Shipwrecked 64: A Haunting ARG (feat. Squeaks D'Corgeh)

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@SwaggyG_2102 10 ай бұрын

As someone who's been watching Shipwrecked 64's growth since 2021, I just wanted to say that I'm glad to see my friend's work get major recognition.

@ruikirisame1744 10 ай бұрын

saw the Taffnine letsplay. your friend should be proud

@troin3925 10 ай бұрын

You guys are friends!? I see you everywhere (at least that profile picture)!

@Relcilisity 9 ай бұрын

@@troin3925 yeah, swaggy is quite popular in the analog horror community

@Marktheweirdone 8 ай бұрын

Tell them it’s a perfect scary game and tell him the idea of a dev being able to join you randomly or not if you don’t have the thing on but the dev just to show how much a dumass you are and helping on the puzzle your stuck on

@goofy-ahh101. 2 ай бұрын

@shinyocelot04archive 10 ай бұрын

I really like this. Like Squeaks says there's plenty of potential within mascot horror, and it's shown beautifully here.

@deadspace4755 8 ай бұрын

l just love how the monsters look at the camera directly, the player is the target here.

@Narnes64 10 ай бұрын

Ever since I saw ManlyBadassHero play the original Shipwrecked, I’ve been pretty obsessed with this series. You can quickly fall down rabbit holes that the final game only hints of, and I love that. Just secrets upon secrets upon secrets and so on. You probably already know this but Squeaks already has run a full on analog horror arg with these characters a few years ago. It goes into the deeper history of Broadside itself, something that we honestly only get a peak at through this game. Even the original version contain many secrets and answers that the full release doesn’t even cover, such as the question of what was going on with Brandon and what the hell are the Starlings. And having seen the original release, this final version really felt extremely nostalgic to me, I mean the plot was basically the same but only ever going to layer 2. I could gush on and on about this series but I don’t want to spoil anything for others and I even know i don’t fully know everything yet. Squeaks really has done an amazing job creating this one of a kind experience that I’m sad I won’t be able to relive, (well accept for the potential dlc, which introducing it as an in-universe rom hack is fucking genius btw) so hats off to you.

@memoman_yt 10 ай бұрын

Things u missed: hidden videos on cogware channel + bunny channel I think and what happened to the courpse thing

@Narnes64 10 ай бұрын

@@memoman_yt oh yeah there is a crap ton of stuff that I have missed 😅 But that’s what’s so fun about this game

@troin3925 10 ай бұрын

The creator has even said that they made Shipwrecked 64 because they were dissatisfied with how his original ARG turned out and wanted to make it “good again.” They’re still canon, but he doesn’t like those old videos anymore. He initially deleted them but due to fan response, he put them back up which I’m glad he did because, while I never knew about any of this stuff until Shipwrecked 64, I’m very passionate about media preservation and archiving so good on him.

@troin3925 10 ай бұрын

Even though it’s a terrible comparison because they’re nothing alike, the lore of this series kind of reminds me of the Scythe Saga Universe with how the game is based on pre-existing lore and the mascots being biological creatures (like in Happy’s Humble Burger Farm). However, the lore is nowhere near as insane or old, it takes place on Earth, there’s no other games like 80s slasher inspired ones, the lore hasn’t had any retcons/rewrites about what’s considered canon anymore and this series doesn’t have any zombie apocalypse, alien invasions or some kind of eldritch supernatural involvement.

@Mike14264 9 ай бұрын

@@troin3925 yeah, like, there are a lotta notions to the people in-universe that we lack - while to us, these are mascots that we never even heard of, in-universe they're beloved icons with a large history for their foundation. It's like you assumed that the long lost game you found was about some random mascot of the time that never got their spot in the limelight, only to feel total whiplash when you learn you've actually just been living under a rock all this time and the mascot _is_ extremely well known - it's the game itself that was lost, and for other reasons that didn't have anything to do with lack of popularity.

@Mike14264 9 ай бұрын

Yeah, this game is _beeg._ I think there's even some codes and secrets folks haven't even seen before yet. Also, one thing folks may already know about Blot - he actually camouflages as one of the barrels, and he slowly forms into a rabbit using random assets and textures... until reaching his finalized form, ready to chase you. One thing you may _not_ know however, is that you can hit said barrel to prevent Blot from spawning! ...and another thing you also might not know. You know how all Starlings are made using someone's revived corpse? And we know the identities of the main four? Well, Blot's corpse... ...is Rex Broadside. The creator of Blot and Bucky. You find out about this in other ARG videos before Shipwrecked 64, but the whole Starling project was started _because_ he died - in order to stay ahead of the curve in the animation biz, the execs wanted to revive the creator of the company. And, well, apparently they did. Despite the fact Rex was ashamed of what the company had become. Despite the fact he hated what how big it had gotten, how isolated it made him from his family, how fabricated the image of him had become. He was isolated at the top of the company, while the people running it all were just out of reach, further twisting his creation into something he didn't want.

@goldenmaplearts1264 8 ай бұрын

Blot's male

@Mike14264 8 ай бұрын

@@goldenmaplearts1264 huh, I just double checked and dang, you're right! My mistake.

@angela.luntian 8 ай бұрын

what does reviving rex even do? is he lucid?

@Mike14264 8 ай бұрын

@@angela.luntian I doubt he is, or at least he's just as lucid as all other Starlings... and honestly, I can't even tell if he still has his consciousness or not. Because that pulsating flesh mass is what revives these corpses, it might be its conscience that's controlling them, not the conscience of the deceased.

@goldenmaplearts1264 8 ай бұрын

@@Mike14264 I think maybe he still has his consciousness

@DrWellRound 9 ай бұрын

Blot’s scream sounds like the Other Mother’s scream from Coraline. Mainly at the part when Coraline lock’s the door to the other world. Not sure if it may have a connection, but if it had a connection, I would personally say it’s like them saying they want out of this agony they’re going through.

@mariscardigan 9 ай бұрын

Yes, the sound bite is from coraline :)

@uli_Gio 3 ай бұрын

The fact that you heard the connection is insane

@DrWellRound 3 ай бұрын

@@uli_Gio That’s because I watched Coraline and know what happens

@uli_Gio 3 ай бұрын

@@DrWellRound no shit even I watched it when it first came out and I was 7

@GreysonMacAllister 7 ай бұрын

Okay, I adore the idea of the game getting expansions in the form of ROM Hacks through the ARG. That's a super clever idea.

@PapaLuge 7 ай бұрын

I'm blown away by how insanely good this game was to play, feel and just how genuinely terrifying and unnerving it is all the way from layer 5 to 1, just a feeling of uncomfortable dread everywhere you go, even if its considered "safe". I went in blind and it was truly one of the best experiences i've had with a horror game/any game to date. An absolute masterpiece.

@YourAverageNerd06 10 ай бұрын

This game is absolutely amazing! This game has a perfect mix of classic-platformer gameplay, horror tones and elements, and secret finding. This feels like the genuine best horror game with storytelling I’ve experienced and read into since FNaF. Thanks Squeak! I hope that this game gets some more content or some incentive to keep coming back like an arcade mode. Gotta love the game.

@Esshersimpbdlcrew 10 ай бұрын

To be honest, as a 2000's kid who grew up with a n64, as a kid i had this fear of going out of bounds. not sure why but it always makes me shiver and even reset the game in a panic. to me this game heightens that fear in layer 3 cause of the threats. i nearly had a panic attack on a discord vc till a glitch (or squeaks. idk what happened to this day) had only olive and she was realy docile till i found the code and started the gold pc mission

@alextheferret5674 10 ай бұрын

When I learned about shipwrecked, I was appalled with it's lore density. All the characters are likeable and the scares are perfectly timed! Well done squeaks, this is amazing!

@sapphirebluex3865 10 ай бұрын

Shipwrecked 64 is one of my favorite horror games since the dlc came out, I love the characters and their voices, the VAs did an amazing job and they're very talented

@Chilgt 10 ай бұрын

ThaT rom HACK dlc concept is so cool!!! I would 100% love to see that!

@Marustyna 10 ай бұрын

This is the second time I hear someone say "It's a bug but I hope it doesn't get patched" in context of Shipwrecked ... Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice :3

@-haruka9716 6 ай бұрын

I am very happy that Shipwrecked can have the recognition it deserves, I have been following its development since 2022 because I fell in love with how fresh it was, its mechanics, its design, the story, even the talent VAs, it was something new. Also, I'm happy for the developers for bringing it back once again and complete. To say that Squeaks is a great guy, a creator who deserves the recognition that is coming to him

@xforest_creaturex 10 ай бұрын

this literally came up on my feed 52 seconds after it was posted lol

@Ducky_Lucky 9 ай бұрын

The sound design of the mascots got me fcked up to the point it kept haunting me all night when I was trying to sleep

@adamwasp2717 10 ай бұрын

Is there a reason no one talking about Shipwrecked 64 is also mentioning the series it’s based off, Broadside Beach? Like, not even Squeaks brought it up. It’s very weird

@SqueakDCorgeh 9 ай бұрын

You can see it in the playlist description, but I didn't bring it up largely because as it currently stands, I'm not proud of it anymore. I'm planning on remaking the episodes later.

@testerwulf3357 9 ай бұрын

@@SqueakDCorgeh I would love to see a remake

@DoctorTheo 8 ай бұрын

Great video analyzing this game! I think this game is so drastically different from other mascot horror games, even the ones I enjoy, I think this is the birth of post-mascot horror. I am open for better subgenre names

@lilithrose4871 10 ай бұрын

Would really love to see the story be expanded!!

@crimer_doppler 2 ай бұрын

Once I heard this guy say he wanted to create DLC like updates that add ROMHACKS of a fake N64 game, I realized he is an actual genius

@sharkenjoyer 10 ай бұрын

My main criticism of the game is that it keeps showing the same 3 murder scenes over and over Like you get "flashes" of the murders after failing minigames, get the same murder scenes after a certain point, and then you get the same scenes in the zip that has been downloaded. I know that it is the main point of the game, in lore the game was made to expose the murders, but, am I really the only one who is super curious about the starling project? What is it, like an occult thing? Scifi? What even is this? The murder scenes are cool and all, but what about the other aspects of the lore? It would be cool if the evidence got more and more explicit as you go deeper instead of flashing the same murder avi's over and over again

@sharkenjoyer 10 ай бұрын

Like ugh we get it olivia was drowned and giovanni was burned, no need to remind us with every major accomplishment

@nahuelamonte9991 10 ай бұрын

You probably already found out thanks to other people talking about it, but this game is actually connected to a series made by Squeaks called Broadside Beach. I would recommend you check it out because it goes more in depth about the starlings themselves and what they are. i'm not sure if the story has changed much between Broadside and Shipwrecked, but it should still be able clear some things up for you

@gayrurumon 10 ай бұрын

"Bucky feels sublime to control" does he? Does he _really_? Imo the platforming is pretty janky at times, which to be fair, was true of many Nintendo 64 platformers that inspired it... but I don't think any modern game going for an N64 style needs to be strive for accuracy in that particular regard. It definitely could, and probably should, be better. And as much as I do really like a lot about this game, that's far from the only issue I have with it. Shipwrecked 64 is not very good at conveying to the player what they're supposed to do at times. And I'm not talking about the later ARG aspects and puzzles. To an extent, those are *supposed* to be a pain in the arse to figure out, I get that. But even just when it come to accessing that part of the game: As far as I've seen the game doesn't give you any hints, not even vague ones, that you're supposed fail the minigames to start accessing the spooky shit. It seems the game expects you to either find out by failing them naturally (which is unlikely, since most of them are very easy), or just "figure it out somehow". Which I'm not sure how many people will be able to do without looking it up, or having seen/played the demo before this. Worse: you have to fail them _more than once_ before anything odd starts happen. This makes it entirely conceivable that a player might fail a minigame, see that nothing seems to happen, and conclude "hmm, I guess that's not what I'm supposed to do" and just move on. I think the minigames get harder after the first failure to try and counteract this (which is kind of smart), but they don't get impossible until you've failed twice already, so this is still an issue. Shipwrecked also has a problem where it seems to seek to waste the player's time at every opportunity. Again: this is accurate to the time period, but not in a good way. Minigames like Olive's, Stumbler's, and Wulf's drag on for much longer than such simple gameplay can sustain. Olive's is the worst offender whether you aim to fail or beat it, and while there is a hidden way to reduce the timer in the case of the former, the game once again fails to convey this to the player. But as mundane as these parts get, they're not truly awful... unless you're trying to get the good ending. I'll put this simply: the volcano platforming part, where you get one try to beat it before the game give you the bad ending and deletes your save? Bullshit. Complete bullshit. There is absolutely no reason for the game to erase 40 or more minutes of progress just because you didn't successfully wrestle Bucky through a long, awkward to control, checkpointless platforming segment fast enough on your first try. Or second try. Or third or fourth try, because it's hard to practice and improve at a segment when you have to start over and play boring mingames before you can make another attempt. At least on the 1997 version I think you can skip straight to Stumbler's minigame, though just replaying that one still wastes a lot more time than I consider reasonable. But say player is going for it on the 2023 version, either because they're avoiding the spooky stuff, they think the ending might be different between the two versions, or just because it's the first selected option on the menu. Then it's a nightmare, because you have to beat _all_ the minigames each time you start over before Stumbler is accessible, then beat _his_ game before J.D. will appear to offer you another shot at the volcano. It's *maddening*. Forcing you redo everything doesn't add to the challenge in any meaningful way, and even if it did, that segment's already hard enough with Bucky's floaty jumps and dubious ability to grab ledges when he need to. No, it's just utterly disrespectful of the player's time, in a game that already requires a huge investment of time and energy in order to discover the true story. And in this day and age, where free time is a rare and precious resource for the average person, I consider that to be one of the worst sins a game can commit. I know I just wrote a lot of word complaining, but I really do like Shipwrecked 64. It's charming, but also very unsettling when it decides to let the mask slip. The story is interesting, and is revealed piecemeal in way that I personally enjoy a lot. It demonstrates a much better understanding of pacing and building tension than many games in its genre, and I hope more mascot horror games take note and inspiration from how it presents its story. And yet, it still has some prominent flaws that I find difficult to look past. I hope the developer continues making games and improving their craft, or even improving this game with updates, since that seem to be their plan anyway. They're very talented, and I look forward to seeing their future work.

@dmuted 10 ай бұрын

Bucky does feel sublime to control, if you're having difficulties I'm afraid that may just be a skill issue.

@gayrurumon 10 ай бұрын

I suppose, though I don't normally have problems with 3d platformers. Something about this one's controls just didn't click with me. To each their own, I guess @@dmuted

@testerwulf3357 9 ай бұрын

@@gayrurumon Could be you're just not used to the controls, people who've played games from this era and gotten good at them probably have no problems whilst people not used to the janky old styled controls would struggle as they aren't quite as smooth as modern video games; just takes some time to get used to something different don't worry! I can't say it's that difficult to realize you have to fail the minigames for the other ending..if winning leads to one, you'd assume loosing would as well and grind out losses to have it happen (the dialogue for the character even changes when you loose which could make you want to try again to see if it changes again until you finally fail for real) especially as there's literally nothing else to do..there's only loosing as a second option. I agree though this and the hitting Olive to low the timer could of been conveyed better but they're fairly easy to stumble on by accident (in Olives case it doesn't hurt you if you don't know it, just takes longer)