You did a great job with this game. It is such a shame that this game isn't getting that much attention from other content creators. I hope Markiplier and Jacksepticeye give this game a go, so they can see your craft!
I love how it's implied that by saying the incantation to get the monster caught by The Hunter, the Hunter is just like, "aight, you cool" cause you helped lead it to the monster. Cause in the other ending where it appeared, it's implied that if you didn't say any incantation it would have just eaten the planet with everyone else.
I think the Hunter only cares about catching Darcey, but can't tell one human from another, so when you do nothing, it uses the opportunity to grab EVERY human to ensure Darcey gets snagged. When you change bodies it gets you because the spell reveals Darcey just before the switch. When you refuse and give the other chant, you Reveal Darcey to the Hunter.
@OHGAS No, it clearly shows the spider creature still takes her, it just doesn't kill everyone else on the planet along with her. So that means that if you help the hunter still grabs her but then immediately leaves. But if you don't say the incantation then the hunter comes and gets the monster in Darcy's body then kills everyone else in the world.
Imagine being a supernatural entity called "The hunter" and yet failing over and over again to hunt the right prey. Edit (31/03/2024): Guys I appreciate the comments but this is a 1 year comment and yes hunters need to study and hunt their prey if your prey can body swap just kill everyone in a 4 km radius.
The hunter finds it‘s new vessel every single time the body snatcher switches bodies. Not the Hunter’s fault that the body snatcher can temporarily go into an alternate dimension.
11:10 "we are all gonna go for all endings, so dont worry about it" I always appreciate Manly getting all endings while trying to understand game's lore
Oh, the translation to that Incantation she gave is WHEW. (SPOILERS) It's gaelic, roughly means "Let's turn bodies". His Incantation is also gaelic, and means "You are not welcome". Very interesting that they used an actual language for the incantations instead of, like, unreadable fonts or similar!
What's intriguing is that the plane tickets the teacher had bought were to go to Scotland. Maybe they were off to like the Highlands to purge that shit, lol.
I'm Irish and noticed it instantly! The pronunciation sounds incomprehensible but when I saw the text it clicked. It's Scots Gaelic which is a bit different but still made sense to me.
I mean, the fey and lovecraftian entities are kinda one in the same if you really think about it for too long............... Even here, there are rules you need to figure out otherwise, you're screwed.
Ya know if he would have just said “Oh sorry I didn’t know where the girl went, I blacked out, she must have attacked me and escaped” seeing as how this can be supported with the fact that she attacked the cops rescuing her in the first place, then the rest his lawyer can handle.
@@Degiomo yes but its the only plausible excuse and they probably can’t institutionalise him for it because they have no evidence he did it, and there is evidence of her attacking people
@@Degiomo Crossbows, duh. In all seriousness, some people in wheelchairs have limited mobility. They can walk, but it might be painful, their legs could be weak, they have a dangerously high risk of collapsing, or some other reason that makes a wheelchair improve their quality of life.
@@grimdarkmalarkey5402 The reason she was in a wheelchair wasn't due to any medical need, that was how they were keeping her restrained. So she basically would have been tied/cuffed to the wheelchair, which is why Degiomo was confused as to how she'd attack anyone in that state
The writing is really good tbh. She talks like she's constantly lying or making stuff up on the spot. She also answers in ways most people wouldn't like when he asked her major and she says "I took a lot of classes that weren't part of it" Most people would just say their major and what it entails.
This game gives a lot of the same vibes as Slay the Princess. The voice acting and art style are very similar and I'm growing to enjoy this flavor of horror game.
@@danelassiter6809 I googled the creators of both games and they're different people. I thought they were the same at first because of the style and voice acting but they aren't.
@@danelassiter6809 I thought so too, but the creator for Slay The Princess is Black Tabby Games (real name Abby Howard) and the creator for this game is called olinkalex (real name Alex Olinkiewicz). Like I came into this game being like "oh this is from the creator of Slay the Princess".
It seems like Heather had been controlled by the monster first, made the professor abduct Darcy and switched with her. It explains her inability to get basic facts about Darcy's life correct. Pretty sure the incantation is meant to switch someone's body with the monster (the hunters incantation offerd a protection), the professor was taken and Heather's body was left twisted and shriveled.
@@Flammifleure It seems like whomever Hunter grabs, leaves twisted body in our reality. When the protagonist got switched, he did not die till the Hunter got there, he was even able to shout, so clearly the female body he switched into was still functional. Hence we know, that Darcy was brought for a switch by demon-controlled Heather (and possibly the Professor). Its also possible Professor tried to banish the demon to remove the threat from our world, but he misspoke the incantation or failed to uncover all words and he vanished as a result? I wonder if more info on the professor could be gain if more questioning was done.
LOL I thought it was just me so i kept trying to go back enough to see it, finally decided to slow the video down to .25 seconds and bruh scared the heck out of me
I like the attention to detail, when the entity takes over the protagonist body, you can notice that the way it speaks is totally diferent, like its reading a script but in a nonchalant way.
Based on what she said when she steals your body, she's on the run and has been hiding by taking other people's bodies. It clearly isn't a permanent solution though, since we aren't the first. So, in ending 3, where you say the incantation she tells you, you take her place and she continues to steal bodies to hide herself. In the endings where you leave and someone else does the interview, she likely gets them to say the incantation and they die in her place (the body mentioned in ending 4). In ending 2, the hunter catches her, and for whatever reason, decides to destroy the world she was in. In ending 1, the hunter catches her, and because of whatever we did, it spares the world (also note that it doesn't leave her body behind, even though it left the bodies of the other victims). So it sounds like this is just inter-dimensional shenanigans. She's an eldritch small-fry on the run, stealing bodies to escape a powerful enemy she made. She agreed to the interview to get us to say the chant because she's running out of time. Unless she finds someone else to take her place, the Hunter will catch her and destroy the world along with her unless we say the chant revealed by contradicting her. So the real questions are, what did she do to attract something that powerful, and what does the chant do that changes the outcome? I can't really figure it out, though. The only thing I can think of is what James said about the chant, it's revealed by partially breaking her grip on reality, so maybe the chant completely breaks her hold, sending her to a different reality, and the Hunter destroys that reality instead? If she was sent to a different reality, it would explain why she disappeared when the other victims didn't despite being killed by the same thing. It also makes sense in that it doesn't actually change what the Hunter does, it just changes what it does it to (the other reality we sent her to). The theory is still pretty weak, though.
It was mentioned that it was a Gaelic incantation, and what he said in order for Darcy to get killed only, was 'You're not welcome'. I think that applied to the monster as it didn't attack the world, since it 'wasn't welcomed'. Moral of the story: Be polite and kindly tell a stranger that they aren't welcome if they aren't!
21:44 An interrogation room without any cameras or voice recorders? I just feel this ending was made this way just to not get any happy end, realistically, the body would either disapear or be contorted, and the investigator wouldn't be a suspect, he could even use the disaperences and his explanation plus the professor's notes as evidence of the supernatural nature of the case, I feel this should be the happy end and if the idea was to make none of them actually happy this one should have another downside
The professor's second note and the inscription on the photograph weren't normally visible, either. I suspect something similar applies to any evidence of the pocket dimensions touching.
I love that the incantation is just straight up Scottish Gaelic for "You're not welcome (here)" 😂 The voice actor's pronunciation is a bit dodgy, but I do enjoy when I see a language I know being used for magicy purposes, like Welsh and Gaelic. If anyone's curious, the other incantation is "Let's turn (exchange) bodies"
But perhaps that is the point. What is gibberish for those who does not know is just a normal language for those who do. Doesnt matter if it's Japanese, English, Gaelic, R'lyehian, tlhIngan Hol, or Tagalog.
@@VineFynn not only that, but he hears the incantation from some otherworldly being. Who knows if scottish gaelic in that other world sounds exactly the same.
When I read the video title at first I imagine it would be _random_ whether the girl is a monster. As in, you get thrust into a session where it's _already_ been decided whether she's human or not. And during the interrogation you'd have to either agitate the entity enough to reveal itself, or recognize she's a normal human and avoid stressing her even more.
"Welcome to the human reentry processing facility. This your first day on the job? Job's simple, you figure out who's human, and who's an eldrich entity trying to escape into our reality, usually because they're being hunted down by more powerful entities that they enraged in some way." "Before you try and let any entities into our reality, just don't do it. Yes, we can hold off even the more powerful entities, we're lucky that we have thick dimensional walls that also reduce the power of any entity that gets in. Yes, any entity powerful enough to pass through would just forcefully take them anyways and leave us be, since we're mortal micro-fry in a tiny dimension. Still, one entity left in is a human left out there, and that human will probably die, because that's how they can cross into our reality without brute-forcing their ways in." "So, now you're aware of that, let's get to business. You won't be able to visually tell an entity from an actual human, so you're gonna have to rely on good old uncanney valley to sniff out the entities. Yes, uncanney valley, our built-in defense against psychopaths. As I said, they look human, so you're gonna have to listen to how they sound, and you'll occasionally sniff them out by wearing wierd expressions." "We'll start you on an easy one. This one's gotta be a desperate one; acting like they've never been a human before. Probably pissed off some higher-level entity that cracks dimensions apart or something, by how scared they appear. I don't got any sympathy for them, though, since they're trying to swap places with one of our coworkers. One I really like, too. So, go get 'em, tiger!
Woman: *bleeding from demonic eyes, drooling from fangs, head full of horns, and face split open to reveal nothing but endless teeth* Interrogator: "Nah, she's normal. Bring in the next girl." 4 year old girl: "I have a pimple on my nose." Interrogator: "MONSTER, TAKE HER DOWN!!!" *BANG BANG BANG*
Sorry to say that isn't what happened, she took the body of the other employee like she does to you if you recite the spell she gives you. 1/5 is the best IMO because she at least got what she deserved, but the protagonist was kind of stupid for not just lying about her attacking him or something.
@@disincor I wouldn't say stupid, I would rather say exhausted after seeing all the shit he saw. I wouldn't exactly be motivated to live a normal life either after seeing that.
@@khairilameer620 In ending 4, she has the same mangled body that Heather did, suggesting that that body's status is a result of getting grabbed by the Hunter, and because it was just the mangled body and not the end of all life, one could infer that the Entity switched bodies with the other interrogator. In ending 1, because the Hunter got the Entity correctly, the body disappeared (or at least, that's what its absence in that ending as opposed to all of the others suggests).
Entity: *Reveals itself and twists reality before his very eyes, showing things he could never have imagined before.* Interrogator, calmly: Hey, woah there... What's all this about?
Ending 1 doesn't make any sense because he has the entire conversation on tape. He can just give that tape to his attorney, and his attorney can figure out how to free him from the facility.
exacly, the only way it would make sense was if the apearence of the hunter entity somehow messed with the tape or if wasn't transported into the pocked dimension they were in
Currently at 7:50, I wanna guess the rest . Heather was a monster, killed Darcy, overtook her body That's why they're getting a lot mixed up . Just heard manly say the same ---- Alright I'm done with the video and honestly that's not what I expected at all
Okay so this game has gaelic in it! "Chan eil failte oirbh" basically means "You are not welcome" but the pronunciation is off Ch in gaelic is pronounced like a K and te is pronounced like a cha "Fawll-che" and bh is a v so "orv" "leig leinn cuirp an tionnadadh" is meant to be "Let us convert our bodies" I assume but again pronunciation is different "Lay-g, lay-n, corp an chown-dag" Now it might not be Irish Gaelic so it might have different pronunciation but yeah
Glad to see the developer try and highlight a different aspect of their strengths, I like their 2D art getting put front and center. This was nice, some good otherworldly hororr.
I'd develop it if I new how, or had time to learn. Hear me out, Intera-gator. You're a gator interrogating to find zebras or other prey. Where it gets interesting is, sometimes you'll have zebras that actually have a really bad disguise or a gator that just looks like it has a bad disguise. It's actually impossible to tell if they are or not, from appearance alone but possible from dialog. Also, there is one crocodile. Because it's not a gator, it doesn't count. It is the absolute one time that you can use appearance to tell them apart and it's completely random
Guys remember, the ending where he is held under suspicion is the one where she 'disappeared', not 'died'. The hunter took her, leaving no body to be found, and he doubted that anyone would believe him if he told the truth, so in the end he was incarcerated. Saying that she attacked him and escaped would require evidence of her bonds being removed, the assault that followed, and her subsequent escape, but since it's a lie none of those things exist. Also in the ending where he gets his body snatched he directly addresses someone outside the room within earshot of Darcy, likely a guard. With all that to consider, it's objectively impossible for her to have made an escape even if he did free her. Although... Along those same lines it's impossible for him to have somehow hidden her too, but it's still way more plausible that he knows what happened to her and is purposefully hiding it (which is the truth), so it makes sense to suspect him.
If I had a nickel for every time I had to ask a woman questions to determine if she was trustworthy and not a monster I would have two nickels which is not a lot but it is weird it happened twice.
Damn creepy, minimalistic, but well done. I think there might have been more to it if you had to assess a series of such patients and try to detect IF they are monsters and react as appropriate... but it is an interesting idea with good execution. Props to the dev.
This type of concept for a game sounds very interesting it brings so much curiosity about "Heather" and what she is hiding and I am super into it! ^^ thank you for playing this cool game 😊❤
It's interesting to me. If you do nothing the hunter enters this world, but like... what about if the entity hides from it? What's stopping the entity from just breaking in anyways since it DID get someone. From what it seems to be, the Hunter can only get into the world if it gets the correct person, sure, but then why does it, after having gotten the correct person, destroy everyone else? Maybe it thought they were intentionally hiding them. I guess that makes sense, it thought they were accomplices. And by revealing her, to it, you make it clear you AREN"T helping her, you don't want her, and it's just like "ya you chill"... hopefully.
@9t7problems wait, so what happened was when saying the encantation that switched the entitity and Darcy's bodies the professor was caught on the pocket universe right? But then why when the interviewer did the same nobody seems to disapear
@9t7problems I genuinly think the entity was telling the truth about the professor, as far as we know, he kidnapped both students and was coerced to do other things, if he was useful for the entity, it wouldn't just lock him away for him knowing too much
@9t7problems I don't think the Entity trapped the professor, because the Entity was stuck, bound up, after the ritual, without the professor to release her. Hence why she got caught by the police. I think he slipped up like she said, leaving him trapped there.
The game was made in 2 Weeks for a GameJam and sadly the voice actress was recovering from an illness at the time when we needed her voice work for the game. In the end, though I basically viewed the ruff acting as a bit fitting for what the game is. Much like how the bad acting in Silent Hill 2 kind of added this uncanny to the game experience.
It fits, considering the monster can take over different bodies which could imply that the monster is already hiding for a long time as different people.
I've been pretty impressed lately with some of the lovecraftian horror games that have come out. Some of them are really great. I highly enjoyed sucker for love due to the fact that they had horror AND comedy. Every once in a while I love me a Horror comedy Video Game. 😁 Thanks for the upload Manly! Hope you have a fantastic day/night. You and your family stay safe and healthy.💜🤝
from Google translate, 'Leig leinn cuirp a thionnadh.' means 'Let us turn bodies.' in Scottish Gaelic and 'Chan eil fàilte oirbh.' means 'You are not welcome.' in the same language could this game, therefore, take place somewhere in Scotland or somewhere in the UK?
I think the monster needed an invitation before it could take over your body. You can say the invitation in any language, even one you dont know how to speak or understand. So the body snatcher is just tricking you to say it and banking on you probably dont know Gaelic
I mean, given they're calling it "university" rather than "college" that wouldn't be surprising, though with the accent of the male voice actor I'd lean more towards Australia...
I like to imagine games like this going on in real life and manly is just sitting there after her name she gave a name and he just keeps flipping that file up to his face and then looks at her and then just continue to do that for 5 minutes straight file face file face file face like a bouncer checking an ID they have a strong suspicion is fake
holy fuck this game has such good potential. I'd have loved if it was longer, took more time to crack “Darcy,” and there was more interrogating; more piecing together the crime scene and what happened. devs have a VERY beautiful game right here, I would love to see it expanded on someday
Also another contradiction in entity's words is that it calls the other thing a "hunter" and says if it gets access to our world it'll destroy it, if it really is a thing that destroys worlds then it would've been called "destroyer", "decimator" etc. But a hunter? And it's said by the entity that hides from that hunter? Brilliant writing
I mean it did do that in the end, but it comes off to me more like a predatorial animal finding a target it was chasing down and then seeing tons more easy targets nearby, rather than outright malice or destructive intent
I get it. When you find out those words, which ironically you find out only when it starts to reveal its true face, you're revealing the its secret to the Hunter. You're basically giving him its X Y Z coordiantes. And in return the Hunter lets you go. My only grip with the ending is...why do they arrest you? Like, the protag has the recorder with him, moreover they did disappear in front of them. Appearing only like 5-15 minutes later. And only the protag appears. So not only they cannot ignore the fact that something genuinely supernatural is happening but that the detective just stopped an incursion from happening basically.
I don’t know if my eyes are messing with me, but her body kept jittering and pulsing, makes sense with what happens, but if it’s intentional from the devs that’s pretty cool.
I'm curious as to why James Murphy's profile pic ended up changing? Why was he disguised as an older person before? At 23:43 is that James Murphy? It's a really interesting concept would love more like this.
The scary "spider face" also isn't her "Face"... she's more of the shadow you see at the start of the reality. The scary faces it makes is the Hunter slowly grabbing her, trying to do the same thing to her as he did to you, AKA "Removing skin from every opening (mouth, eyes) i had, bones bending like rubber) and she was in pain, trying to just get this over with as fast as it can, that's why it got really angry at the "questions"
Haha, the premise of this game is wild. This is a cop-killer, being interrogated by healthcare personnel. The police are like “Oh sorry, we can’t give you any evidence since she’s the subject of an investigation. Good luck!” It’s like….yes that’s why the police interrogate people they arrest. Not doctors, save for determining competence to stand trial, etc. This is a terrifying, crazy world they live in, lol.
@@DeathnoteBB like I said, yes there are times when they would. But not to basically gather evidence and take statements concerning a crime, as is being done here.
This deserves a remake. It's interesting as it is, but it could be a classic with subtler/better VA, a bit slower gameplay with maybe some interspersed detective scenes and stronger visuals. I don't say any of that to denigrate what's there, I'm saying the means didn't weigh up to the idea, which is great.
Manly: I am on a timer with this also Manly: Majority of time wasted looking throw all the pages regardless of if they were relevant to the situation or not, or just plain speculating.
I was going to watch this then I realized that it was close to nighttime and I'm not brave enough to have this in my head when I got to sleep or the toilet.
hey manly, i'd love to see you check out the demo for the game "DREDGE" it's a fishing-boat Lovecraftian game, one of the highest quality horror experiences i've seen this year tbh and im sure it will be up your alley.
I've recently started trying to learn 3D animation myself. I've considered making a horror game over the past few months but my coding isn't the best so I might just make the 3d models and hire someone to help code it, or I'll just forget the idea altogether. I don't have any plans for one anyway, just something I thought might be fun.
Hey manly i think you should try out game called GNOSIA. It's basically mafia or werewolf, but singleplayer where different characters can be randomly marked as infected, including you.
Welcome to the I Have A Question For You Club, how I Have A Question For You are ya?
Day 229 of asking Manly to play A Cold Love Story through UA-cam comments
Yes
I’m pretty good, thanks for asking!!
*What is it Manly Kun?*
❤
I like that the “good ending” is basically saying fuck it and leaving work early
happy for you, but someone would eventurally be tricked and switch places with the entity
I think that’s what happened to our coworker in Ending 4
That is also te good ending irl
Quiet quitting done right
That’s not the good ending bro
Hey, it's me the lead game designer/programmer of this game, just wanted to say thanks again for giving another one of my games a play.
You did a great job with this game. It is such a shame that this game isn't getting that much attention from other content creators. I hope Markiplier and Jacksepticeye give this game a go, so they can see your craft!
@@tww5680 Thanks, the game only came out a few days ago, so never know.
@@AlexOlinkiewicz Ah, okay. That makes sense. I still hope that they play it nevertheless. Thanks for your response.
@@tww5680 Well people like using that "Face" for the thumbnail, so that might be something that grabs those YT to play it
for a short game this is very good. how long did it took you to build/formulate the main story structure?
Judging by the thumbnail pic I think it’s safe to say the girl is indeed what one would call, a monster
It's just a Saturday afternoon in Detroit
Impossible!
@@iguoyrxayananikihs9505 I know my detective skills are remarkable
The most normal day in ohio:
you’re a genius! how did you figure it out??
I love how it's implied that by saying the incantation to get the monster caught by The Hunter, the Hunter is just like, "aight, you cool" cause you helped lead it to the monster.
Cause in the other ending where it appeared, it's implied that if you didn't say any incantation it would have just eaten the planet with everyone else.
I think the Hunter only cares about catching Darcey, but can't tell one human from another, so when you do nothing, it uses the opportunity to grab EVERY human to ensure Darcey gets snagged. When you change bodies it gets you because the spell reveals Darcey just before the switch. When you refuse and give the other chant, you Reveal Darcey to the Hunter.
But in ending 4/5 the hunter gets her but not anyone else. She's found dead in her cell.
No, the endings where you let someone else take over implies that she grabbed their body instead.
@OHGAS I think "You are not welcome" doesn't banish her outright, but takes away what ever allows her to hide her nature.
@OHGAS No, it clearly shows the spider creature still takes her, it just doesn't kill everyone else on the planet along with her. So that means that if you help the hunter still grabs her but then immediately leaves. But if you don't say the incantation then the hunter comes and gets the monster in Darcy's body then kills everyone else in the world.
Imagine being a supernatural entity called "The hunter" and yet failing over and over again to hunt the right prey.
Edit (31/03/2024): Guys I appreciate the comments but this is a 1 year comment and yes hunters need to study and hunt their prey if your prey can body swap just kill everyone in a 4 km radius.
Wdym, he succeeds in catching her in every instance. Even in the ending where she escapes, he still catches the body she was in moments before.
@@aguyontheinternet8436 The body she was in was no longer her body so the hunter did fail to catch her in that ending.
Hence why not called the great hunter
The hunter finds it‘s new vessel every single time the body snatcher switches bodies. Not the Hunter’s fault that the body snatcher can temporarily go into an alternate dimension.
Probably doesn't help when your target can body hop.
11:10 "we are all gonna go for all endings, so dont worry about it" I always appreciate Manly getting all endings while trying to understand game's lore
Frrr
frrrrrr
Oh, the translation to that Incantation she gave is WHEW.
(SPOILERS)
It's gaelic, roughly means "Let's turn bodies". His Incantation is also gaelic, and means "You are not welcome". Very interesting that they used an actual language for the incantations instead of, like, unreadable fonts or similar!
i don't know Gaelic but I thought I recognized it!! thanks for the translation :D
What's intriguing is that the plane tickets the teacher had bought were to go to Scotland. Maybe they were off to like the Highlands to purge that shit, lol.
I'm Irish and noticed it instantly! The pronunciation sounds incomprehensible but when I saw the text it clicked.
It's Scots Gaelic which is a bit different but still made sense to me.
I mean, the fey and lovecraftian entities are kinda one in the same if you really think about it for too long...............
Even here, there are rules you need to figure out otherwise, you're screwed.
I'm still waiting to this day for a horror game that uses the Welsh language, But unfortunately our language just sounds too comedic :P
Ya know if he would have just said “Oh sorry I didn’t know where the girl went, I blacked out, she must have attacked me and escaped” seeing as how this can be supported with the fact that she attacked the cops rescuing her in the first place, then the rest his lawyer can handle.
How does a person tied in a wheelchair attack someone 😭
The twisted corpse is on the ground!
@@Degiomo yes but its the only plausible excuse and they probably can’t institutionalise him for it because they have no evidence he did it, and there is evidence of her attacking people
@@Degiomo Crossbows, duh.
In all seriousness, some people in wheelchairs have limited mobility. They can walk, but it might be painful, their legs could be weak, they have a dangerously high risk of collapsing, or some other reason that makes a wheelchair improve their quality of life.
@@grimdarkmalarkey5402 The reason she was in a wheelchair wasn't due to any medical need, that was how they were keeping her restrained. So she basically would have been tied/cuffed to the wheelchair, which is why Degiomo was confused as to how she'd attack anyone in that state
The writing is really good tbh. She talks like she's constantly lying or making stuff up on the spot. She also answers in ways most people wouldn't like when he asked her major and she says "I took a lot of classes that weren't part of it" Most people would just say their major and what it entails.
@9t7problems you call that good voice acting?
Not really, it's very surface level, and has none of the subtlety good horror needs.
@@9t7problems it’s very amateurish. It’s an interesting concept, that I hope they iterate on and improve in the future, but it’s not great now.
@@9t7problems you’re objectively wrong if you call that voice acting good though.
@@AGuy-vq9qp its a short game that you can finish with all the endings in less than an hour, i dont think there's much to expand on.
This game gives a lot of the same vibes as Slay the Princess. The voice acting and art style are very similar and I'm growing to enjoy this flavor of horror game.
Think its the same creator
@@danelassiter6809 I googled the creators of both games and they're different people. I thought they were the same at first because of the style and voice acting but they aren't.
@@libraric7212 interesting to hear i saw the creator of the game comment here and i thought it was the same creator
@@danelassiter6809 I thought so too, but the creator for Slay The Princess is Black Tabby Games (real name Abby Howard) and the creator for this game is called olinkalex (real name Alex Olinkiewicz). Like I came into this game being like "oh this is from the creator of Slay the Princess".
@@libraric7212 What about the artists?
It seems like Heather had been controlled by the monster first, made the professor abduct Darcy and switched with her. It explains her inability to get basic facts about Darcy's life correct. Pretty sure the incantation is meant to switch someone's body with the monster (the hunters incantation offerd a protection), the professor was taken and Heather's body was left twisted and shriveled.
but why the professor went to the other realm but Heather just died shriveled?
Entity switched from Heather to Darcy, Hunter grabbed the Professor. I'm guessing.
@@Flammifleure I think accident
@@Flammifleure It seems like whomever Hunter grabs, leaves twisted body in our reality. When the protagonist got switched, he did not die till the Hunter got there, he was even able to shout, so clearly the female body he switched into was still functional.
Hence we know, that Darcy was brought for a switch by demon-controlled Heather (and possibly the Professor). Its also possible Professor tried to banish the demon to remove the threat from our world, but he misspoke the incantation or failed to uncover all words and he vanished as a result?
I wonder if more info on the professor could be gain if more questioning was done.
At 9:06 for a half second, her bony face shifts into hostile rage
ngl i actually jumped back a bit, its really telling you you're going in the right direction (which in this case death lol)
LOL I thought it was just me so i kept trying to go back enough to see it, finally decided to slow the video down to .25 seconds and bruh scared the heck out of me
I saw that too!
Start at 9:06 and slow the video speed to see it. Scared the crap out of me lol
If you blink you miss it!
I like the attention to detail, when the entity takes over the protagonist body, you can notice that the way it speaks is totally diferent, like its reading a script but in a nonchalant way.
What I mostly love about this game is the artwork! Even as a horror game, the developer did a great job of capturing that part perfectly!
Thanks, my friend did such a great job with the artwork for the game.
Happy to hear, thank you very much ;) We'll see what next project I can draw creepy things for.
@@AlexOlinkiewicz it reminds me so much of "Slay The Princess." Are you or them related to that game at all?
@@smileybones9172 maybe its the same artist
This feels like Papers, Please but horror themed, and I’m actually really into this idea. Even the playback is a nice touch.
Truly
Theres a game out that is exactly like this
Based on what she said when she steals your body, she's on the run and has been hiding by taking other people's bodies. It clearly isn't a permanent solution though, since we aren't the first. So, in ending 3, where you say the incantation she tells you, you take her place and she continues to steal bodies to hide herself. In the endings where you leave and someone else does the interview, she likely gets them to say the incantation and they die in her place (the body mentioned in ending 4). In ending 2, the hunter catches her, and for whatever reason, decides to destroy the world she was in. In ending 1, the hunter catches her, and because of whatever we did, it spares the world (also note that it doesn't leave her body behind, even though it left the bodies of the other victims).
So it sounds like this is just inter-dimensional shenanigans. She's an eldritch small-fry on the run, stealing bodies to escape a powerful enemy she made. She agreed to the interview to get us to say the chant because she's running out of time. Unless she finds someone else to take her place, the Hunter will catch her and destroy the world along with her unless we say the chant revealed by contradicting her.
So the real questions are, what did she do to attract something that powerful, and what does the chant do that changes the outcome? I can't really figure it out, though. The only thing I can think of is what James said about the chant, it's revealed by partially breaking her grip on reality, so maybe the chant completely breaks her hold, sending her to a different reality, and the Hunter destroys that reality instead? If she was sent to a different reality, it would explain why she disappeared when the other victims didn't despite being killed by the same thing. It also makes sense in that it doesn't actually change what the Hunter does, it just changes what it does it to (the other reality we sent her to). The theory is still pretty weak, though.
Well the chant in ending one is "you are not welcome" so its possible
It was mentioned that it was a Gaelic incantation, and what he said in order for Darcy to get killed only, was 'You're not welcome'. I think that applied to the monster as it didn't attack the world, since it 'wasn't welcomed'.
Moral of the story: Be polite and kindly tell a stranger that they aren't welcome if they aren't!
“It left the bodies of the other victims”
Well no, it didn’t, as the Professor was taken
@@DeathnoteBB My mistake, I guess the picture of a corpse we have doesn't exist.
@@azearaazymoto461 That's heather
Oh boy, sure hope this girl is not actually a monster-
ayo? 🤨
Yeah
What that mouth do
@@ivanalves8506 this is what no maidens will do to a mf
21:44 An interrogation room without any cameras or voice recorders? I just feel this ending was made this way just to not get any happy end, realistically, the body would either disapear or be contorted, and the investigator wouldn't be a suspect, he could even use the disaperences and his explanation plus the professor's notes as evidence of the supernatural nature of the case, I feel this should be the happy end and if the idea was to make none of them actually happy this one should have another downside
There was a time before cameras and recorders
@@DeathnoteBB the protag literally has a recorder on him
@@heymayday8761 So then OP was wrong
there not being an actual happy end frustrates me, tbh
The professor's second note and the inscription on the photograph weren't normally visible, either. I suspect something similar applies to any evidence of the pocket dimensions touching.
11:40 - 4/5 ending
22:13 - 1/5 ending
22:17 - 5/5 ending
23:00 - 2/5 ending
24:20 - 3/5 ending
I love that the incantation is just straight up Scottish Gaelic for "You're not welcome (here)" 😂
The voice actor's pronunciation is a bit dodgy, but I do enjoy when I see a language I know being used for magicy purposes, like Welsh and Gaelic.
If anyone's curious, the other incantation is "Let's turn (exchange) bodies"
But perhaps that is the point. What is gibberish for those who does not know is just a normal language for those who do. Doesnt matter if it's Japanese, English, Gaelic, R'lyehian, tlhIngan Hol, or Tagalog.
The character's pronunciation being bad is deliberate, he isn't a native speaker, you can even hear him hesitate
@@VineFynn not only that, but he hears the incantation from some otherworldly being. Who knows if scottish gaelic in that other world sounds exactly the same.
When I read the video title at first I imagine it would be _random_ whether the girl is a monster. As in, you get thrust into a session where it's _already_ been decided whether she's human or not. And during the interrogation you'd have to either agitate the entity enough to reveal itself, or recognize she's a normal human and avoid stressing her even more.
...damn, this idea is actually very neat /gen
i'd love to see something like that
"Welcome to the human reentry processing facility. This your first day on the job? Job's simple, you figure out who's human, and who's an eldrich entity trying to escape into our reality, usually because they're being hunted down by more powerful entities that they enraged in some way."
"Before you try and let any entities into our reality, just don't do it. Yes, we can hold off even the more powerful entities, we're lucky that we have thick dimensional walls that also reduce the power of any entity that gets in. Yes, any entity powerful enough to pass through would just forcefully take them anyways and leave us be, since we're mortal micro-fry in a tiny dimension. Still, one entity left in is a human left out there, and that human will probably die, because that's how they can cross into our reality without brute-forcing their ways in."
"So, now you're aware of that, let's get to business. You won't be able to visually tell an entity from an actual human, so you're gonna have to rely on good old uncanney valley to sniff out the entities. Yes, uncanney valley, our built-in defense against psychopaths. As I said, they look human, so you're gonna have to listen to how they sound, and you'll occasionally sniff them out by wearing wierd expressions."
"We'll start you on an easy one. This one's gotta be a desperate one; acting like they've never been a human before. Probably pissed off some higher-level entity that cracks dimensions apart or something, by how scared they appear. I don't got any sympathy for them, though, since they're trying to swap places with one of our coworkers. One I really like, too. So, go get 'em, tiger!
@@explodoboyv2 Ngl Thats one hell of a Introduction to that kind of genre
@@xboxoneyes7734 ty
@@explodoboyv2 ya welcome
Woman: *bleeding from demonic eyes, drooling from fangs, head full of horns, and face split open to reveal nothing but endless teeth*
Interrogator: "Nah, she's normal. Bring in the next girl."
4 year old girl: "I have a pimple on my nose."
Interrogator: "MONSTER, TAKE HER DOWN!!!"
*BANG BANG BANG*
When Tiffany runs around in a ghetto full of monsters with a book on quantum mechanics...
at 9:06 after he pulls the binder down, theres a split second frame of yhe girl with a new face, looking angry and then looking scared/worried.
Yea I saw the original comment too. Weird freaky
14:09 too
I feel like we need more visual horror novels like this, it's good and I enjoyed it
id imagine there is a plethora of japanese visual novels alike out there
Ending 4 seems like the best one - she just died, the Hunter is gone, and you and other people are safe.
Sorry to say that isn't what happened, she took the body of the other employee like she does to you if you recite the spell she gives you. 1/5 is the best IMO because she at least got what she deserved, but the protagonist was kind of stupid for not just lying about her attacking him or something.
@@disincor I wouldn't say stupid, I would rather say exhausted after seeing all the shit he saw. I wouldn't exactly be motivated to live a normal life either after seeing that.
Wrong, the Entity just swapped bodies again, another innocent person got killed by the Hunter and the Entity will continue swapping bodies
@@disincor i thought the body disappeared and not killed?
@@khairilameer620 In ending 4, she has the same mangled body that Heather did, suggesting that that body's status is a result of getting grabbed by the Hunter, and because it was just the mangled body and not the end of all life, one could infer that the Entity switched bodies with the other interrogator. In ending 1, because the Hunter got the Entity correctly, the body disappeared (or at least, that's what its absence in that ending as opposed to all of the others suggests).
"She was a victim of an abduction as well as a bizzarly unnatural homicide."
...Wouldn't that make her dead?
"Bizzarly unnatural"
Surprisingly it's actually correct, since Darcy was killed after getting transferred into Heather's body.
i love how the interrogator is so chill.
Interrogation Basics my friend.
Entity: *Reveals itself and twists reality before his very eyes, showing things he could never have imagined before.*
Interrogator, calmly: Hey, woah there... What's all this about?
Reality warping eldricht entity: "ꙅmɿow ɔiƚɘʜƚɒq uoʏ ꙅᴎɿodƚꙅɿiᎸ ɿuoʏ Ꮈo doo|d ɘʜƚ ʞᴎiɿd I"
Interrogator: "Mmmh I've got here an email that says otherwise" 🤔
@@chalibard3826 took time to read that
@@laxoles7567 I straight up can't because my computer is old as hell and a lot of it is just boxes with "x"s inside
Ending 1 doesn't make any sense because he has the entire conversation on tape. He can just give that tape to his attorney, and his attorney can figure out how to free him from the facility.
exacly, the only way it would make sense was if the apearence of the hunter entity somehow messed with the tape or if wasn't transported into the pocked dimension they were in
The tap probably fucked up after she used magic to trap him.
Currently at 7:50, I wanna guess the rest
.
Heather was a monster, killed Darcy, overtook her body
That's why they're getting a lot mixed up
.
Just heard manly say the same
----
Alright I'm done with the video and honestly that's not what I expected at all
I really like the idea of making monsters sympathetic or at least despearate.
Very neat.
Also love how tbe only ending where the protagonist doesn't get screwed over is tbe one where he just leaves.
20:13 the face in the picture startled me
Okay so this game has gaelic in it! "Chan eil failte oirbh" basically means "You are not welcome" but the pronunciation is off Ch in gaelic is pronounced like a K and te is pronounced like a cha "Fawll-che" and bh is a v so "orv"
"leig leinn cuirp an tionnadadh" is meant to be "Let us convert our bodies" I assume but again pronunciation is different "Lay-g, lay-n, corp an chown-dag"
Now it might not be Irish Gaelic so it might have different pronunciation but yeah
Plane tickets suggest Scottish
Glad to see the developer try and highlight a different aspect of their strengths, I like their 2D art getting put front and center. This was nice, some good otherworldly hororr.
Thanks, happy people are liking the game
I like how calm the interrogator is I wish to be as calm as he is.
i wouldn't have been
I enjoy the Lovecraftian reference in the Innsmou(th)nt hospital. A lovely "In the know" secret.
22:00 wouldn't they have the video tape recorder as evidence for what happened?!?!?
Fun game. Could easily make a longer one; like a Turing test for Lovecraft monsters
I'd develop it if I new how, or had time to learn. Hear me out, Intera-gator. You're a gator interrogating to find zebras or other prey. Where it gets interesting is, sometimes you'll have zebras that actually have a really bad disguise or a gator that just looks like it has a bad disguise. It's actually impossible to tell if they are or not, from appearance alone but possible from dialog. Also, there is one crocodile. Because it's not a gator, it doesn't count. It is the absolute one time that you can use appearance to tell them apart and it's completely random
Guys remember, the ending where he is held under suspicion is the one where she 'disappeared', not 'died'. The hunter took her, leaving no body to be found, and he doubted that anyone would believe him if he told the truth, so in the end he was incarcerated. Saying that she attacked him and escaped would require evidence of her bonds being removed, the assault that followed, and her subsequent escape, but since it's a lie none of those things exist. Also in the ending where he gets his body snatched he directly addresses someone outside the room within earshot of Darcy, likely a guard. With all that to consider, it's objectively impossible for her to have made an escape even if he did free her.
Although... Along those same lines it's impossible for him to have somehow hidden her too, but it's still way more plausible that he knows what happened to her and is purposefully hiding it (which is the truth), so it makes sense to suspect him.
If I had a nickel for every time I had to ask a woman questions to determine if she was trustworthy and not a monster I would have two nickels which is not a lot but it is weird it happened twice.
Slay the Princess?
The subtle face change at 9:05 literally gave me full body shivers when I rewatched it. Holy shit that's terrifying.
Dude I didn't even notice that before 😮
Saw that aswell, remebers me on layers of fear
More like 9:06
Damn creepy, minimalistic, but well done. I think there might have been more to it if you had to assess a series of such patients and try to detect IF they are monsters and react as appropriate... but it is an interesting idea with good execution. Props to the dev.
This type of concept for a game sounds very interesting it brings so much curiosity about "Heather" and what she is hiding and I am super into it! ^^ thank you for playing this cool game 😊❤
yup
Slay the Princess vibes from the art
I actually used Slay the Princess as a reference when it came to putting some life is still images. (hence the warping effect on the images)
So I was right?!
That doesn’t happen often
She’s a monster!
HANS GET THE FLAMMENWERFER!!
HANS HAS THE FLAMMENWERFER LETS COMMIT ARSOOON WOOOO
WAIT, 3 THINGS, 1, I DON'T CARE ABOUT ARSON IF IT KILLS THE MONSTER BUT FIRST, 2, WHO IS HANS?? AND 3, WHAT THE HELL IS A FLAMMENWERFER?!?
It's interesting to me.
If you do nothing the hunter enters this world, but like... what about if the entity hides from it? What's stopping the entity from just breaking in anyways since it DID get someone.
From what it seems to be, the Hunter can only get into the world if it gets the correct person, sure, but then why does it, after having gotten the correct person, destroy everyone else? Maybe it thought they were intentionally hiding them. I guess that makes sense, it thought they were accomplices. And by revealing her, to it, you make it clear you AREN"T helping her, you don't want her, and it's just like "ya you chill"... hopefully.
then how does the hunter manage to kill random people it thinks it's the entity? it clearely have access to earth
@9t7problems wait, so what happened was when saying the encantation that switched the entitity and Darcy's bodies the professor was caught on the pocket universe right? But then why when the interviewer did the same nobody seems to disapear
@9t7problems noooo doesn’t happen like dat
@9t7problems I genuinly think the entity was telling the truth about the professor, as far as we know, he kidnapped both students and was coerced to do other things, if he was useful for the entity, it wouldn't just lock him away for him knowing too much
@9t7problems I don't think the Entity trapped the professor, because the Entity was stuck, bound up, after the ritual, without the professor to release her. Hence why she got caught by the police. I think he slipped up like she said, leaving him trapped there.
Ending 5 is the best ending, always follow your intuition.
At around 9:05 when MBH closes the book you can tell she/it seems very pissed at the investigator
9:05 her angry face actually scared me D:
This eldric being's acting skills are comparable to Tommy Wiseau
I did not kill her, I did naaaaaat
Oh hi Hunter
Hahaha, what a story, interrogator
@@jasonee12 Love it
The actor's accent is all over the place, but I still enjoyed the game.
The game was made in 2 Weeks for a GameJam and sadly the voice actress was recovering from an illness at the time when we needed her voice work for the game. In the end, though I basically viewed the ruff acting as a bit fitting for what the game is. Much like how the bad acting in Silent Hill 2 kind of added this uncanny to the game experience.
It fits, considering the monster can take over different bodies which could imply that the monster is already hiding for a long time as different people.
@@AlexOlinkiewicz I honestly thought it was intentional
9:06 she looks like a 3d rage emoji
That made me rewind and look again...
Girl really did 😡
There is a one frame foreshadow where she looks upset that you're finding contradictions at 9:04
I've been pretty impressed lately with some of the lovecraftian horror games that have come out. Some of them are really great. I highly enjoyed sucker for love due to the fact that they had horror AND comedy. Every once in a while I love me a Horror comedy Video Game. 😁
Thanks for the upload Manly! Hope you have a fantastic day/night. You and your family stay safe and healthy.💜🤝
from Google translate, 'Leig leinn cuirp a thionnadh.' means 'Let us turn bodies.' in Scottish Gaelic
and 'Chan eil fàilte oirbh.' means 'You are not welcome.' in the same language
could this game, therefore, take place somewhere in Scotland or somewhere in the UK?
I think the monster needed an invitation before it could take over your body. You can say the invitation in any language, even one you dont know how to speak or understand. So the body snatcher is just tricking you to say it and banking on you probably dont know Gaelic
No, but they were traveling to Scotland
I mean, given they're calling it "university" rather than "college" that wouldn't be surprising, though with the accent of the male voice actor I'd lean more towards Australia...
The plane tickets suggested that the professor was taking Darcy to Scotland, presumably for that ritual. Safe to assume this is Scotland.
@@ak_nora I stand corrected!
I like to imagine games like this going on in real life and manly is just sitting there after her name she gave a name and he just keeps flipping that file up to his face and then looks at her and then just continue to do that for 5 minutes straight file face file face file face like a bouncer checking an ID they have a strong suspicion is fake
To this day im still mad the little cube dude coudnt defend emself against that monster that always gets em from behind.
You steal my words thief
Huh?
rip to the replacement interrogator but if I was in charge of an otherworldly entity I would simply not get killed by it
Kinda makes you wonder what that creature did in the first place to get...in the situation she's got, haha 🙃
She says "avoid my punishment"
"YO HUNTER, YOUR FACE LOOKS LIKE ASS"
And then the game lol
it seems the entity is a liar, so maybe it tricked the hunter entity somehow
@@italucenaz Maybe tricked them into asking who Candace is
@@themasterprocrastinator4933 who's Candice
holy fuck this game has such good potential. I'd have loved if it was longer, took more time to crack “Darcy,” and there was more interrogating; more piecing together the crime scene and what happened. devs have a VERY beautiful game right here, I would love to see it expanded on someday
Wow, that was actually a good "visual novel"-ish game. I actually enjoyed that more than I expected.
"What exactly happened?" *hears my voice outside the room and the voice I'm speaking with isn't mine* "Not again."
I really love this kind of horror game, the interrogation part that is
yup
It's 2 AM here and your video with it's thumbnail decided to show up in my recommendations, thank you manly it's not like I want to sleep anyways 😄
Also another contradiction in entity's words is that it calls the other thing a "hunter" and says if it gets access to our world it'll destroy it, if it really is a thing that destroys worlds then it would've been called "destroyer", "decimator" etc. But a hunter? And it's said by the entity that hides from that hunter? Brilliant writing
I mean it did do that in the end, but it comes off to me more like a predatorial animal finding a target it was chasing down and then seeing tons more easy targets nearby, rather than outright malice or destructive intent
The voice acting could be "bigger" for lack of better words, but I liked this!
The interrogator was alright, or at least fitting. The entity's VA that was just plainly bad.
the guy is surprisingly calm for someone just got trapped in a pocket dimension and facing a otherworldly being.
I get it. When you find out those words, which ironically you find out only when it starts to reveal its true face, you're revealing the its secret to the Hunter.
You're basically giving him its X Y Z coordiantes. And in return the Hunter lets you go.
My only grip with the ending is...why do they arrest you? Like, the protag has the recorder with him, moreover they did disappear in front of them. Appearing only like 5-15 minutes later. And only the protag appears.
So not only they cannot ignore the fact that something genuinely supernatural is happening but that the detective just stopped an incursion from happening basically.
"Leig leinn cuirp a thionndadh" is Scottish Gaelic for "let's switch bodies," while "Chan eil failte oirbh" means "You are not welcome."
I don’t know if my eyes are messing with me, but her body kept jittering and pulsing, makes sense with what happens, but if it’s intentional from the devs that’s pretty cool.
I laughed too hard at the "YOUR DADS A LAWYER" like i can imagine some cop sitting out side the room then "YOUR DADS A LAWYER"
You could see the body snitcher or heathens face change into creepy face at 9:05
It took 10 minutes of randomly pausing the video before I realised that the faint wailing was coming from the game and not the street outside
All I can think is "are you asking whether I'm a Lovecraftian horror or a lesbian?"
Plot twist - main character and the girl are narrator and princess from “slay the princess”
“What state ? ” Depression is the state I’m in
I'm curious as to why James Murphy's profile pic ended up changing? Why was he disguised as an older person before? At 23:43 is that James Murphy?
It's a really interesting concept would love more like this.
I think the one at 23:43 is the interrogator. I think for a split second, the Interrogator saw himself from the woman's eyes.
2:16 Innsmouth,
yeah first red flag.
The scary "spider face" also isn't her "Face"... she's more of the shadow you see at the start of the reality.
The scary faces it makes is the Hunter slowly grabbing her, trying to do the same thing to her as he did to you, AKA "Removing skin from every opening (mouth, eyes) i had, bones bending like rubber) and she was in pain, trying to just get this over with as fast as it can, that's why it got really angry at the "questions"
11 PM sounds like a great time to watch this.
Feels kinda like a alternate metamorphosis.
Haha, the premise of this game is wild. This is a cop-killer, being interrogated by healthcare personnel. The police are like “Oh sorry, we can’t give you any evidence since she’s the subject of an investigation. Good luck!”
It’s like….yes that’s why the police interrogate people they arrest. Not doctors, save for determining competence to stand trial, etc. This is a terrifying, crazy world they live in, lol.
It’s not exactly unrealistic for a medical professional to interview a patient one on one…
@@DeathnoteBB like I said, yes there are times when they would. But not to basically gather evidence and take statements concerning a crime, as is being done here.
New upload like rn I am at church and this pops up and I’m like hell yea
This deserves a remake. It's interesting as it is, but it could be a classic with subtler/better VA, a bit slower gameplay with maybe some interspersed detective scenes and stronger visuals.
I don't say any of that to denigrate what's there, I'm saying the means didn't weigh up to the idea, which is great.
Manly: I am on a timer with this
also Manly: Majority of time wasted looking throw all the pages regardless of if they were relevant to the situation or not, or just plain speculating.
I like how you can just choose to not take the job.
i havent watched you in a month and im still glad i can get you on my reccomended.
Ending 6 - interrogator knows Gaelic.
I was going to watch this then I realized that it was close to nighttime and I'm not brave enough to have this in my head when I got to sleep or the toilet.
Hear me out…
👂
hey manly, i'd love to see you check out the demo for the game "DREDGE" it's a fishing-boat Lovecraftian game, one of the highest quality horror experiences i've seen this year tbh and im sure it will be up your alley.
I'd like to see more of this game. Reminds me of that Princess game.
The artwork for this game was amazing, I love the detail
i love how 3 seconds in its just chaotic. 'HER NAMES DARCY!?!?!??!?!'
I've recently started trying to learn 3D animation myself. I've considered making a horror game over the past few months but my coding isn't the best so I might just make the 3d models and hire someone to help code it, or I'll just forget the idea altogether. I don't have any plans for one anyway, just something I thought might be fun.
Placing my bets in this girl 99% monster
Hey manly i think you should try out game called GNOSIA. It's basically mafia or werewolf, but singleplayer where different characters can be randomly marked as infected, including you.
I'm not one to judge a person by their looks or situation, but I may allow an exception just this once...
Bullshit