Portrait of a Torn woman

[@thomasbdugan]

I thought Steam was supposed to force publishers, etc to state that AI was used in the making of a game? these voices are so obvious

[@Tondre55]

Man I do not care for the AI voice work that is being used in a lot of indie horror games lately, it’s so flat and off putting in delivery. I’d rather have Gabs read text!

[@ashtonhaugen2520]

Or an actual voice actor 😊

[@lil_poison_frog7431]

It sounds like dogshit and immediately takes away from any other elements of the game that were done well. AI or poorly proofread text are two immediate turnoffs that would be an instant refund for me w/ any game

[@dumnut184]

True but maybe she doesn't want to read it

[@eldritchbidoof]

@@dumnut184 she was about to start reading when text first came up on the letters, but then stopped when the AI voice popped in lol.

[@CDexie]

​@@ashtonhaugen2520 Realistically, it's not feasible for really small games, human labor is *expensive* to contract. If you have more than 3~4 people working on your game though, you probably should get a voice actor.

[@Lostpx]

the game uses so many purchased assets that nothing has historical sense, from the fact that delivery pizza wasnt even a thing before the 60s, to the soldier using modern digital camo uniforms and helmets on the WW1 inspired trenches.

[@vincentdarkrosrayne]

fun fact: most indie titles are a mashup of purchased assets. it's just how you use them. look up AI Angel. they go over how to make generic assets really look good and stand out in a game. the main difference is that doing so takes a very long time. and a lot of times these devs are creating these games in a short span of time.

[@CptOmega2]

@@vincentdarkrosrayne Are you... Getting paid for this, like a click farm or something?

[@vincentdarkrosrayne]

@@CptOmega2 ​ @CptOmega2 click farm? what is this? twitter? you don't get clicks by being optimistic, these days. so i'd be failing in that category already. i just do a lot of research on stuff. instead of believing random folks on the internet with their source being that they made it the fuq up.

[@hamimahanuar]

i can't believe this came from the same developer that made charon's staircase. i absolutely loved the story in that game-such a solid buildup, and it really made you care about the story and characters. i still remember the melancholy i felt after the ending. it was impactful. but this one is such a letdown. the story feels like it was written by AI, and not to mention the voice acting literally feels like AI. completely takes you out of the game and makes it feel so lifeless and hollow. i was kind of expecting more, especially with how much i love charon's staircase.

[@IsabellaMagic_]

I saw the photo frame at around 1:07 and immediately realized it was AI (the 2nd guy from the left has an extra leg, the guy in the middle has a hand on his neck that does not seem like it belongs to the lady behind him, the hands look very off despite having normal finger numbers) I checked the comments to see if anyone caught it but apparently everything else is also AI lol, so this is disappointing. I prepared for a cozy horror game watch and was met with ai slop 😔

[@Palitato]

The faces all look a little too similar too. Guy in the front on the right also has a weird finger where his thumb should be. The hats are all inconsistent to each other (Military they should all have the same one, as well as they should all be wearing it as they're outdoors and that's military regulation), and their collar pins are all a mess!! How disappointing.

[@daviejay]

Was immeadiately taken out of the game when the voice w/world war 2 buddies wanted to "order a pizza" by phone.

[@abbeymarie5551]

So glad someone else said this 😂

[@maddieb.4282]

Pizza delivery was becoming more popular in the 50s and you could absolutely order pizza by phone. You just had to live close enough to a pizza place which were less widespread than they are now obviously

[@daviejay]

@@maddieb.4282 in the netherlands?

[@katielucas4594]

I had to look up the time line of pizza delivery service in history just to settle myself😂 and this is what I found out. Pizza delivery was a thing in the 1950s. Casa D'Amore In 1952, the D'Amore brothers, owners of the first Los Angeles pizzeria, started offering free delivery on orders over $2.50. This was a smart move to get people to order more pizza. Television The popularity of television in the 1950s helped establish the idea of eating dinner from restaurants at home. Car ownership As car ownership increased, it became more convenient to have meals delivered to homes that were further from restaurants. The history of pizza delivery can be traced back to the 1880s, when Queen Margherita of Savoy is credited with requesting the first pizza delivery. Blew my mind 😅 but it is what it is.

[@SBBurzmali]

@@daviejay Not sure many folks from the Netherlands were US marines, as was on his dog tags.

[@Zardox2]

... shame that the only "connection" was the house. And the AI voices were... yeah, disturbing. He should have been able to reveal the paintings, to help his mom. Wish that they had put that in.

[@saga685]

This game is so anachronistic, that it makes a better game trying to find all the inconsistencies. My favourite is that the Dr apparently died in 1904, but got his degree in 1999.

[@rachu]

Only 20 minutes in but I agree with other commenters about the AI voices. Really sucks to see a studio that has other games that were created with integrity cave to taking this route. There's no IMDB page for this game, and nothing about it on their website where they've credited voice actors in the past. This would have been such a perfect opportunity for so many up-and-coming VAs who are eager and willing to voice games like this, who don't mind working on low or no budget projects. The main character is the only one I've noticed so far who seems to be voiced by an actual human. It might be more work and cost a little extra money, but actual voices make such a massive difference. I end up buying games I see on your channel pretty regularly, play them for myself, then come back and watch your video. This is definitely one that I would have purchased but as an actor myself there's no way I can support a studio that's contributing to the replacement of artists like this. It especially sucks because everything else about the game seems great. (Still going to watch of course, just wanted to put this comment out there for anyone at Indigo Studios who might be reading comments here looking for feedback.)

[@okmeowokmeow]

There are also just regular people that would love to try VA (i myself would love to) for a cool indy game for the sake of experience and showing up in the credits. I really don't see a point in using soulless AI voice in a game besides plain laziness.

[@rachu]

@@okmeowokmeow Every VA starts out as a "regular person" :D I know what you mean though, yeah. It's easy to find people willing to volunteer time like that, even if sometimes it's extra work it's not always extra cost.

[@silentj624]

So you're okay with exploiting voice actors just so you can hear a human voice? Weird

[@rachu]

@@silentj624 As someone who's spent well over a decade and untold thousands of dollars investing in my craft as an artist in this field (actor, voice actor, director, producer, writer, improvisor, content creator, etc) I can tell you there's only one wrong answer to casting and that's the use of AI voices. Either have no VA or real, human VA. Part of the job of being an actor, or any kind of artist, is knowing your worth or lack thereof. Productions know that they're going to get the quality of work that they have the budget for. It's all a trade off for having the absolute privilege to make cool sht, no matter what role you get to play in it. Only the lucky and persistent minority will ever truly be able to solely rely on their art for income. That's just what happens when the bar for entry is so cheap yet there's a super high skill ceiling. This is an $8 USD INDIE game we're discussing btw. Any AAA, big budget, union project is going to require having an agent to even get an audition. Which, shocker, requires you to have booked low or no budget indie projects by yourself first! Independent and student projects are literally doing actors a favor by investing their time and money into these kinds of projects that give us the opportunity to gain the experience we need. Replacing entry level opportunities with AI is harmful, distasteful, and disrespectful to fellow storytelling artists. Super cute attitude though, ignorance is such a great look. Next time you try to put someone down in internet comments I recommend actually knowing what you're talking about.

[@alexanderwright4218]

​@@silentj624 It's not exploitation to pay someone to voice a character in a game.

[@Jedzelex]

8:18 Why do I get the feeling that Gab is having a problem with the game's script because maybe it was written by ChatGPT? 😅

[@MirA12334]

It's so baasaad.

[@looc_96]

Yeah, there are a few pronoun mistakes that don't make sense unless it's AI or translated ("his" instead of "her" for example)

[@TheNumnutRandomness]

@@looc_96 Also in the mother's second letter, "Fredric put it there for fear that SHE would burn Hope's things, " instead of "that _I_ would burn Hope's things." It's just so shoddy all around.

[@kpunicorn]

the setting in this is all over the place, like what's up with these accents? it seems like they're in Europe but then most of them have southern American accents. the historical inaccuracies send this into a real uncanny valley for me. the probably AI voice acting (and maybe some of the writing too). naming the game "portrait of a torn". I think what REALLY sets off my AI alarms is that Hope's voice actress is clearly (modeled after) a black woman's voice and well.....

[@aishwaryanair1042]

Yesss....that definitely left a sour taste in my mouth. The character is literally a Caucasian Woman but her voice is that of an African American Woman!? The math ain't mathing here!!!

[@merchantfan]

@@aishwaryanair1042 Yeah she was such an interesting looking character but that's the most random voice to pick. I also don't understand why there are so many southern accents besides the fact the AI wanted to do Flowers in the Attic really, really badly

[@icarus8372]

All i can hear is Edna Mode speaking now, and it breaks me out of it every time😭💀

[@469ka37]

After hearing what seemed like a southern black woman I assumed they were going an Izma/Eartha Kitt route, but it's just dull flat Edna Mode

[@mrs.johnwinchester420]

Came looking for this comment! 😂

[@coldspicy]

I kept trying to place the "soldier" and the war he was supposedly killed in, and that's when I became completely sure that this was all written by AI. "Ground Zero" is a term used to describe the area where a nuclear bomb hits--- this should place this guy directly in Japan (or New Mexico, but the area in New Mexico was a "test site", there was no war there). But then we get to see his memories of being in trenches and whatnot, and while trenches were used in WWII, they weren't quite as effective. (Not to mention the obvious mistake with the dates, which wouldn't even make sense from a "delayed mail" perspective cause letters took 1-4 weeks to cross the ocean back then) It's.... so lazy. They didn't even bother to fact-check what the AI wrote for them, and then added AI voices on top of that. Fuck AI, honestly. Edit: Some other people said this as well but Gab is the only reason this was enjoyable at all! Thank you for sharing this very confusing experience with us!!! The game feels like it had a lot of potential, but definitely needed much more care and less AI in it's development. I hope the reviews send a message to the devs that no, using AI for games does not cut it. There is no replacement for real artists, writers and voice actors.

[@merchantfan]

Yeah, it's a shame it's a pretty game. Either they used AI or really don't have a good grasp of history and aren't a native English speaker. The story is mostly Flowers in the Attic too, if they wanted to rip off Flowers in the Attic they could have done it themselves and picked a setting that made more sense. The portrait of her and her family as a kid made no sense. That would have been 1893, what the heck is the mom wearing? Hope's outfit is also more from the 40s, especially her short hair, 1910 was Gibson girls. They also would have been better off not having voice actors, they made it even harder to place anything and less believable. There was a guy with an Eastern European accent, a woman with a lower class Southern accent (the class they're talking about would sound more like Scarlet O'Hara), a Monty Python take on a yenta from the Bronx, and then the doctor who was mostly normal though not great. They needed to find someone to help them with writing if they couldn't, this was just a waste of their time putting the game together.

[@horizon319]

3:00 - calling it - son is dead. He's a ghost wandering the rooms of his old home.

[@katiemansfield1892]

Yeah, the dog making noise but he can't see the dog (barking from the land of the living at his ghost probably). Mom is crying, house is messy because she's grieving.

[@miriampraus2740]

not even in min 3 and I already know smths wrong, clearly no one is waiting for him...

[@maltemoj]

​@@miriampraus2740Didn't even start watching and already knew there HAD to be something wrong

[@tko7418]

This one hurt my dang head. I read a lot of comments before watching and decided to skip it a few times when it started up automatically, but I eventually decided to give it a go anyways as it had potential for being decent background noise but boy howdy was I wrong. Listening led to watching right away as I gave up trying to understand this convoluted storyline from the awful dialogue direction only: why and how in the world was the second situation related to the first and how dare they end it without giving zero answers to the original questions. Reminds me of the recent slough/slew of Nettflicks movies that just end in a black screen and “let the viewer decide the ending” which is such a big middle finger to the audience. Please, if you read this comment before watching, just give Gab a thumbs up one evening and let this run in the background while you sleep for views cause it’s not worth the mental gymnastics and waste of life points it takes from you. It’s not you Gab, it’s them. It’s a lesser-than-rookie level game. They should honestly be ashamed they published this under their same game developer name. The funniest parts were: at minute 7 when you said “you can’t be dead” speaking of the narrator; in general when you yelled at him repeatedly for not checking in on his mom; when you said the ghost had a nice booty; when you said you wished you had gone to the bathroom before starting the game (because honestly it shouldn’t have been that long!! It was a huge fluff piece full of completely unnecessary details); and the ending where you said you were unimpressed and then followed up with “I hope you all enjoyed this” cause that whiplash was hilarious. No, I watched to the end to support you, Gab! That’s.. that’s really it. I gave up caring when Violet was locked away. IMHO, this story shoulda had Hope ending the mother’s life and Hope shoulda been the dead soldier’s mother with a hidden secret in their home. THAT story would have at least correlated and made sense 🤦😂

[@altbungaming9357]

Not only are the voices ai the plot is straight up the basic plot of flowers in the attic. Child(ren) locked in an attic by their evil grandmother who wants the mom to marry a rich man after their fathers death and the children are slowly poisoned.

[@ookamihime5122]

That’s…not exactly flowers in the attic

[@ookamihime5122]

That’s….not really flowers in the attic. Sorta, but it was far more than that. Worse I should say.

[@grumpyskeleton]

It feels like the developer read "Flowers in the Attic" and decided to make it confusing by adding a dead soldier and bad AI.

[@703aSpen]

That’s exactly what I thought! They probably had Flowers in the attic as one of the AI prompts.

[@SoenKaiArt]

The AI voices, OOF... so flat and all over the place. The delivery is so weird at all times. I'd rather have Gab read text.

[@jackalnut3034]

The AI voice isn’t as bad as like TikTok AI ‘you won’t believe this’ type voice But since it’s trying to replicate real acting then it can be judged as bad acting, which it is. AI can imitate emotion but if a character is yelling or crying, it’s gonna sound like fake crying in high school plays. Because it literally cannot have emotion

[@sofiesusi]

Ah yes the electronic safe. Invented and popularized in the early 1900 as we all know

[@its99pm]

Probably just a lack of time-appropriate assets, but yeah, def takes you out of the setting.

[@TheNumnutRandomness]

I feel like at the very least the dev could've sprung for a combination dial lock, it would've been a lot less jarring.

[@PersonTP]

@@its99pm nah it is just clearly AI generated crap all around, including the story itself, the creator just slapped a prompt in CGPT and made a simple layout house using default objects...

[@mindthecorner]

The AI voices made my skin crawl........ It tainted what could otherwise have been a really nice interactive story. I really did enjoy the plot.

[@SpookiCooki]

I agree about the flaws. It's also very mixed with the historical elements. Like the trenches is typical of WW1 but he went to war in the 50's. Then in the substory about Hope it sounds like it took place in the 1800's with the way courtship was handled and yet there was a very modern safe in the office. They didn't have buttons on safes until... 70's? 80's? And Hopes voice. Oh boy. First of all, she sounds like a southern American black woman when she's clearly not. And the voice was so flat. No emotions at all. I think it may have been an AI voice too. And the stories felt too far apart. It's like 2 different games in one. The only thing that tied them together was the house.

[@maddieb.4282]

Trenches were used during the Korean War in the 50s and plenty of Americans participated including both my grandfathers…. Also plenty of people are still very conservative about dating, and you can’t tell solely based on someone’s voice whether they’re black or not Wtf lol

[@lil_poison_frog7431]

@@maddieb.4282 are you one of the devs? Jw since you're all over the comments aggressively defending the AI generated slop in this game. Btw you can absolutely tell if someone is speaking with an AAVE accent/dialect, which doesn't preclude them from being white, but if you're going to make that choice, there should be an in-game reason why a white character is appropriating AAVE

[@JeantheSecond-ip7qm]

Hope confronting her mom about killing her daughter: 😐

[@okmeowokmeow]

​@@maddieb.4282 you might be right about the timeline, but Hope's voice was definitely an AI trained on southern accent with AAVE sprinkled in. Plus, the emotionless, flat delivery is just blegh, no matter the accent.

[@gsofficial]

@@lil_poison_frog7431 "maddieb.4282" is most likely an AI chatbot trained on defending piece of crap games

[@kittenmitten9430]

The way the voice for the army letter said "condolences" the second time really tipped me off that this was not done using real voice actors. Which is such a shame! A game about the ghost of a soldier visiting his home and reliving his memories has the potential to be very cool. And I'm sure there are LOADS of voice actors out there suitable for the role, including lesser-known ones that you wouldn't have to pay a huge amount to hire, just standard wages. It's sad that game devs would rather use a hollow, robotic voice - for just the price of the AI program I assume - rather than hire a real person who could inject so much more emotion into the experience. This should be a really emotive game, but it falls short because of the "voice acting", if we can even call it that.

[@noahfoxyyoreilly680]

As a war nut I'm confused Trenches but the year is for the Korean War It's raining but if it's November then it would be snowing if it's Korea The character models in the Trenches are wwii Germans My brain hurt

[@c4v3m4n27]

As a war noob, I was also confused.

[@GroenAppelBoompje]

Talking about Ai, all the pictures/paintings/photos, also AI generated... pisses me off

[@fredthegoose]

I think the most jarring use of AI for me was the portrait of Hope and her parents when she was a child (which must have been painted in the late 19th century) where the mother is wearing a modern sleeveless dress....

[@crazymus_pride]

The Ai VA is creeping me out

[@SoenKaiArt]

Glad I'm not the only one feeling this way.

[@shadlyn3803]

Folks are talking about the AI voices and stolen art..but I wonder if the STORY is AI generated, too. There's a shell of something there, but it follows no real logic. As Gab notes, the two stories have nothing in common; there's no reason for the narrator to be dead - it adds nothing. The conflating of mental illness with greed. The "not quite flowers in the attic" theme. It feels like the kind of random jumps AI makes - not a bad idea, but when you ask them to continue it just kinda rambles a bit.

[@valveillen]

i wish some indie devs realized, that they can work with what they got and make it work. if they don't have money to hire voice actors, they don't have to use AI just to have VA in the game... do the best you can with what you have!

[@pamikin_]

Listening to this video I was so confused when the evil old mother started talking. I was like 'Edna Mode?? Did this switch to the Incredibles', and then every time the voice came back I just couldn't stop laughing imagining Edna Mode as Hope's mom.

[@ChillaQueen]

Spoilers, but there's a lot to talk about, from a story and writing perspective, historical details aside. 1:13:55 So, hope left a clue to help find the body of violet...but her ghost needed the help of, mind you another dead person, to put her soul to rest??? Why? They're both dead, so what's the point of another ghost finding the body, especially because it seems she somehow knew where it was and found her anyway? Also, why's that dude there?!? Why was she guiding him to solve something that she already knew, and that has no relation to him? Sorry about being harsh to the creator, and though the electronic safe and the watermarked painting gave me a laugh, the suitors scene was really cool and a standout scene in the game!!! The surreal aspect is this dev's strengths, so I hope they focus on that in their next game.

[@thatsomebody97]

This is amazing! don’t know if you’ll ever read this, Gabs but you have easily become one of my favourite KZbinrs on this platform, and just wanted to say thank you for being an amazing person! much love from NZ 🫶

[@grazyrj]

I think we all got so distracted with the bad voices that we didn't realize the story was actually also pretty bad upon inspection. Gab's reaction to the ending encapsulates it well. Still watched tho, not Gab's fault the developer lost his touch.

[@HemogoblinGames]

To be fair, Charon's Staircase was terribly written also. Especially how the daughter somehow managed to escape the same way the protagonist did but all the "puzzles" had been reset somehow? Including the discovery of her father. And the timed area at the end? It made absolutely zero sense. Arbitrary "puzzles" just for the sake of a puzzle drive me crazy in a game that takes itself so seriously. It was one of the first of Gab's videos I watched (and let's plays in general, I'm late to the trend) and it almost put me off entirely. But then I caught her EZ Small stuff and that reeled me back in, thank god lol Now I'm watching everything she's done pretty much

[@CAPTAINSLOWS]

Hope's story seems to take some inspiration from Flowers in the Attic, except it's just one child and the mother doesn't forget her child

[@bruzer75]

Pretty much the same story, just a few different tweeks.

[@rckblykitn]

Came to the comments to see if anyone else thought that. That was my first thought once it was revealed that the daughter was hidden in the attic. Then the arsenic poisoning. Flowers in the Attic holds a special place in my heart as I first read it when I was pretty young and have re-read it several times over the years as well as watched all the movies (the original as well as the Lifetime ones).

[@LadyroachAlot]

@@rckblykitn Same! I just left a similar comment and came looking for others who might know bc the series is so old!

[@CAPTAINSLOWS]

My mom introduced them to me. This game is definitely like the PG version 😂

[@Laudanon]

Everything from the title, through the voice acting, to the storyline sounds like an AI-generated mambo-jambo. The WW1 trenches in the 50s, Hope's american accent in a british-coded family with spanish names and surnames, the non-existent connection between the main guy and the other characters, that family portrait that was supposed to be painted before 1910 in which people look like they live in the sixties... Meh.

[@pockyhunter187]

I believe they were part of the Korean War. Americans took part and trench warfare was used in the final years.

[@annav1038]

This game is so disjointed, i’m hoping the developer sees this and makes some adjustments, starting with real voice actors (or removing the voice acting all together) and working on the storytelling aspect. Why is this dude searching for answers for a family he doesn’t even know????

[@thepinupgirl1]

Is it me or the voice of the crazy mother reminds me of the one in Life of Brian? "He's not the Messiah he's just a very naughty boy!" 😆😂

[@BinkuSama]

I heard Edna Mode 😂

[@lolapastelle]

​@BinkuSama, same! I was looking for this comment!

[@FaultyGlow]

Oh those voices are so AI, yike

[@drazman9]

I'm just gonna be that guy: When Gab whispered at the end there: "Maybe, when I get back home, we could.. *fhaackk".. 14:48 I lost it - laughed for a good 5 minutes there!!! The timing and delivery was so on point!!! LMFAO

[@lilyn7497]

can someone recommend an actually accurate historical horror game? I'm a historian and it takes me out of a setting HARD

[@ninavale.]

I knew the son was dead! I had suspicions from the start, but then it was confirmed-for me- with the doctor's note to his mother and about a terrible loss. I was like "it's the death of the son in the war, isn't it?" and yep. That's probably why everything looks so abandoned and he cannot see his dog or mom but sees traces of them. also Trenches were used in other wars too...and they were a thing during Korean War.

[@glassdragonmedia]

When the son was done reading the doctor's note and was like, "why was mom on pills? Was she sick?" I was like, "are you serious, dude? Did you even read the letter?"

[@Railuki]

The mother gets back from her son's funeral to find the door to the old house open and a child's dead body revealed. What a day.

[@bluemrpony]

the main character's voice is killing me, why does he sound 13 years old 😭

[@its99pm]

They did have a habit of sending boys that were far too young to war in those days. He might have been about 16-18.

[@westcoast1155]

The anachronisms keep taking me out of the game, ngl. I'm having trouble finding an actual copy, but I'm 100% sure that the American military had a standard notice of death they sent out when someone died in the Korean war.

[@BeingIris]

“It’s too late.. he’s dead.” Gab, immediately turns around: okay, bye!

[@The00kelly00]

I love your vids, but I don't like seeing games made with AI art or VAs.

[@elmolady25]

feels a lot like either an entirely AI-written story or heavily based on VC Andrews' Flowers in the Attic. I was only half-watching until I picked up on some of the identical plot points.

[@LyValVariety]

that was exactly my thought! except it’s only one child instead of 4 in this game.

[@CochetVolaille]

its extremely sad they couldnt even be bothered to research the time period they were going for to correct anything

[@CJxLuvly]

She definitely sounds like Edna Mode but also the lady from Mulan "now, POUR THE TEA" lol with the ink mustache around her mouth 😂

[@Nyx_ofthenight]

31:05 Me, a paleontologist: Wtf do you mean "ischium" of the office? Office pelvis??

[@taylorsissel3023]

does this technically mean in his house, with his mom, there was the body of a dead child in the walls?

[@captivewitness]

More Flowers in the Attic content ripped straight from the pages. (Although in Flowers in the Attic it is claimed that the body was buried after death in a hospital, but then in other books in the series it is claimed that the body was dumped in a ravine in order to avoid suspicion, but much later on during a return trip to the attic one of the characters realizes that the body might have actually never left the house since there was another entrance into the attic school room they never knew about and that it would have been so easy to just come up and hide the body in a hollow place behind the walls.)

[@SpookiCooki]

Perfect! I was just looking for some Gab to watch and you instantly delivered. 😂

[@Palitato]

I feel like some of this was even written by AI. Some of the syntax was a little weird as a native english speaker (might be hard to pick up for someone who didn't grow up speaking it) and they also got some of the pronouns wrong a couple times, calling Hope "He" in the destroyed bedroom, that kinda thing. There was just something not quite right about it. That plus the weird disconnected between everyone's accents! The daughter sounded southern, the mother sounded like Edna Mode, the guy sounded like he was... honestly I don't know, but that wasn't an American accent I've ever heard!

[@airborneshadow5827]

Trenches were used during World War Two. He fought in World War Two, was KIA, and the Army recovered the body either shortly after his death, much later during the war or after the war. They then sent a letter to his mother in the early 50s.

[@pockyhunter187]

Trenches were also used in the Korean War, especially in the final years.

[@airborneshadow5827]

@@pockyhunter187 trenches were used in Afghanistan at outposts and FOBs.

[@gregsmith80]

Devs who use AI voice actors should be publicly shamed.

[@vincentdarkrosrayne]

Then give them money to hire voice actors. The holier than thou preaching from non game devs is so annoying but typical for keyboard warriors, I guess.

[@kath4134]

@@vincentdarkrosrayne they don't need to use voice actors, just don't voice the game if you can't afford it rather than using AI trash.

[@vincentdarkrosrayne]

@@kath4134 probably one of the worst takes i've seen on social media all weekend. but i do understand there's AI derangement syndrome that exist. i just tire of people that complain about stuff and give zero solutions.

[@kath4134]

@@vincentdarkrosrayne lmao you got your solution. This dev opted for "voicing" the characters and the game was worse for it. Indie games don't need voice acting to be good but you can hardly explain that to an AI defender, you'd probably excuse any ai-generated slop

[@vincentdarkrosrayne]

@@kath4134 oh, as opposed to the very bad indie games that use actual voice acting? those are suddenly extremely well done titles because they don't use AI? i'm not an AI defender. but i'm also not an AI hater like you seem to be. hate ai so much to the point it blinds you to everything else. your hypocrisy is ironic because you are literally hating on anything associated with ai but thing someone that is saying AI isn't the thing to blame is a hardcore defender? sounds like your average ideolog. cause i'm sure there's nothing i could say to you, not matter the amount of overwhelming evidence, that AI isn't this big problem you think it is. and also check out indie horror games with people voice acting. and tell me those are better and not inherently distracting to the point the rest of the game doesn't matter.

[@dannymansfield8743]

Usually love your videos but couldn't make it through this one because of the obvious GenAI. Knew a minute in when that picture of the army guys came up and pieced together that the terrible VO must have also been AI, and maybe the game's story too. I'm unfamiliar with the previous game but if that was good then this is just a clear example of how GenAI is causing quality to go down on the whole for entertainment. Sad to see, really.

[@2LaneTraveler]

Three minutes in and I'm already thinking, "he's dead and he's visiting his home as a ghost and he doesn't know it yet". Let's see if I am right. 10:40 Yup.

[@SuuzieQ]

I actually don't mind the "low sensitivity", I kinda get dizzy if the camera moves too fast xD

[@lazyegg]

Your playthroughs are so comforting, I love watching you play, it helps me to ease my mind. Thank you Gab 🖤

[@EMT74]

My grandfather was military police during the Korean war, he came home in 1952. Great looking game, thanks for all the bangers :)

[@EMT74]

Also, watch M.A.S.H. , funny shit

[@RyanTheWolf]

Great game? It's an AI garbage pile.

[@EMT74]

@@RyanTheWolf" looking"

[@hofficalz]

This is like a school book example how to make an interesting-ish premise confusing and dull. It's the AI

[@Azenithf]

The connection seems to be the house but perhaps also the theme of losing a child. Him wishing his mother to live a long life to preserve his memory was probably result of him thinking his mother would try to follow in Hope's footsteps. Such a tragic story. I hope edmund managed to pull through with the mother's arrest, a truly horrific woman.

[@TonksTheFool]

We saw at the start in the paper that she did in fact get arrested.

[@projectaurora3154]

How is he ordering a pizza in 1952 😂

[@maddieb.4282]

You could absolutely order a pizza for delivery post WWII if you lived close enough to a pizza place. It became super popular through the 50s and 60s. In general stuff has been around a lot longer than we think lol

[@its99pm]

@@maddieb.4282 Indeed! I did some basic research on safes (out of curiosity after seeing the one in this game), and discovered the earliest one we know of dates back to the 13th century BC. As in, they had figured out how to make a lockable box for keeping valuables in more than three thousand years ago! Granted it was made of wood so we wouldn't consider it terribly safe at all, but they also didn't have axes as we know them back then, or any other tool capable of bashing through some solid wood, so it probably was pretty safe! (iron came along about a hundred years later)

[@gsofficial]

@@maddieb.4282 in general you're an idiot who bought 8 cheap youtube accounts to upvote yourself with.

[@BuggyBum26]

The voice acting on this is completely abysmal

[@ashtonhaugen2520]

That is because it is likely AI generated, not real actors

[@22argan]

Nothing beats watching gabs after shoveling snow with 🥶 gusts of wind

[@Brit626]

MAJOR Flowers in the Attic vibes with this game! So cool!

[@DelightfulChaos]

I wish the voice acting was a real person….my brain can’t handle this. Sets off all the audio sensory issues

[@BrainError]

I played the demo of this and that was enough

[@katiemansfield1892]

The house reminds me of a game, too! Initially my brain kept saying Painscreek Killings, but I think instead I'm thinking of an "escape the haunted house" kind of a mystery game where at least part of it is in daylight so it feels benign. There's a phone like a desktop phone in the game I'm thinking of. I'm probably way off and honestly can't even recall the name of it. But wanted to say I feel the deja vu, too!

[@silkfay]

it reminds me of that game she played where you would go into books to steal items.

[@katiemansfield1892]

​@@silkfay The Bookwalker?

[@kathrynlynn2020]

This is giving me major Flowers in the Attic vibes

[@its99pm]

I'm glad someone else said it! An evil grandma poisoning a child in the attic with arsenic made me think of that book immediately

[@Nuswodahs]

Glad I wasn’t the only one to think that. I always hated that story.

[@jamiebetancourt4160]

I was thinking the same thing! When I wasn't cringing at the AI voices.

[@Nuswodahs]

@@jamiebetancourt4160 I’m glad the ending wasn’t similar. The AI voices was definitely a turn off.

[@petrify4814]

Thankfully with less incest.

[@raven782069]

Anyone else getting flowers in the attic vibes.

[@LadyroachAlot]

I just left a comment about that and came looking for more! I thought I'd be so alone in thinking that given how old that book series is!

[@andthecaseofthe2747]

I'm an hour in and yes the AI voices are awful but is anyone else like oh god this is the plot of Flowers in the Attic?? (minus the dead guy wandering around the house)

[@brieannesmith8598]

I really liked the story aspect of Hope and Violet and the crazy, evil mother! That I felt was well planned out but I wasn't sure what the connection between them and our main character was. If the connection was made I think the story would be just that much better! Some of the voices, whether it was AI or voice acting, were really good and some weren't so well done. I immediately thought of Edna Mode too when Gabs made a comment on the evil mother's voice! It was like evil Edna Mode! Overall I enjoyed the video, Gabs! You have such a chill demeanor that it's a great, calm time even if the game is intense.

[@kiyekostarchildunicorn9155]

Hey Gab. I know you prolly won't see this but I just got my youtube wrapped and guess what... You're my #1 creator!!!🎉❤ Thank you for all that you do. Your content has gotten me through some long nights. Love you! (no diddy)

[@michbutgay]

20:09 whys she southern

[@LadyroachAlot]

Yes the A.I. is horrid, but V.C. Andrews much? Flowers in the Attic anyone? The attic, the arsenic, Violet and Hope's situation is so similar. It's a book series published in the 80's I think. It was also a movie at some point. The whole series is pretty twisted, but this game just reminds me so much of her work that I had to say something. Also, keep in mind this series was written before Andrews passed away and a ghost writer took over.

[@karmillaschreger6546]

Hope's voice sounds incredibly unfitting anf flat, definitely seems like AI

[@karlacg6662]

the piano scene was amazing hahaha she just knew right away how to play it, i was impressed, she looked really cool. I wanna see her play piano some day

[@InkonsistentGaming]

The AI voices... the AI portraits... I'm incredibly disappointed by this dev.

[@LilimMarieGaming]

This game is basically a version of “flowers in the attic” in a way…

[@Katie-dr3vh]

The situation with hope and violet reminds me of the book flowers in the attic.

[@TinyTikki93]

I wasn't reading the subtitles and heard "...mom says it leads to the old farts of the house..." why did they seal in all the old people!?!?!?🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Meadzstreamz]

I'll watch this because I like Gabs but the amount of AI coming up in games these days is disgusting.

[@mrkaye4266]

Isn’t this the plot of flowers in the attic?

[@LadyroachAlot]

Yes! Basically the same but from an outsiders ghost perspective!

[@mrkaye4266]

@ okay! I thought it was familiar. Like it’s almost 100% the same with the exception of how many kids and the mom actually wanting her child and maybe a few other exceptions 😅

[@mrs.johnwinchester420]

I was getting BIG Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews vibes from this game. I much prefer Gab reading to the voice work.

[@ryubiskj]

i find it so curious, that at the part where hope stated "consumed by despair and sorrow, i could only see one way out" and the bathtub next to it, that gab would not immediately think of su*cide. of course still marrying and/or k*lling the mom would have been a better solution but in her mental state that was the only possibility which seemed so obvious to me, so its really interesting that other people would not think of that first

[@foodfairy4546]

The voices in this game make it almost unwatchable. They don’t match the time, place, or race of the characters. I really wish they hadn’t used them at all.

[@JenIsHungry]

Race? Lol

[@mori9630]

@@JenIsHungry I think they mean that Hope is "voiced" by a black woman when she's clearly white in the game.

[@HaileyRead-r3m]

Really needed this! So excited to kick back with some coffee for a cozy watch ❣️

[@IsabelPretty]

Looks like there’s heaps of Ai used throughout the game. The images in the frames and newspapers look like Ai to me, the script feels like it was written by Chat gpt and the voice sounds like a robot. Always sucks to see, takes the soul out of the game.

[@399-CY]

Hopefully 15 minutes of watching doesn't hurt the watchtime metrics too much, but i can't take this. So many AI elements, so many inconsistencies. Actively make me feel uncomfortable. Looking forward to the next video 🙏

[@RavenOfSarcasm]

No capes! 😂

[@AmehaPulir]

It's goobin' time.

[@Dr.LemonMan]

all the ai sucks :/

[@KAnnie-r1j]

I think the connection is a mother losing her child and couldn’t do anything to protect them.

[@SatyrOnMain]

I love how you went to read the first letter and the game just started reading it ....I was like...okay....game, you do your thing. Then when you got to Edmund's letter...i kept thinking...hold up...this is the 24 yr old and he sounds like this amazing person. I certainly didn't have the suave voice and eloquent words that he had in his letter at that age. Seriously, i was like....i'd marry him.

[@Railuki]

Gab, Thank you for always mentioning posture. I am trying to not slump over my desk constantly and your comments remind me to sit like I have core muscles.

[@alibine626]

hard watch only for the fact that it seems like all the writing and voice acting in this game were written by AI. sucks the life and creativity out of a game and cheapens it by a mile :/ Always happy to watch a Gab video tho, love her to death :)

[@math_plant]

The fact that we have a soulless monster in the game, punctuated with the soulles AI script is...fitting but for all the wrong reasons. That completely ruins the game (and makes it more confusing as the AI script gets pronouns wrong 50% of the time). When the woman had to sound desperate and she sounded like she forgot to get eggs from the store I felt such a pit in my stomach. As a creative person I feel awful whenever AI is used like that.

[@logan7135]

The melancholy music in the beginning is so good 🤌🏼✨

[@albynoman]

The letter in the trenches starting with ‘Dear Esther’ is a very subtle reference, glad I was still able to notice it…