Blood moons are probably the best thing to happen to the Iron Lung universe. Water, oxygen, and iron are all present in human blood and are valuable resources.
@@bkr0118 Quite the contrary. In this space-age universe the tech for that is probably all over the place, especially in places like medical wards or potentially oxygen recycling plants.
I was playing FH5 and at the garage with this video in the background and legit thought the devs added the song in considering they added 2 cases based on the movie.
12:27 "... starring none other than Markiplier, for some reason..." The reason is because he's directing it (I think), and as with everything else he's directed, he will also star in it. It's *his* project that he wrote with the permission of and some help from the developer, not just a movie the dev is having made about the game and he just randomly chose Markiplier to star; the movie is Mark's idea, inspired by his interpretation of the game's lore, which is why the dev says it's not officially canon (yet).
@nah4437 wym? Did he add the extra info mentioning that the movie is made and funded by markiplier after you commented or did you not watch the video? 🤔
@donatoclemente4421 I know he mentioned it in the video, but the way he says "for some reason" feels wrong, as if Mark being in the movie was just a spontaneous decision by some marketing team like "hmm... who's a famous gamer? oh, I know, Markiplier!" I suppose he could have meant that it was weird that Mark decided to make this movie, it's just that the way he says it feels like he's implying Mark was chosen for this role in the movie and it's weird that they chose him. I do recognize that the creator of this video knows that Mark is making the movie, but the point where he says that in the video is detached from the "for some reason" part and I feel it's important for the viewer to know that the movie is not starring Markiplier "for some reason," it's starring Markiplier because it's Markiplier's movie.
@fabiangarcia6072 To me it felt more sarcastic, since we all know mark stars in everything he does, especially since after that remark he carried on to detail that the movie is mark's thing and is fully funded by Mark. Idk, I feel like yall are reading something that's not there imo. Hope what I'm trying to say is coming across well 🤗 MEMENTO MORI
@@fabiangarcia6072 I mean. regardless of whether or not Markiplier is funding at making it, he is arguably not an actor. People who know him will be incredibly distracted by it being Markiplier in the star role, and people who don't will just see a guy who's mid at acting. Nonetheless, I do not think narrator-man was trying to be disrespectful. It's inherently funny to have a UA-camr/Internet personality try and be the 'star' of anything, even if they are funding it LOL
One detail I like in the lore is that the stars that can still be seen are referred to as ghostlight. The stars are dead, but the light they emitted long ago is finally reaching us
Yup. That's how it is irl. The stars we see in the night sky are ghosts, we're seeing the stars as they were billions of years ago. Many of them don't exist anymore, yet we won't know that for another million years.
i love it when stuff like this gets made after a small game's popularity has died off, its as if people who are truly into it can fully embrace it now and analyze it in peace
Yeah, because otherwise the game would become mutilated beyond recognition by the insane community. I'm really thankful that iron lung didn't become another FNAF.
@@brondlini5459 I'm amazed that a community has formed at all around this game. Don't get me wrong it's a neat little game that can be terrifying on a blind playthrough, but after that one playthrough you've seen the whole game. All of the lore details and unanswered mysteries are just there to jog your mind and get you afraid of the unknown, it would be cool if it was expanded on later but as it is I don't think there's anything to really build a community around
@@brondlini5459 Iron Lung doesn't really have what it takes to "become another FNAF". There's not anything that could be necesarrily expanded upon without destroying the intrigue and atmosphere. Odd comparison to be honest.
@TheDoc_K it has been 3 years since this format begun, almost most iceberg videos have at least 1m views. There thousands of iceberg format videos. There is no way that you have travelled in the internet without seeing one. If you have never heard of an iceberg, then you either don't use the internet too much (if so, why are you here) Or you are a grandpa that got lost in the internet. Or you are child that probably shouldn't be watching these videos in the first place.
@@ProbNotCross I’m embarrassed to say I watch a ton of UA-cam but this is my first iceberg format vid. I clicked on it bc I thought it meant someone found something in the blood ocean that was like an iceberg. I don’t however watch a lot of explanation videos
"There's barely any people left in the entire universe, what should we do to survive?" "Fight each other over some bullcrap and send people to die in blood oceans, of course!" "That's why you're the boss, boss."
@@bugjams - In all fairness, I don't think those estimates are enough to even have a stable population. Unless they've got some kind of cloning tech, they're kinda hosed.
@@l.d-b3465 I'll be honest, as soon as it was revealed that the population was that low yet they were still fighting...I checked out. It was implied at first that there were still at least thousands to tens of thousands of people that were off-world and survived. One person out of tens of thousands is believable. But one out of only hundreds being sent intentionally to die, wasting a sub and returning no useful data... People can be stupid, yes. But it's scientists doing these things. I refuse that they would be this wasteful while being aware of how limited their resources are. ...sorry I loved the release version, but the lore update just kind of turned me off.
i really hope silent jump scares become more common they're 1000 times scarier than loud jump scares cause it was obviously just trying to scare you and it leaves you feeling more frustrated and annoyed than anything. This is my favorite way to put it imagine opening a door and a friend jumps at you and yells yeah in the moment it freaks you out but in the end it was just your friend trying to scare you which only lasted a few seconds. Now imagine opening the door and that same friend is standing inches away from you with a terrified look on their face, now you have no idea what they're doing or if somethings wrong and you're mind is racing and freaking out trying to make sense of why this face is randomly staring into you soul.
Jumpscare should really renamed "Jumpstartle", because that's all they do, to startle you. Loud jumpscare noises that's like asking you to be scared is like comedian trying to make someone laugh by tickling them. It's not genuine feeling, it is forced.
Barely graze a wall- Sub goes all rich people Logitech controller. BUT Giant fish serves you up like it's tennis- Sub AOK! Yeah I don't think that's what happened.
i like the theory that the quiet rapture didn't actually happen and that people in space were just transported to another universe so from their perspective planets vanished
I guess the issue there is that all the moons they already knew of are still there and were able to be found, so unless this "new universe" is an exact clone of all the known moons at exactly the positions they were calculated to be at with regards to their positions before the rapture. It's very likely that the quiet rapture actually happened.
@@shybandit521 It could just be that the moons were included in the quiet rapture, meaning that the old universe that didn’t get raptured still has all the planets, but no space stations and moons.
@@Periwinkleaccount well unfortunately in that case they're still dead as the tides will go out of control so that's not really much of a better ending
@@Stars-Sapphire Alternate realities/dimensions have been a narrative tool long before the MCU. It's more that it has overplayed the idea so hard that it single-handedly managed to tarnish the very idea for other stories
Something interesting to note, especially when dealing with the Void entry and it's relation to stars and starlight. As someone said in another video, even when the stars are gone, the light from them is still travelling a long distance, so for the people living inside the post quiet rapture world, you will see a sky full of dead, long gone stars that still seem to be there.
@@DannyEastes not really true, the furthest stars are only 100,000 light years away, and stars live tens of billions of years. a star would basically have to have died in the last few thousand years, which is an incredibly tiny portion of its life. its very unlikely that theres more than only a few in the night sky that are actually gone right now
@@womp47not all stars are the same, and stars at 60x sun mass last around 3 million years. The universe is around 13.8 billion years old, and a lot of stars were born in that 3.8 billion year span in the beginning, so it is feasible for star with the same mass as the sun to bla bla bla, science, I am too lazy to continue writing.
I actually really like the idea of space stations and not planets and stars were "raptured" and transported into another Hellish dimension (and so all the planets just fine and their inhabitants wonder - the stations go). It would be a really interesting twist.
It also gives _somewhat_ of a reason as to why the COI didn't seem worried that the sm-8 got blammo'd. If the universe was actually ending, and you lost a valuable research vessel, you'd be freaking out. The fact that they _weren't_ freaking out is telling. It heavily implies someone in the COI knows what happened, knows what the Silent Rapture really is. Thinking logically, it implies only 1 of 2 possible explanations: 1. The Silent Rapture was done on purpose - probably some sort of mass-teleportation of space stations into another dimension, for exploration purposes. In this scenario, the COI isn't worried about 1 lost sub. Even if it's the only one they have in _that_ universe, they can always summon another from our universe. 2. The Silent Rapture was _not_ done on purpose, and everyone in the new universe is fucked. In this scenario, the COI doesn't care about the sm-8, because they know nothing matters anymore. I mean, unless they can somehow get food and energy out of the Blood Moons, humanity is on its death bed already. Just a matter of waiting til resources run out. Either way, I like the idea that the Silent Rapture didn't _actually_ kill all life in the universe, but instead takes place in some sort of cosmic Hell. It at least gives you hope that things are still relatively normal-ish back in our universe (minus the sudden disappearance of every space station). If the Silent Rapture was some sort of Eldritch/Old God scenario, perhaps some great cosmic being felt threatened by mankind's growing control over space travel? Perhaps it saw the space stations as a threat to its cosmic dominance, and that's why it only targeted them?
This does make a lot of sense, and would be an interesting twist. It would explain why the blood oceans and the creatures within them seemed to pop up out of nowhere, and the origin of the strange building like structures.
the best standing theory right now is on reddit a cosmic entity, decides to end all life possibly in the whole galaxy or universe, and due to some malevolent means, that entity decided to dump all their blood on the moons as decoration for torment for the remaining.
It seems pretty likely that there are two monsters because it looks like the second monster's eyes are on the side of it's head instead of the forward facing like the frog. The second monster also seems larger than the frog to me.
agreed. i think that the scaly creatur whos eye we see is the whale like one making all the noise. it also makes sense that it slaps our sub after we flashbang its eye to take a picture. if it was the frogfish, why wouldnt he just kill us right there?
Side of the head? That’s a prey, but the “frog” has forward facing eyes So, what do they “prey” eat? And better yet, 21 years isn’t long enough for animals to evolve drastically enough to survive in blood Meaning the blood ocean existed before the rapture, or the fish where placed there by whatever caused the rapture
@@tacticallemon7518 blood is extremely rich in resources. we have no idea how these creatures work or survive, so its unfair to rule out that they survived there. we also dont know if there are microorganisms for the whale creature to feed on.
@@infectedpotato117 The gills of a freshwater fish get fried in salt water Not to mention blood is thicker than water, meaning it’d take extra force to do just about anything in a blood ocean Sure, you could say it’s unintentional design, because the eyes would adapt to closer resemble deep sea fish due to the lack of light, but my point stands, 21 years is nowhere near enough time for a whale sized creature to adapt to swimming through a significantly thicker fluid
i got two theories: either the blood moons are living beings and the blood oceans are like their innards, or: all the habitable planets were transformed into these types of moons.
What make Iron Lung great is that The Moons are up to people's interpretations, Cosmic Horrors are the best after all. My headcanon is The Moons are similar to The Brethren Moons from Dead Space, but instead of moving itself to other galaxies to eat planets these Iron Lung's Moons is just a living planet that have it's own Ecosystem living inside it like Mystery Flesh Pit National Park.
Funny enough markipler a huge huge dead space fan too and he’s helping with making this movie. But yeah the brethren moons is a freaky concept cause the way they send markers is crazy considering they give whatever species their the knowledge to travel in space but in doing so it spreads them
Thank you so much for including our work in your video! We really appreciate your analysis and critique. And to answer your question at this scene 33:57, yes, he did went head straight through the trench walls. Previously, before the convict started contemplating his freedom and punching one of the pipes, we get a shot of the submarine's sonar detecting three obstacles blocking his way through the point of interest. We initially wanted to create a sequence where we see the convict attempts to get around the walls and ending up not finding a path, but we thought that it would slow down the pace a bit too much and we were sort of rushing that scene as well. And for your information, the school project was aimed to be only 2-5 minutes long :) - Farabi
The character's movements in the film are quite realistic. His welded suit prevents him from rotating his neck in any direction, and that's why he moves so jarringly.
Regarding your last point: that's pretty common behavior among sharks. If they aren't sure whether something is prey or not, they will brush by it to get a better look/smell and to judge the creature's reaction. While the monster isn't a shark, I think it probably was doing a similar thing since I'm sure it didn't get that big eating Iron Lungs.
The lore reason for the teleporrs, in my opinion, is a sea creature, or the "frog" buncing/pushing/tossing you as a sort of warning. The fish likely sees the as an intruding rival and treats it as such.
something i'd like to mention, corpse ocean is actually some of the LEAST impressive work kira has done they're known for being the developer of spooky's jumpscare mansion, but i'd personally highlight "lost in vivo" what i consider their magnum opus of horror
All of the small things not being affected, like space stations, moons, and asteroids reminds me of how you can't microwave things that are too small. It's interesting.
To this day the "frog" from Iron Lung is one of the scariest things I have ever experienced. For some reason seeing its... "face" is I think the closest I've ever gotten to genuine fear.
I think having at least two monstrous creatures (the "frog" monster and the monster you see the eye of) add to the game. It's already apparent that there is a skeleton of a yet unknown creature, suggesting something of an ecosystem, if it can be called that. But one of the great mysteries is how are there even any monsters in the first place. The human blood oceans aren't natural, so it's highly unlikely that these creatures evolved there. Whether some ritual was performed or mad scientific experiment conducted, the existence of these unnatural creatures are terrifying. Also, If I was a scientist in this universe, trying to study the Rapture, I would take a look at light from nearby star systems. The Alpha Centauri system is about 4 lightyears away from ours, a system complete with planets. So depending on where in space you are, you can witness the precise moment of the Rapture a few years after it happened.
Wow thank you soo much for reviewing the short movie made by my good friend, I was actually the VA for this one and its my first gig we are soo glad you enjoyed it !!
27:26 - cow tools. an old single page comic titled "cow tools" in a newspaper that resulted in people running wild with what the tools could possibly mean and what the cows would use them for because One of them was similar to a human tool but the rest were unrecognizable. eventually the creator came out and said they werent made with meanings in mind, just that it would be funny to have tools made by a cow. this type of creation is my personal favorite, and also how i sort of go about building my own worlds. i think fan speculation and theories are part of the fun, and an overall more satisfying form of world building (for me at least), and it also inspires community among people who like the thing.
The beeping event, i like the idea that the *f o r g* passed by wondering "what are you?" the frog attacks you BECAUSE of the passing by event, it determined you were prey, it's food. Though, i have a idea how the *thing* see's down there in the blood ocean, thermal vision. The blood *has* to be cold, it's in space! But with you producing heat, *it* see's you. Maybe *it* has two visions, "normal" and then thermal. Maybe even the SM-13 produces heat? EDIT: Thanks man for hearting! Because of the "since we don't see any sign of an anglerfish-like light" I've got a idea based on that, It's not light based, it's thermal based, the frog uses something similar to the anglerfishs light, but because of the blood ocean and it probably being cold, it's thermal.
The note left by the previous driver: I don't think the COI would bother recovering the sub, taking out the old occupant then re-sealing in the player. I think it's a note written by the character the player is currently playing. That fits the grim and fatalist feel of the game and the world 6:40
That's actually what I always thought. Like, they never said the sub you were in was used before.... They said the last sub they sent got destroyed... I never heard anything about a previous operator commiting suicide.
0:36 Polish guy here, you have my respect for actually checking how to pronounce the surname. You got it pretty close with your second try as well, so congrats there.
I have a theory that maybe fits into the lore: The Quiet Rapture is actually a rapture that "god" (maybe the squirrel stapler god idk) did but its not that kind of classic 'humans ascending to heaven' rapture but an extinction kind of rapture where "god" made a portal that sucks up every habitable planet (except earth i guess) and put them on empty moons with big holes in it and the sunken modern buildings is just pieces from Mars or Earth before it went rogue. I also thought about "other habitable planets" besides Mars and Earth, maybe The Frog was an alien animal that somehow survived The Quiet Rapture and able to adapt to live in the sea of human blood (i mean if The Frog is an alien it probably lived in the same kind of "ecosystem" like the blood moons) Its actually kind of funny theorizing about the Iron Lung universe, its kind of a mix of 'GOD DECIDES THAT HUMANITY MUST DIE' and *Universe.exe has run into an irreversible error* and also 'Unmentioned discovery of an ancient otherworldly civilization technology that activates the universe's s*icide protocol'.
There's also an Iron Lung game in Rec Room, allowing you to play it in VR. There's no terminal, and hitting something will just respawn you at the start. Pretty good overall.
This was a great video. I enjoyed your sense of humor and I also like the stance you take that "there is no correct answer, the point is to theorize" because I think many other people doing deep dives do not grasp that.
Thank you! I now have proof I'm funny by at least one person, yes. And yeah, when you have as little information as in the case of Iron Lung, you've got no choice but to theorise and all your answers are equally valid.
Shockingly and extremely well done. What caught my eye most wasn't just that you put so much effort into this to make it a polished and engaging experience, but you went out of your way to show off some highlights off the game in its scary sections--except rather than telegraph it, you go out of your way to make the experience emulate what players experience during their gameplay. I don't really do well with playing horror games, and I don't have a lot of time to play games myself. So the fact that you have purposefully incorporated some of the game's plot beats and elements within your video made it feel extremely friendly and thoughtful to people like me who might only ever experience a game by watching deep dives. It's gotten you a follow from me and I hope you keep it up--you deserve way more than just 2k subscribers.
Thank you very much! I'm super glad you appreciated that aspect of the video because it's what I focused on the most. I really wanted to imitate the feeling you get when you're down in the sub so I kept the ambience, jumpscares and other bits in there. Another video is in the works, so stay tuned :)
My first thought when looking at the game icon in the video was "sarcophagus," which technically wouldnt be too far off since you are basically in a submerged sarcophagus
52:01 Iron Lung reminded me of one of his earliest games: The Moon Sliver. He later made another game in the same universe called The Music Machine, which among other things explained what was going on in The Moon Sliver. They were both excellent and the second game didn't ruin the first like explanations often can in horror. He might be planning a similar follow-up to Iron Lung.
@@torque8047 Mark said the movie and game canon will be separate though - for now... Either way this will be how a lot of people get in contact with this movie.
Always good to watch a less professional video that still holds up. It's nice to have someone speaking with less of a robotic voice and in more of a "just vibing" tone. It's a good video :D
I'm pretty sure the weird worm hole thing you can find in the west part of the game, through the really thin corridor, is most likely where all the blood comes from. Why? Because I'm not sure my memory is bad but I think there was like a current pushing you away from the wormhoke. So what you may ask? This is a human blood ocean. The current is a current of human blood, flowing out from that wormhole thingy. I like to imagine all humans were all forcibly extruded through some sort of small hole, and thus being turned into a pulp, then the pulp separated from the blood and sunk while the blood floated up towards the wormhole and got expelled on the moon's surface thus creating the blood ocean.
Thank you for explaining the terminal because when I saw it on my first playthrough I typed in "help", didn't get a response, and shrugged before moving on
Amazing video, so happy that this happened to show up in my feed. I played Iron Lung when it first came out, and I think like most people, assumed it was a fun little mystery and wouldn't get more updates. I'm ESTATIC to hear the dev added more lore for fans to chew thier teeth into. My biggest thought I would like to share is about the sub teleporting, I've always interpretted it as the monster "bumping" into the submarine. I find the idea that the monster is silently observing you along your journey, learning more about you as you try to learn about it is UNNERVEING AS ALL HELL. While this game's monster is more frog/fish like in nature, I am reminded of how my cats will "play" with half dead crickets. They find it much more entertaining to swat at them and see thier reaction than play with cat toys.
Thank you! I like your interpretation, especially the part where the monster is more intelligent than us and it's basically playing with its food, unnerving.
32:50 Jesus Christ man, I don’t know if you did that to jumpscare people, but it fucking worked. I always thought jumpscares had to be loud and something had to jump at you, but you definitely proved me wrong and I despise you for it. Edit after finishing video: You really like to immerse us with jumpscares, don’t you?
Hahah, I very much did that to spook some people. Little jumpscares here and there fit the nature of the game and I wanted this video to feel like you were in the submarine yourself so you always had to be on edge.
@@SaadTheGlad Well you certainly succeeded! Great video, by the way. I saw how you noticed Squirrel Stapler, and it’s a really good, albeit disturbing game. It would be nice to see your take on it.
5:54 Literally what mark’s character says in the new trailer (that just released) for the movie, literally one-to-one. You can really feel his suffering and the revenge he wants them for sending him on this death trap
I’m a huge fan of the game and can’t wait to see Mark’s acting, music and the movie in general. Specially the creature from the end of the game, I can’t wait to see how they could potentially make that big fish Monster scarier than it already is
I’m with you. It’s amazing seeing how far he’s come. The fact that a small indie horror game inspired him enough to try and make it a movie is fascinating and frankly pretty inspirational. I know I’m watching it as soon as it drops
@@Sebastianator01 He didnt choose it over the FNAF movie, they literally contacted him while he was already working on the movie so he didnt have time to go.
@@Sebastianator01 ….I’ll take a whole new movie based on a indie horror game. Over a cameo in a different movie based on an indie horror game that was coming out sooner or later anyways. Mark hasn’t been the fnaf guy since fnaf 4 came out. I’m glad he chose something original and creative for himself.
0:00 - Intro The Surface 0:27 - David Szymanski 1:00 - Blood Oceans 1:54 - The Quiet Rapture 3:18 - Points of Interest 3:55 - The Consolidation of Iron 4:27 - Lore Update 4:49 - The SM-13 5:34 - Beyond the Veil 6:36 - Moon AT-5 and Z-8 Below The Surface 7:11 - The Oxygen is a Scripted Event 8:07 - Eden 8:37 - Earth is Redacted 9:03 - The Moons are Alive 9:32 - Out of Bounds 9:56 - The Last Photo 10:23 - Filament Station 11:08 - Profanity Alert 11:29 - Someone else died in the Iron Lung 11:44 - The Humming Monolith 12:27 - the Iron Lung Movie 13:10 - Sinking Iron 13:47 - The Blood is Human 14:19 - Game Achievements 15:14 - Mars 16:05 - Conviction Realization 18:46 - You Are a Convict from Eden 19:08 - Mods 19:29 - Negative Reviews Bottom of the Iceberg 20:15 - Frog 20:51 - Iron Lung Roblox 22:28 - The Iron Lung Icon 23:34 - Burner Subs 24:09 - Oceangate Memes 25:21 - There's Three Other Blood Oceans 25:51 - What Caused the Rapture? 27:29 - Eden has the last existing trees 28:01 - Iron Breath 29:40 - Depths VII 30:04 - Worms or Pipes 30:54 - This Feels so Wrong 31:35 - OST inspired by DOOM 64's OST 32:10 - Deep Descent 35:51 - Iron Lung Scratch Remake 36:23 - Fanmade Remakes 36:37 - Corpse Ocean 40:34 - David's Other Games 41:16 - EIC and IMC 42:04 - Void The Depths 43:11 - Frog is in Ultrakill 44:02 - Chop Goblins development screenshots 44:26 - The COI knows what's down there 44:58 - The submarine teleports 45:39 - There are less than 1000 humans left 46:15 - There are two monsters 47:04 - The game takes place in 2370 A.D 47:51 - Removed Points of Interest 48:21 - Nintendo Switch Port The Abyss 49:16 - Development screenshots 50:16 - Spin N' Shoot 50:36 - What happened to the uninhabitable planets? 51:25 - There's something breathing inside the building 52:01 - Possible prequel/sequel 52:55 - The thing that passes by your sub 54:21 - Outro
The game lends itself to becoming super immersive. My first playtrough I was home alone and turned all the lights off and only used peices of paper and a pencil to make the navigation caluculations (I suck at mental maths). Games don't need to be complex to be good.
This was a great video analysis, i loved every single bit of it, and i'm honestly surprised you decided to go into depth on entries that i didn't expect you to go too deep on. Also, yes, i do speak spanish XD
Thank you very much! I went in depth on every single one as best I could because I wanted to give this game (and the iceberg) proper attention haha. Muy bueno!
There are indeed two monsters and there is a reveal of it with the SM8. See, the Iron Lung is one of the burner subs and when the "Frog" finally attacks you, it punches a neat hole in the back of it and can swim inside of your sub. However the "eye" picture is of something MUCH larger and the SM8 didn't have a hole punched in it, it was obliterated in half and was not a rinky dink mini sub like the one you're piloting. While I'm not trying to discredit the lethality of the "frog", I'm instead trying to put emphasis on the thalassophobic nature in that there isn't just ONE creature that can end your life.
Makes sense, the frog can be like a mid-tier predator in its enviroment while the creature you are talking about might be an apex predator, or just a big pissed off whale-like animal.
Thank you so much, you didn't explain to me "how an iceberg" works. I feel like every video in that format repeats, the beginning. So already you get a like for not wasting time.
I love the idea it was something quantum that changed briefly, and maybe the observer effect had an influence on the planets containing life and the light from stars that either erased them, or kept them linked so they didn't change universes or whatever.
I was lucky enough to have a short conversation with Mr. Szymanski and the guy is super nice as well but I should have expected that since it seems like everyone in horror seems to be some of the nicest and funniest people around
The sad thing is, what you said about "not even the author thought of it" probably applies to most of this game's lore. He had an aesthetic, he had a few spooky sentences, and that was enough to ship the game on.
A theory I really like is that whatever project created the energy blip you find was the cause of the QR. The item went haywire, and teleported the planets and their starts beyond previously know territories, which would explain why the ship dwellers would still be able to see the starlight of stars that moved away. If the ships themselves were teleported away, they wouldn’t be seeing the same light of the starts, and their constellations would be vastly different, something which would be noted if it were true.
I mean the closest star is like 2 lightyears away, meaning if it disappears right now you won't know for 2 years. Our own galaxy is like 100k lightyears wide, meaning it would take 100,000 years for the light of a star from the other side to reach you, ergo if it disappeared you wouldn't know for that duration as it's old light is still traveling to you.
Great video, but I gotta say I appreciate you googling the pronunciation of David's name. So many people say shit like "I'm gonna butcher this" or "I won't even try to pronounce this" when it comes to names they've never seen before, when it would take like 5 seconds to look it up and get it right. It's not a big gesture, but it's really respectful. Nice going!
Thanks a lot! I also get annoyed by some people who won't bother looking up the proper pronunciation haha, my own name has a letter that can't be pronounced by most westerners so I could relate to Szymanski.
I can't help but feel like the quiet rapture event may have been somewhat inspired off the "human instrumentality project" from end of evangelion. I may be grasping straws here but I don't know. The "humanity turning imploding/exploding into blood" aspect of both of them just cant help but think about it. Its most definitely a coincidence. As the blood ocean thing is most definitely from the book of revelations, more specifically Revelation 16:3. I love how the fact that this game has little lore, it gives more mystery and sometimes all you just need is a little spookiness to set the mood.
@christopherjones5540 im more or less going off visual aesthetics than it actually being blood but its worth pointing out the uncanny similarity that they both smell like blood. Ik lcl is not blood. Also several shots in EoE have the sea of lcl look very uncannily similar to blood particularly the infamous scene at the end.
I always have a fascination with media that builds up to a single moment. Things like Iron Lung, Cats, Hadestown, and Creature in the Well all have an entire media length just to set up a single moment, and that whole media lives or dies by that moment.
For whatever reason when I saw this I thought it was gonna be about like the medical device. I thought “how the hell is there lore for a breathing apparatus.” You’ve sold me on this game though, looks really interesting! Thank you!
The rapture really does give the same vibes like the duskers, not knowing what actually happened and where is everyone, how it happened etc, I adore both of these games for that.
I've only heard of this game starting last night, and normally I don't like horror, but I do like nautical/naval stuff, and I must say, saying I'm intrigued about this game is an absolute understatement. It's so interesting and unique, not only having an ocean of blood, but also in space, and the lore as well. I also have a theory on maybe how the blood ocean got there? The star anomaly seems to be a teleporter of sorts, maybe when the rapture happened it teleported all the perished human's blood onto the moons, making an ocean. Just speculation.
Imagine dying because you wanted to experience something amazing then getting laughed at by people because you had more money than them. It's kind of crazy how jealous money can make people that they would think your death is funny. I also don't understand how people can say it's a dumb decision to do it. It's like paying to go on a rollercoaster and dying.
47:49 if you consider how developed this world is, it really hammers in fully that they did not expect you to survive. The submarine you’re sent in is comparable to actual trash when you think of what else they might have
The monolith is most likely a direct reference to 2001: a space Odyssey, idk if this has special lore significance but in the 2001 one movies the monolith has something to do with life
on the topic of there being no concrete answers: I love that there are many things you present as objectively true about the game (because you just naturally assumed them to be the obvious conclusion) that I didn't think at all. for example you see the building photo as evidence of prior life on AT-5, but I saw it as evidence that pieces of an inhabited planet were teleported there along with humans/their blood, and that maybe these moons are ENTIRELY made up of dislocated planets, and their current inhabitants came about later
Y’know, the people who were on all the habitable planets are probably much more freaked out that all their space stations (and uninhabitable planets) disappeared without any reason
I totally get thinking that the voice acting in sinking iron is bad, all I wanna say is that was Lixian voice acting for it. I'm not sure if you knew or not, but just thought it to be a fun fact
Blood moons are probably the best thing to happen to the Iron Lung universe. Water, oxygen, and iron are all present in human blood and are valuable resources.
But sadly not in animal blood 😔
@@alex.g7317 ... are you simple?
@@alex.g7317 did you watch the video? the blood is human
Only issue is the tech to extract that is probably long gone
@@bkr0118 Quite the contrary. In this space-age universe the tech for that is probably all over the place, especially in places like medical wards or potentially oxygen recycling plants.
Iron lung sales spiking after ocean gate, and jenga sales plummeting in 2001 are my favorite bits of “huh, wouldn’t ya know”
That's fucking hilarious
The barbie girl adds to the immersion
Thank you, it was definitely intended
I thought I was going crazy 😂
went into the comments to see if anyone else noticed
I was playing FH5 and at the garage with this video in the background and legit thought the devs added the song in considering they added 2 cases based on the movie.
Was that actually meant because it was so funny to hear it in a video about iron lung
12:27 "... starring none other than Markiplier, for some reason..." The reason is because he's directing it (I think), and as with everything else he's directed, he will also star in it. It's *his* project that he wrote with the permission of and some help from the developer, not just a movie the dev is having made about the game and he just randomly chose Markiplier to star; the movie is Mark's idea, inspired by his interpretation of the game's lore, which is why the dev says it's not officially canon (yet).
yea it rubbed me the wrong way when he said that, it felt pretty disrespectful. like dude’s making a whole ass movie and that’s all you have to say?
@nah4437 wym? Did he add the extra info mentioning that the movie is made and funded by markiplier after you commented or did you not watch the video? 🤔
@donatoclemente4421 I know he mentioned it in the video, but the way he says "for some reason" feels wrong, as if Mark being in the movie was just a spontaneous decision by some marketing team like "hmm... who's a famous gamer? oh, I know, Markiplier!"
I suppose he could have meant that it was weird that Mark decided to make this movie, it's just that the way he says it feels like he's implying Mark was chosen for this role in the movie and it's weird that they chose him. I do recognize that the creator of this video knows that Mark is making the movie, but the point where he says that in the video is detached from the "for some reason" part and I feel it's important for the viewer to know that the movie is not starring Markiplier "for some reason," it's starring Markiplier because it's Markiplier's movie.
@fabiangarcia6072 To me it felt more sarcastic, since we all know mark stars in everything he does, especially since after that remark he carried on to detail that the movie is mark's thing and is fully funded by Mark. Idk, I feel like yall are reading something that's not there imo. Hope what I'm trying to say is coming across well 🤗 MEMENTO MORI
@@fabiangarcia6072 I mean. regardless of whether or not Markiplier is funding at making it, he is arguably not an actor. People who know him will be incredibly distracted by it being Markiplier in the star role, and people who don't will just see a guy who's mid at acting. Nonetheless, I do not think narrator-man was trying to be disrespectful. It's inherently funny to have a UA-camr/Internet personality try and be the 'star' of anything, even if they are funding it LOL
One detail I like in the lore is that the stars that can still be seen are referred to as ghostlight. The stars are dead, but the light they emitted long ago is finally reaching us
Yup. That's how it is irl. The stars we see in the night sky are ghosts, we're seeing the stars as they were billions of years ago. Many of them don't exist anymore, yet we won't know that for another million years.
i love it when stuff like this gets made after a small game's popularity has died off, its as if people who are truly into it can fully embrace it now and analyze it in peace
Yeah, because otherwise the game would become mutilated beyond recognition by the insane community.
I'm really thankful that iron lung didn't become another FNAF.
i love it when _____ ____ ____ ____ ____ _____ _ _____ game's __________ ___ died ____ its __ __ ______ ___ ___ _____ ____ __ ___ _____ _______ __ ___ ___ _______ __ in peace
so true
@@brondlini5459 I'm amazed that a community has formed at all around this game. Don't get me wrong it's a neat little game that can be terrifying on a blind playthrough, but after that one playthrough you've seen the whole game. All of the lore details and unanswered mysteries are just there to jog your mind and get you afraid of the unknown, it would be cool if it was expanded on later but as it is I don't think there's anything to really build a community around
@@brondlini5459 Iron Lung doesn't really have what it takes to "become another FNAF". There's not anything that could be necesarrily expanded upon without destroying the intrigue and atmosphere. Odd comparison to be honest.
The one iceberg video that doesn’t explain what an iceberg video is, humongous win for a well made video
Thank you! I assumed everybody watching at this point is already familiar with this format so it would just be redundant.
an ice berg is a big piece of ice in the ocean
you can thank me later
I was so happy about that. I was already rolling my eyes in preparation for an unnecessary explaination
@TheDoc_K it has been 3 years since this format begun, almost most iceberg videos have at least 1m views. There thousands of iceberg format videos. There is no way that you have travelled in the internet without seeing one.
If you have never heard of an iceberg, then you either don't use the internet too much (if so, why are you here)
Or you are a grandpa that got lost in the internet.
Or you are child that probably shouldn't be watching these videos in the first place.
@@ProbNotCross I’m embarrassed to say I watch a ton of UA-cam but this is my first iceberg format vid. I clicked on it bc I thought it meant someone found something in the blood ocean that was like an iceberg. I don’t however watch a lot of explanation videos
"There's barely any people left in the entire universe, what should we do to survive?"
"Fight each other over some bullcrap and send people to die in blood oceans, of course!"
"That's why you're the boss, boss."
Really is depressing just how realistic the scenario feels.
@@bugjams - In all fairness, I don't think those estimates are enough to even have a stable population. Unless they've got some kind of cloning tech, they're kinda hosed.
They would definitely need steady and abundant food, and just have everyone slamming cheeks daily lol
It's a no-brainer, honestly.
@@l.d-b3465 I'll be honest, as soon as it was revealed that the population was that low yet they were still fighting...I checked out.
It was implied at first that there were still at least thousands to tens of thousands of people that were off-world and survived.
One person out of tens of thousands
is believable. But one out of only hundreds being sent intentionally to die, wasting a sub and returning no useful data...
People can be stupid, yes. But it's scientists doing these things. I refuse that they would be this wasteful while being aware of how limited their resources are.
...sorry I loved the release version, but the lore update just kind of turned me off.
i really hope silent jump scares become more common they're 1000 times scarier than loud jump scares cause it was obviously just trying to scare you and it leaves you feeling more frustrated and annoyed than anything. This is my favorite way to put it imagine opening a door and a friend jumps at you and yells yeah in the moment it freaks you out but in the end it was just your friend trying to scare you which only lasted a few seconds. Now imagine opening the door and that same friend is standing inches away from you with a terrified look on their face, now you have no idea what they're doing or if somethings wrong and you're mind is racing and freaking out trying to make sense of why this face is randomly staring into you soul.
Thanks, i hate it
I do this to my dad every so often and it always gets him
Thats not a jumpscare then
Jumpscare should really renamed "Jumpstartle", because that's all they do, to startle you.
Loud jumpscare noises that's like asking you to be scared is like comedian trying to make someone laugh by tickling them. It's not genuine feeling, it is forced.
Nah. I don't like em. I have PTSD and myocardial lupus, you do the math on that one.
The first “teleport” is most likely the sea monster hitting you so hard you got flung a good distance across the ocean!
Through a wall?
@@stewagneryou were hit so hard that the atoms in the submarine including you clipped through the wall
@@Quenicalquantum tunnelling
@@Quenicalso, you teleported
Barely graze a wall- Sub goes all rich people Logitech controller.
BUT
Giant fish serves you up like it's tennis- Sub AOK!
Yeah I don't think that's what happened.
i like the theory that the quiet rapture didn't actually happen and that people in space were just transported to another universe so from their perspective planets vanished
I guess the issue there is that all the moons they already knew of are still there and were able to be found, so unless this "new universe" is an exact clone of all the known moons at exactly the positions they were calculated to be at with regards to their positions before the rapture. It's very likely that the quiet rapture actually happened.
@@shybandit521 It could just be that the moons were included in the quiet rapture, meaning that the old universe that didn’t get raptured still has all the planets, but no space stations and moons.
@@Periwinkleaccount well unfortunately in that case they're still dead as the tides will go out of control so that's not really much of a better ending
....Playing DUSK made me realize þat IL's lore is just anoþer cult stuff at a different time.
@@Stars-Sapphire Alternate realities/dimensions have been a narrative tool long before the MCU. It's more that it has overplayed the idea so hard that it single-handedly managed to tarnish the very idea for other stories
Something interesting to note, especially when dealing with the Void entry and it's relation to stars and starlight. As someone said in another video, even when the stars are gone, the light from them is still travelling a long distance, so for the people living inside the post quiet rapture world, you will see a sky full of dead, long gone stars that still seem to be there.
Oooooh maybe that's what the prisoner meant when he said beyond the veil, it was a veil of illusory light made by long dead stars! Great point.
A lot of the stars in our own night sky today are already dead too
@@DannyEastes not really true, the furthest stars are only 100,000 light years away, and stars live tens of billions of years. a star would basically have to have died in the last few thousand years, which is an incredibly tiny portion of its life. its very unlikely that theres more than only a few in the night sky that are actually gone right now
@@womp47not all stars are the same, and stars at 60x sun mass last around 3 million years. The universe is around 13.8 billion years old, and a lot of stars were born in that 3.8 billion year span in the beginning, so it is feasible for star with the same mass as the sun to bla bla bla, science, I am too lazy to continue writing.
@axelhanson4947 No no, go on.
I actually really like the idea of space stations and not planets and stars were "raptured" and transported into another Hellish dimension (and so all the planets just fine and their inhabitants wonder - the stations go). It would be a really interesting twist.
Same, adds another thing to think about
It also gives _somewhat_ of a reason as to why the COI didn't seem worried that the sm-8 got blammo'd. If the universe was actually ending, and you lost a valuable research vessel, you'd be freaking out. The fact that they _weren't_ freaking out is telling. It heavily implies someone in the COI knows what happened, knows what the Silent Rapture really is.
Thinking logically, it implies only 1 of 2 possible explanations:
1. The Silent Rapture was done on purpose - probably some sort of mass-teleportation of space stations into another dimension, for exploration purposes. In this scenario, the COI isn't worried about 1 lost sub. Even if it's the only one they have in _that_ universe, they can always summon another from our universe.
2. The Silent Rapture was _not_ done on purpose, and everyone in the new universe is fucked. In this scenario, the COI doesn't care about the sm-8, because they know nothing matters anymore. I mean, unless they can somehow get food and energy out of the Blood Moons, humanity is on its death bed already. Just a matter of waiting til resources run out.
Either way, I like the idea that the Silent Rapture didn't _actually_ kill all life in the universe, but instead takes place in some sort of cosmic Hell. It at least gives you hope that things are still relatively normal-ish back in our universe (minus the sudden disappearance of every space station).
If the Silent Rapture was some sort of Eldritch/Old God scenario, perhaps some great cosmic being felt threatened by mankind's growing control over space travel? Perhaps it saw the space stations as a threat to its cosmic dominance, and that's why it only targeted them?
Interesting thought, but doesn't the remaining starlight go against that?
@@Leonium797the stars aren’t there but their light remains most likely raptured along with everything else
This does make a lot of sense, and would be an interesting twist. It would explain why the blood oceans and the creatures within them seemed to pop up out of nowhere, and the origin of the strange building like structures.
the best standing theory right now is on reddit
a cosmic entity, decides to end all life possibly in the whole galaxy or universe, and due to some malevolent means, that entity decided to dump all their blood on the moons as decoration for torment for the remaining.
It seems pretty likely that there are two monsters because it looks like the second monster's eyes are on the side of it's head instead of the forward facing like the frog. The second monster also seems larger than the frog to me.
agreed. i think that the scaly creatur whos eye we see is the whale like one making all the noise. it also makes sense that it slaps our sub after we flashbang its eye to take a picture. if it was the frogfish, why wouldnt he just kill us right there?
He also hits you and causes flooding which is what allows frog to find its opportunity
Side of the head?
That’s a prey, but the “frog” has forward facing eyes
So, what do they “prey” eat?
And better yet, 21 years isn’t long enough for animals to evolve drastically enough to survive in blood
Meaning the blood ocean existed before the rapture, or the fish where placed there by whatever caused the rapture
@@tacticallemon7518 blood is extremely rich in resources. we have no idea how these creatures work or survive, so its unfair to rule out that they survived there. we also dont know if there are microorganisms for the whale creature to feed on.
@@infectedpotato117 The gills of a freshwater fish get fried in salt water
Not to mention blood is thicker than water, meaning it’d take extra force to do just about anything in a blood ocean
Sure, you could say it’s unintentional design, because the eyes would adapt to closer resemble deep sea fish due to the lack of light, but my point stands, 21 years is nowhere near enough time for a whale sized creature to adapt to swimming through a significantly thicker fluid
i got two theories:
either the blood moons are living beings and the blood oceans are like their innards, or:
all the habitable planets were transformed into these types of moons.
Evangelion lore
The blood is human though.
nothing makes sense in this game@@sparrowanon
@@w花b The terminal literally says that.. -.-
@@sparrowanonhow does the terminal know if they didn't taste it?
What make Iron Lung great is that The Moons are up to people's interpretations, Cosmic Horrors are the best after all.
My headcanon is The Moons are similar to The Brethren Moons from Dead Space, but instead of moving itself to other galaxies to eat planets these Iron Lung's Moons is just a living planet that have it's own Ecosystem living inside it like Mystery Flesh Pit National Park.
The moons from Dead Space are such a unique concept for cosmic horror. I am glad Iron Lung created something similar to it.
Im sorry the fucking what pit
Only losers and moron virgins defend ‘up to interpretation’
Funny enough markipler a huge huge dead space fan too and he’s helping with making this movie. But yeah the brethren moons is a freaky concept cause the way they send markers is crazy considering they give whatever species their the knowledge to travel in space but in doing so it spreads them
@@livingbruhmoment5355mystery flesh pit national park, wendigoon has a pretty good video on it btw
CorpseOcean was not a remake. Iron Lung was released on March 10th, of 2022, and CorpseOcean was released on December 19th, of 2021
Yes, I realize that error I meant a game within that genre of submarine horror games.
They never said it was a remake, he said it was a game in the same vein
CorpseOcean seems to be based on real events as well.
I can’t remember exactly went but 4 subs went missing in the 1980s and were never found.
@@eskelinesorta is. Pretty sure those subs imploded once they sunk
Thank you so much for including our work in your video! We really appreciate your analysis and critique. And to answer your question at this scene 33:57, yes, he did went head straight through the trench walls. Previously, before the convict started contemplating his freedom and punching one of the pipes, we get a shot of the submarine's sonar detecting three obstacles blocking his way through the point of interest. We initially wanted to create a sequence where we see the convict attempts to get around the walls and ending up not finding a path, but we thought that it would slow down the pace a bit too much and we were sort of rushing that scene as well. And for your information, the school project was aimed to be only 2-5 minutes long :)
- Farabi
You're very welcome, I really enjoyed it! I understand the hurry haha you do what you need to finish a project, great work :)
Stellar work- Thank you!
The character's movements in the film are quite realistic. His welded suit prevents him from rotating his neck in any direction, and that's why he moves so jarringly.
the quiet "barbie girl" in the background occasionally really helps perfect the mood in this video
See I know this is sarcasm but I'm still pissed at myself for missing that glaring mistake, oh well.
we are getting to the point where videos explaining and theorising about the game are longer than the game itself
37:41
FNaF is king of this LMAO
@@Valome_Virtual_Gravedigger whos talking about FNaf?
@@smitty_werben_jagerman_jensen No one, he's just giving an example 🙂
@@smitty_werben_jagerman_jensenhow dare you using smitty's name with that attitude
Imagine iron lung but all the photos are just black because blood isn't clear.
I always kinda went with the head canon that it’s an infrared camera, hence being only black and white, grainy, and still can “see” through the blood
@@Scybot That's a cool theory
Now I want to learn about stuff like that lol
THANK YOU. This has always bothered me! Blood is opaque, nothing would be able to see anything!
@@WobblesandBean but realism is in the way of my sCaRy hYpErReAliSTic OcEaNs oF hUmAn bLoOd
It could be diluted in water or some other liquid (maybe this other liquid would explain why the blood doesn't freeze)
Regarding your last point: that's pretty common behavior among sharks. If they aren't sure whether something is prey or not, they will brush by it to get a better look/smell and to judge the creature's reaction. While the monster isn't a shark, I think it probably was doing a similar thing since I'm sure it didn't get that big eating Iron Lungs.
The lore reason for the teleporrs, in my opinion, is a sea creature, or the "frog" buncing/pushing/tossing you as a sort of warning.
The fish likely sees the as an intruding rival and treats it as such.
30:45
I believe they are chains, not pipes or worms, but something that was holding something else in place, that has decayed and broken
ohhh i don't like that thought
That's. Really interesting actually. Good thought!!
That would make sense why they weren’t surprised that a ‘new’ creature has started breaking ships
something i'd like to mention, corpse ocean is actually some of the LEAST impressive work kira has done
they're known for being the developer of spooky's jumpscare mansion, but i'd personally highlight "lost in vivo" what i consider their magnum opus of horror
Ooof I gotta play that asap right now, thank you
Lost In Vivo is easily one of the best horror games I've ever played. It is simply criminal how underrated it is!
Lost in vivo was horrifying but it did have a bit of an audio bug to fix beforehand
They also made a gmod map that has a nazi flag
@pedrohenriquedecarvalhogon1453 what map Is that
An Iron Lung iceberg is the last place I expected to see an All Tomorrows reference. Good shit, my dude.
All of the small things not being affected, like space stations, moons, and asteroids reminds me of how you can't microwave things that are too small. It's interesting.
It's true. The waves just sorta miss it.
To this day the "frog" from Iron Lung is one of the scariest things I have ever experienced. For some reason seeing its... "face" is I think the closest I've ever gotten to genuine fear.
How
@@sarfarazgaming121thats the thing with fears, they are often irrational
Yeah when he put "frog" up in complete silence when showing the fan movie my heart nearly stopped.
@@Echodaratit scared the shit out of me
I applaud you doing your best to pronounce David Szymański's name correct! Most people see Polish name and are like: "Nope" 🤣
Haha thank you, people have trouble pronouncing my name too so I understand the annoyance
I understand, I too often have trouble with "David"
cringe
people always pronounce my name wrong, I always tell them "And this is the easy version!"
@@lingricen8077 have a sincere moment for once
I think having at least two monstrous creatures (the "frog" monster and the monster you see the eye of) add to the game. It's already apparent that there is a skeleton of a yet unknown creature, suggesting something of an ecosystem, if it can be called that.
But one of the great mysteries is how are there even any monsters in the first place. The human blood oceans aren't natural, so it's highly unlikely that these creatures evolved there. Whether some ritual was performed or mad scientific experiment conducted, the existence of these unnatural creatures are terrifying.
Also, If I was a scientist in this universe, trying to study the Rapture, I would take a look at light from nearby star systems. The Alpha Centauri system is about 4 lightyears away from ours, a system complete with planets. So depending on where in space you are, you can witness the precise moment of the Rapture a few years after it happened.
48:26 On the topic of the switch port, I find it funny how the ESRB rating description only says "Mild Blood".
lmao
only a little bit yeah
Wow thank you soo much for reviewing the short movie made by my good friend, I was actually the VA for this one and its my first gig we are soo glad you enjoyed it !!
You're very welcome! I enjoyed your performance, it was a strong suit of the short film haha. Reminded me of Simon from SOMA.
27:26 - cow tools.
an old single page comic titled "cow tools" in a newspaper that resulted in people running wild with what the tools could possibly mean and what the cows would use them for because One of them was similar to a human tool but the rest were unrecognizable. eventually the creator came out and said they werent made with meanings in mind, just that it would be funny to have tools made by a cow.
this type of creation is my personal favorite, and also how i sort of go about building my own worlds. i think fan speculation and theories are part of the fun, and an overall more satisfying form of world building (for me at least), and it also inspires community among people who like the thing.
I think a fangame set in a tiny bathysphere would be awesome, considering that it's basically claustrophobia to the max
Ooh I need to look up what a bathysphere is I've never heard of that
@@SaadTheGlad I think they're talking about the Bioshock thing
But what really makes you nerd
i only know what a bathysphere is from that one rugrats/wild thornberrys crossover movie
@@fridaykitty I knew what a bathysphere was before I watched the movie. That’s how much of a nerd I am
The beeping event, i like the idea that the *f o r g* passed by wondering "what are you?"
the frog attacks you BECAUSE of the passing by event, it determined you were prey, it's food.
Though, i have a idea how the *thing* see's down there in the blood ocean, thermal vision. The blood *has* to be cold, it's in space! But with you producing heat, *it* see's you. Maybe *it* has two visions, "normal" and then thermal. Maybe even the SM-13 produces heat?
EDIT: Thanks man for hearting! Because of the "since we don't see any sign of an anglerfish-like light" I've got a idea based on that, It's not light based, it's thermal based, the frog uses something similar to the anglerfishs light, but because of the blood ocean and it probably being cold, it's thermal.
Ooh that's a good point I like the thermal vision part, since we don't see any sign of an anglerfish-like light.
Just gonna be a grammar loser real quick;
It’s means “it is”
Its is possessive
The note left by the previous driver: I don't think the COI would bother recovering the sub, taking out the old occupant then re-sealing in the player. I think it's a note written by the character the player is currently playing. That fits the grim and fatalist feel of the game and the world 6:40
That's actually what I always thought.
Like, they never said the sub you were in was used before.... They said the last sub they sent got destroyed... I never heard anything about a previous operator commiting suicide.
0:36 Polish guy here, you have my respect for actually checking how to pronounce the surname. You got it pretty close with your second try as well, so congrats there.
Thank you! I appreciate it. I was genuinely surprised by how I couldn't get it decently right haha
I would've thought David was more famous for Dusk than Squirrel Stapler
Yeah I was thinking the same thing
Do you get to meet GOD in Dusk?
@@alexandrefillot9600 You fight Nyarlathotep. Does that count?
@@rikterterran3833 He's voiced by Stephen Weyte so yes.
I have a theory that maybe fits into the lore:
The Quiet Rapture is actually a rapture that "god" (maybe the squirrel stapler god idk) did but its not that kind of classic 'humans ascending to heaven' rapture but an extinction kind of rapture where "god" made a portal that sucks up every habitable planet (except earth i guess) and put them on empty moons with big holes in it and the sunken modern buildings is just pieces from Mars or Earth before it went rogue.
I also thought about "other habitable planets" besides Mars and Earth, maybe The Frog was an alien animal that somehow survived The Quiet Rapture and able to adapt to live in the sea of human blood (i mean if The Frog is an alien it probably lived in the same kind of "ecosystem" like the blood moons)
Its actually kind of funny theorizing about the Iron Lung universe, its kind of a mix of 'GOD DECIDES THAT HUMANITY MUST DIE' and *Universe.exe has run into an irreversible error* and also 'Unmentioned discovery of an ancient otherworldly civilization technology that activates the universe's s*icide protocol'.
Ok.
Ultrakill reference omggg!!11!!1!1!1!
I get why God wouldn’t bring us human with everyone else, we are horrible
There's also an Iron Lung game in Rec Room, allowing you to play it in VR.
There's no terminal, and hitting something will just respawn you at the start.
Pretty good overall.
This was a great video. I enjoyed your sense of humor and I also like the stance you take that "there is no correct answer, the point is to theorize" because I think many other people doing deep dives do not grasp that.
Thank you! I now have proof I'm funny by at least one person, yes.
And yeah, when you have as little information as in the case of Iron Lung, you've got no choice but to theorise and all your answers are equally valid.
Shockingly and extremely well done. What caught my eye most wasn't just that you put so much effort into this to make it a polished and engaging experience, but you went out of your way to show off some highlights off the game in its scary sections--except rather than telegraph it, you go out of your way to make the experience emulate what players experience during their gameplay.
I don't really do well with playing horror games, and I don't have a lot of time to play games myself. So the fact that you have purposefully incorporated some of the game's plot beats and elements within your video made it feel extremely friendly and thoughtful to people like me who might only ever experience a game by watching deep dives. It's gotten you a follow from me and I hope you keep it up--you deserve way more than just 2k subscribers.
Thank you very much! I'm super glad you appreciated that aspect of the video because it's what I focused on the most. I really wanted to imitate the feeling you get when you're down in the sub so I kept the ambience, jumpscares and other bits in there. Another video is in the works, so stay tuned :)
My first thought when looking at the game icon in the video was "sarcophagus," which technically wouldnt be too far off since you are basically in a submerged sarcophagus
Indeed, except you've been mummified alive...
6:36 Background music goes hard!😤😤😤😤
Really sets up the atmosphere!
But really: great video👍
Thank you! And yes the bg music definitely enhances the whole being trapped in a submarine in a blood ocean part, mhm.
Who would've though such a small game has such a HUGE lore... even though many answers are meant to stay unknown.
52:01 Iron Lung reminded me of one of his earliest games: The Moon Sliver. He later made another game in the same universe called The Music Machine, which among other things explained what was going on in The Moon Sliver. They were both excellent and the second game didn't ruin the first like explanations often can in horror. He might be planning a similar follow-up to Iron Lung.
Maybe we'll get more lore™ from the movie ?
@@torque8047 Mark said the movie and game canon will be separate though - for now...
Either way this will be how a lot of people get in contact with this movie.
Always good to watch a less professional video that still holds up. It's nice to have someone speaking with less of a robotic voice and in more of a "just vibing" tone.
It's a good video :D
Hahah I was starting to get worried with the less than professional thing, thanks a lot! :D
a thought; what if the "blood ocean" just has a high concentration of iron? this could explain the murky red color.
Thing is the scans done by the COI confirm that it was specifically human blood so it presumably had plasma, red and white blood cells...probably.
It could be thin blood with a high amount of water, just to explain the opacity!
Incredible content, as always! It's too bad great content like this lacks such views. Even so, don't let that stop you from doing what you like.
Thank you very much! The lack of views won't stop me hopefully, I already have an idea for another video in mind!
I'm pretty sure the weird worm hole thing you can find in the west part of the game, through the really thin corridor, is most likely where all the blood comes from.
Why? Because I'm not sure my memory is bad but I think there was like a current pushing you away from the wormhoke. So what you may ask? This is a human blood ocean. The current is a current of human blood, flowing out from that wormhole thingy.
I like to imagine all humans were all forcibly extruded through some sort of small hole, and thus being turned into a pulp, then the pulp separated from the blood and sunk while the blood floated up towards the wormhole and got expelled on the moon's surface thus creating the blood ocean.
That's Genius actually 😮
Thank you for explaining the terminal because when I saw it on my first playthrough I typed in "help", didn't get a response, and shrugged before moving on
Amazing video, so happy that this happened to show up in my feed. I played Iron Lung when it first came out, and I think like most people, assumed it was a fun little mystery and wouldn't get more updates. I'm ESTATIC to hear the dev added more lore for fans to chew thier teeth into.
My biggest thought I would like to share is about the sub teleporting, I've always interpretted it as the monster "bumping" into the submarine. I find the idea that the monster is silently observing you along your journey, learning more about you as you try to learn about it is UNNERVEING AS ALL HELL. While this game's monster is more frog/fish like in nature, I am reminded of how my cats will "play" with half dead crickets. They find it much more entertaining to swat at them and see thier reaction than play with cat toys.
Thank you! I like your interpretation, especially the part where the monster is more intelligent than us and it's basically playing with its food, unnerving.
here before this blows up
Just like a certain submarine
Same bruh
You were correct. Congratulations 👍
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This video caught my attention cause of the amazing lore behind this game.
32:50 Jesus Christ man, I don’t know if you did that to jumpscare people, but it fucking worked. I always thought jumpscares had to be loud and something had to jump at you, but you definitely proved me wrong and I despise you for it.
Edit after finishing video: You really like to immerse us with jumpscares, don’t you?
Hahah, I very much did that to spook some people. Little jumpscares here and there fit the nature of the game and I wanted this video to feel like you were in the submarine yourself so you always had to be on edge.
@@SaadTheGlad Well you certainly succeeded! Great video, by the way. I saw how you noticed Squirrel Stapler, and it’s a really good, albeit disturbing game. It would be nice to see your take on it.
@RomanTorchwickRWBY Thank you! I have a couple of video essay ideas in the works and I'm gonna give out Squiller Stapler a try too.
@@SaadTheGlad You scared me dude
my heart fucking stopped man
5:54 Literally what mark’s character says in the new trailer (that just released) for the movie, literally one-to-one. You can really feel his suffering and the revenge he wants them for sending him on this death trap
I’m a huge fan of the game and can’t wait to see Mark’s acting, music and the movie in general. Specially the creature from the end of the game, I can’t wait to see how they could potentially make that big fish Monster scarier than it already is
I’m with you. It’s amazing seeing how far he’s come. The fact that a small indie horror game inspired him enough to try and make it a movie is fascinating and frankly pretty inspirational.
I know I’m watching it as soon as it drops
His movie better be fucking amazing. He chose it over being in the FNAF movie. What a goddamn let down. Less of a reason to watch it now.
@@Sebastianator01 He didnt choose it over the FNAF movie, they literally contacted him while he was already working on the movie so he didnt have time to go.
@@Sebastianator01 ….I’ll take a whole new movie based on a indie horror game. Over a cameo in a different movie based on an indie horror game that was coming out sooner or later anyways.
Mark hasn’t been the fnaf guy since fnaf 4 came out.
I’m glad he chose something original and creative for himself.
0:00 - Intro
The Surface
0:27 - David Szymanski
1:00 - Blood Oceans
1:54 - The Quiet Rapture
3:18 - Points of Interest
3:55 - The Consolidation of Iron
4:27 - Lore Update
4:49 - The SM-13
5:34 - Beyond the Veil
6:36 - Moon AT-5 and Z-8
Below The Surface
7:11 - The Oxygen is a Scripted Event
8:07 - Eden
8:37 - Earth is Redacted
9:03 - The Moons are Alive
9:32 - Out of Bounds
9:56 - The Last Photo
10:23 - Filament Station
11:08 - Profanity Alert
11:29 - Someone else died in the Iron Lung
11:44 - The Humming Monolith
12:27 - the Iron Lung Movie
13:10 - Sinking Iron
13:47 - The Blood is Human
14:19 - Game Achievements
15:14 - Mars
16:05 - Conviction Realization
18:46 - You Are a Convict from Eden
19:08 - Mods
19:29 - Negative Reviews
Bottom of the Iceberg
20:15 - Frog
20:51 - Iron Lung Roblox
22:28 - The Iron Lung Icon
23:34 - Burner Subs
24:09 - Oceangate Memes
25:21 - There's Three Other Blood Oceans
25:51 - What Caused the Rapture?
27:29 - Eden has the last existing trees
28:01 - Iron Breath
29:40 - Depths VII
30:04 - Worms or Pipes
30:54 - This Feels so Wrong
31:35 - OST inspired by DOOM 64's OST
32:10 - Deep Descent
35:51 - Iron Lung Scratch Remake
36:23 - Fanmade Remakes
36:37 - Corpse Ocean
40:34 - David's Other Games
41:16 - EIC and IMC
42:04 - Void
The Depths
43:11 - Frog is in Ultrakill
44:02 - Chop Goblins development screenshots
44:26 - The COI knows what's down there
44:58 - The submarine teleports
45:39 - There are less than 1000 humans left
46:15 - There are two monsters
47:04 - The game takes place in 2370 A.D
47:51 - Removed Points of Interest
48:21 - Nintendo Switch Port
The Abyss
49:16 - Development screenshots
50:16 - Spin N' Shoot
50:36 - What happened to the uninhabitable planets?
51:25 - There's something breathing inside the building
52:01 - Possible prequel/sequel
52:55 - The thing that passes by your sub
54:21 - Outro
The game lends itself to becoming super immersive. My first playtrough I was home alone and turned all the lights off and only used peices of paper and a pencil to make the navigation caluculations (I suck at mental maths). Games don't need to be complex to be good.
This was a great video analysis, i loved every single bit of it, and i'm honestly surprised you decided to go into depth on entries that i didn't expect you to go too deep on.
Also, yes, i do speak spanish XD
Thank you very much! I went in depth on every single one as best I could because I wanted to give this game (and the iceberg) proper attention haha.
Muy bueno!
Awesome
having the same combination of dark theme youtube and that particular firefox theme made this a fully immersive experience btw
Patrolling the endless abyss almost makes you wish for a blood moon.
When an in game spelling error becomes a trivia entry with a spelling error
There are indeed two monsters and there is a reveal of it with the SM8. See, the Iron Lung is one of the burner subs and when the "Frog" finally attacks you, it punches a neat hole in the back of it and can swim inside of your sub. However the "eye" picture is of something MUCH larger and the SM8 didn't have a hole punched in it, it was obliterated in half and was not a rinky dink mini sub like the one you're piloting. While I'm not trying to discredit the lethality of the "frog", I'm instead trying to put emphasis on the thalassophobic nature in that there isn't just ONE creature that can end your life.
Makes sense, the frog can be like a mid-tier predator in its enviroment while the creature you are talking about might be an apex predator, or just a big pissed off whale-like animal.
I'm a barbie girl, living in a barbie world.
Goddamit.
@@SaadTheGlad Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
Lol
COME ON BARBIE, LET’S GO PARTY!
This was genuinely delightful 😂
I legit thought this was a documentary about the medical iron lung, but im sticking around for the analysis
I love the Barbie girl in the background it adds to the spookiness
Thank you so much, you didn't explain to me "how an iceberg" works. I feel like every video in that format repeats, the beginning. So already you get a like for not wasting time.
Haha not at all, the video is already almost an hour long and the format is pretty known to begin with.
Can't believe someone made this game in real life!
W H A T
O H N O
Oh I get it, that submarine that imploded with those wealthy peeps
Won't be the last time
Thought this was gonna be on the history of the iron lung that sustained lives of multiple people decades ago, but this video game is just as cool too
"I realize I am switching between second and first person a lot, so, bear with you"
That caught me really off guard lmfao
I really appreciate you voicing the logs. It really shows that you put work into the video.
Thank you! Glad you appreciate it.
I love the idea it was something quantum that changed briefly, and maybe the observer effect had an influence on the planets containing life and the light from stars that either erased them, or kept them linked so they didn't change universes or whatever.
32:50 I don't think I've ever been jumpscared by a silent image until now. Brilliantly done my guy also screw you LOL.
Hahah thank you, I mainly put it there to test whether it would be effective as a jumpscare or not because it was so jarring. :P
@SaadTheGlad I was playing a game and noticed the sudden silence, so I looked at the video and boom creepy fish face.
I never played a game before that scared me the way Iron Lung has. When Frog burst out I fell out of my chair screaming.
I was lucky enough to have a short conversation with Mr. Szymanski and the guy is super nice as well but I should have expected that since it seems like everyone in horror seems to be some of the nicest and funniest people around
The sad thing is, what you said about "not even the author thought of it" probably applies to most of this game's lore. He had an aesthetic, he had a few spooky sentences, and that was enough to ship the game on.
A theory I really like is that whatever project created the energy blip you find was the cause of the QR. The item went haywire, and teleported the planets and their starts beyond previously know territories, which would explain why the ship dwellers would still be able to see the starlight of stars that moved away. If the ships themselves were teleported away, they wouldn’t be seeing the same light of the starts, and their constellations would be vastly different, something which would be noted if it were true.
I mean the closest star is like 2 lightyears away, meaning if it disappears right now you won't know for 2 years. Our own galaxy is like 100k lightyears wide, meaning it would take 100,000 years for the light of a star from the other side to reach you, ergo if it disappeared you wouldn't know for that duration as it's old light is still traveling to you.
Good video, love Iron Lung! The background noises that occasionally made it into the video made me think I was going insane, but 10/10
When i read this, there was "Barbie Girl" playing in the Background
"I'm a simple man, I see a video talking about Iron Lung, I click." Cheers from reddit.
Cheers man, much appreciated!
I have seen the title screen with beans instead of blood so many times that I thought the bean texture was the real one
“David.. ahhhhh um, hold on a second” subscribed ✔️
Great video, but I gotta say I appreciate you googling the pronunciation of David's name. So many people say shit like "I'm gonna butcher this" or "I won't even try to pronounce this" when it comes to names they've never seen before, when it would take like 5 seconds to look it up and get it right. It's not a big gesture, but it's really respectful. Nice going!
Thanks a lot! I also get annoyed by some people who won't bother looking up the proper pronunciation haha, my own name has a letter that can't be pronounced by most westerners so I could relate to Szymanski.
@@SaadTheGlad that one being?
I can't help but feel like the quiet rapture event may have been somewhat inspired off the "human instrumentality project" from end of evangelion. I may be grasping straws here but I don't know. The "humanity turning imploding/exploding into blood" aspect of both of them just cant help but think about it. Its most definitely a coincidence. As the blood ocean thing is most definitely from the book of revelations, more specifically Revelation 16:3.
I love how the fact that this game has little lore, it gives more mystery and sometimes all you just need is a little spookiness to set the mood.
@christopherjones5540 im more or less going off visual aesthetics than it actually being blood but its worth pointing out the uncanny similarity that they both smell like blood. Ik lcl is not blood.
Also several shots in EoE have the sea of lcl look very uncannily similar to blood particularly the infamous scene at the end.
I always have a fascination with media that builds up to a single moment. Things like Iron Lung, Cats, Hadestown, and Creature in the Well all have an entire media length just to set up a single moment, and that whole media lives or dies by that moment.
For whatever reason when I saw this I thought it was gonna be about like the medical device. I thought “how the hell is there lore for a breathing apparatus.” You’ve sold me on this game though, looks really interesting! Thank you!
You're welcome!
Short horror games like these are what keep me going
30:08 Come on, that's clearly Beetlejuice's pet octopus taking a nap
wasn't expecting much, but i was pleasantly surprised! this is a really good video!
Thank you very much! I worked a lot on it haha
The rapture really does give the same vibes like the duskers, not knowing what actually happened and where is everyone, how it happened etc, I adore both of these games for that.
I've only heard of this game starting last night, and normally I don't like horror, but I do like nautical/naval stuff, and I must say, saying I'm intrigued about this game is an absolute understatement. It's so interesting and unique, not only having an ocean of blood, but also in space, and the lore as well. I also have a theory on maybe how the blood ocean got there? The star anomaly seems to be a teleporter of sorts, maybe when the rapture happened it teleported all the perished human's blood onto the moons, making an ocean. Just speculation.
Imagine dying because you wanted to experience something amazing then getting laughed at by people because you had more money than them. It's kind of crazy how jealous money can make people that they would think your death is funny.
I also don't understand how people can say it's a dumb decision to do it. It's like paying to go on a rollercoaster and dying.
I hope people can get a chuckle from my death. I don't really see why you'd want to go see the Titanic wreckage tho. It's just a sunk passenger ship.
the oceangate farce was run by people with lots of money and no sense. they drove a sub down to depths where it was guaranteed to implode.
I watched this video without knowing who you are or how many subs you have. This is a really well made video, you deserve more recognition!
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it haha
47:49 if you consider how developed this world is, it really hammers in fully that they did not expect you to survive. The submarine you’re sent in is comparable to actual trash when you think of what else they might have
The monolith is most likely a direct reference to 2001: a space Odyssey, idk if this has special lore significance but in the 2001 one movies the monolith has something to do with life
on the topic of there being no concrete answers: I love that there are many things you present as objectively true about the game (because you just naturally assumed them to be the obvious conclusion) that I didn't think at all. for example you see the building photo as evidence of prior life on AT-5, but I saw it as evidence that pieces of an inhabited planet were teleported there along with humans/their blood, and that maybe these moons are ENTIRELY made up of dislocated planets, and their current inhabitants came about later
Y’know, the people who were on all the habitable planets are probably much more freaked out that all their space stations (and uninhabitable planets) disappeared without any reason
Iron lungs are so creepy as a machine ment to keep some alive its loose an empty wheelchair just uncanny
Like and empty wheelchair*
I totally get thinking that the voice acting in sinking iron is bad, all I wanna say is that was Lixian voice acting for it. I'm not sure if you knew or not, but just thought it to be a fun fact
No I knew that haha, indie devs often voice their own games