Mega rich light-bending guy made a good investment.

2:07:34 I think this is a great ending. Kind of underrated tbh.

Spectre is so sweet, she's amongst my top 3.

35:16 Violence was always their language.

I hope you do the "happy ending" route, Wich in the damesel route keep asking her what she wants until the void nearly takes her in Then you need to interupt the princess and return her to "normal" Voila, my favorite route and orincess is open

Brady, describing a therepy concept to someone: "So, have you happened to play Slay the Princess...?"

Dude this is amazing I love it. My first thought was "Oh man I hope this dude has played Disco Elysium" and that's exactly the other game you're playing! Super excited to binge more

I felt from the beginning that this story was going through trials of spirit to the seat of Shiva and Shakti. If you want more of this kind of lore you might really enjoy Devon Ke Dev Maha Dev, if you can find a version with subtitles (or do what i do and just interpret through actions the whole time 😂)

This game is gorgeous! Thank you for expounding on all we are seeing here.

My wife has DID and damn if this didn't have that vibe about it.

Time stamp 7:30 I like pain. I go towards it

God damn do I ever have a hard time expanding my range to experience accomplishment.

Board games! Yay!

I think sometimes someone might develop faking an external locus of control, even to themself, as a coping strategy for a locus of control which in reality is excessively internal. E.g., in the truest sentiments of my mind, I find myself blaming myself for everything, even things that aren't my fault, and also having an inflated view of how much work I should be putting into a collaborative effort compared to my collaborators. For the prior case in particular, I end up thinking something like this: "If I think I'm at fault, that's a good indicator that so does everyone else. [Not necessarily accurate, because it's a distortion, but I don't tend to be self-aware about that at the time.] As such, I have to make excuses." And the more I make excuses, the more I start to believe them. There is eventually an actual layer of my personality, that actually thinks nothing is ever my fault, built over the truer layer that still thinks everything is always my fault. Maybe this is actually a good thing, because they can compromise and reach a middle ground that's closer to the truth.

7:43 minutes in. I wonder if by "world", it means the game itself. And that the narrator is aware of the 4th wall and is trying to make the human player keep the game going by completing this assigned quest/task thing. I am likely way over thinking this, though. I'm sure it's all on the up and up.

My own first playthrough (yesterday) has been a radical deontologic, pacifistic run, stubbornly avoiding to do unnessessary harm to her without a proof of her being a threat to the world. I deeply mistrusted the manipulating shallow utalitarian the narrator seemed to be. He pushed me and his morals were wrong (or at least unconvincing). And since I really hate being forced to go against my moral compass, I felt so abused, my only control seemed to be to refuse. And refuse I did. I walked away. I did not take the blade. I became a martyr. And I hurt her nonetheless. A blade for sure would have helped, when she was entangled in thorns... Btw: What is your interpretation of the semantic space, the cellar the princess is held captive in?

I've been called a walking contradiction my entire life and this was kind of insightful. I yearn for safety, but i yearn for adventure. I love the hurt, but i fear and hate them, too. In a way, I think that gives me more perspective and helps me understand others and the world more.

I don’t agree with the notion that he is playing as the hero but that kind of just makes it more interesting. It makes it so that the main character of the game is role-playing as the voices that he is hearing in his head, weirdly perfectly chaotic honestly

I'm at 1:22:00 now. It's quite remarkable that the princess is exactly like the new voice says she is. The Smitten was convicted she's perfect and a lover and… she was. The Cold is convinced she's dead and… she is. Can't remember the Sceptic and the Opportunist making hard assumptions about the Princess, though.

How beautiful all of this is. The Game, you, and this yaw-dropping, awe-inducing grain of sand in the enormous cold and dark emptiness if space - our world. A world which gives birth to creatures who can feel pain and love and fear and joy, and who can give birth to beautiful ideas, (un)pack them in games and analysises (is that even a word?)... How beautiful. Thank you for this incredibly fun and insightful playthrough. It helped me appreciating some aspects of the game I overlooked. Edit: And I think I am a fan of narrative therapy now. Or better: discovered I have long been a fan of unknowingly.

1:39:30 The Narrator is a poet. Not just documenting, nor just a writer or recorder, but a poet. Just throwing that in there.

The narrator hates the process like only a gay mgtow communist could.

Why can't you just put the frame with your face in a spot where it doesn't cover text? Why? It's not difficult.

That sounds like Maslow, your choice theory.

22:25 that's a false dilemma… I trust neither of y'all tbh :') 27:29 well the most obvious answer would be… well… that you're the one who locked her up, and you're probably both the narrator (persecutor) and the Hero (saviour) at the same time… So who is she ? Your "victim" ? A third part of yourself you're afraid to let run free ? Maybe this simply represents the idea of what trust really entails, and wether you're ready to be vulnarable in any kind of relationship… 29:39 the- your hands ! The Hero is a non-human creature !

Do we have the Skeptic as id, the self as the ego, the hero as superego? I know it's not really correct as given, but it is roughly analogous.

The Rapist plays?

I'm noticing a pattern. When the game is giving you the choices, and NOT saying "political" you have very clear opinions. When the word politics happens, you completely disengage and refuse. You just nope out. You have trauma about politics, and perhaps should work on that. ... course, right now, I think everybody does...

"She will lie. She will cheat. She will do anything in her power to stop you from slaying her." This is really interesting because we would all do that if it meant our lives were on the line. If someone was trying to kill us, we would even try to kill them if it meant we'd survive. So in a sense, what the narrator said is useless.

NieR: Automata? Really? It was a good game with Amazing Soundtrack and themes, but I guess I just found it hard to get everything after reaching the true ending.

A therapist having a thing for crazy woman is peak comedy honestly lmao

After seeing this I feel like "Slay the Princess" was made by a Therapist and a kind of Therapy Gamified.

Dam... your obsession with the Razor seems really concerning...

The seeking of meaning in life is why religion and cults are so appealing to people...

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I’ve never seen much of this game, but judging from how things are turning out I think that The Narrator represents our objective reality and when we go against that with new stories to tell ourselves things get messed up. Like when the narrator says to kill her and we do and she dies without a fight. Then we choose to check her pulse because we feel guilty and hope she’s not dead, so she comes back to life. It’s like whatever story we tell ourselves becomes our reality. In real life we can’t change objective truth with delusions, but I think in the game we can.

Trust is built from alligning words with actions and consistency and with allignment with real outcome.

not gonna lie i save scummed for my one and only time in the cargo container i do NOT blame you at all lol that’s the most annoying check in the game

i love how in some chapters you might think Paranoid is one of the less helpful voices, but then you get to nightmare, and Paranoid becomes one of the best voices

Honestly I really hope you get the cute ghost route

I love Kim after I finish the game. To be honet, I was afraid of Kim stabbing me at the back the whole time until the end. 😅 I don’t know but it could be that I am affected by Japanese detective games/series too much where in the end it is always your trusted one who did the terrible thing.

Play little miss fortune after

Somehow, this is the first time I understood this story, through your insights.

how in the world did you get your handwriting to jitter like that? such a cool effect

I don't care if you're I or whatever the hell.. you're hot AF. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

I feel like after realizing death doesn’t matter the first time, it also alters the entire perspective of the voices, mainly the voice of the hero. And after the second death it makes their max stress drop considerably, since of course, if death doesn’t matter, they can try anything without needing fight or flight

I’ve watched a lot of slay the princess playthroughs because it’s got so many options and stories, and this analysis adds an extra layer of interest to the video, I love it!

I think it was in episode 2 where you get the option to tell the princess to just stay in the cabin, make it a home and live out your lives inside (which.. I don't really like either but knowing she'll just be absorbed once outside.. I feel it's still better than dying right away).. I keep thinking what would have happened if you asked her that. also I don't like that this is a love story, not bc they're so different but.. bc it's a love story that is birthed by trauma, which.. can't go anywhere good imo, or maybe when all your parts come together you can truly know eachother and maybe truly fall in love..

invested in Chekhov's knife frfr ,my favourite happy ending

For potential playthrough recommendation, I may recommend Analogue: A hate story.