Die Anywhere Else - The Importance of Casey Hartley in Night in the Woods
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2023
- We never meet Casey Hartley in Night in the Woods. But that doesn't mean he's not important to the story - far from it. In this video, I'll be taking a close look at Casey and examining his essential role in the game's story.
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Bro is keeping the nitw fandom alive on his shoulders
I cried when I found out that Casey wrote the song because is all made perfect sense. Reading the lyrics felt nostalgic to me because I lived in a quiet country town and it was all perfectly pictured in my head. I’m pretty sad that he got sacrificed. Even though we don’t actually see Casey in the game, he feels familiar. I don’t know, it’s hard to explain.
I agree with beary-boo, it's like Casey is still there and I miss him, love the hints about what happened to him throughout the game.
Most of my love for Casey comes from fan works. But, I’d be lying to everyone, especially myself, if I didn’t say “BORN 2 LOSE BOUND FOR GLORY” wasn’t a set of words I’ve tried my best to live by for the past three years.
I always found NitW to be a little odd in how it handled "adult" themes. Like, it treats them very openly and jokingly... and then doesn't. And quickly sweeps it under the rugs. It's a very weird dynamic imo. It's like they planned to include some more "deeper" stuff... and then chickened out.
When I first played NITW, I saw the poster for Casey and thought "omg that looks like Mae" and it made me wary of what would happen in the story. Seeing this, it breaks my heart all over again
I would have, and would still, love a night in the woods dlc that covers Casey’s story, after Mae leaves and how he met his end
I don't know. I think may would be okay untill her return. She was going to college and be a productive member of society, so the cult probably leave her alone untill her return.
Hopefully we get a video on Lori M. Someday. Awesome video as usual tho
It was an interesting choice for the game devs to make bea use a computer rather than being a drummer. I think that shows just how replaceable you are with advancing technology’s. I wish we could’ve seen the band before he “disappeared”
"Not everyone gets to die anywhere else" I still find it so heartbreaking that despite feeling a profund desire to get out of his hometown, if only to die anywhere else that wasn't there, he still met his end there
With what you said about Mae seeing herself in Casey, I think Casey was Mae's oldest friend of the bunch, given by how she talks about her past adventures with her friends. She and Gregg talk a lot about their adventures in high school, Bea's adventures with her were around the ages of 10-13 before their falling out, and she never really knew Angus before the game. But Casey is mentioned in the beginning poem with the flood, showing how important he is to her life and its another hint at his fate since it's about her grandpa dying.
I think the phrase that describes Casey's absence from the story is 'haunting the narrative.' It's generally when, though a character doesn't physically appear in the story, the impact of their absence is felt throughout the plot and the behaviour of other characters.
Very nice! Thank you for talking about him!
I love your content and nitw so much!! I also want to say how the soundtrack of nitw uses the "Where's Casey?" motif in a lot of the other songs in the ost, like in "Title" and "Possum Springs" not to mention that the motif also appears towards the end of "Graveyard Investigations" which is a clever foreshadowing of what happens to him. I've heard it being described as if he's haunting the game even through the soundtrack. The ost sets a vibe for everything that happens in the game and when the motif shows up its almost like he's constantly in the back of Mae's mind at all times even though he never makes an appearance in the game itself.
No theory stuff but I wanna say this.
I'm so happy the recommendation push this video to me. I've always been so intrigued but Casey's character and the role he played in nitw. He's this lingering sense loneliness and even dread in my opinion. Somthing lost, something that was once part of your life, which you could never get back
I feel like, had a night in the woods 2 ever been able to come together. Casey would've for sure been a part of it.
I'M SO EXCITED RAAAHHH
What a great analysis, I never thought about Casery this way, and I've replayed the game quite a few times. It's always cool to get a new perspective!