Playing the bachelor like a normal person and picking all of the polite options is great because you can just imagine him wanting to do the right thing, but all of the other dialogues are just things he really wants to say to these people since he's so fed up.
There was a part in the game where I realized I was agreeing with all his bad dialogue options because I was so sick of being roadblocked at every turn, and that’s truly (horrible) magical.
Aww. I liked this! Daniil is definitely a character who, transplanted into a kinder setting, would be a jerk with a heart of gold. Oh, man, though, the way he struggles after getting a glimpse past the fourth wall thrills me.
Pathologic REALLY got me into his headspace. I set out to roleplay as best I could, and I fell into it hard. A few days on and I couldn’t really separate his feelings about the situation from my own. When Daniil felt angry about something, I was angry about it too. When Daniil was begrudgingly kind, I was too. When Daniil was conflicted, I was incredibly so. Even though I knew the army arriving would be bad and would disrupt my work, I was relieved when there was someone there with me to deal with the rampant arsonists and infected. This game does an amazing job of making you feel exactly what the character does.
@@PlayheadNorth I love him too. My favourite of all three. He lost so much because of this town, put his own life at risk for other people, despite the fact that its citizens resisted his attempts to save them. At first they didn't even want to believe that there was an epidemic in the town! And then the Bachelor was accused of giving power to the Saburovs? Well, maybe if you weren't morons and immediately recognized that there was an epidemic in the city, this would not have happened?! What other choice did he have? God, such moments just piss me off. Oh, and what were the great saviors Clara and Artemy doing at this time? Artemy tried to survive and deal with his father's inheritance, and Klara recruited people into the sect of her adoptive mother! The only one who dealt with the disease in the early days was the Bachelor! He's done so much for the town, when he really didn't have any obligation to do so. He's just came here to visit some old man, goddamit! Sorry, scream of the soul.
@@MrLarva-sn7tz Haha no I totally get the frustration. I think people really do forget that Daniil is why the prices didn’t totally spiral out of control, why the infected districts were cordoned off, why a quarantine ward was set up. All of the shady stuff Saburov did he did without consulting Daniil, and Daniil was horrified at the man’s abuse of power. Daniil may have been misguided sometimes, and he’s definitely arrogant, but he did really try to do the best he could in a truly impossible situation.
My google drive is filled with 6 different essays, 20p a piece I have written about this game in the midnight hours. I feel you girl. the struggle be real.
love your take on daniil :) he's very easy (and tbh very fun) to mock, but he IS a tragic and complex character. your point that the bachelor's story is the most "emotionally difficult" is really well observed and i think is what makes pathologic so memorable and unique.. even the prickliest of pricks in pathologic are generally trying to do what they think is right, but their personalities and ideologies inevitably do harm. looking forward to the next episodes! :)
I'm sorry, if it has been said already, but there is one line of dialog from conversation with Aglaya that explains why Dankovsky is good with guns. He says that his father was a military officer and wanted Daniil to go into military career as well. So he supposedly received training before disregarding his parents' will and going to study medicine in university. Which ads like a whole new level of sad backstory. I might not agree with Dankovsky, but in context his perspective is very understandable. Thank you for the video, it's really fun to listen to other people talk about pathologic, I enjoyed it a lot!
Thanks for this essay and your perspective on the bachelor. I was getting irritated by vocal parts of the fandom who decry Daniil as being some one dimensional malevolent racist. One of the most brilliant things pathologic has done is to make you feel mentally exhausted, when. playing as Daniil. You start of with the best and logical intentions (setting up quarantines, hospital, making a vaccine) but with every step, it seems that you have to drag the town with you kicking and screaming along while trying to save them. Especially when you suffer drawback after drawback, seemingly out of other people's unwillingness or anti-intellectualism. In the entire pandemic situation nowadays, it strikes at you hard because some people just at first glance don't seem to believe in evidence or listen to reason.
Oh my goodness yes! There is so much about this game that seems creepily true to life in the current pandemic. Daniil definitely has his biases, but I think they stem more from his intellectual elitism than xenophobia. And I really think he does do some growing over the game! (Well, maybe not in Clara’s route, but definitely in the other two.) I also found his perspective on life to be very similar to some professors and other researchers I’ve known, and to be honest, he wasn’t half as bad as some of them. At least there is a part of Daniil that I think genuinely wants to help people.
Imagine Bachelor living through COVID-19. (D is for Daniil, T is for Townsfolk) D: "Are you mad, people? Me and Rubin, we work day and night to make your endangered lives slightly more likely to be preserved, but you can't even force yourself to comply to the most basic of our fairly trivial orders? Can you not muster enough will to wear a piece of cloth over your face? And, when we come up with a vaccine, you cannot help but backstab us with those absurd rumors of our cure spreading mental diseases?! Totum revolutum..." T: "Doctor, the Powers That Be want us under their boot! Them damn masks and vaccines will make us into their cattle!" D: "Alright, fuck it. General, nuke them".
So far my favorite thing about Pathologic has been how it has led me to multiple smaller / new channels with production value and video quality that far surpasses the size of their channels. 8 minutes in and I'm convinced, subscribed!
I hope I don't offend you when I say I was suprised just how well this is made. But seriously, I'm not even 10 minutes in and already love this video and knowing there are more ahead of me :D While the Pathologic Community is pretty small it has some wonderful and super talented people in it and it is always amazing discovering another one of them such as you!
Thank you! I'm not offended at all! I really like being a part of this community. Part of me wishes it were bigger because then we might get more games, but if it were, it probably would not be this supportive.
the [pained emoji] coolest thing about the willow mellow storyline is that it was pretty clearly based on verdi's opera rigoletto. which makes perfect sense considering what pathologic... is, but also it was wild to be spoiled for the end of that subplot about 150 years before the game actually came out. a delightful progression of "haha, just like rigoletto!" to "oh dear, just like rigoletto", and then finally "ah. just like rigoletto." (fascinating implications likewise that the thing that happens at the end of the opera is not even at the midpoint of daniil's story in the game.)
It's too late at night to watch an entire video essay, but I have to say: the first minute is mood af! seriously, could not have been said better; it's playable Russian literature, which I grew up reading and remember vividly the sheer weight of those novels on my mind, invoking in me the thoughts that kept me restless at night. This game is horrible, I love it.
I really love your sense of humor, and I really felt all your "DANIIL NOOOO" moments :D The essay is great, I want to point out two things (among many others), that made this video so enjoyable for me: your general passion for the game (although a video like this must require a lot of tiresome preparation), and I also love that you saw kindness in Daniil who is often considered to be completely useless Thank you!!
DANIIL, NO Okay, but seriously, this is awesome and I'm excited to see the rest of these - I can't believe I haven't found them until now! (just re-commenting as I think my original comment got yeeted by youtube - but still, this is awesome! If you'd like me to share this around the fandom discords etc I'd be more than happy to!)
I'm so pleased you liked the video! That means a lot! I'm also glad you commented again because I saw the notification for the first comment that UA-cam ... inexplicably discarded, and when it disappeared, I was worried I had done something to mortally offend you or something. I know this video has been shared on the IPL discord, but I mean, I'm not going to say no if you want to share it elsewhere :D
THANK you. Genuinely! I've been starved for Pathologic videos, as it's become my new hyperfixation, and finding easily digestible content for it is a rarity! You deserve more attention for your work, you really do. :]
I definitely remember having some simpatico with Daniil's irritated, sarcastic attitude on my first run. If you're approaching this situation as a medical doctor would, there is SO much weird arbitrary bullsh*t that gets in your way that it feels completely normal to lose patience. No one will DO anything, except sometimes actively get in your way, usually for a reason that comes across to Daniil/the player as nonsensical.
Daniil deserves to be bullied, but at the same time, I think he gets way more hate in the fandom than he deserves. He did some really important things to protect the sand pest outbreak from getting worse, all while most of the people in town tried their hardest to be as unhelpful as possible.
I haven't played Artemy in the original (yet), but, in the remake, it's really clear that he had an easier time treating the plague, because he could... You know, practice medicine. It's really obvious (and I honestly hope) that Daniil's route will be harder in the remake, which... Makes sense, since he met resistance at every single basic step of fighting the plague.
When I get that itch to watch Pathologic content again, I sometimes type "Daniil no" into the search trying to find this particular video. I love the whole video but especially that bit.
As a player I've found Batchelor's ending gloomy and unsettling. The music, colors and overall tone of the ending roll felt like he was being played by Kains and their lust for power. The image of Town's ruins and Polyhedron, rising from the ground like a giant wasp nest, was utterly frightening. I feel like idealistic young people like Daniel, Eva and Stamatins are often being manipulated by powerful elites, who pretend to match their ideals but ultimately want immortality for themselves. In Changeling's arc, Stamatins even say that Polyhedron doesn't make sense without people of the town. Peter build it to be a Utopia, but it was used as a body for a one aristocrat fearful of his own death.
I bought the game because of the interesting ideas but within a few hours I realized I'm not a masochist. Schadenfreude from other people playing through the torture is much easier to enjoy.
Haha I think everyone should try Pathologic, but I don’t think everyone should push themselves to finish. You’ll figure out pretty quick if it’s for you or not.
@@PlayheadNorth Ironically this you made the best sum up for people who don't want to play the game. I watched hbomberguy's video all jazzed up to play the game and feel superior on how I play obscure indie games and appreciate them like paintings from museums. Turns out I'm a pompous douche but at least your video explains what happens while you're playing it.
@@Gooong At one point I was going to try and sum up the entire plot of Pathologic in a video, including all of the subplots with all of the side characters, but as I was writing it, I realized that was basically impossible to do in any sort of timely fashion. But this series is a good effort lol.
I've watched Hbomberguys video like 500 times (as well as Codex Entry's video summarising the first half of the bachelor's story hope there's a part 2 soon!) so that's why the algorithm brought me here but I'm bad at video games so I won't ever actually play it. I'm excited to watch your series
I like hbomberguy's video essay on this game, but I felt like he didn't do the Bachelor justice. It mostly consisted of mocking and dismissing him, while there was so much more going on with his route, just as you pointed out: he was a prickly prick, but an idealist who was crushed by the town at every turn, and decided that starting over was the best way to save everyone left. And really, that's pretty much how his whole route plays. He rescues Andrei Stamatin... but fails to rescue Eva. He saves 6 people from being executed by rogue soldiers... but couldn't get there in time to save the 20 others already killed. He makes a vaccine that keeps people from catching the plague... but can't do anything to cure those already infected. The Bachelor's route is learning that you can't save everyone, but saving who you can is better than none at all.
@@PlayheadNorth He's that mentality that sits dangerously on a knife: just a little nudge to one side, and he'd have fallen to full-on villainy, like Thanos, thinking that purging everything for a fresh start is best; falling on the other side would've seen him fail utterly by trying to save *everyone*, which is futile.
I can't imagine making a video about Pathologic while knowing about the big three already existing and being so good. But I'm absolutely loving it. And there's a nice little echo of Hbomberguy's New Vegas video with your repeated "Daniil, no!"
This series is genuinely my favourite pathologic videos, I know this isn’t the part but I love the discussion of the changeling it’s a shame she has a more rushed story but still love the discussion about it!
Thank you! And I totally agree about the Changeling. There’s a lot of potential there that just descends into doing the same three quests each day for the second half of her route. At least you get to hang out more with Best Friend Albino Man.
Loved this video! Made me realize some things I hadn't considered and that alone makes it successful in my eyes. Hope more people see this. I think there's a lot to appreciate in these games, even after the unfortunate news that surfaced yesterday
Was a bit slow at points but you really wrapped me in by the end, an excellent video. Looking forward to seeing what else you come up with! For me, the sections with text on the screen felt a bit excessive. The text was often kinda difficult to read and there was more words on screen then i could really read at a glance. Maybe bigger font, fewer words at a time but quicker tempo? Also struggled a bit with telling your voices apart during dialogue readings. Really enjoyed your analysis of his character arc and a lot of the subtext.
Thanks for the nice words! Still trying to figure out my video style, but I'll take your suggestions into consideration. Part of the problem is that editing is simultaneously fun and a huge pain, so it's also a balance of figuring out how much effort I'm willing to put into the thing without burning myself out.
31:10 PRO-TIP You DONT have to kill all 13 of the guards here. You ONLY have to kill the commander standing near the box car. Once you kill him the game will mark the task as complete. That means you DONT have to wast 12 valuable bullets and can use them for better ends, like buying food. I nearly cried with joy when I figured this out bc I only had 6 bullets and couldn’t find anyone to trade with at this point in the game lol.
Oh, that's a good catch! I played that section a few different times because I wanted to see how it panned out, but I think I always killed all the guards. Call me a completionist, I guess.
Just finished all three of these videos and happy to say, you’ve got a new subscriber in me. Excellent work, and such a beautiful and delicate and funny dissection of this brilliant suffering simulator
There are several more jumpscares actually. When you are looking for Grace and instead you find a hunchback staring at you at the cemetery cabin. And when you enter the first house after the infection moves out of the district and a teenage rascal spawns right in front of you and basically jumps you. And when you follow the worm and then it stops and attacks. And if you try to interrogate that butcher and he attacks you too.
It's true, my list is underinclusive. I feel like those ninja looters that spawned in the post-infected districts were always a bit startling -- and that's not to mention that the plague houses themselves made me squeamish the whole game. I could do a whole video on the jump scares in Pathologic now that I think about it, lol.
@@PlayheadNorth yes omg, the plague houses churn my stomach. I was just getting the toy for the girl in the Termitary yesterday because I didn't know where to get plague maps if Vlad the Younger gets sacrificed. Hard choices all around :D I would very much see a video about hard choices actually. I know you touched up on that already.
@@tundevirag755 You spend so much time in plague houses as Clara, and I still never got over them. Sometimes I just turned off the sound because then at least I didn't have to hear the squishing noises (seriously, why are the plague districts squishy???). The video I'm making now is specifically about the choice of endings, but a video about the hard choices in Pathologic is a good idea. There are so many moments like that one with Taya in the game.
@@PlayheadNorth in the plague houses, what I really can't stand is the sound if the bees/wasps swarming. Makes me so claustrophobic. And those cloths hanging in the hallway so you can't see anything... I don't know if I ever want to play as Clara 😅
Ugh, yes, the buzzing noise is awful! And all of the black mold on the walls and the furniture being totally overturned even though if you come back to the same house the next day, everything will be back in place. The plague houses in Pathologic 2 have nothing on those in the first Pathologic.
daniil's conversations with eva are so awkward, its very clear this girl is absolutely swooning over him and he's such a rude dismissive ass to her every time. i think the day before she jumps off the cathedral she's talking about her intense sadness and feelings of uselessness and one of his responses is like "just stop being sad already go get drunk or something". then you find her in the cathedral in day 12 and you can berate her for jumping. its so terrible! i just finished burakh's route and he goes from being a pretentious buffoon to a sociopath from the jump, lol. the other playthroughs really hammer home what an idiot everyone thinks he is too
Only watched this part so far still, what a charming review/explained! The fact that players and fans of the game can make it a source of memes and inspiration for humor is a testament to it's well-thought multi-narrative
22:50 Artemy said hell cut someone open with one foot in the grave. And when you look at the daughters heart you'll see its infected. So she was going to die to the Sandpest, as far as the characters know at this point. Its a nitpick for the video but I just wanted to say that Artemy did as he promised. In my opinion of course.
Awesome video! Looks like you’re putting together more videos in the future? If I might make a suggestion - putting forward a video with some of your favorite games, a little bit about them, etc - a total of 3 to 10 games would work. Then perhaps a series on whichever game resonates with your audience in a way that reveals something interesting to you. So often I see content that is simply the author working out their own thoughts in a video, but no following synthesis where they communicate an idea that actually changes the perception or opinion of some of the audience. Again, awesome video. Very enjoyable, you move between earnestness and light-hearted gigging gracefully and it makes it so much easier to just sit back, relax and run a terminal command granting you admin access to assimilate your thoughts into mine, the interfacing being an easy follow-along instead of someone trying to shove their errant thinking in through my ears or eyes or whatever is needed. Take care! :]
Thanks! I have plans to make videos about some other indie games after I'm done with this series on Pathologic. I hope you enjoyed the rest of the videos!
@@PlayheadNorth he deserves all the bathtubs in the world.. amazing video btw, i love your takes on the characters & im surprised it doesnt have more views
@@PlayheadNorth I LOVED it! Blew through it all at once. It’s on par with (if not better than) the big pathologic videos and I’m speaking as someone who has seen like. All of the pathologic content on UA-cam
really disappointed you didnt mention that Daniil on day 6 can be nice to clara and tell the inquisitor that clara didnt infect the cathedral was real nice of him but i havent played changling yet so idk if he does it or not
Well, I couldn't mention every part of the dialogue, unfortunately. But, also, I don't think it matters if he also tells the Inquisitor that Clara was not the one responsible on her route? All of the routes take place in different timelines, and the player being present affects how the playable character interacts with the setting and other characters.
After watching this video, i bought the game, fell in love with it, and now im sure by saying your pathologic videos, are the best ones! Greetings from argentina!
Since "discovering" Pathologic a week ago I've watched 12 hours of content about it, and I really enjoyed this video. Definitely going to watch the others. (I've been watching while I work, I feel like I need to point that out lmao)
40:08 You should be able to croutch, sneak up close behind them and pick them up. Even if you inventory is full, they'll just get "bagged", so it;s like a stealth kill.
This is very true, but why stealth pick up rats when you can just run clumsily into buildings to lose them???? (Actually the real answer is that I didn’t do this very often because I found stealth crawling after rats to be a huge pain, especially in the burned districts where you’re pretty likely to be spotted by another rat along the way.)
great vid. well paced, lots of explanations, things I didn't agree with, but that's okay because this game is supposed to be a unique experience for every player and so it was for me as well. looking forward to watching the second vid
It’s such a good game! You should play the Haruspex and Changeling routes of P1 when you get a chance. The Haruspex storyline in P1 is almost completely different from the storyline in P2.
Will do when I get my computer fixed also thanks for giving your interpretation of the bachelor I get he isn’t a good person but he definitely try’s to help the town which keeps pushing him away so he at least deserves credit for the positives he’s done (even if he is a prickly prick)
You know, I don't think any of the healers is perfect. They all have their issues that they bring with them on their routes. I just think that Daniil gets more flack than he deserves, especially given that he's the one who actually set up the system of quarantining the infected districts.
Feed the algorithm, comment en masse! Great video, by the by. I’m slowly making my way through the game, and I’ve currently got one thing on my mind that’s bugging me about the endings. We know early on in game that a majority of the children in town are quarantined within the Polyhedron. So... when the Haruspex destroys the Polyhedron, is he also killing several hundred kids in the process? Or is there some event down the line where there’s a mass exodus from the Polyhedron? I just think that maybe the Bachelor incidentally saved the lives if the town’s next generation, which is weird given that all of Artemy’s bound are the children.
That's a totally valid concern! But I think you can assume that the children will be evacuated from the Polyhedron before it's destroyed. I don't know how far you are in the game, but the Kains will be kicking the children out of the Tower regardless, and I think the implication is that they will be out before the army destroys it if you choose the Haruspex ending.
You have my sub^^ please do more episode of this game. its so hard for me i can't even bother to finish the game. i would love to see the story summary from you
I honestly cannot wait for Pathologic 2's Daniil's route (I can't play the original, I am bebe who needs the difficulty sliders 🙈). I love what little bits of interaction you have with him as Artemy.
Daniil: You look like garbage. You should take a nap in my bed. Artemy: *naps* Artemy, the next day: Well, he said that I could sleep here once so I assume that was just a standing offer, and basically I live here now.
I'll be honest with you Patho1 really isn't hard if you know what you're doing, which you will by day 1 You get more than enough money from just doing quests and will likely have more than you currently need, (I literally have 2m as haruspex on day 7 rn and I didn't use any console commands) and you can easily kill muggers to get any money you need
Regarding the pinned post: thank you for letting us know about this, somehow I missed the news. This is horrifying to hear, and certainly will change how I look at the game, but it's important to know it & appreciate that you're speaking out on it. I'm saying this outside of the post because I don't wanna get it deleted BC algorithm. I'm really sorry that UA-cam is giving you grief because of it, that's really shitty
It was really just that first day when I was frantically trying to put something up. Finally got the comments to stick afterwards. I want to make a video about the accusations and, like, how I’ve been processing things, but I also want to wait a few more weeks in case anything else comes out. There’s actually a more current list of everything that’s come out here: www.ditisemile.com/04/17/dybowski-allegations/
Actually I think I just need to turn off the auto moderation because it’s basically been absolutely terrible at its job. I see all the comments that come in, and it’s only deleted one actual spam. The others have all been real, non harassing comments (it looks like it might have deleted one of yours tbh).
Given the news that has come out about Nikolay Dybowski, I am adding this pinned comment to all of my Pathologic videos. Or at least I've been trying to add this comment. UA-cam keeps deleting them. I think UA-cam believes I'm spamming my own channel. By the way, if you make a comment on one of my videos and it disappears, odds are 90% it was UA-cam. I have deleted exactly one comment myself, and it was 100% spam. I'm seriously so annoyed with UA-cam right now, but typing the comment so it's slightly different from the others seems to help keep it from believing I am, you guessed it, spam. Basically, there is credible evidence against Nikolay Dybowsky. If you want to look at the evidence against him, follow this link, but please note a content warning for CSA: drive.google.com/file/d/1KeKKptAkn1D662UZYdWWg-mr16YbYK-S/view. Note: If the link doesn't work, try copying and pasting it into your browser. UA-cam might have disabled it. In light of this, I want to encourage people to take a look at these allegations for themselves and let their friends who might be interested in Pathologic know about them as well. The rumor is that these allegations have been an open secret around Dybowski for some time, and one of the worst things people in the Pathologic community can do is let them fade into secrecy once more. I am not going to judge you if you want to continue engaging with Pathologic; I am simply asking that you do so with knowledge of this evidence against its creator. If you would like to do something to help, the following tumblr has some great links for organizations you can donate to: auroraoptica.tumblr.com/post/647700868588863488/hey-everyone-given-the-recent-news-from-twitter. Thanks everyone, and take care of yourselves. UA-cam, please, I'm begging you, please do not delete this one.
Age of consent in Russia is 16. Therefore these girls are not underage. Or if they actually were less than 16 at the moment, what good will bring them an internet drama like this? In that case, they should go to the police and write statement about the crime. Talking about this on the internet will do nothing and will be useless. If they were over 16, again, there's nothing to talk about. Also I'd like to remind to you that many people were responsible for the game, and even if Dybovski will actually be proven to be a criminal, this has nothing to do with the game..
@@RandomCoffee101 First off, Pathologic is HIS creation, and HE founded Ice Pick Lodge, the game wouldn’t exist without him and he is the main creative lead, and second the accusations are that he preyed on young women as young as 14 at least.
This looks suspicious. Maybe he slept with children, maybe not - such "evidence" is easy to make about any person. We do not even have victims in this situation, some anonymous sources, but everything has been decided already. This is bad and has nothing to do with justice. It's sad that people forget about presumption of innocence. Nikolay Dybowski on this: I am commenting on the situation. The accusations are false. I know very well what kind of person distributes them, for what reason and for what purpose she does it. Last year she already wrote a denunciation to HSE. The HSE Ethics Commission conducted an investigation last year, and they are very strict with these things. All charges were dropped and I was apologized. This information is easy to verify. I think there is nothing more to add. I believe in the truth. ------------------------------------------ Sorry for my bad english, i think, i made a lot of mistakes
forgot the link to the commentary dtf.ru/flood/700027-nachalsya-kenselling-nikolaya-dybovskogo-rukovoditelya-studii-ice-pick-lodge-v-svyazi-s-obvineniyami-v-pedofilii
Oh, interesting. Where in the video did you hear the song by The Him? I mostly used music that I found on the Free Music Archive or in the UA-cam audio library.
@@PlayheadNorth No The Him by New Order I thought I recognized the baseline in multiple parts ua-cam.com/video/WU3w0f9NPnk/v-deo.html&ab_channel=BlueMonday1988 I might be mistaken lol
@@PlayheadNorth he feels like someone wrote the lines after wondering what would be the most blindingly arrogant almost edgy LARPer teen. But it was done well enough to be amusing more than cringy.
I'm pretty sure that "Burakh" is pronounsed with hard "R", and it's actually the voice actor imitatinmg a speech impediment... As all the "R" sounds in russian language are pronounes the same:) Great video, i'm so happy to find so many enjoyable videos on pathologic
Why was Daniil not in his own ending? Both of the other mains were in their own ending.. does Daniil leave the town before the bombardment? Or did he stay..
No, I believe he left before the bombardment. I actually address it in my last video of the series, but that one is currently unlisted because I want to redo it in light of the accusations against Dybowski. You can find it pinned to my Twitter though if you really want to watch it.
I don't even remember how or why I got interested in this game. It feels like I might have played it, or rather tried to play it years ago, but if so I don't remember any of it, it's just that certain things like character select screen and certain visuals in the game world gives me a very familiar feeling, almost like dejavu. Regardless, your videos are by far the most entertaining and I'm insightful ones I've come across. Regards.
Thank you! This is definitely a game where everything feels a bit off, like something that may have happened in a dream, so I can totally understand that feeling.
A thought that I had is that Daniil only works as a prick. I mean, you need a massive ego to go against all forces of cult and tradition, saying "No, I know what is best, I just arrived here 5 minutes ago, but you are all wrong and I am right". A more humble doctor would have probably just lent assistance in treating the sick or shut himself off after receiving so much pushback from the locals.
@@PlayheadNorth well, those videos gave me a taste, but I wanted to know more. I'll comment on your final video with my thoughts of the story and how you presented it :3
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Playing the bachelor like a normal person and picking all of the polite options is great because you can just imagine him wanting to do the right thing, but all of the other dialogues are just things he really wants to say to these people since he's so fed up.
There was a part in the game where I realized I was agreeing with all his bad dialogue options because I was so sick of being roadblocked at every turn, and that’s truly (horrible) magical.
Bachelor is the definition of "let the intrusive thoughts win"
Aww. I liked this! Daniil is definitely a character who, transplanted into a kinder setting, would be a jerk with a heart of gold. Oh, man, though, the way he struggles after getting a glimpse past the fourth wall thrills me.
He's such an interesting character!
He seem kind of like a FMA character
Pathologic REALLY got me into his headspace. I set out to roleplay as best I could, and I fell into it hard. A few days on and I couldn’t really separate his feelings about the situation from my own. When Daniil felt angry about something, I was angry about it too. When Daniil was begrudgingly kind, I was too. When Daniil was conflicted, I was incredibly so. Even though I knew the army arriving would be bad and would disrupt my work, I was relieved when there was someone there with me to deal with the rampant arsonists and infected. This game does an amazing job of making you feel exactly what the character does.
Part with "Daniil, no!" cracked me up.
He’s such a dweeb. I love him.
@@PlayheadNorth I love him too. My favourite of all three. He lost so much because of this town, put his own life at risk for other people, despite the fact that its citizens resisted his attempts to save them. At first they didn't even want to believe that there was an epidemic in the town! And then the Bachelor was accused of giving power to the Saburovs? Well, maybe if you weren't morons and immediately recognized that there was an epidemic in the city, this would not have happened?! What other choice did he have? God, such moments just piss me off. Oh, and what were the great saviors Clara and Artemy doing at this time? Artemy tried to survive and deal with his father's inheritance, and Klara recruited people into the sect of her adoptive mother! The only one who dealt with the disease in the early days was the Bachelor! He's done so much for the town, when he really didn't have any obligation to do so. He's just came here to visit some old man, goddamit!
Sorry, scream of the soul.
@@MrLarva-sn7tz Haha no I totally get the frustration. I think people really do forget that Daniil is why the prices didn’t totally spiral out of control, why the infected districts were cordoned off, why a quarantine ward was set up. All of the shady stuff Saburov did he did without consulting Daniil, and Daniil was horrified at the man’s abuse of power. Daniil may have been misguided sometimes, and he’s definitely arrogant, but he did really try to do the best he could in a truly impossible situation.
I keep coming back to this video just to watch that part 😆
My google drive is filled with 6 different essays, 20p a piece I have written about this game in the midnight hours. I feel you girl. the struggle be real.
RIGHT??? My original script was, like, 25,000 words, and it’s only gotten longer as I’ve made these videos...
The almighty algorithm brought me here, and I'm satisfied
Yay! I'm glad you liked the video.
love your take on daniil :) he's very easy (and tbh very fun) to mock, but he IS a tragic and complex character. your point that the bachelor's story is the most "emotionally difficult" is really well observed and i think is what makes pathologic so memorable and unique.. even the prickliest of pricks in pathologic are generally trying to do what they think is right, but their personalities and ideologies inevitably do harm. looking forward to the next episodes! :)
Yes! He's such a complicated character. I love him so much. Glad you enjoyed the video!
"do you favor good or evil?"
daniil: "I favor winning"
d a n i i e l n o
He’s such an idiot. I love him so much.
Finally someone who's covering the haruspex and changeling routes too thank you for your service 😭❤️
Seriously, Artemy and Clara deserve our love as well!
I'm sorry, if it has been said already, but there is one line of dialog from conversation with Aglaya that explains why Dankovsky is good with guns. He says that his father was a military officer and wanted Daniil to go into military career as well. So he supposedly received training before disregarding his parents' will and going to study medicine in university. Which ads like a whole new level of sad backstory.
I might not agree with Dankovsky, but in context his perspective is very understandable.
Thank you for the video, it's really fun to listen to other people talk about pathologic, I enjoyed it a lot!
Thanks for this essay and your perspective on the bachelor. I was getting irritated by vocal parts of the fandom who decry Daniil as being some one dimensional malevolent racist.
One of the most brilliant things pathologic has done is to make you feel mentally exhausted, when. playing as Daniil. You start of with the best and logical intentions (setting up quarantines, hospital, making a vaccine) but with every step, it seems that you have to drag the town with you kicking and screaming along while trying to save them. Especially when you suffer drawback after drawback, seemingly out of other people's unwillingness or anti-intellectualism.
In the entire pandemic situation nowadays, it strikes at you hard because some people just at first glance don't seem to believe in evidence or listen to reason.
Oh my goodness yes! There is so much about this game that seems creepily true to life in the current pandemic.
Daniil definitely has his biases, but I think they stem more from his intellectual elitism than xenophobia. And I really think he does do some growing over the game! (Well, maybe not in Clara’s route, but definitely in the other two.) I also found his perspective on life to be very similar to some professors and other researchers I’ve known, and to be honest, he wasn’t half as bad as some of them. At least there is a part of Daniil that I think genuinely wants to help people.
Imagine Bachelor living through COVID-19.
(D is for Daniil, T is for Townsfolk)
D: "Are you mad, people? Me and Rubin, we work day and night to make your endangered lives slightly more likely to be preserved, but you can't even force yourself to comply to the most basic of our fairly trivial orders? Can you not muster enough will to wear a piece of cloth over your face? And, when we come up with a vaccine, you cannot help but backstab us with those absurd rumors of our cure spreading mental diseases?! Totum revolutum..."
T: "Doctor, the Powers That Be want us under their boot! Them damn masks and vaccines will make us into their cattle!"
D: "Alright, fuck it. General, nuke them".
So far my favorite thing about Pathologic has been how it has led me to multiple smaller / new channels with production value and video quality that far surpasses the size of their channels. 8 minutes in and I'm convinced, subscribed!
Aww thank you!
I hope I don't offend you when I say I was suprised just how well this is made.
But seriously, I'm not even 10 minutes in and already love this video and knowing there are more ahead of me :D
While the Pathologic Community is pretty small it has some wonderful and super talented people in it and it is always amazing discovering another one of them such as you!
Thank you! I'm not offended at all! I really like being a part of this community. Part of me wishes it were bigger because then we might get more games, but if it were, it probably would not be this supportive.
the [pained emoji] coolest thing about the willow mellow storyline is that it was pretty clearly based on verdi's opera rigoletto. which makes perfect sense considering what pathologic... is, but also it was wild to be spoiled for the end of that subplot about 150 years before the game actually came out. a delightful progression of "haha, just like rigoletto!" to "oh dear, just like rigoletto", and then finally "ah. just like rigoletto." (fascinating implications likewise that the thing that happens at the end of the opera is not even at the midpoint of daniil's story in the game.)
Daniil is one of those fictional characters I wish I could give a hug. After the plauge ofc. He really suffers more than anyone should have to.
Now I want to replay the Bachelor's route and pick all of the "Daniil No!" dialogue options
Do it. (You will fail a bunch of quests.)
@@PlayheadNorth Update: you were right (worth it)
It's too late at night to watch an entire video essay, but I have to say:
the first minute is mood af! seriously, could not have been said better; it's playable Russian literature, which I grew up reading and remember vividly the sheer weight of those novels on my mind, invoking in me the thoughts that kept me restless at night.
This game is horrible, I love it.
I really love your sense of humor, and I really felt all your "DANIIL NOOOO" moments :D The essay is great, I want to point out two things (among many others), that made this video so enjoyable for me: your general passion for the game (although a video like this must require a lot of tiresome preparation), and I also love that you saw kindness in Daniil who is often considered to be completely useless
Thank you!!
I swear to god, Daniil is the single best character in the game! He is such an asshat but I love him so much!
He's the best/worst!
Hello, mercurius from dies irae
"I make fun of Daniil. A lot"
I'm sold
If you make a Pathologic video, you have to make fun of Daniil. I don't make the rules, I just follow them.
@@PlayheadNorth Even Daniil fans roast Daniil.
@@erusean8492 As a Daniil fan, yes.
DANIIL, NO
Okay, but seriously, this is awesome and I'm excited to see the rest of these - I can't believe I haven't found them until now!
(just re-commenting as I think my original comment got yeeted by youtube - but still, this is awesome! If you'd like me to share this around the fandom discords etc I'd be more than happy to!)
I'm so pleased you liked the video! That means a lot!
I'm also glad you commented again because I saw the notification for the first comment that UA-cam ... inexplicably discarded, and when it disappeared, I was worried I had done something to mortally offend you or something.
I know this video has been shared on the IPL discord, but I mean, I'm not going to say no if you want to share it elsewhere :D
omg there are fandom discords? where can they be found? would love to find others to talk about patho with
The main one is the semi-official Ice-Pick Lodge discord: discord.gg/tqZphtT
Horse is Mind
THANK you. Genuinely! I've been starved for Pathologic videos, as it's become my new hyperfixation, and finding easily digestible content for it is a rarity! You deserve more attention for your work, you really do. :]
You're welcome! I'm glad that you enjoyed the video!
Hello, ive watches TONS of pathologic to the point that (no offense) i use as sleep aid, ive found my new fave pathologic vid to replay
No offense taken! I think one of the highest things a video can aspire to be is a person's emotional support video.
31:33 the point is watching him fumble about acting like he owns the place. Pathologic is the best dark comedy, hands down.
I definitely remember having some simpatico with Daniil's irritated, sarcastic attitude on my first run. If you're approaching this situation as a medical doctor would, there is SO much weird arbitrary bullsh*t that gets in your way that it feels completely normal to lose patience. No one will DO anything, except sometimes actively get in your way, usually for a reason that comes across to Daniil/the player as nonsensical.
Daniil deserves to be bullied, but at the same time, I think he gets way more hate in the fandom than he deserves. He did some really important things to protect the sand pest outbreak from getting worse, all while most of the people in town tried their hardest to be as unhelpful as possible.
@@PlayheadNorthtbh, in my playthrough. I had a shit eating grin when the town got shelled. I was so done with them
I haven't played Artemy in the original (yet), but, in the remake, it's really clear that he had an easier time treating the plague, because he could... You know, practice medicine.
It's really obvious (and I honestly hope) that Daniil's route will be harder in the remake, which... Makes sense, since he met resistance at every single basic step of fighting the plague.
When I get that itch to watch Pathologic content again, I sometimes type "Daniil no" into the search trying to find this particular video. I love the whole video but especially that bit.
Thank you, I love this for us.
Pathologic is like a ghost that comes back every now and then in my life hahaha, Thanks for making the vid il give it a watch!
As a player I've found Batchelor's ending gloomy and unsettling. The music, colors and overall tone of the ending roll felt like he was being played by Kains and their lust for power. The image of Town's ruins and Polyhedron, rising from the ground like a giant wasp nest, was utterly frightening.
I feel like idealistic young people like Daniel, Eva and Stamatins are often being manipulated by powerful elites, who pretend to match their ideals but ultimately want immortality for themselves. In Changeling's arc, Stamatins even say that Polyhedron doesn't make sense without people of the town. Peter build it to be a Utopia, but it was used as a body for a one aristocrat fearful of his own death.
I bought the game because of the interesting ideas but within a few hours I realized I'm not a masochist. Schadenfreude from other people playing through the torture is much easier to enjoy.
Haha I think everyone should try Pathologic, but I don’t think everyone should push themselves to finish. You’ll figure out pretty quick if it’s for you or not.
@@PlayheadNorth Ironically this you made the best sum up for people who don't want to play the game. I watched hbomberguy's video all jazzed up to play the game and feel superior on how I play obscure indie games and appreciate them like paintings from museums. Turns out I'm a pompous douche but at least your video explains what happens while you're playing it.
@@Gooong At one point I was going to try and sum up the entire plot of Pathologic in a video, including all of the subplots with all of the side characters, but as I was writing it, I realized that was basically impossible to do in any sort of timely fashion. But this series is a good effort lol.
Just came from the Hbomberguy vid, this was a very concise overview of the first story, earned a sub!
I'm glad you liked the video! Ha, I'm happy to hear that the almighty algorithm is giving me a share of that sweet, sweet Hbomb traffic.
I've watched Hbomberguys video like 500 times (as well as Codex Entry's video summarising the first half of the bachelor's story hope there's a part 2 soon!) so that's why the algorithm brought me here but I'm bad at video games so I won't ever actually play it. I'm excited to watch your series
Thank you! Have you seen Codex Entry’s latest video? She’s definitely working on the second half :D
I like hbomberguy's video essay on this game, but I felt like he didn't do the Bachelor justice. It mostly consisted of mocking and dismissing him, while there was so much more going on with his route, just as you pointed out: he was a prickly prick, but an idealist who was crushed by the town at every turn, and decided that starting over was the best way to save everyone left.
And really, that's pretty much how his whole route plays. He rescues Andrei Stamatin... but fails to rescue Eva. He saves 6 people from being executed by rogue soldiers... but couldn't get there in time to save the 20 others already killed. He makes a vaccine that keeps people from catching the plague... but can't do anything to cure those already infected.
The Bachelor's route is learning that you can't save everyone, but saving who you can is better than none at all.
I really like this! Daniil is a jerk, but he’s a jerk who tries, and I really don’t think he gets enough credit for it.
@@PlayheadNorth He's that mentality that sits dangerously on a knife: just a little nudge to one side, and he'd have fallen to full-on villainy, like Thanos, thinking that purging everything for a fresh start is best; falling on the other side would've seen him fail utterly by trying to save *everyone*, which is futile.
That’s part of why my ideal ending is play as Daniil, choose to save the town.
I have been searching for months for a video essay on pathologic that isn’t pandering to people that haven’t played it. This is very impressive!!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I can't imagine making a video about Pathologic while knowing about the big three already existing and being so good. But I'm absolutely loving it. And there's a nice little echo of Hbomberguy's New Vegas video with your repeated "Daniil, no!"
This series is genuinely my favourite pathologic videos, I know this isn’t the part but I love the discussion of the changeling it’s a shame she has a more rushed story but still love the discussion about it!
Thank you! And I totally agree about the Changeling. There’s a lot of potential there that just descends into doing the same three quests each day for the second half of her route. At least you get to hang out more with Best Friend Albino Man.
Loved this video! Made me realize some things I hadn't considered and that alone makes it successful in my eyes. Hope more people see this. I think there's a lot to appreciate in these games, even after the unfortunate news that surfaced yesterday
Was a bit slow at points but you really wrapped me in by the end, an excellent video. Looking forward to seeing what else you come up with! For me, the sections with text on the screen felt a bit excessive. The text was often kinda difficult to read and there was more words on screen then i could really read at a glance. Maybe bigger font, fewer words at a time but quicker tempo? Also struggled a bit with telling your voices apart during dialogue readings. Really enjoyed your analysis of his character arc and a lot of the subtext.
Thanks for the nice words! Still trying to figure out my video style, but I'll take your suggestions into consideration. Part of the problem is that editing is simultaneously fun and a huge pain, so it's also a balance of figuring out how much effort I'm willing to put into the thing without burning myself out.
@@PlayheadNorth most of what I said you actually seemed to have addressed in your newest video! Which is significantly more polished
@@jacemasood3019 Yay! I feel like I’ve accomplished something without even really doing anything.
31:10 PRO-TIP
You DONT have to kill all 13 of the guards here. You ONLY have to kill the commander standing near the box car. Once you kill him the game will mark the task as complete. That means you DONT have to wast 12 valuable bullets and can use them for better ends, like buying food.
I nearly cried with joy when I figured this out bc I only had 6 bullets and couldn’t find anyone to trade with at this point in the game lol.
Oh, that's a good catch! I played that section a few different times because I wanted to see how it panned out, but I think I always killed all the guards. Call me a completionist, I guess.
Good. If there is no views, still good video.
Thanks! It was the first video on this channel, so I didn't expect it to get a lot of views. Glad you enjoyed it thought!
Just finished all three of these videos and happy to say, you’ve got a new subscriber in me. Excellent work, and such a beautiful and delicate and funny dissection of this brilliant suffering simulator
Thank you! I’m glad you’ve enjoyed them so much!
I never thought Pathologic there will be a time to talk with other people about this game!
It really seems like the Pathologic community has blown up in the past year! Seriously, good for Pathologic.
There are several more jumpscares actually. When you are looking for Grace and instead you find a hunchback staring at you at the cemetery cabin. And when you enter the first house after the infection moves out of the district and a teenage rascal spawns right in front of you and basically jumps you.
And when you follow the worm and then it stops and attacks. And if you try to interrogate that butcher and he attacks you too.
It's true, my list is underinclusive. I feel like those ninja looters that spawned in the post-infected districts were always a bit startling -- and that's not to mention that the plague houses themselves made me squeamish the whole game.
I could do a whole video on the jump scares in Pathologic now that I think about it, lol.
@@PlayheadNorth yes omg, the plague houses churn my stomach. I was just getting the toy for the girl in the Termitary yesterday because I didn't know where to get plague maps if Vlad the Younger gets sacrificed. Hard choices all around :D
I would very much see a video about hard choices actually. I know you touched up on that already.
@@tundevirag755 You spend so much time in plague houses as Clara, and I still never got over them. Sometimes I just turned off the sound because then at least I didn't have to hear the squishing noises (seriously, why are the plague districts squishy???).
The video I'm making now is specifically about the choice of endings, but a video about the hard choices in Pathologic is a good idea. There are so many moments like that one with Taya in the game.
@@PlayheadNorth in the plague houses, what I really can't stand is the sound if the bees/wasps swarming. Makes me so claustrophobic. And those cloths hanging in the hallway so you can't see anything...
I don't know if I ever want to play as Clara 😅
Ugh, yes, the buzzing noise is awful! And all of the black mold on the walls and the furniture being totally overturned even though if you come back to the same house the next day, everything will be back in place. The plague houses in Pathologic 2 have nothing on those in the first Pathologic.
daniil's conversations with eva are so awkward, its very clear this girl is absolutely swooning over him and he's such a rude dismissive ass to her every time. i think the day before she jumps off the cathedral she's talking about her intense sadness and feelings of uselessness and one of his responses is like "just stop being sad already go get drunk or something". then you find her in the cathedral in day 12 and you can berate her for jumping. its so terrible! i just finished burakh's route and he goes from being a pretentious buffoon to a sociopath from the jump, lol. the other playthroughs really hammer home what an idiot everyone thinks he is too
Only watched this part so far still, what a charming review/explained! The fact that players and fans of the game can make it a source of memes and inspiration for humor is a testament to it's well-thought multi-narrative
Thank you!
These are far in a way my favourite videos on the game. I love your take on it.
Thank you!
22:50 Artemy said hell cut someone open with one foot in the grave. And when you look at the daughters heart you'll see its infected. So she was going to die to the Sandpest, as far as the characters know at this point. Its a nitpick for the video but I just wanted to say that Artemy did as he promised. In my opinion of course.
I don’t necessarily disagree, but even when you play the Haruspex route, I don’t think it makes what he did feel less shady.
Awesome video! Looks like you’re putting together more videos in the future? If I might make a suggestion - putting forward a video with some of your favorite games, a little bit about them, etc - a total of 3 to 10 games would work.
Then perhaps a series on whichever game resonates with your audience in a way that reveals something interesting to you.
So often I see content that is simply the author working out their own thoughts in a video, but no following synthesis where they communicate an idea that actually changes the perception or opinion of some of the audience.
Again, awesome video. Very enjoyable, you move between earnestness and light-hearted gigging gracefully and it makes it so much easier to just sit back, relax and run a terminal command granting you admin access to assimilate your thoughts into mine, the interfacing being an easy follow-along instead of someone trying to shove their errant thinking in through my ears or eyes or whatever is needed.
Take care! :]
Thanks! I have plans to make videos about some other indie games after I'm done with this series on Pathologic. I hope you enjoyed the rest of the videos!
havent played p2 i learned from this video about petr's 2 bathtubs.... EXCELLENT
Peter having two bathtubs is literally one of my favorite things about Pathologic 2.
@@PlayheadNorth he deserves all the bathtubs in the world.. amazing video btw, i love your takes on the characters & im surprised it doesnt have more views
Thank you for your nice comments! There should be a mod of Pathologic where Peter's house is just bathtubs.
I’m so happy I have 3 more hours of pathologic content to be destroyed by and also so upset this only has 1,000 views
Haha thank you! Hopefully you enjoy the rest of the series!
@@PlayheadNorth I LOVED it! Blew through it all at once. It’s on par with (if not better than) the big pathologic videos and I’m speaking as someone who has seen like. All of the pathologic content on UA-cam
I'm so glad my obsession can bring joy to someone else!
Дякую! Чудове відео з подробицями, аналізом і хорошим гумором. Подивився з великим задоволенням.
Спасибо!
for a small youtuber woah this is pretty well made :0 new sub buddy !
Haha thank you!
We are all lost souls here 😂🤣 great video here!
really disappointed you didnt mention that Daniil on day 6 can be nice to clara and tell the inquisitor that clara didnt infect the cathedral
was real nice of him but i havent played changling yet so idk if he does it or not
Well, I couldn't mention every part of the dialogue, unfortunately. But, also, I don't think it matters if he also tells the Inquisitor that Clara was not the one responsible on her route? All of the routes take place in different timelines, and the player being present affects how the playable character interacts with the setting and other characters.
@@PlayheadNorth
Oh
I still thought it was a pretty decent human thing for him to do that stands out
Holy crap this is a great video. I can tell you put an immense amount of effort and love into this and I can't wait to watch the rest of the episodes!
Thank you! I hope you enjoy the rest of the series!
After watching this video, i bought the game, fell in love with it, and now im sure by saying your pathologic videos, are the best ones! Greetings from argentina!
Ahhhh thank you! This is a huge compliment. I love it when I can infect others with my brain worms.
@@PlayheadNorth well, if those worms like herbs... it will be a nice place for them
I'm planning on cosplaying Daniil for one festival, but now I'm scared of a crowd of butchers suddenly approaching me to reshape my punchable face.
Legitimate concern
You deserve a comment for the algorithm!
Thank you! The algorithm is a fickle beast.
Since "discovering" Pathologic a week ago I've watched 12 hours of content about it, and I really enjoyed this video. Definitely going to watch the others.
(I've been watching while I work, I feel like I need to point that out lmao)
Look, no judgment here. Pathologic has a tendency to consume one’s thoughts.
40:08 You should be able to croutch, sneak up close behind them and pick them up. Even if you inventory is full, they'll just get "bagged", so it;s like a stealth kill.
This is very true, but why stealth pick up rats when you can just run clumsily into buildings to lose them????
(Actually the real answer is that I didn’t do this very often because I found stealth crawling after rats to be a huge pain, especially in the burned districts where you’re pretty likely to be spotted by another rat along the way.)
great vid. well paced, lots of explanations, things I didn't agree with, but that's okay because this game is supposed to be a unique experience for every player and so it was for me as well. looking forward to watching the second vid
Love finding videos of this game but I’ve only beat the bachelor campaign and p2 haruspex campaign but I love it to bits
It’s such a good game! You should play the Haruspex and Changeling routes of P1 when you get a chance. The Haruspex storyline in P1 is almost completely different from the storyline in P2.
Will do when I get my computer fixed also thanks for giving your interpretation of the bachelor I get he isn’t a good person but he definitely try’s to help the town which keeps pushing him away so he at least deserves credit for the positives he’s done (even if he is a prickly prick)
You know, I don't think any of the healers is perfect. They all have their issues that they bring with them on their routes. I just think that Daniil gets more flack than he deserves, especially given that he's the one who actually set up the system of quarantining the infected districts.
Danil, YES!
Oh no, you're one of *those* players haha
Feed the algorithm, comment en masse! Great video, by the by. I’m slowly making my way through the game, and I’ve currently got one thing on my mind that’s bugging me about the endings.
We know early on in game that a majority of the children in town are quarantined within the Polyhedron. So... when the Haruspex destroys the Polyhedron, is he also killing several hundred kids in the process? Or is there some event down the line where there’s a mass exodus from the Polyhedron?
I just think that maybe the Bachelor incidentally saved the lives if the town’s next generation, which is weird given that all of Artemy’s bound are the children.
That's a totally valid concern! But I think you can assume that the children will be evacuated from the Polyhedron before it's destroyed. I don't know how far you are in the game, but the Kains will be kicking the children out of the Tower regardless, and I think the implication is that they will be out before the army destroys it if you choose the Haruspex ending.
I love your essays and style
You have my sub^^ please do more episode of this game. its so hard for me i can't even bother to finish the game. i would love to see the story summary from you
Thanks for the sub! The second video about the Haruspex and Changeling is out, and the video about the endings should be out soon.
I honestly cannot wait for Pathologic 2's Daniil's route (I can't play the original, I am bebe who needs the difficulty sliders 🙈). I love what little bits of interaction you have with him as Artemy.
Daniil: You look like garbage. You should take a nap in my bed.
Artemy: *naps*
Artemy, the next day: Well, he said that I could sleep here once so I assume that was just a standing offer, and basically I live here now.
I'll be honest with you
Patho1 really isn't hard if you know what you're doing, which you will by day 1
You get more than enough money from just doing quests and will likely have more than you currently need, (I literally have 2m as haruspex on day 7 rn and I didn't use any console commands) and you can easily kill muggers to get any money you need
IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A VIDEO LIKE THIS! thank you im obsessed as well
Haha, thanks! It's a game that really sucks you in.
Regarding the pinned post: thank you for letting us know about this, somehow I missed the news. This is horrifying to hear, and certainly will change how I look at the game, but it's important to know it & appreciate that you're speaking out on it.
I'm saying this outside of the post because I don't wanna get it deleted BC algorithm. I'm really sorry that UA-cam is giving you grief because of it, that's really shitty
It was really just that first day when I was frantically trying to put something up. Finally got the comments to stick afterwards. I want to make a video about the accusations and, like, how I’ve been processing things, but I also want to wait a few more weeks in case anything else comes out. There’s actually a more current list of everything that’s come out here: www.ditisemile.com/04/17/dybowski-allegations/
Actually I think I just need to turn off the auto moderation because it’s basically been absolutely terrible at its job. I see all the comments that come in, and it’s only deleted one actual spam. The others have all been real, non harassing comments (it looks like it might have deleted one of yours tbh).
linking this on all my discords because I love the game and I rly loved your video, its so well made !! You have (at least) one new fan
Awww, thank you so much! I'm so flattered!
The Codex Entry series on pathologic is fantastic. Highly recommend it.
I was in part two!
19:30 I’ve just started playing Pathologic 2, and my theory is that Peter Stamatin literally just bathes in Twyrine.
This is canon
We found another one, people! Time to blow this up!
Ur sub count is CRIMINAL for a channel this good
Haha, thank you!
I would love to watch you do a play through…
this video is so good! I'll binge your series soon
Given the news that has come out about Nikolay Dybowski, I am adding this pinned comment to all of my Pathologic videos. Or at least I've been trying to add this comment. UA-cam keeps deleting them. I think UA-cam believes I'm spamming my own channel. By the way, if you make a comment on one of my videos and it disappears, odds are 90% it was UA-cam. I have deleted exactly one comment myself, and it was 100% spam. I'm seriously so annoyed with UA-cam right now, but typing the comment so it's slightly different from the others seems to help keep it from believing I am, you guessed it, spam.
Basically, there is credible evidence against Nikolay Dybowsky. If you want to look at the evidence against him, follow this link, but please note a content warning for CSA: drive.google.com/file/d/1KeKKptAkn1D662UZYdWWg-mr16YbYK-S/view.
Note: If the link doesn't work, try copying and pasting it into your browser. UA-cam might have disabled it.
In light of this, I want to encourage people to take a look at these allegations for themselves and let their friends who might be interested in Pathologic know about them as well. The rumor is that these allegations have been an open secret around Dybowski for some time, and one of the worst things people in the Pathologic community can do is let them fade into secrecy once more. I am not going to judge you if you want to continue engaging with Pathologic; I am simply asking that you do so with knowledge of this evidence against its creator.
If you would like to do something to help, the following tumblr has some great links for organizations you can donate to: auroraoptica.tumblr.com/post/647700868588863488/hey-everyone-given-the-recent-news-from-twitter.
Thanks everyone, and take care of yourselves. UA-cam, please, I'm begging you, please do not delete this one.
Age of consent in Russia is 16. Therefore these girls are not underage. Or if they actually were less than 16 at the moment, what good will bring them an internet drama like this? In that case, they should go to the police and write statement about the crime. Talking about this on the internet will do nothing and will be useless.
If they were over 16, again, there's nothing to talk about.
Also I'd like to remind to you that many people were responsible for the game, and even if Dybovski will actually be proven to be a criminal, this has nothing to do with the game..
@@RandomCoffee101 First off, Pathologic is HIS creation, and HE founded Ice Pick Lodge, the game wouldn’t exist without him and he is the main creative lead, and second the accusations are that he preyed on young women as young as 14 at least.
@@oneinathousand2156Still, an internet drama won't help anybody. The girl needs to go to the police
This looks suspicious. Maybe he slept with children, maybe not - such "evidence" is easy to make about any person. We do not even have victims in this situation, some anonymous sources, but everything has been decided already. This is bad and has nothing to do with justice. It's sad that people forget about presumption of innocence.
Nikolay Dybowski on this:
I am commenting on the situation. The accusations are false.
I know very well what kind of person distributes them, for what reason and for what purpose she does it.
Last year she already wrote a denunciation to HSE. The HSE Ethics Commission conducted an investigation last year, and they are very strict with these things. All charges were dropped and I was apologized. This information is easy to verify.
I think there is nothing more to add.
I believe in the truth.
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Sorry for my bad english, i think, i made a lot of mistakes
forgot the link to the commentary
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Nice video ! im excited to the next parts . Keep it Up!
Thanks! I really appreciate the encouragement. I just posted the next video if you want to watch it.
wow! this video was great. You earned a new sub
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed the video.
Damn, I liked the video then kept looking down to give a like. Amazing analysis!
Thank you!
great video excellent subtle use of The Him
a good song for the bachelor
Oh, interesting. Where in the video did you hear the song by The Him? I mostly used music that I found on the Free Music Archive or in the UA-cam audio library.
@@PlayheadNorth No The Him by New Order
I thought I recognized the baseline in multiple parts
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I might be mistaken lol
the "BURAKH" soundbite fucking kills me everytime lmaooo
it's especially funny because in tagalog, "burak" means mud or dirty/boggy water so that's all i can think of
I love this. Artemy is definitely a dirty gremlin man.
Ah yes, Danil "I FAVOR WINNING!" Dankovski
He is such a smart guy with absolutely no ability to read the room. I love him.
@@PlayheadNorth he feels like someone wrote the lines after wondering what would be the most blindingly arrogant almost edgy LARPer teen. But it was done well enough to be amusing more than cringy.
I love this. Daniil does feel like someone who is really trying to be an edgelord but doesn’t actually know how to go about it.
I'm pretty sure that "Burakh" is pronounsed with hard "R", and it's actually the voice actor imitatinmg a speech impediment... As all the "R" sounds in russian language are pronounes the same:)
Great video, i'm so happy to find so many enjoyable videos on pathologic
Oh interesting! Thank you for the insight!
I loved this video, thank you for making it, praise the algorithm, glory to the decahedron
Haha thank you!
I F A V O R W I N N I N G
He's such an idiot. I love him.
GREAT VIDEO!
THANK YOU!
I'm looking forward to this.
Why was Daniil not in his own ending? Both of the other mains were in their own ending.. does Daniil leave the town before the bombardment? Or did he stay..
No, I believe he left before the bombardment. I actually address it in my last video of the series, but that one is currently unlisted because I want to redo it in light of the accusations against Dybowski. You can find it pinned to my Twitter though if you really want to watch it.
I don't even remember how or why I got interested in this game. It feels like I might have played it, or rather tried to play it years ago, but if so I don't remember any of it, it's just that certain things like character select screen and certain visuals in the game world gives me a very familiar feeling, almost like dejavu. Regardless, your videos are by far the most entertaining and I'm insightful ones I've come across.
Regards.
Thank you! This is definitely a game where everything feels a bit off, like something that may have happened in a dream, so I can totally understand that feeling.
I'm so glad for a covid-era pathologic vid
This is indeed a COVID Pathologic video made partially to cope from self-isolating due to COVID.
I love how you say “chicken” it cracks me up 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just out there, channeling my inner Daniil.
Actually have a bathtub on a room like that was kind of normal in the middle age's castles.
I didn't know that! I assume it wasn't normal to sleep in the bathtub though.
Amazing video and amazing work!
Thank you!
A thought that I had is that Daniil only works as a prick. I mean, you need a massive ego to go against all forces of cult and tradition, saying "No, I know what is best, I just arrived here 5 minutes ago, but you are all wrong and I am right". A more humble doctor would have probably just lent assistance in treating the sick or shut himself off after receiving so much pushback from the locals.
It's very true. Sometimes you need someone to be a little stubborn when there a a bunch of obstacles in the way.
Thank you for making this video!!!
Absolutely! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
knocked it out of the park
Thank you!
This character has always reminded me of myself and I don’t like it.
Look, he's my favorite character in the game, so that's nothing to be ashamed of.
this is pog!! instant follow, thanks algorithm
Haha, thanks!
Well, somebody was brought here by their interest in pathologic, even if it is by the other videos you mentioned haha
I mentioned them for a reason! I honestly wasn't sure who (if anyone) would actually watch this video.
@@PlayheadNorth well, those videos gave me a taste, but I wanted to know more. I'll comment on your final video with my thoughts of the story and how you presented it :3
Why's he called DANKovsky when he doesn't smoke weed lol
Who needs weed when you have twyrine