BOUND: Tragedy in Motion [ Bound Story Breakdown ]
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- Опубліковано 5 січ 2017
- Bound is a dazzling trip through the mind of a woman with a troubled past. Every challenge we face represents an dark memory within her own mind.
if you think you have the game figured out, or if you're curious to see what this game is all about look no further, as I explain each and every detail about the world of Bound.
Background Music: LAIRE - Final Coming • [Chillstep] LAIRE - Fi...
Outro Music
/ coulda-gone-pro - Ігри
I chose the doorbell. I have read some say the woman needed to let go, move on, and not give her father a second chance, but this was never about him getting a second chance, it was about her. She needed answers, she needed a conclusion, she needed to get all of this out of her system. She took an entire walk on the beach, reminicing over the past, just to gather the courage to step on the man’s porch. Changing her mind and leaving for the car, would have made that all for nothing. I didn’t do it for him to give him a second chance, I did it for her, for the above reasons. A family was torn apart, and simply “letting the past be the past and letting go” wouldn’t have mended the wound. She would have lived the rest of her life regretting not getting answers.
We had a long running tv program here in my country that roughly translated to “up and vanished”. Each episode was about a grown up desperately searching for their missing relative (mom or dad), not because they necessarily wanted to give the person who ran from their lives at a young age a second chance, because they, like this woman, longed for answers.
If my dad just up and left I would be angry yes, but I would still want an explanation.
I love your explanation of the "door bell" ending!
Initially, I saw the "leave" ending as okay. I've heard some people say that sometimes, confronting the people who might've hurt you isn't a good idea. Because there's a chance that you are giving the person power over you to open up wounds and further hurt you. Sometimes, living well is truly the best revenge.
But you put it in a different perspective: it's not her mother she's seeking in the story, it's her father. It would be one thing if she tried confronting her mother because it's implied that she wasn't a good parent, so there's no use seeking reconciliation with her. But her father's the real mystery, the one whose side of the story she doesn't know.
He's the key to her closure. And perhaps, hearing his side of the story can help her understand how to be a better parent to her unborn child.
Severely underrated game and it's free this month on Playstation Plus
You have no idea how hard this plot hit me.
I am that girl.
Stephen Fiora , I feel sorry
Hope you are ok now
It is really hard going through that. I am so sorry.
I literally just finished the game, I barley understood it (though I had an idea), so thank you, this really put the pieces together
Glad to hear I could help!
I think there's some symbolism to the chess piece; I think the father disapproved of the main character being interested in dancing, so that was the cause of many of the fights and the father walked out because he would rather run away from the family than try to make it work out. That wasn't the only cause of the fights, in the paper airplane memory, you will notice that the brother is making paper airplanes out of pages that were ripped from the father's books, this makes the father try to lash out harder than he should.
When I played BOUND (this is be for I watched this) I made the same theories you had but I didn't notice when the mother/queen broke the pearls they attcked the princess
Subscribed for your Abzu video and now I'm currently playing Bound with the PSVR and it's amazing. Definitely will come back to this video when I've played it.
Awesome! You have to give me your thoughts on the PSVR version of the game, I played the whole game in VR and thought it gave the game an amazing sense of scale. Enjoy it!
NIKMOE
Yeah I definitely will! So far it's incredible. Being able to look up at the towering structures or the monster in front of you is amazing.
Also there was a certain point where the princess slid down a yellow path. The camera would change to make it so she slid right by you and it was such a thrill.
Anyway, as I said I'll get back to you once I'm done and I look forward to your video!
okay so granted: i have not played this game. I've only watched this video, and Dan on Extra Play play up until episode 3. But in my mind at least, the Father doesn't actually seem like a bad guy, i haven't seen any evidence of him being abusive or evil beyond leaving the family. In the chess-scene, we see the father playing chess with his children, and while the "monster" character seemed to be doing so angrily, i see no anger or rage on the father's face during their game
Later, we see the "Savior" character look into a box and get blasted by some smoke, leaving him in pain, and waking the formerly sleeping "monster" who rushes to his aid, obviously stricken with grief, before carrying the "Savior" away in his arms. We see this reflected in the memory, the boy is tipping over a pot of hot soup, and the father is sleeping on the couch, all while the mother is not paying attention and watching TV.
Finally, look at 5:45 in this video. The Mother is CLEARLY the aggressor in this scene, angrily ripping off her necklace and shouting, while the father has his hands up defensively and a look of fear on his face. Given all of this, i would think it safe to assume that it's the mother, not the father who is the true monster, and eventually the Father couldn't take it any more and left. Since the daughter stayed with her mother, her own thoughts and opinions on her father were skewed, making him out to be the villain, when in reality he was a caring father-figure fed up with an abusive wife.
i dunno, again i haven't played / finished watching the entire game, so this may be moot eventually, but that's just what I've taken out of it so far.
TamTroll I just finished the game and from my first impressions I agree. The mother IF anyone seems at fault.
i think they are clearly both at fault. if the mother was so abusive and the father a good guy, the father would have tried his hardest to get full custody of his kids. there are scenes where the mom is fucked up but also scenes where the dad is.
fair enough. the game seems to try and pit most of the blame on the father though
I think what you guys missed is that the girl try to reunite with her father, wich means that she lived with her mother, and at the beginning of the game, it's the Princess's mother that tells us that their is a monster, so the monster is built by the mother, what we discover playing the game is that the "monster" never really attacks us, every time he could have hurt the Princess, he just didn't. There are no really bad guy in the story, just interpretations. As the dad is not a monster, the mother is kind of cold and not very caring for the Princess, so I think it's just the girl's interpretation that present him as a monster. In the souvenirs he doesn't seem to be a monster, he is made one by the mother and the time the girl spent with the sorrow of her mother. In the end we don't even know if when the monster says "Because I could" is his real words or just the idea that the mother has let the girl believe.
I loved this game so f'ing much !
Oh yeah i totally caught that Arto. We do see the mother and the monster fighting at times though, and there are scenes where the monster seems to be yelling. so it's likely the two parents fought every so often.
Nik! I find your videos ten times more pleasing then any other youtuber. Keep up the excellent work!
Thank you so much!
To be honest I relate to this my sister ALWAYS protected me, while my dad had his own house and lives far away now. It was scary to me....
I had been putting this game off for way too long. Buying it on launch because of the unique artstyle and the intriquing concept of controlling a dancer, but I never got very far in the first stage for whatever reason. I always meant to go back to it, and having just finished it before I watched this video, I am glad I did. I wasn’t initially sure how the three narratives related/were connected - the beach, the memories, and the dream world - but when we learned that the dream world was the manifestation of the childlike drawings in her notebook, it all made sense to me, and I then became very invested trying to piece it all together.
Great and emotional story that really makes you think, superb artstyle, unique concept in general, but a bit lacking in the gameplay department, as many platform sections have an easy shortcut.
Dude you are becoming one of my favorite youtubers. Really good job! cheers mate
played this and understood literally none of it. I thought I was the mother in the flashbacks and my husband was the bad guy. I hate that games like this have to be so obtuse that we can't figure out the plot without finding explanations on UA-cam. Thanks for your help.
Agreed even getting through thr game was confusing im likr the heck is going on
seeing you make a vid on bound is a dream come true
Thank you! As soon as I started playing I knew it was a perfect fit for the channel.
Your explanation sort of made sense but I never really cared for the scenes with pregnant woman I just never really understood it but what I think is the mother and the father simply had a bad marriage and the girl blamed herself and her bother basically calmed her by say it's not I don't think the father just walked out I believe it was more of he got sick of the fighting between himself and the mother.
Just my opinion tho
Nice video. I just finished Bound and can say that it had me captured in it's story. It's beautiful and different. At the end, I didn't see the X option by the doorbell and pressed O and walked away. Honestly, it's what I would have chosen anyway. I plan on watching more of your videos. ^-^
you never fail to disappoint, nice video!
Nice summary! I personally think talking to the father was the right thing to do for her. A lot of time has passed and facing the problem in reality is the right thing to do not losing yourself in this dreamworld.
I’m quite surprised that so many people didn’t get it. What I want to understand is each level itself.
Just finished the game, at the end i chose to leave without ringing the bell. I came here to see the other ending. Your review is great, thanks. But i wish i never played it, such a bitter aftertaste, gonna be difficult to shake off.
Just finished the game. And I cried it was so sad and beautiful.
I love what you said at 10:11.
Yes very uplifting lol!!
What a lovely video. Thank you.
Glad you liked it! :)
The monster was the dad and the princess was the woman. At the end the princess tells the monster "Father why did you leave us?". The entire dream world represents the woman's life.
Nice video! Would like to hear your thoughts about the vanishing of ethan carter! hope to see it soon!
That was just perfect.
This game is so amazing and I just started it rn lmao
This is the first time hearing of this game for me. I bought it on a whim due to the stunning art style, and I did not expect such a relatable and emotional story line in addition. I honestly haven’t cried after playing a video game in years, but the story hit me so hard. I’m so impressed by this game.
5:30
Danceing
amazin
I need help!! I can’t past the platform thing where you have to jump on the plate to make the platform go up (idk what else to call it) I’ve legit been raging about it for the past few days.
I thought the game was about an acid trip
Umm, I subscribed.
Maybe the father left because he thought the family would be better off and that he had too much of a temper to raise children. He could've been afraid of causing a cycle of abuse.
Father's house number is 404 - not found
just beat this game, it was nice to look at but i kinda suspected that they we're part of a broken family half way though.
You should try doing a video on the game hyper light drifter, it's like legend of Zelda meets dark souls. Maybe you could do a video on its mechanics of maybe the lore. Thanks!
Thanks for the recommendation! I've heard good things about Hyper Light, and though Ive not done a video on it, I am a huge Zelda fan, so this sounds like a very good time!
This video is so goood
Thank you! :)
This is one of those games where you dive so deep and play through it thoroughly once, cry about the story, and then never touch it again because it has impacted you so much.
No. Bad game. There are infinitely superior "artistic experiences" like The Last Guardian and Journey.
Gud shit
Can you explain the memory which the parents are neglecting the kids and hot food is pouring down to the brother's face please? It's been bothering me for ages. I've looked for at least a mark on his face during other memories but no, nothing. As if nothing happened.
It's been a while since I've played the game but from my memory... The hot food pouring on the brothers face is just a painful memory for the main character (the pregnant woman/ballerina). When she was a kid her parents were not paying attention to her brother, and her brother managed to knock a pot off a stove and badly burn himself.
As she gets older she realizes this painful memory is because of her father, and how he neglected his children. This is why at the (SPOILERS) climax of the game you can choose to never confront her father. You can leave the beach and the father will never be in her children's future. Thus, breaking the cycle of neglect and pain.
Hope that clears things up!
I lold at some point, Bound have so much tangence with Tearaway! Practically a remake)
Tearaway is also a very good game, I guess they share a bit of common story telling, though the story at the center of Bound is a bit more dark and "realistic".
NIKMOE tearaway is more deep) they managed to create some really cool moments for the player, but bound is just a midnight screensaver for a lucid dream)
I enjoyed that game much more then any uncharted....its almost Among the sleep!!
this game was crap to me but hearing your explanation made it seem better