank you, Cry, astounding and much appreciated, sincerely, your new subscriber.
That's why I watch him!
That's why i'm watch him too. His voice so warm, he a good player and he not yelling like other youtuber, it's make me not scary when watch horror game played by him. 😋 Teehee~
wait, YOU HAVENT WATCHED TO THE MOON YET!?
+Kamontat Swasdikulavath Eh... Of course I have watched To the moon dude. It's the one of the best game ever!
When I was little I lived out in the forest, and me and my cousin would often go playing and come home with an injured animal that we'd insist on nursing back to help. I remember one day finding a small bird. It couldn't fly and me and my cousin (we were around 6) decided to teach it how to fly. Now, since we were little we didn't know how exactly to do that, but being stubborn we climbed to the top of our tree house and I tossed it. It took a few times but the third time, it actually took off. It soared until it disappeared and looking back now, I don't know how it happened. But it taught me a lot about strength, and I forgot all about it until I watched this. Funny how old memories do that.
if studio ghibli made games this is how they would do it
I think that they made one, I just don't remember what it's called.
They made one called ni no kuni wrath of the white witch
Yoru Kitazawa Actually, didn't Hayao Miyazaki just do the art for the game, not SG creating the game itself??
(I could be wrong. I haven't played the game yet..)
***** It's Level-5, the creators of the Professor Layton series who made the game, Studio Ghibli provided the artwork and cutscenes.
AH thank you very much!
That was a beautiful game with an amazing story. I own a lot of chickens back home and I've grown real attached to them over the many years of having them. Sadly, I've had to say goodbye to a lot of them. Always breaks my heart. Doesn't sound like it's so sad, but when you create bonds with animals, it's always tough to let go.
I get that feeling. I just wanted the taste of my fried chicken last longer in my mouth...
^ ^ ^
The more you love them when they're alive, the better they taste when they're dead. Yum, yum.
As an owner of many "unpopular" animals who often get scoffed at by friends and family, I can relate to this comment and the replies. It's a damn shame some people will never experience that one of a kind bond with an animal, just because they think said animal is incapable of growing close to your heart. I've had rats who had more personality and affection than horses, but never got given a chance because, well, it's a rat.
I understand though. One time, we got an assignment to observe an animal. I decided to observe an ant and put him in a jar. I gave him a bit of sugar everyday. I got so attached by it and I love how he tried so hard to get out. After I finished my assignment, I released it. But then I accidentaly smashed him with my book just a moment after.
I'm full of sins.
Oh gosh, I knew I'd be tearing up. I used to have a bird when I was little, and I taught it the fox whistle. One day his cage was outside, because birds are super messy and stinky, and we didn't know he knew how to open his cage. So he got out and I was panicking. Then while I'm sitting outside crying, I hear the fox whistle. He hadn't gotten very far, just down the street.
why did You slice & dice my Waifu Panty!?😭💔You big breasted sugar loving boobzilla meanie!!😡😞
Dr. Watts is going trample all over these bird memories isn't he?
I'm afraid so. Prepare yourself.
I remember Kan mentioning somewhere that there would be no birds in a Finding Paradise, save for background etc.
"... Looking for something, old-timer?"
-Faye
god that hit me hard
I really want to play this, but my parents -scratch that, aunt- won't allow me to buy games AT ALL. Waste of money, they/she say(s). So yeah! Thanks for the playthrough of this beautiful game, Cry!
My dads the same way xD
Luckily my mom isn't a poo bag
Torrents torrents everywhere
Sharmaine Leong Perhaps get someone else to buy it for you. Xmas is coming up, you could ask for this as a present.
Elrid
Torrents are for things you don't care about, but things you really want to support should be bought. I'd never torrent a Freebird Game :(
mbncd The thing is no one in my family celebrates Christmas so no presents ._.
Friends perhaps? Or wait until you can make enough money to buy it yourself (it's only $5 or less) and negotiate with your parents to get them to allow it, or participate in giveaways where you can win it, or ask for it for your birthday (or other gift giving occassions your family may participate in). There's plenty of opportunities out there if you really want something.
I still think torrenting something you care about is a horrible idea however, especially from indie developers, so please don't do that.
Who's ready to cry in, "To the moon: finding paradise?"
WHEN DOES THIS COME OUT OMG
Fuck, I still cry by the end of To the Moon.
I am! Woot woot
I already cried at the trailer. Its too beautiful for my mortal eyes TT~TT. Cannot wait to play the game myself and cry a river soon~
There's no trailer out yet, only a teaser. Guys, it's officially gonna be released the summer of 2017. HOW WILL I SURVIVE THE WAIT?
Am I the only one who thinks this is bittersweet? The whole subject of saying goodbye to someone who made your life so much better pains me, but the bird finally gaining freedom and being able to fly is really sweet. Letting go was for the best, but it must have hurt the kid (as seen by the two hugging tightly).
I don't know, I really really hope we'll find out that the bird occasionally payed him visits.
Where have you been friend? We've missed you lovely! Hope you're doing well, Cry!
he said fuck it and did a break. (know this via twitter)
Almighty Shrek thankyou, I don't have twitter. Was getting kind of worried that something had happened to him...
no problem friend
Almighty Shrek Well I'll be damned, kindness in the comments! Haven't seen that in years
Ian Patrick Haha, yeah. I like hanging out in the comment areas of Cry's videos. To me it feels like we are all sitting in a cafe, chatting away the day as we drink our drinks and snack on sweets or sandwiches. Just having a jolly old time. :3
This...This made me cry....This was fucking beautiful.
"this made me *cry*" * shot *
Anne Is Bored-chan
Your puns are bad and you should feel bad....
Ttdeu Gerumee ;;-;;
Anne Is Bored-chan
This game made me shed many volumes of liquid pride.
[If you ever watched To The Moon:] "Fluids tend to escape from my eyes." -Dr. Watts
Welcome to the land of living budy :D I missed Your videos but I'm glad you gave yourself a break, hope it worked and helped You a lot. 'Cause first thing first, (there are things more important than
You Tube and it toatlly must be like that) I won't complain about your absence. Time to watch, I'm sure it' ll be awesome as always :D
Iza Cieniuch I couldn't agree more! :-)
Everyone need a break sometimes :)
Just barely surviving on Dodger and Cry's Dandelion series, although that's starting to kill me for an entirely different reason...
Hey, you're a cool person who realizes that people who do UA-cam for a living aren't robots or superheroes!
SavingThemLost. Hmm.. I'm a bit embarrassed, but thank you :) And you are certainly a good person too :D Have a nice day budy :)
*WARNING SPOILERS BELOW*
I think that the whole tale is a metaphor for something not so obvious just by the appearance. I think the game is about a boy who has attention deficit disorder (travels with great skips, trouble paying attention in class by seeing what's on the blackboard, studying great lenghts during the night, blending of environment, notes around the house) and the bird represents the part of him that is free to be imaginative. Also, the giant paperplane made from his book represents his tendency to literally derive his attention from work and wander in his mind.
When he goes to the veterinarian, it is in fact a pharmacist that is prescribing him drugs for ADD like Ritalin, Adderall, and evading the "healing" of the bird is his reluctance to do it. This is why the teacher finds him troubling and teams up with the "veterinarian".
When he brings his bird to school for the presentation, it is because he is talking about his imaginative passions.
When he sees the bird on the balcony, not being in its "real" place, he reminds himself that he has no choice but to accept the drugs.
The fall and breakage of the paperplane means his toning down of attitude due to the drugs' effects.
Finding out the pieces of paper represents him coping with this change in life and getting back to be "normally imaginative".
The end scene with the bird means that he accepts his condition but still embraces it, and the bird bringing the last piece of paper means that he now learned to be imaginative by constructing his own way to "fly/be in his mind" ; it's not a bird, but it still can make him fly.
Really well thought out! I actually enjoy the story more taken as a metaphor. A big plot hole for me was how nonsensical it was for a kid to be alone in an apartment with no sign of parents around. What do you think the animal that was about to attack and kill the bird before the boy threw a rock at it to drive it away represented metaphorically?
that child is truly badass, for real, chasing honey badger, throw his bag into it, hell, his markmanship are the top notch, , jump and using umbrella to land, and invoking a spell for creating giant paper plane
i will play this game again in next few weeks or months :')
A cute little story about a boy and his bird friend. So cute and well done. The art is awesome, the way they treat it like a movie, is just perfect.
Who's here from Finding Paradise? 😄
Putri A me dude! Nostalgia is hitting me hard hahaha
Putri A hey mate *wipes tears*
I just streamed to the moon , this now I'm off to re watch the episodes of finding paradise .
Meeeee and I just realized why the green book in Finding Paradise has no pages ;-;
Shade and why is that
*Wait wait wait* I just went back to the beginning after watching the end and it looks to me as if the ENTIRE game is just him dreaming. Even him rescuing the bird, playing with the bird and being friends with the bird. Does that mean none of it ever happened?? At the very beginning it seems as if he's missing the bird OR wishing that the bird was actually real. If my thinking is correct, this just made me a lot more sad :(
In my opinion, yes I think he was dreaming. But he was dreaming about everything he went through with the injured bird (that's why there's a lot of fantasy things going on in the playthrough, even the giant paper plane, but it was happening.) but then he woke up and found the bird coming back to him with its wing already healed and it can fly now. That's my thought anyway, I don't really understand how the story goes myself. Maybe things will be more clear after "Finding Paradise" released.
What I meant is everything that happened is actually happened. His dream is kinda like a flashback. At the beginning he throw the paperplane on the balcony and at the end the bird get the paperplane back to him.
Ferdian Leonarta The idea of him dreaming in flashbacks makes sense now that I watched the end again. So at the beginning he throws the plane before going to bed. Then the whole game is his dream about the bird, and at the very end, he wakes up and the bird gives him the plane back.
I really want the rest of the game to come out soon!
I do hope it won't take long. To The Moon is really amazing and I can't wait to see this episode two coming out.
I think the game is a bit long to be "just" a dream. Yes there is a lot of imaginative development, but that could be just that, an imaginative recalling.
I hope I wasnt the only one who had to hold back some tears at the end.
no need to hold it in, man OWN THOSE TEARS
Didn't drop a single tear during this. I am a heartless bastard. Though, ironically, I cried during to the moon.
why am i crying about a fucking BIRD in a game
because birds are people to.
im crying too :'(
yeah same question :D
***** god damnit
You should watch Dodger's playthrough of Hatoful Boyfriend
God damn dude, Even with No Words the entire time i played it i wanted to just Cry, Kan really shows you don't need words to tell just an amazing story
i see what you did there with the "Cry"
I feel like cry should be the new morgan freeman
me: *reads description* "I HIGHLY recommend you play this game yourself before watching"
me: well okay *gets game*
*plays*
*wonders about cry's reaction to the chase scene
*watches video after playing*
cry: *dies of laughter
me: yep
Am I the only one that cried when I found out the bird was okay? This game is amazing! 10/10 for inspiring me to write and draw more. It's these kind of games that tell me that whatever I write has meaning, and there is another person out there who might love it. I can create any story I want, and try to give it an interesting plot line, but yours just blew me away! :D Amazing work Kan Gao! You really outdid yourself again with this masterpiece of story line. "The characters say so much with out even talking," quote Cryaotic 2014. It's absolutely brilliant! I hope you make more in the future, because I want these beautiful story mode games to stay around for a long time! Anyways, that's all I had to say. Have a good one! :)
Just found out why you're called Cry... BECAUSE YOU'RE ALWAYS PLAYING BEAUTIFUL GAMES THAT MAKE ME BALL MY EYES OUT!!!!!!
Finished Valiant Hearts and watched this today. You are an amazing LPer with a very unique way of doing things. Keep it up!!
Welcome to Realization Station, my fellow Cryaotic friend. 😄
Actually Cry is an abreviation of a character of a game he play (I think it was something like WoW or LoL) and he mixed it with
Chaotic Monki (his old user name) AND BAM
27 minutes in, looks adorable, I know by the end I'll be crying like a little bitch, I just fucking know it
Yup, those are tears
Not me :L
Genta
Its just a saying, hun. Even us ladies use it. Just like we use the terms 'Act like a man' or 'man up'. Chill. =)
Genta Because when female dogs are in heat they cry
Genta its not ok to cry?
You'll be a great parent one day.
Hope your socially inept children grow up to be socially awkward adults.
this game was just like To the Moon (another beautiful game made by the same person who made this beauty)
Feelsworthy and beautiful soundtrack
Nice picture just saying
Monica Gonzalez this made me lol so much :)))
Monica Gonzalez thank you :D
The feels on the bus go round and round and they're just gonna keep spinning till the end of time!
To the moon didn't get a sequel, this game better get one. This game is beautiful, thank you Freebird games. :)
This is the teaser for the To the Moon sequel.
BaconPizzaWaffles
Oooohh, I knew it! that explains the paper plane thing.
Also how in the beginning it went straight to the moon and stuff. Just subtle hints.(:
OMFG so is this like a prequel to who we'll be seeing in finding paradise? that's amazing! this story in a whole, though not as tear jerking or hilarious as to the moon, was charming and sweet nonetheless. so glad I got to watch it :)
I agree!
My body shook a bit when I saw Cry had a new playthrough, but then I saw that it said [Complete] and I had a full zeisure.
but then you watched it and was like : "fuck it , it was so worth waiting for anyway"
ironmilutin What are you trying to say?
This game is adorable.
I didn't expect this at all.
Great game.
Colin and Faye...
That was one of the best games I've ever seen. Made me actually cry. Beautiful message, I plan on keeping up with that guy... Wonderful game, and I LOVE the music that drove the emotions. Not a single word. Amazing.
Thanks for playing this Cry :)
In all honesty, half way through the game I noticed the boy looked like Eva from To The Moon and it got stuck in my head that that was her. Who said she has to look like an actual girl in her childhood? I was half expecting a cutscene after the credits that showed Eva telling the story to Neil before they leave for another mission. I don't know, I thought it would have been a cute idea, especially if the bird flew in through an open window after they left the office.
This story is brilliant though, whether the main character is a boy or girl. I hope Finding Paradise is released soon. Whenever Cry plays games like this, my life and day get infinitely better.
Thank you for playing this game Cry. See you again soon.
TheTeenageSpectrum You were pretty close!
This game was amazing. It really is amazing how some games can say so much without saying anything at all, honestly. I loved the innocent little scenes especially where the boy and the bird just hung out together like best friends, or when they were jumping in puddles.
*especially the feeelllsssss at the end ;-; Can't wait for Forever Paradise. This was certainly an amazing game, Cry. Thank you for playing it.*
Anybody watching after Finding Paradise came out?
Anyone else here from Finding Paradise? Xx
Cazzy Black me! I just finished watching “To The Moon” (fucked my whole shit up) and now I’m watching this for more backstory
Erickson Fernandez To the Moon is one of those games that never leaves you, isn't it? An amazing and emotional experience! I may go back to it again before Cry uploads the next one. It's been so long... xx
Yesss played To the Moon maybe 2 years ago? And just finished playing Finding Paradise about 1 hour ago. Such great games. Cried so hard 😭
me too I saw Jackspedicey's new upload on it and he mentioned to the moon was before it in the series so i went and watched mark's old playthrough of it before going to cry's playthrough of finding paradise I got a good way through it but when he mention a bird story i immeditely paused and came to watch this ( I just finished) but he also mentioned the mirror lied so imma watch that after finding paradise. This whole thing remined me of so many playthroughs of really cool rpg games that i either haven't watched in forever or ment to watch but never did ( like IB, Witche's house, mad father, the crooked man, or blank dream) and now i have a whole bunch of things i wanna watch plus some other things that aren't even rpg gameplays but it's ok because i'm on wiinter break from school. i still need to finish finding paradise its still on pause lmao.
I have an idea.
Okay so, at the beginning of this story, I thought he was dreaming. He might be... but by the end of this game, I thought that maybe there is more to it than that. I feel like everything in this game represents something in the boys life. At the beginning, we are shown his life. His parents are barely home, he doesn't have friends at school, he struggles in his education. I think that the dreamlike environment at the start showed that he was struggling in life. The lights that went out represented the fact that he was loosing hope. (Maybe) The clocks signified that as time went on, he would continue to loose hope, and life wouldn't get any better. He continued to live his life the way it was. Then one day... he found hope. Or in this case, a bird with a broken wing. I think that the bird represents himself in a way. He feels trapped by society, and I think that is represented by the broken wing. And no matter how hard he tries, he can't fly away. But he still had hope (bird). And so, he began to try harder. He studied harder, and began to make more friends at school. He learnt the meaning of happiness in life. He learnt how to live his life and be happy. The broken wings slowly started to heal. But then, the vet (Or maybe that represents his mother or parents???) thought they knew what was best for him. They told him to fix the wings (to be perfect) so that he wouldn't fail. I felt that the cage that the vet had represented the fact that he felt caged. And so, he took his freedom and ran from that place. He tried to be free. He searched for many places where he felt he could finally belong. (The part where he was on the paper plane looking for places for the bird.) But he didn't belong in any of those places. And the more he felt that he didn't belong, the more he struggled to fit in. His grades lowered, and he lost his friends. He was beginning to loose hope. One day, his mother went and spoke with his teacher, and he walks in. They chase him, trying to take away his freedom, make him 'perfect' just the way they want him to be. But he has now learnt that it doesn't matter what they thought. He understood that he just had to be himself. And everything would be fine. He had found his 'hope'. But his parents and teacher went after him, pushing away his hope. He was cornered and had nowhere else to go. He was loosing his 'hope.' Once more, he tried 'flying away' from everything, but that didn't help. Because even though he tried running away from his life, it still caught up with him. When the paper airplane crashes, he has lost all hope. The bird is gone. He begins to live his life just as his parents wanted him to. Even if he hates it. But then, he hears the tweeting of the birds. He remembers hope. The bird and his/her partner at the end signifies that life goes on. You should never stop believing. The boy realized that there is more to life. That there is hope even when everything seems to be in despair. That there is light in the darkest of dark, that there is.....
.......or maybe I'm just over imagining things xD What do you guys think?
threetwenty1 Thank you :)
Nekokorochii MOVED TO NEW CHANNEL This seems like a good translation of the story. A touching one too :')
At the beginning when he is looking into the plant and when he goes back in time makes me think the entire game is him remembering what happened...
Also, the mailbox outside of the veterinarians office has a japanese mail service symbol, which may mean that the boy lives in Japan. That would also explain details such as that he is living in an apartment complex with a huge city in the background or that he feels studying in important to the point of staying up all night.
This game brought memories that I hadn't thought about for a long time from when I was a kid and nursed a bird with a broken wing back to health with my dad. We also kept it in our balcony in an apartment and saw another bird before they flew off for good. There were so many similarities that this really affected me probably beyod the game's intentions.
I remember this one time a bird flew in our house through the window and I was like HEY ITS ADORABLE DONT TOUCH ITTTTT!! So then when the bird had calmed down I took it outside so it could go and at first it didn't but then it flew away.
Then my dog ripped its wing off and broke its neck
That plot twist tho XD
how.. touching.
How do you know it was the same bird if it flew away when you set it free?
Well that escalated quickly
MadNinjaGirl It didn't quite fly away... It kinda flew a little then went on the ground...
Goddammit I just realized smtg,, could it be that,, that brown bird is Faye from finding paradise? i had the feeling that faye is the bird colin had rescued when im watching finding paradise,, but they never really mentioned it.
Besides some depictions of Faye having brown wings, on her last scene in the balcony at the end of the game, just before Faye disappears, you can hear a bird flying away.
Not a single word was spoken in this game and yet it was fucking beautiful and I legit cried.
When I was 12 a Noisy-Minor couple fell down my chimney, one had an injured eye and I got to take care of them for a week before I let them go. Last year a Black-Bird flew into the window of my 8th grade class room with only a minor concussion and I took care of it for three days before I set it free. And I had a Budgie when I was six that would sit on my shoulder and play with my hair while I played video games and now I have two Budgies that I am currently taking care of.
This game really spoke to me, thank you Cry.
I was fine until the very end when the bird gave him back a paper airplane and I just started bawling. God so amazing what some people can do so with such simple thing.
Cry's laugh litterally gives me life
The boy's name is Colin :) *cries*
And the bird's name is Faye
that's just like my old bird, she love jumping around, never leave even not at cage but she is dead now, i can't forget her
The art, the story, the music....just freakin' breathtaking. This has to be one of THE BEST rpg's I have ever come across. Much praise for A Bird Story.
All right, well now that you've completed your playthrough in one video what are you doing to do?
Crack cocaine.
Cryaotic Who doesn't love to crack some cocaine?
Cryaotic Crack cocaine every day
Cryaotic D: noo~!
Surrogate Cupcake It's a joke...
I remember when I played this. I cried. Freebird games are always like that... you know, sad :( I'm guessing that's why I love 'em ❤️
A game that makes you provoke a strong emotion in the player/watcher is a true masterpiece! Cry makes them all the better too!
Love games like this, they really show how much you can express with just music, something a lot of modern games have forgotten. No dialogue but you can tell exactly whats happening in every bit simply by what musics playing, and has got me closer to tears than any recent game.. hell last one I think was ff7, I bet it was sephiroth who broke the birds wing =(
'Scuse me while I go cry for a bit. Last scene = tears of happiness. This game was beautiful, reminded me a lot of "To The Moon", which was one of my favorite playthroughs Cry has done. Hopefully more like this to come!
I laughed so much and I was basically smiling almost constantly. Also I actually cried there at the end. Wow what a damn beautiful piece of art. That fits you very well, Cry :) I'm just happy this exists
Your voice is sooo amazingly calming. :)
Joshualacruz true
I don't know why but I never got around to this video, but Finding Paradise has reminded me that this creator is amazing, so let's dive on in!
The scales at the end are killing me godd the Finding Paradise foreshadowing this is such a beautiful game im so glad i came back to this before the finding paradise finale
Cry has the kind of voice that could make a person fall asleep within minutes. Amazing.
My feels just broke, tears are everywhere, this was so touching. It's amazing that a game could speak so loud and touch me with no words. Damn good game man, damn good game.
It's such a beautiful, simple, delicately made story. Love it.
At first I had a lot of trouble getting into it. I was ready to stop watching after 10 minutes, but forced myself to keep watching... I don't know when it happened but I know near the end I know I was completely immersed in the story. Well dine Freebird Games, this was a great story!
Goodness, folks, he was only gone for a week.
It was a week of pain and torture though ! 😂✋But in seriousness we missed him
What a beautiful game. I have to say, it is incredible what something can say without any words. It reminded me of the film and theatre production Kes. Thank you for playing this, Cry. And thank you Kan Gao. This was touching.
jeez cry, i just love u for playin these heartwarming games, inhaling their stories. not talking much, just enjoying the atmosphere. NEVER stop doing this. youre awesome.
Cry sounds super chill
that's his personality!
This game reminds me or Journey or Machinarium. There's no dialogue but still the story says so much through sound and actions. It's beautiful.
I love machinarium
Mishawantsacookie Mave Your profile picture just made my life, oh my god.
5 years since To the Moon, the announcement that Finding Paradise is coming around at the end of this year.
I ain't gonna lie. I cried like a little baby child. XD This game was so warm and cute and happy. The little silly references and the awesome, simple story, it was all great! Thanks for playing this and thanks to the developer, as well!
Oh man, Kan Gao at it again with another story-driven game, albeit this time a little more simplistic than that of To The Moon, but nevertheless simply amazing. And as always, the soundtrack to go along with the game complimented it all too well. Man, keep up the damn good work (Although at this point it's probably redundant to say this). But interestingly enough, this entire game had me reminded of another simple yet warming story of a movie named, "Kimi to boku", a story of a boy who meets a cat, and the whole essence of our main character here in A Bird Story is how he meets a bird. Funny how yet this simple plot point can make a whole world of nostalgia, and although both these stories are different, they still share a striking similarity in my opinion, but I'm going on a tangent at this point (Whooo, look at this wall of text) Either way, I hope you have a damn good years to come Kan.
Wow, I have no words for this beautiful, amazing game. Make me laugh and cry. Really enjoyed this game, can't wait to Finding Paradise. And Cry, nice video bro, always make my day better.
*Finally been waiting for you to play this :3! I just finished it like right now, and now im gonna see how you play it! The Experience was pretty good :D Can't wait to see how you played it*
Watching this after watching Finding Paradise is even more emotional
Thank you Cry, for making me cry with laughter, and for making me enjoy the experience a second time.
I can recommend watching Cry’s playthrough after playing the game. You wouldn’t expect watching such a linear game too worthwhile after playing it yourself. Surprisingly Cry manages to provide an extra dimension that blends really well with the actual game.
That... that was such a good experience. I was crying at the end, when we didn't know what happened to the bird, and as he came back I was just smiling while having tears roll down my cheeks... I was smiling a lot during this one. It was just adorable and absolutely wonderful :D Thank you Kan Gao for making this, and thank you Cry for playing it
I had the exact same feels the intire game
Finding Paradise is suppose to be the sequel for To The Moon. At the end of To the Moon Neil and Eva talk about a "new client" and that's the kid in A Bird Story. That little timeline at the end is the same as Johnny's in To the Moon.
I have been up for 26 hours and I am currently bawling my eyes out at 7:30 am why in the hell am I crying goddammit
Anyways great game Cry I really reallllyyyy loved it
So, you too eh?
I'm on 11th minute.... That kid is cute.... Also nice game, like it so far, hopefully it'll get even better.... I'm not going to play this game, right now I don't feel like it.. Somehow I appreciate more youtube videos, than games... It's weird, haven't play single game for a looong time... Hyped for another video Cry. :)
Also too much dots...
***** Now I really want to do it again... Dear sir I'm not dumb, and I'm not a shitbag. So calm down and move on, I don't have time to argue about it.
+Tiny Teddy Who are you, the Comment Police? Be freaking nice.
And here ladies and gentlemen of this fine place we call Cry's comment section, is a troll! The troll is out of place here, as most people are kind in Cry's comment section, but this guy obviously missed the memo. Trolls are annoying, as they are rude, annoying jerks who often can't spell! Let's leave the troll alone now, shall we?
That really tugged on those beaten and battered heartstrings of mine. Thanks a lot for bringing this beautiful game to my attention Cry. And of course, FreeBird Games for being able to tell such a touching story without so much as a single word. Just goes to show you that emotions can be portrayed so powerfully through the medium. I really needed this so... thankyou.
This was a very beautiful game, the flashback and the transitioning of motions was so very well done, one memory melding to another, the music, and even the very playful actions of the characters, it's really a very immersive story with no words needed.
Freebird Games is now one of my favorite companies....
Decided to give posting a try again. Didn't see my comment appear the first time though. I typed this same message earlier, but I think I forgot to click on "public" first. Anyways, this was a nice game. Funny how it shows the boy's lifetime in the end and my birthday being yesterday, though. Hadn't really thought about the fact I'm a year older until now.
Wow. I feel stupid. Did not realize I was supposed to switch "Top Comments" for "Newest Comments".-_-;
Wut a lozer
EvilTeddyBear122 Kind of uncalled for, but whatever.':-/
Happy late birthday
Jessie Horta Thank you!^_^
I loved the story and the way it's told without words is very powerful. My only issues are that it doesn't seem like it is best suited to a game format. The player only gets to press the arrow keys to take the character from one cut scene to another, which isn't a whole lot of fun. This wouldn't matter so much if the game was only half an hour long, but for over an hour it wears pretty thin. I can enjoy a game without action and with little player interaction, and I can enjoy a game with no speech, but without either I found my concentration drifted quite a bit and I had to replay certain parts. However, I love that video games are starting to be explored and experimented with as a medium for artistic expression, as well as the normal ones which are designed to entertain you. I think games like this definitely have an important place in gaming, they can be a very refreshing change, I just think this didn't work so well as a game. Well worth playing/watching though, and I did watch it all the way to the end. :)
I don't know how I cried more at this than To The Moon (which is incredibly good), but I think it's because I used to have three birds, one at a time, and though I loved each of them, I wished I had gotten more time with them, and before I could bond a lot with each one, they were all gone before the one year mark, no matter what reason. I love birds, and I'm not sure if maybe this sparked that inner me from a long time ago, but it was really confusing, yet very good. :') Kan Gao is just absolutely an amazing story teller and song maker...
Cry.... you've earned yourself a subscriber... This let's play was excellently done, to the point of dragging a few tears out of me... Good job my friend, good job.
I watch cry plays finding paradise earlier, and when Colin says to Sofia that he wants to be a pilot because a long time a ago he lost a friend and he wants to fly to find them, I thought it's Faye, but now I see it'sactually the bird. I found it very very sad, i don't know why. but perhaps it's because he really doesn't have anyone, no family, no friends, that he really values his friendship to a bird and his imaginary friend :'( damn, anyone who made this is really genius at this
Alfina Hidayati Wasn’t Colin telling Faye the story about the bird being his only friend in finding paradise? :o
I'm not crying I swear.. I'm just... Sweating through my stupid eyeballs...
Uploaded 21min ago and already dislikes? jeeez some haters need a life..did not even watch the video till the end.. .-.
Wel I know how youtube works since I also make videos but what I mean is that its kinda stupid I mean why being subscribed to someone just to hate? theres not really a sense in that but in liking is cuz ppl enjoy it so ya..but ya gotta love the haters .-.
I dislike it that some people just dislike the video without even watching it to the end or commenting the reason for the dislike..get it now or still nah? lol and calling someone dumb here really makes you sound mature..just sayin ;)
I know haha I just did say my opinion on what I think about that :)
Uncle Sam I agree, but I don't see any constructive criticism going on..
10 dislikes to 1k likes ? That's pretty okay if you ask me.
I've been waiting to see this game for ages! So happy you made a complete, 1 hour video of it! Thanks Cry
When you whispered that farewell, i got a shiver of emotions go through my spine. It was a sad yet happy way for them to part :,)