A closer Look at the Mocking Birds - SOMA

[@Bill-px7so]

The Lesser Constrct is Vigdis "Jonsy" Jonsdottir. The same voice actress.

[@umukzusgelos4834]

Ah, interesting

[@maksphoto78]

@@umukzusgelos4834 Yes, it's Vigdis.

[@fuego_ferrico]

Yes true The entity name is Construct_Upsilon_Transformers .

[@skittslol1407]

SOMA is one of those games where you just sit and dont move for a while after you finish playing.

[@qbj]

Man, it's been 8 years. KZbin recommended a random SOMA cutscene to me and I've just been sitting here for a couple hours not moving, just remembering the game. It really sticks with you like nothing else, huh?

[@FatherMcKenzie66]

Man you’re so right, I’m going to play it once again

[@robertnelson9599]

@@qbj A game has to be pretty exceptional to do that.

[@madmonty4761]

Can you explain why this game makes people feel IRL dread

[@hody.8381]

An absolutely worse fate than death. SOMA might not be scary in the traditional sense but the sense of dread is impeccable.

[@Yzozer]

Yup, you want to live, but you will die - Ouch, you want to die, but you can not - Super Ouch😐

[@pipp972]

It's got the best psychological horror in any game.

[@d00mnoodle]

Idk man jin yoshida gave me fucking nightmares lol, and so did akers

[@ZoofyZoof]

How is SOMA not scary? I'm not scared by almost every horror game, but SOMA in particular was terrifying.

[@Nuniixo]

The open ocean was particularly horrifying

[@RadekCrazy1]

There is a theory that construct is a scan of Imojine Reed (or whatever her name was) put inside a robot. Keep in mind that she died at Upsilon and Simon has her body. WAU could have put the brainscan of her into the construct as a last resort but since her scan was corrupted she is batshit crazy. She is also agressive because she sees her former body being piloted by Simon.

[@AHHHHHHHH21]

Imogen did have a seizure during the scan, so that's a possibility

[@chinchilla415]

I think the Construct is one of the better monster encounters. Not because it's hard or anything, but it's a great intro to both the game and an introductory monster encounter. The Construct is lumbering, imposing, and loud. The soundtrack is also one of the better ones, it's really great.

[@umukzusgelos4834]

I would agree, if you are new to the series it´s good for learning the basics and setting the tone

[@WaffleCone927]

I assume half the robots you encounter in the game wanted to kill us (the player) for our structure gel. The hostile qualias bots actually mention this occasionally when they chase you. Alot of these bots dont want to fall apart further is my guess

[@fenjamaus02]

Those poor people... Being trapped in a robot would be scary for anyone! SOMA is amazing but also really, really depressing.

[@peacelovetakosofficial6362]

well the scary part is that they dont know they're in a robot they dont perceive themselves as robots just as the main character does they think they are human but they arent and they're basically stuck like that forever

[@krystoftheprotogen679]

I think the problem here is that these aren't "people". Yes, they do have a consciousness, and yes, they can talk, but what are they really? Just a robot with a *copy* of a human mind on it. And even then, most of them seem like they can't even "think" properly, perhaps due to it being corrupt by the WAU or something, perhaps another attempt as preserving humanity.

[@badasstasticusbadass4908]

Soma is one of those games that would either leave you as an emotional wreck, or question your own reality and even what "Have a Conciences" really means. Great game though.

[@Alwarity]

imagine how different carl's reaction or dialogue would be if we had the option to bring amy or carl's ID tag, to see what he would say. i would assume that for amy he would say how she is his good friend and colleague, and how he cannot wait to get out of upsilon to meet her while for his own ID tag, im pretty sure he would ask where did simon get it from, and he wouldn't believe simon if he said its from his body thats few steps away

[@rhatalos1997]

To me SOMA is the greatest horror game. The ending was foreshadowed but still surprised me. I don't know why the game was never popular.

[@d00mnoodle]

Word of mouth has helped this game a lot, by now it has sold over a million copies and most horror game fanatics either know of it or love it. It's got overwhelmingly positive on steam with like 40000 reviews

[@nolaz010]

I still never understood why it wasn't optional to drag carl's body over to him.

[@oliverajovanovic3829]

The mocking bird Carl would go insane if it was aware of what he is (a robot). Him thinking he is still just Carl and not a robot is the only reason why he is not insane or agressive towards Simon.

[@oliverajovanovic3829]

@@n646n she does, but she is fine with it, Carl doesnt sound like he would be.

[@KartsSafespace]

@@n646n Catherine created the Ark project and understands how brain scans work, and the version of her that we’re friends with was one of the first test scans that she did. Carl’s scan was taken by the WAU before anyone really realized what was happening, so of course he’d be confused. The idea of being in a machine body would be absolutely preposterous. Like he says to Simon: “your mind is pretty tightly wired to the helper but, nah, pretty far fetched.”

[@hornet370]

It’s said the construct was originally a security personnel that’s conscious was replicated into the mocking bird and is mostly mad at you because it thinks you’re a trespasser

[@HappyMatt12345]

SOMA isn't scary in the sense that I often feel scared while playing it like I do when playing Amnesia, but this game really messed with me and even made me reconsider some of my views/thoughts about life, like the world has already ended at the point Simon wakes up at Upsilon, and yet life still goes on, but what really stuck with me was Simon talking about whether there was even a point in going on in the climber trip down into the abyss and Cathrine telling him, in summary, he is in charge of making his existence on the ARK feel meaningful to him, and that made me realize it's kinda the same in real life, our existence has no real significance, it's up to us to decide what our lives mean for us (and yes outside factors do influence this as well, I'm not saying abandon your bills/job because "life has no meaning", I'm just saying it's all arbitrary so there's no reason not to chase your personal goals and save up money to do the things you want to do).

[@santawithsponge]

Soma to me is even more horrific than the Amnesia series. It just feels hopeless

[@Boingy420]

I spent weeks with SOMA, just investigating that game's plot and story. Neat that others are on the same adventure as well. A few tidbits I concluded. That game is like a, 3 shits hit the fan scenarios at once. Meteors nuke the surface. WAU goes haywire, and Akers go rogue. And you're only left with one 'pure' old woman to recreate the human race at the end. LOL GG Game was a trip and a half though stoned. A game that puts you on the ocean floor, as a robot. Unforgettable.

[@Absoluuttinen_Totuus]

Most people probably let the "old" woman have her euthanasia, so then you're left alone in the dark depths of the ocean, without power, aware of the monster-machine-consciousnesses lurking around the base's stations... Yeah wouldn't want to be in that situation, that's for sure😅

[@ubergammer00]

Lol she’s not old she’s like 20 something she’s just emaciated

[@RenamedChannel]

​@@ubergammer00she says she at least doesn't have to turn 30, so she is 29

[@derpthederpness2525]

i love this, pleeeease do more in depth looks into models, maybe even the main character, Simon's, and the other suit he gets later in the story

[@LeeXonia]

It would be awesome to see Simon model

[@haydenTenno-]

SIMON FUCKING COWEL

[@LMBknight]

There are optional mirror scene you can interact Spoiler: you can see his reflection, a reanimated corpse in a diving suit with a cortex chip as the head contain Simon’s consciousness

[@LeeXonia]

@@LMBknightI know i just want a more detailed look on himself

[@frost3193]

​@@LMBknightBut whose corpse is it though?

[@LMBknight]

@@frost3193 Imogen Reed before the pressure suit, Raleigh Herber on the Pressure Suit

[@MrNacho453]

I wish I could put everyone to rest. No more ilussions. Only peace for them.

[@a.k8185]

Wondrr what would happen if you drag the real Carl's corpse to his mockingbird variant.

[@AveryHyena]

Judging by the Transmission shorts, he'd probably act like it was a sick joke, that the corpse wasn't real.

[@a.k8185]

@@AveryHyena Probably.

[@ZachNohKap]

Soma is one of the best horror games I have ever played. I liked it so much that I have the after credits zone where you see the city on the island as my lock screen on my computer.

[@smurlix5676]

Carl and Javid are the perfect WAU creation. Theyre happy, completely ignorant, but happy

[@therandomlaniusedward2140]

And in a human perspective, Simon and Ross is the perfect creation.

[@INFILTR8US]

I played through this game once when it was released and will freely admit that most of it went over my head. Thank you for the detailed videos. Definitely high time for a replay.

[@MisterJohnDoe]

7:40 I have never noticed that there were graves outside.

[@umukzusgelos4834]

Neither have I until I made this video and went to record Robin outside, the graves blend so well into the environment

[@Brydav_Massbear]

Fun fact, the hostile Qualias are known as Scavengers! Also, Amy's surname is not Alvaro but Azzaro.

[@umukzusgelos4834]

Yes, I realized post finishing when it was too late

[@misterwolf3817]

For a starting enemy, they are quite cool. Also very scary... in terms of what happened to them

[@uliveulearnandregret]

so it seems like universally the idea of keeping a human soul/concioussness inside a machine is dangerous is correct as there is even an anime called Reborn as a Vending Machine, now I wander the dungeon where a robot/magic item was made with trapping a human conciousness inside the object, it wanted to kill

[@pizzasauce9945]

If I remember correctly all these robots got shut down after the wau is killed during the ending right? At least they weren't left in there for all eternity to suffer

[@d00mnoodle]

The leviathan still seemed to be doing fine so it's anyone's guess wether or not the monsters could act independently. I think they do though, as it's a conscience in there acting on it's own accord

[@MiguelHernandez-lo5lg]

My guess is that the mocking jays probably shut down, but people trapped in mind coral or were otherwise afflicted by the WAU are probably still alive until the station completely falls apart. Which would probably take a few hundred years at least. So yeah not a fun outcome.

[@glassblizzard]

I think that would go against what the WAU was made for, it was made to preserve human life not control it

[@AveryHyena]

Not instantly. It takes time before the structure gel would harden and lose charge. That's why the worm and Yoshida were still able to come after you.

[@thegarden619]

Ah yes, the game my friend forced me to play yet i still havent completed it, good thing i already saw a good bunch of these robots. Want a funny fact? Im scared of ocean literally want to piss'n'shit on the spot as soon as i enter deep blue, basically talassaphobia and this dude i swear man he f***** gifted me subnautica too >:(

[@umukzusgelos4834]

sounds like he´s hellbent on making you suffer...

[@spinafire]

I love the leg design, great work across this game

[@rafsandomierz5313]

The Amnesia devs really like cyan color.

[@umukzusgelos4834]

apparently, yes

[@cpt.sortinaz5572]

You know, this game made yoy wish you could off them so they can rest, maybe pick up some random shit and smash it on them until it broke ? I dunno.

[@the_furry_inside_your_walls639]

There's even the Lesser Construct who tells you she's happier when unplugged from the power outlet.

[@umukzusgelos4834]

@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 She actually says "Why? I was okay, I was happy"

[@DanielRamirez-vb2ix]

​@@umukzusgelos4834shit😮

[@DemonCollie]

Wouldn't Simon, by the games definition, be a mockingbird, too?

[@umukzusgelos4834]

He is in a way though he is not inside a pure machine but instead inside a strange mesh of a corpse and some mechanics fuse by structure gel

[@DemonCollie]

@@umukzusgelos4834 I like to think he's just an AI imprint, since hes in a human body that has a machine core slammed down through the head.

[@AveryHyena]

No. "Mockingbird" was the name given to pure machines with scans stolen by the WAU while PATHOS2 was still running, who still thought they're human. Simon was none of these things.

[@DemonCollie]

@@AveryHyena then, may i ask what he is exactly? I know he was the original brain scan, and the original template for later things. But what is he exactly?

[@AveryHyena]

@@DemonCollie He is neither a flesher or machine. As Catherine says: "Just reviving a dead person doesn't seem to work that well. A robot body seems to make people a bit... Unreliable. You are the best of both worlds. A sound mind in a sound body."

[@krollic]

I think soma and pigs will only continue to garner appreciation with age. certainly underrated because while they might not be as traditionally scary, their story and atmosphere cannot be beaten

[@AHHHHHHHH21]

I dunno, machine for pigs does not even compare with Soma

[@S3-C2]

I hate to tell you, but that’s not a bird. And it certainly isn’t mocking, it’s mopping up the floor with your body.

[@TheRealGears]

2:19 this MF really just karate-chops Simon to death huh?

[@umukzusgelos4834]

so it would seem

[@FeliksOnline]

Closer look at SOMA deez nuts

[@Punkmonker]

Personally, I chose to unplug Robin Bass. She was suffering a fate worse than death: sitting at the bottom of the ocean alone and confused for a very long time. I did similar things in the game because I thought it would be much kinder to put them out of their misery instead of enduring the horrors of infinity

[@fuego_ferrico]

The unknown Construct's name is Constrct_Upsilon_Transformers Idk anything more it's a cut enemy.

[@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad]

The Construct running cycle is so goofy

[@krimsoff]

could u make a video on the original amnesia gatherers? love this videos!

[@umukzusgelos4834]

at some point

[@greysonbourne]

you should do Jin Yoshida next

[@umukzusgelos4834]

he will be featured in the future

[@obunginator974]

wasn't it amy azzaro??? 2:08

[@the_furry_inside_your_walls639]

Amy's body can be found having been fused together with the WAU, so chances are that thing isn't her.

[@obunginator974]

@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 i believe you didn't comprehend what i meant.

[@andrewt8004]

​@@obunginator974Then what did you mean cuz I'm confused too. Did you mean to say wasn't it Amy that was killed by the mockingbird?

[@umukzusgelos4834]

Ah, damn you are right, I confused her with Emma Alvaro

[@obunginator974]

@@umukzusgelos4834 exactly..

[@HeeHungersForHos]

Its weird that Robin doesn't recognize the outside of Theta's entrance.

[@haydenTenno-]

Hey man I noticed a typo, you spelt rogue as rouge

[@umukzusgelos4834]

aw, not again! I swear I review this footage like 7 times everytime before uploading but there is always that one mistake slipping through, thanks for pointing it out though

[@haydenTenno-]

@@umukzusgelos4834 it’s cool. If I see any more I’ll point them out

[@youngkappakhan]

this game is probably the greatest argument against transhumanism ever made

[@Scoutspwnd117]

I was honestly hoping we would get to see more mockingbird monsters, and less of the body horror monsters in the second half of the game.

[@Mike-os3pt]

What's a 'rouge machine'?

[@umukzusgelos4834]

rogue is what I meant

[@masterzoroark6664]

Quick question- the mockingbird Qualia have tentacles or is it just one screenshot that made them look like if they had these?

[@umukzusgelos4834]

They have, they seem to be probing tubes whith which they will dig around in the Sand for Structure Gel, they will also extend them while hunting, however unfortunately I was not able to locate the animation in the editor

[@Elementroar]

*rogue

[@tetrafuse3096]

I wonder whos conciousness is in the DUNBAT?

[@umukzusgelos4834]

I think it has a name but I forgot and I could not find the source

[@tetrafuse3096]

@@umukzusgelos4834 dammit

[@Nor1998_]

Sucks being them.

[@crowsbridge]

I think it's Amy Azzaro, not Alvaro

[@umukzusgelos4834]

You are correct I confused her with a Character called Emma Alvaro

[@flameyoshi07]

unfortunate fate...

[@Mabra51]

These machines aren't red.

[@I_am_a_cat_]

Did you seriously spell "rogue" as "rouge?" Come on man

[@umukzusgelos4834]

Yes, evidently so. Non-native speaker that I am, did indeed spell "rogue" as "rouge".

[@ZerglingLover]

im confused. what is this game? what are these things? why is this in my recommended?

[@yeyeyyoyoy5414]

It's a horror game. If you have gamepass, it's available to play it. Overall, it's a good game.

[@cj-3810]

I’d recommend playing SOMA best game that rests in my head.

[@umukzusgelos4834]

alas the Algorithm has struck again...

[@elponogris8588]

Robin is actually "he", in his room you can hear his real voice.

[@umukzusgelos4834]

are we thinking about the same person?

[@therandomlaniusedward2140]

Destiny 2 player here. They created exos but poorly designed