İf you told me one day I would be playing a game where after struggling against madness and loss, being a toy to Lovecraftian Outer Gods and dealing with Twisted versions of fairy tales, important figures, and Urban legends, and going insane over an Eldritch horror that has gone too deep into it's Alice Liddel Larp. I would go on to fight the nightmare mockery of Wonderland made manifest with Furry Florence Nightingale, Thomas Carnacki Who decided to multi-class into Paladin and Detective, and Gerda from Snow Queen I would have never believed you. But now All I can say is Pure, Absolute Peak Fiction.
I think it's really interesting that you can see some Buddhist influences in this style of work. The constant craving for an object of desire (in this case Alice) that leads the protagonist to experience cycle after cycle after cycle of suffering. It's only after sufficient knowledge is gained that the problem can be cut at the root. This last sequence of fights against the Crawling One, Jubjub, Jabberwock, and Bandersnatch is reminiscent of the last temptation of the Buddha by Mara and his three daughters under the Bodhi tree. Grimm failed to let go of Alice and escape after fighting the Crawling One so he did the next best thing. If you can't beat the Jailer you have to break the Jail itself. In this metaphor the Grand Guignol would represent the six realms of Desire themselves. The nature of the Crawling One is the nature of Dukkha, an endless craving without true fulfillment. At most a temporary one. "Love, when obtained, loses nearly all of its value". Because to her the meaning of love is the yearning that comes with it. A form of longing and attachment. It is only after letting go of Alice and surpassing the Jail that we can be free. It's just too bad that unlike the doctrines of Buddhism this is not a story of hope though. What awaited at the end of this particular journey was not enlightenment but even more heartbreak. But still, I don't believe this was just coincidence.
"Vile spirit, begone!" "Do not fear... Carry the flame of hope and advance." "Please don't lose mister Crow! I'm sure we're almost there!" All I need as the final push to smash apart the mechanical god of this nightmare.
I remember trying to fight it the first time around without help (Because they're all dead). Ended up getting stun locked into rage quitting. So imagine my surprise at how easy the fight is with just one helper at your side. Kinda make me wish Melinda and Heinz were around to help with that one Lindameia fight. Edit: that's my nickname for Miranda's newest lease on life... or unlife for those who know what she is.
"If you want allies, starting over is an option." Dr. Dog(not the band), Alice winter ver., and homie Carnacki fight a mechanical god. I see this moment as a subtext of development for Grimm. Ever since the first game he's been more or less all alone, he's lost a lot of people he grew close to. But that is no reason to carry such a burden all alone, no one can and should not be all alone.
When I defeated Grand Guignol. I stopped playing. The story ended right there. When the story ended, my vicious cycle of torment finally ended with only the feeling of longing, and regrets, and those culminated into suffering. It was to remind me of what I have become after those endless unwinnable wars in my mind. Being obsessed with Alice was my longing for those memories that I could no longer come back to, and the dreadful anxieties and traumas I had to endure. Now I have to move on because she definitely wouldn't want me to linger on our past memories that will no longer come back again.
My heart left my body when I slew Grand Guignol. Because I knew the journey in Wonderland was truly over now. There will never be another first time playing Black Souls 2, and that will forever torment me.
I think one of the reasons Grimm had such a hard time letting go is that deep inside, he thought he deserved the hell that Wonderland was. Offering your soul instead of fighting represents the final submission to this; Grimm giving up after being unable to escape even after learning the truth and falling into despair completely.
It had to be done... in order to understand the truth behind Mary Sue's world, he had no other choise but to close his eyes and push foward. Grimm's suffering must be trully unberable ngl.
@@gametime8300 probably one of the most fundamentally broken protagonists I have seen. From the make up its multiple souls fused as one, with even a pedo included. Then his soul was tainted so black from all the fucked up acts he did out of desperation, even if his memory was lost every cycle. Escaped from one garden only to be trapped another, and only gained freedom at the cost of losing everything dear to him in the end.
And it gets worse when you find out that all the endings on BS1 are cannon since the world got reseted after every ending, meaning Grimm probably went through all the companions bad endings + Mary Sue's one (the most traumatic imo) god knows how many times. Bro has its mind broken with reason on BS2.
This game truly is amazing, and I mean it, a compelling story, fascinating lore, and a lot of depression, the wait for DRH and Black Souls 3 is honestly killing me, but you gotta endure for peak cinema.
When I fought the crawling one I thought how can one beat the genius and kino of fighting the amalgation of your lust abd loved one turned into a grotesque monster that both encapsulates the sexiness of an H game with eldritch body horror Then we fought a collage of real life sketches of the original wonderland and symbolizing the irl lewis caroll's nightmare. kino. absolute gem mine.
@@smoqueed44 well, dark souls didn't really have much of a plot in the first place. it was all item descriptions and environmental storytelling. I don't really get the comparisons between dark souls and black souls beyond the surface level references, because they're entirely different in every way that actually matters
Я оставлю свой след здесь. Сегодня я сразил тебя,Театр Тьмы! Сегодня я покинул эту ужасную клетку.Но почему-то я не испытываю ничего,кроме пустоты внутри... Мы вновь не смогли никого спасти... Мы не спасли Алису...
@@johoreanperson8396 Better than reality where no one is there for you. At this point, I also don't care if it is real or fake. To me, this game holds a special place in my soul.
The most gut punching-ly ironic about this is that in the epilogue where Grimm lives in real world the first thing we see is that RRH dies when she turned 20 Screw you, Leaf. Like, seriously, screw you, flying green tomato
Its been 4 days since I Killed GG... And i still cant shake this feeling of loneliness... Did i beat the game or the game beat me? i want to go back without memories and be part of this rollercoaster of emotions again and again. True Kino.
Red Dead Hood will just be them making a torture game for fun, but BSIII will be the true kino and I'm sure EMMM will be able to make a much better game than what BSII was.
When i heard this epic music, i wanted to hold the sword once more, stand up to fight nightmare, smash the madness garden to piece..... Waiting 2 series and the journey of grimm in blacksoul 3.
@@lazuardialdi2646 it is the first blade you get, broken sword, iirc that name, skill give you a crit up and dmg, but lose hp, and the more hp lost, the more dmg can be. the only farvorite weapons I use from beginning to the end of little madness garden, combine with han machine gun and absolute hit, it is the beast.
Final phase of the final boss of the final DLC. Should def play through it if you haven't yet, it contains some juicy lore and what's likely the true ending of BS2.
"I guess I want something more than just to live... I want to be myself." "And I am the only one who can keep that will, am I not?" "Not at all... What a silly story. Those who called it "Your Shield" realized that." "...this body is about to shatter, but even so..." "If the last thing left of me is the ego, I won't give up-" "...I will struggle to protect my will until the end." "Are you ready?" *Shield of the EGO intensifies* >Schwarzschild >Enduring 7 >Staggered, *Scharfrichter*
Ahh now I feel silly I'm even aware of that reception and it's use of this music just haven't done it/ sorry for wasting your time have a good day.@@idontgetjokes216
@@Destruction42k-yg4ws You didn't waste anyone's time, it's fine. I recommend it if you can do it since it's a fun mod in my opinion although a bit hard if you use non-OP pages. You have a good day as well.
pure white prison was the easiest for me, although thats because before the stage changed i spammed a lot of attacks from hans machine gun and killed it in one turn
Thank you Carnacki
Thank you Florence
Thank you Gerda
I'll never forget you three
So sad i only had Goatnacki
İf you told me one day I would be playing a game where after struggling against madness and loss, being a toy to Lovecraftian Outer Gods and dealing with Twisted versions of fairy tales, important figures, and Urban legends, and going insane over an Eldritch horror that has gone too deep into it's Alice Liddel Larp. I would go on to fight the nightmare mockery of Wonderland made manifest with Furry Florence Nightingale, Thomas Carnacki Who decided to multi-class into Paladin and Detective, and Gerda from Snow Queen I would have never believed you.
But now All I can say is Pure, Absolute Peak Fiction.
I think it's really interesting that you can see some Buddhist influences in this style of work. The constant craving for an object of desire (in this case Alice) that leads the protagonist to experience cycle after cycle after cycle of suffering. It's only after sufficient knowledge is gained that the problem can be cut at the root. This last sequence of fights against the Crawling One, Jubjub, Jabberwock, and Bandersnatch is reminiscent of the last temptation of the Buddha by Mara and his three daughters under the Bodhi tree.
Grimm failed to let go of Alice and escape after fighting the Crawling One so he did the next best thing. If you can't beat the Jailer you have to break the Jail itself. In this metaphor the Grand Guignol would represent the six realms of Desire themselves.
The nature of the Crawling One is the nature of Dukkha, an endless craving without true fulfillment. At most a temporary one. "Love, when obtained, loses nearly all of its value". Because to her the meaning of love is the yearning that comes with it. A form of longing and attachment. It is only after letting go of Alice and surpassing the Jail that we can be free.
It's just too bad that unlike the doctrines of Buddhism this is not a story of hope though. What awaited at the end of this particular journey was not enlightenment but even more heartbreak. But still, I don't believe this was just coincidence.
Your explanation hits hard :o
I kneel
kino
kinomaxxing
Grand Guignol's 8 phases also reminded me of the Eightfold Path.
"Vile spirit, begone!"
"Do not fear... Carry the flame of hope and advance."
"Please don't lose mister Crow! I'm sure we're almost there!"
All I need as the final push to smash apart the mechanical god of this nightmare.
That trio that stood with you at the end I'll never forget
Grimm: "Hear me, Abomination! I am Grimm! You have no part to play in my story... BEGONE!
That was such an epic moment during the last phase. Carnacki, Gerda and Florence, were such a help in that fight, also in spirit in that last push.
I remember trying to fight it the first time around without help (Because they're all dead). Ended up getting stun locked into rage quitting.
So imagine my surprise at how easy the fight is with just one helper at your side. Kinda make me wish Melinda and Heinz were around to help with that one Lindameia fight.
Edit: that's my nickname for Miranda's newest lease on life... or unlife for those who know what she is.
kino
"If you want allies, starting over is an option."
Dr. Dog(not the band), Alice winter ver., and homie Carnacki fight a mechanical god.
I see this moment as a subtext of development for Grimm. Ever since the first game he's been more or less all alone, he's lost a lot of people he grew close to. But that is no reason to carry such a burden all alone, no one can and should not be all alone.
I feel the gears turning
They’re screaming at this point with how Grimm is handling things
One of the greatest final bosses ever
When I defeated Grand Guignol. I stopped playing. The story ended right there. When the story ended, my vicious cycle of torment finally ended with only the feeling of longing, and regrets, and those culminated into suffering. It was to remind me of what I have become after those endless unwinnable wars in my mind. Being obsessed with Alice was my longing for those memories that I could no longer come back to, and the dreadful anxieties and traumas I had to endure. Now I have to move on because she definitely wouldn't want me to linger on our past memories that will no longer come back again.
TILL BLACKSOULS 3 ARRIVES PAL
SUFFERING WILL NEVER END. COME BACK TO BLACK SOULS 3! HAHAHAHA
My heart left my body when I slew Grand Guignol.
Because I knew the journey in Wonderland was truly over now.
There will never be another first time playing Black Souls 2, and that will forever torment me.
I will always remember this game…
This game helped me to get back in life. It made me realized something important.
I think one of the reasons Grimm had such a hard time letting go is that deep inside, he thought he deserved the hell that Wonderland was. Offering your soul instead of fighting represents the final submission to this; Grimm giving up after being unable to escape even after learning the truth and falling into despair completely.
After killing his friends in Black souls 1 to get ending C (as seen in the Terrible Tragic Hotel Scene), I don't blame him.
It had to be done... in order to understand the truth behind Mary Sue's world, he had no other choise but to close his eyes and push foward.
Grimm's suffering must be trully unberable ngl.
@@gametime8300 probably one of the most fundamentally broken protagonists I have seen. From the make up its multiple souls fused as one, with even a pedo included. Then his soul was tainted so black from all the fucked up acts he did out of desperation, even if his memory was lost every cycle. Escaped from one garden only to be trapped another, and only gained freedom at the cost of losing everything dear to him in the end.
And it gets worse when you find out that all the endings on BS1 are cannon since the world got reseted after every ending, meaning Grimm probably went through all the companions bad endings + Mary Sue's one (the most traumatic imo) god knows how many times.
Bro has its mind broken with reason on BS2.
The gears are turning.
My friends are beside me.
The mechanical monster stands before me.
I'm escaping this horrid Wonderland.
Are those the lyrics?
@@user-mi4yd6do1u I don't think so, but it does fit the beat of the music very well and the story of Black Souls
@user-mi4yd6do1u nah it was just me trying to capture this final battle
I searched and searched for my little girl, Alice, but the one I find isn't her.
It's a horrid creature wearing her face and flesh like a mask.
@@Ashireiko_Tatsumi IS THAT MEURSAULT LIMBUS COMPANY?????
Slamming the book closed forever be like:
I cannot hear the music over God's Angels fully sharpened and slaughtering it
This game truly is amazing, and I mean it, a compelling story, fascinating lore, and a lot of depression, the wait for DRH and Black Souls 3 is honestly killing me, but you gotta endure for peak cinema.
An incredible soundtrack for an incredible bossfight for an incredible game.
"Where the story ends."
When I fought the crawling one I thought how can one beat the genius and kino of fighting the amalgation of your lust abd loved one turned into a grotesque monster that both encapsulates the sexiness of an H game with eldritch body horror
Then we fought a collage of real life sketches of the original wonderland and symbolizing the irl lewis caroll's nightmare.
kino. absolute gem mine.
If it had Lewis Caroll's sketch of Alice Liddell from his original manuscript it could be perfect
This is why I liked Black Souls, they have a great soundtrack and a great story
Crazy how all of it is royalty free music
Black souls has a better soundtrack and plot than all souls games tbh.
@@smoqueed44 Imagine a 3D soulslike remake of this game, would honestly be the best game ever made
@@Maythorn honestly, if BS 2s combat and ui improved, it already may be greatest game of all time.
@@smoqueed44 well, dark souls didn't really have much of a plot in the first place. it was all item descriptions and environmental storytelling. I don't really get the comparisons between dark souls and black souls beyond the surface level references, because they're entirely different in every way that actually matters
"Carnacki fires out Grand-Cross!"
Я оставлю свой след здесь. Сегодня я сразил тебя,Театр Тьмы! Сегодня я покинул эту ужасную клетку.Но почему-то я не испытываю ничего,кроме пустоты внутри... Мы вновь не смогли никого спасти... Мы не спасли Алису...
И последний день
Будет бесконечным
Black Souls 3. To be continued
Потеряв при этом все...
holy mother of KINO
What is KINO? I see this comment often
@@CBRN-115 Cinema
幽灵猎人卡纳奇：“恶灵哟！给我退散！”
初代医院长弗洛伦斯：“不要害怕，心怀希望继续前进吧”
雪之少女格尔达：“加油乌鸦先生，请不要认输，肯定只差一点点了！”
好些年了回想起来剧情还是让人起鸡皮疙瘩 真的是特别棒的作品
Goodbye to the Wonderland. Real life awaits us.
Real life is so depressing. I want to go back to Wonderland, where the people who loved me lived.
@@whoareyoutoaccuseme6588despite it being fake?
@@johoreanperson8396 only if you overdose on SEN and ignore all the horrifying truth behind this love
@@johoreanperson8396 Better than reality where no one is there for you. At this point, I also don't care if it is real or fake. To me, this game holds a special place in my soul.
The most gut punching-ly ironic about this is that in the epilogue where Grimm lives in real world the first thing we see is that RRH dies when she turned 20
Screw you, Leaf. Like, seriously, screw you, flying green tomato
The feeling of fighting with teammates is heroic and indescribable,Thank you ghost hunter carnaki, doctor florence, snow girl gerda
My soul left my body when I got here. Pure kino.
Sail amidst the CoSmOs Grimm
Its been 4 days since I Killed GG... And i still cant shake this feeling of loneliness... Did i beat the game or the game beat me? i want to go back without memories and be part of this rollercoaster of emotions again and again. True Kino.
I’d do the same.
Black souls is just perfect kino.
Replaying it again right now, and even the beginning now brings tears to my eyes pretty regularly. EMMM has me caught in the cycle.
I wish i could aswell
You've been hit with the kino. It's inevitable. Best story game I have ever played. It felt so real. Maybe it was real.
Помню как я проходил 3 длс. Когда я думал что уже прошёл игру я просто нашёл ту дверь и...
How the fuck EMMM is going to top this.
its EMMM bro
he always tops kino when we think he cant top it anymore
By dropping an even more insane bangerr
@@lura8040 has he made other games apart from the first and is he making more ?
He is making two spin-off games before he feels truly ready to make BS3
Red Dead Hood will just be them making a torture game for fun, but BSIII will be the true kino and I'm sure EMMM will be able to make a much better game than what BSII was.
"У каждого есть счастливый конец, но если вы несчастны, то это ещё не конец"
Рандом
Для людей с тёмной душой нет счастливого конца
I can’t believe they played all of Side Purple in this boss fight!
블랙소울3 빨리 내놔라
I hear the gears of hell roaring.
PURE KINOOOOO
This song got me to buy BS 1 and 2. Let’s see how good these games are.
oh hey, didn't expect to hear uchiio here of all things
Carnacki my beloved
When i heard this epic music, i wanted to hold the sword once more, stand up to fight nightmare, smash the madness garden to piece.....
Waiting 2 series and the journey of grimm in blacksoul 3.
You mean "Swords", a literal Dual Sword called God's Angels is the Most OP weapon in DLC3.... Kinda....
@@lazuardialdi2646 my favorite sword is the sword of enmity XD
@@hoanthiendo2543 blade of enmity from terraria? Or your own sword of enmity?
@@lazuardialdi2646 it is the first blade you get, broken sword, iirc that name, skill give you a crit up and dmg, but lose hp, and the more hp lost, the more dmg can be.
the only farvorite weapons I use from beginning to the end of little madness garden, combine with han machine gun and absolute hit, it is the beast.
@@hoanthiendo2543so you master at Critical HP Strat?
K I N O
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I only had Carnacki for this fight, so it was just me and the ghost bro against guignol. Beat Guignol first try
stuck against this boss for 2 week until i got black slash from chaos dungeon
the emptiness of stomping the boss & story ending is truly something
K I N O
It's time for the curtain call, Oz and the rest would be proud
아... 최고다 진짜
Its so peak
이게 진짜 마약 아님?
most kino boss fight idk any other rpg bosses with EIGHT total phases
HOLY KINOOOOOOOOOOOOO
fire song fr
Yo con una katana siendo caballero y un wey y dos morritas bien locos en la mochila 🎒
I A WIN :v
Diablo
A cRaZY WORLD
crying tears of kino
Theme plays for 6 seconds
Proceeds to flame meteorite ice arrow wheel wind in 1 turn
hold up who this boss??? I thought I had seen it everything on BS2
Final phase of the final boss of the final DLC. Should def play through it if you haven't yet, it contains some juicy lore and what's likely the true ending of BS2.
True end bos
Most depressing ending ahead. Only the strong can continue.
Fight for Alice 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
kino souls 2
"I guess I want something more than just to live... I want to be myself."
"And I am the only one who can keep that will, am I not?"
"Not at all... What a silly story. Those who called it "Your Shield" realized that."
"...this body is about to shatter, but even so..."
"If the last thing left of me is the ego, I won't give up-"
"...I will struggle to protect my will until the end."
"Are you ready?"
*Shield of the EGO intensifies*
>Schwarzschild
>Enduring 7
>Staggered, *Scharfrichter*
what's that quote from I don't remember it in game if anting makes me think of Lobotomy corporation.
@@Destruction42k-yg4ws EGO Walter mod from Library of Ruina, it uses this soundtrack as well
Ahh now I feel silly I'm even aware of that reception and it's use of this music just haven't done it/ sorry for wasting your time have a good day.@@idontgetjokes216
@@Destruction42k-yg4ws You didn't waste anyone's time, it's fine. I recommend it if you can do it since it's a fun mod in my opinion although a bit hard if you use non-OP pages. You have a good day as well.
@@idontgetjokes216 thank you. actually who's your favorite girl in BS2?
Why is the last phase of the boss the easiest lol, just spam %-based damage like Chaos blast or soul blast and you can clear it in 2 turns lol
Except for the fact that it keeps spamming an insta-kill move...
@@barfeyman3626 that's where requiem and rabbit watches come into play lol
pure white prison was the easiest for me, although thats because before the stage changed i spammed a lot of attacks from hans machine gun and killed it in one turn
@@kisaragi_san1378The most hard is the one who comes after pure white prison, i had to use rabbit watches to kill him
Victory lap.
kino
The reversed piano scales at 0:25 to 0:48 have no reason to go that hard
빨망 외전 빨리 내놓으라고
я не дивився цього
K I N O