You need two words for it: it sucks.

Just got bored with this gameplay. If you don't like card games, this wont win you over. It was intersting and fun at first, but just got boring fast. And I love roguelites. Just watch this video to bypass cryptic boring gameplay but get benefits of story and mystery solved.

Does anyone know if the original language version has all the slang and wokey dialogue in the game, or if it was added to the English language version as a translation liberty?

i love your videos man :) keep up the great work

The o ly way I can see a game like this getting made is a group of people collectively going “im bored”

I'll bet this game'll have something to say about 80s-2000s Japanophilia. Zoo pandas are strictly controlled by the Chinese government and regularly used for negotiation in international politics, so making a game called "panda circus" perhaps it's about the Chinese government attempting to harness the OLD_DATA for their own purposes.

6:18 As a big mythology buff I see this as an absolute win

What is referred to in this as the “Eye of Anubis”, which isn’t a thing btw, is actually the Eye of Ra. Ra is a sun deity, which is even represented by the fact the symbol is IN the sun in the background at 8:17. The symbol itself often represents power and violence, which I think speaks for itself. If it points the other way, it’s the Eye of Horus.

Thank you for making the ending even darker! Joking aside, great video

suprised you misses the secret “clownward always wins :o)” text hidden in the static at the end of the trailer.

I know this is an old video, but overcoming one of those battles where Leshy spawns all the bears is absolutely one of my favorite things I have managed to do in this game.

What about the bone lord? I think he also has a very important place in the story and explains you about the old data in act 2, even if he turns off the record when he does so you won’t get to know what it is.

Rarely is a game awesome enough for me to sit and play most of it in one sitting. I couldn't get enough of this damn game and then when I started digging into the lore I'd like to shake the developer's hand but not disappear into the Matrix

I feel that Zed's obsession with spectacle comes from the psychological need for novelty. He may have been desperate for an endless now, but he was still drawn from the human mind and the mind needs novelty.

It's not a bad way to answer most of the questions the old data has a name it's just one of the characters within the game of inscription don't really like to talk about

One of the best game story explenations i have ever watched.

Demon code is such a fun plot device. Esp since it's delivered in video game form. Very meta.

Its about Hitler. But you didn't give enough F

During Part 2 I tried to replace Leshy because I loved him he's amazing and during the finaly I teared up it was so wholesome and wonderful the only other time I teared up to a game was the end of titanfall 2

well put together thanks

This game was a masterpiece, the idea, story and as an art piece as well.

After seeing this I’ve realized that since I have gone to fast on the game I never saw some really interesting stuff lmao

Watching this so that I dont bave to suffer through this atrocious combat system.

Thanks for clearly raising and addressing questions

What a sentence “furious that his assistant wasn’t being sufficiently tortured by his torture.”

I didn't have a single boon to face Leshy and was mortified when the moon came in. Then I pulled a STINKBUG 😂 Leshy literally said "this is so stupid. It doesn't make any sense. THE MOON CAN'T EVEN SMELL!!!" 😂

Po3 stands for "Poe"

When fighting Leshy i had put that "touch of death" thing on my Stoat, and just one tapped the moon, completely breaking the "holy shit" feeling i had got and just burst out laughing, gotta love it

I feel that Magnificus has a true hate Luke and Kaycee, two people hell bent on destroying creations that took years to create, he has some sort of weird affection with art, no matter how it may hurt others signicantly

I didnt see some of the stuff in act one, I beat act one on my 3rd try, I just brute forced the puzzles

Say, is P03 really the bad guy? Although his intentions weren't the best, doing that (releasing the game to the public) would've made more people aware of the "OLD_DATA" and Gamefuna couldn't have just killed one guy for it all to be over. Edit: my bad, I just read some stuff and I'm pretty sure that the old data is evil and will invoke chaos if released blah blah blah. Well, i hope we get more info on the old file in perhaps future games or maybe even a dlc

Great summary! Watched this after beating Inscryption.

fucking lost it at the Borat quote.

At this point gamedev is satans true passion, spreading chaos and sufferring seems to be just a hobbie and a way to spite his dad

I must have missed out on the whores beyond our comprehension

You forgot about the phone Lord I think the Golden Bone Lords say to the devil's son I mean he he literally Travis the new version that he wants he helps us in all the games also he cries a sacrifice for the bones

Kaycee's plan really was quite bad, wasn't it.

Why tf is Rex such a bad ass now

23:52 Sun station theme definitely surprised me here

4:29 Headhunter gets her chronos from Al-Qasim, and because she works with Fifteen, it is safe to say they both get chronos from Al-Qasim.

dogshit lore 10/10

Hey Maka_J, I've watched most of your Daniel Mullins videos a bunch of times ever since I finished Inscryption, they're definitely some of the best stuff out there to get up to speed with the game's lore! I love your documentary style with them, too. There's one thing I was curious about though, I just now found out about the actual Luke Carder channel - The one I presume was being used to advertise and run the Kaycee's Mod ARG when it was first going about. I was surprised to see the cryptic-cool videos from Kaycee's (probably?) POV and all the interactions of the Woodcarver speaking straight to us - Or someone else, commenting that all the Scrybes met their demise - And also whatever the hell the Gamefuna ads and 'Adbot' were about. Though I soon realized the end of that was 9 months ago, while your series was all the way back 2 years ago, back when there were probably still running together. Like what you said in the end here, We'll have to wait for whatever comes next for Daniel Mullin games - But I'd also love to see your take on some of that stuff from the ARG, if you consider the more meta stuff canon (That one with the Woodcarver seemingly being aware with the surprise IRL cat gnawing on the totem is a fun one). I'd love to see your thoughts on the Woodcarver after all of Inscryption. There's a video out there on the Mycologists, one video on Plasma Jimmy's lore, I feel only the Woodcarver is left to deserve some analysis love too! Again, thanks for the content man! I love to send this video in particular to people and tell them "This is great to watch without content and take the information in like it really happened in real life" it always throws them for a spin.

I can't believe you tried to pull a Machinima respawn on him

8:28 didn't one of the args already prove this?

not a great vid

sheesh the bitches complaining here... thanks for the vid

Ok ut how is there only one key? Setsu's key is taken from Raqio and left in the hands of Manan, but the main character (MC) key is given by Setsu after another iteration of him filled the key, so while Setsu's key has a clear entry and exit point in the loop, the MC key is passed from MC to MC until you break the loop by conscience transfer.

Hola. Daniel Mullins? Like Mullins the pirate?

The main thing I disagree with about this theory is the idea that Satan was the Lost Soul the whole time. I know about the secret where he talks in Hopeless Soul's voice, and that's why people are convinced they're the same person, but it seems to be similar to how Sado's voice in The Hex is based on several characters voices put together, and how she's able to pretend to be Rocky during Rust McClain's backstory. I think that's just a standard power of demons in the Daniel Mullin's universe, perfect mimicry of people's voices. I still think Pony Island is about a crusader and a hacker teaming up to hack into Satan's computer and cause a system dump, getting a large portion of Satan's soul collection off his computer. I just think the reveal of "Satan was the Hopeless Soul the whole time" breaks the narrative in a way that basically made the whole adventure pointless, and even frick with some of the cutscenes that imply mr. crusader went to heaven during the final cutscene. It's possible after this system dump, that Systemtech rebranded as Gamefuna and Satan went for a much more subtle method to take people's souls: hiding them in the fine print of contracts rather than explicit "insert soul to continue" methods. It's possible Satan wasn't even trapped in pony island, but his little demon face is similar to the Crocker virus in that Fairly Oddparents episode where Crocker made a virus that looked like himself to try and stop Timmy. I imagine what was going on there is that Satan would pretend to be Hopeless Soul during the sequel, panda circus, and it would be up to the player to determine whether or not it's Satan or Hopeless Soul trying to get them to do something. I think this because the entire ARG that revealed Satan talks in Hopeless Soul's voice led to the teaser for Pony Island 2. Still don't know what's going on with Lucifer's dad. It might be that Lucifer's dad is some bigger devil hidden in the karnoffel code somehow, it could be that Lucifer's dad isn't even evil just Satan's perception of evil, and Satan just calls him evil as attempted mockery. I know some people consider the AntiChrist as "the son of the devil, who is one with the devil," so it could even be that Gamefuna's CEO is the AntiChrist trying to unleash his evil dad. Under virus theory, "Lou Natas" even could be devil face's dad. Another theory I do really like is that the reason gameworks characters are sentient is because they're tied to the souls Lou Natas collected throughout history, and that he basically "inscrybes" their souls onto mass duplicated video game characters. Rust McClain could've been a guy who died in a war, Chandrelle could have died during the middle ages, Leshy could've honestly just been a massive DND fan. Some characters might be tied to the souls of demons, like Sado or Valamir. However, proximity to the Karnoffel Code fills their souls with vices like greed, wrath, or jealousy. This is why Lionel Snill characters and the Inscryption characters on the Karnoffel Code disk act so much differently than the other souls that are perfectly programmed to fit a specific role. I even like the idea that the reason Gamefuna games are filled with so many bugs is because the code is literally inconsistent. Copies upon copies of people's souls doing slightly different things every iteration. Every copy of (insert Gamefuna game here) is personalized.

Geez, they sure made the entire story of Xenoblade so confusing. I’m sticking with the simple Xenoblade 1 story 😅