Other hints that suggest protagonist isn't really in his home: 1. You can find a trashcan outside that is covered with the dark floor goo 2. In the basement, you can find a dark chomper inside one of the rooms 3. Bugs crawling out of cracked walls 4. You can see writhing bodies when you look inside the cracked wall
That just makes the ending so infinitly more creepy I think. Because after all this time and terror, the protagonist is just happy to be home, but something just seems off about it. I watched the false ending played by a streamer and I gotta say I never trusted all the peace and harmony of his home. I didn't see any direct hints there, but even without that given, I found it damn unsettling, remembering how his house is just "a footwalk" away from what so deeply haunts you
If you look into the mirror you look like a monster yourself. Later your neighbors speak to you just casually which is kinda off since you look like that or everyone is a monster in Poland.
Holy hell, the main protagonist looks like a... detective of sorts... Maybe he was a private investigator of sorts (with a partner who likely died at some point) sent on an investigation in the woods.
Something like that. He is one of the Outsiders along with Maciek (The one clutching to the Flamethrower) and a unnamed Soldier (The one stuck to the Tree before Chapter 2 in the underground tunnels). Considering the dog tags they are military and most likely sent by the Government. Not sure if the protagonist is a soldier as well but they are all most likely sent there to investigate Darkwood yes. The prologue takes place after the protagonist gets seperated from his group and the story begins.
And the masked trader was one of the group too. That's why he saved us from the chomper attack at the doctors house in the beginning and kept repeating "We should stick together". And the dead guy buried near Elephants shack, who also had the tunnel key.
The Trader also seems to be wearing a hazmat suit of sorts, and when you're walking in a wheat field at the end of the game, you can find another hazmat on a scarecrow. This could be the Protagonist's suit that he left while fleeing from the military camp.
Whatever the protagonist contracted, the Trader seemed to as well as he too was unable to speak and only communicated by writing things on his arm/hand.
I don't believe that what the protagonist experiences (ie. what we play) is a dream. I think we are trapped in the forest accidentally, our memory is wiped by the Being or some trauma, and the false idea that the picture of the road actually leads home. In reality the road "home" leads deeper into the forest, where The Being resides, and it is simply trying to envelop us back into a sort of collective consciousness. My guess would be that it sees an autonomous entity as a threat to its safety and is trying to neutralise the threat by absorbing it. The game is definitely inspired by the Stalker series, it also had a secret ending where you escape a "dream" reality and the Forest is very similar to the Zone. Great game, has that feeling that stays in your gut even after you finish it.
Michal Kudlacek false ending:you go to sleep as if it over True ending:you comfront the truth and burn everything to end the nightmare Mean:you're fucked in both ending but free in true ending
Yeah. For false ending, you didn't listen to the radio, you didn't discover evidence that you were dreaming, once you fall asleep, game over. Basically the "being" was this weird tree that (I think) captured people and used them as a life source while making them go into a very deep sleep. But for our protagonist. If you listen to the radio and discover you are in the dream, you can make yourself wake up and witness everyone else, all those people you saw there, they were just your cellmates. The true ending was the best unlike the false ending where you fall asleep and continue being used by the tree. While in the true ending you end up STILL dying BUT you manage to get your soul free out of there. Maybe the next people who are born, won't be in a tree. But in a world where tomorrow would exist.
@@hikaru6027 - I made a mistake about how you 'wake up where the being is'. When you burn the giant tree of people in order to get to the 'road to home'. This is the problem: You AREN'T going home. You're just going deeper into where the Being is located at, and the tiredness and the affects of being in the area is taking a toll on the Protagonist so what he sees isn't real. Basically he begins to hallucinate heavily. Once you get to your 'apartment', that's when your protagonist takes off his clothes and sleeps on the wood naked. But what WE see is him in some other clothing, walking around and petting his dog and etc. What wakes him up is the shock of 'Oh my god, none of this is real' and that fear is what made him wake up, not finding himself at his room but where the heart of the Darkwood is, the Being. Long story short, you end up burning the Being, the flames destroy all that Darkwood. The town is free and now everyone can go in and out of the area without the trees growing super fast, the end. Turns out that it's only a large town that gets taken over by the Being, not the whole world. The guy you play as is some government person who came to investigate stuff going on, but ends up getting trapped and etc. And that his ACTUAL home is probably FAR away and that he was mislead by the warmth of his hopes, which were given by the Being, I think.
Uhm I did not have this ending. I burned the tree (cause I have died in the radio tower dream) and after coming come, when i started dragging the furniture away, there were no roots at all, so i just ate the chicken soup and went to sleep... edit: oh ok, i should to these 3 steps before going into my apartment
Nah, you wind up in the same place (your 'dream' apartment) and can still do the fake or real ending from there - you just get to avoid the latter parts of chapter 2 including doing the elephants' quest, getting the oxygen tank and burning the talking tree.
Can you make another video with the 3rd ending from radiotower? It leads you to the last dream sequence when you have to face some tough enemies in order to get the ending, and you only have one chance to beat them, even on normal difficulty.
there seems to be different text in the ending for me probably based on which side quests the player does/does not do in the game, for example, I never did the quest with the boy and his violin, and in the ending, for me it said he hid in the house with the trap door that led to the underground bunker, and after the fire ceased, it opened, and he escaped. Also, in my ending, it said all of the villagers perished, etc. Kind of cool
it was kinda possible. You would encounter a group of people trying to escape and they would block your path. You would set them on fire and run through them and then an explosion would occur to which the protagonist succumbs and dies.
Epilogue scene will be the same. Tree will be like "thanks for not killing us" and then fool you with the same dream. The only difference is that you can explore pre-dream location more. Just tried myself
The biggest surprise about the ending of the game is that you find out their engine can do 3d rendering, not just pixel art! And they only use it for like 1 minute of gameplay x'D
A feeling of warmth emanating from the being
*returns warmth with flamethrower*
fight warmth with warmth!
WARHAMMER 40K TIME
"BROTHER GET THE FLAMER!"
*"THE HEAVY FLAMER"*
After burning for a bit an escape way opens to the south. It has some more events and a bit of running but I don't think you can avoid dying.
You can't. You can't survive the blaze.
i love how his reaction to realizing that he didn't escape is just "got it." that's a broken man right there
he died in the fire in the same posture he went to sleep in his apartment
Fetal protects the organs and keeps one warm.. which he probably didn't need at the end admittedly :P
Other hints that suggest protagonist isn't really in his home:
1. You can find a trashcan outside that is covered with the dark floor goo
2. In the basement, you can find a dark chomper inside one of the rooms
3. Bugs crawling out of cracked walls
4. You can see writhing bodies when you look inside the cracked wall
Inside the cracked walls are hundred Red Chompers too, and the pulsing thing from tunnel 21
That just makes the ending so infinitly more creepy I think. Because after all this time and terror, the protagonist is just happy to be home, but something just seems off about it. I watched the false ending played by a streamer and I gotta say I never trusted all the peace and harmony of his home. I didn't see any direct hints there, but even without that given, I found it damn unsettling, remembering how his house is just "a footwalk" away from what so deeply haunts you
If you look into the mirror you look like a monster yourself. Later your neighbors speak to you just casually which is kinda off since you look like that or everyone is a monster in Poland.
Whats the difference between a red and a dark chomper?
@@jhonnoilcringeincarnato8593 dark ones are tougher and appear in dreams mostly.
Lol at 8:04 the person in the top right says "crater_sleepers_istota_9"
"Istota" means "being" or "creature in Polish for anyone wondering
This ending literally teared me up.I mean damn.This is one good game.
don't go to sleep...
Holy hell, the main protagonist looks like a... detective of sorts...
Maybe he was a private investigator of sorts (with a partner who likely died at some point) sent on an investigation in the woods.
Something like that. He is one of the Outsiders along with Maciek (The one clutching to the Flamethrower) and a unnamed Soldier (The one stuck to the Tree before Chapter 2 in the underground tunnels). Considering the dog tags they are military and most likely sent by the Government. Not sure if the protagonist is a soldier as well but they are all most likely sent there to investigate Darkwood yes. The prologue takes place after the protagonist gets seperated from his group and the story begins.
And the masked trader was one of the group too. That's why he saved us from the chomper attack at the doctors house in the beginning and kept repeating "We should stick together". And the dead guy buried near Elephants shack, who also had the tunnel key.
The Trader also seems to be wearing a hazmat suit of sorts, and when you're walking in a wheat field at the end of the game, you can find another hazmat on a scarecrow. This could be the Protagonist's suit that he left while fleeing from the military camp.
Whatever the protagonist contracted, the Trader seemed to as well as he too was unable to speak and only communicated by writing things on his arm/hand.
I don't believe that what the protagonist experiences (ie. what we play) is a dream. I think we are trapped in the forest accidentally, our memory is wiped by the Being or some trauma, and the false idea that the picture of the road actually leads home. In reality the road "home" leads deeper into the forest, where The Being resides, and it is simply trying to envelop us back into a sort of collective consciousness.
My guess would be that it sees an autonomous entity as a threat to its safety and is trying to neutralise the threat by absorbing it.
The game is definitely inspired by the Stalker series, it also had a secret ending where you escape a "dream" reality and the Forest is very similar to the Zone.
Great game, has that feeling that stays in your gut even after you finish it.
I think darkwood is more dangerous than zone.
As with the false ending, what happened? I couldnt read it
Michal Kudlacek false ending:you go to sleep as if it over
True ending:you comfront the truth and burn everything to end the nightmare
Mean:you're fucked in both ending but free in true ending
Yeah. For false ending, you didn't listen to the radio, you didn't discover evidence that you were dreaming, once you fall asleep, game over.
Basically the "being" was this weird tree that (I think) captured people and used them as a life source while making them go into a very deep sleep.
But for our protagonist. If you listen to the radio and discover you are in the dream, you can make yourself wake up and witness everyone else, all those people you saw there, they were just your cellmates.
The true ending was the best unlike the false ending where you fall asleep and continue being used by the tree.
While in the true ending you end up STILL dying BUT you manage to get your soul free out of there. Maybe the next people who are born, won't be in a tree. But in a world where tomorrow would exist.
@@syrupsnake302 damn, you makes the story clear for me
@@hikaru6027 - I made a mistake about how you 'wake up where the being is'.
When you burn the giant tree of people in order to get to the 'road to home'. This is the problem: You AREN'T going home. You're just going deeper into where the Being is located at, and the tiredness and the affects of being in the area is taking a toll on the Protagonist so what he sees isn't real.
Basically he begins to hallucinate heavily. Once you get to your 'apartment', that's when your protagonist takes off his clothes and sleeps on the wood naked. But what WE see is him in some other clothing, walking around and petting his dog and etc.
What wakes him up is the shock of 'Oh my god, none of this is real' and that fear is what made him wake up, not finding himself at his room but where the heart of the Darkwood is, the Being.
Long story short, you end up burning the Being, the flames destroy all that Darkwood. The town is free and now everyone can go in and out of the area without the trees growing super fast, the end.
Turns out that it's only a large town that gets taken over by the Being, not the whole world.
The guy you play as is some government person who came to investigate stuff going on, but ends up getting trapped and etc. And that his ACTUAL home is probably FAR away and that he was mislead by the warmth of his hopes, which were given by the Being, I think.
Uhm I did not have this ending. I burned the tree (cause I have died in the radio tower dream) and after coming come, when i started dragging the furniture away, there were no roots at all, so i just ate the chicken soup and went to sleep...
edit: oh ok, i should to these 3 steps before going into my apartment
7:24
My favorite part!
*The Burning*
Is there another ending if you go through the radio tower bunker?
No
Nah, you wind up in the same place (your 'dream' apartment) and can still do the fake or real ending from there - you just get to avoid the latter parts of chapter 2 including doing the elephants' quest, getting the oxygen tank and burning the talking tree.
The tunnel leading out of the forest collapsed whilst the one leading to the being still was intact
the text is too small... cant read...
huang george My monitor is ultrawide, that's why anyone using 16:9 is gonna have a hard time reading it.
Can you make another video with the 3rd ending from radiotower? It leads you to the last dream sequence when you have to face some tough enemies in order to get the ending, and you only have one chance to beat them, even on normal difficulty.
PowerXsardi2 You don't have to fight at all. All it does is get you to the same road that's in every ending.
there seems to be different text in the ending for me probably based on which side quests the player does/does not do in the game, for example, I never did the quest with the boy and his violin, and in the ending, for me it said he hid in the house with the trap door that led to the underground bunker, and after the fire ceased, it opened, and he escaped. Also, in my ending, it said all of the villagers perished, etc. Kind of cool
Blue pill: Bliss
Red Pill:
8:04 seems like a bug to me
It really is
So everyone dies basically.
not everyone, you sacrifice yourself so that other people can escape the dream
@@lastor9148 more like you kill the entity and stop it from claiming more lives.
how the fuck is any one to read whats on this screen got to have damn good eye sight
Wasn't it possible to run out after putting flame on this "thing" ?
it was kinda possible. You would encounter a group of people trying to escape and they would block your path. You would set them on fire and run through them and then an explosion would occur to which the protagonist succumbs and dies.
Now, kids, what's the moral of the story?
Playing with fire is awesome. Yeay! ^_^
"Dont sleep there is much work to do"
Poland horror is depressing and you can't win at game.
Burn down every forest you see
Pretty much don't ever mess with mother nature
He died in honor to save people
*F*
what monitor are you using?
can you do the radio tower ending too, plaease?
Epilogue scene will be the same. Tree will be like "thanks for not killing us" and then fool you with the same dream. The only difference is that you can explore pre-dream location more. Just tried myself
So, for this ending should I go through radio tower dream or burning the tree sequence is preferable?
Doesn't matter.
Thanks
I didn't burnt the tree. So in the end The Three hugged the tree and died happily.
The biggest surprise about the ending of the game is that you find out their engine can do 3d rendering, not just pixel art! And they only use it for like 1 minute of gameplay x'D
its unity ofc it can do 3d
All happend in the darkwood Dream ? or Dream after epilogue
So does the dog live?
The dog was a hallucination and had likely passed long before the events of the game.
BOOMER WILL LIVE!!!
Hey dude, do you plan to get the radiotower ending?
I saw no tree roots under TV/coach. Nothing...
I think you need to notice a number of strange things in the building before you can spot the roots.
fucking amazing
Wow
WoW was a great game for the time but I'm still a little disappointed at how much of my life I wasted on it :P