I Was Messaged About A Game That Doesn't Exist - Inside A Mind
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- Опубліковано 20 січ 2025
- I was asked to cover the video game, Catastrophe Crow 64. Problem is, not only did it have a strange development history. It apparently doesn't even exist. Follow me on this journey as we dive down another strange rabbit hole surrounding the UA-cam channel, Adam Butcher, and a bizarre game he recently discovered known as Crow 64.
This story is already pretty huge with a Google Doc exceeding 78 pages. It appears much more is to come from this series. Feel free to take a look at the Google Doc and visit the Discord for any more questions. These guys will know much more about it than I will right now with how much time they have spent digging into Catastrophe Crow.
I hope more people will be interested in this series after this video.
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imagine being a child in an alternate timeline where this was released and finding that damn decapitated crow scene-
Bad Memories: *heh nightmare goes brrrr*
Yeah, like, here ya go son, here's a game cartridge. The game is riddled with codes and creepy glitches, and references to your dead sister, but enjoy!
I'm a child-
Then that would be a universe where the game is an indie legend.
The decapitated crow scene and every single other bizarre thing was made because the creator lost his child, the same reason why the game never released. If the game would bee released this would be a completely other game.
The decapitated crow on life support was I think the creepiest part. It’s making weird struggling breathing sounds that sound too realistic for those old games almost like one of those weird badly written creepy pastas brought to life
Yeah, just wait until someone makes a crappy theory that the eternal revive system put her soul into the game or some shit and she became that crow.
@@saturn21207 Allready has
I own birds, we had a sick chicken from a place that kept them squashed together in filth. His lungs made that exact same "stciking" sound. I wonder if making such "sick bird" sound was intentional, and if that's what freaked me out so bad..
Yea
What I find creepy is the lack of rhythm - at no point can I tell whether it is breathing in or out. It all sounds the same. It all sounds wrong.
Also, as someone who had recurrent chest infections as a child, those sounds are alarmingly familiar
That decapitated crow scene was genuinely disturbing and sad.
@Or a man 11:40 my friend
@chris b crow
That was fucking scary
Like god damn, you don't have to give me nightmares haha. Personally, I found the noises to be the most disturbing part since it just sounds like something that could be made by a living being, but is too unrealistic to be possible. Anyone else here have a "most-disturbing" part?
@@FirstNameLastName-wg8ld the most desturbing bit is the fact that it represents his daughtor for me
Usually lines like "The player is gone." is just inserted mindlessly in horror games just to be creepy without adding any real meaning to it. I'm genuinely surprised that they made it work in this context since the game was made for the daughter.
I have to admit, the story did get a bit corny/goofy, it seems like toward the end they were just trying too hard to make it mysterious and creepy, but I do have to give credit to that. The beginning was very well-made! Like, seriously!
That line, in that context, is more depressing than creepy.
Bruh you guys need to research before u say shit this was about his daughter dying 🤨 the creators daughter died during development of the game which caused him to do that to the game
@@domenicstuckless1009 thats what he was saying. he said that they used it well seeing that the game was for the daughter
Ah, the good old "video game necromancy gone wrong"
I guess there was just no "consoling" the poor guy!
@@kenlieck7756 best puns in the wrong situations
If I had a nickel for every time I've seen someone potentially bring themselves/others back from the dead with video games, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
@@SquirrelKilnBTS what's the other game, I'd guess it's the weird game where it's supposed to be a CTF but you're the only player and when you score the flag the ghost of the devs wife appears
@@Ug-lordetheunmovable... I'd have three nickels. I can't remember the second one, though. No Players Online is def one of those!
When the older crow in the computer says “H WQ HT ROEE” It translates to “I am in hell” stating how it was hell for him to continue programing the game after she passed
How do you know?
@@Sushi_Dog In one of the gameplays uploaded by the accounts shown in the video you can find the key to the “crow language” in a weird zone where the pause menu is in that language. Just compare the letter to the one of the regular menu and you can get most of the alphabet
@@mizurora9496 Ah, alright. Very smart.
@@mizurora9496 nice
Maybe, the "eternal revival system" thats possibly revived him caused him to become immortal, cursed to work on the game he no longer has a use forever, as his own "personal hell"
I think the "accidental creation" was just him having a mental breakdown and ruining the game.
The plot of the arg is basically him losing his mind because of grief.
Damn the story is just so depressing and more personal compared to other arg's that has murders.
i say this game is pretty whacky except for that scene with a crow body being kept alive which is similar to how you dream something extremely effed up and morbid and when you wake up you start wondering if your head is being influenced by satan
Did you just explain the entire game?
Probably, yeah
Imagine making a game so that your daughter/son can see it but instead a random stranger plays it and get the message that was supposed to be for your daughter/son instead.
That's really sad to me. I hope that if this is all true, the creator's child (if they are still alive) gets to finally play the game someday.
@@Ascertivon this is an arg so its not real
@@Ascertivon lol it isn’t actually real
@@Ascertivon I honestly hope they don't..no child should watch the hell that is a game like this; watching a crow representing their father commit suicide, watching a crow representing their dead sister on life support. It's disturbing. He took the game and stuff with him for a reason, no one should of seen it (originally it would of gone to his son next but then he spiraled and it was for no one anymore)
@@testerwulf3357...it's not a real game... lol
Even ignoring the symbolism of the headless crow child scene, His child is sick, he's stuck at work and he feels like he's drowning. I own birds, I even once had a sick one from a filthy place and his lungs made that exact sound. He got the potrayl of sick birds so right I feel like he researched it.
Someone mentioned your comment in a reply thing
@@Lumbago-box what?
Someone said they saw your comment, or something simalar
@@Lumbago-box where?
@@likira111 yeh there’s another comment here in the comment section and someone mentioned u in their theory or something 😂🤙 bless
when i have a close school deadline for the choice assignment
"i am in hell
one i made myself"
Every procrastinator ever
calfinhobbes LMFAO
@@241Cookies__ crowcrastinator
@@Goomba456 GENIUS
@@Goomba456 ME WHEN
MANFRED LORENZ
The breathing of "the dying crow" surely sounds like a little girl on a machine having problems breathing , so I feel like that was a sound byte of his daughter and when the player became gone that was him trying to keep a piece of her alive in the game at the end or a dedication to her idk but it sounds like a female child breathing
It does, and it freaked me tf out tbh. Not poggers feelings.
If what you're proposing its there for is true then the creator may have failed; 12:05 reads to me like that attempt led to the ingame version of the girl being murdered somehow.
"and i learned that from experience"
It is a girls voice perhaps the his daughters voice oe someones somehow
Just a while ago I saw a thread in here talking about those breathing noises, and they were saying that it was the sound of a sick bird, and that the maker of the game had to have researched this specific noise for the game or something.
Can’t seem to find it again though, it was very interesting
I like your theory though! Fits well with the story.
I actually think this is a really good ARG. Reminds me of a miniature Petscop
PLEASE HEAR ME OUT there’s a music artist called “BNNY RBBT” he made music from 1980-1994 he disappeared and left only tapes and was never seen again
Please do a video on him...
@@kiyagregory1148 probably died and his family didn't release a press statement.
@@_ikako_ probably but who knows... there’s loads of conspiracy theories over him 😔
probably another ARG, but posted “mYsTeRiOuSlY” as just normal music with aesthetics
Interesting! Creepy, but interesting.
Me and the boys impersonating a grieving small child to disprove a suicide case.
it do be like dat
Gonna get dirty to get intel somehow
This ARG rocks, but let's not pretend like it's not obviously fake.
@@Cabesandia yeah thats an arg is
I men’s they probably aren’t a small child anymore since this was supposed to be an n64 game
Remember: The person responding to emails is a PERSON. Treat him with respect.
edit: don't mean to be repetitive, but this is my most liked comment ever. wow
Don’t impersonate his wife, dear god!
It's an ARG. It's a person doing a character.
@@pliskin101 i think they mean while it's someone playing a character, it's still a human being behind it.
@@pliskin101 I know that but it just seems wrong even then
@@pliskin101 sorry, didn't understand ARGs at the time, I'll leave the comment up tho
"I'm your german son, don't mind it if I speak to you in english"
LMAO
DIO
Lol
Nach allen bekannten Gesetzen
der Luftfahrt,
Es gibt keine Möglichkeit für eine Biene
sollte fliegen können.
Seine Flügel sind zu klein, um sie zu bekommen
sein fetter kleiner Körper vom Boden ab.
Die Biene fliegt natürlich trotzdem
weil es Bienen egal ist
Was Menschen denken, ist unmöglich.
@FazedX did you try to google translate? XD
this ARG is absolutely f--kin amazing, creating a fake n64 game, to making a fake lost media retrospective to tell a story of an absolutely tragic family loss of a daughter. It's honestly amazing.
Damn, inside a mind really is active these days. Dont stress yourself too much now
To me seems that he just discovered the world is going to end I’m December so he want to give us some good memories
@@paulomenezes2169 you should stay out of facebook a bit
wait whose joe
@@Ryablol joe mama HAAA FUNNY HaHA
JOE MOMMA HAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAH im failing 2nd grade help
Basically this guy made a game for his Daughter, she died and he broke down, planned his suicide, coded his suicide into the game and also fucking up the code himself, and then killed himself
@@kit_that_guy lol ok
Yea, it doesn’t really make any sense
@@kit_that_guy Ok what can I do!
the first guy to find out the email adress then regisetred it and started replying.
makes sense, but it's still misterious as hecc
@@kit_that_guy
I'd like to know more about these shadows you're seeing, if it's not too much of a problem
Jaime: "Game started acting strange..."
Me: It's a demo cart.
Haha
Gay meme format
@@Memorywholed r u talking about your profile
Take away the ":" stuff and nothing of value nor context has lost
@@skibidibap4411 it wouldn't work without '':''.
This is so fucking crazy. This should get so much more attention, its crazier than Petscop I hope this story comes to a conclusion.
someone put my main furry man Pyro on the case
its fake: kotaku.com/the-story-of-crow-64-a-game-that-did-not-exist-1845386675
@@OPROSEBUD thats not very nice! I do tend to miss out on the obvious sometimes...
@@ljones2087 literally the title is “i was messaged about a game that _doesn’t exist”_
don’t beat yourself up though
Petscop was way more thought out though. Much wider reaching. Looking forward to seeing where this one goes nonetheless.
I'm so sleep deprived I thought his ending was "..for now, this is where our story draws to a *crows* "
well now im genuinely upset that isnt his ending
@@femcelfootjob Would've made for a perfectly good joke.
A missed opportunity
Have you ever tried Yog nidra? Try it tonight.....
Thanks for the concern y'all. Also I don't know what Yog Nidra is, but I can look it up. For now I resort to "calming fall-asleep" youtube videos lmao
“catastrophe crow” is such an ironic name for the tragic life of the developer, lost his wife and his daughter before ending his career by supposedly taking away all the game software along with his life.
@@smoli Catastrophe Bro!
That would be called a "coincidence"
That...that child's room scene was deeply upsetting. It left me with a deep frown and a weird feeling in my chest.
its the breathing
It's the atmosphere the game tried to set. It appears they were successful in making it unsettling.
An heart attack
yah it scared the hell out of me
So true. This is all so sad, and terrifying. I mean, the decapitated crow is representing his daughter, right? What kind of terrible death did she have to be represented like that?
am I the only one to notice that manfred not even being fazed by his creation talking back to him could hint that the game is sentient?
If anybody is wondering what the crow said to the “I AM IN HELL”
then?
@@leiilo1458 13:19
They translated what the crow said from earlier. The crow said “IAM IN HELL” in crow language.
@Murauder captain fearless solaris atheen oh,
@@januaryravelo4342 ok
#relatable
In a way, recordings have the power to raise the dead. They're kind of scary.
petscop immediately popped into my mind as well 🤭 oh how i loved that story for the years it lasted
Petscop
I love that yes ig
Wot
Most laugh tracks are the voices of the dead still laughing to this day. What's even more haunting is that they will be laughing long after we are gone.
The “Crow jumping from a boat with a computer” footage, in my opinion, does not represent Manfred himself doing the same. It represents what he wanted to do with himself, yet he pushed himself to continue further on the game. The “Eternal Revival System” did not bring him back, because the code simply didn’t work due to the limitations of the software. In my opinion, because of the emails, he is still alive, and simply faked his death.
You missed the part where, the crow went into the water with his computer, so I am thinking this further states that he felt like he was drowning in his work. Idk, very tempted to send an email though. Just to see what happens.
the email is probs just someone who is interested in the story and wanted to make a game on it
What about the computer equipment?
@@where_chickens_fly Did you? What happened?
I agree who is responding to the email
just imagine chilling on the ocean floor and suddenly a bunch of emails appear
The decapitated crow scene gives me shivers, the fact that it's possibly ML's daughter is just depressing af
@Jasix This is a very good theory which I believe but here's a question: How would you explain the room flooding and the decapitated crow being dragged off it's death bed and into the darkness while a little girl screaming is heard?
@@PixelSlasher3790 i think that the girl being dragged to the darkness is a metaphor to death taking her away, i think that something fell on top of her and decapitaded her? thats why she was screaming.
and the flooding is the creator remembering of that thing while drowning
edit: ok i just read a comment of someone that owns birds, the daughter was sick, they said that the bird they took from a dirty place made that noise when they breathed.
@@Aubergine_scum Thanks that actually explains a lot to me!
Also I think what you mean is that the Decapitated Crow who is the Mr. Crow the player character represents Thea, and that the older Crow wearing spectacles represents the father Manfred.
Also even though I like your theory I must point out that Manfred faked his death and is in hiding but your theory is food for thought and does paint a interesting picture.
@Jasix Well I few that Sir Cat was originally going to be the cause of the Father Crow's disappearance, and this game was going to be something like Banjo Kazooie were you have to save a family member.
Basically one of those fun, colorful and zany worlds we'd get to play in and explore.
However Sir Cat and the original intention for the game was discarded when Thea died therefore making Manfred change the direction of Catastrophe Crow.
The father: Petscop
The son: Catastrophy Crow
The holy spirit: Polybius
i have bad memories with petscop when i first heard about it
My stomach hurts when I hear petscop
Ah, petscop and polybius, those bring out memories I thought I lost
I-
You ass this made me remember flasbacks. Bad ones (no offense btw
The way the email was phrased, it makes it sound like Nils' birthday is hidden within the game somewhere. If someone contacts the creator impersonating Nils, and is able to "prove" it with his birthday, then they might be able to get a response from him.
fucked up as hell to impersonate someones dead kid to find out about their personal life i think
I'm pretty sure one of the emails said that there were dates on the bottom of the cartridge? could that be a birthday?
@@perkunasmiskinis6839 yeah I'm really kind of confused as to how this is all an elaborate arg
@@perkunasmiskinis6839 Is this not an ARG? I totally thought it was. This channel usually covers ARGs.
@@perkunasmiskinis6839 I mean, it's a game. It's not real, lol
"The player is gone"
a person playing the game: *understandable, have a great day*
Catastrophe Crow : The player is gone
The player :
Lol
I know I'm going to be probably wooshed and maybe writing an literal essay, I'll take a shot.
I'm pretty sure the player is Thea which made the crow design. This game was for her, but when something happened in which the player fell down the stairs..it can represent her of what happened.
Decapitated crow can be Thea in which she has damage on her brain, hence an split image of a brain scan which can almost be seen somewhere. In why it kept pushing back, it's unknown for me..
But when he jumped off, it means that Thea is gone forever and can't save her now.
@@1882letter i mean since the game doesn't exist and was only meant to be played by thea at the time so this has to be true.
by the way don't be sorry about writing essays, it's always good to train your lexicon and ability to express yourself.
When you connected the "the player is gone" line to his daughter being dead I started to cry. I know it's not a real story but that's probably happened more than once in real life. Kind of makes me think of That Dragon Cancer, in a way.
Is it not real?
@@tc-t8106 it’s an ARG
@@Tylercollinss i just started to get into these ARGs and damn i genuinely thought it was real for a second, like it was such an interesting story that it seemed real but also far fetched you know plus it doesnt help that people comment as if it was real, like id like to know more about ARGs
I just finished watching Mark played that game. God it hit me so hard.
@@Tylercollinss However, the ARG is based on the true story of Laurence Mannfred, creator of Crowtastrophe Cat 46...
"Discovering something that doesn’t exist!" - Phineas and Ferb
Or giving a monkey a shower!
Surfing tidal waves!
Creating nanobots
@Scratchy BOOO DELETE THIS
@@Mfriesjuice Or locating Frankenstein's brain (It's over here!)
I think the man who found the copy labeled "crow" was Nils himself, he must've forgot about the game and just decided to sell the cartridge.
That’s exactly what I was thinking
perhaps
Oohh shit
Or it was Manfred himself who sold it
how would you forget about probably the only copy in the world of a game your dead father made and sent it to you?
Perhaps this game IS the eternal revival system, he is being remembered, thus he won’t die fully
That’s actually a really cool theory, and would make a lot of sense!
The most unrealistic part of the story is him getting a development cart for so cheap, lol.
I insist is the full res CRT TV
Well to be fair sometimes people don't know what they are and sell them for dirt cheap. After all, the ebay seller said that he didn't know what it was and just found it in his attic. So its not that unrealistic.
@@HeroBrenn no it really is a dev carts are known to be worth money and even if someone found it game collectors would have paid any amount of money to own the dev cart even if the game was unknown. I’ve collected games for over 35 years and never once ran into a dev cart for sale. That was a reasonable or affordable price. This just doesn’t happened.
@@Lar_ry i think he had the dev cart the whole time and possibly worked on the game. He could have added all those weird things in the game himself and then created youtube channels with footage of said weird things. And when they didn't gain any traction probably decided to make a new video about it on his main channel. Does anyone else actually have the game?
@@Lar_ry dude stfu i knew a store here in germany that sold me too for like 50 euros each
Bruh the decapitated crow in the child's room was thr creepiest part.
Ikr
with the slow ass camera pan too
That blood-curdling scream too
I honestly thaught it was a fish. :/
@@DragnSly oh yeah, definitely, between the slow pan of the room, the weak, pained breathing, how the room suddenly fills up with water, and how it ends with one of those monsters taking the body away before abruptly ending on that blood-curdling scream, it's definitely a good pay-off to the ARG's introductory video.
Y'all spent all this time trying to solve this... Imagine Nintendo finds this and just copyright strikes it for simularities.
lol
Then they’re claiming the decapitated crow scene lmao
@@semidecent4395 I'm dead, that's the funniest shit I heard in days!
@@semidecent4395 It becomes canon
Someone should write him an email pretending to be from Nintendo threatening to sue.
Theorys
-Manfred Faked he's death
=it might explain that he's answering emails
-Is Nills alive
=Probably
-Daughter's death is a head injury from the stairs
=Explains the brain scan texture on the glitched floor
=Explains the headless crow
-More coming soon, for now we wait
ua-cam.com/play/PLWn8bT2RfmETXn6IDEC0x4fBblVCtGd1o.html
theres a lil bit more to the game
.
I think the eternal revival system is supposed to emulate how if you die in a game you just come back. It’s obvious, but what’s a common thing is that it’s never told to the player why they respawn, but using the term ‘eternal revive system’ has a purpose for more than just the game. But here’s the thing: the player is gone.
The respawn didn’t work.
And I think that’s going to be the big catch of this ARG
I hadn't even thought of that. I really like this interpretation.
now i wonder if the ARG is going to involve the guy who played it dying and respawning then...
The eternal revival system probably means that he (ML) respawn after his "suicide" into a being that lives only on the game/internet.
Now the question is.. how did thea respawn?
What if, the creator (Manfred) faked his death. He's revived in a sense even though he was never dead in the first place.
@@timstarkey3692 yea, ofc he is fake his death (irl). So your interpretation makes sense
Wait, you should investigate the actually reddit account,they have to be part of the story, you can probably get some answers, they were a beta tester after all
it could just be the arg creator though
@@besnick Even better
Would it be accurate to call your pfp a Totem of unredstoning?
@@SolarisMusic depends, if it is actually the dev then I doubt there's more posts on the account since it prob was only used to send the message
@@besnick yes
me clicking on this video: oh maybe this will be an interesting story
this guy: did a video game feature bring this man back to life?
maybe adam butcher made all this as a story to support the legibility of his video
Well i mean it makes sense
Of course. What else could "eternal revival system" mean?
"this guy" c'mon, at least look up his name, jesus
@@ulrikahaggard9923 lmao why would i do that?
Maybe the end of the ARG will have Nils receiving the copy of Catastrophe Crow and then he’ll start playing the game on UA-cam and suddenly all the levels and stuff are totally normal and innocent and something you’d expect to see on N64. Just an idea.
What does ARG mean?
@@clintonmcbride7015
Alternate Reality Game
@@clintonmcbride7015its basically just interactive creepy pasta
Wow this video really put me in a loop first I was thinking “is this real” then “no this can’t be” then “well maybe it is” very well made ARG I’ll give them that.
Same here! :D
Same. I kept googling stuff to see if it was real
I'm honestly still not completely certain it even is an arg
It was very realistic until the "he revived through the game" thing
@@javieresq22 that was just something that inside a mind said tho
Dude's voice is so calming it makes me want to have a British accent
Im lucky I'm British 😂
@@ldgaming4213 very lucky
What annoys me is people just say 'British accent'
Well what do you want?:
English Southern Accent
English Northern Accent
Worsestershire Accent
London Accent
Scottish Accent
Welsh Accent
Northern Irish Accent
Irish Accent
Newcastle Accent
Southern West Accent
Liverpool Accent
@@ldgaming4213 Reminds me of "American accent" and I deeply apologize for my sentence lol. I usually hear the english southern accent so I would most likely prefer that.
Yeah, that's the stereotypical British accent 😂
It'd be cool if someone made an ARG like this that actually sold the cartridges of it on Ebay to people so they can buy it and figure it out themselves as the internet is figuring it out too.
Heck, that might be next or at some point. Maybe would be pricey for the creators though.
@@zab416 they could simply dump the rom, I think
That might actually happen. I've seen some ARGs spill out into real-life application. Would be pretty cool.
I heard the rom of the game got leaked, ruining the end of the story.
Well they allready did dump the rom on the internet
the fact that im watching this to create a musical album based on liminality and detachment from reality makes things exactly like a college work for an essay
Oh cool, I am looking forward to see how it goes!
Every copy of Catastrophe Crow 64 is personalized.
holy fuck thats insane.
before anyone comment "overused meme" I'm going to say...
it's not.
*"You want fun? Manfred show you fun."*
@Scratchy Only when we reach 870001 we can start calling it overused!
@Scratchy thanks
This man seriously made a whole N64 game for an ARG.
looks like modded mario 64. not sure tho.
@@luukvdgaast2857 nah, more likely banjo-kazooie
@@theconman6505 could also be the case.
wth is a ARG
@@sidneyreading1103 An*
Besides the spelling error I will explain, an ARG is an alternate reality game where players have to do puzzles, find clues ect to solve a mystery
Friendly reminder that this actually is an ARG, no matter how well-made.
Waiting for someone to make a version of it for the pc as a fan game
yeah this is so fake
@Jackson Gladue alternate reality game, it uses the real world as a platform, the players being the ones who are interested in the arg and want to find out more and the story can be changed by the players ideas or actions
Cap
Alr thanks I actually didn’t know
I have this theory where maybe Manfred did commit suicide, and the emails responding to people are just pre-written messages that are being sent automatically based on keywords. (I know of some features that can do this). This could explain why the messages are pretty vague, and focus on specific words.
considering that language and way of speaking has changed so much in the recent years, i'll have to disagree
@@hasintabassum532 You make a good point, perhaps he has entrusted certain people to run his email.
@@oa6813 or preharps his son is behind this?
How would the automated replies be able to state the names of people who were impersonating and using youtube channel names/made up names? I've never seen an automated reply system that can type unique messages from the email that triggered the automated reply. But I'm not familiar with that sort of thing. But it was odd to me that anytime ML stated their names it was in quotation marks.
Why should his son, write him in English. Just text him in German.
I was thinking maybe this ML dude isn't the real guy. Why would he even respond emails sent in English, when his son is clearly German?
@@iqwrjwqioprwjriopqrjpqowir this ML dude is someone pretending to be him
@@dabocousin but if this ML pretending to be the real one, how this guy got the game footage?
It could be a fake person while the real one is probably alive somewhere
NotYour Friend I don’t know maybe the cartridge on eBay?
The game is called Crow. and the creator had a sickening obsession with the game. Poe Reference.
Ohhh like that poem with that crow that’s says never more?
@@tsumugikinnie6225 but it was a raven, the poem was called 'the raven'
but the connection still stands it makes sense
EverestDoesStuff oh yea I wasn’t sure if it was a crow or raven thanks for explaining tho :D
@@tsumugikinnie6225 also
fellow tsumugi kinnie B)
we stan cosplay QUEEN
EverestDoesStuff :00 omgg hello fellow tsumugi kinnie :D We do stan our cosplay queen 😌🤚✨
The sound when the crow enters his child's room was disturbing as all hell. Does catastrophe crow remind anyone else of Petscop??? Especially reguarding the Google comprehensive document
ah Petscop....
yeah i was just thinking that it has the same vibe as petscop
@@flowerpressedflat well they're both args surrounding a Nintendo game
Dude I was thinking of Petscop this entire time
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long timw
this video gave me chills. the part where towards the end, the crow (probably representing Manfred), goes back to the what used to be perfect home (with his wife and two children), enters Thea's room, and seeing a decapitated crow, and watching the crow decay and eventually passing away, with the scream.
For context, the email Inside A Mind has gotten stated this is an ARG, so an Alternate Reality Game. So just so you know, all of this never ACTUALLY happened, this is all just a ARG.
@Originz Fishing it means the game actually never existed, the story isnt real and the person who made that youtube video made it up
i looked up the definition of an ARG, and it just means a game that uses the real world as a platform, so this comment doesn't make any sense to me. what do you mean this never happened
@@nyct1b1us It means the video is part of the ARG. None of the events described are actually real, and only serve as a backstory to the game.
@@totallyrealcia thank you i get it now
@@nyct1b1us np
"Decapitated crow on life support" oh, i thiight that was a fish, guess not
Me too
Yea I also thought it was a fish, especially with how water flooded the room afterwards
Why think it's a fish?
The whole video is about crows, and the narration say's it's a decapitated crow, not a fish?
Looks nothing like a fish lol
The community could of called it ‘crow scratch’ instead of crow language
(Like chicken scratch but ya know crow)
GENIUS
@@static5436 Not so much. It's all just caws and effect, really...
@@kenlieck7756 I thought you said "claws"
@@static5436 Claws works better for scratching. Caws more directly relates to crows. So take your pick, it's Heckle vs Jeckyll and there's nowhere to Hyde...
"So he never received it..."
Ah shit this is sad...
"It's possibly his son" no, not possibly, it is 100% his son...you even read it out in the part where the father/brother(can't remember which) acknowledges the son/brother as the relative family member...
Time stamp?
That death scene of 'the daughter crow' unnereved me. Pretty sure that was an actual sound clip of someone struggling to breath. Gives me the chills.
was that the bite of '87???
It was the final breaths of the developer’s daughter Thea actually
@@trumpet_boooi The Duality of Man
@@PowerPlay-the-SussyStickgirlNot necessarily, but could easily be
“This is only for your little brother now.” “you always looked alike" “Dearest Nils” “I am in hell.” “One I made myself.” “This is only for your little brother now.” “Please forgive me, both of you.” “I ran and now.” “I was too afraid.” “I dreamed of you playing this one day.” “But you never will.” I took all the decoded code i could find in the document and put them in order of how i found them. it gives a slight message? some connect and others dont.
just a guess but:
"I dreamed of you playing this one day, but you never will. This is only for you little brother now, dearest Nils. You always looked alike. I ran and now I am in hell. I was too afraid. Please forgive me, both of you." I thought the "dearest nils" would be at the top, but it seems like the message is addressing his daughter thea rather than nils
Thank you so much!!
@@nyct1b1us but "nils" means "crow" in crow language
@@trashboat7803 maybe thats the first thing malfred coded so nils and crow would be connected
Nils is an old Norwegian/Scandinavian boys name, and Thea is an old Norwegian/Scandinavian girls name as well😅 I thought that was a bit weird.
That decapitated crow scene fucking BROKE me. It didn't come across as creepy to me just... Sad
This is it:
The cartridge was meant for Nils. Tht guy is looking for proof that it's Nils by showing his birthday. Perhaps the date on the cartridge was the day that it would be given to Nils, IE his birthday.
To move forward, all we need to do is email him that date.
Or just send 365 emails and see which one gets a response with the guy's address where to meet his pretend son.
Has anyone done this yet
Anyone know the guys email?
I just want to say hello.
He's no longer responding to any of the emails. And someone did e-mail him with a guess from one of the dates listed in the cartridge (Nov 5) but it appears to be incorrect.
well, why would he make it so that people who are not his son are able to get the birth date?
I’m interested in where this is gonna go and the “eternal revival system” is giving me vibes of “No Players Online”, I feel like it might take a much darker turn in the coming days.
Maybe so, but this might show you can have a "my wife's soul is in the game" moment and have it work
Omg saaaame when I heard “eternal revival system” I immediately thought of no players online for some reason 😂🤙
Or ya know maybe it just means that you don’t get a game over
We aint gonna mention that when the employee said, "Think of the player" and then ML said "The player is gone."
"Player" means his daughter since he intended to make the game for her.
What you said was in the Video tho.
It was already mentioned in the video....🙄
he said that in the video you dumba
this is why you need to watch the video till its end before go commenting.
His daughter died that is 100% sure because of that what you just said and because of the end of the game you can clearly hear that its a girl on the hospital bed dying
I love 17:05 "a cryptic response," and then just a picture of a liddol frogg
The part where the little crow screams and dies actually terrified me
ikr I was petrified
Why did I click on this
The sound he made as she was decapitated gave me chilllssss
@@psychott6 Me too, good luck my stupid brain on sleeping.
Okay im gonna sleep with full lights now
Just wanted to once again say that Inside a Mind makes the best ARG/internet mystery/horror videos I’ve ever seen. Editing, length, incorporation of other media, commentary, tone, theme: each video is an entire creative work in itself!
Celestine Buendia also watch nick crowley he does similar things :)
Also watch nexpo
I think you meant ARG/ARG mystery/ARG horror videos
“After failing to convince him that we were his son”
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of:
*only in the arg fandom*
Edit: since this comment is getting a bit more traction: just wanted to remind everyone to have a great day and stay safe!
I honestly feel like the birthdate is just a password tbh
And that the info will get released at a later date which will allow the community to progress with that part of the story/puzzle...
@@Alice-si8uz I feel it might be one of the supposed dates at the back/bottom of the cartridge. I mean, feels a little too obvious to me, but makes sense with the “so he never received it”. Maybe that copy was supposed to reach him on his birthday?
@@Alice-si8uz That’s a really good theory- I honestly think that it’s probably already out since this arg seems to be very planned out with the videos already published long before people started speculating- but it is possible that the birth date will come out in a later video.
@@shmargletheone1378 perhaps the labels are a part of the password? It does seem a little obvious, but who knows- it could be!
Listen to me there is arg hapoing
Just reach "binding of issac feaind folio mod mothers orb"
What's going on here is...
The actual creater of this game and planning ahead is a real Genius
Reading "That doesn't exist" loses my sanity and gives me existential crisis
Which part?
Can you give a timestamp or something, I want to lose my sanity too
The title of video duh
@@Bos_Meong oh wow i
This video does not exist, your comment does not exist, I do not exist. You do not exist.
UA-cam: hey a new inside a mind video was pos- Me: LETS GOOOO
have you heard of our lord and savior shift+enter?
"An eternal revival system"
Are you sure you wanna try your hand at this? It may cost you an arm and a leg.
And his brother's body
Yea but you will get a sick robot arm and leg so worth a shot. Plus a suit of armor for a brother
And the head of somebodu
and your Ś̵͠O͞͏̴́U̵̵L̵̷͜
Maybe a head.
I'll try and make a theory of my own
"Dearest Thea, I am sorry that I could not be with you in the end. I was too afraid. I ran, and now I am in hell. One I made myself." - This sounds a lot like Thea died("the player is gone."), and he wasn't with her in her final moments because he was afraid of seeing her die, or perhaps he was too occupied with creating the game for her. Now he's ashamed of himself, the guilt of not being there for her is consuming him, and he believes it's his own fault that he feels this way. Maybe he even blames himself for her dying. "Maybe if I was with her, she would have held on."
Perhaps he grew obsessed with completing the game to honor her memory, maybe hoping it would bring him peace. Maybe, in his grieving mind, he thought that making her game would somehow bring her from the brink of death, give her a new will to live, but it just didn't work out that way. Maybe that's what broke him and caused him to turn the game into more of a cry for help or elaborate suicide note, detailing what he had to suffer through. The crow on life support, the crow jumping off the boat, the crow obsessively typing code, "he's not been home for days.", it all matches parts of the story.
This was the hell he made for himself.
Yummy theory bro
Now let's wait for Nick Robinson to find the game physically
“So I hopped in a submarine to go to the bottom of the ocean...”
@@NekoBandito “but that wasn’t enough, so I bought a flight to Japan...”
@@NekoBandito "I managed to find the now rotting body of Manfred, unfortunately the computer Manfred had were water damaged beyond repair, thus leading the research to a dead end"
"Or was it?"
@@kevintheboi_ “so I took a flight to japan...”
I mean, Nick left a comment on the original video.
I'm sorry but the effort put into the intro and basically everything??? Wonderful, absolutely gorgeous
Edit: People are asking why I'm sorry, my apologies. I'm not sorry for anything, it's an… instinct? Something like that jfksdjf
Yep.
@Star Killer I mean, the OP's got a point. Inside A Mind puts a lot of work into his videos.
Anybody knows the intro music
@Star Killer bruh
#ReusedMusic
Everybody else here is like “notifications gang” and I’m just over here randomly seeing it in my recommendations 30 minutes after it came out
Lol me too
i'm here seeing it 3 hours later because i just woke up lmfao
ok
I just woke up to this lol.
Same
" Think about the player Manfr- "
" The player is gone. "
" W-What? "
When actual results for multiple gameplays showed up I legit got chills, that was a nice touch, added another layer of reality in my opinion, I'm gonna follow this to see where it goes next.
This is actually scary and heartbreaking. All he wanted to do was to be with his family but after the death of his daughter he couldn't bare it and went crazy. A baby was probably in the works and he wanted to see him play the game, but it got lost and sold to a guy on ebay.
“Think about the player”
“The player is gone”
God I get chills down my spine just hearing that
How the actual hell did I get 1k likes
OH NOW I GET IT..
Player in game
Game good
Player have problem
Player die
Think about player..
Regret....
-Monke
@Alfred Richmond Ruff do I really have to make videos?
@Alfred Richmond Ruff bruh
@Alfred Richmond Ruff dude, you don't have any videos either :/
i found this in my recommendations, not disappointed knowing the fact that the video was made by the same person who did a documentary on Daisy Brown, damn that was 2 years ago, i’m glad to be back on this channel, keep up the good work
Shouldn’t it be called “Katastrophenkrähe” in German instead of “Katastrophe Krähe” which sounds like a straight translation from English?
Maybe because the girl wrote it and she couldn't write as good bc she was young
the n is hiding
@@larryfromspace1856 Or maybe it's a completely fake story created by someone whose native language isn't German.
@@troodon1096 or maybe you should suspend your disbelief slightly.
@@troodon1096 well yeah it’s an arg why fuss over little details like that? 😐
"Are ya winning son?"
"Hhuh.... huh huhh......"
The headless crow scares me. The scream right after makes me refuse to sleep.
oh no
*Victorious music*
Announcer: *High Score!*
im really starting to love this genre of ARGs that are centered around games that don't exist (petscop and this one)!! its super fun to delve into lore thats solely presented Through youtubers and not necessarily discovered on our own accord
Killswitch is my favourite 😍
@@bean8672 killswitch is an arg?? ( I thought they were a band? )
@@saturndotnet probably both, there are only so many words you can put together to name something
the game doesn't exist?
@@buzz4205 depends on what you're asking. exist in the real world? technically yes, because the people who created this ARG actually had to make a game for the ARG to work. Is the story real? no. :D
I'd like to mention that that drawing reading "Katastrophe Krähe" immediately sets of red flags, as it's clearly made by an English speaker trying to pass it off as made by a German child. This is simply not how German compound nouns work. A mistake that can happen when translating from English to German obviously makes no sense in a German child's creation, it really should have been "Katastrophenkrähe." Hurts immersion/believabilty of the story.
The letter is also suboptimally composed. It is written in a very... non casual, poetic, flowery, old-timey way. Now, while this isn't a problem and the contrast between that and the hasty handwriting and spelling mistake can also be a deliberate choice by Adam, the word "gucken" is really out of place there. Also "dekodieren" clashes in a similar way, and I suspect it was used because it's very simialr to "decode", meaning, we again are dealing with evidence of the text being written in English and translated.
Also, the messade the game displays encodes "Dad" as "XWX"? So on top of the previous points, either Manfred calls himself "dad" instead of "Papa" or anything else more common in Germany or rather, looking at how the line lengths between message and screenshot line up, the in-story character just gave up at this point and left the message in English.
It's because it's an ARG.
@kevan diles But a good ARG should still be immersive and somewhat believable.
to be honest, the nail in the coffin was the 4k quality in an CRT TV
@@VD_the_GodKing "Hurts immersion/believabilty of the story." As I said.
An ARG specifically wants to be believable and allow you to easily suspend your disbelief.
A lot of args use other languages in some parts to code stuff, and they're usually not fluent in them so they use google translate or something similar which causes those errors and oddities which are immersion breaking to those fluent in the language; it sucks but it's just something you have to deal with..only way to avoid it is getting someone fluent in a languge you want to use in your arg to write parts for you which isn't always possible for everyone wanting to start an arg
Okay theory time:
Manfred, like it says in the video, wants to create this game for his daughter based on her drawing. I assume, based on the game play, messages, and the story of this strange game, this:
Manfred's daughter could've had a chronic illness (or maybe she was in accident. I am unsure, but I believe that the crow on life-support is his daughter. The thing that drags her away could be a symbolic meaning of death or maybe the illness.). She died before the game was created and, afterwards, all of Manfred's sole reason for the game was lost.
I believe Manfred was driven to a point of insanity by her death. The strange assets could be things made for a specific level, where it gives away the reason why or how Thea died. In his insanity, he fires his developers and drives his family away. He begins to fear his own creation (suggesting from the lines 'I am in hell. One I made myself.') because it slowly losing it's real purpose and is spiraling into a game based on Manfred's insanity. 'The player is gone' is losing Thea.
The game then turns into a game for Nills. He tries to contact and get to his son. However, he cannot reach him. Maybe, he just wanted to make the game for his son now. After not being able to reach him, he gives up and throws away the equipment made to make the game where it lies in the bottom of the ocean. Manfred, however, could still be a mystery, but I strongly believe he is alive. They found his boat, but this video never mentions his car. So, what if he swam back to shore and drove away? 'I have - finally - gone home.' Could mean he probably went somewhere significant to him, whether that be a place, a city, a country, who knows! That is a mystery.
The game, in my opinion, is focused on the aspect of Thea's death. The character we play at first is Nills, trying to find his father busy in his office (I believe this is like his father stuck in his office trying to finish this game on his own) and the last character we play is Manfred, watching his daughter slowly leave this world. While Nills goes through crazier and crazier levels, it's to represent his father's slow spiral into grief and insanity. The last level, I believe, was made by Manfred himself. With the textures missing, the strange teddy bear path, and the house that looks like his own, I believe this is true.
That is just my general idea. Some other things confuse me a lot. What do you guys theorize. I'd like to know!
You have made a great theory
Good job!
The most trustable theory i have found
@@RakeshPandey-ch4eb I think they understood that it was an arg, you can make theories about fiction lol
I just got smacked across the face with straight facts
i knows its a arg but ill make a claim about fiction even though it may sound like i believe this but if it was true she would of either died of being decapitated, no longer breathing, or drowning
I never would have imagined a pixleted game would be way more scary than todays high end graphics
Watch petscop by pyrocynical then. Its so scaryy
@@renshu18 The burn-in monitor sequence is unironically one of the most terrifying scenes I've ever seen on UA-cam
@@renshu18 eww pyro 🤢
@@justaspectator9762 i didnt know bout the allegations till 2 days ago it sucks:(
@@renshu18 wait is the allegations real? I thought it was fake? I'm sorry but I'm not following the recent controversies.
The "eternal revival system", next to "the accidental creation" make me think of this : He was trying to revive his daughter in the game but as we saw, she dies in the end in an horrific maner. The accidental creation is that she revives every time the game is restarted but always dies in horror at the end. This could be the reason he committed suicide in the end. This revival system would also be the reason why he can still answer emails. He revived, but only inside a program, like his daughter revived in the game. He survived thanks to the electronic equipment he brought is his death, and is now trapped on the internet. This allowed him to create these UA-cam videos out of a game that was never published until it was recently bought. The problem with this last idea is, why would he want to buy a physical copy of the game if he isn't material? (I don't know if there is still some activity around this video, I'm probably never going to reach anybody but I thought I was going in a good direction)
Hm, interesting perspective
Everyone adds interesting layers to the scheme which is really interesting to read, really gets you thinkin’. It does feel a bit traumatic to think about the inevitable death of the crow at the end, even if you could restart everything, ‘revive’ the outcome is the same
That's the plot of Sao Ordinal Scale movie.
I think he tried but failed and so made the dying bird to remind him of his failure
And he made the channels and ran them by ai and know is just somwher
So Manfred wants his children to play a game that he created, but the player is gone and the other player never received it, Manfred is a genius who expected his son to figure out his puzzles but didnt, and his daughter died without even playing his game, someone make a movie with a reference of this it'll be a great tribute for Manfred
Theory: everyone’s just looking into this to much and this guy just couldn’t get any of his assets right which explains the anomalies he was mad at his employees and fired them all, then went and jumped into the ocean because he was depressed he couldn’t make his dream come true
I think it was because of his daughter's death and the depression came afterwards of it.
He made this game for her but she couldn't live and see how her wish came true by her precious dad. She died and he probably felt guilty since he couldn't finish it for her daughter.
Player just left him amd there was no more point to make it a "game" since there were no player left.
He decided to tell the story by using the game, and then planned his suicide. Maybe died or maybe not, I couldn't find any explainable, logical thing for the mails part.
@@mere11yn oh, thanks! I actually think that the person replying the mails can be his wife, Martha but I don't have any evidence of that.
@@MutevaziEgoist I mean it would certainly explain both the "M" at the end of each email and even the "M L" initials as it is likely Martha would've adopted her husband's second name or vice versa
@@internetual7350 I was also thinking about the same, but I don't know if its enough evidence tbh. It's also fun to watch people's opinions about it
@@MutevaziEgoist Sure that ALONE is not enough to outright prove anything because it's just speculation but it certainly seems to point in that direction
The crow looks like the bird from "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared"
Thanks for giving me insomnia
btw c h e e r s
welp, guess i'm staying up with Mitchell. would've been a lot happier if that series had stayed a repressed memory lol
Oh no.. the memories..
This is like Petscop all over again
Edit: Jeezus Christ, This was literally based off of the Title Alone. i hadn't even watched the video when i commented this. But thanks anyways, i guess...
That's exactly what i thought
That's what i was thinking
We’re still waiting on pyro to give us the second part of it
I came here to write exactly this
More like SM64 but yeah
Imagine if the guy who found the game in his attic watched this video.
this must be one of the darkest and well-concieved args out there. well, all args are, but yall get the point
btw jamie has been so active aaaaa
Nobody:
Me: * just sitting there with my mouth open and thinking - is this an ARG? or is this real? while changing my mind every minute... *
I know this may seem like a bot but I am getting attention of everyone because we also need help from arg community for binding of issac community because there is art happing in a mod known as the feaind folio mod
@Oshabot 16 it always ruins the joke
"game that doesn't exist"
My mind: P e t s c o p?
More like a spiritual successor, even includes a dead kid!
Petscop, but this time the creator seems to have a plan.
thats what i thought at first lmao
@@problematist2 ambiguity is what made petscop interesting tbh
that's what i thought too lmao
I’m just imagining Manfred vibing to _To The Bottom Of The Sea_ by Voltaire all the way down at the bottom of the ocean.