Let's Play Animal Well Part 2 - Stuck in the Machine

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Game Description:
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Hatch from your flower and spelunk through the beautiful and sometimes haunting world of Animal Well, a pixelated wonder rendered in intricate audio and visual detail. Encounter lively creatures small and large, helpful and ominous as you discover unconventional upgrades and unravel the well’s secrets. This is a truly unique experience that can make you laugh in fear, surprise, or delight.
EXPLORE - ILLUMINATE THE DARK
Dense atmospheric puzzle box world with tons of secrets
Light candles for safety and gradually fill out your map
Nonlinear -- explore and collect items in whatever order you choose
SOLVE PUZZLES - OBSERVATION IS REWARDED
Enemies, environment, and items interact in surprising and systemic ways
All items have multiple uses
Learn how innocuous details can become meaningful
The main game is just the beginning. Players will be discovering hidden puzzles for years
SURVIVE - TREAD CAREFULLY
Assess for yourself what is safe and dangerous
Focus on tension and suspense rather than action
You are disempowered, but can make clever use of your environment and items
REVIEWS
“The new leader to beat in its sector, we're talking pure ecstasy.”
10/10 - Destructoid
“I'm astonished by it. Astonished by the ease with which it presents its ideas, the joy these ideas bring, and the sheer range of magical stuff it includes, all clipped together in such a satisfying manner. And fittingly, for a game about wells, I am astonished by how deep it all goes.”
10/10 - Eurogamer
“Animal Well redefines the Metroidvania genre”
10/10 - Noisy Pixel

[@lordofuzkulak8308]

11:50 - interesting how on the map the hamster bullying room looks like a cartoon animal face, but when you were in the actual room it looked like a skull.

[@Adam-dd9lo]

I'm not a regular Keith watcher, but he seems a lot happier now than a couple years ago. It's nice.

[@clarfonthey]

I also thought that the dog mouth was a second bear mouth. Dogs just look like other animals too much.

[@IMadeUpKear]

There's something funny about someone with a dog fursona calling dogs cats and bears.

[@clarfonthey]

That's the funny thing; yeens are feline, but they're the most canine felines. It's like how foxes are the most feline canines. So, in a weird way, his sona is a cat that's mistaken for a dog.

[@B_Skizzle]

1:18:40 That’s a decent comparison from what I’ve seen so far. This game doesn’t have a ton in common with Rain World, but there are enough little similarities that I wouldn’t be surprised if it was an inspiration.

[@buttonasas]

Finding firecrackers seemingly growing in the grass is the most reminiscent element, personally. Otherwise, yeah, a lot of little stuff and, in general, being a mostly defenseless creature (or prey, even) in a world filled with wacky creatures.

[@liallen9380]

I was trying to remember when this was because I caught the stream for it, but it seemed incongruent.. Then the hamster bullying began, and I *Immediately* knew about when the last time I saw Keith in the Animal Well. Still a hilarious way to solve that puzzle, you bully!

[@artfact2]

Really enjoying this game.

[@azhrie139]

Jump scare Keith asmr

[@makeitcraz6342]

I've been watching your Mass Effect series and it's like reliving my childhood and makes me want to play through all the games again!

[@godomoths242]

Yeah the game has slight rainworld vibes. Especially the way that the ceiling vines move and stuff like the fog effect in the background. As a big rainworld Fan, I hope youll get around to playing it soon

[@kristoffer3075]

39:39 You're not cringe, Keith. You're based.

[@AquaticLotus7552]

7:54 Speeeeeen

[@pedrostormrage]

Highlight suggestions: 7:28 - 8:17 (bullying mechanics), 1:15:38 - 1:15:58 (nightmare fuel).

[@matthewscheifer1169]

7:30 - I had no idea you could get the red egg with the disc like that. I did it with a firecracker.

[@jamiethemagpie]

"bye bye now! bye!" Is that from Skuru's videos

[@pairot01]

I wonder if he ever figures out that you can save AFTER flipping a level/mouse wheel so you don't have to do every time you die

[@TheMARStudios]

Have watched this, played it and still wondering if there is some surrounding lore or if it is just loose environmental story telling. Do love that most of the tools are toys. It's a fun way to work mechanics in.

[@pairot01]

I don't know about lore, but the whole game is plagued with dead animal imagery, even the name alludes to this as wells are linked to death.

[@enif_plays]

There's a setting in the game to reduce flashing if you want that.

[@Verdis80]

I am loving this

[@DigimonAllstar]

loving this

[@lordofuzkulak8308]

8:05 - what a bully Keith is. 😛

[@Laios_2526]

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