The first few deaths are even more sadistic if you know the context. Spoiler: That stinking, dark room at the start of the video? The stench is coming from a mound _of her corpses._ An eldritch abomination is forcing her to relive her experience in the house over and over and over again until she finally performs the ritual it wants her to do. Every time you fail, your body gets thrown on that pile. The 3rd death is her realizing that there's dozens of her own, mutilated bodies rotting in the corner... and she's about to join them.
I like to call the Roam Ending "Common Sense Ending" because deciding to just leave the haunted house and NOT risk going here for absolutely no real reason is probably the smartest move i have seen a horror movie/game character do, and seeing a streamer play it for the first time, get curious, and get said Roam Ending was so funny!
Creepy Spoiler: At the 22:51 mark, if you look closely, you can see that she's surrounded by half a dozen bodies from all the other times she "achieved" this ending.
This one was unfinished for so long... I think I originally played half of it in October of 2021 and kept intending to finish the game and this video but kept putting it off. And that's annoying because I enjoyed the game. Sometimes I get too easily distracted.
LONG COMMENT WARNING BUT I'M JUST INSANE ABOUT THIS GAME (AFFECTIONATELY) 🥺 This game's concept is genuinely out of a nightmare and the embodiment of complete and just... absolute hopelessness. The endless suffering and torture within the loops, and NO ending is good for the protagonist, Girl. She will either die at the hands of her other selves or the monster, completely alone, go insane and become desperate enough to go to the extremes to get out (or rot in a cell), roam endlessly through the mansion or, apparently, "get out" but with severe mental consequences. She was just... doomed the moment she set foot into the mansion, all because she wanted to prove her worth to others and become recognized by filming a haunted house video. Her naivety led her to become a victim of the mansion and it will keep happening over and over unless she performs the ritual the mansion wants her to do. Every time she fails to do so, she will absolutely die no matter what. I've always seen the "Divine" ending as her escaping the mansion, and eventually making a break in the loop, but it takes a toll on her mental health completely and her perception of the world has been shattered to bits, with hallucinations coming back to haunt her (or it could also be that, the moment she managed to escape, she let out the monster free to roam the world, and it'll only be a matter of time until it kills her). Worst case scenario (and also likely), she didn't escape the mansion, and is quite possibly still trapped in its illusions. Girl will never go anywhere, and until the day she draws her last breath, she will stay there. Beyond the cage she was trapped in and managed to get out of, lies endless cages that will keep her confined for all eternity. In none of these endings lies "true freedom" or "hope": just a foolish, broken and emotionally scarred Girl that will never see the light of day or the hope of a new tomorrow. Gosh, this is such a long comment but all and all, thank you for compiling all of these easter eggs and endings! This game is great and I enjoy revisiting it from time to time.
this was a game that blew my mind with the things someone could do with rpg maker and the possibilities it could lead to. I played hours of rpg horror games such as corpse party ao oni and tones more and it makes me sad to see the genre die down over the years -_-
Does finding yourself have anything to do with the plot or is it just an easteregg? Does it do the same thing as a death? I presume dying just takes you back to the title screen?
So I presume, in the Epitaph ending, she hallucinates that she wakes up from a dream at home, but actually dies in the courtyard? Edit: Read on TVTropes that it’s because she slips and falls off of a cliff.
pretty nice looking game from the offset ^^ looks like you escape but the monster does too, but I'm okay with it- if it ended with her dying still it'd suck cause I freaking hate games where your character dies regardless in every ending X/ Also great death scenes, much better than that swamp lake thing ^^! kinda wish it was brighter in some parts (Like the 3rd death when shes hiding in something before dying, idk what the heck she hid in). Either way least this had some actual effort I can appreciate~
The best ending isn’t even that good in hindsight. The epilogue implies that you’ve released whatever evil presence was possessing the house into the outside world, and the protagonist weakly warns her sister (too late) about it being visible from her window. We saw what happened when it affected the murderous duplicate.
@@SacredSpirit1337 No to me it's just implied the monster got out and is roaming the world. I mean if it did imply that or show it, it would just shown it. It was direct with everything else, it wouldn't leave something like that ambiguous
@@CrankyTemplar at least I know you can give her a proper name of the start of the game but if her default name is girl I'm not going to question it I do however like her character design 👍
@@CannoliSlugYT She's not a victim, she made a pact with that demon or whatever, and she chickened out. So she's condemed to forever suffer until she fulfills her side of the bargain.
The first few deaths are even more sadistic if you know the context.
Spoiler:
That stinking, dark room at the start of the video? The stench is coming from a mound _of her corpses._
An eldritch abomination is forcing her to relive her experience in the house over and over and over again until she finally performs the ritual it wants her to do. Every time you fail, your body gets thrown on that pile.
The 3rd death is her realizing that there's dozens of her own, mutilated bodies rotting in the corner... and she's about to join them.
I like to call the Roam Ending "Common Sense Ending" because deciding to just leave the haunted house and NOT risk going here for absolutely no real reason is probably the smartest move i have seen a horror movie/game character do, and seeing a streamer play it for the first time, get curious, and get said Roam Ending was so funny!
The character commenting the path is off and being longer than when arriving or divine ending implies the girl gets looped on the path forever
Creepy Spoiler:
At the 22:51 mark, if you look closely, you can see that she's surrounded by half a dozen bodies from all the other times she "achieved" this ending.
That's a bit freaky
God I loved playing Cat in the Box. The endings threw me for a loop but it was all fun.
This one was unfinished for so long... I think I originally played half of it in October of 2021 and kept intending to finish the game and this video but kept putting it off. And that's annoying because I enjoyed the game. Sometimes I get too easily distracted.
LONG COMMENT WARNING BUT I'M JUST INSANE ABOUT THIS GAME (AFFECTIONATELY) 🥺
This game's concept is genuinely out of a nightmare and the embodiment of complete and just... absolute hopelessness. The endless suffering and torture within the loops, and NO ending is good for the protagonist, Girl.
She will either die at the hands of her other selves or the monster, completely alone, go insane and become desperate enough to go to the extremes to get out (or rot in a cell), roam endlessly through the mansion or, apparently, "get out" but with severe mental consequences. She was just... doomed the moment she set foot into the mansion, all because she wanted to prove her worth to others and become recognized by filming a haunted house video. Her naivety led her to become a victim of the mansion and it will keep happening over and over unless she performs the ritual the mansion wants her to do. Every time she fails to do so, she will absolutely die no matter what.
I've always seen the "Divine" ending as her escaping the mansion, and eventually making a break in the loop, but it takes a toll on her mental health completely and her perception of the world has been shattered to bits, with hallucinations coming back to haunt her (or it could also be that, the moment she managed to escape, she let out the monster free to roam the world, and it'll only be a matter of time until it kills her). Worst case scenario (and also likely), she didn't escape the mansion, and is quite possibly still trapped in its illusions. Girl will never go anywhere, and until the day she draws her last breath, she will stay there. Beyond the cage she was trapped in and managed to get out of, lies endless cages that will keep her confined for all eternity.
In none of these endings lies "true freedom" or "hope": just a foolish, broken and emotionally scarred Girl that will never see the light of day or the hope of a new tomorrow.
Gosh, this is such a long comment but all and all, thank you for compiling all of these easter eggs and endings! This game is great and I enjoy revisiting it from time to time.
So there is no good ending huh and devine ending really make me wonder what the thing outside the window
this was a game that blew my mind with the things someone could do with rpg maker and the possibilities it could lead to. I played hours of rpg horror games such as corpse party ao oni and tones more and it makes me sad to see the genre die down over the years -_-
Does finding yourself have anything to do with the plot or is it just an easteregg? Does it do the same thing as a death? I presume dying just takes you back to the title screen?
It's a non-standard game over, as it goes back to the title screen.
5:10 jump scare!
So I presume, in the Epitaph ending, she hallucinates that she wakes up from a dream at home, but actually dies in the courtyard?
Edit: Read on TVTropes that it’s because she slips and falls off of a cliff.
And she is surrounded by corpses of herself
This game is relaxing compared to other horror game over videos...
Yet another rpg maker style horror game that seems more like a death simulator than a game. Nice mmkay, will have a field day with this.
"Cat is out of the bag" is more like it
Man, I hope there can be a sequel to this
Nightmare fuel
At bad ending 1 I was like "Girl, are you your own worst enemy?"
4:14
Why am I not stopping laughing from Girl's face? 🤣🤣🤣
pretty nice looking game from the offset ^^ looks like you escape but the monster does too, but I'm okay with it- if it ended with her dying still it'd suck cause I freaking hate games where your character dies regardless in every ending X/ Also great death scenes, much better than that swamp lake thing ^^! kinda wish it was brighter in some parts (Like the 3rd death when shes hiding in something before dying, idk what the heck she hid in). Either way least this had some actual effort I can appreciate~
You hide in a locker from the killer and then a closet from the monster.
The best ending isn’t even that good in hindsight. The epilogue implies that you’ve released whatever evil presence was possessing the house into the outside world, and the protagonist weakly warns her sister (too late) about it being visible from her window. We saw what happened when it affected the murderous duplicate.
@@SacredSpirit1337 yeah but least now she has a chance of survival compared to being trapped inside an endless hellscape for eternity :/
@@killeing I think the implication is pretty clearly that the monster attacks them.
@@SacredSpirit1337 No to me it's just implied the monster got out and is roaming the world. I mean if it did imply that or show it, it would just shown it. It was direct with everything else, it wouldn't leave something like that ambiguous
So her name is just girl? 🤔 she looks like a claire or Adria whatever name suits your best
Ask that one kaiju boy called Boy from Pacific Rim: The Black.
You can name her at the start of the game, but the default name is Girl.
@@CrankyTemplar at least I know you can give her a proper name of the start of the game but if her default name is girl I'm not going to question it I do however like her character design 👍
She's a victim, so I think it's fair not to mention her "real" name.
@@CannoliSlugYT She's not a victim, she made a pact with that demon or whatever, and she chickened out. So she's condemed to forever suffer until she fulfills her side of the bargain.