It's kinda poetic that Rennick, the man whose ego helped get them into this mess, became a monster whose head was literally too big to fit in the room.
The most unsettling thing to me is how the game never explains whether or not the crew members were still conscious after their transformation. There are times when they look like creatures mimicking their once human counterpart (when they growl like feral beasts), there are times when they seem aware of what they have become, but they have no control over their body anymore ("get away from me!", "McLeary... Help me!"), and there are times when it seems they are still aware, but their sudden mutation had effects so catastrophic on their minds that they become insane and their mind desperately clings to some semblance of normalcy, in this case, their crew duties ("I want you off my rig McLeary!", "this room is dirty!", "stay away from my engine!"). Makes my skin crawl.
I think it's pretty clear they're not conscious and the only thing keeping them "alive" is the parasite. it seems to have made them zombies. like the parasite can use the hosts voice and everything. it taps into the hosts brain to identify people. like when you encounter some monsters they'd know your name or other names.
As well, I think the entity that began the infection around the rig is actually puppeting them, using their memories and likeness to manipulate the other characters. I truly love how this game doesn’t reveal too much and we can speculate on a lot of things. Such is the way of Scottish eldritch horror :)
I think they're in a dream state, their consciousness essentially asleep and replaying distorted memories the way your character starts to when you are taken. They are still taking in their surroundings though, the same way we will apply our surroundings to our dreams like an alarm going off. So they are still in there, but only conscious in the least lucid way possible.
This kind of organism warrants an actual nuclear response. It would definitely be an end of the world scenario if it got out. Much like The Thing, which this is certainly based on.
@@hideousruin agreed. While they are certainly horrible, there’s not really a lot you can do with something like that. It’s an instant game-over scp, where all hope is lost, and there’s no interesting way to counter or reverse it aside from some reality bending or time manipulation stuff; it’s the equivalent of a child pulling up the “anti-everything power” in an imaginary fight
I think the water biomass turns them into monsters while the created monsters cannot turn others into things like them so they get just killed normally.
Kind of terrifying to know that someone's conciousness is essentially stuck inside a Monsterous Mass of flesh having zero control witnessing everything going down
Addair and Rennick don't seem to change much after their mutations. It's made them more aggressive, but whilst the others try and fight it off if you listen to their lines, these two don't. Addair seems to embrace it.
Rennick death was a big irony, he telling Caz he wish he'd die drowned in the beginning of the game, just for him to die in that exact way in the end, begging for Caz help. That guy was disgusting even before becoming a monster
He loved her so much that he had to finish it. Like Finlay said, this thing cannot get out. Blowing the whole rig was the only way to make sure nothing got out.
You can get a good look at 2 of the monsters. Trots and muir. For trots just go to the last hiding spot before you run and he will patrol there and you can get a good look at him. For muir just look up and watch where he is going to not get killed. hope you can get a good look at them 😊
One of the most unsettling things i found about this game is how quick the transformations are. You can talk to the person on the phone, and just a mere hour later this person is already a crazy mass of tentacles pursuing you through the rig.
trots' transformation was so insane to me, like the voice acting was out of this world. hearing him say his head was splitting sounded *so* genuine, and after literally hearing his body transform? it was disgusting but I loved it. honestly hearing all the crewmates beg to get the "thing" off of them and their subsequent morphing, it makes you feel for them!! both humanizing and horrific. it's incredible. out of every "infection" type horror game or media, this one really blows me away with how genuinely horrifying the transformation process is. amazing!!
First ending to a game ive ever cried to in a while... I was like "oh its sad but not that sad" and then that note at the end from suze, that he never got.. and she'll never get a response
I know, I was barely holding back tears at that part and then she started singing and I bawled like I was full on ugly crying. (I don’t even know what the words mean)
I really wish the game had a different ending, have Caz, Brodie, Finlay, and Roy be the final survivors, and then you to choose who stays behind to kill the entity. Them or you...
I found it strange when I played other horror games, I was pretty scared like alien isolation or the amnesia games but playing this and knowing I’m playing as a Scottish man, I wasn’t as scared compared to other games. I just imagine a scott cussing out a being beyond comprehension not giving a single shite.
The most disturbing part for me is that we don't know whether these people who's been transformed into these pile of mutated flesh Monster are still conscious or not, did they still remember who they are or have already completely lost their mind, or are they still conscious but they have no control over their body whatsoever like those monster who stuck at the walls living in agony knowing they can't do anything or like the Bossman who seems to have a bit of consciousness but have gone insane?
I mean we see one of them begging for help cause he will die drowning, soo I would say blowing up the riq was enough to finish them, I still wanted our protagonist to survive but as they said, they can't let this stuff out
I like the idea of an oil drill unearthing some kind of ancient horror. Oil is essentially comprised of dead matter from plants and animals from before dinosaurs even existed, so it feels more believable that something like what was presented in the game could of just been dormant instead of some extraterrestrial entity.
I like how whatever mutigen is in the oil doesn't suppress the personality of whatever it infects. It influences it, yes, but works with what's already there regarding Caz. All the rig workers know Caz. They know his story, his strengths, his weaknesses. And whatever this lovecraftian thing is uses that information.
It's like "yes, i'm turned into the bloody monstah which cun't control its actions and kill everything, but it's not like i wouldn't tried to kill ya anyways, so i'm not against it ya know!"
O’Connor’s infected model heavily reminds me of the wall necromorph (can’t remember the actual name) from dead space. If I remember correctly the necros often cry out in pain and distress like O’Connor and when the target/victim/prey whatever you wanna call it gets close enough it also lashes out with tentacles
Yeah, Necromorph Guardians they were called. I always decapitated the premature ones, seemed like the right thing to do yk? I get major Issac Clarke vibes from Caz too.
@@KingKhanate1997 The whole game is very Dead Space adjacent, you're a blue collar worker tasked with repairing various aspects of a live-in workspace removed from civilization, taking radio calls from a small crew of other survivors along the way, all the while you are of course attacked by mutated monsters made of the former crew of this workspace.
The difference is Carrion is ancient, intelligent and is sensible. Still wake creature acts more like a parasite of nature and is way too wild and animalistic.
Someone mention in a comment section for another video, Trots seem to rather retain his human self up the top half seeing how he shows a renowned support of labor unions. Others rather seem to be rather careless or just straight up ignore any warning signs and just still move on to meet the quota (which even then Roper and Gibbo, rest of the drilling crew even knowingly somehow knows what's off, but is asked to drill through anyway). Addair, well Caz said he's not exactly an angel himself. So there's some apparent karmic qualities whatever is facing with that entity on the rig. And yeah there's Rennick ofc, it's already mentioned here, but he is def one inflated ego, his head literally swelled into the size of the halls. Somehow I see Roy rather untainted considering his bigger goodness in his heart (or his church going helping the matter) even after death, seeing signs how Caz might be infected because of him running away from his problems. That is def one pattern I see esp a lotta people working in the rig. Reminds me a lot of Infinity Train dealing with this as well. And it def gives me a biblical apocalypse vibe outta this situation (if to connect enough from Roy if you know what I mean). On the other hand there's Brodie who died altruistic as do Finlay which for certain I feel she knows she is infected as well. This then comes to Caz as he is then given a more happy ending in his mind for all I can interpret, if more rather a grim version of "all in his head" considering he should be really dead already. I feel like it's the entity's lifeforce feeding on his dead body for what I can see. Altho take this as theory since this all I can observe from the game to give some more unique context of it, but it is no official word with this. Also somehow I can't help but be reminded of the Strider from Half-Life with Muir for some reason, now that brings in some modding ideas then.
honestly the terrifying, lonely, depressing atmosphere and environment the grey stormy weather, the almost crushing sense of hopelessness as you struggle to find a way out and escape the monsters that are pursuing you but enough about Aberdeen, lets watch the gameplay
Imagine losing control of your body. Every fiber from every muscle twitches and tears itself while you can feel it. Your entrails moving around, erupting from a skin that doesn't belong to you anymore ... I guess it's like a nightmarish evrsion of very bad cases of spasticity (I have that and it feels bad when your muscles decide when they start to obey you again)
The scariest Monster for me Is trots, During his little end-segment we find out he's killing and dismorphing the crew and placing them where he things they should be, the line: "You dont belong here" Isnt just a generic horror phrase, trots is telling caz He does not belong in the vents, and hes going to put him somewhere else like the others, And when he dies he claims he has to make it like it was, That and the muscle memory segment of him in the laundry, makes trots the worst as he seems to be the smartest and most aware of what he is doing, while the Other 2 main monsters, Addair and Rennick seem to just chase and assimilate, Trots is *Smart* Also I Think people miss that The monsters are all what caz sees them as not just rennick, Addair is a fat mean bastard, and trots is the little man
Trots job is an inspector of the rig so he might have a perfectionist ego and also he complains alot like when we see him at the start of the game he's complaining about Scotlands oil and the pricks in parliament ( also I think he's complaining about the washing machine and him probably saying "this place is falling apart ")
I'd imagine the reason Gibbo can still speak so much and has remose It's because he's most likely the first monster so whatever the thing does to people, it hasn't gotten familiar with the human mind and body yet so he has most of his mind intact still, meanwhile the others after him are more aggressive and talk with more hate plus seem to say what the monster is thinking. That's just my take, probably wrong tho xD RIP Caz
I got this from another video but I agree with it so I’ll try and say it here but the reason Gibbo is so evasive and why we never see him is because he had some sort of insecurity which made him want to hide so I think the thing basically amplifies your personality like trots being picky about hygiene Rennick being absolutely fed up with Caz Addair still being an asshole Roper being helpful but the only ones I’m not sure of is Muir O’Conner and the guy in the diving bell I forgot his name
@@glorytoarstotzka-5359 muir is probably afraid of being lonely. his lines like "have to stop them running" and "im all alone" kinda show that so I'm guess that's most likely what it is. he also screams "you don't leave me" when he catches innes
@@bulkbruiser that makes sense he was talking about not wanting to be left alone so I think you got it but I’m still unsure about diving bell guy since we never actually interact with diving bell guy and for O’Conner I think he’s just a lover boy since he was begging to see his wife when we meet him
quick tip: outros are very situational, such as videos containing emotional endings like this one. having a silent hill 2 style epilogue monologue and then groovy rock straight after really kills the mood. Overall, 10/10 video. Good stuff, Fatherhood in it's most deepest form is not nearly represented enough in media nowdays. Good work lad.
@@LordDatis Its actually the Oil that gets people infected when they drilled into the Oil thats when the crew started falling apart oil being an essential resource most likely in the future they will use the same spot again causing it to go down again
This game touched on so many niches I absolutely adore/fear in horror. I'm so glad I went into this game blind because I seriously had no idea what to expect. I didn't know if I'd be dealing with sea monsters, supernatural entities, or the (really overdone and cliche) psychological horror. I honestly didn't expect a blend of cosmic and body horror and I was terrified the whole way through, not once did the scares ever become stale. And jeez that ending, just a total emotional gut punch
Jeez, what's worse is the fact this game doesn't throw random monsters at you. They make sure to scare the shit out of you further by making you encounter your old coworkers
Their monster forms remind me of The Walking Dead theory, that they're aware of what's happening but can't do anything. The men are alive in the monster that's altered them, but it's using their memories and personality to show what Caz sees. I doubt Gibbo, Roper and Trots would have hurt him if they were in control of themselves.
My theory is they dug too deep and awoke an ancient Lovecraftian god, or Great Old One. Its possible since Old Ones were banished deep under the sea or another dimension
I think they just accidentally drilled into one of Cthulhu's back pimples 😂 But for real, that was also my theory, only that it isn't an actual Deep One, since it functions more as a parasite, so maybe that's what it literally is, only it's a Lovecraftian parasite.
I’ve seen a lot that this game was inspired by The Thing but honestly, I don’t get that feeling at all. It reminded me more of the game Soma than anything else and it has a few parallels like the creatures retaining the persons conscience to the point where they are still referred to as the person they were and the ending being a tragic realisation that nothing you were doing would have saved yourself. The entity itself is also in a league of its own; it’s a true being of cosmic horror. The Thing, while certainly dangerous felt more restricted. It had an incentive to hide itself because it was still a vulnerable biological life form that could be easily killed well within human capability. This entity in comparison didn’t need to hide. You aren’t even prey to it, you’re an organic matter for it to collect. It owned you before you even realised because it can manipulate the very biomass you are as easily as you flex your arm. If it hadn’t have been resting on several tonnes of volatile gas and oil, would the crew on the oil rig have been able to even injure it? We don’t even get confirmation that Caz even *did* kill it. He could have just spread the entity’s biomass with the force of the blast for all we know. So that’s why I feel it’s not even close to The Thing.
That’s the thing tho; he was running, unlike every other monster. By the look of how he was moving it looked extremely similar to a run and we didn’t see any tendril thingys so I assume he must actually be running, which would be very interesting to see.
I absolutely loved this game. I stumbled upon it on game pass and it’s one of the best I ever played. I love how interactive the mechanics are. Kinda feels like Firewatch mixed with SOMA.
Mutants or Monsters that were former humans and talk like they're still are, for me there are some of the most creepy monsters. Like, you really don't know if the creature just copies the thoughts or voice. Or there is really still something of the human left.
the one thing i love abot these monsters is that you really don't want to look at them, yet you find yourself looking at them anyway. its Lovecraftian in a way, as its beyond human comprehension and i love it. props to the dev team for this unforgettable horror experience.
My main wish for an alt ending was have Caz, Finlay, Brodie, and Roy survive, and you chose to either have one of them destroy the entity, or yourself.
Dude the monster designs in this game are absolutely amazing! Haven’t seen a game pull of genuinely grotesque/creepy monster designs in awhile. Well done!
this game reminds me of the movie underwater, when they wake up something from the deep after doing some drilling? (i don't remember well) in the sea floor
yeah it was an underwater drilling facility if i’m pretty sure. like they were in the marina trench, MILES underneath the sea. no wonder i love this game, any horror that has to do with the sea is great!
Despite The Thing being the main inspiration for this great game I also think Lovecraft's Color Out of Space short story influenced some of the game's plot particularly how The Shape is a bright light which mutates everything it touches. A perfect blend of Carpenter and Lovecraft - awesome!
The way the creatures move kinds reminds me of the player meat monster from Carrion. Same sort of "Shoot Tendrils Out To Drag The Main Body" method of motion.
Thank you so much your a gaming legend for taking risk for us left and right to see what this thing is. Everybody else runs, but you. Whenever you have a chance to look you look and I love it
The contrast between begining and ending is just really sad ..The creature origin or how people get infected is kinda mystery and is terrifying even thinking of there could be more of them in the seafloor ..
muir is prob the best monster there because he thinks he is still alive and he just wants to escape but he doesnt know hes a monster so thats why is is saying i just need help, ect
For someone who has anxiety that everyone they know hates them and that the universe is against them, hearing mutated Muir's lines is both horrifying and sad.
something i dont see many people realise is that the story on the rig kinda mimics Caz's story he tries his best to keep everything together but in the end, the only thing he wants to do is run away from it all the only difference being that on the rig, he learnt that he had to face it, even if he didnt want to, its the right thing for his family
This game remind me a lot the movie "The Thing". Not only because these are human lost in nowhere around them, the eldritch horror, your colleague becoming monster,... and the name of the protagonist is "MacLeary", which is very similar to "MacReady". This game looks have a lot of reference and i love it !
It's kinda poetic that Rennick, the man whose ego helped get them into this mess, became a monster whose head was literally too big to fit in the room.
You are right, that was a nice reference
I swear u copied this from another video.
@@primavera._. don't care
@@gerardwolf8507 dont be that guy
@@primavera._. You're probably right.
The most unsettling thing to me is how the game never explains whether or not the crew members were still conscious after their transformation. There are times when they look like creatures mimicking their once human counterpart (when they growl like feral beasts), there are times when they seem aware of what they have become, but they have no control over their body anymore ("get away from me!", "McLeary... Help me!"), and there are times when it seems they are still aware, but their sudden mutation had effects so catastrophic on their minds that they become insane and their mind desperately clings to some semblance of normalcy, in this case, their crew duties ("I want you off my rig McLeary!", "this room is dirty!", "stay away from my engine!").
Makes my skin crawl.
I think that transformation forced them to show their true self without any masks
I think it's pretty clear they're not conscious and the only thing keeping them "alive" is the parasite. it seems to have made them zombies. like the parasite can use the hosts voice and everything. it taps into the hosts brain to identify people. like when you encounter some monsters they'd know your name or other names.
I wish this game gets a dlc explaining or even expanding the lore, like i wonder if this thing can infect fishes or birds?
As well, I think the entity that began the infection around the rig is actually puppeting them, using their memories and likeness to manipulate the other characters. I truly love how this game doesn’t reveal too much and we can speculate on a lot of things. Such is the way of Scottish eldritch horror :)
I think they're in a dream state, their consciousness essentially asleep and replaying distorted memories the way your character starts to when you are taken. They are still taking in their surroundings though, the same way we will apply our surroundings to our dreams like an alarm going off. So they are still in there, but only conscious in the least lucid way possible.
This kind of organism warrants an actual nuclear response. It would definitely be an end of the world scenario if it got out. Much like The Thing, which this is certainly based on.
XK class end of the world scenario like when day breaks except the sun
The thing and probably dead space
@@saminulhaque1263 Yeah. But I don't think anything can survive When Day Breaks. That's just too op of a scenario lol.
@@AnotherWorthlessMoronYea. Can't stand the SCPs like that one though. I like them to have some other possible mechanism of action besides magic.
@@hideousruin agreed. While they are certainly horrible, there’s not really a lot you can do with something like that. It’s an instant game-over scp, where all hope is lost, and there’s no interesting way to counter or reverse it aside from some reality bending or time manipulation stuff; it’s the equivalent of a child pulling up the “anti-everything power” in an imaginary fight
You know what was make Lovecraftian horrors even more terrifying? Making them Scottish.
I'm fine if they're British or Welsh but Scottish?
Blimey.
Bruh. This is a little bit off man 😂😅
scottish people are horrifying
the scots are a lovecraftian horror
Fr I am scared of demoman 😟
I wonder what dictates who turns and who doesn’t. Only a handful of workers actually turn into a monster. While the rest are dead bodies
I think it took either exposure to the oil (like Raffs and Gibbo) or prolonged exposure to the main mass, like Roper, Trots and O’Connor.
I think the water biomass turns them into monsters while the created monsters cannot turn others into things like them so they get just killed normally.
I believe it might be due to whether they are alive or not when the creature captures them
My guess is they can't turn without coming in contact with the contaminated oil itself.
Something like Rennick said to Caz
Do not touch the things you see out there
What's creepy is that whilst everyone else are trying to fight off the infection and failing, Rennick and Addair seem to embrace it.
The first voiceline rennick said???
I think they just hate caz enough to ignore it and just try and kill him. Like, "I don't care that I'm suffering, I just want to murder you"
Kind of terrifying to know that someone's conciousness is essentially stuck inside a Monsterous Mass of flesh having zero control witnessing everything going down
this look likes the flood from halo,when you got infected you conciousness got stuck to the grave mind
sounds like being disabled and/or in a retirement home
Addair and Rennick don't seem to change much after their mutations. It's made them more aggressive, but whilst the others try and fight it off if you listen to their lines, these two don't. Addair seems to embrace it.
They don't witness everything going down since the organism makes them blind but upgrades the other senses I think
Wait isn’t that life tho
Rennick death was a big irony, he telling Caz he wish he'd die drowned in the beginning of the game, just for him to die in that exact way in the end, begging for Caz help. That guy was disgusting even before becoming a monster
When he said “get off my rig” in the meeting I was like “your gonna wish you could get off too”
I love how the flashlight flickers whenever you're near an enemy, so you never truly do get a good look at them in normal gameplay.
Like SOMA and its static.
I hate that ! I wanna see it at some point
To think that Rennick is the one wanting to see Caz drown only to suffocate and drown as the rig floods. the irony.
What part does are I k drown in?
@@Hershewed Rennick drowned in Caz's last encounter with him, a chase whilst the rig was flooding
Duuude that ending… he never got to see her again but she loved him so much 😢
Yeah it was too late to say that unfortunately
He loved her so much that he had to finish it. Like Finlay said, this thing cannot get out. Blowing the whole rig was the only way to make sure nothing got out.
@@robertfraser7943 yea… the biggest of sad
@@robertfraser7943to be fair, Caz was slowly turning into one of those things
@@senpie6639wish we could've seen how Caz managed to stay human . Since you see him diving in oil infested water
I wish we could get a better look at some of the mutated men, but it does add to the horror aspect. Such an awesome game.
You can get a good look at 2 of the monsters. Trots and muir. For trots just go to the last hiding spot before you run and he will patrol there and you can get a good look at him. For muir just look up and watch where he is going to not get killed. hope you can get a good look at them 😊
Gotta hand it to Trots, even as a monster he still cares about his hygiene and resorts to doing laundry.
This comment made me giggle💀
He's kinda pissed of as always
I like to think "Trots" is actually just his nickname because of having something like IBS, hence the laundry expertise, lol.
Tbh this is a funny headcanon, but I'm pretty sure they call him Trots because he is a hardcore communist lol. It's derived from Leon Trotsky
@@silli_clownmaeda😂😂
One of the most unsettling things i found about this game is how quick the transformations are. You can talk to the person on the phone, and just a mere hour later this person is already a crazy mass of tentacles pursuing you through the rig.
O'Connor didn't deserve that end
Bro was stuck in a damp, wet,cold,dark place and not to mention he can *FEEL IT* moving around his body
@@Helmut_schmidt Roper had it even worse
trots' transformation was so insane to me, like the voice acting was out of this world. hearing him say his head was splitting sounded *so* genuine, and after literally hearing his body transform? it was disgusting but I loved it. honestly hearing all the crewmates beg to get the "thing" off of them and their subsequent morphing, it makes you feel for them!! both humanizing and horrific. it's incredible. out of every "infection" type horror game or media, this one really blows me away with how genuinely horrifying the transformation process is. amazing!!
"What's up wee man, are you hurt?" while he is audibly screaming in terror.
First ending to a game ive ever cried to in a while... I was like "oh its sad but not that sad" and then that note at the end from suze, that he never got.. and she'll never get a response
I know, I was barely holding back tears at that part and then she started singing and I bawled like I was full on ugly crying. (I don’t even know what the words mean)
I really wish the game had a different ending, have Caz, Brodie, Finlay, and Roy be the final survivors, and then you to choose who stays behind to kill the entity. Them or you...
I found it strange when I played other horror games, I was pretty scared like alien isolation or the amnesia games but playing this and knowing I’m playing as a Scottish man, I wasn’t as scared compared to other games. I just imagine a scott cussing out a being beyond comprehension not giving a single shite.
The most disturbing part for me is that we don't know whether these people who's been transformed into these pile of mutated flesh Monster are still conscious or not, did they still remember who they are or have already completely lost their mind, or are they still conscious but they have no control over their body whatsoever like those monster who stuck at the walls living in agony knowing they can't do anything or like the Bossman who seems to have a bit of consciousness but have gone insane?
I mean we see one of them begging for help cause he will die drowning, soo I would say blowing up the riq was enough to finish them, I still wanted our protagonist to survive but as they said, they can't let this stuff out
One of the skulls is covered with meat balls that still have an eye which moves. (In the first 1 hours of the game)
I think they are conscious, at least at first, but their minds are in an altered state, and relatively quickly degrading.
I like the idea of an oil drill unearthing some kind of ancient horror. Oil is essentially comprised of dead matter from plants and animals from before dinosaurs even existed, so it feels more believable that something like what was presented in the game could of just been dormant instead of some extraterrestrial entity.
I like how whatever mutigen is in the oil doesn't suppress the personality of whatever it infects. It influences it, yes, but works with what's already there regarding Caz.
All the rig workers know Caz. They know his story, his strengths, his weaknesses. And whatever this lovecraftian thing is uses that information.
This game deserved more recognition
Deserved? It came out a week ago brother, give it a minute
@@saltinecracker4081Mans talking like it came out years ago 😂
Bro it came out like a week ago lmao
Jesus christ
Yeah
The first horror game I heard Scottish people VA in it and it somehow makes it 10 times better. Not only the scary scenes but also the emotional ones!
As a non native english speaker the scottish accent gave me a slight headache tbh, but the performance was definitely top notch.
Gotta respect Rennick man was turned into an eldritch abomination and still wanted Caz off his Rig. 10:25
bro was FED UP with him 😭😭😭
It's like "yes, i'm turned into the bloody monstah which cun't control its actions and kill everything, but it's not like i wouldn't tried to kill ya anyways, so i'm not against it ya know!"
Man was NOT having it with him💀
Rennicks ego must be *HUGE* as Glasgow to be that pissed of
O’Connor’s infected model heavily reminds me of the wall necromorph (can’t remember the actual name) from dead space. If I remember correctly the necros often cry out in pain and distress like O’Connor and when the target/victim/prey whatever you wanna call it gets close enough it also lashes out with tentacles
Yeah, Necromorph Guardians they were called. I always decapitated the premature ones, seemed like the right thing to do yk? I get major Issac Clarke vibes from Caz too.
@@KingKhanate1997 The whole game is very Dead Space adjacent, you're a blue collar worker tasked with repairing various aspects of a live-in workspace removed from civilization, taking radio calls from a small crew of other survivors along the way, all the while you are of course attacked by mutated monsters made of the former crew of this workspace.
Damn, the level of voice acting in this game is outstanding!
I’m not sure I’ve ever so invested in wanting to learn about the lore
That's because the devs didn't explained anything in game, and for this setting, i think it's a good thing
@@Skarrier This could also be true. Mysterious!
The tendril monster reminds me of carrion
Yes and maybe The Thing movie
The difference is Carrion is ancient, intelligent and is sensible. Still wake creature acts more like a parasite of nature and is way too wild and animalistic.
Carrion mentioned lmfao
There's such a wholesome touch in between the horrific body horror and tendrils.
It’s a pretty , distgusting ,sad horrifying, and tragic game I love it
We dug to deep. Dwarves got balrog we got this.
Gotta prefer the balrog over this honestly, hell I'd even thank the thing for not being a giant flesh monster
@@jckl8201yeah, fiery death is far more preferable to the... Alternative...
Someone mention in a comment section for another video, Trots seem to rather retain his human self up the top half seeing how he shows a renowned support of labor unions. Others rather seem to be rather careless or just straight up ignore any warning signs and just still move on to meet the quota (which even then Roper and Gibbo, rest of the drilling crew even knowingly somehow knows what's off, but is asked to drill through anyway). Addair, well Caz said he's not exactly an angel himself. So there's some apparent karmic qualities whatever is facing with that entity on the rig. And yeah there's Rennick ofc, it's already mentioned here, but he is def one inflated ego, his head literally swelled into the size of the halls.
Somehow I see Roy rather untainted considering his bigger goodness in his heart (or his church going helping the matter) even after death, seeing signs how Caz might be infected because of him running away from his problems. That is def one pattern I see esp a lotta people working in the rig. Reminds me a lot of Infinity Train dealing with this as well. And it def gives me a biblical apocalypse vibe outta this situation (if to connect enough from Roy if you know what I mean). On the other hand there's Brodie who died altruistic as do Finlay which for certain I feel she knows she is infected as well. This then comes to Caz as he is then given a more happy ending in his mind for all I can interpret, if more rather a grim version of "all in his head" considering he should be really dead already. I feel like it's the entity's lifeforce feeding on his dead body for what I can see. Altho take this as theory since this all I can observe from the game to give some more unique context of it, but it is no official word with this.
Also somehow I can't help but be reminded of the Strider from Half-Life with Muir for some reason, now that brings in some modding ideas then.
honestly the terrifying, lonely, depressing atmosphere and environment the grey stormy weather, the almost crushing sense of hopelessness as you struggle to find a way out and escape the monsters that are pursuing you
but enough about Aberdeen, lets watch the gameplay
What's horrifying is that they're still screaming in agony, which tells me they're alive and conscious throughout the entire thing
Imagine losing control of your body. Every fiber from every muscle twitches and tears itself while you can feel it. Your entrails moving around, erupting from a skin that doesn't belong to you anymore ... I guess it's like a nightmarish evrsion of very bad cases of spasticity (I have that and it feels bad when your muscles decide when they start to obey you again)
The scariest Monster for me Is trots, During his little end-segment we find out he's killing and dismorphing the crew and placing them where he things they should be, the line: "You dont belong here" Isnt just a generic horror phrase, trots is telling caz He does not belong in the vents, and hes going to put him somewhere else like the others, And when he dies he claims he has to make it like it was, That and the muscle memory segment of him in the laundry, makes trots the worst as he seems to be the smartest and most aware of what he is doing, while the Other 2 main monsters, Addair and Rennick seem to just chase and assimilate, Trots is *Smart* Also I Think people miss that The monsters are all what caz sees them as not just rennick, Addair is a fat mean bastard, and trots is the little man
You know. I actually didn’t think of this😭
Trots job is an inspector of the rig so he might have a perfectionist ego and also he complains alot like when we see him at the start of the game he's complaining about Scotlands oil and the pricks in parliament ( also I think he's complaining about the washing machine and him probably saying "this place is falling apart ")
I'd imagine the reason Gibbo can still speak so much and has remose It's because he's most likely the first monster so whatever the thing does to people, it hasn't gotten familiar with the human mind and body yet so he has most of his mind intact still, meanwhile the others after him are more aggressive and talk with more hate plus seem to say what the monster is thinking.
That's just my take, probably wrong tho xD
RIP Caz
I got this from another video but I agree with it so I’ll try and say it here but the reason Gibbo is so evasive and why we never see him is because he had some sort of insecurity which made him want to hide so I think the thing basically amplifies your personality like trots being picky about hygiene Rennick being absolutely fed up with Caz Addair still being an asshole Roper being helpful but the only ones I’m not sure of is Muir O’Conner and the guy in the diving bell I forgot his name
@@glorytoarstotzka-5359 muir is probably afraid of being lonely. his lines like "have to stop them running" and "im all alone" kinda show that so I'm guess that's most likely what it is. he also screams "you don't leave me" when he catches innes
@@bulkbruiser that makes sense he was talking about not wanting to be left alone so I think you got it but I’m still unsure about diving bell guy since we never actually interact with diving bell guy and for O’Conner I think he’s just a lover boy since he was begging to see his wife when we meet him
@@glorytoarstotzka-5359 you probably right about that since we don't really see much else of o'connors character
quick tip: outros are very situational, such as videos containing emotional endings like this one. having a silent hill 2 style epilogue monologue and then groovy rock straight after really kills the mood.
Overall, 10/10 video. Good stuff, Fatherhood in it's most deepest form is not nearly represented enough in media nowdays. Good work lad.
Thanks for feedback appreciate it 🙂
Give us a sequel. Set it on a coastal town and let's see how far this progresses inland, across the world even
Yeah I agree the story is really good and they can expand it, really want to know about that creature of alien or whatever it was
I doubt it can even invade a country even with momentum its really vulnerable to fire and we all know what happens next
Game doesn't tell it completely destroyed, there will be investigation crew on the site and can get infected again
@@LordDatis Its actually the Oil that gets people infected when they drilled into the Oil thats when the crew started falling apart oil being an essential resource most likely in the future they will use the same spot again causing it to go down again
I hope their will be a sequel, I beat it in just two days
This game touched on so many niches I absolutely adore/fear in horror. I'm so glad I went into this game blind because I seriously had no idea what to expect. I didn't know if I'd be dealing with sea monsters, supernatural entities, or the (really overdone and cliche) psychological horror. I honestly didn't expect a blend of cosmic and body horror and I was terrified the whole way through, not once did the scares ever become stale. And jeez that ending, just a total emotional gut punch
I appreciate you so much for this video!! I wanted to show someone the monsters in the game so this was literally perfect!!
i love how half the gameplay revolves around this guy trying to get a better shot of the monsters
Jeez, what's worse is the fact this game doesn't throw random monsters at you. They make sure to scare the shit out of you further by making you encounter your old coworkers
This game is tense, never felt that for a while. Great one! ❤
Their monster forms remind me of The Walking Dead theory, that they're aware of what's happening but can't do anything. The men are alive in the monster that's altered them, but it's using their memories and personality to show what Caz sees. I doubt Gibbo, Roper and Trots would have hurt him if they were in control of themselves.
it's so sad that innes died as they were leaving Caz even tried to save him
My theory is they dug too deep and awoke an ancient Lovecraftian god, or Great Old One. Its possible since Old Ones were banished deep under the sea or another dimension
I think they just accidentally drilled into one of Cthulhu's back pimples 😂
But for real, that was also my theory, only that it isn't an actual Deep One, since it functions more as a parasite, so maybe that's what it literally is, only it's a Lovecraftian parasite.
0:05 Gibbo: STAY AWAY!
Too bad I didn't see the transformation, just like from the movie "The Thing"
I don't think so, but they probably got some ideas from it
The monsters remind me of the Flood from Halo.
It went from shooting aliens to surviving pure horror so quickly
the flood + dead space + oil rig
rip the homie innes
But muir will be all alone 😢
The very first part of the video made me flinch bad, it looked like he was falling fast and grabbing a rung like that woulda ripped his arm right out
I’ve seen a lot that this game was inspired by The Thing but honestly, I don’t get that feeling at all. It reminded me more of the game Soma than anything else and it has a few parallels like the creatures retaining the persons conscience to the point where they are still referred to as the person they were and the ending being a tragic realisation that nothing you were doing would have saved yourself. The entity itself is also in a league of its own; it’s a true being of cosmic horror. The Thing, while certainly dangerous felt more restricted. It had an incentive to hide itself because it was still a vulnerable biological life form that could be easily killed well within human capability. This entity in comparison didn’t need to hide. You aren’t even prey to it, you’re an organic matter for it to collect. It owned you before you even realised because it can manipulate the very biomass you are as easily as you flex your arm. If it hadn’t have been resting on several tonnes of volatile gas and oil, would the crew on the oil rig have been able to even injure it? We don’t even get confirmation that Caz even *did* kill it. He could have just spread the entity’s biomass with the force of the blast for all we know. So that’s why I feel it’s not even close to The Thing.
Really wish we got to see more of gibbo but you can assume they probably look like muir and addair by looking at him running across the hatch.
That’s the thing tho; he was running, unlike every other monster. By the look of how he was moving it looked extremely similar to a run and we didn’t see any tendril thingys so I assume he must actually be running, which would be very interesting to see.
I absolutely loved this game. I stumbled upon it on game pass and it’s one of the best I ever played. I love how interactive the mechanics are. Kinda feels like Firewatch mixed with SOMA.
Mutants or Monsters that were former humans and talk like they're still are, for me there are some of the most creepy monsters.
Like, you really don't know if the creature just copies the thoughts or voice. Or there is really still something of the human left.
They need to make this into a movie!!!
This is the movie, and you get to play it.
There's already a movie. It's called The Thing which the game is based on
Ngl i kinda wish the rig on prime was this now. They were Scottish I think lmao.
What eldrich monster is dumb enough to attack a oil rig with scotish ? Even cathulu would run away
They'd just curse at him in their own cursed language, which not even the Deep One's can comprehend 😂
The aspect of this game is fire!!🔥🔥🔥🔥
the one thing i love abot these monsters is that you really don't want to look at them, yet you find yourself looking at them anyway. its Lovecraftian in a way, as its beyond human comprehension and i love it. props to the dev team for this unforgettable horror experience.
In my opinion they should add more endings
Agreed like an unrealistic but happy ending (cause ofc the ending in the game now is easily the most realistic)
@@jeiransley6328 You are right
My main wish for an alt ending was have Caz, Finlay, Brodie, and Roy survive, and you chose to either have one of them destroy the entity, or yourself.
Rennick mutated into a horrible creature. Still wants your ass off his rig. XD
Dude the monster designs in this game are absolutely amazing! Haven’t seen a game pull of genuinely grotesque/creepy monster designs in awhile. Well done!
Its sad to not see gibbo in person/action
Ya know we never got to really see gibbo, we only hear him. is there a model of his monsterized form?
When the game shows that Rennick turned into one of the monsters, I'm actually cheering lol
this game reminds me of the movie underwater, when they wake up something from the deep after doing some drilling? (i don't remember well) in the sea floor
yeah it was an underwater drilling facility if i’m pretty sure. like they were in the marina trench, MILES underneath the sea. no wonder i love this game, any horror that has to do with the sea is great!
I wish we got to see how all the monsters and everything reacted to the rig blowing up
Despite The Thing being the main inspiration for this great game I also think Lovecraft's Color Out of Space short story influenced some of the game's plot particularly how The Shape is a bright light which mutates everything it touches. A perfect blend of Carpenter and Lovecraft - awesome!
I appreciate the Trots section where you're having to go through the filthy water? filled crawlspace/grates in each room.
My theory is that the monsters are conscious, but in a way, the changes have twisted their minds, amplifying their personalities drastically.
This reminds me SO MUCH of John Carpenter’s The Thing
It needs a sequel
The monsters in this reminds of the alien in the movie the thing. It comes off just like it in so many ways
fucking cosmic horror man you just know there's no way to comeback from that!!
Imagine Rennicks still fully sane and in control after he transforms, but he’s just really pissed that Mcleary still hasn’t left the rig yet.
Bros made out of mutated flesh and hatred
The game mechanics like crawling through vents was DEFINITELY inspired by ALIEN ISOLATION which you should play!
I really do hope this game gets a sequel
20:34 me when I find the teachers pet who snitched
The way the creatures move kinds reminds me of the player meat monster from Carrion. Same sort of "Shoot Tendrils Out To Drag The Main Body" method of motion.
Thank you so much your a gaming legend for taking risk for us left and right to see what this thing is. Everybody else runs, but you. Whenever you have a chance to look you look and I love it
😂 Thanks
The contrast between begining and ending is just really sad ..The creature origin or how people get infected is kinda mystery and is terrifying even thinking of there could be more of them in the seafloor ..
Absolutely love this game! Made me cry at end
muir is prob the best monster there because he thinks he is still alive and he just wants to escape but he doesnt know hes a monster so thats why is is saying i just need help, ect
This game was like dead space in the middle of the ocean and it’s actually good 👍🏽
I love how Rennick just excepted that he was a monster and tried so hard to kill Caz
For someone who has anxiety that everyone they know hates them and that the universe is against them, hearing mutated Muir's lines is both horrifying and sad.
This happened to me once.
Bro got raptured 4:34
o'connor reminds me of a game where the ship keeps everyone alive when they wanted to die.
Sad stuff man
Best game so far!❤
5:27 my favoite part is when he says " then we need to get past him " is my favoite part
Muir FEV abomination walking above w elastic appendages
5:43
This is giving me the thing vibes
something i dont see many people realise is that the story on the rig kinda mimics Caz's story
he tries his best to keep everything together but in the end, the only thing he wants to do is run away from it all
the only difference being that on the rig, he learnt that he had to face it, even if he didnt want to, its the right thing for his family
If caz does end up escaping hes gonna have the craziest dad lore
Nvm
@@davidlewis3383 LMAO
First five minutes was intense 😳 helluva game!!! I love claustrophobic survival games and the monsters are awesome like the thing
Bro this whole game reminded me of the chum bucket helmets from that one SpongeBob movie
This game remind me a lot the movie "The Thing".
Not only because these are human lost in nowhere around them, the eldritch horror, your colleague becoming monster,... and the name of the protagonist is "MacLeary", which is very similar to "MacReady".
This game looks have a lot of reference and i love it !
Reminds me of The Thing
Probably the best lovecraftian game I’ve seen.