I never really thought about it before, but It’s kind of weird that she’s recording all this. Like, who gets out of their car with a camera at the ready? It makes me realize that a slender game with live streamers or something would make a lot more sense.... ( that be pretty cool if someone was on a video conference with you at the same time you were in the woods, how spoopy)
@Crazeh Boi outlast boi was a reporter gathering evidence This is a girl in the woods seemingly recording her search for her freind for posterity It's a bit of a mystery and could be given an explanation in game
Marble Hornets started all this, and in marble hornets the constant recording was due to Slendyboi causing his victims rampant, insatiable, uncontrollable paranoia any time the camera is off (side note: when the camera is ON, he can also track you somehow). Probably a combination of a direct effect of slendy himself, plus the fact that he, you know, can delete your memories somehow.
The game was based off the old web series Marble Hornets. It supposed to be that Slender Man makes you forget him when you see him so they begin filming everything do to how paranoid they become. Something like that
It was the Total Drama All Stars episode where they run through the woods at night and Slenderman can be seen in a camera before Chris cuts to commercial.
Ya same. I remember my first encounter of it was through a let’s play. I got so scared, I stayed up all night under my covers hoping he wouldn’t find me.
Also when I looked up the plot for this game they say that Lauren could’ve survived being attack by Kate and may have knock Kate out and taken her away
Even though the file says dead lauren, it does not necessarily mean she was killed. I find it more likeley that she met the same fate as Kate and Charlie.
shb: lauren is now another captive of slenderman and will no doubt join him alongside charlie and kate to serve as a proxie herself. me: well actually it was proven that lauren died, because if you read the game files it mentions "dead lauren".
4:20 if kate so called broke out of the house... why was the broken glass inside the house, making it look like something broke in, this could a mistake or something big in the story. Just pointing it out
@@alberthollow1786 he meant that the glass shards were inside the house and not outside. If you jump out a window, the glass shards should follow your direction
It could be why the doors are open too slender broke in through the window instead of her breaking out and kate ran out the door leaving it open as she fled in terror
You know when this game came, made by indie devs, it was astonishing for a game like it, it surprises me how it stills looks good for being a horror game after all these years and they even added one last content after release it's so unbelievable! Thank you for making this video it brought back so many memories!
For blue isle studios flagship title, it was a great horror experience. They definitely improved their techniques with Valley, their next game, which also has 8 pages hidden within as well.
@@white52 Slendys abilities don't really exist. He has no canon strength, or limit. Meaning that he could be a lower level entity like a simple ghost with a corporeal form or an Eldritch abomination like cthulu. Siren Head however has a canon strength and speed. That's more than slendy has. He's either piss poor in a fight or he'll stomp, we do not know.
My favorite memory is when I was given the controller at my friends house cause we were taking turns after we die and accidentally speed running the game. We all had a good laugh when I managed to glitch past Charlie on the stairs by running into him a bunch only to be met with an empty room. Turns out you have to trigger an event for the ending to happen
I played the Eight Pages stage and decided to be cheeky and glitch outside the map, not knowing that there is a countermeasure coded into the game. I was unsettled by the text that appeared: "Not even a bug in the game can save you from me." And was straight up paralyzed after the Jumpscare. BTW, I recently picked up the game on my PS4 and the secret level in the prologue is in the console release. If you don't already know the process, I'll give you the TL;DR This process is done twice to trigger the secret stage. Get to Kate's house. Trigger the swing set dialogue. Grab the flashlight and turn on the radio. Finally, go over to the Charles Matheson Jr Missing Poster but don't pick it up. You'll be given a dialogue prompt saying: "I should keep an eye out." Once you've seen that dialogue, exit the stage and restart. Go back to Kate's house and do the same thing again. But before you can reach the poster, you're stopped by Slenderman/Charlie. I won't spoil what happens next if you haven't seen it, so go check it out yourself if you haven't already
Theory of a sequel of Slender Slender: Trails Following the story of Lauren after she has gone missing for 8 years her husband, sets off to find her and clues locating to the abandoned hillside which is the Oakside Park where his wife's family home is. Upon his discovery, there were notes with the same handwritten of Lauren. It leads to the lake but as soon as he discovers foot tracks of someone, he knows now he is not alone. He then finds 24 pages around the burnt down forest that leads to the Radio Tower. After collecting all pages, he found himself locked on the tower and discovered a pre-recorded tape and finds out that it is Lauren's camera. A loud banging from the door starts to grow louder and he escapes right behind the burnt corpse's wall. There are two individuals chasing him. The cracked wall actually leads to an abandoned town and he uses the car noises, to attract them away from location sites where the lead of items to destroy the chains locking the gates to a warehouse, while tossing pebbles at the cars. After locking the large gate with huge padlocks, as soon as he drops the key, it was grabbed by one of the individuals from outside as it snoops its hands in. The same tall man appears outside with the individuals beside him and starts to move to where he is. To escape the warehouse, he must start the truck with 4 fuel canisters and fix the wires. It took him forever but luckily, he escaped. As he drives fast, the fog starts to envelop his surroundings and leads him to where he started, and destroyed Lauren's family home. As he wakes up, he sees a glimpse of his wife caressing his head and as she starts to mutter saying "wake up", her face turns distorted and he wakes up to a burnt down house that is nearly destroyed. He found himself on the tunnels below and discovers a secret passage that must've been built centuries ago. He also finds out secrets about the tall man who was with the two individuals following his orders. The tall man is referred as the Master and the ones following him are his Servants. Story leads to a mansion that was built here 25 years from the past according to the letter, and the Mathersons were among the 8 families that burned down the mansion for abducting their children to be used as slaves and sometimes cannibalised them. In the final letter, where a coffin is discovered, it is a letter from Lauren who tells his beloved that he will one day come rescue her but it is too late for her to be saved and the only way out is to burn the coffin within where the tall man is lying and he must find the last fuel canister all the way back from his truck to Lauren's family home and burn the coffin. After being tailed by the two "servants" of the tall man, he successfully burns the coffin and ends the tyranny of the tall man. The two individuals soul were also vanquished and their bodies became dusts. As he leaves the Mathersons home, there in front of him was Lauren, now in a decaying form and she became even more grotesque as she sprung long arms and legs and black tentacles came out behind her, binding him around and a note stating "I FOUND YOU" - appears at the end of the screen, pertaining that SLENDER has finally chosen a new host and captured his servant for himself, using Lauren's body to lure him to him. And so, ends the series.
The easter egss are the following: 1. Carl Ross's side stories on the toolshed and the destroyed video-player. Behind it is the past letters of him after hiding for 2 weeks in the toolshed until Kate finds him and they escaped together. 2. You can use the shovel to dig out the corpses of the Mathersons and discover a recorded tape of the family and appearances of Slenderman in every scenes. At the end of the video, the Charles is behind you and a game over message says "NO WAY OUT". 3. On the lakeside, there is a small shed and you will find details of a graffiti about zombies, as it refers L4D2. 4. You can spot a deer with a white mask and if you stare at it for 10 minutes, it distorts the camera and the deer vanishes. As you turn around, Slenderman, Kate and Charles are there and a game over message saying "YOU FOOL" is written. 5. You can actually see Lauren by the glimpse of the screen and vanishes as you turn around, indicating that Lauren is somewhat following you before becoming Slenderman herself. 6. Lauren's hands is wrapped around your during the truck escaping scene, telling that she is already close to you. 7. You can hear the transmission of the radio tower telling "HE IS THE ONLY SALVATION" with a distorted audio and deep voice. It is actually a low-pitched recording of Lauren that means that she already sided with Slenderman and nearly becoming the new host. 8. The time the camera is nearly broken near the end of the game, the crack is written as "IM HERE" telling the player that she is already here beside the player. 9. Visiting 8 abandoned homes including Lauren's home and Matherson's will unlock a secret passage at the underground tunnels and discovers th3 actual room of the Slenderman and a demonic circle before becoming a monster himself. Walking and staying at the circle summons black tentacles and captures the player, and a game over message tells "FRESH NEW BODY" indicating that the Slenderman has found a new host. 10. Above all, there is actually a laptop beside the driver's seat in which you can access files about pictures of Lauren and the husband, and zooming behind is actually a tiny figure which is the Slenderman. It tells that Lauren is being lured by Slenderman to go back to the Oakside Park and become either his new servant/proxy, or his new host. 11. Staying at your car for 20 minutes leads to a horrible ending in which Kate is there and kills him, and a game over screen tells "SATISFIED?" is there telling the players if they are satisfied for wasting their time not playing the game they made for a long time. And a jumpscare of Slenderman's distortion just to annoy the player even more. 12. You can go back to your car after a letter of Lauren telling her husband to get the fuel canister from the truck he drove. If you leave using the car, Lauren will be waiting for you and kills your right away, and the game will crash. Then if you start the game again, the menu screen texts like NEW GAME, or CONTINUE becomes a text written as YOUR FAULT. Just clicking that text will jumpscare the player with a distorted fave of Lauren and crashes the game again. Going back to start the game again, the recent saved file and auto-saved game is now gone, forcing you to start the game all over again, teaching you that you must end the game for real and not be a coward
Wait a missing child named charlie Sally the little girl owns a teddy bear named charlie Kate went missing and now a proxy that works for slenderman was relatively known as kate the chaser
I remember my best friend and I played through the game when she was on Discord and would share her screen with me while she played. We took screenshot after screenshot of those hidden levels with CR and tried to piece the story as best as we could until we eventually cut ties. This really reminds me of those good times, thank you ❤️
I remember watching Markiplier play Slender: The Arrival a couple years back, I never understood the story of this game, but this video clears everything up, nice work! :D
What was truly scary about Slenderman was that (before the eight pages came out and he skyrocketed into meme oblivion) he wasn't super well known, and what was there (marble hornets, everymanhybrid etc.) was incredibly chilling. It all built around the myth that the more you researched into it, the more likely he was to come after you. That shit was TERRIFYING to my 10-12 year old self.
Awesome analysis! After watching your playthrough, there were certain things you missed that I hoped you'd touch on in this video, and I'm glad to see that you did touch on them. While I've read other story theories about this game online, and while this video's story analysis is a very close match to how the story's described in said theories, you did mention a few other things that those theories I've read had missed out on, such as the Matheson-Hayes connection, the actual reason why Lauren was going to Kate's house in the first place, and that was satisfying (though I still did kinda hope that this story analysis would use CR's notes and such to describe a more cohesive description about what went on with Kate and CR before the events of the game took place). Also, a couple of things I had realized while playing through the game that you didn't mention in this video: - Charles Matheson's burnt letter in the Prologue says that he hears Charlie's "cute little laugh", and that's something the player hears as well, in the Homestead level. When we're in the cellar, where Charlie is lurking around, we can sometimes hear a child-like giggle hear and there, and this is another tie-in that Charlie is the skeletal figure (if players didn't catch on already). - When the player heads to CR's burnt corpse in the dark tunnel, there can be a deep, heavy growling sound heard, along with echoing footsteps that sound like dress shoes walking on smooth stone. That is definitely the Slenderman pacing around. - The note before entering the Kullman Mines that says the woods are beautiful and such, I don't believe was written by CR. That handwriting is much more messy, and written notes the player finds from him later show his handwriting in a more cleaner style. Plus, CR sounds like he would've been mentally unstable while writing it, and if he was such, then I doubt he'd be able to type his later emails without making a lot of typos. I think that aforementioned note before entering the mines was written by Charlie, while being controlled by the Slenderman, so essentially it's a message from the Slenderman. Why couldn't it have been CR being controlled by Slenderman? Because CR still had his sanity at the time, while Charlie had *zero* sanity, making him an easier vessel to manipulate. All in all, though, great video! This game really is an amazing horror game and I'll always remember it fondly. :)
Late to reply,the note thing at the end of your comment could still have been written by CR.The game was inspired by a web series Marble Hornets,heck the people who worked on that series helped with the game.But in Marble Hornets they can go into zombie states that they are more aggressive and not their usual selves.Though can in fact leave that state and be their usual self.Meaning it still makes sense that CR wrote that letter but wasn’t himself when writing it.
@@alexhudson1528 Well, the game wasn't exactly *inspired* by it, per se. The cast of MarbleHornets did write the main storyline for the game, the main plot of the stuff that would happen, but that's about it. I doubt that that means that the world of Slender: The Arrival functions the same way as MarbleHornets does, right down to people going into zombie states. And for that matter, I think that the only people in that series who could go into those zombie states are people who're under the influence of the Operator (looks like Slenderman, but technically isn't him, according to what I read). I don't think it's a state that anyone can just enter on a dime.
@@littlebigplanet678 It was my thought at first too. The memory where Charlie is captured by Slenderman led me to believe that he became the Slenderman, however I discovered that it was simply Slenderman's tendrils reached out to grab him and turn him into a proxy
Just to clear things up. Lauren doesn't become a proxy at the end, she actually dies by Kate. So sadly she was killed. But I guess when slenderman is involved, noone is safe.
Not gonna lie, the first time I saw this game play, and I believed the lost kid, Charles Matterson, was actually Slenderman. I assumed that the kid must have been in some sort of accident or became a SCP after being missing and turned into Slenderman. I do not remember the burnt down house with the skeletal figure, nor do I remember the side story of the matterson's family. I'm not sure if this was skipped over in the playthroughs I've seen or if it was added in during a certain update, cause i know sometimes these games can do that. Either way, it was cool to see a new ending, and it really shows how much of a threat Slenderman is that can never be taken lightenly and there may never be a way to stop him without taking your own life. But damn, this game was the best first person horror survival story of the early decade, i think we can all agree on that. Great review, and i hope you do more!
Marxist Gaming I mean, that’s what I first thought. A lot of people consider Slenderman as an scp, but he’s more of a cryptic character if anything. Though I still kind of wish they would have done the Charlie as Slenderman plot twist, especially the hidden level of the game you can do when you get the flashlight, turn on the radio, look at Slenderman through the window and go to the missing child poster then restart the game.
I think charlie being slenderman was the original idea, until Homestead, Memories and the Charlie Proxy were added in the 2.0 update, which changed the story, but they left the secret level in even though it isn't canon anymore.
This explains why Slenderman is everywhere in every other media, video game, and other content. He's looking for more victims to turn them into proxies.
Got this game recently on sale. Huge part of my childhood, in like 5th grade me and my friends thought he was real lol, I wanted to relive the games for nostalgia purposes, I thought it was going to show it's age, I was very surprised to see that the game still holds up today. Still made me jump. We're Juniors now so it was pretty cool playing through Genesis after all these years.
I really miss those good old times when Slender Man was still popular. I watched Markiplier play every single Slender game, no matter how bad or same-y they were. It's a shame that there hasn't been any new, recent Slender games made by any competent studios lately. I feel like there is a lot of untapped potential for a good, unique Slender game. Something that tells a story through its environments and characters. Something with no cheap jumpscares, and instead has unnerving visuals and a creepy story. Plus, with today's graphics, it'd look quite good. And, since I'm learning to make music, I'd love to create a soundtrack for a Slender game!
@@AntonConstanti I mean, technically the creature in MH isn't Slenderman. Slenderman and The Operator are different characters. But yeah, they really don't understand it up in Hollywood.
If CR's messages were being controlled by the Slenderman and has been seeing visions, hearing things and passing out, could that mean CR was a proxy as well before he died?
16:14 I bet Slender killed Smokey the bear in the process so he can’t put out the forest fire Also Kate’s window was broken into because the glass was on the inside instead of the outside. So unless she was sleeping with a broken window someone shot, she would’ve been bleeding a lot
There a secret in the first part in the house You dont need go to the house continúe walk and u find a paper of charly take it and left to the menu and play again And there is a secret
when i first saw kate in her chaser form years years ago, i was afraid that she will come for me, now that you zoomed on her face i realysed that she is even more scarier than i knew before, like having burned face covered by white mask with holes showing her burned eyes and mouth, jesus D:
You forgot to mention that Kate being found with the papers was most likely the aftermath of eight pages and that one of the Matheson family members (forgot her name, probably Kelly) was the one who summoned slenderman out of curiosity about old tales her parents told her, unleashing the entity that then haunted all of them, making her try and burn everyone alive to end it. But, it turned out, Charles Matheson had survived, so he made those graves, and Slenderman continued to stalk him and his family.
it is worth mentioning that whenever you break a window, the shattered glass will ALWAYS fall towards the direction ahead of the impact, but for some reason, the shattered glass in kate's room was dropped inside the room, which could mean that the breakthrough was from outside to inside (need to check if there is shattered glass on the backyard to confirm my statement)
I remember recreating the 8 Slender Pages, and coming up with a game for my next door neighbors and I to play, where one plays as Slender-Man, and the others have to track down the pages on a tree. It was a very broken game, and needless to say, the DLC and Update didn't come anytime soon.
@@joejardine4489 Unlikely to happen in either game, unfortunately. Glowstick Entertainment don't have the reputation for most companies to allow their characters in M&M. Slenderman would be too problematic legal-wise. If they put him in the game, I would say there is a 97% chance that they'll be entangled in a legal situation. As for Siren Head, he's too big.
Oh my gosh, *I fell asleep aaaaa* How could someone have disliked at when this vid is only like, a few minutes posted- Top of the notch narrative, Horror! Awesome vids as always. Never seemed to bore me with those narratives of yours either- xd
Kinda have... according to the story ( where he have a girl child ) if you take care of that girl very good when slender man isn’t with the girl, he might be nice to you since you are nice to his adopted (kidnapped) daughter. BUT, HEY THAT’S JUST A THEORY
Pretty good analysis. My one gripe is how you forgot to mention Slenderman being college room mates with Bakura from Yugioh. It adds a level of depth to his motivation.
Gotta admit that it was pretty awesome to actually listen to the full story of the game, I've seen playthroughs but never really got the story, it's a little sporadic after all. Thanks for this vid, enjoyed it :)
Stay up late or go into wooded areas alone because back then people had a fear of the woods and tried to warn children of the dangers (snakes, bears, poison etc) by making them fear the woods. Like telling a child something bad will happen or "the boogieman will get you" if they didnt follow rules or misbehaved.
This is my favorite slender game, thank you so much for explaining its history, 11 y/o me would be grateful 'cause back in the day the game was really confusing for me
I hate this kind of statement, this clearly proves that they're not true fans of creepypasta. Slenderman can't be replaced, sure Siren Head is creepy, but Slender is no°1
Also adding: The glitchy stage, when following certain steps to a poster of Charlie just outside Kate's house, shows when CR goes to Kate's house and then burns himself alive
I think it would be really cool if you play as his murderer and Slenderman haunts you and then you are just so fed up with his guilt that you try to end Slenderman and in doing so it will kill you too. But hey that's just what I think.
When I saw all the notes of my initials I kind of Wonder like what does CR actually mean, then when I saw the full name I'm like that could literally be my actual name if I was a guy
I think it's worth noting that the forest at 14:10 is the one from Slender: The eight pages, the first Slenderman game from parsec productions. a nice little cameo
Dude, im so glad I found this channel recently. Been binge watching these videos and it's helped with my anxiety during a pretty difficult time. Thank you for this channel.
One thing to note. SlenderDev actually wanted to make a third game in the Slenderman series, which would continue the story of The Arrival from the point we left off, but with a new protagonist. However, it seems like things didn't go too well between development teams and the original slenderman creator. A true shame. This game is a gem, and i would've loved to see the continuation to this story. Really hoping this third game gets to see the light of day eventually. Though, with SlenderDev seemingly vanishing from the internet, we can't be sure.
i was too scared to watch the Slender the Arrival! I was hardly and barely watching the whole thing without getting jump scared from other spooky characters. My heart was pawning in fear and almost got myself a heart attach see a door closing by itself and when you turn around to see who what happened, Slenderman is right there in front of you! Even more frightening seen Slenderman's minions chasing you everywhere you go in the darkness. it makes you paralyse to go places abandoned all by yourself without having someone to support you in case if something happens to you! i am so looking forward for more horror games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
Mike, you did an amazing job with this slender explanation, like telling us what all of the encounters and game play scenes meant. But if you maybe put these events in chronological order the overall "Story" would make a bit more sense. Don't get me wrong you did a great job on all of this, so keep up the good work.
The reason why Lauren is helping Kate was because according to the PS4 store synopsis, Lauren is a realtor and was helping Kate find a buyer for the house.
From Slender the Arrival, I never understood how Slender made people go insane, maybe he's a bit more supernatural than just being able to teleport. He may be able to shift reality to his liking, along the way turn people into his little helpers who's main goal is to kill you and earn their freedom? But this is just an idea or a theory a game theory.
....the fact that Kate's mother died..... Makes it even more eerie that this was the last video game my mother played before she passed away this last Christmas....
Am I the only one getting Marble Hornets vibes off this? Won't surprise me if the series inspired this game because the Marble Hornets vibes is strong in this one.
Actually, scrubbing through the game files shows us that the model used for Lauren being dragged away in the ending is called (essentially) deadlauren or something like that. So it's heavily implied that Kate and Charlie killed her.
Thanks for this video! This is one of my favorite horror games its easy to get lost in the plot details and miss some of notes scattered around the game.
its the Genesis level, eight pages is happening while Lauren ( arrival protagonist ) arries there and comes, happening at the same time, when u open kate's room door and she screams u basically "finished" eight pages and got caught ( cuz u were supposed to )
Very nice video, I've played this game multiple times but didn't piece together the lore this well and this cleared some things up!! I recently noticed the car in the garage at Kate's house has an Alberta license plate, this was quite unsettling to notice... as I live in Alberta. Are there any other indications that this game might take place in my home province?
I wish they released a second game in which is revealed that Lauren survived, and you play with her as she finally stops everything, Maaan I would get emotional, because this game and slenderman himself means a lot to me, my childrenhood and all. PD: Which makes me want to puke when people say that Siren Head is better, Like, no? Siren Head is a good character, but is not even a shadow of what slenderman is and means.
17:00 that audio is terrifying. The screams and sounds are so distorted, loud and creepy. For Slenderman, I'm pretty sure there is something to to with the 2 families. I have 2 théories : The first one is Slenderman was actually an old member of one of the 2 family. He was a very strict man and also hate the other family at a point that he defend his own member to not have any contacts with them. After his death, he came back to life as a living spirit and discover that his member actually reunite with the other family. Feeling betrayed and furious, he decided to trick them by manipulate the youngest members to use them as his own servant. The second one is that Slenderman is a corrupted part of the family. He was the one who go work the most and he got so depressed by his non-stop working life that he beggings to have some mental disease. He beggings to rape the youngest member of his family each end of days. At the end, the family was so done with this horrific act that they decided to burn him. But he came comeback to life as Slenderman and decided to change every women or child as his own servant to remake his family.
imagine slender man is just one of the scp's from scp-3008. and his story goes that he became conscious when he left and tried to have a normal life but when he sees a human he reverts back to his old ways. and thats why he goes after you and is night. that would be a fun story.
Slenderman: *Creepily stalks the victim*
Sirenhead: *Imma go wee woo wee woo*
I imagine them hunting together and this happening
Siren Head is good, but I like Slender more
*Wee woo intensifies*
I hate these type of comments, but you get a pass for that profile pic
charles bruso through a forest with bigfoot,nessie, demons, aliens, wendigos.
Sounds like silent hill
CR:dies to escape slenderman
The kids from down the road dressing up as urban legends to scare people:
MOMMY! Some one looks like they left the oven on!
Oooof
The only way to get rid of slender man is to kill him
You also have to burn his body. That's when he can't escape
@Slenderman🎃 yes I have
I never really thought about it before, but It’s kind of weird that she’s recording all this. Like, who gets out of their car with a camera at the ready? It makes me realize that a slender game with live streamers or something would make a lot more sense.... ( that be pretty cool if someone was on a video conference with you at the same time you were in the woods, how spoopy)
@Crazeh Boi outlast boi was a reporter gathering evidence
This is a girl in the woods seemingly recording her search for her freind for posterity
It's a bit of a mystery and could be given an explanation in game
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Have you watched Marble hornets?
Marble Hornets started all this, and in marble hornets the constant recording was due to Slendyboi causing his victims rampant, insatiable, uncontrollable paranoia any time the camera is off (side note: when the camera is ON, he can also track you somehow). Probably a combination of a direct effect of slendy himself, plus the fact that he, you know, can delete your memories somehow.
The game was based off the old web series Marble Hornets. It supposed to be that Slender Man makes you forget him when you see him so they begin filming everything do to how paranoid they become. Something like that
Slenderman- "I am the most terrifying entity to exist."
King Ramses from Courage- "Hold my slab"
WHAT'S YOUR OFFER???
@@shioriryukaze RETURN THE SLAB OR SUFFER MY CURSE
I never actually fear him -_- I found his model to be very funny
Return the slab...
I MOST CERTAINLY WILL NOT PUT A FINGER ON SAID SLAB
A little off topic fact: Slenderman once had a cameo in a Total Drama episode.
Wait what now
It was the Total Drama All Stars episode where they run through the woods at night and Slenderman can be seen in a camera before Chris cuts to commercial.
It’s fake
No it's the real Slenderman he went inside the TV
Even MLP!
The story is very simple. Weird tall man chases person accompanied by its weird minions.
So despicable me but more scary?
@@thunderlordabove420 XD
@@phandanglam9923 yee
@@phandanglam9923 also u have earned yourself a subscriber it's me!
@@thunderlordabove420 :D
Wouldn’t it be easier to just hide in a place with a low celling, since at its shortest height, Slenderman is still 7 ft tall.
No, Slenderman doesn't have to be in extremely close proximity to warp someone's mind. The person doesn't even have to physically see him.
@@stormichow5325 cant he also make himself shorter?
That may be a unoffical power but still
Or he could just bend over... Right? Or am I missing something
Or he could just send his tendrils in to still get the person?
Just imagine a tall faceless man suddenly going to their knees and crawling towards you in immense speed,,
Slenderman will always be a part of my childhood man I remember being so scared the fist time I played the 8 pages 😄🤣
Ya same. I remember my first encounter of it was through a let’s play. I got so scared, I stayed up all night under my covers hoping he wouldn’t find me.
Galaxy Frostrose dude I turned off the game legit too scared to play 😂🤣🤣
No
I don't know if I should be happy for you or if I should feel sorry for you
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Child: *screaming*
Captions: [Applause] [Music]
*Sounds creepy to me*
Ah yes, the sound of screaming children are also music to my ears
yes, donut man
@@_your_moms_house yes
@@no-do5od I loved you my man. Too bad you died at the end.
only true lads remember smiledog, rake, jeff the killer, jane the killer, and slenderman
Don't forget Eyeless Jack, lol
Mevolent dammit you’re way better than me
What about ghostscape from Y8?
yes i do be a true lad also the rake was replaced by scp 096
Jane the Killer? I recognise most of them but Jane?
Also when I looked up the plot for this game they say that Lauren could’ve survived being attack by Kate and may have knock Kate out and taken her away
no, the files say "dead lauren"
Junior Joker07 it might be unused content but ok
Reality Legos I believe that file is for the asset at the end of the game where the body is dragged away.
The Cinema Cowboy Might be, might not, we have no
confirmation.
Even though the file says dead lauren, it does not necessarily mean she was killed. I find it more likeley that she met the same fate as Kate and Charlie.
shb: lauren is now another captive of slenderman and will no doubt join him alongside charlie and kate to serve as a proxie herself.
me: well actually it was proven that lauren died, because if you read the game files it mentions "dead lauren".
But that could be an unused part of the file from an old ending when the game was in development
Could be the previous game? Well development wise since I think it got new content for the switch Im not 100% sure its been 5 or so years lmao
Dead could also mean proxie, after all the proxies aren't really alive anymore.
As someone who played the switch Port that's actually really cool fact and I applaud you for that
@@alexblake5369 proxies are half ghosts, half flesh
-Smoothing voice
-Plays games thoroughly
-Makes logical and respectful theories
-Explains the games at full length
Dam I love this channel so much.❤
Video:" ... The proxy only called the chaser"
Me: I just called them Jumping jackass but hey that's just me
Me proxo
Me calling proxy the burglar that screams for no reason
Jumping Jackass? I love that
Jumping Jackass sounds like a villain of a trollpasta
@@amberdeyuliis7886 Yo true though XD
4:20 if kate so called broke out of the house... why was the broken glass inside the house, making it look like something broke in, this could a mistake or something big in the story. Just pointing it out
She jumped out of the window while Slender Man got into her house and chased her to the bedroom,where she had to jump
@@alberthollow1786 he meant that the glass shards were inside the house and not outside. If you jump out a window, the glass shards should follow your direction
Nice time stamp
@@scrappaper1418 Oh,sorry then
It could be why the doors are open too slender broke in through the window instead of her breaking out and kate ran out the door leaving it open as she fled in terror
You know when this game came, made by indie devs, it was astonishing for a game like it, it surprises me how it stills looks good for being a horror game after all these years and they even added one last content after release it's so unbelievable!
Thank you for making this video it brought back so many memories!
For blue isle studios flagship title, it was a great horror experience. They definitely improved their techniques with Valley, their next game, which also has 8 pages hidden within as well.
SirenHead talking to SlenderMan: *Look at me, look at me... I’m the Captain now!!!*
Sirenhead's abilities are nothing compared to Slender Man's.
WhiteStar I actually wonder who would win in a fight and how ngl😐
@@white52 Slendys abilities don't really exist. He has no canon strength, or limit. Meaning that he could be a lower level entity like a simple ghost with a corporeal form or an Eldritch abomination like cthulu. Siren Head however has a canon strength and speed. That's more than slendy has. He's either piss poor in a fight or he'll stomp, we do not know.
Im the Coach Now!! They sorry!!
Nice Sonic Movie reference.
My favorite memory is when I was given the controller at my friends house cause we were taking turns after we die and accidentally speed running the game.
We all had a good laugh when I managed to glitch past Charlie on the stairs by running into him a bunch only to be met with an empty room. Turns out you have to trigger an event for the ending to happen
Same
I wouldn't know, because I haven't played the game yet. 😔
I played the Eight Pages stage and decided to be cheeky and glitch outside the map, not knowing that there is a countermeasure coded into the game. I was unsettled by the text that appeared: "Not even a bug in the game can save you from me." And was straight up paralyzed after the Jumpscare.
BTW, I recently picked up the game on my PS4 and the secret level in the prologue is in the console release. If you don't already know the process, I'll give you the TL;DR
This process is done twice to trigger the secret stage.
Get to Kate's house. Trigger the swing set dialogue. Grab the flashlight and turn on the radio. Finally, go over to the Charles Matheson Jr Missing Poster but don't pick it up.
You'll be given a dialogue prompt saying: "I should keep an eye out."
Once you've seen that dialogue, exit the stage and restart.
Go back to Kate's house and do the same thing again. But before you can reach the poster, you're stopped by Slenderman/Charlie.
I won't spoil what happens next if you haven't seen it, so go check it out yourself if you haven't already
Charlie's father cry out for his son never fails to give me chills at 10:38 in the video. Imagine the trauma of losing your kid like that...
Theory of a sequel of Slender
Slender: Trails
Following the story of Lauren after she has gone missing for 8 years her husband, sets off to find her and clues locating to the abandoned hillside which is the Oakside Park where his wife's family home is. Upon his discovery, there were notes with the same handwritten of Lauren. It leads to the lake but as soon as he discovers foot tracks of someone, he knows now he is not alone. He then finds 24 pages around the burnt down forest that leads to the Radio Tower. After collecting all pages, he found himself locked on the tower and discovered a pre-recorded tape and finds out that it is Lauren's camera. A loud banging from the door starts to grow louder and he escapes right behind the burnt corpse's wall. There are two individuals chasing him. The cracked wall actually leads to an abandoned town and he uses the car noises, to attract them away from location sites where the lead of items to destroy the chains locking the gates to a warehouse, while tossing pebbles at the cars.
After locking the large gate with huge padlocks, as soon as he drops the key, it was grabbed by one of the individuals from outside as it snoops its hands in. The same tall man appears outside with the individuals beside him and starts to move to where he is. To escape the warehouse, he must start the truck with 4 fuel canisters and fix the wires. It took him forever but luckily, he escaped.
As he drives fast, the fog starts to envelop his surroundings and leads him to where he started, and destroyed Lauren's family home.
As he wakes up, he sees a glimpse of his wife caressing his head and as she starts to mutter saying "wake up", her face turns distorted and he wakes up to a burnt down house that is nearly destroyed. He found himself on the tunnels below and discovers a secret passage that must've been built centuries ago. He also finds out secrets about the tall man who was with the two individuals following his orders. The tall man is referred as the Master and the ones following him are his Servants. Story leads to a mansion that was built here 25 years from the past according to the letter, and the Mathersons were among the 8 families that burned down the mansion for abducting their children to be used as slaves and sometimes cannibalised them. In the final letter, where a coffin is discovered, it is a letter from Lauren who tells his beloved that he will one day come rescue her but it is too late for her to be saved and the only way out is to burn the coffin within where the tall man is lying and he must find the last fuel canister all the way back from his truck to Lauren's family home and burn the coffin.
After being tailed by the two "servants" of the tall man, he successfully burns the coffin and ends the tyranny of the tall man. The two individuals soul were also vanquished and their bodies became dusts.
As he leaves the Mathersons home, there in front of him was Lauren, now in a decaying form and she became even more grotesque as she sprung long arms and legs and black tentacles came out behind her, binding him around and a note stating
"I FOUND YOU"
- appears at the end of the screen, pertaining that SLENDER has finally chosen a new host and captured his servant for himself, using Lauren's body to lure him to him.
And so, ends the series.
The easter egss are the following:
1. Carl Ross's side stories on the toolshed and the destroyed video-player. Behind it is the past letters of him after hiding for 2 weeks in the toolshed until Kate finds him and they escaped together.
2. You can use the shovel to dig out the corpses of the Mathersons and discover a recorded tape of the family and appearances of Slenderman in every scenes. At the end of the video, the Charles is behind you and a game over message says "NO WAY OUT".
3. On the lakeside, there is a small shed and you will find details of a graffiti about zombies, as it refers L4D2.
4. You can spot a deer with a white mask and if you stare at it for 10 minutes, it distorts the camera and the deer vanishes. As you turn around, Slenderman, Kate and Charles are there and a game over message saying "YOU FOOL" is written.
5. You can actually see Lauren by the glimpse of the screen and vanishes as you turn around, indicating that Lauren is somewhat following you before becoming Slenderman herself.
6. Lauren's hands is wrapped around your during the truck escaping scene, telling that she is already close to you.
7. You can hear the transmission of the radio tower telling "HE IS THE ONLY SALVATION" with a distorted audio and deep voice. It is actually a low-pitched recording of Lauren that means that she already sided with Slenderman and nearly becoming the new host.
8. The time the camera is nearly broken near the end of the game, the crack is written as "IM HERE" telling the player that she is already here beside the player.
9. Visiting 8 abandoned homes including Lauren's home and Matherson's will unlock a secret passage at the underground tunnels and discovers th3 actual room of the Slenderman and a demonic circle before becoming a monster himself. Walking and staying at the circle summons black tentacles and captures the player, and a game over message tells "FRESH NEW BODY" indicating that the Slenderman has found a new host.
10. Above all, there is actually a laptop beside the driver's seat in which you can access files about pictures of Lauren and the husband, and zooming behind is actually a tiny figure which is the Slenderman. It tells that Lauren is being lured by Slenderman to go back to the Oakside Park and become either his new servant/proxy, or his new host.
11. Staying at your car for 20 minutes leads to a horrible ending in which Kate is there and kills him, and a game over screen tells "SATISFIED?" is there telling the players if they are satisfied for wasting their time not playing the game they made for a long time. And a jumpscare of Slenderman's distortion just to annoy the player even more.
12. You can go back to your car after a letter of Lauren telling her husband to get the fuel canister from the truck he drove. If you leave using the car, Lauren will be waiting for you and kills your right away, and the game will crash. Then if you start the game again, the menu screen texts like NEW GAME, or CONTINUE becomes a text written as YOUR FAULT. Just clicking that text will jumpscare the player with a distorted fave of Lauren and crashes the game again. Going back to start the game again, the recent saved file and auto-saved game is now gone, forcing you to start the game all over again, teaching you that you must end the game for real and not be a coward
@@4shadow894 God damn you are creative
@@4shadow894 holy shit that would be awsome!
@@4shadow894 wow this is amazing!
@schroender i actually studied tge lore behind it from the 4chan troll post to the slender's mansion. I like slenderman.
Wait a missing child named charlie
Sally the little girl owns a teddy bear named charlie
Kate went missing and now a proxy that works for slenderman was relatively known as kate the chaser
@MarieTheC4t or she was brought back as a proxy, living to serve slenderman for the remainder of her immortal life
@@amberward1195 The game is not connected to creepypastas other than the Slender Man himself but that's a good headcanon hats off to you 👏
That..... that actually makes since
I remember my best friend and I played through the game when she was on Discord and would share her screen with me while she played. We took screenshot after screenshot of those hidden levels with CR and tried to piece the story as best as we could until we eventually cut ties.
This really reminds me of those good times, thank you ❤️
I remember watching Markiplier play Slender: The Arrival a couple years back, I never understood the story of this game, but this video clears everything up, nice work! :D
Was that the bite of 87?
Now you know story of this game
@@sernoddicusthegallant6986The scratch of '13
I’d imagine there’s an alternate timeline where after Lauren sees the state Kate’s house is in, turns back and gets out of there.
What was truly scary about Slenderman was that (before the eight pages came out and he skyrocketed into meme oblivion) he wasn't super well known, and what was there (marble hornets, everymanhybrid etc.) was incredibly chilling. It all built around the myth that the more you researched into it, the more likely he was to come after you. That shit was TERRIFYING to my 10-12 year old self.
Awesome analysis! After watching your playthrough, there were certain things you missed that I hoped you'd touch on in this video, and I'm glad to see that you did touch on them. While I've read other story theories about this game online, and while this video's story analysis is a very close match to how the story's described in said theories, you did mention a few other things that those theories I've read had missed out on, such as the Matheson-Hayes connection, the actual reason why Lauren was going to Kate's house in the first place, and that was satisfying (though I still did kinda hope that this story analysis would use CR's notes and such to describe a more cohesive description about what went on with Kate and CR before the events of the game took place).
Also, a couple of things I had realized while playing through the game that you didn't mention in this video:
- Charles Matheson's burnt letter in the Prologue says that he hears Charlie's "cute little laugh", and that's something the player hears as well, in the Homestead level. When we're in the cellar, where Charlie is lurking around, we can sometimes hear a child-like giggle hear and there, and this is another tie-in that Charlie is the skeletal figure (if players didn't catch on already).
- When the player heads to CR's burnt corpse in the dark tunnel, there can be a deep, heavy growling sound heard, along with echoing footsteps that sound like dress shoes walking on smooth stone. That is definitely the Slenderman pacing around.
- The note before entering the Kullman Mines that says the woods are beautiful and such, I don't believe was written by CR. That handwriting is much more messy, and written notes the player finds from him later show his handwriting in a more cleaner style. Plus, CR sounds like he would've been mentally unstable while writing it, and if he was such, then I doubt he'd be able to type his later emails without making a lot of typos. I think that aforementioned note before entering the mines was written by Charlie, while being controlled by the Slenderman, so essentially it's a message from the Slenderman. Why couldn't it have been CR being controlled by Slenderman? Because CR still had his sanity at the time, while Charlie had *zero* sanity, making him an easier vessel to manipulate.
All in all, though, great video! This game really is an amazing horror game and I'll always remember it fondly. :)
I'm speechless
When the likes are at 199. Me::>
Whoa, 200 Likes on my comment?? That doesn't usually happen, thank you! 0w0
Late to reply,the note thing at the end of your comment could still have been written by CR.The game was inspired by a web series Marble Hornets,heck the people who worked on that series helped with the game.But in Marble Hornets they can go into zombie states that they are more aggressive and not their usual selves.Though can in fact leave that state and be their usual self.Meaning it still makes sense that CR wrote that letter but wasn’t himself when writing it.
@@alexhudson1528 Well, the game wasn't exactly *inspired* by it, per se. The cast of MarbleHornets did write the main storyline for the game, the main plot of the stuff that would happen, but that's about it. I doubt that that means that the world of Slender: The Arrival functions the same way as MarbleHornets does, right down to people going into zombie states.
And for that matter, I think that the only people in that series who could go into those zombie states are people who're under the influence of the Operator (looks like Slenderman, but technically isn't him, according to what I read). I don't think it's a state that anyone can just enter on a dime.
You forgot the secret level that you can access by picking up the missing poster for the child when you get to the house (your house)
At the end of that secret level, it showed Charlie's face and Slenderman's face matching which made me believe that Charlie IS the Slenderman. 🤔
@@littlebigplanet678 This one is a little too fetched, but still good to know what happened in this secret level
littlebigplanet678 no since slender man exist for centuries
@@littlebigplanet678 It was my thought at first too.
The memory where Charlie is captured by Slenderman led me to believe that he became the Slenderman, however I discovered that it was simply Slenderman's tendrils reached out to grab him and turn him into a proxy
@@littlebigplanet678 u can beat the secret level😳 I thought it was impossible
reminder: This all started with a photoshopped image that was made for a contest.
Edit: Thank you for all of the likes!
Some dude: ok got some long slim faceless lad is it nice?
The whole internet: *yes*
This game was one of the best in my opinion, too bad we’ll never get something as great as this
Yep
@@mickillafirelive7814 slendy something : Am I a JoKe To YoU
Mr Choo Choo Guy lol that too
Dude, just tell him no. Attacking you then would be Illegal
Edit 2:edited out the first edit
What an idea why didn’t I think of this?
U just solved slenderman
It’s not illegal if no one knows it happens
oh, you're attacking me? hoho, I'd decline
Just have a no-no square. It’s unbeatable.
Fun fact: When in the burned house in the prologue you have the chance to get a picture of presumably Charlie's family flashed for a small bit.
Yeah and in the level where you play as C.R
Just to clear things up. Lauren doesn't become a proxy at the end, she actually dies by Kate. So sadly she was killed. But I guess when slenderman is involved, noone is safe.
Some guy: Hey I made a spooky image.
The internet: I can make this work.
Not gonna lie, the first time I saw this game play, and I believed the lost kid, Charles Matterson, was actually Slenderman. I assumed that the kid must have been in some sort of accident or became a SCP after being missing and turned into Slenderman. I do not remember the burnt down house with the skeletal figure, nor do I remember the side story of the matterson's family. I'm not sure if this was skipped over in the playthroughs I've seen or if it was added in during a certain update, cause i know sometimes these games can do that. Either way, it was cool to see a new ending, and it really shows how much of a threat Slenderman is that can never be taken lightenly and there may never be a way to stop him without taking your own life. But damn, this game was the best first person horror survival story of the early decade, i think we can all agree on that. Great review, and i hope you do more!
Cosmo K-13 so... ur saying a Euclid/Keter SCP escaped and was never captured? makes sense
Marxist Gaming I mean, that’s what I first thought. A lot of people consider Slenderman as an scp, but he’s more of a cryptic character if anything. Though I still kind of wish they would have done the Charlie as Slenderman plot twist, especially the hidden level of the game you can do when you get the flashlight, turn on the radio, look at Slenderman through the window and go to the missing child poster then restart the game.
@@cosmok-1367 wasn't slenderman the one who got charlie in the flashback
@@birdwhoknowswhatsgood1483 yes he was, or at least his tendrils did. That was when I knew my theory of Charlie being Slenderman went down the drain.
I think charlie being slenderman was the original idea, until Homestead, Memories and the Charlie Proxy were added in the 2.0 update, which changed the story, but they left the secret level in even though it isn't canon anymore.
This explains why Slenderman is everywhere in every other media, video game, and other content. He's looking for more victims to turn them into proxies.
Ooooooooh that’s a big brain moment.
Got this game recently on sale. Huge part of my childhood, in like 5th grade me and my friends thought he was real lol, I wanted to relive the games for nostalgia purposes, I thought it was going to show it's age, I was very surprised to see that the game still holds up today. Still made me jump. We're Juniors now so it was pretty cool playing through Genesis after all these years.
Hey internet did you ruin slenderman?
The internet: Well yes but actually no
The internet made him and the degenerates and emos and gacha kids ruined it
@@Macrex132 what did the emos do to em?
@@M4VN 2 kids killed a kid because they thought they saw him
They did but are trying to fix it.
Slender man: *follows you silently *
Siren head: WAZ UP ITZ YA BOI
I really miss those good old times when Slender Man was still popular. I watched Markiplier play every single Slender game, no matter how bad or same-y they were.
It's a shame that there hasn't been any new, recent Slender games made by any competent studios lately. I feel like there is a lot of untapped potential for a good, unique Slender game.
Something that tells a story through its environments and characters. Something with no cheap jumpscares, and instead has unnerving visuals and a creepy story.
Plus, with today's graphics, it'd look quite good.
And, since I'm learning to make music, I'd love to create a soundtrack for a Slender game!
They should of made a sequel instead of that shitty movie.
@@qqqhv8777
Hollywood really has no concept of what Slenderman is about, since it's all on the internet and Hollywood is incredibly out of touch.
@@qqqhv8777 // not only that, but if the movie came out when they slenderman craze was still happening, it would’ve probably been received better.
@@jillreyerma7592 they didn't contact the Marble Hornets guys which understand the spirit of Slenderman deeply
@@AntonConstanti
I mean, technically the creature in MH isn't Slenderman. Slenderman and The Operator are different characters. But yeah, they really don't understand it up in Hollywood.
If CR's messages were being controlled by the Slenderman and has been seeing visions, hearing things and passing out, could that mean CR was a proxy as well before he died?
no, he was not a proxy, he was in the process of turning into one but definetly was not a proxy
from what I understood he died so he wouldn't become one, Kate refused to do it and soon became one
He was being influenced. He was not one yet.
16:14 I bet Slender killed Smokey the bear in the process so he can’t put out the forest fire
Also Kate’s window was broken into because the glass was on the inside instead of the outside. So unless she was sleeping with a broken window someone shot, she would’ve been bleeding a lot
There a secret in the first part in the house
You dont need go to the house continúe walk and u find a paper of charly take it and left to the menu and play again
And there is a secret
Idk if that has remove
What is it?
Is a secret
Diego Hdez Yerena I’ll give u a cookie if you tell me
natalie bido I thought that was the ending turns out it's just a secret level
when i first saw kate in her chaser form years years ago, i was afraid that she will come for me, now that you zoomed on her face i realysed that she is even more scarier than i knew before, like having burned face covered by white mask with holes showing her burned eyes and mouth, jesus D:
I honestly think her design was based on Masky from MarbleHornets OG series.
You forgot to mention that Kate being found with the papers was most likely the aftermath of eight pages and that one of the Matheson family members (forgot her name, probably Kelly) was the one who summoned slenderman out of curiosity about old tales her parents told her, unleashing the entity that then haunted all of them, making her try and burn everyone alive to end it. But, it turned out, Charles Matheson had survived, so he made those graves, and Slenderman continued to stalk him and his family.
I love how the developers revisited the game just to add more lore
it is worth mentioning that whenever you break a window, the shattered glass will ALWAYS fall towards the direction ahead of the impact, but for some reason, the shattered glass in kate's room was dropped inside the room, which could mean that the breakthrough was from outside to inside (need to check if there is shattered glass on the backyard to confirm my statement)
I remember recreating the 8 Slender Pages, and coming up with a game for my next door neighbors and I to play, where one plays as Slender-Man, and the others have to track down the pages on a tree. It was a very broken game, and needless to say, the DLC and Update didn't come anytime soon.
Well, hopefully Slenderman is added to Monsters and Mortals and/or Dead By Daylight.
The Google I would love slender man and siren head in monsters and mortals
@@joejardine4489 Unlikely to happen in either game, unfortunately. Glowstick Entertainment don't have the reputation for most companies to allow their characters in M&M.
Slenderman would be too problematic legal-wise. If they put him in the game, I would say there is a 97% chance that they'll be entangled in a legal situation. As for Siren Head, he's too big.
@@stormichow5325 nah dbd is shit
Oh my gosh, *I fell asleep aaaaa*
How could someone have disliked at when this vid is only like, a few minutes posted-
Top of the notch narrative, Horror! Awesome vids as always.
Never seemed to bore me with those narratives of yours either- xd
Bud you messed it up it's xD or XD not xd
HEYITSME SPIKEY_45 That one could work as well, there are no rules when it comes to how you type things.
Hopefully, there will come a day when Slenderman's weakness is revealed.
Edit: Thanks for reading my comments. This is my most liked comment!
that is if he even has one
Kinda have... according to the story ( where he have a girl child ) if you take care of that girl very good when slender man isn’t with the girl, he might be nice to you since you are nice to his adopted (kidnapped) daughter.
BUT, HEY THAT’S JUST A THEORY
@@justlixian293 what "take care a girl very good"? What does that mean
his weakness is baby cats kittens
please believe me
William afton true name its alrx hester
Pretty good analysis. My one gripe is how you forgot to mention Slenderman being college room mates with Bakura from Yugioh. It adds a level of depth to his motivation.
Gotta admit that it was pretty awesome to actually listen to the full story of the game, I've seen playthroughs but never really got the story, it's a little sporadic after all.
Thanks for this vid, enjoyed it :)
I'm at the part where he's talking about the chaser for a bit I finally know now where Kate the chaser comes from
Homestead was honestly the most terrifying level I've played in a game
Ever
The cellar😟
@@djn5776 running through the field
@@flimzy1636 on god bro the music really scares me
Some of the best atmosphere I've experienced. I love a good abandoned farm with a church and graveyard on the same property.
Fun fact : slender man is not a creepy pasta, he's actually an old German legend so children don't stay up late
Stay up late or go into wooded areas alone because back then people had a fear of the woods and tried to warn children of the dangers (snakes, bears, poison etc) by making them fear the woods. Like telling a child something bad will happen or "the boogieman will get you" if they didnt follow rules or misbehaved.
Well kinda but no slender man was made in a photo shop contest but he resembles the old legend that like a creepy skinny knight that steals children
No, he's not. The German legend was made up AFTER Slender Man was created.
@Slenderman🎃 how do you keep following me around to every slender related video on youtube
@@WeirdLuigi he might be slenderman himsef but decided to lurk people on youtube instead of forest because covid
"It seems as though both Carl & Kate were attacked by Slenderman and his minions"
I never heard anything like that in my life...
I really like how dramatic he reads every letter in the game
I suppose I could stop looking at dogs as watermelons to watch this
I’m not gonna ask
Didn’t Henry burn you...
Gamesaurs 12 well yes but actually no
I’ve seen you a lot lately in random videos
Moriah elizabeth reference?
This is my favorite slender game, thank you so much for explaining its history, 11 y/o me would be grateful 'cause back in the day the game was really confusing for me
This video is such a throwback. I remember watching my friends play this game in high school, thank you for covering it.
Random person: Sirenhead is the new Slenderman!
Me: *No*
Idiots: siren head is slenderman
Juan carlos: allow me to fix that
I hate this kind of statement, this clearly proves that they're not true fans of creepypasta. Slenderman can't be replaced, sure Siren Head is creepy, but Slender is no°1
Slenderman will never be replaced
A giant siren tower cannot Naruto teleport
In my honesty, Slenderman is always the king for me, Siren Head is just a variation.
Also adding:
The glitchy stage, when following certain steps to a poster of Charlie just outside Kate's house, shows when CR goes to Kate's house and then burns himself alive
Plot twist: slender man is a spirit of a man that has been mudered in the forest he lurk's the forest just to find the man that murdered him
Scaryyyy
Not a bad theory.
🤔 maby but whyd he kill overs
You just explained part of his backstory but he forgot who murdered him
I think it would be really cool if you play as his murderer and Slenderman haunts you and then you are just so fed up with his guilt that you try to end Slenderman and in doing so it will kill you too. But hey that's just what I think.
When I saw all the notes of my initials I kind of Wonder like what does CR actually mean, then when I saw the full name I'm like that could literally be my actual name if I was a guy
coincidence?
Literally nbdc
I always thought CR mean Comfort room
We'll be careful in the woods then
woah
I think it's worth noting that the forest at 14:10 is the one from Slender: The eight pages, the first Slenderman game from parsec productions. a nice little cameo
He literally said that
@@maikbam2827 oh... My bad then lol
Dude, im so glad I found this channel recently. Been binge watching these videos and it's helped with my anxiety during a pretty difficult time. Thank you for this channel.
This game is so sad
Poor Lauren, Kate, and Charlie.
When I was younger and I saw Kate as a killer I thought “Jeff the killer?”
*ThEy'Re CAlLeD pRoXiEs yOU uNcuITurEd SwINe ReEEeEeEEEeEee !!!*
@Not_ Lancer man I'm doing the Mocking Spongebob meme. But fr Slender Ghosts is a nice name xD
She really does look like him as a proxy tho I truly thought it was him
I mean they do look similar
Until jeff turns his head at you
SuperHorrorBro, wow, your dramatic voice when reading makes even ME SCARED! WONDERFULL!
One thing to note.
SlenderDev actually wanted to make a third game in the Slenderman series, which would continue the story of The Arrival from the point we left off, but with a new protagonist. However, it seems like things didn't go too well between development teams and the original slenderman creator.
A true shame. This game is a gem, and i would've loved to see the continuation to this story. Really hoping this third game gets to see the light of day eventually.
Though, with SlenderDev seemingly vanishing from the internet, we can't be sure.
man i remember when these games came out during the golden age of youtube gaming 10 years ago. miss those days.
Man the late 2000s early 2010s creepypasta scene was crazy
i was too scared to watch the Slender the Arrival! I was hardly and barely watching the whole thing without getting jump scared from other spooky characters. My heart was pawning in fear and almost got myself a heart attach see a door closing by itself and when you turn around to see who what happened, Slenderman is right there in front of you! Even more frightening seen Slenderman's minions chasing you everywhere you go in the darkness. it makes you paralyse to go places abandoned all by yourself without having someone to support you in case if something happens to you!
i am so looking forward for more horror games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
Mike, you did an amazing job with this slender explanation, like telling us what all of the encounters and game play scenes meant. But if you maybe put these events in chronological order the overall "Story" would make a bit more sense. Don't get me wrong you did a great job on all of this, so keep up the good work.
i waited since the first slender video he posted to do a theory I am so excited
The reason why Lauren is helping Kate was because according to the PS4 store synopsis, Lauren is a realtor and was helping Kate find a buyer for the house.
From Slender the Arrival, I never understood how Slender made people go insane, maybe he's a bit more supernatural than just being able to teleport. He may be able to shift reality to his liking, along the way turn people into his little helpers who's main goal is to kill you and earn their freedom? But this is just an idea or a theory a game theory.
The proxy is what my grandma sees me when I just ate
Damn this game is so sad, imagine Lauren finding out that her best friend went insane and is turned into a proxy like Kate did
Thanks for this. I've been confused ever since I played it 10 years ago. Still one of the scariest games I've ever played
....the fact that Kate's mother died..... Makes it even more eerie that this was the last video game my mother played before she passed away this last Christmas....
bros boutta be kate! 🗣️
@@randomguy-kq4qy 😂😂😂😂
Am I the only one getting Marble Hornets vibes off this? Won't surprise me if the series inspired this game because the Marble Hornets vibes is strong in this one.
No your not the only one, I am getting big vibe of marble hornets when he say hallucinations, especially after rewatching it in quarantine
They did help with the game. So that's probably why.
Didnt the marble hornets crew do writing for this?
@@jirachisob5633
They did yeah. That's why it feels so familiar.
I really wish we got to now what happend to lauren, shes such an interesting charecter through out the game and her fate is somewhat unknown
Actually, scrubbing through the game files shows us that the model used for Lauren being dragged away in the ending is called (essentially) deadlauren or something like that. So it's heavily implied that Kate and Charlie killed her.
Such an underrated game, Horror games just don't do it the same these days
10:38 Bro I love this scream it gives you goodbumps and I played a game parody by this and Kate runs full sprint at the player it was epic.
Mike: Slenderman's the creepiest urban legend
Herobrine: AM I A JOKE TO U!
Yes, you are a a joke to me.
I remember being too scared to go mining just because of him
@@emtee7138 Slenderman wet his pants hearing his name
@@A_Random_Rat the ability to speak doesn't;t make you intelligent
@@SirToaster9330 Couldn’t agree more, so stop speaking.
Dang Cr tried burning himself and Kate, Alex from Marble Hornets tried killing every one what's next?
Slender man was a good horror game back then
It's insane that people used to think Charlie turned into Slenderman.
@@MrZ2112 You’re so right
I completed this game 3 years ago and was so scared and speedrunned the whole game and never understanded anything in the game thank you for this.
Slenderman is so creepy sometimes i had nightmares about him during my childhood, Good Video not im not afraid lol thanks for the vid!
9:15
SuperHorrorBro: **mentions the Signal Tower**
Me who has seen LN2: 👁👄👁
im 99% sure the comment is just full of
slenderman: stalk victim
siren head: haha i go WEE WOO WEE WOO
"oh cool a new video! I wonder what it's abou-"
*flashbacks*
Same, but oh boy, YOU AINT SEEN NOTHIN YET
*even more flashbacks*
One of the only things that still haunt me, glad to know the story of the game at least
Thanks for this video! This is one of my favorite horror games its easy to get lost in the plot details and miss some of notes scattered around the game.
I always thought slender the eight pages was a prequel to this game, we play as Kate or Carl going around collecting pages against slenderman
its the Genesis level, eight pages is happening while Lauren ( arrival protagonist ) arries there and comes, happening at the same time, when u open kate's room door and she screams u basically "finished" eight pages and got caught ( cuz u were supposed to )
@@madhunter6420 Oh right, that’s cool
Very nice video, I've played this game multiple times but didn't piece together the lore this well and this cleared some things up!! I recently noticed the car in the garage at Kate's house has an Alberta license plate, this was quite unsettling to notice... as I live in Alberta. Are there any other indications that this game might take place in my home province?
I wish they released a second game in which is revealed that Lauren survived, and you play with her as she finally stops everything, Maaan I would get emotional, because this game and slenderman himself means a lot to me, my childrenhood and all.
PD: Which makes me want to puke when people say that Siren Head is better, Like, no? Siren Head is a good character, but is not even a shadow of what slenderman is and means.
17:00 that audio is terrifying. The screams and sounds are so distorted, loud and creepy.
For Slenderman, I'm pretty sure there is something to to with the 2 families. I have 2 théories :
The first one is Slenderman was actually an old member of one of the 2 family. He was a very strict man and also hate the other family at a point that he defend his own member to not have any contacts with them. After his death, he came back to life as a living spirit and discover that his member actually reunite with the other family. Feeling betrayed and furious, he decided to trick them by manipulate the youngest members to use them as his own servant.
The second one is that Slenderman is a corrupted part of the family. He was the one who go work the most and he got so depressed by his non-stop working life that he beggings to have some mental disease. He beggings to rape the youngest member of his family each end of days. At the end, the family was so done with this horrific act that they decided to burn him. But he came comeback to life as Slenderman and decided to change every women or child as his own servant to remake his family.
Beautifully structured video
imagine slender man is just one of the scp's from scp-3008. and his story goes that he became conscious when he left and tried to have a normal life but when he sees a human he reverts back to his old ways. and thats why he goes after you and is night. that would be a fun story.
Honestly, that would ruin it for both of the fandoms.
@@Arsonire I agree with you dude. It would. Both Creepypasta fandom, and SCP fandom.