Tattletail in 2023 - Does It Hold Up?

Today I take a look back on one of the great indie horror classics of the 2010s. Tattletail is really iconic and was pretty influential, but how does it hold up today? These are my thoughts.
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Chapters
0:00 - Intro
1:36 - The Concept
6:28 - The Gameplay
10:04 - The Horror
12:10 - Does It Hold Up?
13:39 - Outro
Music:
"Underneath 1" from FNAF WORLD
Loading Theme from Tattletail
"Main Menu" from One Night at Flumpty's 3
"Title Screen - Music Box" from Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
#Tattletail

[@SpikeVGM]

honestly although FNaF has always been my favourite horror franchise, Tattletail is probably my favourite horror game, there's something about the atmosphere that hits the unsettlement factor perfectly for me in a way that I don't think any other games have come close to doing

[@slimerancherfan213]

Are you my long lost brother?

[@SpikeVGM]

@@slimerancherfan213 maybe,..

[@AshleyOrange]

I find it kind of strange that you didn't bring up the Kaleidoscope DLC at all, as I feel it is kind of important to mention in a retrospective. I think it's also odd you didn't bring up the fact that unlike every other mascot horror game the creator never tried to milk it by making merch or more games. They just left to make other really popular games with no connection at all, which I think is extremely respectable. Also about the game not aging I think visually it has, you can tell the team wasn't as skilled or big compared to BATDR or Poppy Playtime which are more graphically impressive and up to date looking. Also I think BATDR is way more scary, but that's just me.

[@eliescobis9922]

i mean they compared spooky house of jumpscares and baldi to a poopy playshit so i am not suprised at all

[@Xenorvya]

@@eliescobis9922 Fr

[@syweb2]

Wait, what other games did this game's creator make?

[@AshleyOrange]

@@syweb2 they made Dount County and Neon White. One of the main collectibles in Neon White are Tattletales

[@buddy4523]

You know TT came before BATDR and poppy playtime right? It was made 6 years ago.

[@hannahshark8080]

I think the final battle against Mama was a nod to Furby owners who insisted their toy was haunted I the 90's. Most of the fear of furbies came from word of mouth urban legends where the furby was demonic and killed the family etc. I guess you had to have been there but the legends were terrifying to 9yr Olds.

[@condensedmilk4288]

It's odd because the conclusion ritual does actually fit with the tone of the game, but only if you play the Kaleidoscope DLC. I feel like in that, the tone is established as a comedic horror along the lines of FNaF sister location very early, and the the ridiculous nature of said DLC makes you subconsciously put the rest of the base game in the same category. Overall I feel like the idea of having tattletail be kinda funny came way later in development of the base game, and probably had little time to actually be established too well originally. Btw If you haven't played the kaleidoscope DLC yet, I strongly encourage you for at the very least, the visuals alone!

[@Mike14264]

Agreed, I actually do think the ending is pretty cool.

[@elliotnutella8044]

hot take, I love Tattletail and I think it still really holds up, this a great retrospective on a mostly forgotten game.

[@friendlyneighborhoodnoob]

Cold grab

[@CinfulArts]

Best part about Tattletail not being extremely popular, is not only that it makes it a hidden gem, but also: It hasn’t been ruined by kids content creators cough cough Fnaf cough Poppy Playtime Also, a tactic I saw someone do while playing the game was when Mama was around, they literally just stood still and stared at her till the lights came on, and it worked, even if they had Tattletail and he was screaming his head off. I feel like there could’ve been a better way for the developers to have Mama chase you, because if you do this, it’s embarrassingly easy to avoid her

[@jack_stone]

Poppy Playtime was made for kids and kid content creators in mind tbh.

[@darkninjafirefox]

I loved tattletail in its prime! I thought the furby like little guys were really cute and I think the story itself was pretty interesting. I hope people do more with it in the future. I think the ending could have been better if the goal was to keep your own mother from waking up. Like if she was the secret big bad instead

[@dragonscalie]

I'm gonna be honest Tattletail's story was amazing to me especially the kaleidoscope dlc and how the game deals with memories. I just wish they did more with it.

[@msitipultt]

tattletail was my childhood. i remember playing games related to it on roblox and having an absolute blast. i bought the game on christmas last year and i LOVED IT!! though nowadays i just miss this game. it sucks that the devs just left this game behind and never touched it again ever since the kaleidoscope released. i love this purple critter a ton ALSO, i would KILL to see you review Imscared, its a pretty good game too

[@Snakepit_Media]

I'm very upset that no one talks about the kaleidoscope dlc it's so amazing

[@AroAce-Popgoes-plush]

Recently the creator of this game released a game called neon white and it has a tattletail reference (used as a collectible to give to a specific person)

[@msitipultt]

@@AroAce-Popgoes-plush yeah but that's just it, it's just a COLLECTIBLE

[@mcnuggwtscreations]

@@msitipultt better than nothing

[@msitipultt]

@@mcnuggwtscreations fair enough

[@smugbowkid9919]

Tattletail is more of a “back of my head” type game, where I sort of don’t care about it but I can’t forget about it nor deny the urge to watch some youtuber play it again for nostalgia.

[@nightwatch3889]

Gotta say, I love the ending. I'm totally a lore guy and I love interesting stuff like that. Also the way the toys seem super un-advanced and immobile, yet are shown to be sentient enough to chant in a circle to fulfill a common goal. Idk if that made sense but I found it very interesting.

[@eliasalejandro2292]

I loved how they chanted "no more mama!", I know it's a ritual but I still found that cute

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Honest Trailers guy: Wait, is this ANOTHER indie horror game? NOOOOO!

[@Lurkzy_nevermore]

I know that guy😂

[@qwertya2942]

Thanks for the retrospective! I've always thought of Mommy Tattletail as if she was the wicked image of our own parents/mother, but yeah, the final sequence just doesn't make sense. It would be nice to hear your thoughts on 123 Slaughter Me Street, this game is quite unpopular, but still worth mentioning!

[@princeinsomniac]

This was one of my childhood games and honestly loved this retrospective on it!

[@incriveldinossauro5282]

Tattletail is pretty cool and i think the conclusion would be better with some build up. Idk about gameplay but i love the feel of urban legend that is mama Tattletail and the fact that they reeaallly looks like a toy from the 90s made me happy :)

[@SillyGoofyMode]

Tattletail was one of my first horror games, and I'll always hold it close to my heart because of it. Despite all of it's flaws, i still love it. And the actual designs are fun and usually i focus on designs more than anything in a game.

[@Slicel1987]

forgot the dlc teheheh SIDE NOTE, Tattletail is still one of my favorites above all indie horror, even higher than FNAF and Bendy and while It gives me vibes of when I was a kid, It isn't always in my face like Bendy or Fnaf, It slows itself down and thats honestly good ... I'm glad we don't have Tattletail Back to school bags, It makes it more the charming and a good thing to revisit every now and then I hope to see this game return one day but it's unlikely

[@highwabbit5412]

I think the basement was too dark because maybe they tried to make be realistic in a way cause an enclosed space with no light is obviously gonna be dark as hell. The difference with this game is at least it came with a full package, did not expand itself by making another game, and came with voices throughout the entirety of it's release start to finish. Haven't seen any of these other popular horror games have voice at the start of their first game start to finish, except baldy... is that even considered horror? And an innocent buddy you have to carry with you all the way. Seems pretty different to me.

[@eliescobis9922]

since when spooky or baldi were marketable mascots? also give me a definition of "marketable mascot horror" because from you're video i can also say that: slender, amnesia, little nightmeares, outlast, franbow, layers of fear, at dead of night and DHMIS also have "marketable mascots" just because a character is popular and it's "kid's friendly" doesn't mean that it's on the same level as poopy playshit

[@KiiXii]

I miss this game.

[@FraudFrogletthegreatest]

Honestly every horror character I find just makes me go: I wanna hug that dude

[@rambletash]

I like that the main Tattletail you carry around is innocent. I like when games let you have a buddy, I just get of get numb to it when literally everything and everyone wants you dead.

[@nightey975]

4:11 already has me dead you don’t even have to kill me yourself 🤣

[@skycreeper0173]

Awesome video. I really like the critique and experiences you explained in this video.

[@probablynotalatexshork5495]

im typing this before i watch the video, but as someone who 100% the game: absolutely. i LOVE this lil gem of a game, and it really needs some sorta comeback! it is criminally underrated and forgotten.

[@thatanimegirlwiththecape4807]

In my country there is a video about a weird priest who was at the church in front of many people preaching like any other priest except he was holding a furby and he was saying this thing has satan inside him it came from hell and other crazy things. (He even said the sin of lust was inside it which was insane). And the funniest thing is that judging from the reactions of the children and grandmas next to him they actually believed him! I wonder if there were more people like him and this game took inspiration from that

[@megan1785]

great vid, what a throwback

[@jaxvr]

I love that an hour long game can be beaten in 6 minutes with glitches lol

[@wallhaz5240]

Every once and a while im reminded of tattletail and its always a trip down memory lane when I am

[@a26lolheart]

I don't fully understand mama's AI but it's more complicated than rng, and i think she's blind despite always looking at you

[@tobyvenom]

Tattletail? I've never heard that name in years

[@euanpc3322]

4:37 how dare you Gregory supremacy ftw. He’s my favourite chaos gremlin

[@PXLFrosty84]

Honestly, I like Tattletail. I think it’s a great game. I miss 2017, OK?!

[@jaxvr]

Fun fact: sprint-jumping (jumping continuously while sprinting) makes much less noise.

[@MrEmilable]

i made a joke about mama Tattletail looking like an airfryer

[@hazard2463]

I'll personally love to see you do a retrospective of Among the Sleep.

[@Bigboimadestinkyfart420]

Is your profile pic vanny?

[@daisukideshou]

you must be a stone faced god if you can withstand editing videos with undertale music in the background, everytime i hear it i nearly cry lmao

[@WoofInationXP]

me like tattletail, this guy focused on the gameplay and atmosphere, and dipped and made donut county, props to him

[@Chaotic_Overlord]

Honestly while I don't hate the concept of sequels, I am glad that the Tattletail's dev unlike literally all it's competition didn't make It so they would completely focus on their popular indie horror franchise Edit: Ok not all of it's competition but basically 90%

[@AroAce-Popgoes-plush]

He also made another recently and it has a tattletail reference

[@h_ileo]

Tattletail truly felt like a fever dream. It came out of nowhere and vanished in the same beat. I loved the horror aspect of it though. Being a kid that grew up in the wake of Furby and remembering the horror that was it not shutting up and going off at night randomly, this was perfect. Unfortuently it falls into the horror games with excellent horror but horrible story category. It would have done much better just being a simple horror game about a toy that wouldn't shut up since it was already clearly aiming for the audience that was fond with Furbies

[@todangtall]

I remember being a kid in the 90s and wanting a furby. I never got one. They apparently still make them (shout out to Billiam.)

[@ralebsi]

im pretty sure to fight off mama you have to stare at her and back up until she goes away

[@creativename_]

Tattletail is like what would happen if FNAF got popular for like a month and then everyone stopped caring even after more content was released

[@Hatypus]

The only additional content tattletail got was one DLC which did well as well though? It's just the devs wanted to work on other things.

[@CadenDaBrit]

I completely forgot about tattletail

[@pandalenz6534]

1:00 also DAgames made Turn The Final Page, that may have helped

[@dandeelion8777]

One of the artists of this game, Geneva Hodgson went on to pitch a show called Trick Moon to cartoon network it sadly didn’t get picked up

[@Chaotic_Overlord]

Stupid question but Is there a pilot (of course available to the pubblic)?

[@dandeelion8777]

@@Chaotic_Overlord they should be on the Cartoon Network channel

[@Chaotic_Overlord]

@@dandeelion8777 ok. Thanks for the information

[@Pika782]

Tattletail is one of the games

[@therealboomshlamian700]

This game is the only reason I own a furby, I remember when it first came out

[@-d3ath.M0THZ.]

I think Isaac is coming for me.. LISTEN HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO NOT THINK IT (4:11)

[@MarionettePuppetMaster]

Honestly, the concept of Tattletail is absolutely very well mmade, but the executing itself was indeed convoluted. Even if the gameplay is confusing, and the last part of the game is a mess, the game itself is very memorable. Also, Fun Fact: The concept design of the Mama TattleTail was indeed inspired by the Teddy Ruxpin Bear, a belovable animatronic children's toy that exist all the way back in 1985.

[@charchar635]

resident evil nemesis was the first mascot horror

[@Judie-Nator]

It's pretty funny that this game is made by the same devs that made Sonic Dreams

[@thehootinator7158]

I think Tattletail's score is the scariest part. It reminds me of Junior's.

[@haileyfandroidfan1164]

I think tattletail still holds up! But one thing that really concerns me is that there’s an unused voiceline of tattletail saying “me horny!” In the files of the game according to Oddheader

[@friendlyneighborhoodnoob]

Tattletail deserves more popularity and even a sequel

[@skeletonhearts1837]

Six years?? Good lord

[@Yutagamer23]

I remember when the game came out and i thought it was a goofy kids game

[@kodakai727]

I'd like to see you rip the shitty Revenge of the Sunfish to shreds, but that might be too bad for you to touch lmao

[@koopa_industries]

The next video changes everything

[@tooboon4863]

is it bad i find your png attractive

[@bethclifford4314]

I need to throw the grill at mama.

[@Eyeling]

I think its okay that many of these games are similar too each other. Poppy is like Bendy, Bendy is like Bioshock, and BioShock is like Half Life, and Half Life is like The Steven King novel The Mist. They all take inspiration from each other. Similar thing for Doki Doki Literature Club, which is like Spec Ops The Line and spec ops the line is inspired by the movie Apocalypse Now, which takes heavily from the book Heart of Darkness. They all basically take from something else.

[@Eyeling]

If you've never played spec ops the line, you MUST play it without any spoilers. The game's story is incredible. And the ending is mind blowing. Its like DDLC but instead of parodying anime tropes, it parodies Call of Duty/war game tropes. It came out all the way back in 2012. Its not an indie game but I'd love to see a video about it on the channel.

[@avalis2710]

Bioshock is pretty much just System Shock 2 but underwater lol

[@TBA968]

Bioshock is the spiritual successer to the "System shock" series, although im sure there's abit of half life in there too.

[@gamemastergaming1810]

I don’t think kids would watch or like ddlc or sjsm (spooky’s jumpscare mansion) but i think they would click on a video of it and get traumatized when sayori hangs herself 😂 r.i.p. all those young 2017 kids. (Now let’s hope they don’t discover DHMIS)

[@RealRoboKnight]

Boogeyman is an interesting one.

[@br2891]

I love Tattletail and Boogeyman, it sucks that they're kind of forgotten nowadays

[@RK-ko5bv]

You forgot to tell about the DLC of the game

[@senpaitwinsgacha4450]

I miss tattletail!

[@lindseystothers4004]

This was the fist and only spooky game they made

[@PatTheFox]

I LOVE Tattletail!

[@godschannel4899]

Naw man bendy 2 is scary asf you gotta fight me on that one

[@bethclifford4314]

I still play it

[@Zantorm]

Yeah

[@demi_the_jester2163]

honestly id love to see something on slender the arrival >=°}

[@SnappyPlushProd]

Back when mascot horror was actually scary...

[@boredom4271]

I took that out of context

[@Snakepit_Media]

Tattletale! Thats me!

[@EarnedAcrobat]

No. it’s a tattletail it can’t hold anything.

[@codman4372wx]

Even with the mainstream success of mascot horror games such as fnaf, I believe resident evil is the more successful horror franchise. i do admit that this is kind of comparing apples to oranges, but resident evil has always been scarier. Even the ps1 games have a lot of tension

[@PrestonC3po]

TATTLETAIL!!!

[@jhoncarlos7458]

TettaleGood.

[@olgagachaphoenix9130]

It should

[@autistic_baby_doll_mom_reb7898]

It does to us furby fans

[@geomreal]

ORANGE

[@1monkeyman]

meep

[@thekailwolfsinshow8374]

this review is funny "the game is mid but at least its not shit"

[@YukiSnow75]

Sounds to me like crying. The gameplay is good and stuff you just got skill issues with the final ritual part

[@iniratagen9740]

I think lore is silly, why not just have plot

[@djdragondrawer9339]

I wonder why you hate Gregory (a nonexistant child from a video game) so much. Is it because he smashed or ran over your favorite robo-waifu? Lmao. My guy is down bad fr

[@Shietpostscentral]

okay how do you expect us to believe you when you say the "final boss fight" is dog shit and then not explain what is going on because "you dont have the time or the skill to explain it"??

[@mcnuggwtscreations]

Furbys are ugly in general.

[@bigbob5103]

Bro are you a furry💀💀💀

[@Skibidisigma32746]

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