I never noticed all the detail with the human faces before. It makes me think that WAU wasn’t only trying to copy humans into machines, but into animals as well.
I never considered that those fishes may be "inhabited" by digitized human consciousness... that's horrifying... Imagine being stuck in the abyss in a form you can't comprehend (cause your brain shield you from the truth)... Dark.
I remember another video going over the secrets folder in the game saying some assets got reused from earlier iterations of the game with a different story. I am not sure if that is the case anymore.
Always wondered too, considering most ingame models were reused from what seemed to be an alternative-prototype story of the game, there could be a way different reason of the existance of the humanoid heads Makes you wonder what are they even supposed to be in the first place, are they the same entity as the sea creatures they inhabit, or are they a separate conscious entity conjoined with them, were they just normal human beings that got their bodies forcefully fused with the sea creatures similar on how the Wau “connects” itself to some Pathos survivors like Amy Azzaro and the mockingbirds (tho this one is a bit weird, as I don’t think there were enough humans down there to do this… right?) I also wonder how will the Wau’s final project on this sentient heads look
@@MangoBoah It is said that life has been extinguished EVERYWHERE but near Pathos 2. The reason the sea floor is filled with life is because the WAU constantly releases structure gel into the water on which the oceanic Flora and Fauna feed on. It's obvious that consuming structure gel causes mutations over time, this is the effect.
@@MangoBoahthe WAU’s trying to preserve human life at all costs, it’s simply doing it’s job, however because of either damage or a programming flaw it simply doesn’t care about the morality of the “preserving life” process, because we can see it’s various experiments and various different versions of the same person’s consciousness, I’d say it’ssafe to say that those faces are sentient people implanted onto fish.
the creepy thing are those human face on the fishes are not only alive but also probably have the same memory as the protagonist since he is the template for all memory transfer procedure. imagine dying from a car accident only to wake with the body of an anglerfish.
As terrifying as it looks, i think that the future is bright for the earth in the Soma universe. It'll take more than a couple of years to save humanity. For now, i think WAU is in it's infancy, frantically saving as much of humanity as it can. It's like a peasant witnessing a rich man throwing bills out of his balcony. It's trying to catch them all, but most of them end up soggy in the rainwater of yesterday. Though, they'll eventually dry. They won't be the same ever again, but at least the peasant will have them. Basically, WAU is in panic collection mode while there are still souls to snatch and shelter. No matter the cost. In the later stages, i'm optimistic about it's continued efforts in it's pursuit of rescuing humanity. As you can see, it's trying to convert borderline alive human bodies into more suitable vessels to live in. However, it's borrowing them for soul collection. Think of it as replacing the planks of a ship until the original planks aren't there anymore. Will it still be the same ship? That's it's definition. These cyborg abominations are not finished. Humanity will be reborn in gods image, their god being WAU.
hmmm, the question is, will the WAU´s pattern allow for such optimization, or will it continue to simplify it´s task due to possible future power outtages and structural collapses...
Well Catherine explained that the Fleshers exude electromagnetism which distorts Simons facial sensors, while Simon describes them as "strangely overbearing" the lights flickering are probably a sign of this energy building up and being released, the same lights can also be seen on the Robot Head Girl when she is agitated and also on the "mouth" of Johan Ross, when he is talking overall blue lights appear to be an indicator of activity on beings that relate to the WAU even the fish have shining blue eyes and the anglers lure has the same colour as well on an interesting side note: several species of deep sea fish and other life forms use bio-luminescence as a means of communication, particularly through vibrant colour patterns and flickering, so perhaps that is what inspired them
the wau seems to be experimenting in ways it could bring a person back properly. Its failing for the most part, but its getting closer and closer. Simon and the one guy who wants to kill the wau are basically proof of that. Sure, the other experiments are utterly horrific, but with those 2 successes if the wau is left functional itll likely start recreating it with other brain scans or nearly dead people.
I like how despite how drastically the Leviathan has been mutated, it being once a giant squid still makes sense. The maw was formed out of the creature's beak, and the tentacles were repurposed as "fins"
@@falloutghoul1"The Leviathan, according to a log, is a Giant Squid that has undergone heavy WAU mutation by structure gel leaks.[citation needed] The creature no longer resembles its former self, but instead looks like a giant worm."
@@jeffumbach"The Leviathan, according to a log, is a Giant Squid that has undergone heavy WAU mutation by structure gel leaks.[citation needed] The creature no longer resembles its former self, but instead looks like a giant worm."
Wow, these designs are actually so well thought-of, its unfortunate you cant see a damn thing near those things, all the great details like human parts recreated by WAU just remain concealed from player, yet monster images alone can tell an entire story by themselves
The human faces raise so many questions. Is there a human consciousness embedded with the fish? Is it mixed together with the animal instincts of the fish in some kind of insane amalgam? Have the fish appropriated human intelligence to become smarter hunters? How aware of their situation are the humans in there?
5:20 : I noticed here that the human face appears to be shaking more then the rest of the Angler fish and It thought that it might be its futile attempt of removing itself from the fish's body.
@@tylerthomas9405 kinda look like its in a fear or frenzy state of sorts or something along the lines. Really cool details that most players wont see tbh. I certainly dont remember seeing any of this the first i played when the game came out, and finding out more and more details the more i replayed the game... i doubt that most people would even notice the human face twitching more than the rest of the fish while getting mauled by it as seeing in this video at 6:24. This raises many questions about whether we would have gotten or not a more in depth look at these creatures if the game had followed a storyline closer to what was originally intended.
@@tylerthomas9405 i dont know for sure, thats why i said that maybe there would be some lore explanation at some point in the original version of SOMA. There's some gameplay from the beta which differs a lot from the final version of the game, and many assets are reused from the original game, but much of the story was scrapped in place of the current version, so im not sure it is really known what was even originally intended. It just feels like originally they would have given some kind of extra details, because these animations having so much detail hint at me that they were meant to be seen up close, maybe with a captive creature or something... nobody would ever spend so much effort in animating something with such high quality if it wasnt originally intended to be seen up close for whatever reason.
I never knew there was a Great White shark in the game, even more intriguing is that is appears to have animations implying it was supposed to be an enemy at some point.
It's just meant to be a part of the scenery, which is why the texture/model work is lower quality on it. You're not meant to see it up close, only from a distance.
this could also be wau's attempt to save a human by fusing its corpse with fish and a bunch of structure gel since wau doesn't give a shit about what condition you'll be but only if you stay alive even if it's just your brain attached to a fish
Creepy thought, what if the WAU is infecting the local marine life with enough structure gel so that it can upload brain scans into the fish in an attempt to "preserve" humanity? Imagine being a conscious brain scan that's stuck to a fish body, fully aware of your existence, but unable to actually control the body you're attached to. And for as long as the WAU exists, you can't die.
its due to the AI going insane trying to recreate the human mind and body and those horrific faces are the result of trying to create working hosts but failed
are the human faces on the animals… actually people? are they sentient? doomed to suffer attached to these things? if so, no wonder Johann wanted to destroy the WAU
I like how compared to Mockingbirds, Fleshers, and Proxies, the Wau is surprisingly conservative and more tame in how it infects the surrounding sealife. Like it knows that they are already alive and well, and chooses to allow them to mostly keep there shape while sprinkling its own "touch" onto them, to where you really have to get close to notice the mutations, compared to human and robotic entities it infects and controls. The only Exception of course is the Leviathan, but that's because the WAU decided the giant squid to be its protector, so it obviously went all out. Love the visual storytelling in this game, its amazing.
Body horror and mutated animals are two of my favorite tropes in horror. The angular fish is madness twisted into something recognizable yet grotesque. Its so horrifying, I love it. This game is so cool!
Fantastic video! The audio logs at the start of every creature inspection was a wonderful touch, too. Great job! The fact that half the sea-life has faces embedded into them is horrifying. You can even see the one on the Anglerfish moving semi-independently, like it has some consciousness of its own. Really makes you think.
The Angler Fish coming at you in the dark with the light revealing some of it's face is one of the most unnerving things I have seen in the game, I just don't want to look back to even look at it.
leviathan looks very similar to bobbit worm, reason why fish have human heads on them is because wau tried to use biomass of fish to "create" human bodies to upload scan into, same thing happened with coral at theta.
7:16 the guy in the recording was attacked by the angler fish, thinking it was a guide light. why do i have this suspicion that the face on the creature is actually the guy who was eaten
I've been told that "People are afraid of the unknown", but while playing Alien Storm for the Sega Mega Drive I realized that the real terror is not seeing something unusual, but seeing something that looks like us but is no longer us...
The anglerfish is so disturbing, because the human face on it looks like it’s in anguish (the way the humans eye look gave me this idea). Also the way that one of it’s fins looks like it was replaced with a human hand just adds to the creepiness.
It took me a moment to realize the Leviathan was covered in faces as well. Really makes me wonder *why* so much of the infected sea-life has these humanoid faces growing out of them, when you don't rly see them coming out of anything else (as far as i remember, anyways)
@@gerardwolf8507 I dont think you read it right, i said it looks like it *inspired* Iron Lung's angler fish. not inspired by. although you are correct yes, SOMA released way before Iron Lung.
This really bodes with what simon says when catherine asks him what happens to his arm “ i killed the wau to stop it from torturing the memory of humanity
After watching all of your Soma model videos...I don't know how anyone can argue to keep the WAU alive considering what it does/how it does. Does it's small potential for fixing things make it's hellish actions in anyway justified?
Well, there is actually a very interesting Video on UA-cam about that very topic, it has been released a while ago and i don´t remember the Name of the Channel but I believe it was called Devils Advocate - "Should the WAU be left alive" or something like that
That anglerfish is horrifying. Clearly the WAU took one look at Anglerfish in the real world and their nightmare fuel reproductive cycle and thought "hey, I can do that!"
A question in all of this, when you see human faces encased in animals. Are they real human beings and are they conscious? Or, is it the Wau implanting humaoid physical features somehow into other living creations simply becauseof its perverted understanding and drive to preserve humanity? I think it's the latter.
WAU would run out of structure gel and the living ocean life would evolve into new forms, eventually maybe intelligent forms, and discover the dead apex species, humans, of the past.
These videos are awesome! I always wondered just how much sea life, normal and mutated, the devs put in the game. I think my favorites are a sea turtle and the nasty little deep sea spiders.
It's very odd that the Leviathan can apparently fit perfectly through that tunnel after the heart of the WAU. Either it was adapted specifically for that or it's been merged with some sort of machine that was built for the tunnel.
Jesus christ that angler fish, first time in a long time i got shivers, this is peak horror.... That fin being becoming a human hand... or the human hand becoming a fin? That is absolutely beautifull. The more i think about it the more i feel like i´d definitly cause some real moral horror if i had an idea how to start.
I remember seeing the pictures of the sea creatures as I took the elevator to the abyss and thinking - yep, I'm going to see some effed up shit down here. And yes, I fell for the angler fish light too.
@@umukzusgelos4834Hope so 😬 Btw, do you know the music that plays during the angler fish segment. I've been trying to find it all day. Legit terrifies me.
I think the WAU did not make these bodies as hosts for brain scans like it did with the mockingbirds but tlrather that it captured these fishes and creatures and imbued them with structure gel and pasted the human consciousnesses in them. The look the face in the anglerfish gives as the creature goes on the hunt is almost as if screaming and crying at the same time. I think the human consciousness are trapped inside them while the fish acts like it would normally do but more aggressively - like a reluctant passenger unable to move/speak/act while the creature does as it pleases.
Awesome video! I really appreciate all the detail you give when examining the models On another note do you think you will be doing a video like this on Jin Yoshida? No rush at all mate , appreciate you👍🏻
Do the faces on the fish come from their prey? Are they result of the WAU trying to imitate humans? Or is it something different? Either way, horrifying to think about, and I’m kind of glad they left it up to the imagination.
Eels and angler fish are already so horrifying to look at, that adding faces and wires to them really doesn't change much. lol Just think, though. We always think about aliens coming to our planet and worry about them being monsters that would destroy or dominate us. Well, what do you think aliens in the Soma universe would do when they saw what the WAU, our creation, had been up to? They'd probably high-tail it out of there and nuke it from orbit.
Know whats kinda weird? I've only ever encountered the Anglerfish and the Leviathan. Never seen the other two (or, if I did, I didnt register them as threats).
Well the Viperfish hunt you in a swarm in the stormy area, but the will appear behind you and as long as you don´t dawdle they won´t catch you the rest are not hostile and will swim about in the background in several areas, such as the Eel that, as seen in the video will float about above you
Even though its utterly disturbing, stuff like these designs and the whole making of Simon as we see at the start of the game really has me think there's an odd hopeful take on the WAU. And that poisoning it is the wrong choice. Cause it seems like over time it could really achieve something *close* enough to humanity. Maybe just have a whole planet of "Aquatic Simons" made entirely of structure gel or something.
@@umukzusgelos4834 i mean i suppose thats a grand query when it comes to evolution. Even when its natural, it has "designs" that fail, or fall to the wayside. I guess its sorta like a reverse entropy, it starts scattered and rough but then hones into something finely tuned. So i think it could be worth it, cause it is life, and life is worth it.
They even cared enough to put animated human faces on parts we can't even see. I didnt even know they did! Except the Angler fish. The hand as a flipper is a great detail that can also be easily missed
I swear SOMA has one of the best horror designs in a videogame or straight up horror media. The idea alone of an AI that somehow grow phonically is terrifying yet I'm fascinated by it.
I never noticed all the detail with the human faces before. It makes me think that WAU wasn’t only trying to copy humans into machines, but into animals as well.
"preserve humanity" can be interpreted many ways apparently...
@@umukzusgelos4834 Had the same thought....It's preserved in a, let's say, rather twisted way.
WAU fulfils its task in a manner of speaking.
I never considered that those fishes may be "inhabited" by digitized human consciousness... that's horrifying... Imagine being stuck in the abyss in a form you can't comprehend (cause your brain shield you from the truth)... Dark.
I remember another video going over the secrets folder in the game saying some assets got reused from earlier iterations of the game with a different story. I am not sure if that is the case anymore.
Or it was attempting to "preserve humanity" by creating a new form of human using the sea life as a template.
the red glowing hole of the leviathan made me think it's an evolved form
of those blue "healing" pods you stick your hand into
Thanks for making these video's! Really shows off all the little details you wouldnt normally be able to see and appreciate
I´m very glad you like it, I had a blast while making this one in particular, it´s just something you don´t notice until you look for it
I never considered the possibility until now, but it's quite likely there are human minds transplanted into these fish as well. Organic mockingbirds.
are those faces actual human faces or wau's recreation of humans made of structure gel ?
if so... is the wau attempting to recreate human bodies ?
Possibly from previous fallen victims
I'm fairly confident it is recreations of human faces by the WAU.
Always wondered too, considering most ingame models were reused from what seemed to be an alternative-prototype story of the game, there could be a way different reason of the existance of the humanoid heads
Makes you wonder what are they even supposed to be in the first place, are they the same entity as the sea creatures they inhabit, or are they a separate conscious entity conjoined with them, were they just normal human beings that got their bodies forcefully fused with the sea creatures similar on how the Wau “connects” itself to some Pathos survivors like Amy Azzaro and the mockingbirds (tho this one is a bit weird, as I don’t think there were enough humans down there to do this… right?)
I also wonder how will the Wau’s final project on this sentient heads look
@@MangoBoah It is said that life has been extinguished EVERYWHERE but near Pathos 2. The reason the sea floor is filled with life is because the WAU constantly releases structure gel into the water on which the oceanic Flora and Fauna feed on. It's obvious that consuming structure gel causes mutations over time, this is the effect.
@@MangoBoahthe WAU’s trying to preserve human life at all costs, it’s simply doing it’s job, however because of either damage or a programming flaw it simply doesn’t care about the morality of the “preserving life” process, because we can see it’s various experiments and various different versions of the same person’s consciousness, I’d say it’ssafe to say that those faces are sentient people implanted onto fish.
It’s one thing barely seeing the monsters, and it’s another knowing that there are human faces that move on the monsters
the creepy thing are those human face on the fishes are not only alive but also probably have the same memory as the protagonist since he is the template for all memory transfer procedure.
imagine dying from a car accident only to wake with the body of an anglerfish.
Thanks alot for this man.
These desings remind me of an Aqua teen hunger force line that went "if i woke up looking like that, i would run to the nearest thing and kill it"
The outside areas were my favorite ones. Reminded you there was still life left on the planet.
All the cractures with the grey faces look like they could be in Dark Souls
"I should play SOMA sometime.."
My agoraphobia : "Nooo..no no no no no no no no. No."
where you get these from, dude?
so cool being able to see the Soma monsters in HD & close up..
As terrifying as it looks, i think that the future is bright for the earth in the Soma universe. It'll take more than a couple of years to save humanity. For now, i think WAU is in it's infancy, frantically saving as much of humanity as it can.
It's like a peasant witnessing a rich man throwing bills out of his balcony. It's trying to catch them all, but most of them end up soggy in the rainwater of yesterday. Though, they'll eventually dry. They won't be the same ever again, but at least the peasant will have them.
Basically, WAU is in panic collection mode while there are still souls to snatch and shelter. No matter the cost.
In the later stages, i'm optimistic about it's continued efforts in it's pursuit of rescuing humanity. As you can see, it's trying to convert borderline alive human bodies into more suitable vessels to live in. However, it's borrowing them for soul collection. Think of it as replacing the planks of a ship until the original planks aren't there anymore. Will it still be the same ship? That's it's definition.
These cyborg abominations are not finished. Humanity will be reborn in gods image, their god being WAU.
hmmm, the question is,
will the WAU´s pattern allow for such optimization, or will it continue to simplify it´s task due to possible future power outtages and structural collapses...
There's something about those blue little lights on the leviathian, they flicker when ever the screen glitches, same for Flesher, what's up with that?
Well Catherine explained that the Fleshers exude electromagnetism which distorts Simons facial sensors, while Simon describes them as "strangely overbearing"
the lights flickering are probably a sign of this energy building up and being released, the same lights can also be seen on the Robot Head Girl when she is agitated and also on the "mouth" of Johan Ross, when he is talking
overall blue lights appear to be an indicator of activity on beings that relate to the WAU
even the fish have shining blue eyes and the anglers lure has the same colour as well
on an interesting side note:
several species of deep sea fish and other life forms use bio-luminescence as a means of communication, particularly through vibrant colour patterns and flickering, so perhaps that is what inspired them
@@umukzusgelos4834 Ahh, interesting. Man, it surprises me how there's still things to learn about this game and I love it
Why would the fish have human faces? Hell, do I even _want_ to know?
4:14 well fuck that i ain playing soma
The anglerfish pretending to be one of the path lights in the abyss was such a horrifying yet smart idea, it just pulls up like “imposter time”
era bait
Fuggin Mimics.
Outer Wilds moment.
first lights were invented in 1802
anglerfish: oh yea, its all coming together
Amogus
Humans: your directive is to preserve humanity
WAU: ok, starting to grow demon eels
Humans:Maybe we should have being more specific.
the wau seems to be experimenting in ways it could bring a person back properly. Its failing for the most part, but its getting closer and closer. Simon and the one guy who wants to kill the wau are basically proof of that. Sure, the other experiments are utterly horrific, but with those 2 successes if the wau is left functional itll likely start recreating it with other brain scans or nearly dead people.
I like how despite how drastically the Leviathan has been mutated, it being once a giant squid still makes sense. The maw was formed out of the creature's beak, and the tentacles were repurposed as "fins"
The Leviathan looks completely artificial.
I think it might actually be the WAU's attempt to replicate the ARK.
@@falloutghoul1 yeah I don't see anything remaining of a squid to suggest that's what it started as, looks like Wau's attempt at an original creation.
@@falloutghoul1"The Leviathan, according to a log, is a Giant Squid that has undergone heavy WAU mutation by structure gel leaks.[citation needed] The creature no longer resembles its former self, but instead looks like a giant worm."
@@jeffumbach"The Leviathan, according to a log, is a Giant Squid that has undergone heavy WAU mutation by structure gel leaks.[citation needed] The creature no longer resembles its former self, but instead looks like a giant worm."
Do you know what citation needed means?
Wow, these designs are actually so well thought-of, its unfortunate you cant see a damn thing near those things, all the great details like human parts recreated by WAU just remain concealed from player, yet monster images alone can tell an entire story by themselves
The human faces raise so many questions. Is there a human consciousness embedded with the fish? Is it mixed together with the animal instincts of the fish in some kind of insane amalgam? Have the fish appropriated human intelligence to become smarter hunters? How aware of their situation are the humans in there?
5:20 : I noticed here that the human face appears to be shaking more then the rest of the Angler fish and It thought that it might be its futile attempt of removing itself from the fish's body.
@@tylerthomas9405 kinda look like its in a fear or frenzy state of sorts or something along the lines. Really cool details that most players wont see tbh. I certainly dont remember seeing any of this the first i played when the game came out, and finding out more and more details the more i replayed the game... i doubt that most people would even notice the human face twitching more than the rest of the fish while getting mauled by it as seeing in this video at 6:24. This raises many questions about whether we would have gotten or not a more in depth look at these creatures if the game had followed a storyline closer to what was originally intended.
@@AlFredo-sx2yy What was originally intended?
@@tylerthomas9405 i dont know for sure, thats why i said that maybe there would be some lore explanation at some point in the original version of SOMA. There's some gameplay from the beta which differs a lot from the final version of the game, and many assets are reused from the original game, but much of the story was scrapped in place of the current version, so im not sure it is really known what was even originally intended. It just feels like originally they would have given some kind of extra details, because these animations having so much detail hint at me that they were meant to be seen up close, maybe with a captive creature or something... nobody would ever spend so much effort in animating something with such high quality if it wasnt originally intended to be seen up close for whatever reason.
@@AlFredo-sx2yy like all those faces on the dorsal side of the Leviathan when you never get an opportunity to get above it and look down.
I never knew there was a Great White shark in the game, even more intriguing is that is appears to have animations implying it was supposed to be an enemy at some point.
same here, like i know it can be found ingame in the background around when going to delta to theta.
@@spinozilla2421 i saw it in the distance, thought it was just a regular shark lmao
It's just meant to be a part of the scenery, which is why the texture/model work is lower quality on it. You're not meant to see it up close, only from a distance.
A lot of the fish in this game are actually swimming above you I'd you look up in some of the more blue areas of the ocean.
there is also a Hammer Head Shark floating about near the MS Curie, that one is free of Corruption however and has higher resolution textures
The leviathan looks artificially created by wau, seems like it doesn't even have a mouth/digestive system
It was initially a giant squid before the WAU disfigured and mutated it beyond any form of recognition.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 Ah that makes sense
sea cucumber possibly.
It's creepy how some of them mutated and develop human faces on their bodies 😨
Indeed.
I haven't realized them until now. Especially in that (creepy) detail. 🤨
this could also be wau's attempt to save a human by fusing its corpse with fish and a bunch of structure gel
since wau doesn't give a shit about what condition you'll be but only if you stay alive
even if it's just your brain attached to a fish
Creepy thought, what if the WAU is infecting the local marine life with enough structure gel so that it can upload brain scans into the fish in an attempt to "preserve" humanity? Imagine being a conscious brain scan that's stuck to a fish body, fully aware of your existence, but unable to actually control the body you're attached to. And for as long as the WAU exists, you can't die.
Anglerfish has a _hand_ growing on it's left side.
its due to the AI going insane trying to recreate the human mind and body and those horrific faces are the result of trying to create working hosts but failed
are the human faces on the animals… actually people? are they sentient? doomed to suffer attached to these things? if so, no wonder Johann wanted to destroy the WAU
Eh its vauge
Thr wau is trying to make more humans and it does that with structure gel
So i doubt it but maybe
Considering the WAU steals brain scans from the pilot seats they are most likely duplicates for witch the WAU has prepared Host bodies
@@umukzusgelos4834that’s what I mean, are they sentient as in, are those brain scans attached? the thought of it is so unsettling
@@axgelbxnny
Imagine being brain-scanned and then finding yourself on the body of an anglerfish in the ocean abyss.
@@falloutghoul1Enough reason to destroy WAU.
I did not realize SOMA had as many enemies as it does
A lot of the fish is actually just in the background for scenery
Stuff like the Vipers, Angler Fishes, and Leviathan are actual threats though.
I like how compared to Mockingbirds, Fleshers, and Proxies, the Wau is surprisingly conservative and more tame in how it infects the surrounding sealife. Like it knows that they are already alive and well, and chooses to allow them to mostly keep there shape while sprinkling its own "touch" onto them, to where you really have to get close to notice the mutations, compared to human and robotic entities it infects and controls.
The only Exception of course is the Leviathan, but that's because the WAU decided the giant squid to be its protector, so it obviously went all out.
Love the visual storytelling in this game, its amazing.
Body horror and mutated animals are two of my favorite tropes in horror. The angular fish is madness twisted into something recognizable yet grotesque. Its so horrifying, I love it. This game is so cool!
The monster design to this game is so damn good. Such cool and fascinating ideas
The WAU grafted humans onto fishes so they could survive. Imagine being fully alive and conscious while being attached to one of these things...
Fantastic video! The audio logs at the start of every creature inspection was a wonderful touch, too. Great job!
The fact that half the sea-life has faces embedded into them is horrifying. You can even see the one on the Anglerfish moving semi-independently, like it has some consciousness of its own. Really makes you think.
I´m glad you enjoyed
Damn. the human faces on the fish 💀
Those horrifying human faces the Wau grows onto the surface of living things is so subtle I missed most of them until this
Huh, i got the impression that the leviathan was the mutated form of the Dunbat sub, but apparently not
Kinda wonder what happened to it though
The Angler Fish coming at you in the dark with the light revealing some of it's face is one of the most unnerving things I have seen in the game, I just don't want to look back to even look at it.
There’s also some fish examples in jars before descending to the abyss
the fish in this game were always hard for me to see, but still terrified me, and this video got me freaked out over them even more!
leviathan looks very similar to bobbit worm, reason why fish have human heads on them is because wau tried to use biomass of fish to "create" human bodies to upload scan into, same thing happened with coral at theta.
7:16 the guy in the recording was attacked by the angler fish, thinking it was a guide light.
why do i have this suspicion that the face on the creature is actually the guy who was eaten
I never realized the faces on the fish have eyes that blink holy fuck
I've been told that "People are afraid of the unknown", but while playing Alien Storm for the Sega Mega Drive I realized that the real terror is not seeing something unusual, but seeing something that looks like us but is no longer us...
I replayed Soma like 4 times and never noticed human parts on fish! That's such a cool and creepy touch
Nice pfp.
The anglerfish is so disturbing, because the human face on it looks like it’s in anguish (the way the humans eye look gave me this idea). Also the way that one of it’s fins looks like it was replaced with a human hand just adds to the creepiness.
It took me a moment to realize the Leviathan was covered in faces as well.
Really makes me wonder *why* so much of the infected sea-life has these humanoid faces growing out of them, when you don't rly see them coming out of anything else (as far as i remember, anyways)
"Wow, this a pretty creepy desi-TOO CLOSE, WAY TOO CLOSE"
It’s sad how the leviathan was a normal squid at some point
The Angler Fish looks like it inspired the sea monster's design from Iron Lung.
that said, both are equally terrifying.
Iron Lung's got inspired by an actual anglerfish, probably.
SOMA released long before iron lung
@@gerardwolf8507 I dont think you read it right, i said it looks like it *inspired* Iron Lung's angler fish. not inspired by.
although you are correct yes, SOMA released way before Iron Lung.
@@NickelConsumer ah yes, my bad
The sea monster just looks like your average angler fish/frog fish. Soma probably had nothing to do with things.
Yeesh, I know you're only ever able to see it briefly in the dark while underwater, but that shark model is *rough*.
there is also a Hammerhead Shark that floats by the MS Curie who has quite smooth textures
@@umukzusgelos4834 I remember staring at it for a while when I saw it as hammerheads have always been my favorite.
Man this is a crazy amount of detailing on the monster design.
I never saw the eel or the shark before. Great stuff!
The eel and sea wolf, never seen them before
Under the sea!
Darling it's better,
Down where it's wetter,
Take it from me!
I feel like the WAU is Well described with 'it's a little confused, but it got the spirit'
Well not gonna lie, the fishes looks like they have it better than the crews.
This really bodes with what simon says when catherine asks him what happens to his arm “ i killed the wau to stop it from torturing the memory of humanity
After watching all of your Soma model videos...I don't know how anyone can argue to keep the WAU alive considering what it does/how it does. Does it's small potential for fixing things make it's hellish actions in anyway justified?
Well, there is actually a very interesting Video on UA-cam about that very topic, it has been released a while ago and i don´t remember the Name of the Channel but I believe it was called Devils Advocate - "Should the WAU be left alive" or something like that
I played this game several times and never saw several of these creatures. I should stop sprinting through the abyss. lol
Big junji ito vibes
That anglerfish is horrifying. Clearly the WAU took one look at Anglerfish in the real world and their nightmare fuel reproductive cycle and thought "hey, I can do that!"
A question in all of this, when you see human faces encased in animals. Are they real human beings and are they conscious? Or, is it the Wau implanting humaoid physical features somehow into other living creations simply becauseof its perverted understanding and drive to preserve humanity? I think it's the latter.
those are all sentient human made from the copy of human memories, just like simon is.
WAU would run out of structure gel and the living ocean life would evolve into new forms, eventually maybe intelligent forms, and discover the dead apex species, humans, of the past.
Bro your content is exelent, can you do the outlast series monsters and enemies?
unfortunately I don´t have the necessary software and knowledge for that
I wonder why so many of these fish have human faces plastered on them
Well, from what I gathered from Ross´s Logs I suppose the Wau want´s to prepare bodies to hold the duplicates of Human Consciousnesses
These videos are awesome! I always wondered just how much sea life, normal and mutated, the devs put in the game. I think my favorites are a sea turtle and the nasty little deep sea spiders.
It took the drone
IT TOOK THE FUCKIN DRONE!
Can't have shit in the ABYSS
It's very odd that the Leviathan can apparently fit perfectly through that tunnel after the heart of the WAU. Either it was adapted specifically for that or it's been merged with some sort of machine that was built for the tunnel.
When a paperclip maximizer AI decides to keep some humans alive by turning them inhuman.
Jesus christ that angler fish, first time in a long time i got shivers, this is peak horror....
That fin being becoming a human hand... or the human hand becoming a fin? That is absolutely beautifull.
The more i think about it the more i feel like i´d definitly cause some real moral horror if i had an idea how to start.
i think my leviathan was meaty.. strange
I remember seeing the pictures of the sea creatures as I took the elevator to the abyss and thinking - yep, I'm going to see some effed up shit down here. And yes, I fell for the angler fish light too.
The Leviathan is horrifying until it starts doing this 8:45 now I'm just dying of laughter.
giving you a friendly wave
@@umukzusgelos4834Hope so 😬 Btw, do you know the music that plays during the angler fish segment. I've been trying to find it all day. Legit terrifies me.
@@djmaple5940 It´s called "adultflesher stalk"
When the Human told the WAU to "preserve humanity", it just okay then process to put human features on everything.
Its a little weird the Gulping eel has faces, like why? Everything else looks so cool about it
I think the WAU did not make these bodies as hosts for brain scans like it did with the mockingbirds but tlrather that it captured these fishes and creatures and imbued them with structure gel and pasted the human consciousnesses in them.
The look the face in the anglerfish gives as the creature goes on the hunt is almost as if screaming and crying at the same time. I think the human consciousness are trapped inside them while the fish acts like it would normally do but more aggressively - like a reluctant passenger unable to move/speak/act while the creature does as it pleases.
Dear god... those faces on the fish are one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen.
Awesome video! I really appreciate all the detail you give when examining the models
On another note do you think you will be doing a video like this on Jin Yoshida? No rush at all mate , appreciate you👍🏻
Yoshida will be up on Sunday
"Could we have your comment on SOMA fishes?" "Nononononononononono"
I humbly appreciate that you make content about Soma
I love this game and changed my view about reality at some point
Glad you enjoy
Ah yes. Roanokes favorite little boy.
Do the faces on the fish come from their prey? Are they result of the WAU trying to imitate humans? Or is it something different?
Either way, horrifying to think about, and I’m kind of glad they left it up to the imagination.
I doubt that's the case, but man imagine getting killed by a monster then the next thing you find yourself a part of it.
Eels and angler fish are already so horrifying to look at, that adding faces and wires to them really doesn't change much. lol
Just think, though. We always think about aliens coming to our planet and worry about them being monsters that would destroy or dominate us. Well, what do you think aliens in the Soma universe would do when they saw what the WAU, our creation, had been up to? They'd probably high-tail it out of there and nuke it from orbit.
Deep Sea creatures sure have that Aura around them
Know whats kinda weird? I've only ever encountered the Anglerfish and the Leviathan. Never seen the other two (or, if I did, I didnt register them as threats).
Well the Viperfish hunt you in a swarm in the stormy area, but the will appear behind you and as long as you don´t dawdle they won´t catch you
the rest are not hostile and will swim about in the background in several areas, such as the Eel that, as seen in the video will float about above you
Straight up nightmare fuel!
I hate that the human faces move. Never noticed it.
dude I have never played SOMA how the hell did they decide making goo that changes stuff like (that) was a good idea?
Woah dude this is innsmouth backwards
oh fuck the faces blink...
I haven't seen the great white shark in the game. Was cut from the game? The only shark I did see what a hammerhead shark that was high up
I believe it floats in one of the earlier water levels, but it´s far away
Even though its utterly disturbing, stuff like these designs and the whole making of Simon as we see at the start of the game really has me think there's an odd hopeful take on the WAU. And that poisoning it is the wrong choice. Cause it seems like over time it could really achieve something *close* enough to humanity. Maybe just have a whole planet of "Aquatic Simons" made entirely of structure gel or something.
the Question is, are all the likely failures that are necessary to achieve a break through in the end worth it?
@@umukzusgelos4834 i mean i suppose thats a grand query when it comes to evolution. Even when its natural, it has "designs" that fail, or fall to the wayside. I guess its sorta like a reverse entropy, it starts scattered and rough but then hones into something finely tuned.
So i think it could be worth it, cause it is life, and life is worth it.
Those are some sick WoW enemies!
Wonder what original species of the Leviathan could be?
giant squid
According to in game files, a giant squid
Those look like fist, at least.
This is some H R Giger shit.
What could the leviathan be??
The rear looks like some kind of barnacle
It is implied to be heavily mutated giant squid
A bobbit worm looks like. Has the same shape and jaws.
@basiaromanovski458 thank you!
@toobig7399 good theory! Bobbit worms are creepy..
Whats the music around 4:10?
Great vids btw, love this stuff
it´s called "adultflesher stalk"
@@umukzusgelos4834 thank you king, keep up the great work!
These fishes with human face in their bodies remind me of junji ito creature from "The Thing That Drifted Ashore" especially the Leviathan.
They even cared enough to put animated human faces on parts we can't even see. I didnt even know they did! Except the Angler fish. The hand as a flipper is a great detail that can also be easily missed
The Anglerfish was such a big nope moment.
I swear SOMA has one of the best horror designs in a videogame or straight up horror media. The idea alone of an AI that somehow grow phonically is terrifying yet I'm fascinated by it.