I have a rule with these kinds of videos. As soon as "art is subjective," I turn it off.

I saw a long media analysis and I insta-subscribed. I look forward to bingeing your entire catalogue

i really feel like this new game supermassive bringing is gonna be good

Oh shoot, this is what I get for not subscribing to you: I completely missed this video! I'm quite fond of House of Ashes, so I'm looking forward to watching this

"the Devil In Me? More like the poop and pee" B A R S 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥

I just stumbled into this video and I'm gonna stay here for more. I love those video games essays and yours is really nice to listen to

Disagree I loved this one. The worst one was little hope

The Game Ever Made for some reason makes me chuckle but also very accurate

That fucking film filter is the worst part of the game. I don't care if it's not there the whole time, it looks so stupid lol.

Personally i wouldve prefered if the story was about a guy being too good at making robots that kill and the robot ends up killing its creator but then just takes its creator's place. its kinda what i already thought had happened in the game itself until you brought up the possibility of it being an actual person, and that he simply just wasnt responding because bad game. i think it wouldve been interesting anyway. the whole time you think youre figuring out this guy's deal along with the characters and then when the end of second act confrontation happens its revealed that none of the psychological or emotional hang ups you read about work (or have worked up to that point) because youre dealing with a burgeoning artificial intelligence piloting a robot thats only reference for its identity is the myths and realities of serial killers and its creator that made the robot for the purpose of imitating them.

got to the disclaimer and had to immediately stop to call out the line "those who are not yet caught up to the year 1893 and are reading it chronologically" bc i fucking cackled Out Loud at 1am. congrats this video peaked at 6 seconds lmao

My friend and i played the entire series together. It's fun, but I don't think I could do it myself

3:13 As someone who actually played it, Forspoken was fantastic. The hate was entirely undeserved.

I’ll be honest, i think all of the dark pictures games are awful stories. Bad characters, terrible writing, the whole nine yards.

Yes, thank you!! House of Ashes is my favorite of the Dark Anthology thus far and only comes second to Until Dawn as my favorite of all their story-based games.

The disco elysium song at the end really threw me off. We love it!

You'd really think with the concept of a death trap hotel (based on a irl thing) would be so easy to pull off and yet...

Supermassive making a bad game? Water found in ocean

fiction that addresses and dissects indoctrination oh how i love thee

Am I the only one who really loved the devil in the me?

using hallucinations as a crux for your story feels to me with almost a frustration with the premise of fantasy and the ability to believe in something that isnt real - that its on us for thinking the fantastical could appear even in a story. like i often find that theres little difference if it was real or if it wasn't thematically other than lowering the stakes to an abysmal degree.

"this video isnt meant to be consumed all at once" [cut to me who is specifically here because ratat does 1.5-2hr videos and its the only sort of video I can work and art to] 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬

happy to see some well-formed analysis for game that left me and my friend going "maybe this and the quarry were just missteps, and we'll get something great soon" <3

Wait is that what dating in your 20's is like? I never did that so idk. It sounds awful.

life is strange Double exposure is that game for me personally 9:21

i feel like ambiguity could have really helped this game more any sort of maybe this is a reincarnation or some sort of silent hill or signalis style real-and-unreal setting would have made the ending not feel like "oh so this just didnt happen and the characters except for one just dont matter". I'm also opposed to "it was all a dream/in this persons head" style stories as they kinda just bite the player for believing in fiction as fiction rather than interpreting everything in an overly mundane realist perspective.

You at least got one subscriber from this video, but only because my dumb ass forgot to subscribe while watching prior videos. Whoops.

So, if you keep all characters alive, the Currator explains how they've changed : 1. Kate had a past trauma and overcame it 2. Jamie's learned to trust people 3. Erin, despite being easily spooked, showed immense courage to survive 4. Mark stopped waiting for others to tell him what to do 5. Charlie realised that being a leader isn't just about bossing around None of these character arcs really happened. Maybe the one you can say is about Erin. Kate's trauma was mentioned in one or maybe two scenes. Jamie only distrusted Kate and Charlie at the beginning, but she clearly didn't know Kate well, and Charlie's company was failing, plus he was a controlling man. Mark had one dialogue about leaving his current job by the end. Charlie didn't take leadership after everything went to hell. He didn't become a better team player either.

39:00 lot of confidence in that statement...

I thought I had already subbed. Guess I can be that one sub from this video. 😌 lol

So glad you made this, I hadn't played this game yet, but watching your videos about the other Dark Pictures, I decided to finally give this one a try, too, so I can watch your video about it as soon as it drops! Most of my guys died though, unlike the previous games, I either didn't care enough or was too dumb to figure out how to do it. The final guy literally died because I pressed the wrong button in a QTE, in the VERY LAST encounter of the game, and I still didn't feel like a re-do...

First ten seconds: The devil in me? More like the poop n pee (got em!!) Lmaooooo! Yeah I’m locked in

Another Ratat banger I personally liked DiM for the aesthetics and some of the atmosphere. Things like the notes from previous victims, the trap dioramas, the body count tracker in the main room and the audio logs were really unsettling and especially the curing room scenes. I just feel like it could have been so much more. I think that the nature of Holmes as this mythological figure and the way that the subsequent copycats leading down to DuMet are just copying themselves back to this fictionalized version of the man would have been a really interesting thing to explore. You're looking at a copy of a copy of a version of a man that didn't really exist.

Ummmmm…. You’re missing a word in your title