MOTHER - This Mom Truly Loves Her Children ( ALL ENDINGS ) [ 2 ]

[@vangoghsseveredear]

Neighbour's: "If we hear anymore children screaming, we're calling the cops" *children scream continually for more days on end, escalates to gunshots likely ripping through their apartments* "Let's give it a few more days"

[@pokerface4396]

Everybody is a parenting critic until mama gets a gun.

[@A.Z.296]

They died

[@FeliFelt]

I'm pretty sure that since Mary was steadily spiraling down into a psychosis, Tommy's monstrous form was probably hallucinated. It's a pretty sad idea though when you think about it; just imagine the deformed Tommy living locked away in a secret room... He moves through the vents to go out and play with his siblings but because of being malnourished and deformed they think he's a monster and Mary seeing him as one and telling the kids he doesn't exist doesn't make it better.

[@flamingwheel9926]

He was already deformed in someway, but her psychosis certainly increased that to a point where she sees him as a monster

[@gokuson949]

For a child Tommy was taking a lot of shots and tanking them

[@luigimussolini5966]

@@gokuson949 Tommy built different.

[@sourlessfix9109]

@@gokuson949 I mean the story is told through a Unreliable narrator meaning that lots of the story can be untrue or manipulated as we are seeing it through narrators perspective and not a normal persons, so that probably didn't happen, or maybe it was just tommy taking a while to bleed out and she was getting impatient or something.

[@funkmasterhexbyte1684]

@@luigimussolini5966 NODDERS

[@appjack8265]

Me: "I'm bored" Manly: [uploads new video] *WELLBEING INCREASED*

[@Nyax50Lopez]

I was bored too ngl doing my psycological comic book wheeze

[@reddragon8791]

Well played sir

[@Michelle_Ghostface_Miller]

yes

[@andrewminks6729]

Yes

[@xavior1352]

agreed

[@xerrias]

but like, why does mom wake up at night and do everything at night and also sleep at night, like you should really be boarding up the windows in the day time mary. manly. mary. mother.

[@punkuke]

Yeah, I was wondering what the hell she and the kids are doing all day, because it seems like the mom just wakes up in the evening. It's a really cool game but there's little things like that that break immersion.

[@staregineer]

She a single mother now so she probably wake up early in the moring to prepare children to school then she go to work and came back home to cook and clean till night

[@ADHD_and_Crayons]

Watch vids on "psychosis" or "psychotic state". In essence, when a person is this extremely mentally ill, it's common for them to have erratic sleep & wake cycles & perform activities that are abnormal. People in such extreme states will also be most active during manic episodes (which may explain the good & bad days seen in the game). If Mary had depression as well, then excessive sleeping is also a common symptom. What got me is the weird placement of the cookies. It almost seemed like they were meant for Tommy, but as a player, we assume it's for the 2 kids we can identify (& thus, players are actually starving Tommy).

[@seuyo2966]

Brandi Wolfe in games, the night is usually my fav. Also in irl too. I would always sleep to wait for the night :p I would usually play my computer in day or eat something

[@ADHD_and_Crayons]

@@seuyo2966 I definitely agree about enjoying the nighttime lol! It was just the OP asked why the mother was only active at night. When you watch the mother's mechanics & recognize the theme of the game, you can see a deeper meaning behind the usage of nighttime. It becomes more symbolic towards a psychological meaning when all variables, the dev used, are combined. It's even more fun to play games outside, at night, on a dark porch/patio! Creepy factor increases when you have woods nearby too lol

[@GhostandChromis]

It was actually a nice spooky twist that the murders in the apartment were not hallucinations, didn't expect that. That detail was just enough to make a fairly standard horror scenario interesting.

[@dylanisaac1017]

Spoiler

[@lpfan4491]

You know, it kinda would have been a plotcontrivance if they were hallucinations. Because thst would mean that there was a false alarm literally one second after the alarm was installed.

[@MrGermandeutsch]

@@dylanisaac1017 so?

[@juluke8385]

Well it was a MURDERER

[@end_musix1636]

@@MrGermandeutsch honestly he shouldve done a spoiler warning thing

[@zoinksscoop20yearsago68]

Manly having a conversation with the tommy monster while his vision is blurred and the mother is halucinating and trying to drink tea is one of the best parts of this

[@dandychiggins7240]

It's also one of my favourite parts of the game, because you can tell that she sees him, but at that moment she's just too tired, mentally exhausted to even bother about him

[@rohanistic]

*Monster attacks kids* Kids: Is the monster still there? Mother: Shut up and go back to bed. Kids: *wellbeing increased*

[@skynightprincess148]

So while Mary is in psychosis she sees Tommy as a monster, but her ‘perfect’ kids look fine. Also, at first I thought the tall monster was the dad, because he somehow knew where Tommy’s room was, but I also think it could be that the serial killer keeps breaking into the apartment sees the situation and just nopes on out of there because even he has no idea what’s going on in this house, but that’s obviously not the case.

[@acamera367]

Not even a Killer wants to deal with a mother chasing around a kid that crawls into vents.

[@lpfan4491]

The two times mary directly encounters him are clearly not real because he would have killed her in the hallway down there and in the apartment itself, he does not even seem to respond to anything physically there like bullets, the kids or even tommy.

[@michaelzhang7098]

LPFan the tall monster is a hallucination while the biteyteethMc-Gee is Tommy, after the incident I guess that she locked Tommy up and pretended he didn’t exist but as her phsycosis got worse she hallucinated him as a monster going through the vents and attacking her.

[@lpfan4491]

The tall guy does actually exist, there is no way for a hallucination to trigger the dooralarm and it misfiring right after installation and never going off again seems highly unlikely. Though the rest rest of the encounters...yeah, like I already said.

[@lpfan4491]

@RollCake Cookie Every time they are attacked is when they are sleepy and/or it is kinda dark in the room. The one time tommy actually revealed himself properly(Not counting hallucinations while drinking tea), one of the kids was able to properly identify tommy.

[@musicgamerlover]

**Blam! Blam! Shoots both kids in the face** Manly: Well we are getting a different ending I feel horrible for laughing my ass off

[@A.Z.296]

We all do but it’s still funny as shit

[@peregrine3400]

From what I understood, the laughing man was just Mary's imagination, Tommy was real and the only interaction mary ever had with the real murderer behind the deaths of the other neighbors was that one message she got from an unknown number. It also seems like Mary unintentionally saved her children from the murderer by being paranoid about Tommy and trying to kill him.

[@lpfan4491]

What about the time he killed a guy where mary could not have seen(or hallucinated) it and then he triggered the alarm right after?

[@xtreamg5739]

He did kill that guy infront of marys appartment and also freed tommy from his hiding spot that one time, i think he is just something else that wont ever fit with the story

[@flamingwheel9926]

@@xtreamg5739maybe it's literally just a serial killer that Mary imagined as a monster, and the version that entered the house is her imagination, but with the same shape

[@xtreamg5739]

Remember Them if i where to be honest with what i think, i think that this is a monster that came/manifested form the tv since it was on when tommy first appeared. About what it is i think is A) a monster who is attempting to hunt down mary and by consequence everyone he encounters, or B) a serial killer that mary can distinguish due to here been hi on drugs, this wouldnt make much sense as hes immune to bullets, but what ever he is in one way or another he was real

[@Lookin4aBoxToLive]

I'd say that's it. I know that if I was planning on entering a woman's apartment where she lives with two children only to hear like 20 gunshots one night, I wouldn't want to go in there anymore.

[@megs4000]

I have a sneaking suspicion that Tommy doesn't actually look like that, and that Mary blames him somehow for Jack's (I think that's the dad's name) death, so she hallucinates a monster form when she sees him.

[@an_ordinary_goose]

I also suspect that the tall creature is actually Jack, the husband. Since it doesn't become properly active until Mary has to venture out of the "apartment" (her safe space that she's created in her head and in reality) - I believe it implies that Mary wanted to escape from his suicide, which is why there's almost nothing in the apartment (from what I could tell) to remember him by besides his ashes. I also think it's why the gun worked on Tommy, but not the other one since the gun belonged to Jack which he'd possibly used it to kill himself and why it seemed to be stopping manly from trying to kill Tommy on the final night by seemingly wandering around aimlessly in the apartment.

[@Prudester]

@@an_ordinary_goose I'm having a hard time believing that for the sole reason of why would the father go after and kill the neighbors? Although he does first appear after you water a plant given by the funeral company as a reminder of him, the neighbor in texts mentions the creature stalking them before even that.

[@an_ordinary_goose]

@@Prudester would it be possible that the murders were just inconveniently at the same time and are actually completely unrelated? The game seems to partially be a hallucination, so it might be Mary's interpretation of how she didn't want anyone in the apartment complex to know that she'd killed her child and the murders just happened to be the perfect distraction. It could also just play on the progressive paranoia of Mary as well, so the tall creature could be entirely fake.

[@Prudester]

@@an_ordinary_goose That's the thing. It entirely could be unrelated. However it didn't target the kids and seemed to be protecting tommy to an extent by actively targeting you as you tried to kill him after he somehow knew about the secret door to free him. Why'd the murderer try to single her out? It doesn't outright kill Mary whenever he makes contact with her unlike what we've seen with the neighbor and it isn't hurt much by bullets so if its actually a regular person that's really peculiar. The murderer had to be involved with Mary to an extent and not just a scapegoat for her paranoia because she sees it in action as it really is trying to get seemingly everyone in the apartment complex so I dont think if it was real he'd ignore Mary. I'm assuming the texts are the only thing unaffected by her paranoia so I assume Amy was in fact seeing what she was seeing.

[@an_ordinary_goose]

@@Prudester I'm inclined to believe even the texts weren't real either, but there was an intriguing comment supporting the idea that the creature was in fact the uncle that the kids end up going to - it explains why the creature knows where Tommy was kept (since the uncle does some digging up on what happened to Tommy) and why the kids don't seem bothered by it, almost like they recognise it. It doesn't really seem to explain it killing the other tenants though, unless the uncle was actually also about as screwed in the had as Mary.

[@ManlyBadassHero]

Why would Tommy do this?

[@maganashaker167]

Tommy’s powers and actions are incomprehensible for us, as we are but lowly humans

[@eliseanderson5591]

for the banter

[@puppercop9438]

He did it for the vine

[@martinezfamily005]

For the clout

[@legendofjenni]

For the memes

[@r15835]

"Hey kids!" *BLAAT* *BLAAT* "Sorry Kyle" *BLAAT* "Eh, for completionist's sake" *BLAAT* These made me chuckle more than I'd like.

[@onemoretime3614]

Time stamp?

[@r15835]

@@onemoretime3614 it's a summary of the three other endings, told through a manly completionist mindset.

[@onemoretime3614]

Donn Clueless ok

[@magicaldeathpair]

666 likes, nice

[@juluke8385]

@@r15835 Maybe make the onion plea more like a gun shoot

[@rohancrow5474]

Ahh yes a normal night of being a mother make sure the kids are in bed Check off the things on your to do list Don’t let the demon steal the kids Make sure you get some sleep

[@wirtz7223]

Ahh yes, a to do list of a mother’s night

[@balrogdemorgoth4741]

I think Tommy didn't kill anyone really, the real killer was probably the man the neighbor talked about and Tommy wasn't really superhuman I think, the more outlandish stuff like breaking a board with his teeth only happen after you've went full mad after all, otherwise he just move around through the vents. And the Priest say you've treated him like a dog and the kids talk about playing with Tommy multiple time so it's arguable if he even really wanted to kill them and it wasn't just the insanity making you think he was attacking them, might also be that the husband was the only one who treated him as a human (since he killed himself over it) and his death made Tommy snap, his mistreatment by the mother might also have gotten worst (How he also seems to be trying to eat the kids might fit with him starving since he hasn't been fed since the start of the game given that his room stay closed behind the shelve until the end.)

[@Prudester]

I'm just trying to figure out where the laughing man fit into all of this. He wanted to free Tommy and the father passed away, and if it was somehow the father that wouldn't explain him committing all the murders in the buildings aside for building onto Mary's insanity.

[@inkeddecker9964]

Maybe this laughing man figure drove Tommy insane as well. Even the kids say I don't wanna play with Tommy anymore

[@JuMiKu]

Which makes you stuffing your preffered children full of cookies in the middle of the night slightly tragic.

[@JuMiKu]

​@@inkeddecker9964 The laughing man is likely to be innocent of that, as he previously didn't enter your appartment. I think it's the mother, who drove this little kid insane with abuse and hunger and what you see as him carrying the others off and eating them, might be him trying to grab them and hide from you, being entirely too rough, because that's what you taught him.

[@luthiamoonlightfrqc2905]

As i see the things : Mary gave birth to 3 children but the last one Tommy was handicap therefore unwanted by mary kept tomy locked in a prisonlike room like an animal As for the durt man im sure it is the dad that mary killed herself for i dont know why the durt man never show up util his urn is broken and the first time you see him he wave at you like if he was paying a visit but only you can see him and bullet as no effect on him like if he was a allucination and the kids never mention him If that the case i can somehow anderstand because my own mother wanted to kill me at birth for the way i look " albinism " but my dad fought her in court so he coud ave me Maybe it is similar enniway this is how i see it ... Mary kept the unwanted handicap children and treated him like an animal and every time tommy rush to " atack " the other kids he play with them but Mary see it like an agression

[@Danzignan]

I like the fact *you* are never in danger, only the children, but it still scary as hell.

[@shayfarrelly6789]

Wym? Hes constantly being attacked by Tommy and the laughing man

[@juluke8385]

You mean the opposite for tommy

[@KimoraLikesGato]

@@juluke8385 yip tommy is acctually the good person here cause of his mothers phycosis

[@LittleMissShana13]

Glad the youtube algorithm gifted me a horror playthrough on this rainy day, very epic gamer.

[@aeho7496]

I love rain.

[@him1517]

John Dough do you know where he lives? Also it’s a fucking saying

[@donkeykongisbetterthanmari7495]

@@him1517 F WORD. YOU HAVE BEEN DECREED GUILTY OF SAYING THE F WORD BY THE FWORDIAN EMPIRE.

[@Ar_G0N3274]

2 weeks ago, and yet it's raining here now.

[@donkeykongisbetterthanmari7495]

@The main cause of warps in all of reality come to Wisconsin!

[@Transformers2Fan1]

This is when you put both kids in a room without windows and you sleep in front of the *only* door. Why does she leave the back door open? Why are the kids' bedrooms on opposite corners of the apartment!?

[@rafaelneumann8365]

She doesn't seem very proactive. She only does things after they are suggested to her. Seems like she's in a haze inside her addictions so she keeps things as is until the very end when she snaps and boards everything to keep them safe.

[@KingEndymionrose]

Ikr if you have kids you would want there rooms to be close to each other just in case.

[@default6274]

@@KingEndymionrose And even without a mad demon in the house, parents usually make children sleep together or with her when there's danger outside. And, generally children's bedrooms are close to each other. Seriously. Mother wasn't exactly a good mommy.

[@MrDMIDOV]

This is America goddamn it and we have a right to sleep in our own beds! Game mom here exercise her American rights with lethal force.

[@hikawagetsbitches]

@@MrDMIDOV that’s right, brother! freedom for all

[@lilyxxxxxx7146]

I got the impression that the mother had in fact boarded tommy away due to his condition as stated in the text from Carl, and perhaps he finally escaped only to be killed by his mother. (I also believe tommy’s appearance was altered that way due to the mothers’ hatred/shame for his condition or guilt after the fathers death) I think the long creature was trying to stop the mother by terrorising her because of the wrong she was doing to her child...maybe?

[@confusedjello7292]

*long creature*

[@lilyxxxxxx7146]

garbage bae arts idk what else to call it hehe

[@confusedjello7292]

@@lilyxxxxxx7146 nah it's totally okay! Just made me chuckle

[@Hunterofbones]

Maybe the tall monster was something like a "guardian angel" that is punishing Mary for all the wrong things she did to Tommy and also for causing Jack death, he kills all her neightbors, stalks and scares her to fuel her paranoia and to torment her (by also trying to stop her from killing Tommy)... Think about it, in the first ending she ends alone, with no friends (nobody that believes in her or love her), she suffers the side effects of taking a lot of green pills, then she is arrested and separated from her kids...

[@lpfan4491]

@@Hunterofbones A guardian angel killing innocent people?

[@SLENDERFREAK5127]

I’m starting to think those kids are sociopaths. They watched their siblings get one between the eyes, their mother off herself, and their well-being doesn’t take even the smallest of hits

[@owlismyfavouritecolorflame2325]

That sounds about right

[@kiryukazuma8089]

I mean, with a mother like that 😂

[@rafaelneumann8365]

My take is that the mother is an addict and needs medication for a psychosis. The third child was likely deformed because of the addiction. She doesn't kill it because she feels guilty for its condition. I believe the father died of unrelated causes, but the mother is too affected by it, taking back her old addictions and not caring about properly medicating herself. Tommy is forgotten in his secret room as the mothers psychosis takes a hold of her due to the mixture of drugs and alcohol. When the ashes are spilled she starts to hallucinate about her husband as the ghost. It first shows up when she is watering the plant that the funerary services sent her. There is a serial killer completely unrelated to the family taking the tenants one by one and the mother sees him as the father's ghost, but he can't get to her because of her paranoia. The one time he tried he is scared away by the alarm. The smiling man freeing Tommy was the mother doing so sleepwalking due to her guilt. Tommy's attacks are all on her head. She finally decides to kill tommy in order to "protect" the other children.

[@lpfan4491]

I don't even think the room was opened at all. Tommy is on the loose and Marys hallucination tell her the killer just went in and did it, even tho it is just tommy being more agressive than before.

[@itsyeet1247]

I guess they call him,,, ManlyBadassMommy

[@SpeedDemonisk]

I would like that mommy im my next life

[@rumi7751]

Not ManlyBadassDaddy? 🥴🤣🤣🤣

[@N_Corporation]

@@rumi7751 😳😳

[@noyoucantnoicantnowecantsostop]

@@rumi7751 you got me kinked

[@sarahthumm3162]

FeminineBadassHeroine ? I tried okay?

[@LunarShimmer]

This is a very good portrayal of mental illness/addiction. That's definitely the sound of a beer can opening when you collect "stamina", and then there's the progression from trying to take the right pills, to saying screw it and gulping all of them down, to just a big pile of the ones you weren't supposed to take to begin with. Feels kind of obvious to say, but probably the reason why Tommy ran when you flashed him with your phone was because he was being kept locked up behind the bookcase. Someone else said he might have been just trying to play with the kids (like the hide and seek bit), and wouldn't be accustomed to bright lights... or know what a flashlight is. I'll definitely be watching for more of this dev's games in the future.

[@Halcryder]

Monster hates flash photography and social networks. Oh god, I AM THE MONSTER.

[@CoffeeBeanzzz]

That inhale on 18:36 seeing an opened door was gold . Good mother indeed.

[@Buglin_Burger7878]

The tall creature might be the father and her feelings for Tommy. The kids don't react to it, and more importantly it appears to defend/help Tommy. Mary was an addict to medicine and beer from the audio cues. This means her true self was buried in addiction and this also means that a part of her likely didn't want to hurt Tommy. Like the vase's dust on the wall... things aren't truly gone. They linger even if faded. Everything we saw the "Father" do makes sense. The father likely tried to say "Tommy doesn't know better then to hurt people, he is very ill and needs help and support to improve." He would defend Tommy hurting others in the apartment not by saying it was right but opting for help. Mary views this as the father committing murders. jealous In the hall the son becomes the father, the son is the image of their father as a daughter is of their mother. A lot of people relate those things and as such... it isn't impossible to think that Mary's mind tried to lure her away from the kids into the hall and attack her there to stop her from hurting Tommy and potentially her other two children. Also the alarm wasn't too helpful for a few key reasons if the father was her/her reasoning. She was an addict to multiple things who was fighting herself in every way. Addiction destroys lives and even the person's own mind. When Tommy became a threat Mary killed him, but Mary made him the threat because everything good in her was buried or turned to ash and locked up behind addiction. ...at least this is how I'd view it personally. A part of her even moved the bookcase.

[@lpfan4491]

Now, what is interessting is that the kids heared the alarm that the laughing guy triggered, so mary did not imagine it. So he is real and the actual murderer, just that her paranoia made her think he was specifically trying to get her after he killed the other guy, but he likely wasn't because she was a hard target to deal with because of the alarm and the high attention she was paying. That is why he just seems to be there in the fight against tommy and nobody seems to know(not even tommy), she just imagined him breaking in but he wasn't there.

[@brodrickbennett]

Tommy goes down. Manly: Double tap Triple tap Quad tap Wakes up next day: One more tap One of the smartest gamers I've seen.

[@echo_sprite]

18:23 manly: "night 11" KZbin captions:"nOT a leMoN"

[@asid5067]

Well, nights are not lemons so..

[@echo_sprite]

Dang... Never thought of it that way... You're right...

[@Ashlynn_Morgan]

Mine said 9/11

[@echo_sprite]

@@Ashlynn_Morgan that’s considerably worse I think, thank you YT

[@nulliusinverba7732]

The children scream and the neighbors threaten to call the cops, but you go blat blat and they ???

[@ManlyBadassHero]

All your neighbors were dead. You were the only one left by that point.

[@straydogfreedom7795]

@@ManlyBadassHero So, in the end, psychosis was the real hero

[@ariabritton9669]

@@straydogfreedom7795 what if the real psychosis was the friends we made along the way?

[@straydogfreedom7795]

@@ariabritton9669 *nods slowly in agreement with your wisdom*

[@Maplestarknight]

This is a super interesting game conceptually but I feel like the bits trying to establish an actual narrative fall flat. Like the texts that directly imply the monster is your gross dog son, instead of maybe. Scary hints at that?

[@notrealnamenotatall2476]

Not to mention that feeling that the game is trying to establish a series, with the whole laughing man and multiple mysterious murders angle. Maybe the game should've focused on the plot at hand, because it almost had it.

[@All54321]

I mean, the room blocked by the bookshelves was a pretty good indication of that

[@ultimaT]

Sadly i have to agree that the endings kinda let down a well executed game. Overall it's a great experience though, really enjoyed this one.

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

At what point is the game well executed?

[@MothemOfficial]

This all seems to me a giant metaphor for schizophrenia. Her guilt for mistreating, and possible killing Tommy manifests as the smaller monster. While the laughing being represents her own disorder, fighting her at every turn, sabotaging her. If you listen closely, the laughing being may look male, but sounds like a pitched female voice. This could indicate that this is a halucinatory/perverted/distorted version of her own concious. - She tries to be "a good mother". Whom deals with her problems by drinking (to regain stamina), and is a paranoid schizophrenic, not getting correct treatment dosage.

[@zsewqthewolf1194]

but that does not explain the other killings. but what i think is there someone out there that is looking for victims to pen the crimes onto them.

[@MothemOfficial]

@@zsewqthewolf1194 A good point. Unless it's just her paranoia acting out? If she has visual hallucinations, there might also very likely be audiatory ones aswell. The messages, the killings, a lot of what we perceive might be only what she sees in her warped interpretation of reality. Of course, all we can do is suspect. So your guess is as good as mine.

[@zsewqthewolf1194]

@@MothemOfficial that would be the case how ever if not for that ending, where it say "the other deth are not link to her" meaning others who did not see her hallucnations are seeing the work of someone else then just her. this means someone out there know this would happen

[@KimoraLikesGato]

@@MothemOfficial I'm pretty late but I think the killings did happen I have 2 theories about it 1. The mother is actually doing the killings, this would in a way fit in with your theory. Because maybe these neighbors heard or saw something with Tommy and wanted to tell the authorities or she just felt like everyone and everything was a threat to her children 2. None of this has anything to do with the murders and it just so happens to be happening at the same time adding more stress to mary

[@skipfire00]

Why does everything have to be symbology with y’all

[@boreduser1234]

Wait, hold the phone! At 50:38, it says Kayla and Kyle were buried next to their father's grave. What grave? Wasn't he cremated? If it isn't a mistake, then who or what was in the urn at the start of the game? Who was "Jack"?

[@honganphan7647]

Interesting... I didn't notice that either!

[@FrankandJoe3]

Sometimes people have an empty grave for loved ones if they're cremated. It's fairly common.

[@screenedat0m]

Sometimes they still have graves even if they are cremated, likely in the case that their loved ones die and decide to be buried then they can rest together (in a sense)

[@howsad2397]

@@FrankandJoe3 That does make sense but I feel like there is supposed to be a twist, because it was a different ending :P

[@MrGermandeutsch]

And I thought it was Tommy's Grave. Bruh, I am retarded

[@skeletonorchestra1504]

Okay but the amount of space in this apartment? Got two kids rooms, an office with attached laundry room, a large living room, a separated kitchen with a short dividing wall, and a library with attached secret room? For a single mother, she's doing well for herself seeming. Minus the psychosis part but ya know?

[@TheRadicalOneNG]

25:40 The Smash-cut to walking around with a cookie and a gun is the best

[@cofeejoe2882]

I like the concept Tho I feel it was a much stronger premise when it felt it was just a woman losing control over her situation after his husband died. Managing the kids shenanigans while fending of stuff that made her paranoid, was suffocating in a good way. I feel like the story would've benefited from being less literal in some parts. It was still dope to watch

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

I wish it was more literal. I hate these dumb metaphors and unreliable narration these games seem to overuse all the time.

[@lyaen443]

So if their wellbeing is low when you finish, it doesn't change anything? Sounds like a missed opportunity if that's the case. Abusive mom run!

[@operationkilled]

32:18 Goes to Kayla room. *Manly:* Hey you [While pointing a gun to a child], go bed. That's one hell of an effective way for saying "Go to bed kids or I shoot ya."

[@cathie_486]

I just like how the monster just stares at you while you peacefully drink tea at 16:40

[@cathie_486]

like "ok drink your tea then ill start"

[@afruitypunchy]

*ManlyBadassMommy HE PROTEC HE FLASH MONSTERS BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, HE IS A GOOD MOMMY

[@luthiamoonlightfrqc2905]

HE IS A GOOD MOMMY This phrase sound wierd o.O

[@jaystar4968]

Would have sounded okay if ya said mother

[@afruitypunchy]

@@jaystar4968 That sounds better

[@thespider8782]

HE PROTECC HE FLASH MONSTERS BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY HE SHOOT TOMMY'S TUMMY

[@blooop1286]

Manly acting like a mom is a highlight of my life ngl

[@NoWayJose85]

If you watch from 28:08 without context, it looks like he's making the kid go sleep at gunpoint 😅

[@MrGermandeutsch]

That shouldn't have made me laugh

[@ScarletChorus]

So, uncle Carl is a good person in the end ha. He was so very rude to mentally unstable Mary in the messages even before he found out about her crime and never came to visit.

[@knkatz4379]

Uncle Carl's a jerk. I don't trust him.

[@thegreatbeanis_6462]

Uncle Carl is a chad

[@lpfan4491]

I mean, people like that exist. They are a jerk to you until they have to try to be nice and then they are nice. Not to mention, it is pretty obvious Mary is a nutcase, even without the criminal act of locking a kid up for life.

[@AncestralFruitcake]

@@knkatz4379 THANK YOU, fuck carl

[@kaileyolinger3263]

IVE BEEN TRYING TO REMEMBER YOUR NAME FOR THE LONGEST TIME ;-; I lost my old KZbin account and I used to watch you all the time 4-5 years ago T-T I’m so glad you popped up on my algorithm!!!

[@GiantParfait]

Welcome back :D

[@frostbirb5656]

^^ye ye webaa glad you found him again

[@quarterpenfangrill2861]

*Welcome back, mortal.*

[@MrGermandeutsch]

yeehaw

[@davysmith1934]

Congratulations! :D welcome back!

[@ADHD_and_Crayons]

This was pretty decent, but there were many missed opportunities to make it so much more. There were a few background holes that I wish had more detail. It needed a bit more on the father & son, as well as, the building deaths. There was that 1 cutscene, when we watch Kyle from outside his window....nothing else is said about it nor was there more detail on who/what that was lurking.

[@ScarletChorus]

Tommy probably was lurking behind the window

[@shawnheatherly]

Gameplay-wise, I liked how frantic it got towards the end while still having some good scares. For the story, that was actually darker than I expected. I figured most if not all of it was in her mind, but I didn't think Tommy would actually be real. Even the best ending has a kid being killed, though apparently Tommy was a murderer so who can say how tragic that death actually is.

[@lpfan4491]

Tommy was revealed to be real when the kids saw him. And he is not the murderer, the laughing tall guy is(though Mary never actually encountered him outside of seeing him infront of the door after he killed the neighbor. Unless the time he was standing there when she was watering the plant was real, but there is no hint either way). I mean, it would by all accounts not even make sense. A single adult can stop tommy, yet an entire neighborhood cannot? Sounds like rubbish.

[@xclimatexcoldxx]

16:30 Drinking this tea and audio is literally just like a guy drinking beers. He doesn't even care if he's talking to a monster, he just wants to relax.

[@dannywolfpero]

The smart thing to do is to all sleep in the same bed.

[@b_alkan1925]

Monster hunting my kids - i sleep Creepy laughing guy - woke Kids messing up the paintings - ascended

[@noyoucantnoicantnowecantsostop]

I always got Fatal Frame Vibe whenever the weapon is flash or something that related to photography, camera, or just a flash

[@tommy8323]

12:42 You say beer can, but that could be any can; I live with a Pepsi addict.

[@KuTheOwl]

I'm glad that when manly gets scared he doesnt scream really loud like other youtubers, it's just a quick, stunned, HUUUAH, and hes back in action

[@kitkatboard]

I like that about him too, that helps me to not be too scared haha

[@KuTheOwl]

Lol yeah

[@V_Drawin]

Worlds strongest weapon: The iPhone Gen 18. With police Grade flashlight.

[@Ith.977]

51:47 when you tell your feelings to your crush and they casually reply that they only see you as a friend.

[@dylanisaac1017]

Lol

[@RosieBear0304]

49:12 HOLY BALLS Manly, a little warning would've been nice. Dang dude 😂

[@puppercop9438]

-BANG-

[@Bobby__B]

When does Ness show up tho

[@ManlyBadassHero]

Prequel.

[@kendog84bsc]

3:31 At this point, I must wonder why they aren't sleeping in the same room

[@allingquilatonestacion4353]

'Cause they aren't like most Asian households XD And if that happened to our home (the monster not the drugs), maaaan everyone will gather in the living room (biggest one) and be sleeping with one eye open! Great grandma, great grandpa will get the pillows first then the mothers will have the chanclas, the fathers their brooms, and the kids with pans (rapunzel style) and butter knives. lol

[@lionelschweetz4844]

Alling Quilaton Estacion did we ask

[@allingquilatonestacion4353]

@@lionelschweetz4844 I didn't answer u now did I?

[@comradekenobi6908]

@@allingquilatonestacion4353 most Asian families had rooms for their family members each?

[@allingquilatonestacion4353]

@@comradekenobi6908 certain asian families share rooms until the bed or mattress is cramped. my family are a part of those said certain families. XD

[@CerealAnimal]

"I just killed Tommy, welp, better get some sweet sleep"

[@georgenadasi3536]

Manly: Shoots tall monster three times The Kids: I'm just going to go back to sleep now. The gunshots are totally fine too! 😎

[@silversforest]

16:39 just feels like he’s having a nice conversation over tea tbh

[@yeehawgaylord7655]

THE CUT TO THE SECOND ENDING MADE ME LAUGH I WASN'T EXPECTING IT OH MY GOD

[@jhkgyg098]

Mommy walking throughout the house with a gun. Just fucking blasting at nothing. And she keeps telling you to go to bed. Like bitch how!? You keep shooting!

[@goopers1638]

Eventually the textures stop being creepy and you end up fully focusing on protecting your weird dumb kids, it's honestly amazing

[@HJG3]

So anyways, I started blastin'...

[@Faires5]

What also scary is: "Bad taste in Anime" *Sips tea calmly*

[@owlismyfavouritecolorflame2325]

I just murdered a tik tok kid, and did the gang dance time for kind stranger to give me a sticker

[@JessicaEmoOtakuColquitt]

Manly is such a great mother.

[@MajorShepard]

But what about if you actually take the right amount of pills at the first few nights? Or you intentionally don't take the green ones with the future knowledge that you shouldn't take them? Maybe they give other changes too, like maybe the mother doesn't go insane after that. Or what if one of the children die to the monsters and not mary? Other than that tho game has an interesting concept and it was enjoyable to watch. The whole 'Disfigured son hidden away becomes monster' trope is always a bad one so I didn't like that as it made no sense, especially considering they just moved into their new home apparently going by the amount of boxes and such at the start. The tall man was what I was most interested about tho.

[@ManlyBadassHero]

From what I can tell it doesn't complete the "objective" till you down all the pills, then the successive nights don't give you the right amounts anyway.

[@davysmith1934]

The tall man was probably the most terrifying part, and his concept was the most well excuted I felt. He never lingered for long enough to become tiresome or normal. :D I mean, who busts a gut laughing, and then just RUNS at a man? Vento boi needs to up his game! :)

[@juluke8385]

@@davysmith1934 And about the pills?

[@davysmith1934]

@@juluke8385 Pills? I kinda felt that was a little...Off? I understand the mechanism, but there are more elegant solutions.

[@juluke8385]

@@davysmith1934 I meant the comment

[@gojousimp9436]

Me at the same end: Well at least the kids lived *Remembers Manly is a completionist* Uh-oh

[@dylanisaac1017]

If your children get kidnapped multiple times a night and you need KAREN to tell you to protect your kids, your doing something wrong.

[@alphix7228]

Glad Nintendo finally made a new one of these, bit confused on the 3D transition but glad to see a new entry in the MOTHER franchise

[@derekdrake8706]

"The monster can take you away.. but the IRS can take everything." Oh, so that's where Manly's soul went?

[@straydogfreedom7795]

The real villain wasn't even in the game all along

[@queenofhearts07]

Manlys the best! I know he works hard getting all the endings 4 alot of these games..Just wanted 2 say I appreciate it!!You're my favorite gamer 4 a reason ♡

[@noorqadri3507]

This is so soothing, I watching this before going to sleep and drifted off so nicely. I'm sorry if that's weird.

[@viethuongvothai686]

People: *watched horror video before going to sleep and became too terrified to sleep* You two superior human being: *watch horror video to fall asleep*

[@diegobrando1960]

@@viethuongvothai686 It's quite soothing honestly. I've fallen asleep many times to KZbinrs playing horror games. If you close your eyes and just listen to the video, then you'll hear the KZbinr freaking out and you get some good laughs. And as you fall deeper and deeper into slumber, you'll pick up a select few words and phrases out of context, which also becomes funny. And then it becomes background noise that you don't realize is still playing. Then you fall completely asleep. I have terrible insomnia, so doing this helps me fall asleep.

[@Buglin_Burger7878]

Looks like we got Mother 1 and Mother 2 but once again don't get Mother 3. And to make matters worse, they all relate to children and by extension Half Life as well. Coincidence? I think so.

[@marianareyes2705]

Wow!! Two videos in one day!! Love for you Manly!!

[@AniGaAG]

Manly drinking tea and bitching at the monster is one of the best parts of this.

[@NaturalFlirtGamer]

_Go to bed_ There's NO way I could fall asleep - Idk how the kids could honestly. Mommy will _blat blat_ our problems away isn't reassuring. I felt disappointed in a way that Tommy was real. He was kept hidden in that back room all those years & just came out after the father was gone. So he just wanted to play with the Kayla & Kyle but scared them bc of his deformity. I would have preferred oddly for him to represent her guilt over losing him, a fear of being alone, fear of being a good parent. The outside murders of the other neighbors didn't quite make sense - if the tall laughing guy was the killer, why not kill Mary & family? Was he taking so much enjoyment out of her going crazy that he preferred to watch & toy with them instead? Or was he kind of an embodiment of the judgment of the outside world, laughing at her trying to cope? I appreciated the tenseness of the game, the horror of the situation. I wish the story had a bit more depth, that the pills were meaningful, some interaction with the neighbors meant something, that the alarm would have gone off so the tall guy would have been eliminated & it was just her & her kids & Tommy. Thank you for showing us all endings!

[@Greatflabbergasted]

The tall laughing guy couldn’t get to her because of her paranoia. The alarm even scared him off once.

[@Remory123]

Does anyone think that the tall monster was mary herself? Like it did show that the tall one opened up the shelf on the book room to tommy's room, which would make the sms about tommy's birth a lot of sense

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

Why would it be Mary?

[@daeos989]

Momma's all out of bubble gum.

[@eliseanderson5591]

I hope uncle carl has good taste in anime

[@PurpleLightsaberAlex]

I am fascinated how the game's graphics (especially the color palette) remind me of a bad dream I had once about being a kid again, living with mom in a dimly lit apartment, feeling anxious and the night sky looked like a black ceiling.

[@mamasaurus4856]

I understand Mary was in psychosis, and had multiple, severe mental illnesses, but with Manly's help, she really did try her best to defend the children she recognized. I do feel bad for Tommy, but I understand the ending (don't understand beginning of why he was the hidden child, of course).

[@geruubun]

cant help but feel that this would probably be more scary if the Tall monster didnt do a TF2 laugh emote, lol! (pretty sure it's engie)

[@SenhorAlien]

12:37 "I'm getting these kids tonight, you ain't stopping me." - Hero, ManlyBadass, 2020

[@TheVolcaloidLovahs]

this is the manliest mother ever

[@waldski]

Y E S

[@AncestralFruitcake]

"Mary, if your kids don't stop screaming, I'm calling the police! You're almost as bad as Mr. Johnson yelling about how he was being murdered the other day!"

[@princ3sssEr3nity]

I wish I would’ve came across this channel earlier ... well guess I’ll have a binge watching session 🙌🏽

[@dimazavres2486]

I really love the meaning of this game. A horror, that hides the strange, tough and very questionable story about a mother, who has given a birth to a somehow deformed child, fell in depression after husband's suicide (probably because of their child too), suspects anything around, starts doing drugs just for making it to another day without any risks getting insane (well, as she thought, before we as the player gave her "a little more for an accident", which probably is a necessary mechanic, that shows her possession with an effect of drugs), suspects her "cursed" child in all of the problems of the life, finally kills him (Forgets this problem. As much as she could), realises that she is the one behind the slaughter of an innocent child and desides to finally end herself because of 3 lost lives (Husband, Tommy, Her own (and these kids as well too)), that are all her fault. Wow

[@KharonDeLune_vtb]

TW for mentions of infanticide further down, below the keep reading thing... What an interesting story. It seems like maybe, the idea was that the Laughing Man was the murderer on the loose and maybe we, as the player, had the view of him corrupted by Mary's wrong script. I want to say I've seen that before but i can't recall where, the third person views being just as corrupted as the first person ones when there's an external influence. This makes me think that all of Tommy's more supernatural abilities might have been her hallucinations too. It would have been interesting if there was more to the wellbeing of the children affecting the endings. Like, if she was a good mother affected by grief, drugs, and the panic of a serial killer versus a woman affected by all of this and taking it out on her children or neglecting them. Whether they would try for rehab and reuniting them versus keeping Mary away from the kids (if you think shooting one child in a state of duress and psychosis would prevent that, go Google some of the murderers who have been allowed to slip through cracks and kill again, my friend). I think the Tommy situation might have flowed better if it was a case of, well... Lemme just Space this out So you have to expand it And don't get hit by it unexpectedly I think if Mary had suffered postpartum psychosis or depression with Tommy and, well... Infants and pillows. It could have easily looked like an accident, or even SIDS. Mary Tinning's case proves how similar smothering and SIDS looks. It could work with the deformed child aspect, that she didn't think it was her child due to her mental state. Maybe she confessed to Jack at one point. Maybe that's why he killed himself. Maybe she was psychotic and imagining Tommy, when it was all the Laughing Man (aka the real serial killer). I feel like with a story presenting a 90's-2000's era apartment, hiding an entire human child wouldn't be feasible. It works prior to the 50's in my opinion, but after that you've got too much government intervention. What's more, grown adults with a good grasp on their mental stability don't tend to have a break dramatic enough to need so much medication after the death of a loved one. At least not seven days after. It takes a while to manifest and diagnose enough for a patient to end up taking 8 pills each night. If Mary had some existing mental health issues, or if she had found her husband's body in a particularly gory state, those cases would give a little more room for that much medication, in my opinion. Or if she had been prone to postpartum issues, then that could suggest Mary was prone to a sort of mental weakening when such dramatic changes occur. I'm only a Google-certified psychologist (read, not a psychologist) so I can't give a super precise or accurate analysis. Besides, the game is schlocky on purpose in some points. I'm just airing my thoughts on how this kind of story could be polished up for future storytellers using these key plot elements.

[@jobdylan5782]

woman

[@ratkid6859]

Me: falling asleep Manly: 18:23 “9/11” Me: eyes fly open

[@Firestar4041]

24:30 Sorry, but thats just hilarious *Monster stomping around "Shit better hide!" open/slam, open/slam, open/slam, open "It'll never find me now!"

[@ShinyShilla]

is there an ending where you never touch the cookies and dont kill thommy? Just scare him off. What if the children have low %?

[@Shaljroan30750]

Mommy took great care of that chomo. Dont diddle with this woman's kids. I appreciate the playthrough as always!

[@d5f6gj9k]

39:40 hahaha They were feeling too free. It doesn't matter what they saw. What they feel matters.

[@marianareyes2705]

This game left me with some questions What would have happened if the mother let one of the children (or both) die at the hands of Tommy? Or what if she let herself be killed by the laughing man or by Tommy?

[@lpfan4491]

I would assume a gameover for being killed(though I wonder how the laughing man could even do that because while he is shown to be real, the encounters with him are hallucinations). I wonder the same about kids dying tho.

[@NotBenStiller]

You buy the game expecting Slender: Responsible Mother Edition, but you get Rosa Ushiromiya Simulator.

[@ChazDragoon]

Me everytime Manly doesn't board up the vent next to Kayla's bed: BOARD UP THE DAMN VENT MANLY!!! DX *later shows only 3 can be boarded* Oh come on game!! D:

[@ManlyBadassHero]

You can't board it up.

[@ChazDragoon]

@@ManlyBadassHero i noticed when the post-it note read "2/3"... mom of the year.... board/10 The irony where the kids have been bored most of the nights and they literally are board(ed) up at the end. :3

[@Sicacast]

I cackled out loud at "Double tap"

[@Thelothuo]

blat blat

[@Sicacast]

Thelothuo that is 100% my favorite Manlyism

[@devildice6301]

Keep up the good work! I love it^^

[@arcaderemnant]

I'm always on edge when the Doom 3 imp breaks into my house