Slay the Princess - The Witch & The Thorn (My Favorite Paths Playthrough Part II)

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  • My other Slay the Princess videos: • Slay the Princess
    00:00 The Hero and the Princess
    09:44 The Witch
    26:04 The Thorn
    45:29 The Shifting Mound
    (Voice of the Opportunist, Voice of the Smitten + A Thorny Vessel)
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  • @General..Grievous
    @General..Grievous 6 місяців тому +1415

    Narrator whines about the kissing scene, yet writes absolute fire

    • @rayronnyd4659
      @rayronnyd4659 6 місяців тому +255

      He's aware of his skills

    • @Rusty_Spy
      @Rusty_Spy 6 місяців тому +271

      Narrator: 🔥🔥🔥🖋😠

    • @PowerSkiff12
      @PowerSkiff12 6 місяців тому +91

      Anger is power

    • @rashanmcrae9166
      @rashanmcrae9166 6 місяців тому

      Good he's a duchebag anyway

    • @CB-eo6xo
      @CB-eo6xo 5 місяців тому +68

      Just because he hates what he sees happening and isn't going his way does not stop him sticking to his role and describing what's happening in poetic detail (UNLESS it's far too much for him to handle).

  • @ChristophelusPulps
    @ChristophelusPulps 7 місяців тому +1489

    The Voice of the Smitten is clearly the most powerful voice, able to exert significant influence over the physical world and overpower the Narrator.

    • @BalrogQuote
      @BalrogQuote 7 місяців тому +332

      Given how it all seems connected to perception, it makes sense for the one who doesn't think and is somewhat delusional to hold a lot of sway.

    • @itsyaboi2.015
      @itsyaboi2.015 7 місяців тому +195

      The voice of the cheated can also do that, and I think the contrarian too

    • @KeiosKod
      @KeiosKod 7 місяців тому +151

      The Broken as well has a lot of sway when he’s submitting to the Tower.

    • @Nuclearburrit0
      @Nuclearburrit0 7 місяців тому +106

      The Stubborn is a close second I think

    • @MrBones947
      @MrBones947 7 місяців тому +80

      @@Nuclearburrit0 bro just revives

  • @thomasway0320
    @thomasway0320 6 місяців тому +739

    The thorn path actually made every single choice feels worth it, they were all happy, except for the narrator.

    • @manuelacuna4188
      @manuelacuna4188 6 місяців тому

      But who cares about the narrator? F*+# that guy

    • @saviorbob
      @saviorbob 5 місяців тому +40

      Good.

    • @GengUpinIpin
      @GengUpinIpin 4 місяці тому +39

      And not TOO lovey dovey like the damsel

    • @Deflamed_Sphere
      @Deflamed_Sphere 4 місяці тому +5

      @@GengUpinIpinmhm

    • @CodeNameX001
      @CodeNameX001 4 місяці тому +32

      It's still a painful path. One with trauma, fear, sadness and regret. But it's probably the only path that truly feels like a chance to move forward.

  • @barrylyndon5552
    @barrylyndon5552 5 місяців тому +288

    The Thorn was the path I felt where the two of you became the closest (in a mortal sense, the Wild clearly in a literal sense). Unlike the Damsel, you show each other much more genuine and flawed states but still reconcile, which was very sweet.

    • @appallingace6449
      @appallingace6449 3 місяці тому +4

      the Wild?

    • @barrylyndon5552
      @barrylyndon5552 3 місяці тому

      Well I will try not to spoil anything, but if you and here get very... connected in a literal sense, the 3rd awakening is quite a mind trip and very lore important@@appallingace6449

    • @one-wingedangel5107
      @one-wingedangel5107 3 місяці тому +22

      ​@@appallingace6449The Wild is the route when you die in very close proximity with the princess, either the cabin squishes you together or you unalive yourself while being digested by her. You're a path in the woods with her, either trying to get out or seek freedom within that makes the narrator go mad.

    • @funguy3259
      @funguy3259 3 місяці тому +7

      The Damsel never felt like love, it feltm ore like it was fake, faker than the Nightmare's mask even

    • @barrylyndon5552
      @barrylyndon5552 3 місяці тому

      Agreed, it was nicer at the very end where she seems genuinely happy she is free, but her "feelings" for the player just feel like the Smittens feelings reflected back at him, just acting like a parody of herself because that's how he's seeing her@@funguy3259

  • @WOLF36554
    @WOLF36554 6 місяців тому +382

    I thought this was a horror game. Not a romantic visual novel so touching I cried like a toddler whose mother died.

    • @SusanooMain
      @SusanooMain 4 місяці тому +21

      but the game tells you it's a love story

    • @WOLF36554
      @WOLF36554 4 місяці тому +28

      @SusanooMain I bought it on a whim during the Steam sales. I had never heard of Slay the Princess. I just saw the trailer and thought: Oh cool, the Stanley Parable but with more gore and a fairytale theme. My God, was I wrong. The Stanley Parable is horror game disguised as a comedy. Slay the Princess is romance disguised as horror.

    • @toastergaming7783
      @toastergaming7783 3 місяці тому +14

      Slay the Process is both a horror AND a romantic visual novel
      Edit: Slay the Process??? Wtf autocorrect

    • @goldilock2069
      @goldilock2069 28 днів тому +1

      I mean, the narrator clearly is horrorised by the developments on that route, so ... technically still horror?

  • @ehmolekkkkk
    @ehmolekkkkk 5 місяців тому +501

    Narrator: *writes a 2 pages essay describing how amazing the kiss between the player and the princess was
    Princess:"that was nice"

    • @doloresgronenberg5882
      @doloresgronenberg5882 4 місяці тому +50

      Honestly, when you kiss someone that you love you don't usually say too much afterwards, there's nothing left to say in words, when feelings are overwhelming in any way it's difficult to put them into words, more so love, and actions speak and say a lot in love

    • @lexcentrique2554
      @lexcentrique2554 4 місяці тому +19

      He's aware of his skills.

    • @funguy3259
      @funguy3259 3 місяці тому +7

      *Angrily describes the kiss*

  • @PajamaPantsStudios
    @PajamaPantsStudios 7 місяців тому +572

    The smitten is so silly. We all love this guy!

    • @gach-
      @gach- 4 місяці тому +7

      Hell yeah

    • @shayziekaizie
      @shayziekaizie 2 місяці тому +12

      The Smitten comes off like a himbo, and I’m all for it.

  • @TheNorthlander
    @TheNorthlander 7 місяців тому +330

    "It's hard to let it go, you hurt me. And I've also hurt you..." 💔

    • @315katty
      @315katty 7 місяців тому +36

      I mean she ate him, stabbed him, drowned him, beat him to death list goes on. I think she hurt him more than he hurt her.

    • @letsreadtextbook1687
      @letsreadtextbook1687 6 місяців тому +46

      ​@@315kattyshe didn't drown/ate/beat him on this route.

    • @skyeschlueter9877
      @skyeschlueter9877 6 місяців тому +49

      ​@@315kattyeh, he stabbed her, stabbed her, stabbed her, and stabbed her. I think the violence is about equal; he just lacks creativity.

    • @zanochureal7588
      @zanochureal7588 5 місяців тому +21

      ​@@skyeschlueter9877to be fair, i wouldn't expect creativity from someone called "Long Quiet"

    • @antod1602
      @antod1602 5 місяців тому +14

      @@315katty she only ever does so as a response of what you do. it's a big theme of the game (the mirror). To be eaten (beast route) you have to stab her first. To be drowned you have to kill her. To get beaten to death you also have to stab her. It's always a reponse of what you've done. She never kills you first.

  • @nathaly7262
    @nathaly7262 7 місяців тому +698

    40:26 - 42:43 I rejoice in the Narrator's agony and disgust with the whole situation, I didn't know the Thorn Route could be even more beautiful than it already is and even be funny.
    The Witch and The Thorn are my favourite routes too!

    • @drekbleh7081
      @drekbleh7081 7 місяців тому +123

      If only the contrarian was here, he'd have a blast of the narrator's frustration

    • @sureindubitably3771
      @sureindubitably3771 7 місяців тому +61

      Smitten was relishing this moment istg 😂😂

    • @Morty143
      @Morty143 7 місяців тому +11

      Same

    • @rashanmcrae9166
      @rashanmcrae9166 6 місяців тому

      Agreed he's a duchebag anyway

    • @GengUpinIpin
      @GengUpinIpin 4 місяці тому +10

      Ikr! The only nitpick i have is that you can fuck up and not be able to get a chance to kiss her for The Thorn...if you would get The Cheated instead of The Sim- i mean Smitten

  • @Rhino-Prime
    @Rhino-Prime 7 місяців тому +415

    Ah yes the paradoxical rizz path

  • @sureindubitably3771
    @sureindubitably3771 7 місяців тому +519

    Love that you have the option to get the blade and leave because they just wanted it 😂
    dude just said "nah, just came back for this really"

    • @Gameorama91
      @Gameorama91 7 місяців тому +26

      I'm gonna have to play to that selection, I wanna see what happens lol

    • @sureindubitably3771
      @sureindubitably3771 7 місяців тому +8

      @@Gameorama91 please post it, I wanna see as well

    • @great_channel
      @great_channel 7 місяців тому +8

      @@Gameorama91 Soo what happened?

    • @justexploring2979
      @justexploring2979 6 місяців тому +4

      @@Gameorama91update?

    • @alicekurtina4788
      @alicekurtina4788 6 місяців тому +4

      ​@@Gameorama91Bruh, we need to know

  • @stghost825
    @stghost825 6 місяців тому +165

    The best combo ever created is the smitten and the opportunist

    • @dlbook6018
      @dlbook6018 3 місяці тому +21

      If only we could have the Contrarian during the kissing scene, he would be laughing his ass off

  • @TopOfAllWorlds
    @TopOfAllWorlds 7 місяців тому +229

    I love that the shifting mound is hugging her at the end. Eternal hugs😊

    • @windchimes8764
      @windchimes8764 13 днів тому +2

      I think it's interesting how the Mound is usually very expressive when it comes to "posing" the vessels, but not here. As you've mentioned, this looks like an eternal hug, perhaps to represent her pain and need for comfort, or maybe to pull her back, as this is the cautious heart.

  • @chitheidiot8299
    @chitheidiot8299 5 місяців тому +131

    One of the things I find most interesting about this scene is the Narrator's description of the kiss. Hero is certain he is making fun of them (an he might be, to some degree), but I agree more with the Opportunist: the Narrator likes romance. The description is actually very romantic, and it feels serious to a degree. And so, my theory is that he loves it, because it is a part of life. And he loves life. He loves existence, he loves being, he loves the world. But he fears the very thing that he loves coming to an end, which is why he tasks us to slay the princess (even if it comes at the expense of the very thing he adores so much dissapearing and lacking any meaning after it).

  • @sebastienbusque2312
    @sebastienbusque2312 7 місяців тому +337

    One of the best routes you can get. It's honestly amazing how detailed the different routes are in this game.

  • @hangeishot7919
    @hangeishot7919 7 місяців тому +203

    I doom the world to oblivion.
    If it means I can be with you.

    • @MarigoldWisp
      @MarigoldWisp 5 місяців тому +11

      MANLYBADASSHERO REFERENCE ‼️‼️‼️

    • @hangeishot7919
      @hangeishot7919 5 місяців тому +18

      I thought I came up with this.

  • @katylepetsos7512
    @katylepetsos7512 6 місяців тому +84

    Smitten is the best one, he’s funny and lovestruck and it’s freaking adorable.

  • @ABSolution2468
    @ABSolution2468 5 місяців тому +34

    If we can get a bonus picture of The Adversary putting you in a chokehold, i'm sure we can nudge the dev into giving us playing with the Witch using a cat toy

  • @takeruneverborn4740
    @takeruneverborn4740 6 місяців тому +135

    42:38 best part she seems so relaxed and filled with a sense of reignited hope that was lost 2 timelines ago The Thorn is my favorite 3 route tied with the Eye of The Needle(Adversary Evolution) and beating the Den(Beast's Evolution)

  • @bisongaming729
    @bisongaming729 7 місяців тому +184

    I heard legends of the alternate version of thorns with the smitten and the kiss, and it didn't disappoint it was very funny. But i have to say i feel like it held a lot more emotion with the cheated

    • @Scarifar1
      @Scarifar1 6 місяців тому +19

      How did you get the Cheated in the Thorn route? I didn't even know that was possible.

    • @bisongaming729
      @bisongaming729 6 місяців тому +68

      @@Scarifar1 you pick up the Cheated like going taking the Witch route giving you the opprrtunist, then take the blade with you downstairs, and offer it to her as a peace offering. She doesn't believe you and betrays, stabbing you in the back. This results in her final moments before chapter 3 being horrified and guilty at what she did when she realizes you truly tried to make ammends and she killed you for it. It also is what gives you the cheated
      Then thorns plays out as normal, but with the cheated instead of the smitten. There's no option kiss after you cut the lines, but it strikes me as the more meaningful version of thorns. It's presented as more meaningful than despite the hurt you both feel at each other you're just barely willing to put enough trust in each other to make ammends. It's honestly my favorite chapter in the game

    • @Scarifar1
      @Scarifar1 6 місяців тому +17

      @@bisongaming729 Hmm... maybe it's because I took the time to talk to her first before giving Witch the knife.

    • @venlocity2
      @venlocity2 5 місяців тому +15

      ​@@Scarifar1it depends, there are two dialogue options that give you smitten before witch kills you, and the others lead to the cheated

    • @Scarifar1
      @Scarifar1 5 місяців тому +1

      @@venlocity2 Yeah, I learned that myself a little while ago on my next playthroughs of this game.

  • @motivateddad
    @motivateddad 7 місяців тому +61

    The constant screenshots are the one that gets me.

  • @Markis2bi4
    @Markis2bi4 6 місяців тому +60

    I cheered as loud as an enthusiastic soccer fan when my team scores the winning goal for this scene.

  • @humandt6572
    @humandt6572 7 місяців тому +108

    She's so cute we should avoid using force.

  • @samtheballoon1522
    @samtheballoon1522 5 місяців тому +32

    I’m actually in tears. I was forced to hurt you and you were forced to be hurt. The cycle constrains us to this tango and it infuriates us both. Perhaps we both are the ones in need of saving.

  • @Mossenstein
    @Mossenstein 6 місяців тому +44

    SMITTEN MY BOY !!!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

  • @barrylyndon5552
    @barrylyndon5552 5 місяців тому +24

    Its actually hard to argue with the Mound at the end. All the strife and struggle and change really did bring the 2 of you closer, it wouldnt have been the same if things were more static. She says that the perfect world needs the same to die so that the new can exist and the game seems to prove it, the creators world vision where the Long Quiets neverending dawn lasts forever just doesnt seem as inviting as the Mounds chaos and growth

    • @doloresgronenberg5882
      @doloresgronenberg5882 4 місяці тому

      The game doesn't prove it, it's only the princess who is like that all the time which is the one that we have to encounter and face all the time throughout the entirery of the game because it is what she is, that's not the case of the Long Quiet or even other beings, and she is also now a goddess, not only a concept or part of a cycle which simply are and don't have a mind of their own, so she would have a duty to the world and its creatures, its people, a duty to nurture it and spread wisdom and comfort and hope to her people, since she is now a rational entity, a goddess, so she wouldn't have an excuse, which she doesn't seem that she would do that, and the Narrator said in a question where he was asked about how was the absence of any change not similar to death or even worse that because he knows that he made the cut rough when he separated and created the Shifting Mound and the Long Quiet, so the Shifting Mound has a part of the Long Quiet and the Long Quiet has a part of the Shifting Mound, so things would still work out and there would still be some kind of change when the Shifting Mound were destroyed, it's funny and ironic (and hypocrite too) that she says what she says and that she's so obssesed and adamant with constant change no matter the kind when she is so set and adamant in her being the only one to not change herself at all, in the end she only thinks and wants to be right no matter what and do whatever she wants, no matter what anyone including the Long Quiet who is like her and her equal want or say and she simply disregards others perspectives and feelings including the Long Quiet's ones, besides no, chaos isn't an attractive notion anywhere and doesn't help nor balances things in the slightest, the thing that does that is order, chaos disbalances things and creates endless and unnecesary suffering, evil, and it isn't nor promotes "growth", those are two different and separate things, in chaos belong things like killing and rape (among many other questionable, immoral and harmful things), which aren't good things at all and are terrible, who says the opposite and isn't able to understand that and what's wrong with it is lacking empathy and a sense for what's right, I disagree a lot with many of the things that the Shifting Mound says and that aren't right, but there are certain things in which I agree with her or at least somewhat agree with her, I even felt myself identified with ceratin things at certain points, and I did love that "battle" and how it was done, however I can't say them here because this would be too long and I don't remember the exact words

  • @MagnaFae
    @MagnaFae 7 місяців тому +75

    This is my favorite route too :)

  • @gach-
    @gach- 4 місяці тому +7

    Im gonna be honest, the voice of smitten is my absolutely one of my favorites in this game

  • @carlosignacio6735
    @carlosignacio6735 6 місяців тому +34

    Long live the fucking smitten (I don't even have the game)
    NVM bought it yesterday

  • @PowerSkiff12
    @PowerSkiff12 6 місяців тому +20

    smitten best man

  • @funguy3259
    @funguy3259 3 місяці тому +2

    This path probably has the most to it, the Opportunist and Smitten are the perfect voices for it, one constantly shifting decisions, which can cause annoyance in others, the other always sure of his love, it's a thing that cannot be changed, that is what i'd call true love

  • @ropeburngaming3380
    @ropeburngaming3380 3 місяці тому +5

    One of the most horrible things is when you betray her again in the Thorn route, it's so slimy and gut wrenching that even the Narrator breaks and refuses to continue

  • @S1EEPLES5
    @S1EEPLES5 Місяць тому +1

    I had to eat my words playing this game. First I thought it was just another one of "those" games where it's a horror game masked as silly romance but this hit different it's almost like an actual love story masked as a horror game. This had to be my favorite route because how good it was

  • @thisisgarbage9892
    @thisisgarbage9892 3 місяці тому +4

    25:17 photographers defending themselves in this situation be like

  • @elstarnor4628
    @elstarnor4628 7 місяців тому +41

    I find it interesting that the questions you ask at the beginning shape how the world is (if I’m looking at this correctly)

    • @Sewblon
      @Sewblon 5 місяців тому +3

      Not really. The only option with "explore" tagged on it that matters is the decision to take the blade. Arguing with the narrator doesn't do anything.

    • @elstarnor4628
      @elstarnor4628 5 місяців тому +2

      @@Sewblon yeah, I kind of figured that out after a bit

  • @jayrenteria605
    @jayrenteria605 5 місяців тому +10

    Personally I my favorite part about this game was doing Whatever it took to Piss Off the narrator.🤣

  • @stoheha
    @stoheha 5 місяців тому +6

    This path is what truly sold me on this game. I was lucky to make the choices to happen upon it and was pretty disappointed with my options to speak after really knowing her situation. Not saying the game lacked options, but it makes you want even more.

  • @Deflamed_Sphere
    @Deflamed_Sphere 7 місяців тому +24

    yeah its also my favorite route too

  • @lowkey_gamer4298
    @lowkey_gamer4298 4 місяці тому +5

    Goddamnit, really was hoping you can trigger Smitten in EVERY route lmao! Like in the Prisoner's paths (Tower and etc.) because you just either end up chained with her or her being only a head lmao...

  • @hamstrbaxtr
    @hamstrbaxtr 5 місяців тому +10

    I didn't get to kiss her on my first run because I had the Cheated with me. Thorn was my fourth princess, and lemme tell you, I was *conflicted* the whole time. Very different experience.
    edit: It wasn't as overt as this, but it definitely was still romance when we walked out together hand in hand. 🥺

  • @crasnicul3371
    @crasnicul3371 7 місяців тому +29

    KINOOOOOO KINO KINO KINO

  • @SkulloMad
    @SkulloMad 7 місяців тому +12

    Feels good man

  • @PatentSleet
    @PatentSleet 5 місяців тому +4

    This path is the most sad one for me idk why

  • @neofulcrum5013
    @neofulcrum5013 6 місяців тому +8

    It is a pretty nice run.

  • @nevinmyers1245
    @nevinmyers1245 5 місяців тому +11

    the screenshot at 41:26 lol

    • @Hetsu..
      @Hetsu.. 5 місяців тому +1

      omg lmao

  • @vytrixstudios2184
    @vytrixstudios2184 5 місяців тому +2

    Thorns is my favorite Princess.

  • @garfieldeslazzannya6364
    @garfieldeslazzannya6364 5 місяців тому +3

    The schreenshot sound💀

  • @Norinia
    @Norinia 5 місяців тому +11

    25:19 Perfection needs to be saved to the camera roll, right? 😉

    • @driveknight026
      @driveknight026 5 місяців тому +5

      41:27, saving something for later? 😏

  • @mokadelic4037
    @mokadelic4037 5 місяців тому +6

    The thorn is waifu material

  • @thedarkpotatoes
    @thedarkpotatoes 2 місяці тому +1

    I’m so mad why couldn’t the shifting mound just let them be in love

  • @madam-mint
    @madam-mint Місяць тому +1

    Listen I know The Smitten is a total disaster. But I LOVE him. Cuz ya know what? I DON’T wanna slay her, frick you Narrator!

  • @kackers
    @kackers 2 місяці тому +1

    SMITTEN SWEEP WOOOOOO 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @abelrieker6407
    @abelrieker6407 6 місяців тому +9

    on minute 8:00 there is a option the says, warn her. Is there any way you can choose that option?
    maybe anything you could have done diferent to choose that option?

    • @cavlanmavlan
      @cavlanmavlan  6 місяців тому +13

      The reason its greyed out is because I've already chosen and played that route previously on part 1 of my playthrough: ua-cam.com/video/ZTkwtoypLJs/v-deo.htmlsi=W38XUHwnRLvukP73&t=717

    • @abelrieker6407
      @abelrieker6407 6 місяців тому +2

      @@cavlanmavlan ohhh thanks xd didn't realized (kinda new to the game)

    • @cavlanmavlan
      @cavlanmavlan  6 місяців тому +3

      @@abelrieker6407 no worries!

    • @GabyEzePereira
      @GabyEzePereira 6 місяців тому

      @@abelrieker6407 IIRC, you'll find yourself in similar situations: all options being the same except one. Once you pick that one, you can't choose it again.

    • @GabyEzePereira
      @GabyEzePereira 6 місяців тому +1

      @@abelrieker6407 46:51 MC notices this. They give us a very interesting explanation.

  • @jackl7566
    @jackl7566 5 місяців тому +1

    meta slay the princess combo?

  • @akulazolota3733
    @akulazolota3733 Місяць тому +1

    40:26 LUL

  • @mauriciocabral6612
    @mauriciocabral6612 5 місяців тому +3

    >:3

  • @kuuroba
    @kuuroba 7 місяців тому +5

    sa turk var mi

  • @Plerp222
    @Plerp222 3 місяці тому +2

    The voice of the smitten and the voice of the paranoid are my two favorite voices fr, is there a path that’s got both? LOL