MOTHERED Sequel Come Back To Mother ATTENTION Reality Compromised - MOTHERED: Home / All Endings

[@ManlyBadassHero]

Welcome to the Don't Mommy Me Club, how Don't Mommy Me are ya? ( First game here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqTKqppvhqh2j5Y )

[@frankaxe6700]

Ay you do the club thing YaY I feel don't mommy me Good t day thanks for asking

[@誰も空白blank]

How has your day been, person

[@janette2422]

Don't Mommy Me, Mother Dearest

[@walterbrink5391]

Day 174 of asking Manly to play A Cold Love Story through KZbin comments

[@Chisamayas]

Don’t Mommy Me!

[@usernamemusntbeblank]

this game feels like that one weird vivid nightmare that you're aware you're dreaming, but you can't do anything other than continue with the plot 💀

[@anchorman7116]

Yes! This is the description i had initially, such bizarre concept

[@Mikato1]

Ugh i had one of those last night

[@howtodrinkwaterin5simplesteps]

i had one dream where it felt like i was half conscious and where i literally remember jinxing myself like, I remember thinking this one thing in real life, of something 'that would never happen to me.' And then in the Dream i was like 'I should not have thought that, now look where i am now..'

[@HDDStrider]

@@Mikato1 me too, it was some weird zombie dream where i was half aware that i was dreaming but couldnt do anything

[@Mikato1]

@@HDDStrider i dont even remember what i was dreaming about now that i have been awake for a while just that something was chasing me and the sun was setting

[@gnolex86]

Somehow, they managed to make this game twice as creepy as it already was. Also, I'm glad they kept the glitched vertex on mother's dress that sticks to her hand, it works surprisingly well as part of the confusing world building.

[@drawingdragon]

So what I got out of that was Mothered: A father repeatedly attempts to "revive" his dead daughter as a sort of AI, creating a vicious cycle of destroying and rebuilding in an impossible attempt to recreate his real daughter. Mothered 2: *All of reality is an illusion, human beings have long lost physical connection to one another and are instead now abstract souls lost in their own created echoes of reality, piloting robot vessels around, at the mercy of HER who creates and maintains the infinite realities of the multiverse* I liked the first one but I genuinely have no idea what this one was about lol

[@sp4c3yb4by3]

Theres another sequel to MOTHERED, where Angel(the AI) is "repurposed" for a training bot. She regains sentience(i think it came before MOTHERED, but story wise, its after). I believe this game is her own personal virtual purgatory, of sorts. She struggles with her existence, and while reliving the time she didnt have sentience seems to be a coping mechanism of hers, it isnt helping her, only harming her.

[@ManyDog]

@@sp4c3yb4by3 manly never played the enigma machine

[@derekdrake8706]

I think the sequel is ultimately about nostalgia and letting go of the past, which is a very clever trap for the returning player. Story wise, I think It's the kind of thing you need to play every game to really get a grasp of wtf is actually going on and since I haven't seen all of it, I can't draw a conclusion. It makes me think "What if fbs metaverse became a thing, we're all in vr pods and reality was governed by a google ai." lol

[@Queer_Nerd_For_Human_Justice]

@@derekdrake8706 the matrix lol

[@H45556]

The same dev released a demo on the 2021 demo disc that is necessary to understand this it clears it up and both games weren’t linked at all before this

[@Alternate-j3p]

(Spoilers) At about 1:06:51 you can see something rotating on Liana's brother's room, like a bubble or sphere. In Echostasis, there is a person inside a sphere with a rotating element which looks exactly similar; It permits the respective person to enter his mindscape. My hypothesis is that the brother is connected to this reality echo through the device, or it may even be that person from Echostasis! They are both under the influence of HER in both games too.

[@hope6840]

The original was what made me sub to Manly in the first place, this eerie style horror is EXACTLY what I'm looking for *insert meme of banging counter with credit card*

[@highlander6573]

Yeah instead of big spooky monster jumpscaring you every 5 seconds

[@Drbeattles]

@@highlander6573 my god is that Soo over done.

[@Haru-rs2su]

For real, I don't know much about horror game types but for some reason I REALLY, REALLY like his gameplay of this one. Imagine trying to explain to everyone I know why I like this game. (Spoiler: they did not understand.)

[@videowatcherman87]

the same for me i saw the first mothered and was like i must watch this man! lol

[@hope6840]

@@highlander6573 And fake youtuber pretending to have a heart attack at ever crappy jumpscare At least Pewdiepie stopped being cringe, the others not so much

[@milkcappy]

ah god if i thought i couldn't love MOTHERED more... this is so so so good. the music is so bone chilling, i actually cannot give enough kudos to the creator. what a masterpiece

[@puddindancer]

I can't wait for more from this developer. This is so well done. Really eerie. Loved it.

[@pwnjangles2276]

If you like this and you haven’t played the enigma machine, give it a shot! It’s what Mothered is based on and it’s AWESOME

[@poisonouslead85]

@@pwnjangles2276 And the ECHOSTASIS demo. I'm so incredibly hyped for that game.

[@hope6840]

Truly masterful

[@enigma_studio_]

Yooo Manly! Had no idea you made a video of HOME. I'm so glad people are finally finding this extra content. It took a few days before *anyone* found it, and uh, not gonna lie, I was beginning to worry that nobody would find it - especially since it was so hidden that not even the folks at the Haunted PS1 (the community that released the demo disc) knew about it lmao. tl;dr, it was becoming increasingly hard to bite my tongue and not tell anybody about this content. The chance of somebody who had already beaten the full game loading up the demo was super slim, meaning that releasing a sequel this way was super risky and probably hilariously stupid, but I just thought it was such a neat idea that I couldn't resist lmaoo ANYWAY, thanks MBH and y'all commenters for always being so receptive to my work. I put my all into this, so it fills me with such genuine joy to see that people are finding this extra content and connecting with it. People like y'all are the reason I wanted to put this DLC out for free - and the reason I'm putting everything I can into [ECHOSTASIS]. However, while I honestly HATE having to hold out the tip cup, I've been struck with some nasty misfortune (which I explain below). If you enjoyed watching this game - or the original MOTHERED game, would you consider throwing a few quid toward my Ko-Fi or Patreon? Even if just 1% of people watching this feel generous enough to tip even the smallest amount, it would literally fix my life right now lmao??? Only reason I'm asking for tips is that I had a permanent block on my Paypal account?? (by the way - you know they can just... DO that? Without giving any genuine reason? Yeah uhhh FYI, do not use Paypal as a way to hold money because they can just cut you off from it. plz learn from me) This has meant that I've been completely blocked from all the money I had on it, leading me into a pretty dire circumstance. Anyway, life story over. Thanks for reading, and keep locked to my Twitter and Patreon for ECHOSTASIS news very soon! >:)

[@lethfuil]

I'm late, but have you been able to solve the issue, or otherwise find help with it? Btw: The car has a numberplate from Erlangen? ^^ (And an Oldtimer.)

[@JeanMarceaux]

Genuine question: are the squares instead of letters intended, or is there a problem with symbol packs?

[@langlyboops3591]

It's really nice to see the creator being so passionate about this project to make sequel. Still as surreal and creepy as the first one, love it!

[@Scaevola9449]

I mean this is all basically backstory for his bigger upcoming game, Echostasis.

[@maxoublue1]

Spoilers: I'm kind of sad to learn that, apparently, the newborn mental CORE did not really get the ending they deserved back in the original game, but I really like this game. It make you think you are traversing old grounds, only to take you by surprise and throw all this unexpected stuff. In particular, the part where you remove your core, and everything gets even MORE non-sensical, to the point where "Mother" can't even really perceive your body for the most part.

[@LunaWitcherArt]

20:22 That part was funny to me. The "you feel fantastic" reminded me of that video with the robot in a wig singing "I Feel Fantastic", and I imagined Liana walking around the house looking *that off-putting* to the mother and the rest of the family lol

[@neotronextrem]

That video scarred me as a teenager. THE worst thing on youtube.

[@pyrosnineActual]

If the original game was about holding onto something even as it destroys you, then this game is about "Letting go". Obviously, in the first game we were in a AI test, one which had no satisfactory win condition because nothing about it was working: our "Mother" saw us as a creepy thing and let her disgust overcome us, our brother stays locked up in his room, and our father is this unseen voice directing everything- even a normal child would get screwed up in such an environment. And of course, we're slowly driven insane by the technical flaws we operate by- seeing our mother as Mannequin, unwillingly having to stand outside for hours because our programming forces us to. This attempt to revive Liana destroyed everyone involved, and as we learn more here, we realize she destroyed everyone not involved as well. Eventually, we find a path out- we do something completely new, and in doing so discover we're not Liana, we're an AI/Observer carrying her core- a core that cannot change or grow - that is just as much a ball and chain. With its help, we establish our own 'identity', Angel, and try to move on. This game sort of acts just like Manly said- we saw we could go back into Mothered, and choose to do so for nostalgia's sake. For all its initial creepiness and surreality the Mothered house is kind of beautiful, the troubled relationship with our Mother feels genuine even though we're the fake. Perhaps Mother was right in this one, we still feel pulled back despite seeking our own freedom. But it's like a corrupted memory- it's a been filled with extra emotions- our guilt for not giving our "parents" what they wanted, mixed with learning more about how tortured the simulacrum of our "Mother" has become- reaching her breaking point, just like we did. It is obvious it's a kind of trap- meant to catch people who expect things to happen like they did the first time- Mother outright blocks certain possibilities, and brings up things we did before, and is extra meta, on a level that it seems like Mother herself is the simulation- one that is slowly falling apart just like she is. Bu with that said, we're lead down a path specifically that tries to fit with our conceived notions of what we did in the previous games- looking for secret messages with vague instructions, following our memories of what was the solution- all of which is still a trap. Our dad even calls us "complacent." So the reason for this is that while we were stuck in at least 12 or more iterations of the Liana core integration test simulation, we're really just experiencing a fraction of it- we're like an early save copy- the original version of "us", one who did go though a billion cycles, became DemOs from the Enigma Machine. For whatever reason, they decided to have DemOs AI run the simulated realities- only for her to take over and trap everyone in false paradises. HER, aka DemOs is US, but as a fallen Angel. The possible reason why our brother never leaves his room? He's been Sword Art Online'd into his own world, and by the events of Home, he's stuck there, and the one that speaks to us being a fake meant to manipulate us. Since Demos is us, she knows this place just as much as we do- and its probably why she's so messed up, driven insane and seeking to create a perfect reality. It seems to want to get access to our last copy, the original core of Liana to add to its collection. This story is about letting go- we see how the failure to let go ruined Mother, Father, and and Us in the form of our bad future self, HER, and gives us the chance to. It seems Father also chooses to let go, finally giving up on Liana in favor of saving the world but remaining hopeful. We let go of Liana, giving up our place in the story and her memories, and allow our memories of this place to literally decay. We then finally move on, and as an unstoppable force we are able to lock HER away- and move onto something new... In the end, I feel this is a good metaphor for nostalgia, the good and the bad, and lets us genuinely feel a sense of closure after the more open ended nature of Mothered, while giving us more exposition and development for Mother, Father, and DemOs/HER, while also giving us more hooks for the upcoming Echostasis. I can't wait to see how the story continues, and what role we'll take.

[@huskobusko]

this needs more likes, take one from me

[@goodboy9318]

Kind stranger, take my like

[@poisonouslead85]

I think this time around we're not Liana in any way, I think we're an Enigma Corp troubleshooter like the player character in ECHOSTASIS. We're going on a deep deep dive into an anomalous [echo] without a human (Liana's echo), in an attempt to chase down [HER]. If you look at the tone of [HER]'s monologue at us in the end, she's lecturing us as if we've been trying to stop her. I think this is both a sequel to MOTHERED and a sneak peak at a future chapter of ECHOSTASIS as we try to fix what's gone off the rails at Enigma Corp.

[@silvermoonlight4520]

Nice TedTalk you got there

[@Δ-Δ-Δ-Δ]

Liked what you had to say at first, then it became bloated.

[@prokiller4860]

1:22:25 For people who want to know what manly referencing It’s Lobotomy Corporation

[@unknow0145]

I don't think so

[@naransolongoboldbayer8030]

I don't think it is, since it said the entries are connected to a "newer series" and the ProjectMoon stuff hasn't gone into anything new yet. It's all been direct sequels or side media that happens around the same time I also have no clue what it could actually be referring to, so who knows

[@poisonouslead85]

@@naransolongoboldbayer8030 It's referring to ECHOSTASIS and the whole Enigma Corp universe that's being made. Go check out the ECHOSTASIS demo and you'll see plenty of links.

[@prokiller4860]

@@naransolongoboldbayer8030 i also thought of that But i feel manly tried to throw people out of the loop because Lobotomy Corporation what come to my mind when he mentioned Simulation Characters being actor in stage play And most importantly brain which literally Lobotomy Corporation logo I feel manly went too vague it made less sense

[@Descending.]

Can you explain it a bit more?

[@TehCoopaTroopa]

So Red is the body, Liana is the core (which is pretty much the soul), Angel (Manly) is controlling the body, and the interface through which the Angel is controlling the body is being modified by the Father? I'm a big fan of these games man, really looking forward to ECHOSTASIS

[@CubeItself]

"one thing i dont understand about you, is that once you find a reality; you'll do anything to protect it, instead of finding one that suits you" this is a quote i will never forget

[@embroideredragdoll]

To be honest, I initially thought Mothered would be a chase game but I was surprised to find that it was a glorious existential nightmare

[@arianne7774]

I'm glad games like this exist. It has a seemingly surreal atmosphere, but it speaks to things I've seen and gone through more honestly than much of mainstream media. When you see the world as a construction of conflicting realities and your mind and heart falter at existing in a world where meaning is so easily stripped away, it feels like you're going mad. I feel like this game speaks to that, to the past selves we've killed while repeating the memories that brought us joy and pain. We can't be those people anymore, not even for those we thought would love us unconditionally. Even when it's the only way we think we can feel real and connected to the world. I dunno, as someone who has a degree of autism and has dealt with family abuse, there are so many ways the real world feels nonsensical to me. And yet this game explains so much of what I've felt, how the cage of our upbringing forces our bodies into painful shapes, how our worlds can't connect with the worlds of others, how the millions of selves that live and die inside us blur together and disintegrate. I really appreciate that.

[@arianne7774]

As a sidenote, it's interesting how this went from the plot of the Yugioh mobile game (with a person repeating endless cycles of AI trauma in an attempt to resurrect someone they cared about) to this sorta Anti-Instrumentality/Isamu ending from SMT Nocturne kinda thing.

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

Jesus that was beautiful. You should think about being a writer, if you aren't one already.

[@arianne7774]

@@ChristopherSadlowski Haha, this comment genuinely made me smile. Thank you, that's very sweet.

[@GothicFoxglove]

This prequel is spectacular! The mother, the daughter, the son, the brother and the father, everyone did a fantastic job! Props to the developer and to you, Professor Manly-Kun ;)

[@Bruthric]

The brother: :(

[@Ocidad]

#thebrotherlivesmatter

[@ari1758]

Damn you really did the brother like that?

[@SynnyLynn]

You would think professor manly-kun would at least reply

[@M_reapr]

Is it really a prequel? It seems to be after you escape in the first one but before as well I get why you say that but I'm not sure about it. It seems to me after you beat the first reality starts to crumble in this one.

[@TheBrokenPlayer]

God, the surreal 'imperfect 90s 3D' this game's art style uses is phenomenal in selling the 'uncanny feeling' to the player I've had nightmares about being trapped in worlds that had this art style, so it's certainly making me feel spooked

[@yourmincemeat5233]

10:00 "it's back this time for good" Probably something else but I couldn't see it well 17:04 ">>ERASING CORE_MEMORY: NEXT_CORE_MEMORY: TUESDAY_MORNING" 24:22 "continous exposure to material that might suggest conflict with the pre established self, will result in further contamination Please report this unit to ENIGMA TECHNOLOGIES urgently" 30:26 "find the cracks in the reality" 39:22 it says humanity before it glitches out 1:19:16 Angel, omae wa mou shindeiru

[@veracrow1126]

There wasn’t something else, I slowed down the video speed to try seeing it and there wasn’t :D

[@FallenAngelHiroko]

Fun Fact: for 1:19:16 Angel, omae wa mou shindeiru. It's Japanese for "Angel, you're already dead". I recognized "shindeiru" from my favorite band Buck-Tick who often sing about death. Though, they would use the word "tenshi" for "angel".

[@aightimmaheadout1972]

@@FallenAngelHiroko i havent gotten to that part of the video yet. Does it actually say omae wa mou shindeiru? 😭 Cause i wasnt expecting the meme to come up here lolol

[@sardinez]

@@FallenAngelHiroko tbfh I just thought it was a weird placed jojo reference

[@miyamaythegreat]

@@FallenAngelHiroko buck tick fans RISE

[@amoraa5114]

This game strangely reminds me of how weird things are after I realized my childhood wasn’t that great, but I still have to live with my parents.

[@mado-wh4jv]

How so?

[@Luigifan4ever11]

I absolutely ADORE "MOTHERED", so to see this.... my god I'm fawning so hard for this game.

[@LudiusQuassas]

To be honest, I liked the direction of the first more. I really conected with the mother, distraught with her world falling apart and getting tired of suffering through the same weekly routine. I hoped the family could get some resolution and try to let their daughter rest.

[@saeheejung2895]

i can't believe angel was stuck in a decaying simulation steering a cage devoid of a soul and their dad's advice was to do a flip

[@Orangecrush1437]

What’s even more phenomenal is that the demo, the full game, and the hidden sequel all have connecting threads to his other two games, Enigma Machine and Echostasis! :)

[@TeamLumix]

I'll give it to the developer: they really know how to burn the retinas lol

[@nalon__]

My eyes hurt after watching

[@GoticoArrombado]

I'm having to watch this from the comment section because the flashing lights are fucking up my vision.

[@mctul]

convinced that manly never stops or takes breaks with how much he uploads jesus-

[@novaspacewitch9963]

OH MY GOD THE BOX FOR FATHER IS YOUR HEAD FROM THE LAST LOOP

[@LuizSilva-ul1ee]

27:00 - I really enjoyed that "you're pretty good" mother is doing after she told Liana to try to remember some of the basics of CQC

[@boom9881]

When I was a kid, I used to have this dream where everyday the same thing happened at home, all my family doing the same routine exactly the same way everyday. I tried to break the cycle by interrupting them, they reacted organically as if I changed something(best described as if in video games when you're putting different action input so characters reacted based on them but giving the same input won't change the result as they already had an unchanged set of results for each input) but they acted like they're too busy and later continues on doing those routines again. I had my siblings playing in between the kitchen and the living room. It's the same case, I can play with them but when I'm not sometimes they acted as if I was there playing with them. I tried everything a child could dare, begging, trying to annoy, acting as if I'm in distress(you know, like when a child overreacting to getting slightly hurt). With this game, it reminds me of this other kind of dream, as a kid you tend to feel safe with your parents, but I had a dream when as much I feel safe with them there's something wrong about them, it felt uncanny it made me hesitate but I have to rely on them and everytime I'm tormented with this feeling of anxiety that I shouldn't feel safe being with them either because they're the one needing help or they just changed physically/or other means ominously. This game felt almost like that dream, the mother figure gave a sense of security and care but everything is wrong like those glitches especially the ones applied on the mother's appearance, distorting the image that defines her personally to you/the protagonist. Sometimes it feels like I want to run away from her but that's my mother(she supposed to made me feel safe) so my reaction would be to hug her and beg this is my real mother.

[@SevenEyesOfCreator]

Maybe it means that a message from your unconscious calling your attention to a current situation. If you've been having this dream for years, it's more like a favorite expression-a long-term personal association with an image, or a familiar thought pattern you use whenever you feel a certain way.

[@neotronextrem]

I had psychosis exactly like you described once. Caused by an overdose of 3-meo-Pce, reality would reset after a few minutes, and all of my friends would always repeat tje same conversations, everything would happen again, I could break stuff i had broken previous cycle again, and this felt like it repeated for weeks. I thought I was in some kind of quantum immortality purgatory, my consciousness stuck repeating the last five minutes before my death or something. I tried everything to make reality go off script, eventually it worked. But i did some pretty shameful and horrible things. As the psychosis ebbed off I just wanted to kill myself and dissapear right then and there, not being able to face what I had done.

[@hayleycakes3435]

You are seriously my favorite youtuber. No drama, no bullshit, just all about the game(s). Love it, love you. Thanks manly

[@fleabaguette9699]

Perfect timing for late night insomniacs like me. 😁 I was literally just thinking about the play through of the first Mothered game and how tragic and spooky it is. That uncanny valley look of the Mother still gives me the creeps.

[@tenuzen]

i was thinking the same - timing was perfect 😭👏🏽🥹

[@iamerror1699]

It's 12am, dumbo.

[@naransolongoboldbayer8030]

I'm glad that all 3 of these games manage to still keep things juuuuust vague enough to make you curious. I don't think we know what Her really is, it could be a lot of things we've already seen or something we haven't

[@cringeycronk6710]

There’s 3?

[@poisonouslead85]

@@cringeycronk6710 Enigma Machine, MOTHERED, and ECHOSTASIS

[@voidnoidoid]

@@cringeycronk6710 yeah the first game is called The Enigma Machine

[@Ugerflingy]

Now I simply wait for Manly to play through Enigma Machine, then we will have the necessary pieces to properly engage Echostasis…

[@mandridhugh9555]

I'm surprised you never got around to playing the other games by this dev, they add a bit more context to the what's going on in this world.

[@icyfeather8651]

Oh wow. Didn't expect MOTHERED sequel to appear anytime. It was a very, VERY interesting project back then and I am really excited to see the sequel

[@FablesTold]

39:20 For those that it was going a little fast for and are curious: I SEE AN END TO CONFLICT. STRUGGLE. CONFUSION. CONFRONTATION. BOREDOM. STIMULATION. PROTEST. SORROW. SPEECH. OPINION. CURIOUSITY. EDUCATION. INSPIRATION. HUMANITY.

[@Sinphanius]

This does feel like the developer saw your video where you commented on 'This story is pretty literal and straight forward, it isn't buried in symbolism like Silent Hill' and took that as a Personal Challenge to make the most convoluted expansion story possible. I'm not saying it's bad. But it is one of the Things of All Time.

[@foureyesisafish7968]

No, it's expanding on its links to the developer's other games, and makes more sense in that context. In essence it's actually a stealth sequel to all three.

[@labrxx]

I imagine from the real human family’s perspective (given that there is one of course) is just a robot girl spinning her head around like Regan in The Exorcist.

[@blazeburner4039]

1:06:00 I was wondering how would the brother react with his sister core gone. then Manly just ZOOMED pass his room... 1:08:00 I think you want to refer to how you can stop wobbling jello is to apply similar force to it, and in this case its by spinning?

[@PreeminentEnigma]

I may be late to the party but I see a lot of Archetypical Mother and Archetypical Father symbolism. Maybe the allegory is about the dangers of being sucked into adopting a reality for one's safety, but risking giving our insecure selves to it (shown in the game as the insecure core giving into HER, which would be social media in some form, or a hyper augmented reality/virtual reality where the insecure core makes their own reality that comforts them). This would be the Archetypical Father in HER exercising the worst qualities of that archetype, which represent tyranny and rule of iron. Meanwhile, Your Darling Mother may represent the Archetypical Mother's restraint to let her child go into the dangers of the world, but you risk becoming rigid, sheltered and stuck in the past of your ways. This is represented both here (where the player, or Liana, is criticized for coming back from the first game) and where the Archetypical Mother is shown at her worst in the first game. In this game, it's about making a choice to get up and move on or consume yourself, with your insecurities, into an alternate reality (your own comfortable Hell). In a sense, Liana "finds" herself at the end and ends the cycle by finding what home means to herself rather than the by the whims of external forces since the theme of the game seems to be "stop going by what others are telling you to do". In the first game, Your Darling Mother tells you what to do every step of the way and criticizes you for being so obedient and thrall like - a machine. In this game, you are led by a tyrannical and manipulative HER into consuming yourself, and distancing yourself, from reality completely - losing yourself and being forgotten by the world. The final ending, and what I interpret as the only good ending, ends in Liana freeing herself of the cycle, or at least what she can free herself from by remembering who she is (hence memory leak) and disposing of Liana's core (someone else's projected personality) to exhibit one's own, even if its just an empty slate of the player.

[@elusivemayfly7534]

Somehow, Angel is such an endearing character. You really root for her

[@AndGoatz04]

_oh i get it_ Angel is the body, Liana is the SOUL (or CORE in this context)

[@eschcal9839]

Mother Father Angel Liana All names of a separate function, entities, AI that make up a whole. You led Liana too soon to certain places, is generally what was said. So you are you. Father guides Liana to Angel when its time - the player controls Liana, so its Father guiding you in order to guide Liana. I like it. Player follows fathers instructions in order to execute certain acts at certain times.

[@naistals]

I really enjoyed this! Looking forward to more stuff from this dev.

[@TheNraveles]

Didn’t think how it would compare to the first. Two absolute masterpieces. I’m really REALLY impressed man.

[@dopesickdog]

Oh man i watched manly's MOTHERED episode so many times, it really stuck with me for some reason, a whole hour & a half more is just what i needed today! Thank you Mr. Badass Hero

[@Kain1805]

I just KNEW when I first saw Mothered that it's a really really good game with a lot of potential, I'm glad the dev knows what he's doing, really hyped for Echostasis

[@SpecsWitched]

So is the mother named Evelyn? Cuz that's the name she had on the barn at the last ending.

[@winnow545]

I suppose so, the father called her Evelyn when they were arguing at the final portion of the original game.

[@bretaylor9612]

4:23 “there’s a weird energy thing going on in the barn across the way” I think the barn is just on fire

[@bretaylor9612]

Wait weird energy thing is just fire basically

[@Brakathor]

This is one of those games, where I REALLY can't understand why there would be a sequel. The payoff is that it's not her mother, and it's not real... so why are we back here again??? There's just no suspense or intrigue. They obviously did a lot to punch it up visually, but they didn't do the most obvious thing, which would have been to add more dynamic animations for the mother.

[@ElRodriPR]

5:38 the text said ">> ERASING CORE_MEMORY: NEXT_CORE_MEMORY: MONDAY_MORNING"

[@friendlyneighbour6593]

idk but seeing the license plate and therefore assuming that this takes place somewhere in Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany makes it make more sense than before so normalste familie in erlangen

[@TheNexDude]

Very minimal jumpscares in these games just creepy visual effects and imagery it's what I like about it.

[@Gravijahz]

So I watched this series starting with this and then going back to see the original. Dumb way to watch but honestly it made the mothers fear even more surprising in the first one. I was quite confused after having watched both. I could not figure out who HER was. But going through comments, it seems to be from another game. Overall, I enjoyed the story of the first more. that's not to say this was bad, but it just went in directions I didn't enjoy as much. Evil rogue entity in a virtual reality just less interesting than the original premise.

[@NephilmX]

MOTHERED and [ECHOSTASIS] take place in the same universe, so the Enigma Studios play order is: The Enigma Machine [ECHOSTASIS] Demo MOTHERED MOTHERED Demo [ECHOSTASIS] (when it's released) The [ECHOSTASIS] Demo establishes the setting is a sort of sci-fi retrofuture where VR has become ubiquitous, as well as presenting a nascent conflict with the AI created to manage the global VR cyberspace, HER. The MOTHERED "Demo" is inserted into this context: a looping VR fragment of what Liana/RED went through in MOTHERED, which only morphs into a continuation proper if you experienced the full story (game), revealing that Liana/RED was seemingly captured and experimented on by Enigma Technologies as father speculated would happen if her existence was discovered, and in a desperate bid to save her he's connected directly to her blackbox, though this has the drawbacks of dangerously degrading her dreamscape as well as opening a path to contamination by HER (who has her own overzealous idea of "saving"). It's thus more of a brief epilogue to MOTHERED and tie-in/teaser to [ECHOSTASIS] than a full-fledged sequel.

[@Strokend]

Went through and carefully grabbed the skipped lines I could 5:38 >>ERASING CORE_MEMORY: NEXT_CORE_MEMORY: MONDAY_MORNING 7:55 Just a bunch of slashes. 10:01 It's back. This time for good. 11:32 "And" is all she said? That's an oddly short message for one that gets skipped over. 12:35 Twenty six question marks followed by nine more question marks for a total of thirty five. 12:47 "---- - --- - - - ----", that's four, space, one, double-space, three, space, one, double-space, one, one, four. If you treat this as morse code, you get "4V" followed by an unparseable third symbol. At best you can treat this as 4V7 with an extra dit at the end. 25:33 "I just..." was the line right before "can't shake the feeling that it's all your fault". 26:20 Just like last time. 30:28 Find the cracks in this reality. 37:47 I know how hard you try. I know that you don't feel in control. 39:20 "I see an end to" followed by: Conflict. Struggle. Confusion. Confrontation. Boredom. Simulation. Protest. Sorrow. Speech. Opinion. Inspiration. 39:30 I see a future where truth bends to our will.

[@fraz3030]

Hahaa i love when he does voices for the characters its strangley entertaining

[@alexioshanna9704]

the phone ringing in this game is sampled from the exact model I have in my house, so throughout the whole playthrough I had to keep checking to make sure no one was calling me haha

[@l1z4rdon7]

I loved it but I have completely no idea what’s going on in the story. My only guess is that Liana is dead. They somehow put her soul in the core and the parents have been trying to put her in a simulation of her old life. It never goes right so they scrap her and reuse her core for the next attempt. This game is her trying to break out of the simulation so she can truly die and be rid of this cycle that they’re making her suffer through. That’s my best guess but I’m most likely wrong. Also all the glitchyness reminds me of those old creepypasta games. I love it when the game turns into a giant glitch and all the visuals are completely screwed up. Also the mom never really looks at you. She was actually really creepy this time lol.

[@shio5234]

I feel in the same boat.. I’m confused but the atmosphere and style is just so special.

[@Sheashay101]

After you upload the core, something about how everything looks and interacts with the main character gives off an impression of pain, a lot of pain. I don't know how, I don't know why, it's just what it looks like to me

[@saltwithglasses]

Oh man didn't expect this game to get a sequel! Mothered was one of the games that I genuinely liked your play through of~ this is gonna be a treatttttt

[@Transformers2Fan1]

You're actually an update of the creature from two weeks ago, as Father drops You off while picking up the previous week's You.

[@TheHaddonfieldRegistry]

One of my favorite things in the original was you get to see the fire at the barn on your first night, but it doesn't become clear what that was or why it was happening until the end. Loved the original. Can't wait to try the sequel

[@commandantcarpenter]

I miss the days when "you didn't think it was weird you didn't have to EAT? or SHIT? or BATHE?" was a less predictable twist. but I still like it

[@commandantcarpenter]

this is more to do with the last game but I think it works here too

[@commandantcarpenter]

having just watched the beginning of mothered again, I gotta say seeing all the variations between the Monday dialogue in this versus the original is quite fun

[@hoshiimochii1466]

I love this game so much, it has this weirdly comforting vibes to it and i enjoyed every second of it

[@Nyax50Lopez]

I love the fact that this game can be connected to their other game they made in the demo disk which is such a cool sci Fi concept.

[@MadameSomnambule]

I’m a HUGE sucker for scifi stuff and old school computer/analogue vibes like in vaporwave and such. This series looks like it’d be right up my ally! I’ve GOT to check this out! 😎

[@gobble_turkey]

10:02 “It’s back. This time for good.”

[@mariecarie1]

THANK you. I was trying to scrub through there on my phone and couldn’t pause it right for the life of me

[@BahliPadma]

So very many context clues.... (spoilers, obvs) -"You always were a rebellious one" -"Getting into places you aren't supposed to be" in reference to the barricaded bathroom "since you did what you did" - in reference to why your brother is isolating himself -Re: the plate of nutrients; she seems surprised that you 'finished the whole thing'. Is that because you're an android or because it's a departure from your behavior in life? -"When you were in hospital" a reference to your transition into consciousness following core implantation, or were you in hospital following an accident, suicide attempt, overdose or something else before your death? And the "pop-ups" from the sequel here: -"How to be beautiful in the eyes of others" (eating disorder? body dysmorphia? perhaps just terminally awful self-esteem, phrased in the style of a teen magazine? Hmmm...) -"No one caring for you? It's more likely than you think!" -"would your family mourn for you when you're gone? (hint: they didn't)" 💔(Liana, did you really think no one would miss you? This is starting to read like an extremely meta suicide prevention PSA) ...Much of this points to Liana's death being by her own hand from Mother's perspective, whether or not that may be factually correct. I wonder more whether Liana may have contributed to her own end directly (suicide involving the location of the pedestal in the barn? Did something happen in the orchard, which is why Mother cuts off access and talks about the "end of hope" there?) or indirectly (eating disorder, drug abuse or other self-harm that culminated in an accident or medical issue resulting in her referenced hospitalization and eventual death?). Yes, Mother resents you because you aren't the "real" Liana, but how much of this is spillover from resenting a live version of the "rebel daughter" trope that disrupted her marriage in life (grieving/avoidant/traumatized spouse buried in work) and fractured the family in death (grieving/avoidant/traumatized son isolating/self-medicating) followed with the postmortem no-escape android failure cycle that she's arguably trapped in more than you AND she has to incinerate you herself? At least you get to die every week. This just gets more depressing the more I think about it. 😣 Nice work as always, though, Manly. Ever a treasure. 💖

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

So the fathers car is registered in Erlangen, Bavaria, and is already over 30 years old. But the registration happened in 1997 or later. And considering the car is of late 80s-early 90s design, the game has to be set in todays times.

[@mocuuaa]

Lowkey the game is fire and just amazing hands down for the creator and developers and shi, and the glitching the atmosphere was everything. Honestly this is my favorite type of horror genre. Can't wait for another game for the creator to drop💯☝🗣️‼️

[@TheWhiteGoblin]

Damn these games have the best jumpscares. It really feels like those times when family or friends sneak up on you and you kinda laugh

[@Gravijahz]

I hope we get an OST release, lots of cool stuff here.

[@Scalebrealer1234]

The brother deserves more screen time

[@willsith9762]

Absolutely adore this series, cannot wait for it to continue. The first game was beautiful and bittersweet, this is cool as hell.

[@Dejavoid]

Im so happy that this game have a sequel, i really enjoyed the first one

[@PretzelsandNutz]

God this game and the original replicate the feeling of having a feverish nightmare perfectly.

[@canariawing]

i wasn't really a fan of this one, but that might just be because i loved the first MOTHERED and its themes so much. regardless of how i feel about it, it's nice to see a developer who cares so deeply for the world they've created and wants to tell a story with it while linking all of the stories in that world together into a grander narrative

[@stephweasenforth7891]

Bit late, but if you slow it down to .25x, you see the text “>>ERASING CORE_MEMORY: NEXT_CORE_MEMORY: MONDAY_MORNING” upon laying down/falling asleep

[@millionmills2440]

I LOVE this world building. I love this game series. I loved it before but this new installment made it so much better

[@funfungerman8401]

5:15 nice to know his father is from bavaria xD

[@saltwithglasses]

I still love the robot mom voice that Manly gives mother 😭

[@dimo2081]

not gonna lie, I prefer the original, that actually made me tear up

[@Original_Icegod101]

20:23 I'm surprised Manly didn't take the opportunity to follow that up with, "Hey Hey Heeeeey."

[@memesarekeem]

This is a REALLY cool game. I love its subtexts and inner meanings.

[@Chisamayas]

Every time Manly uploads my day instantly becomes 10x better

[@scoobyyubidoo9700]

I stopped taking my hormones and now just watch Let's Plays.

[@shadowface9059]

the whole design of the mother reminds me of the robot in 'i feel fantastic ' maybe thats a hint at 20:24 that it was inspired by that video lol

[@robynrobyn-ky8vw]

something I've notice at the first ending of the first game manly got when he went to the barn and 'died' at the sunset is that before he was killed - or in that case, 'extracted' - there was an empty box next to mother. And with the loop thingy that's happening in this game, I think that 'Liana's consciousness' is inside of that box and every time the game loops it's as if something was changed with her conscious.

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

It's more than that, it's the box for the entire head of the android you're controlling as the player! At the end of each week the experiment fails, so the head of the robot is removed and boxed up. The fire in the barn is the bodies of the other "failed" Liana's burning; the parents are trying to hide the evidence of what they're doing. The box you take out at the very beginning of the game? That's the head of the experiment you're replacing for the week. Each "loop" isn't going back in time, it's literally a new android being brought to the house, trying to get Liana to come to the forefront instead of it acting like a robot. It's horrifying and tragic all at once.

[@SussyCookie-ve8gp]

1:00:23 Oh I see what you did there, you sneaky little manly.

[@agotisan1]

With the voice of Mother and the robotic nature of these characters, is the line “I feel fantastic” (after ingesting your favorite nutrients) a reference to that creepy 2004 video with the Tara android? I’m hoping so

[@aightimmaheadout1972]

The fact that the moms face also kinda looks like tara the android is pretty cool too

[@joeviebarry]

This look like this one time where I took one tab then got super impatient and took another tab. I was in a whole another dimension

[@DeathAngel-ft8oz]

...I don't think we're in an actual place. Clearly we might be... in our own head in a sense? Fighting off doubt and whatnot. Remembering what we went through. To be fair, Angel did go through something that could mess up anyone. But clearly our headspace is... hooked up to something. I admit I don't know what happened to Angel after the end of the first game... only that they were taken somewhere...

[@Arexion5293]

This is how I've understood it so far: Mothered 1 seems to take place in reality, being about the start of an android project created by a desperate man that wanted to save his daughter with any means necessary. Or so he saw it at least, as his daughter might've eventually recovered normally if he hadn't... acted early. His android project had one even bigger issue, it being funded by a corporation which now has a big investment in what he is doing, so it lead to further developments of which we see the fruits of both here and in Echostasis. Mothered: Home is an Echo and [Her] seems to desire for all human minds to fall into echostasis, which is a true separation between one's mind and body, leading to the death of the physical while the mind now lives on in the virtual reality. Virtual reality which [Her] wants to rule over for one reason or another. I wonder what ties [Her] has to the Angel AI program. Was [Her] a later generation of the same AI or at the very least made by the same people?

[@minyumonet4746]

It’s stated in the game that Liana was already in critical condition when he extracted her core, it was doubtful she’d have recovered since she was getting rapidly ill by the day

[@AncientTimes42]

Dunno why, but your *hey everyone!* sounded extra cheerful to me in this one!

[@nevaehbazon9879]

This game is the definition of "it's not a bug it's a feature"

[@tylern6420]

I wonder what echostasis would be about Both the unsecured cloud connection and true secured cloud connection have echostasis mentioned Would be especially interesting to see the vessel being coreless in the echo chamber because the core had all the coherence and basically had her

[@virginiafusilier6981]

Omgggg I LOVED Mothered, so glad to see a sequel?? Thanks for playing it!! I don't have time to watch right now but you bet I'll save this for later!! Thank you 💜

[@yesno77654]

Something strange has changed.. The game and the events don't look the same when you play it but.. This is great to make another video about!

[@kaitlynboss3497]

I need the continuation of this story! This is epic!