"I can only walk forward" its such a good storytelling bit, and Ryan didn't even understand what he was saying. He won't go back he won't even LOOK back, he refuses to look at what hes done, he won't reflect on his own miss doings.
@@zachiko_69 no it is obviously not the intended meaning of that feature. it's done so the player can't accidentally miss the scene of the sun rising, that is all.
@@Thebenjiball0the scene with the vents kind of enforces this though, he won’t look back so you have to walk backwards and never look back on the actions you’ve taken to get there
Swansea says in his last scene before death: "I should've been able to protect the kid. If I could have done one thing right, I wish it had been to give him one small chance off this goddamned rock." Swansea was most likely referring to Daisuke given the circumstances they were in - especially considering that Daisuke was the youngest on the ship. Swansea probably cared about Daisuke even though he had trouble showing it - he possibly saw Daisuke as a son. In the scene where Swansea put Daisuke out of his suffering, it was clear that he felt remorseful and horrible, but knew what was best.
@@95748 I'll take this further as well. It seems more likely that Swansea, given the death of Daisuke, would be saving the pod for Anya. Anya told Swansea what happened to her, and being the only other person on the ship willing to take action to protect her is very-much in-line with his character.
I like how Curly just stares the main character in the eye (Jimmy) whenever he's in the medical room. It just says that even though Curly cant speak, move, or communicate in some way - he knows the truth.
@@AgarelcainaI mean... would he though? Up until the crash, Curly was pretty forgiving of Jimmy. And that was for the SA. Would he have _actually_ started railing on Jimmy for the crash?
The worst thing in the game is that there were ONLY FOUR PODS. even if the crash was an accident, even all pods were OK, there would still have been someone condemned to die. and the company knew it. I work in the occupational safety and health and this game is a metaphor of what makes me sick every day. THEY KNOW SOMEONE WILL DIE.
Daisuke was a last minute addition to the crew though, he was just hired as an intern right before their last trip. I don't know if they can install a 5th cryopod right before a shipment but it's an oversight by both the company and the crew themselves.
I think you were right with your assessment but the Anya pregnancy with her asking about locks not on sleeping quarters and asking for a weapon and not wanting "him" in the sleeping quarters. I think Jimmy attacked Anya and then when confronted Jimmy caused the crash to cover up everything
I agree I forgot that it was brought up about the locks and Curly obvioulsly knew the truth but I guess he was holding out since he knows jimmy and considers him a good friend and then he had a mental breakdown and made everything worse trying to fix it crazy game though I always give props to games like this that make these unique concepts
Okay, so from what I've been able to piece together, the story is that Pony Express was an exploitative company that mistreated its workers and did nothing to tend to their needs or ensure a safe and hospitable environment for them (This can be seen by all the posters throughout the ship and Polle's phrases like "Are you working hard, or hardly working?"). Then, a week before the crash, Curly (the captain of the Tulpar crew) receives a message from the company saying that they're all getting fired due to either the company shutting down or becoming automated. He breaks the news to everyone and they're upset because they have no other career options, but Jimmy (the co-pilot) gets especially pissed and lashes out at Curly due to being jealous of his position and wanting to be higher-up. Then, some time after that, Jimmy sneaks into the sleeping quarters and rapes Anya, getting her pregnant (which is why she questions the sleeping quarters not having a lock while the cockpit and medical room do). After being told, he tries to crash the ship and kill everyone so that he won't have to take responsibility for his crime. Curly then manages to redirect the ship away from the asteroid and saves all of them, but somehow ends up severely burned and bedridden. Jimmy, rather than owning up to what he did, lies to the others that Curly was the one trying to crash the ship and takes over position as captain of the crew. Now stranded and with resources running low, the rest of the crew goes into the storage vault to see if there's any supplies they can use, only to be disheartened as they learn that it's full of nothing but mouthwash. As time goes on, everyone starts to lose hope, with Swansea and Daisuke getting drunk off the mouthwash, Anya falling into depression, and Jimmy going crazy from the pressure of the position he stole. Also, from what is implied, the crew at some point decide to use Curly as a food source, cannibalizing him in order to survive (possibly explaining his missing limbs, as the others likely ate them). The guilt of this only further adds to the crew falling apart. As more and more time goes on, the crew begins dying off, with Anya committing suicide by OD'ing on painkillers, Daisuke becoming fatally injured while going through the vent and having to be euthanized by Swansea, and Swansea being killed by Jimmy after snapping and trying to kill him. Jimmy, now alone, begins losing his mind from the isolation, completely losing touch with reality. He cannibalizes Curly and even force-feeds him pieces of his own body to keep them both alive, while also hallucinating his now dead crewmates. Having reached his breaking point, Jimmy decides to put Curly in the cryo-pod as some sort of twisted plan for redemption. After freezing Curly, Jimmy then commits suicide with the gun, leaving Curly to be frozen for the next 20 years with a small chance that he'll be rescued (though looking at the state Curly is in, killing him probably would've been better. Even if he's found, the physical and mental trauma he's suffered will ensure he'll never be able to have a normal life.). TL;DR -- Jimmy was a selfish and cowardly scumbag who screwed over everyone just so he wouldn't have to take responsibility for his actions.
I think it’s more likely that Anya and Jimmy had a fling, and he didn’t want to have to take responsibility for getting her pregnant with no job now. I think she was worried about what he would do upon knowing that she’s pregnant. She just seems too comfortable around him shortly after the crash happened, and I don’t get why she would tell him she’s pregnant if it was from SA.
@@TheBlueLink3 I think you misunderstood. Anya and Jimmy were never close enough to be friends, let alone have a fling. He constantly belittles her during the game, shouts at her when he’s frustrated and never even comments on her death. She would have never wanted anything with him. She puts up with him after the assault because she’s literally *FORCED* to. Theyre stuck together with no hope of escape any time soon. He’s the captain of the ship after what happened to Curly, and he could easily hurt her if she tries to speak up or ignore him. She wants to tell him he caused her pregnancy as both incriminating evidence against him and in the case he wants to take responsibility for the baby; either way, he has to since she’s now pregnant and lost her job at pony express.
@@LookieKookie Exactly. Their interactions were always more forced than anything, and Jimmy would constantly shit on her. I doubt Anya would've been near him at all if she could help it.
@@TheBlueLink3 Considering the scene where Jimmy is talking to Curly (the only cutscene we see Curly before his burn injuries, where we learn Jimmy is crashing the ship) Jimmy is speaking as if he's committed a heinous crime. Having a fling wouldn't net that response, so I think Jimmy definitely assaulted Anya and then guilt-tripped Curly into letting him attempt to crash the ship because the rape happened under Curly's "watch" and would implicate the captain in the crime.
I always interpreted it as him not wanting to take the responsibility of having a baby and forced to take a different direction in life. Because throughout the game you hear the cries of the baby and depictions of pregnancy showing that he’s afraid of the baby. That and the whole speech from swansea telling him how being at the bottom (like jimmy) were the best days of his life but, taking responsibility and trying to move your life forward is the best thing a person can achieve which is essentially an effort to belittle jimmy for not taking responsibility and allowing for his life to mean nothing than the little that he has on this ship. So essentially jimmy cracked under pressure from dealing with a baby and having his only source of stability and comfort, cut from him. And although I do think that he did assault Anya, I think whilst Anya is hurt from being assaulted, jimmy is more paranoid about the concept of having to take responsibility for that baby as many men who have been in a situation where they get someone they don’t have feelings for pregnant.
This game has so much metaphors and allusions, it tells such a good story. that leaves me with anger at jimmy and sadness for everyone else. like this Tory is told in such a way that when you finally realize what’s happening you you’re like wow .
@@IX_4 That doesn't excuse Jimmy's actions. He lashed out at Curly like it was his fault, even though Curly had been nothing but good to all of them. Then he went and raped an innocent woman, got her pregnant, and decided he'd rather kill everyone than take responsibility for it. Then, after Curly nearly died saving them, Jimmy had the audacity to blame him and take his job. Curly could've maybe helped all of them. Him being rich likely meant he had connections he could've used to give them all jobs, but instead of asking, Jimmy's jealous ass did the stupidest and most heinous thing he could've done, and then tried to screw everyone else over.
Curly grows to be the best character in the game- even when he is being left incapacitated by Jimmy, he still wants to bear the responsibilities of the chaos that wasn't his doing to begin with and even still thinking of his crew. Damn, mad respect.
But he’s not innocent. His first instinct when he knew how Jimmy reacted to Anya’s pregnancy was going straight to Jimmy, to tell him he’d “fix it.” Because Jimmy was his close friend, he cared more about preserving his reputation back on earth over Anya. Every character has so much depth here.
@@Maxwellishi'd like to think his talking to jimmy and saying he'll "fix it" is just acting on curly's part. all things considered, there are another 8 months left to ride with this crew, so it's best to try and keep everyone in good spirits. that being said this is copium and curly probably did have the intention of covering it up
@@l9324 considering how flawed and well written every character is, i imagine curly is no different---so imo its the first one. at the very least he doesnt take it seriously, since he still acts friendly towards him :
Honestly I think Curly is second worst character in the game. He did good stuff, yeah. But he knew what Jimmy did. He knew and he did nothing about it. He even tried to cover it up. He's not a good person, but that's probably why he tries so hard to look like one.
Curly was part of the problem, after finding out Jimmy assaulted Anya, he wanted to “fix it” for Jimmy. He wanted his friend to not get caught or face consequences for his actions.
For anyone who didn't understand the overall story, I've written a summary of it here. Warnings for: SA, unwanted pregnancy, abortion, suicide. Jimmy, while the crew was shipping cargo, sexually assaulted Anya and she became pregnant. Abortions are either performed with a pill (which induces painful, lemon sized clots of blood that take the fetus outside of the womb with them) or with a surgery. Anya was the only medical staff on board and surgeries are only performed by doctors. Her only other option would have been an 'at home abortion' (common methods include throwing yourself down stairs, putting metal or glass inside your genitals, overdose of drugs, alcohol or harmful substances, etc) which if it hadn't outright killed her, would've left her with permanent damage to her body. So without any safe choices, she would've been forced to carry the fetus. By the time they got back home she would've at least, been so far to term she couldn't get an abortion anymore. If not have already given birth on the ship. Curly was told about the incident by Anya and the fact she was pregnant. When Jimmy was told, he cared more about saving his own skin from the responsibility of being the father to a baby born from sexual assault that neither of them wanted in the first place. So, he decided to crash the ship out of desperation so they could spin a story about him being a hero that survived a crash so his life wouldn't be ruined. He was fully ready to let everyone except Curly, including the woman he made a victim in the first place, die so he wouldn't have to face the consequences. Basically, a real scumbag. Eventually, after the crash but before Anya's suicide, she told Swansea. That and Daisuke's death was his breaking point and why he went after Jimmy. Curly isn't absolved from this either. He was mostly worried about 'saving' his friend, even after he committed such a monstrous act. And it sounds like after all that, he was still willing to play along with Jimmy. Judging by the scene just before Jimmy crashed the ship. But when the alarms went off and Curly realised what Jimmy had done and why, he was pretty much done with him. Short SHORT summary: Jimmy's a selfish creep who got Anya pregnant non-consensually, she couldn't get an abortion and Jimmy decided to ruin everyone elses life to cover it all up! Thanks, Jimmy.
I wonder if curly, as the leader, had any other option but to continue to treat jimmy like a regular person. I mean, they are all trapped together on a ship. Starting a fight or getting angry at a person like Jimmy would only make things worse. Especially in this life or death situation.
@@lotus_flower2000 He had other options but refused to choose them because Jimmy WAS his friend. And he wanted to believe that somehow in some way, Jimmy could actually do better as a person. Which, even at the end, he does not. As someone who was previously in a similar position, it's hard coming to terms with the fact that the same person you've known as someone “good” turns out to be the complete opposite. Then when faced with the truth, you justify it with stupid things like Curly does with Jimmy. That he can be better and “fix” things.
@@lotus_flower2000 Tbf, it's a life or death situation that JIMMY put them in. I think after someone does something like that, they can no longer be treated like a "regular" person because they're mentally unstable. It's unsafe to do otherwise. If Curly had gotten away unscathed, I think he'd isolate Jimmy. What else do you do with someone who'd rather everyone died so he wouldn't have to face responsibility?
men will literally crash their space freighter on an isolated asteroid condemning all their coworkers to a slow and miserable death instead of going to therapy
The absolute pit in my stomach when I looked at all the boxes, thinking "Oh, its gonna be a whole world of supplies, they'll be okay for at least a while longer," only to suddenly realize before they were opened "It's just mouthwash."
This is the plot, as best as I can put it together. Apologies for any mistakes. This will be long. A crew made up of Curly, Jimmy, Swansea, Anya and Daisuke are inter-space cargo crew, basically delivering things between planets. Curly is the captain, Jimmy is his right hand, Swansea is the engineer, Anya is their nurse and Daisuke is an intern. At some point, Jimmy and Anya either ended up together, albeit briefly, or something more malicious happened between them, and this caused her to get pregnant. Anya speaks to Curly who says he will sort it. While this is happening, the crew are sent a letter that basically says they’re all fired. This will be their last mission. Curly speaks to Jimmy, meaning to talk about what he’s done to Anya, who instead puts forward two options. One, they return home as failures. Two, they crash the ship and go down in history as tragic heroes. Jimmy takes Curly’s lack of answer as opting for the second plan and crashes the ship on purpose. Curly goes into the cockpit to try and stop/save them and ends up badly burned. We skip to months after the crash. The crew is low on food, painkillers for Curly to keep him quiet and just about anything else. They soon find out they’re transporting mouthwash. Just lots and lots of mouthwash. It caused a breaking point in the crew. Due to its high ethanol level, Swansea breaks his sobriety and begins to drink heavily. Jimmy begins to slowly but surely lose his mind. The crew grows more and more desperate, with Anya taking her own life, Swansea killing Daisuke out of mercy after Daisuke badly injures himself in the vents, and Jimmy killing Swansea during a complete mental breakdown. Jimmy has been slowly losing his mind since a few months past the crash due to the pressure of now being captain and wanting to ‘fix everything’. The crew are now dead, all apart from Curly and Jimmy. Jimmy decides to put Curly in their last escape pod, dooming him to 20 years of cryostasis. Jimmy shoots himself and the fate of Curly is left unknown.
Okay one thing I think you got wrong. I’m pretty sure jimmy had some kind of underlying mental illness. In other words he didn’t slowly go insane he was already insane to begin with. That’s why he refused to take the psych evaluation seriously. Is because he didn’t want people to know about his mental illness since that could effect any chances he had at climbing the corporate latter.
@@NeotronHorxen I don't think there's really a moral here, which kind of makes it more horrifying. We can look for a message or try to make sense of it but I don't think it's anything more than watching the insanity of one man as he tears his world asunder.
From what i understand so far. Jimmy got anya pregnant and when she told him he crashed the ship. Curly tried to fix it but was framed as the bad guy and the foam mangled him. Throughout the game jimmy is saying he can fix everything but keeps denying that its his fault. The flashbacks and judgement scenes are him struggling with his guilt trying to both get over the guilt and take responsibility but he cant bring himself to do it and so the guilt slowly drives him insane. At least that's what the game seems to be saying.
The thing with Jimmy. Is it's implied that he didn't give Anya a choice in the patter based on how casual he is about making a cocktail to knock out Swansea. As if he's done it before. As in another member on the crew. One who just so happens to be pregnant with his kid. One who just so happens to be terrified of him. One who ask why there aren't locks on where they sleep.
Hi Ryan! This is related to your sleep issues, I have been experiencing similar things and while I don't know your situation, these tips might be useful to you. 1. minimize screentime 2 hours before bed at least 1 hour, 1 hour is usually the better for me, i can fall asleep pretty well if i haven't looked at a screen for that duration before bed. 2. reduce the amount of fatty foods you eat when, for me eating nothing about 2-3 hours before bed does the trick too, it helped with my sleep quality a lot and also helps me fall asleep pretty quick. 3. do something very relaxing, i like to take a hot shower before bed since it makes me really sleepy, also reading anywhere between 10-15 pages a night before bed is a good one, after that i am pretty much knocked out. 4. meditation could help, for me it doesn't work as much since i will always have smth race through my mind since i work in the kitchen it gets pretty stressful. but meditating for about 5-10 minutes before bed is something i heard helps a lot for some people. 5. having a routine and when you go to bed and when you wake up, for me for example i go to bed at 9pm and wake up at 5-6am depending on the day, before hand since i was evening shift i used to have a really bad sleep schedule of going to bed at 11pm or 3am and wake up at 7am or 11am and my sleep was awful , i couldn't sleep but now it's pretty much good now that i go to bed at the same time everyday and wake up at similar times. also if you drink a lot of coffee or energy drinks then reduce it, no more caffeine after noon, that also helped me a ton, now my last coffee is at 10 latest. also another thing with the routine, just a simple clean up routine in the evening an hour or so before bed helps, i like to tidy up the kitchen, put away stuff, take out the trash or something similar and simple, just to get my head into peace mode if that makes sense, if I'm satisfied with how the house looks then i will sleep better because i know that i have done something good and productive even if i was tired. I hope this helps ryan, i love your vids and keep up the good work! ❤️ and also hope this helps anyone in need of some sleeping advice, i am always up to help if anyone needs with sleep since i had a lot of sleep issues back in the day so in case you need help, hit me up ppl. Have a nice day all! 🫶
I just realized why Anya was so distraught by the 237 days, eight months line. Because by the time they reached their destination, she wouldn’t be able to get rid of the baby anymore. She’d have one month left until she had to endure what Jimmy forced upon her.
My first time seeing this game, and HOLY it's an absolute piece of art. To be honest, it's more like a book or a novella, yet it's so well made. The sound design really is amazingly put together, all the animations and details makes you actually dive in into the story, so much so I honestly didn't notice the hour and a half of time passing by, it's crazy good
I appreciate how he is the only one who goes through the game fully until the end, I really thank you so much. (I only know he is doing a full game even on new released games and I watch him everytime.)
@NeotronHorxen uh well, he was in the spot of the cake, and Jim was hallucinating that everyone was alive, and they all called him captain, so maybe Jimmy just wanted to feel needed and loved?
Ryan as Curly: "That could cut my leg off" Game: Yes The fact they Ryan was to stunned to realise he predicted it is kinda funny. And he was playing as Curly which makes it better!
after going back and rewatching and peeping comments and reddit threads i think curly also felt bad for not taking responsibility 😭 this whole time i thought it was jimmys delulu ass but it was also curly realizing he shouldve took anyas assault more seriously and just bc he kept saying he would take responsibility doesnt really mean he was and he learned it the hard way because of jimmy what taking responsibility actually means. i think him laughing too when jimmy goes to get the gun is part of him realizing it someone also pointed out he could be laughing bc of the irony of anya hiding it so he couldnt get it and look what happened anyways. it was supposed to protect them from him and now jimmys using it to protect himself from swansea / everyone else
I think another thing people often look over, and it's not their fault because it's a very, very subtle detail, is the fact that Curly himself has problems. He's having trouble sleep, as evident by the first two Anya interactions, and over a period of 6 days, he's had to face a possible job termination of a crew he genuinely cares about, he saw Jimmy turn the entire crew against him, Anya getting pregnant all of a sudden, and the revelation that Jimmy was behind it all. Sleep deprivation, combined with exhaustion and a series of catastrophic events within such a short time, would overwhelm even the most iron-hearted people. He probably didn't even process it all during that time period...
@@hajimeokajima I picked up on that immediately. I feel like they used it like a Red Herring, making us think this all happened due to Curly and alluding to mental issues that could contribute to why he would do that.
the plot as far as i can muster: -Anya was talking about how its crazy how they don't put locks in the sleeping quarters and how she didn't want "him" in there earlier, and therefor i think it's safe to assume Jimmy attacked her, leading to her pregnancy -when Curly told Jimmy the news that Anya was pregnant, i think that in a fit of rage/fear he decided to crash the ship as he didn't want anyone to find out or he thought death was better then being known as Anya's attacker -Curly takes responsibility and also sustains severe wounds from the crash -they find the mouthwash, everyone gets drunk and agitated. -chaos breaks out, Anya and the other guy (i cant remember his name) die. -i guess Jimmy and Swansea get into a fight because Swansea was trying to get the last pod and Jimmy ends up shooting Swansea in the head -Jimmy has gone aposlutley off his rocker at this point -Jimmy easts Curley's leg and feeds part off it to Curley himself -Jimmy puts Curley into the cryo pod and finishes himself off Damn. That is crazy...
Swansea attacks jimmy because of all that jimmy has done. Jimmy caused daisuke to die Jimmy got Anya pregnant with r3pe (Swansea tells jimmy he is aware of this) Swansea just cracks and attacks him.
Ryan picking up on a deeper meaning during the conversation with Anya under the fake night sky but basically forgetting about it every other conversation with Anya was detrimental to him not getting it. This was Anya's horror story, the reason Jimmy didnt want the news of the pregancy getting out was because it was concived unconsenually. Jimmy assulted Anya, and Curly did nothing to keep her safe even after he knew, he just playcated Jimmy. Having his agency taken away was a fitting punishment.
The amount of effort Ryan puts into his videos seriously needs to be appreciated more by pressing that like button I can’t wait to see more horror videos off of Ryan
1:18:40 We're on his throat (literally), implying aggression or pressure. It suggests that someone is being attacked, criticized, or held accountable with intense focus or urgency (SPOILER RAMBLING) this has to be one of the most frusturating story i ever read, Poor everyone (except jimmy) didn't deserve all of that, especially Anya and Daisuke, i cried what happened to anya and terrified what daisuke Sees and experience and jimmy is a piece of shit ever since the beginning, his sense of self-righteousness is mindnumbing, the writers knows how to write a truly piece of an ass shit god, what a story i forever hate, i dont say this is a bad story, i like the story as a Story, but it left me with hate and anger, and i know that's what the writer intended the story be in the end, Jimmy didn't fix a shit, Killing everyone instead and make the last one suffer through it, might aswell assume he's brain-dead with all that mental suffering EDIT. tis might be a reach, but i think picking the color Pale green for jimmy dialog is an intentional decision to (literally) paint him as the good guy, as green tends to be seen as "the good" while Curly is given the color white as a blank canvas for us to intrepet him as whatever we think it suits for him
I mean like, i heard this from someone before, hating on a character that the writer made is a compliment to the writer (the original version i heard is about hating the character that the va voiced is a compliment to the voice actor, it's the same thing ig)
i also feel that there's some mild symbolism in jimmy's text colour in the phrase "green w/ envy"? like even in the first scene you see curly's pov, jimmy's yelling about how curly has it so much better than he does, a big factor leading to him going absolutely nuclear and ... yeah, lol. just a thought
Ok so im gonna explain the story for ppl who got confused SPOILERS and mention of S/A or Grapes Also i dont remember all the names sorry So basically Curly is rhe captain of the spaceship used to transport things over a year long ride. He tells his coworkers that they would be fired after it is done so jimmy an employee lets himself go crazy. He S/As the girl on the ship leading her to end up pregnant. Jimmy doesnt care and doesnt acknowledge this. She tells the captain and leaves him to cool down and deal with the meteor that the auto pilot is warning about. He tries to prove himself or he just doesnt care anymore and stops the auto pilot which leads to imminent crash so he breaksdown outside and curly tries to fix it getting severe burns in the process. Curly now cant talk move or even eat on his own and jimmy is left in charge. The girl stays by the captain as he was rhe only one she told about her situation and tried to help. Jimmy obvjously blames curly for the accident and nobody knows it was actually jimmys fault. Eventualluly the girl cant take it and ods, the younger boy tries to climb the vents to save her leading to him being in awful pain from injuries. The larger man puts him out of his misery and goes to get drunk off the mouthwash. Jimmy gets the gun as he knoes the larger man is planning for everyone else to die and for him to then go in the last cryo pod he was hiding which leads to a fight. Jimmy has a gun the other man has an axe and eventually Jimmy shoots him in the head. Jimmy goes crazy having hallucinations and realizes its his fault so he talks to curly somehow. Curly says he will take the blame and jimmy can be the hero so he should go in the cryo pod but jimmy decides to put curly in the cryo pod then ofs himself with the gun. Curly is left burned and frozen stuck in the ship waiting 20 years max for someone to save him. The end I left out some parts like the mouthwash cuz im typing this on mobile but i recommend looking up the lore yourself if you want to know more
I knew Jimmy had been acting weird the entire time. He keeps this attitude like "Ugh why do people call you better". Maybe he SA Anya cause she had a feeling for Curly and it made him jealous, cause he kept blaming Curly for everything, even when the captain never held a grudge for him.
Ryan you are the best channel out there making content almost every day about any indie horror game or any other popular games thank you for your content and making our day better❤
1:30:33 the reason why Jimmy crashed the ship is because since pony express went out of business. All of them would’ve lost their careers, and for some of them it would be devastating so Jimmy tried to short circuit everything by crashing the ship, but the expanding foam kept them alive. He thought that he was helping everybody and himself. He was wrong.
Not just that, but Anya (very likely through... less than consensual mean) got pregnant by Jimmy. Considering his dialogue before attempting to crash the ship, he did _something_ not-good. Jimmy wasn't looking out for the crew. He was looking out for himself.
Thank you for playing this! And thank you for all the effort you put into your videos, Mr 8-Bit! I was positively chomping at the bit to see a playthrough of this game- and I'm glad you've played it.
This game was already give everyone chill for like 5 minutes Mouthwashing was just…wrong. Curly was hero and been blame into a bad person. Jimmy just a stupid and mental person who thinks he’s a “leader” and other crew just society that lead into hell for no reason. And the ending was just messed up. Truly a heartbreaking match up understand story
1:23:06 After a lot of thinking on what this would resemble, I finally understand this part. Anya is pregnant with jimmy.. jimmy needs to take responsibility of the fact he probably SA’d Anya
Thank you for always having such positive energy and for always giving great content. I appreciate all your hard work and time you put into your videos. I hope you get better sleep soon, I too only sleep like 6 hours and it do be rough sometimes. Have a wonderful day and get all the rest you need!
OH BROTHER THIS TIME I LOVE UA-cam MADE MYSELD A SWEET CUP OF CARAMEL MILKSHAKE SIT DOWN OPEN UA-cam AND THIS COMES UP AND THE FEEL IS ALREADY SO GOOOD
i think this the first time i've ever made a game suggestion on anyone's channel but i saw Albino play an indie game called Psychopomp. i can't even begin to describe it but it might be something you could play on the channel for a spotlight video like this one. obviously if you decide you can't or don't want to then that's fine. it's not like i have a right to have a stake in this anyway. the loading screens are pretty funny.
Have been watching you ever since 2017 and you always cheer me up. I was depressed a few days ago but watching your videos made me forget I ever had a depression. Love you Ryan and you will always be one of my favorite UA-camr (Pls pardon my English. I'm from Asia and English is my second language)
The whole over view of the game is “take responsibility” I think this boils down to men in real life not taking accountability for SA, as jimmy never confronted what he did to Anya
In the first 0 day before the pilot crash it was jimmy doing that all long You can see he use the emergency key autopilot and Jimmy himself do that sorry bad English but i hope u all understand it . 😅
Im gonna help you out with the story Ryan. Even though im pretty late. It all pretty much started with Anya. When Anya said “why do you think they put a lock on medical but not on the sleeping quarters?” and Curly replies with “Safety.” And it also flashes on screen. This indicates that Anya actually got r@ped by Jimmy. Anya fell into a deep depression because of whats happening and stuff. Anya confronted Jimmy about her pregnancy and Jimmy, and i quote her, “He just walked away.” And after these (i think it was after) the message from the higher-ups came and told them they were being fired. And in the beginning when we, as Curly, were talking to Jimmy, Curly said that Jimmy had struggled A LOT back when he was on earth, so in Jimmy’s head, he got fired, the woman he r@ped is pregnant, and he’s about to go back to that struggling life he had. Now of course im not saying Jimmy is right for doing all this. Fuk Jimmy. But i think this whole thing is just sad. Poor Anya man.
So all of this happened, because a coward couldn't keep it in his pants... and left the ruined captain to take responsability while he runs away one last time. There was a blind monster on the ship indeed. One that blinded itself and ran from the monstrous act it commited.
This game reminds me of Signalis and the existential dread of the fact that you have to sit in a ship which is breaking down constantly, the way the text flares on the screen in constant repetitions… I both love it and hate it
Always keep in mind that at the beginning of the video, Ryan said something regarding "cutting someones leg off with that knife" when he first saw it. ITWAS PREDICTED ALL ALONG?!.
I was so excited of seeing the whole story and I hate the end. The one I wanted to survive the most was Anya and Curly, I hate Jimmy and all he has done.
Ryan you should absolutely play Signalis, it's a sci-fi survival horror game that takes a lot of inspiration from Silent Hill, old school Resident Evil, Evangelion, and a little bit of Nier Automata. It's a terrifying but super interesting and incredible game and I would 1000% recommend it
So piecing the story together through watching it plus everyone in the comments is absolutely insane, im speechless really, honestly wasnt planning to get this game so thats why i came to watch a playthrough but damn after all this i want to play it myself honestly. This story is just so intense, the visuals, everything. I came from Instagram actually, i saw art of curly and anya and was wondering what it was from, i saw the comments saying it was a intense game mentally, wasn't planning to come watch a playthrough really because i didnt feel i could handling it mentally at the time, but dang i was glued to the screen. Basically to say i enjoyed the story and game. As I said im so speechless so sorry if this comment doesnt make sense lol, but seriously, if someone wants to look into this game and can handle it, its amazing storytelling... And I'll be thinking about it for awhile now.
This was. A game this was beyond what I expected when I came to watch this. I dont know about yall, but this was amazing horrifying and sad and will be a favorite now.
Hi Ryan. I just want to thank you. I'm autistic and I can't deal with people. Talking makes me anxious and even though I have friends I hide from them. As you can imagine school was a tough time for me. So I hid in a corner and watched your videos during the breaks. Every. Single. Day. I don't know what I would have done without you. There are people who work as therapists or doctors and are so insanely important but your job is important as well. You helped an autistic girl through her school time, you helped me to not feel lonely and I appreciate the time and love you put into your content. You deserve every single one of your subscribers and even more. Just know that your job changed lives as well. You are a hero dude. God bless your heart, thank you for helping me through the tough teenager years, you made me survive this hell
You’re not alone!! 😭 school is hell for me. Lunch & break is the worst for me because of all the smells and unbearable noise. I have no friends nor do I want anyone to sit with, and every time I watch Ryan’s videos. They’re my lifeline
@@Todorokisxmp Same. Very relatable. 100% I feel you. People are so overwhelming and so disgustingly fake, how am I supposed to know when they mean something and when not? It is truly a nightmare. Ryan is literally the reason I have not gone mad. Just taking my headphones, hiding and watching him is what helps me get less overwhelmed. This dude is really great, he deserves so much love
Hey Ryan! Theres this backrooms game called SUBLIMINAL coming out in December that’s been in development for a long time now. Its has super realistic graphics/gameplay and it might even have a plot with voice acting! The trailer dropped about a month ago so you should totally react to it and play it!!🙏🙏
I really like the influences this Game has. The storytelling is non linear like Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarrantino. The surrealism and broken impossible layouts of the ship remind me of The Shining by Stanley Kubrick. Along with other nods to Kubrick And the deteriorating mental health of the characters along with text based visuals remind me of Neon Gennesis Evangelion by Hideaki Anno.
Simply put: I feel like Jimmy is the Shou Tucker of indie games, maybe even gaming as a whole. All that horror is scary because it’s not just realistic, but frequent. There are plenty of people like Jimmy who are envious, petty, cowering, spiteful, and egocentric enough to be willing to doom everything and everyone around them just for the illusion of authority. It’s scary, because there are Jimmys everywhere in real life. Don’t allow them to fester like Curly did. Stamp out their behaviors early on.
"I can only walk forward" its such a good storytelling bit, and Ryan didn't even understand what he was saying. He won't go back he won't even LOOK back, he refuses to look at what hes done, he won't reflect on his own miss doings.
quite the stretch
Not even
@@Thebenjiball0
@@zachiko_69 no it is obviously not the intended meaning of that feature. it's done so the player can't accidentally miss the scene of the sun rising, that is all.
@@Thebenjiball0the scene with the vents kind of enforces this though, he won’t look back so you have to walk backwards and never look back on the actions you’ve taken to get there
Are you saying that Ryan is a fucking coward?
maybe swansea isnt saving the last pod for himself, maybe he's saving it for daisuke, but daisuke died
Swansea says in his last scene before death:
"I should've been able to protect the kid. If I could have done one thing right, I wish it had been to give him one small chance off this goddamned rock."
Swansea was most likely referring to Daisuke given the circumstances they were in - especially considering that Daisuke was the youngest on the ship.
Swansea probably cared about Daisuke even though he had trouble showing it - he possibly saw Daisuke as a son.
In the scene where Swansea put Daisuke out of his suffering, it was clear that he felt remorseful and horrible, but knew what was best.
@@95748 I'll take this further as well. It seems more likely that Swansea, given the death of Daisuke, would be saving the pod for Anya. Anya told Swansea what happened to her, and being the only other person on the ship willing to take action to protect her is very-much in-line with his character.
I like how Curly just stares the main character in the eye (Jimmy) whenever he's in the medical room.
It just says that even though Curly cant speak, move, or communicate in some way - he knows the truth.
Yeah.. Kinda funny how Jimmy knew exactly how to make a mocktail to knock someone out..
What did he know again?
@@Agarelcaina He knows that Jimmy was the one to crash the ship. And that Jimmy SA'd Anya.
@@boomgirlbucko dang, if bro had limbs rn he woulda killed jimmy
@@AgarelcainaI mean... would he though? Up until the crash, Curly was pretty forgiving of Jimmy. And that was for the SA. Would he have _actually_ started railing on Jimmy for the crash?
The worst thing in the game is that there were ONLY FOUR PODS. even if the crash was an accident, even all pods were OK, there would still have been someone condemned to die. and the company knew it. I work in the occupational safety and health and this game is a metaphor of what makes me sick every day. THEY KNOW SOMEONE WILL DIE.
The captain always goes down with his ship
Daisuke was a last minute addition to the crew though, he was just hired as an intern right before their last trip. I don't know if they can install a 5th cryopod right before a shipment but it's an oversight by both the company and the crew themselves.
@@RenShinomiya121 gross violation of interstellar standard OSHA procedures I say. They should have not N pods for N crew members but N+2 pods!
Cruise ships are only required to have enough life boats for HALF the passengers
Dawg
the pain I felt when I realised that Anya was attacked in *that* way…oh my god…this story is so deep, painful and meaningful, the creators did so well
I didn't understand half of it, so pls explain what happened to anya
@@Al3x_61jimmy sexually assaulted anya
@@Al3x_61 From what I had read from a different comment, it seems that Jimmy had assaulted Anya and had gotten her pregnant.
@@MrMcPasta "why are there locks on the med bay, but not our rooms?"
my stomach twisted when she asked that
@@umjammerlammy9993oh my god.
I love that instead of being creeped out by the "I hope this hurts" message at the start, Ryan's just pissed.
Looking at the size of that knife and saying "wow that could cut my leg off" is crazy
28:14
Even funnier because it's unintentional foreshadowing
1:08:45
i laughed
and the gulp sfx 😭
I think you were right with your assessment but the Anya pregnancy with her asking about locks not on sleeping quarters and asking for a weapon and not wanting "him" in the sleeping quarters. I think Jimmy attacked Anya and then when confronted Jimmy caused the crash to cover up everything
would also explain the baby crying sound in the beginning
I agree I forgot that it was brought up about the locks and Curly obvioulsly knew the truth but I guess he was holding out since he knows jimmy and considers him a good friend and then he had a mental breakdown and made everything worse trying to fix it crazy game though I always give props to games like this that make these unique concepts
Ohh
And the gravestone. I wonder if that was in meaning to the baby?
I think it ways Swansea since Ayna got visibly nervous and upset when he drank it.
Okay, so from what I've been able to piece together, the story is that Pony Express was an exploitative company that mistreated its workers and did nothing to tend to their needs or ensure a safe and hospitable environment for them (This can be seen by all the posters throughout the ship and Polle's phrases like "Are you working hard, or hardly working?"). Then, a week before the crash, Curly (the captain of the Tulpar crew) receives a message from the company saying that they're all getting fired due to either the company shutting down or becoming automated. He breaks the news to everyone and they're upset because they have no other career options, but Jimmy (the co-pilot) gets especially pissed and lashes out at Curly due to being jealous of his position and wanting to be higher-up.
Then, some time after that, Jimmy sneaks into the sleeping quarters and rapes Anya, getting her pregnant (which is why she questions the sleeping quarters not having a lock while the cockpit and medical room do). After being told, he tries to crash the ship and kill everyone so that he won't have to take responsibility for his crime. Curly then manages to redirect the ship away from the asteroid and saves all of them, but somehow ends up severely burned and bedridden. Jimmy, rather than owning up to what he did, lies to the others that Curly was the one trying to crash the ship and takes over position as captain of the crew.
Now stranded and with resources running low, the rest of the crew goes into the storage vault to see if there's any supplies they can use, only to be disheartened as they learn that it's full of nothing but mouthwash. As time goes on, everyone starts to lose hope, with Swansea and Daisuke getting drunk off the mouthwash, Anya falling into depression, and Jimmy going crazy from the pressure of the position he stole. Also, from what is implied, the crew at some point decide to use Curly as a food source, cannibalizing him in order to survive (possibly explaining his missing limbs, as the others likely ate them). The guilt of this only further adds to the crew falling apart.
As more and more time goes on, the crew begins dying off, with Anya committing suicide by OD'ing on painkillers, Daisuke becoming fatally injured while going through the vent and having to be euthanized by Swansea, and Swansea being killed by Jimmy after snapping and trying to kill him. Jimmy, now alone, begins losing his mind from the isolation, completely losing touch with reality. He cannibalizes Curly and even force-feeds him pieces of his own body to keep them both alive, while also hallucinating his now dead crewmates.
Having reached his breaking point, Jimmy decides to put Curly in the cryo-pod as some sort of twisted plan for redemption. After freezing Curly, Jimmy then commits suicide with the gun, leaving Curly to be frozen for the next 20 years with a small chance that he'll be rescued (though looking at the state Curly is in, killing him probably would've been better. Even if he's found, the physical and mental trauma he's suffered will ensure he'll never be able to have a normal life.).
TL;DR -- Jimmy was a selfish and cowardly scumbag who screwed over everyone just so he wouldn't have to take responsibility for his actions.
I think it’s more likely that Anya and Jimmy had a fling, and he didn’t want to have to take responsibility for getting her pregnant with no job now. I think she was worried about what he would do upon knowing that she’s pregnant. She just seems too comfortable around him shortly after the crash happened, and I don’t get why she would tell him she’s pregnant if it was from SA.
@@TheBlueLink3 I think you misunderstood.
Anya and Jimmy were never close enough to be friends, let alone have a fling. He constantly belittles her during the game, shouts at her when he’s frustrated and never even comments on her death. She would have never wanted anything with him.
She puts up with him after the assault because she’s literally *FORCED* to. Theyre stuck together with no hope of escape any time soon. He’s the captain of the ship after what happened to Curly, and he could easily hurt her if she tries to speak up or ignore him.
She wants to tell him he caused her pregnancy as both incriminating evidence against him and in the case he wants to take responsibility for the baby; either way, he has to since she’s now pregnant and lost her job at pony express.
@@LookieKookie Exactly. Their interactions were always more forced than anything, and Jimmy would constantly shit on her. I doubt Anya would've been near him at all if she could help it.
@@TheBlueLink3 Considering the scene where Jimmy is talking to Curly (the only cutscene we see Curly before his burn injuries, where we learn Jimmy is crashing the ship) Jimmy is speaking as if he's committed a heinous crime. Having a fling wouldn't net that response, so I think Jimmy definitely assaulted Anya and then guilt-tripped Curly into letting him attempt to crash the ship because the rape happened under Curly's "watch" and would implicate the captain in the crime.
I always interpreted it as him not wanting to take the responsibility of having a baby and forced to take a different direction in life. Because throughout the game you hear the cries of the baby and depictions of pregnancy showing that he’s afraid of the baby. That and the whole speech from swansea telling him how being at the bottom (like jimmy) were the best days of his life but, taking responsibility and trying to move your life forward is the best thing a person can achieve which is essentially an effort to belittle jimmy for not taking responsibility and allowing for his life to mean nothing than the little that he has on this ship.
So essentially jimmy cracked under pressure from dealing with a baby and having his only source of stability and comfort, cut from him. And although I do think that he did assault Anya, I think whilst Anya is hurt from being assaulted, jimmy is more paranoid about the concept of having to take responsibility for that baby as many men who have been in a situation where they get someone they don’t have feelings for pregnant.
This game has so much metaphors and allusions, it tells such a good story. that leaves me with anger at jimmy and sadness for everyone else. like this Tory is told in such a way that when you finally realize what’s happening you you’re like wow .
That’s how I am right now man
It's a game
It's actually so crazy this all happened because Curly told everyone they were getting laided off and Jimmy's bum ass couldn’t take it
Curly was rich and it was hard to find jobs cause everything was being automated as Pony Express was the last human working thing
@@IX_4 That doesn't excuse Jimmy's actions. He lashed out at Curly like it was his fault, even though Curly had been nothing but good to all of them. Then he went and raped an innocent woman, got her pregnant, and decided he'd rather kill everyone than take responsibility for it. Then, after Curly nearly died saving them, Jimmy had the audacity to blame him and take his job.
Curly could've maybe helped all of them. Him being rich likely meant he had connections he could've used to give them all jobs, but instead of asking, Jimmy's jealous ass did the stupidest and most heinous thing he could've done, and then tried to screw everyone else over.
@@jorienwachukwu466 I never said it was excused I just gave more of a reason on why he did it
This all happened because Jimmy didn't wanna go to prison for raping Anya
I highly doubt he raped her.
Curly grows to be the best character in the game- even when he is being left incapacitated by Jimmy, he still wants to bear the responsibilities of the chaos that wasn't his doing to begin with and even still thinking of his crew. Damn, mad respect.
But he’s not innocent.
His first instinct when he knew how Jimmy reacted to Anya’s pregnancy was going straight to Jimmy, to tell him he’d “fix it.”
Because Jimmy was his close friend, he cared more about preserving his reputation back on earth over Anya.
Every character has so much depth here.
@@Maxwellishi'd like to think his talking to jimmy and saying he'll "fix it" is just acting on curly's part. all things considered, there are another 8 months left to ride with this crew, so it's best to try and keep everyone in good spirits. that being said this is copium and curly probably did have the intention of covering it up
@@l9324 considering how flawed and well written every character is, i imagine curly is no different---so imo its the first one. at the very least he doesnt take it seriously, since he still acts friendly towards him :
Honestly I think Curly is second worst character in the game. He did good stuff, yeah. But he knew what Jimmy did. He knew and he did nothing about it. He even tried to cover it up. He's not a good person, but that's probably why he tries so hard to look like one.
Curly was part of the problem, after finding out Jimmy assaulted Anya, he wanted to “fix it” for Jimmy. He wanted his friend to not get caught or face consequences for his actions.
"Hes running like a coward"
You have a gun. He has a Axe. I'll let you guess why he chooses to run when he doesn't have the distance advantage.
1:07:29 so jimmy caused the crash and curly tried to save the ship and got critically injured
Yep 100
@@riki5901-e1c100 what?
Yup, because he r*ped Anya and was found out
@@Cheeseman709 percent
@@hannah78594 100% of what then?
For anyone who didn't understand the overall story, I've written a summary of it here.
Warnings for: SA, unwanted pregnancy, abortion, suicide.
Jimmy, while the crew was shipping cargo, sexually assaulted Anya and she became pregnant.
Abortions are either performed with a pill (which induces painful, lemon sized clots of blood that take the fetus outside of the womb with them) or with a surgery. Anya was the only medical staff on board and surgeries are only performed by doctors.
Her only other option would have been an 'at home abortion' (common methods include throwing yourself down stairs, putting metal or glass inside your genitals, overdose of drugs, alcohol or harmful substances, etc) which if it hadn't outright killed her, would've left her with permanent damage to her body.
So without any safe choices, she would've been forced to carry the fetus. By the time they got back home she would've at least, been so far to term she couldn't get an abortion anymore. If not have already given birth on the ship.
Curly was told about the incident by Anya and the fact she was pregnant. When Jimmy was told, he cared more about saving his own skin from the responsibility of being the father to a baby born from sexual assault that neither of them wanted in the first place.
So, he decided to crash the ship out of desperation so they could spin a story about him being a hero that survived a crash so his life wouldn't be ruined. He was fully ready to let everyone except Curly, including the woman he made a victim in the first place, die so he wouldn't have to face the consequences. Basically, a real scumbag.
Eventually, after the crash but before Anya's suicide, she told Swansea. That and Daisuke's death was his breaking point and why he went after Jimmy.
Curly isn't absolved from this either. He was mostly worried about 'saving' his friend, even after he committed such a monstrous act. And it sounds like after all that, he was still willing to play along with Jimmy. Judging by the scene just before Jimmy crashed the ship. But when the alarms went off and Curly realised what Jimmy had done and why, he was pretty much done with him.
Short SHORT summary: Jimmy's a selfish creep who got Anya pregnant non-consensually, she couldn't get an abortion and Jimmy decided to ruin everyone elses life to cover it all up! Thanks, Jimmy.
WOW, truely tragic, to hear, if we skip spaceship stuff, this cases actually happen IRL. which is a sad, groomy reality.
I wonder if curly, as the leader, had any other option but to continue to treat jimmy like a regular person. I mean, they are all trapped together on a ship. Starting a fight or getting angry at a person like Jimmy would only make things worse. Especially in this life or death situation.
@@lotus_flower2000 He had other options but refused to choose them because Jimmy WAS his friend. And he wanted to believe that somehow in some way, Jimmy could actually do better as a person. Which, even at the end, he does not. As someone who was previously in a similar position, it's hard coming to terms with the fact that the same person you've known as someone “good” turns out to be the complete opposite. Then when faced with the truth, you justify it with stupid things like Curly does with Jimmy. That he can be better and “fix” things.
@@lotus_flower2000 Tbf, it's a life or death situation that JIMMY put them in. I think after someone does something like that, they can no longer be treated like a "regular" person because they're mentally unstable. It's unsafe to do otherwise. If Curly had gotten away unscathed, I think he'd isolate Jimmy. What else do you do with someone who'd rather everyone died so he wouldn't have to face responsibility?
men will literally crash their space freighter on an isolated asteroid condemning all their coworkers to a slow and miserable death instead of going to therapy
The absolute pit in my stomach when I looked at all the boxes, thinking "Oh, its gonna be a whole world of supplies, they'll be okay for at least a while longer," only to suddenly realize before they were opened "It's just mouthwash."
31:53 reversing the audio as censorship is smth i haven't heard in a long time lol. nice touch
This is the plot, as best as I can put it together. Apologies for any mistakes. This will be long.
A crew made up of Curly, Jimmy, Swansea, Anya and Daisuke are inter-space cargo crew, basically delivering things between planets. Curly is the captain, Jimmy is his right hand, Swansea is the engineer, Anya is their nurse and Daisuke is an intern. At some point, Jimmy and Anya either ended up together, albeit briefly, or something more malicious happened between them, and this caused her to get pregnant. Anya speaks to Curly who says he will sort it. While this is happening, the crew are sent a letter that basically says they’re all fired. This will be their last mission. Curly speaks to Jimmy, meaning to talk about what he’s done to Anya, who instead puts forward two options. One, they return home as failures. Two, they crash the ship and go down in history as tragic heroes. Jimmy takes Curly’s lack of answer as opting for the second plan and crashes the ship on purpose. Curly goes into the cockpit to try and stop/save them and ends up badly burned.
We skip to months after the crash. The crew is low on food, painkillers for Curly to keep him quiet and just about anything else. They soon find out they’re transporting mouthwash. Just lots and lots of mouthwash. It caused a breaking point in the crew. Due to its high ethanol level, Swansea breaks his sobriety and begins to drink heavily. Jimmy begins to slowly but surely lose his mind. The crew grows more and more desperate, with Anya taking her own life, Swansea killing Daisuke out of mercy after Daisuke badly injures himself in the vents, and Jimmy killing Swansea during a complete mental breakdown. Jimmy has been slowly losing his mind since a few months past the crash due to the pressure of now being captain and wanting to ‘fix everything’. The crew are now dead, all apart from Curly and Jimmy.
Jimmy decides to put Curly in their last escape pod, dooming him to 20 years of cryostasis. Jimmy shoots himself and the fate of Curly is left unknown.
Thanks for the explanation, I found it very hard to piece together.
@@TheRealJettGamingYea wow, that was really confusing but honestly such a cool way of story telling
Okay one thing I think you got wrong. I’m pretty sure jimmy had some kind of underlying mental illness. In other words he didn’t slowly go insane he was already insane to begin with. That’s why he refused to take the psych evaluation seriously. Is because he didn’t want people to know about his mental illness since that could effect any chances he had at climbing the corporate latter.
I wonder what couldve gone right in this story... like, whats the moral of the story anyways?
@@NeotronHorxen I don't think there's really a moral here, which kind of makes it more horrifying. We can look for a message or try to make sense of it but I don't think it's anything more than watching the insanity of one man as he tears his world asunder.
From what i understand so far. Jimmy got anya pregnant and when she told him he crashed the ship. Curly tried to fix it but was framed as the bad guy and the foam mangled him. Throughout the game jimmy is saying he can fix everything but keeps denying that its his fault. The flashbacks and judgement scenes are him struggling with his guilt trying to both get over the guilt and take responsibility but he cant bring himself to do it and so the guilt slowly drives him insane.
At least that's what the game seems to be saying.
The thing with Jimmy. Is it's implied that he didn't give Anya a choice in the patter based on how casual he is about making a cocktail to knock out Swansea. As if he's done it before. As in another member on the crew. One who just so happens to be pregnant with his kid. One who just so happens to be terrified of him. One who ask why there aren't locks on where they sleep.
he didn't just get her pregnant, he raped her. poor Anya
Weird coincidence but I was just brushing my teeth when this popped up 💀
Lol
Lol thats funny
Don't drink it
bro’s the next victim 💀
@@g1d3on_j98 BRO YOU YOKAI WATCH?
Hi Ryan! This is related to your sleep issues, I have been experiencing similar things and while I don't know your situation, these tips might be useful to you.
1. minimize screentime 2 hours before bed at least 1 hour, 1 hour is usually the better for me, i can fall asleep pretty well if i haven't looked at a screen for that duration before bed.
2. reduce the amount of fatty foods you eat when, for me eating nothing about 2-3 hours before bed does the trick too, it helped with my sleep quality a lot and also helps me fall asleep pretty quick.
3. do something very relaxing, i like to take a hot shower before bed since it makes me really sleepy, also reading anywhere between 10-15 pages a night before bed is a good one, after that i am pretty much knocked out.
4. meditation could help, for me it doesn't work as much since i will always have smth race through my mind since i work in the kitchen it gets pretty stressful. but meditating for about 5-10 minutes before bed is something i heard helps a lot for some people.
5. having a routine and when you go to bed and when you wake up, for me for example i go to bed at 9pm and wake up at 5-6am depending on the day, before hand since i was evening shift i used to have a really bad sleep schedule of going to bed at 11pm or 3am and wake up at 7am or 11am and my sleep was awful , i couldn't sleep but now it's pretty much good now that i go to bed at the same time everyday and wake up at similar times.
also if you drink a lot of coffee or energy drinks then reduce it, no more caffeine after noon, that also helped me a ton, now my last coffee is at 10 latest.
also another thing with the routine, just a simple clean up routine in the evening an hour or so before bed helps, i like to tidy up the kitchen, put away stuff, take out the trash or something similar and simple, just to get my head into peace mode if that makes sense, if I'm satisfied with how the house looks then i will sleep better because i know that i have done something good and productive even if i was tired.
I hope this helps ryan, i love your vids and keep up the good work! ❤️
and also hope this helps anyone in need of some sleeping advice, i am always up to help if anyone needs with sleep since i had a lot of sleep issues back in the day so in case you need help, hit me up ppl.
Have a nice day all! 🫶
I just realized why Anya was so distraught by the 237 days, eight months line. Because by the time they reached their destination, she wouldn’t be able to get rid of the baby anymore. She’d have one month left until she had to endure what Jimmy forced upon her.
My first time seeing this game, and HOLY it's an absolute piece of art. To be honest, it's more like a book or a novella, yet it's so well made. The sound design really is amazingly put together, all the animations and details makes you actually dive in into the story, so much so I honestly didn't notice the hour and a half of time passing by, it's crazy good
I appreciate how he is the only one who goes through the game fully until the end, I really thank you so much. (I only know he is doing a full game even on new released games and I watch him everytime.)
28:14 foreshadowing
LMAOO THAT'S CRAZYYY
did the knife and the eating the cap's leg' part hold any meaning anyways?
@NeotronHorxen uh well, he was in the spot of the cake, and Jim was hallucinating that everyone was alive, and they all called him captain, so maybe Jimmy just wanted to feel needed and loved?
Ryan as Curly: "That could cut my leg off"
Game: Yes
The fact they Ryan was to stunned to realise he predicted it is kinda funny. And he was playing as Curly which makes it better!
UR RIGHT that's some 4D chess there.
after going back and rewatching and peeping comments and reddit threads i think curly also felt bad for not taking responsibility 😭 this whole time i thought it was jimmys delulu ass but it was also curly realizing he shouldve took anyas assault more seriously and just bc he kept saying he would take responsibility doesnt really mean he was and he learned it the hard way because of jimmy what taking responsibility actually means. i think him laughing too when jimmy goes to get the gun is part of him realizing it someone also pointed out he could be laughing bc of the irony of anya hiding it so he couldnt get it and look what happened anyways. it was supposed to protect them from him and now jimmys using it to protect himself from swansea / everyone else
I think another thing people often look over, and it's not their fault because it's a very, very subtle detail, is the fact that Curly himself has problems. He's having trouble sleep, as evident by the first two Anya interactions, and over a period of 6 days, he's had to face a possible job termination of a crew he genuinely cares about, he saw Jimmy turn the entire crew against him, Anya getting pregnant all of a sudden, and the revelation that Jimmy was behind it all. Sleep deprivation, combined with exhaustion and a series of catastrophic events within such a short time, would overwhelm even the most iron-hearted people. He probably didn't even process it all during that time period...
@@hajimeokajima I picked up on that immediately. I feel like they used it like a Red Herring, making us think this all happened due to Curly and alluding to mental issues that could contribute to why he would do that.
the plot as far as i can muster:
-Anya was talking about how its crazy how they don't put locks in the sleeping quarters and how she didn't want "him" in there earlier, and therefor i think it's safe to assume Jimmy attacked her, leading to her pregnancy
-when Curly told Jimmy the news that Anya was pregnant, i think that in a fit of rage/fear he decided to crash the ship as he didn't want anyone to find out or he thought death was better then being known as Anya's attacker
-Curly takes responsibility and also sustains severe wounds from the crash
-they find the mouthwash, everyone gets drunk and agitated.
-chaos breaks out, Anya and the other guy (i cant remember his name) die.
-i guess Jimmy and Swansea get into a fight because Swansea was trying to get the last pod and Jimmy ends up shooting Swansea in the head
-Jimmy has gone aposlutley off his rocker at this point
-Jimmy easts Curley's leg and feeds part off it to Curley himself
-Jimmy puts Curley into the cryo pod and finishes himself off
Damn. That is crazy...
I don't think Swansea even want the pod he already accept everything, but Jimmy didn't
I think Swansea was saving the cryo pod for Daisuke, because he said something along the lines of "I should have been able to save that kid"
Swansea attacks jimmy because of all that jimmy has done.
Jimmy caused daisuke to die
Jimmy got Anya pregnant with r3pe (Swansea tells jimmy he is aware of this)
Swansea just cracks and attacks him.
Ryan picking up on a deeper meaning during the conversation with Anya under the fake night sky but basically forgetting about it every other conversation with Anya was detrimental to him not getting it.
This was Anya's horror story, the reason Jimmy didnt want the news of the pregancy getting out was because it was concived unconsenually.
Jimmy assulted Anya, and Curly did nothing to keep her safe even after he knew, he just playcated Jimmy. Having his agency taken away was a fitting punishment.
The amount of effort Ryan puts into his videos seriously needs to be appreciated more by pressing that like button I can’t wait to see more horror videos off of Ryan
1:18:40
We're on his throat (literally), implying aggression or pressure. It suggests that someone is being attacked, criticized, or held accountable with intense focus or urgency
(SPOILER RAMBLING)
this has to be one of the most frusturating story i ever read, Poor everyone (except jimmy) didn't deserve all of that, especially Anya and Daisuke, i cried what happened to anya and terrified what daisuke Sees and experience
and jimmy is a piece of shit ever since the beginning, his sense of self-righteousness is mindnumbing, the writers knows how to write a truly piece of an ass shit
god, what a story i forever hate, i dont say this is a bad story, i like the story as a Story, but it left me with hate and anger, and i know that's what the writer intended the story be
in the end, Jimmy didn't fix a shit, Killing everyone instead and make the last one suffer through it, might aswell assume he's brain-dead with all that mental suffering
EDIT. tis might be a reach, but i think picking the color Pale green for jimmy dialog is an intentional decision to (literally) paint him as the good guy, as green tends to be seen as "the good" while Curly is given the color white as a blank canvas for us to intrepet him as whatever we think it suits for him
I mean like, i heard this from someone before, hating on a character that the writer made is a compliment to the writer (the original version i heard is about hating the character that the va voiced is a compliment to the voice actor, it's the same thing ig)
Jimmy is the one causing all of this like literally
You know The story is good If It made you feel like this
Green is more often the color of Envy. Fitting here.
i also feel that there's some mild symbolism in jimmy's text colour in the phrase "green w/ envy"? like even in the first scene you see curly's pov, jimmy's yelling about how curly has it so much better than he does, a big factor leading to him going absolutely nuclear and ... yeah, lol. just a thought
Very disturbing, very cool. Loved this game. The time jumps kept me hooked! Thank you for playing, Ryan :)
Ok so im gonna explain the story for ppl who got confused
SPOILERS and mention of S/A or Grapes
Also i dont remember all the names sorry
So basically Curly is rhe captain of the spaceship used to transport things over a year long ride. He tells his coworkers that they would be fired after it is done so jimmy an employee lets himself go crazy. He S/As the girl on the ship leading her to end up pregnant. Jimmy doesnt care and doesnt acknowledge this. She tells the captain and leaves him to cool down and deal with the meteor that the auto pilot is warning about. He tries to prove himself or he just doesnt care anymore and stops the auto pilot which leads to imminent crash so he breaksdown outside and curly tries to fix it getting severe burns in the process. Curly now cant talk move or even eat on his own and jimmy is left in charge. The girl stays by the captain as he was rhe only one she told about her situation and tried to help. Jimmy obvjously blames curly for the accident and nobody knows it was actually jimmys fault. Eventualluly the girl cant take it and ods, the younger boy tries to climb the vents to save her leading to him being in awful pain from injuries. The larger man puts him out of his misery and goes to get drunk off the mouthwash. Jimmy gets the gun as he knoes the larger man is planning for everyone else to die and for him to then go in the last cryo pod he was hiding which leads to a fight. Jimmy has a gun the other man has an axe and eventually Jimmy shoots him in the head. Jimmy goes crazy having hallucinations and realizes its his fault so he talks to curly somehow. Curly says he will take the blame and jimmy can be the hero so he should go in the cryo pod but jimmy decides to put curly in the cryo pod then ofs himself with the gun.
Curly is left burned and frozen stuck in the ship waiting 20 years max for someone to save him.
The end
I left out some parts like the mouthwash cuz im typing this on mobile but i recommend looking up the lore yourself if you want to know more
But why did jimmy sabotage the ship ?
@@ivanserdar3145 Either an accident trying to prove himself to his captain or because he knew there wasnt anything for him after cuz he got fired
@@picklet2625 I see, ty for the info
I knew Jimmy had been acting weird the entire time. He keeps this attitude like "Ugh why do people call you better". Maybe he SA Anya cause she had a feeling for Curly and it made him jealous, cause he kept blaming Curly for everything, even when the captain never held a grudge for him.
poor curly, he didnt deserve any of this
The worst thing is that Daisuke could've survived if they never knocked out Swansea because they used the alcohol for the drink
The demo was absolutely amazing. Thanks for coming back to play this again!
Ryan you are the best channel out there making content almost every day about any indie horror game or any other popular games thank you for your content and making our day better❤
1:30:33 the reason why Jimmy crashed the ship is because since pony express went out of business. All of them would’ve lost their careers, and for some of them it would be devastating so Jimmy tried to short circuit everything by crashing the ship, but the expanding foam kept them alive. He thought that he was helping everybody and himself. He was wrong.
Yeah, it was just the stress of everything in general and yeah, still very wrong
Not just that, but Anya (very likely through... less than consensual mean) got pregnant by Jimmy. Considering his dialogue before attempting to crash the ship, he did _something_ not-good.
Jimmy wasn't looking out for the crew. He was looking out for himself.
8:43 the company calls for all of us ryan.....embrace the company...
Thank you for playing this!
And thank you for all the effort you put into your videos, Mr 8-Bit!
I was positively chomping at the bit to see a playthrough of this game- and I'm glad you've played it.
This game was already give everyone chill for like 5 minutes
Mouthwashing was just…wrong. Curly was hero and been blame into a bad person. Jimmy just a stupid and mental person who thinks he’s a “leader” and other crew just society that lead into hell for no reason.
And the ending was just messed up.
Truly a heartbreaking match up understand story
1:23:06
After a lot of thinking on what this would resemble, I finally understand this part. Anya is pregnant with jimmy.. jimmy needs to take responsibility of the fact he probably SA’d Anya
Thank you for always having such positive energy and for always giving great content. I appreciate all your hard work and time you put into your videos. I hope you get better sleep soon, I too only sleep like 6 hours and it do be rough sometimes. Have a wonderful day and get all the rest you need!
OH BROTHER THIS TIME
I LOVE UA-cam
MADE MYSELD A SWEET CUP OF CARAMEL MILKSHAKE
SIT DOWN OPEN UA-cam AND THIS COMES UP
AND THE FEEL IS ALREADY SO GOOOD
i think this the first time i've ever made a game suggestion on anyone's channel but i saw Albino play an indie game called Psychopomp. i can't even begin to describe it but it might be something you could play on the channel for a spotlight video like this one. obviously if you decide you can't or don't want to then that's fine. it's not like i have a right to have a stake in this anyway. the loading screens are pretty funny.
37:43 “He is the cake.” -8 bit Ryan 2024
Have been watching you ever since 2017 and you always cheer me up.
I was depressed a few days ago but watching your videos made me forget I ever had a depression.
Love you Ryan and you will always be one of my favorite UA-camr
(Pls pardon my English. I'm from Asia and English is my second language)
A game about mouthwashing...
That's a new one
NVM this game is not about Mouthwashing whatsoever, Jesus this game was dark
Mouthwash had like, 7 scenes with mouthwash in it
You can say that this game that the people supposedly should their word very wisely. That's why it call mouthwashing.
The whole over view of the game is “take responsibility” I think this boils down to men in real life not taking accountability for SA, as jimmy never confronted what he did to Anya
Also Curly not doing the right thing and putting his friendship with Jimmy first!
I usually don't enjoy Psychological horror games but this was SO well done❤❤❤❤
No matter what 8bitryan post it's great content to watch
In the first 0 day before the pilot crash it was jimmy doing that all long
You can see he use the emergency key autopilot and Jimmy himself do that sorry bad English but i hope u all understand it . 😅
Irritates me that some UA-camrs don't get it.
But they're like that, or.. It's a bait to pull in more comments!
no way i jst get my wisdom teeth all taken out, and this is the vid ryan decides to post 😂😂 thanks for making my recovery more fun!,
Im gonna help you out with the story Ryan. Even though im pretty late. It all pretty much started with Anya. When Anya said “why do you think they put a lock on medical but not on the sleeping quarters?” and Curly replies with “Safety.” And it also flashes on screen. This indicates that Anya actually got r@ped by Jimmy. Anya fell into a deep depression because of whats happening and stuff. Anya confronted Jimmy about her pregnancy and Jimmy, and i quote her, “He just walked away.” And after these (i think it was after) the message from the higher-ups came and told them they were being fired. And in the beginning when we, as Curly, were talking to Jimmy, Curly said that Jimmy had struggled A LOT back when he was on earth, so in Jimmy’s head, he got fired, the woman he r@ped is pregnant, and he’s about to go back to that struggling life he had. Now of course im not saying Jimmy is right for doing all this. Fuk Jimmy. But i think this whole thing is just sad. Poor Anya man.
So all of this happened, because a coward couldn't keep it in his pants... and left the ruined captain to take responsability while he runs away one last time. There was a blind monster on the ship indeed. One that blinded itself and ran from the monstrous act it commited.
jesus christ where’s the actor au when you need it
I knew that you would have played that one, gonna be a fun video!
59:52 ryan is too in character calling polle "Pookie"
That’s crazy…and Curly who probably wanted death after the accident is kept alive in that mangled form for 20 more years…
This game reminds me of Signalis and the existential dread of the fact that you have to sit in a ship which is breaking down constantly, the way the text flares on the screen in constant repetitions… I both love it and hate it
Bro, I’m taking lunch for dental assistant training and this godsend pops up, yippee :D
Always keep in mind that at the beginning of the video, Ryan said something regarding "cutting someones leg off with that knife" when he first saw it. ITWAS PREDICTED ALL ALONG?!.
Your voice acting skills are great man
28:14 OHH MAN the unintentional foreshadowing.. 😭
28:14 funny u say that....
Subtile foreshadowing
Literally lmaoooo
A game where insanity is imminent, especially in the midst of space.
I was so excited of seeing the whole story and I hate the end. The one I wanted to survive the most was Anya and Curly, I hate Jimmy and all he has done.
What does the flower mean? Is it about Anya and how she was pure and beautiful before what jimmy did in the story?
It relates to Daisuke because 1. Daisuke had little hibiscus flowers on his flannel 2. Hibiscus is the symbol of purity
They deserved so much better than this :((((
1:00 MANNYS MENTIONED MANNYS MENTIONED OHH MY GOSHSHSH YAYAYYAYYYAYAY!!!
My baby boy daisuke did NOT deserve that
"I cut my leg off!" Oh.. Curly.. you poor soul..
“Are they gonna PT me right off the bat?!” my hot take I just invented is that PT would’ve been better if it had a horse mascot
Ryan you should absolutely play Signalis, it's a sci-fi survival horror game that takes a lot of inspiration from Silent Hill, old school Resident Evil, Evangelion, and a little bit of Nier Automata. It's a terrifying but super interesting and incredible game and I would 1000% recommend it
How did I miss this?! Totally gonna watch this full-game video!
So piecing the story together through watching it plus everyone in the comments is absolutely insane, im speechless really, honestly wasnt planning to get this game so thats why i came to watch a playthrough but damn after all this i want to play it myself honestly. This story is just so intense, the visuals, everything.
I came from Instagram actually, i saw art of curly and anya and was wondering what it was from, i saw the comments saying it was a intense game mentally, wasn't planning to come watch a playthrough really because i didnt feel i could handling it mentally at the time, but dang i was glued to the screen. Basically to say i enjoyed the story and game. As I said im so speechless so sorry if this comment doesnt make sense lol, but seriously, if someone wants to look into this game and can handle it, its amazing storytelling... And I'll be thinking about it for awhile now.
I don't know how you make these 2 hours video every day but i'm glad you do :)
thx 8-Bitryan
"That knife, my goodness, could cut my leg off!" The way I choked on air, oh my gosh 😂😬
28:15
"That knife, my goodness it could cut my leg off!"
.....Ya don't say......
i had my good food ready and then i was like okAy ryan is going to post DRDR but... honestly wtv u post is just chef's kiss MUYAHHHH
"I've found myself sexuallly excited at the sight of cartoon horses..."
-Yeah, sounds exactly like something an intense Brony would say 😂😂
28:14 Unintentional Foreshadowing 💀
Bro, when you give the painkillers to the captain, it just sounds like “JUST TAKE THE.. FLIPIN PILLS!”
Day 2 of asking 8-BitRyan for Cooking with 8-BitRyan
I would love that because it would bring back so much memories from Cooking With Coryxkenshin
35:10 this sound is giving me physical Back Pain
49:35 why'd i think of the infinity castle seeing this- 😭
8bitryan Dead Signal 2.0 plz play it and there is a new killer that you are most familiar with (p.s i luv ur videos)
Woo i always love Ryan yt vids it's so much fun watching❤🎉🎉
"That knife could cut my leg off.." Ryan said, while playing Curly
Okay, fortune teller
I REALLY like the art style for the models, I hope more indie horror Devs take notes here
"That knife- my goodness I could cut my leg off." Yeah. Yeah. Cutting legs off. Yeah...
I never once thought people would make a game about mouthwash 😂😂
Just clicked on your channel to see if you have any new uploads and see this video was upload 2 mins ago, perfect timing:) 🔥
*FINALLY.... IT'S BACKKKKKKKK!! IT TOOK A WHILE... BUT IT'S FINALLY HERE...*
This was. A game this was beyond what I expected when I came to watch this. I dont know about yall, but this was amazing horrifying and sad and will be a favorite now.
Hi Ryan. I just want to thank you. I'm autistic and I can't deal with people. Talking makes me anxious and even though I have friends I hide from them. As you can imagine school was a tough time for me. So I hid in a corner and watched your videos during the breaks. Every. Single. Day. I don't know what I would have done without you. There are people who work as therapists or doctors and are so insanely important but your job is important as well. You helped an autistic girl through her school time, you helped me to not feel lonely and I appreciate the time and love you put into your content. You deserve every single one of your subscribers and even more. Just know that your job changed lives as well. You are a hero dude. God bless your heart, thank you for helping me through the tough teenager years, you made me survive this hell
God bless you friend. You’re a strong kid. Keep going and push forward!
You’re not alone!! 😭 school is hell for me. Lunch & break is the worst for me because of all the smells and unbearable noise. I have no friends nor do I want anyone to sit with, and every time I watch Ryan’s videos. They’re my lifeline
@@Todorokisxmp Same. Very relatable. 100% I feel you. People are so overwhelming and so disgustingly fake, how am I supposed to know when they mean something and when not? It is truly a nightmare. Ryan is literally the reason I have not gone mad. Just taking my headphones, hiding and watching him is what helps me get less overwhelmed. This dude is really great, he deserves so much love
@@MrsHandball259 I don't have autism but thats how I feel too ppl are so fake
Hey Ryan! Theres this backrooms game called SUBLIMINAL coming out in December that’s been in development for a long time now. Its has super realistic graphics/gameplay and it might even have a plot with voice acting! The trailer dropped about a month ago so you should totally react to it and play it!!🙏🙏
I really like the influences this Game has.
The storytelling is non linear like Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarrantino.
The surrealism and broken impossible layouts of the ship remind me of The Shining by Stanley Kubrick.
Along with other nods to Kubrick
And the deteriorating mental health of the characters along with text based visuals remind me of Neon Gennesis Evangelion by Hideaki Anno.
The amount of metaphors in this game....
The mutated pony vent stage reminds me of that Beast Bendy stage. Though, cool video. :]
1 minute ago? Awesome looking horror game? Sounds about right for Ryan. 🎉
YESSS. I was like I hope Ryan sees this game because I think it's up his alley!
Simply put: I feel like Jimmy is the Shou Tucker of indie games, maybe even gaming as a whole.
All that horror is scary because it’s not just realistic, but frequent. There are plenty of people like Jimmy who are envious, petty, cowering, spiteful, and egocentric enough to be willing to doom everything and everyone around them just for the illusion of authority.
It’s scary, because there are Jimmys everywhere in real life. Don’t allow them to fester like Curly did. Stamp out their behaviors early on.
If only Anya told Swansea pre-crash.