Let's see if we can fix that in the coming episodes :-)

Truly one of the few characters who speak sense in this nonsensical world. I know he was a bad kid, even before the demon, but who can honestly blame him too much with the way the islands are. Henry is an engineered tragedy and that's getting him my sympathy at least.

That's a good question, that I'll have to answer in two parts: 1) Playing blind in general gives you the chance to experience the game together with your audience for the first time. As a big fan of mysteries, guessing and theorizing about the plot are some of the things I consider "the most fun part" next to voice-acting, not just when playing video-games, but also when watching LPs myself. To give your thoughts or follow someone elses thoughts regarding the plot differentiates Let's Players from each other. It makes the experience unique. This would not be possible if I know stuff beforehand. I would basically need to fake every reaction or act unknowing for the sake of the viewers and that would taint the LP in my opinion. It creates a power impalance between the all-knowing LPer and the ignorant masses watching, that I just don't dig at all. 2) As for not knowing the plot beforehand, but reading extensive reviews on either gameplay or progression... It also taints the experience for me, I guess... I'd like to think, that my critique and disappointment (or praise) are also a legitimate part of the experience, both for me and for you. If I inform myself beforehand, then I would go into this with alot of bias or even the taint of social desirability. Hope this helps. Thanks for the question :-)

@@moonpressure Thats an interesting answer. So you do it to make better LP and enjoyed them more ? But how do you choose each game ? You can’t play everything that you find, you need minimal information. Do you choose based on trailers, steam page or recommandations? And do you play overwhelmingly liked games, because just knowing it’s trending can influence your opinion (the taint of social desirability) ?

​@@akaji3013 Yes, essentially both. It makes the LP better and I enjoy it more blind. As for choosing games: Most often it is a recommendation either from someone in person or from some KZbin videos. For example, I sometimes watch these "The best RPGs of 202X" or "The most unique Indies to come out 202X"-type videos. If I notice a game that has an interesting artstyle or a nice one-liner premise, then I turn off the volume so I don't get spoiled and watch some gameplay scenes very sparingly (skippin everything that looks like a cutscene). If I think it looks cool I add it to my list directly or sometimes look at some metacritic scores (only the scores, not the contents) to ensure it isn't complete garbage. There is also a really good games show called Game Two (not in English, sadly), where they often present sleeper hits as well. That's where I found out about "a Short Hike", I think. Lastly, I think both my viewer-count and the games I played make it pretty clear, that how new or well liked a game is to the public has little to no impact on me picking them for an LP. I have yet to play a AAA-game on this channel and don't consider in the slightest, which games would make my channel grow bigger. I could. I simply don't want to. I want to play what caught my fancy and not force myself to play stuff only for the audience. Both of us need to have fun, right? Hope that answers the question 🙂

@@moonpressure do you want some recommandations ? Where can I find Game two on line ? Which language is it ?

@@akaji3013 Game Two is on KZbin on a channel under the same name. Won't do you any good unless you speak German though. Which is a shame, since it's really good. It even won the Grimme-award multiple times, which is like the german Television-Oscars. As for recommendations. I'm always open to them though I don't make any guarrantees past carefully checking them out before coming to a descision. The upcoming LP will actually be a game suggested in the comments, and the LP after that is also already set. So it'll likely take some time until I get around to it, should I like what I see.

Thank you. I try to make them unique :-)

Thank you very much. It's nice to see that those who watch, are enjoying the episodes. (^-^)/

That's a really comprehensive list. Thank you for that. In the episode I recorded today, I finally entered the trial, so I probably won't find the boat gate (despite rounding the beach multiple times) or the grappling hook

@@moonpressure Boat gate is just the device to move the boat into position, you definitely found that.

@@TherinCreative Thank you. I didn't think of that as a gate. More like a cargo bay with the crane being the main feature. But it did have a gate, now that you mention it.

I don't really know how the TV App works. Does it really matter though if they are two half hour episodes or one 1h episode split in two? The playlist should play them in order regardless, doesn't it? Anyways, early in my KZbin escapades I got feedback that 1h videos are too long to watch, and that I should split them up. Tell me if I can do something on my end to help you.

Don't worry. I'll find them in an upcoming episode. Still, thanks for the advice. You seem to know this game like the back of your hand!

I'll find some more stuff at the council building in an upcoming episode, and I'm already aware of missing something at KHX's hut, that I caught during editing (obvious in hindsight, but it was on screen for a split second, so I'm not suprised I missed it). But are you certain, that meditate shows clues/evidence? I had meditate active at the council building and it didn't show a piece of evidence via highlight, if I remeber correctly (I'll even point it out in the episode...) :-/ As you've probably noticed, I hate using meditate, since it takes forever to active and lasts only a few seconds. Plus I have to manually cut out each activation during editing since they completely destroy the pacing of the video otherwise. Truly an error in game-design in my opinion.

Still, thanks for the advice. Especially for the hang-out timer. I wonder how many events each character has?

@@moonpressure You can hang out 5 times with each character.

@@moonpressure I think it works on every clue that you can pick up, but not on those that are part of the environment (like the pink tire tracks). I know I found some clues via meditate when I played the game. And yeah, the time it takes and short duration makes meditate a little annoying, but it could be that the developers didn't want it to replace investigation on the player's part.

@@TherinCreative Okay that's good to know. I'm afraid I didn't keep count though ('°.°)

Okay, thanks for the advice. They just seemed supremely pointless to me. The game doesn't comunicate their use at all.

Yeah, this game really expects you to just roll with the punches thrown by the setting. Still, I think around episode 3 or 4 was when I started to get into the groove. Figuring out the rules of this world is probably an intended part of solving the mystery.

The title-screen made generating the thumbnail for this LP kinda easy. Just when you thinks Cthulhu is gone he returns in full force with his presence.

While I can't say I would've minded the game being twice as long, the way it is is a nice little gaming snack for in-between.

I am nothing if not methodical. Sort of feels bad, that I cannot shake my tendencies even when I'm supposed to relax.

So far I'm loving this game alot. It is as you say, I needed a break from the chills and get some chill XD. I normally like collect-athons but they usually don't lend themselves to Let's Playing, because of lacking dialogue or mystery.

Time capsule gameplay >:)

@@frikimaster_8vironically my voice is way more chill in this old recording, which is fitting for this type of game.

I'm suprised you all seem to agree. I'm way more 50/50 about which is more positive. But yes, the regular ending being the special ending would flow better narratively.

He can probably guess and knows it deep in his heart but will never admit it to himself because Brian is a peasant.

Okay yeah, that's alot of context for what could be going on. But Is it really a loop? As far as we know noone succeded before Brian. They all perished and a new hunter gets hired. Or maybe it's a nod to what happens in part two about how the loop is forcefully upheld, in case someone finishes the witch off. We will never know if Joao was a hunter at some point.

My bet is on the latter. Probably the same world and rules, but disconected from the Sintracorp happenings. I wouldn't be suprised if Mr. Devil turns out to be the only referenced or reappearing character. As for Champman: Daniel and Tony have different names and different eye-colour. We also know that Champman's father was also named Anthony. With how pretentious their family is I wouldn't be suprised if every single boy is named Anthony, lol. It's a serious long shot but on some level it would be hillarious to have Champman's son (or something like that) be an absolute goody-two-shoes who cares for the poor and downtrodden.

Cool. I probably missed the easter egg already, since I recorderd the final episode yesterday.

Maybe I should've turned up the brightness :-). But this info makes it at least somewhat better although not by much since the game disincentivises heavy light-usage

Ah, okay. Thanks for clearing that up. I tried using the candy like that in the stroller-maze-segment, but I'm guessing it only works when she's walking around and spots you.

There is nothing less conductive to patience than being chased by a small murder-gremlin with a ritual knife XD. Guess I was my own worst enemy there.

I did see Domori, if that's what you meant. I was simply too scared to enter the room and possibly trigger a point of no return cutscene. I wanted to explore the Sintra residence more first. probably should've reacted more.

Thanks for the effort. I'm unsure what that would imply. Sosa is clearly opposed to the witch, yet she is listed as the stand in for one of her familiars?! Weird.

@@moonpressureI agree doesn't make a lot of sense.

Maybe. I'm not there yet

The unfairness is what gets me. If you design your save system both with limited savepoints as well as a consumable save-ressource to disincetivice saving, then you have to take extra care to avoid creating gameplay scenarios like this one.

Good to know. Continuity always shows the devs care

That would make so much more sense. You'll see in the next video, just how bad the glitching can get. I'm recording with OBS.

Noooo! The irony! There's no way that would ever happen, right?..... RIGHT?

You have an optimistic outlook. I guess only Kate will find out. Brian was let go from the company. No matter whether you leave or stay, all that awaits Brian should be a journey back to being in poverty-hell as a dreg of society. Truly uplifting stuff. I'm also banking heavily on Route B to clear up all the confusion, or maybe there could be a sequel somehwere down the road? I dunno, the game probably didn't sell well enough to warrant one :-(

As for Champman: Yeah, i kinda liked his arc from "some a**hole" to "our a**hole" as well :-) We never did figure out what was up with Malone though, did we? My theory is, that she was on the brink of becoming an HR-girl, with the seductiveness- and the cultish worship-motives around her.

@@moonpressure well I want to believe that rei gave some money to Brian to thank him for his help, I mean... If it wasn't for him, she would still be in the computer and her Sister trapped in a Block of ice/cristal in her body... So... Maybe not a class ascension but at the very lesst some money so his family can be fine for some months even without the job (? xd At least I guess so cause nobody would be as calm as Brian was if they go through all that and then the reward is a "thank you, you can go home" xD even Brian would feel a bit mad there, after all, the game has showed that he really likes money xd

@@frikimaster_8v Rei: "Well, you didn't kill the witch. So.... no 20k bounty for you, Brian 😛 Now get out of my office!"

Thank you for sticking around and maybe continue doing so for the second route, if you have the time ;-). I'm pretty much asking myself those questions too. I hope we'll get some answers, but maybe this is the type of game that likes to keep things vague... Hence the name of this episode. Domori clearly has to do with Shintoist mythology, because of the associated iconography in her room, her being a kitsune of some sort and having a japanese name. The Yuppie Psycho world seems to run on different rules, as I've often observed. I mean, where can you just go to the black market and buy a floofy reality-bender off the rack?! As for the ice, I pretty much assume it's the serpent's doing. After completing the body-swap, he probably had to lock Rei's body (with Domori inside) up, both in order to be unshackled from his mistress and to escalate the situation with the Sintra parents. They burned the only person who could've tattled on him, had she overcome her mental breakdown. I'm unsure whether or not A.M. was lying intentionally, but I'm pretty confident what he said was false either way. All flashbacks show Domori being held prisoner in her room and being treated with disregard. I'm guessing she was treated not as a daughter but as a pet. Beloved initially, but after Rei was born things changed. Initially the Sintra's may have been happy, that their daughter had a loyal playmate, but after Rei grew up and got bored of the family pet, Domori switched from beloved to just something they had to maintain for their wealth. An obligation. At least that's my headcanon so far. I don't think Rei was inherently evil, as seen by her memoryless gynoid version. I think it was simply her upbringing that corrupted her whith a bit of corporate callousness. She clearly likes Domori, but sees her as a valued asset, not family or a friend.

Yeah, in hindsight it's pretty obvious, especially combined with your prior comment. I was feeling way too smart in figuring out each mummy's name when I didn't need them after all.

Oh really? I don't know what it did accidentally right :-/ Does his walking-pattern change randomly?

@@moonpressure maybe he was running faster in a previous build and they changed it. He would catch up and I had to hide 2 time under a table and wait for him to leave again.

Yeah, I found that out later as well. Though I'm unsure how you're supposed to know that the plastic knife should be used... Maybe because the cocoons are wrapped up people?

​@@moonpressure I guess so. They hint at it by letting you "simulate" stabbing Kate at the birthday party. also in the dream sequence cut-scene the plastic knife transforms into the dagger. It's not clearly communicated. At the end I would have tried all usable items anyway.

@@matthiasries8175Pretty much, yeah...

Thanks. Kind of accidental but it's good that we saw it nontheless.

Normally the "swinging back and forth" would be done in the fetal position on the ground. Brian is truly blessed to have implements to enhance the experience.

Take a lesson from this kids: "Don't drink and drive....... -out unspeakable evils beyond human comprehension"

Brian: "Why do I hear boss music?" (ó﹏ò｡)

Thanks. I had some recent experience with drunk voice acting via my theater group, so I'm a little more in the groove than I would usually be.