The CRAZY Story of Indika

[@PROxFATALITY]

I actually think she pushed the wardrobe on the guard, which is why she saw the demon attack, ie her seeing the reflection of herself being the demon

[@Argacyan]

It is the commonly accepted interpretation that she pushed the wardrobe, even. It's one of a couple odd omissions or maybe interpretations that the video says otherwise.

[@NathanMatthews.]

Nahhh really! Here's a lollypop for your amazing observations 🍭🍭

[@Weednimbus]

That's exactly what happened

[@KasumiRINA]

So she does it AFTER having гаре with _a гussіаn,_ eww... They гаре everything, women, men, children, in Mali they made entire гаре camps for local kids... So much horror from гussіаns.

[@tashibalampkin8555]

I don't feel bad for Mirko. He tricked Indika into thinking he actually cared about her. He steals from her father. Because of his actions, he gets himself killed.

[@kiriuxeosa8716]

Honestly she had no good ways out as she probably would've gotten the same treatment from the guy she was being pawned off to marry In truth a lot of religious tones are taken in the story but really its just a story of how people (rather often women) are screwed over because of situations beyond their control and how taking actions are either things you regret or learn to live with

[@pr3cis325]

The point is not feeling bad about mirko in that anecdote. The point is feeling bad about indika, because she did suffer about that.

[@Firanve]

@@kiriuxeosa8716Because it's a classic Dostoyevsky vibe.

[@KasumiRINA]

Well what you expect from a game made by orks, but to throw racist stereotypes towards brown people like him always being thieves and con men.

[@AlexReynard]

Do you think George Floyd got himself killed?

[@buddyzf]

Dev: Collecting points is useless Me: You don't understand, I am a gamer, i like big numbers.

[@MajorJakas]

Not all gamers are simpletons.

[@kiriuxeosa8716]

​@@MajorJakasyeah some are good at identifying jokes

[@lolwhat6161]

The one with Iilya about him not hearing god when he's with Indika while in reality it was actually the medicine that Indika gave him , just makes sense to be honest. Maybe the medicine has some side effects that calm his mind , after all being sick can also cause a mind of a person going dizzy.

[@iriichan]

i think it might have been morphine (not sure)

[@sanjay.skumar7467]

@@iriichan it was

[@JubrieI]

Did anyone else notice lIlya's fingers of his severed arm moving as it sits on his back when they were in the cathedral?

[@chucklebutt4470]

Yeah I THOUGHT that was happening while I was playing through it today but I wasn't sure! Was creeping me out lol. Then he threw the dang arm at the camera and jump scared me haha.

[@Whit3Eyes]

that might just be the game physics making it move, i dont think it was on purpose

[@mikha_molina]

I did notice that. At first I thought it was game physics making it look like that but after a closer look, you can see the fingers moving on its own even if the guy is still or lacking the movement needed to make those actions seem reasonable through game physics

[@Gedagnors]

Fingers moving without arm being attached gives some food for thought. Don't know how to interpret that. But I wouldn't be surprised if the movement wasn't planned.

[@GamingHarryYT]

@Gedagnors yeah I thought that. That maybe it was just in-game engine mechanics.

[@spongegar7588]

The guy she fell in love with was sketchy from the start He stole her bike, never returned it and probably sold it or destroyed it. Then telling her to steal from her father, he was probably running a scam. I think he was going to run away with the money. He probably goes from city to city tricking people, and then moving on to the next victim. Maybe he took the bike and hid it so when he escaped with the money he could get away quicker🤔

[@Subject_Keter]

That why she let him get pumped full of Lead 😂 He wasnt a good man so he got deflowered 😂😂

[@Subject_Keter]

I love when stories try to do a this or that... and then something happens that so bad and illogical, it breaks the story for me and I cant take it seriously. I kinda wish she did get taken for a ride! The story barely works with that as her "guilt", that like someone trying to kill you for taking out the trash too early. 😂😂😂😂

[@spongegar7588]

@@Subject_Keter Exactly. She literally met him, was robbed by him; and fell in love with him, and slept with him with the span of what…2-3 weeks. She was willing to risk her fathers financial situation for a nomadic criminal she JUST met. I don’t think his death cause her insanity because CLEARLY she wasn’t thinking straight from the beginning. Instead of giving her a “tragic” backstory, they should’ve upped the horror and made it a real demonic possession and not just hallucinations because of “guilt” over the death of a man she just met. Like maybe if the man ended up killing her father I get it, there would be guilt in that, but other than that it broke the story line.

[@Sandrilyonaify]

@@spongegar7588 she was very young when all that happened, to me the story is horrific as is.

[@oroontheheels]

I agree. Also the guy is clearly charismatic and knows how to seduce young naive woman. His game is strong but he is not honest whatsoever.

[@peloquin5652]

It's a beautiful little indie masterpiece. of course, there was never a devil but always herself, she simply questions. the dots represent the belief, the manic senselessness of following something strictly without questioning it, Indika realizes this in the end and finally sees herself as a thinking individual in the mirror ...

[@SlowlysModels]

This game hit me like a ton of bricks. No idea why really. It just ends so unfairly. After all the fantastical places and journey, the suffering and overcoming those challenges, we just end up on the floor of a pawn shop. I'm sure there's people who see it the opposite though, the game ends, Indika and Ilya are free now in their own ways and that's the reason/result for their suffering and growth. Such a polarize-able story, I love it.

[@silenthero2795]

It's basically a story of people not moving on from the sins of their past. Illya is a convict but instead of correcting his mistakes, he focused more on his arm to get back to his glory days. Indika went to the monastery out of guilt to repent but doing chores and prayer won't instantly fix her problems if she's not honest about herself regarding her ex-lover. In the end, both didn't learn a thing as Illya is still fixated on learning an instrument instead of correcting his mistakes and Indika losing her "faith" from a trinket that doesn't actually do anything.

[@Subject_Keter]

​@@silenthero2795 Some people like that are just hopeless. Also those nuns didnt help. The kinda of slime that puts handcuffs people and puts them in police cars on train tracks. They are as evil as Dentists.

[@bloodykun4443]

Couldn’t be farther opposite from the reply you’ve got here…the story the guard tells India at the end of the as she’s being walked to her cell is supposed to highlight the absurd lengths people will go to all in the name of their dogmatic beliefs. Such authoritarian religion very deliberately twists such things as guilt in cruel ways to control people. The fact they feel empty afterwards, once they come to the realization they’ve been unjustly holding themselves to insane standards, that I’m sure will come to pass when they make peace with it and realize they can make their own lives fulfilling in ways they see fit.

[@jeppeaim3039]

@@silenthero2795 Indika losing her faith was a massive step forward. Remember when the voice in her head said, "I'll go away when you stop wanting me to go away"? This is because the voice in her head is her own voice, but she distances herself from it, dissociates from it. This is evident from the way she calls it "the voice in her head", as if it is has come from somewhere outside herself, but now seems to reside there. Why would she distance herself from her vulgar inner voice? Religious shame. She doesn't want to admit that she has these impure thoughts, and with the miserable nuns she was surrounded with since she was 15, who can blame her? It was after all, from her point of view, her sleeping with a man that got that very man killed. That was the biggest shifting point in her life thus far. As soon as she accepts that the voice is actually her own inner voice, it will cease to be "THE voice in her head" and it will just be HER voice, as it always was. She will no longer see it as something separate from herself, and therefore she will not feel the need for it to go away. She needed this series of events to show her that nobody is in her head except for her. For her, the trinket was some sort of symbol for the power of God. Recall that the voice also said that without good there is no evil, without God there is no devil etc... This is why the devil disappears. For her, as she tried - but failed, to make something happen with the Kudets, God vanished. And poof! The devil went with him. In the end, she did learn, she learned that the trinket was just a trinket, that the voice in her head was just her voice. As for Ilya, maybe he should not have pursued the Kudets in the first place, but once he realized it was not going to give him his arm back, what was he supposed to do?? In my opinion, at that point, he made the best out of what had to be an extremely disappointing and frustrating moment for him.

[@AlexReynard]

"It just ends so unfairly." Yup. The writer really was sadistic in his emotional manipulation. "See!? Life is meaningless! Agree with me, person who's playing my game! I'll punish you for thinking any different!"

[@goldgem2]

I think the animals were all normal sized. The dog, the fish etc just seemed big & got bigger as Indika verged outside more, she's naive & hasn't experienced the world so everything looks huge to her. The soldier never comments on the size of the fish/whales etc so I don't think he saw the same huge creatures like Indika did.

[@cuckedbylightning]

fish symbols figure heavily in the bible ie jonas and the whale, apostles being "fishers of men", maybe the dogs are wolves ie "behold i sent you out as sheep admist wolves" etc. just pointing some possible allegories too

[@VeSpEr7iNe]

I don't think so, the way you defeated the dog required it to be big, also the tuna cans needed to be big to climb them and so on. I just think that's normal in that world, so they don't need to mention that.

[@iateyourjelly9713]

Bro's on to NOTHING 💀💀💀🔥🔥🔥 The soldiers never commented on it because it's a normal thing in their universe, the settings is in an alternate Russia remember?

[@akqa8186]

​@@iateyourjelly9713 FR. The animals are just bigger in this world. Just like the weird steampunk tech.

[@AlexReynard]

Except they have to be really that size, because Indika climbed on the giant cans of caviar.

[@pathwalker2867]

As for the things appearing larger than normal, there is a syndrome called "Alice In Wonderland Syndrome", where objects or parts of ones own body appear of simply feel signifigantly larger than normal.

[@goldgem2]

This was actually a really good game and most people will ignore it for the religious themes. Indika is a superbly complex character. I do like how they had the guts to give such a simple realistic ending but i do wish they had a hint on what Indika would do after this. Its likely that the soldier would just commit suicide or drink himseld to death but I wonder what would Indika would have done. With no faith left she wouldnt have returned to the nuns, her relationship with her father is ruined since he forced her to marry a stranger for money.

[@KikiSummers9]

Realistically, Indika would’ve either: A) turned to prostitution because of how rock bottom she is (it’s also very common for women who grew up strictly religious to over-correct and have a “whore” phase) B) un-alive because of how rock bottom and guilt-ridden she is C) roam the countryside scraping by via A and contemplating B before stumbling upon a village and starting life over

[@El_Negro2003]

The only reason I avoided it was it looked like it made fun of Christianity and nuns

[@roelin360]

For non-religous people like myself, I imagine the issue is that at this point in 2024, a lot of us don't struggle with faith because atheism isn't as taboo as it used to be, so people are now able to just feel indifferent about faith. Because of that, I didn't expect to find the themes personally compelling (though I now think they are) As for religious people, they may be weary of criticism against religion, so they might avoid this based on that

[@dickthebirthdayboy2132]

@@roelin360 I think the religious themes can be interpreted to have a second meaning-they represent Indika's self loathing and demons, both figurative and literal in the case of her hallucination.

[@johnisaacfelipe6357]

Its basically a game about religious deconstruction which is par of the course of modern media, i hope someone makes a game about religious construction, a story about that is rarer and more complex for it tackles what the heart yearns for and not what the heart struggles with.

[@sainttan]

The devil feels like her rationality and her inner most thoughts.

[@jenisbrowning3447]

Exactly. Although mental health could play a role, I really do think the devil she sees is her fragmented psyche trying to rationalize her religious doubt and inability to suspend disbelief enough to mindlessly absorb religion in the same way everyone around her can.

[@Justtry4525]

I absolutely agree. To me the ‘devil’ Indika hears is just herself starting to process her own trauma. Ever since the incident with Mirko, it’s been Indika who got punished and mistreated for what had happened. Even though she was just a victim of Mirko’s manipulations, she still was sent to the monastery and got mistreated by everyone around her like she’s the worst kind of a sinner - to the point that she started to believe that herself. To me her losing her faith is a result of her finally starting to acknowledge her own innocence in all this.

[@Cathuulord]

Crazy i just played this last night, the scene in the attic with the light reflecting off all the dust was really beautiful, though honestly I just kind of wish we saw a little more after the ending

[@fazleyrabbyfahad3032]

from a medical point of view, early symptoms of sepsis includes confusion deleirium also pain since his arm was already at an advanced stage of necrosis. so after he was given morphine his pain subsided, so his confused mind also calmed down. also 15 is somewhat an age of mind development. so it is fairly possible to leave a permanent scar on a teenager's mind after experiencing a traumatic event

[@Sandrilyonaify]

I like that in the beginning you don't know that it's the devil in her head talking for quite a while, you think it's just narration and you're not really sure until some time in the game when she finally reacts to this narration)

[@DreamersDisease88]

It's not the devil it's her thoughts and she's thinking it's the devil

[@shippou]

This was a joy to watch. I liked this game's premise, when it comes to faith and reality. I think its normal to question it, I think its normal to try to use one's faith to escape issues you may not want to deal with. Or to use faith to cope with things. Faith in any religion can be good as it can bring a sense of support and community, but it can also be used as a tool for escapism. I liked that the game addressed that in some way. Though I could be reading to much into this. haha. But great video! Can't wait to see more of your content!

[@a_random_confused_person7703]

You're absolutely right, it's a shame that a lot of people has turned this into just atheists vs. religious people, with religious people getting very offended and aethists completely shitting on them. 🥲

[@speemus6223]

that is true not for all religions though, in some religion like Islam, and maybe other branches of Christianity, faith isnt something you 100% rely on to get your life together, there needs to be an effort for that, simply wishing for something to happen while not working towards it, is essentially thinking youre already in heaven as these religion teaches us that this world is a test not paradise. but ofc although these religions might not preach that, it doesnt really stop people from just wishing everyday for something without working for it to begin with due to a lack of knowledge.

[@Interiapl85]

You are spoiling us ❤

[@jabaited]

Love the game mixing a hybrid of game style. Combined with the late 19th/early 20th inspired theme of Russian/Eastern Europe literature, mystical dark humorous drama like Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol, make a very unique experience.

[@berniekatzroy]

Damn bro, thought I was the only one who felt like that.

[@scullyy]

@2:48 That's what a boiler explosion looks like :)

[@JAKSN-po7dm]

this one hit hard Gamingharry the undertone here takes long to tell us only at the very end that there are no happy endings and not everyone will be around to see how everything will unfold for you because quiet frankly we all have our lives to live and we stop caring as soon as we stop enjoying a spectacle ilya and indikas stories are written and left unfinished deliberately for two specific reasons in my observation . the first: we as the 3rd persons are being manipulated into being hopeful for their better endings and Secondly to manipulate us as much as they are being manipulated in their stories. we hope ilya recognizes that she is being unfairly treated and taken advantage of by her fellow nuns (her peers her social group) due to her desperate want to fit in and be validated. we hope she realizes this by the end of this journey that we have found her halfway in between as we know more about her and grow closer to her as an individual not the shell of who she aspires to be (a nun). we are manipulated to be hopeful for her as we would be with anyone else who seems to be victim of circumstance and seeks retribution for the things she has done. you want her to do well for herself because she is in her own way and worsens her insecurities by not accepting and living with her demon she needs to listen to some Ken Carson music for ilya we are manipulated into hoping that ilya will recover over the course of the journey, that he will "play us the song of the flute which we have not got to hear ever since the tragedy ever since we were last innocent" (a metaphor in Indikas perspective) before the mundaneness of everyday life took over, we are hopeful that ilyas music will return to him that he will play his guitar by the end because that is the world he has been Gifted to tred because he is our friend and we are likely to hope that he succeededs especially that now he is free from prison. we are hopeful as we play and learn that this story is about second chances. the open ending manipulates us into feeling good about tuning way feeling good that they will be fine now that the dust has cleared and they aren't anchored by all the baggage however the reality is far more darker than that

[@JAKSN-po7dm]

the reality is if this story is about any of these 3 related topics : -toxic relationship -drug abuse and running away from home -existentialism and the question of what is morality then the ending suggests something frightening. indika is now homeless she may have to resort to inconsiderable measures to keep fed and make travel means to either continue alone without anyone to really talk to about her trauma, she may not love again as she has been lied to by men whole lot. she may have to return to the nun house (her cult) or home to her father (the place of her trauma) to relive the memories and possibly ostracize herself even further from the world as she has not treated the root of the problem with why she believes her true nature to be monstrous. this is a clear example of returning to a toxic relationship worse if she chooses them nuns again. Ilya is far worse than we first met him. Ilya has not revealed much about his past to us for us to make any judgments of where he is going or from where he comes. yet with what we can assume.... music keeps him sane, music means alot to the both of these individuals but it is always the artist who lives closely with the music they play/make than the listener who can only relate and feel relatable. ilya is f*cked he's mental state is yet to deteriorate he still had hope in a miracle, that he would be able to play music again he parasocially latched onto the idea that an object would grant him a miracle which shows signs of how far gone he already was up to this point as far mental ills concerned. the voice in his head that lead him to create led him to flee from the law, incriminate himself further steal from them dudes pawn that precious item for a flute? you can clearly tell this man wants to play he wants to be with his muse in the place where musicians go he wants to escape his reality by jumping into the next 'drug' the next best thing and it will continue to damage him should he not accept one of 2 things that he's been selfish and his music allowed him to continue be so because it may have given comfort to those he was selfish to (when they hear him play) and that without his arm he has to let go, find a community start anew and accept when things go awry otherwise he will become indika someone who sees the rational side of the world yet cannot ration with her own past. This my opinion. was a cool video shout out to you gamingharry your stuff is fire. this channel is where i get my dose of well voiced and written storytelling. much appreciated your work is cool and your use of language is outta here. i can tell you are a college graduate of some kind much love to you and team! 10/10

[@ashram12]

Here’s what I think, why Indika feels like she’s “evil”. Indika doesn’t want to get married. She meets Mirko, and sleeps with him, which ruins any future marriage proposal since she isn’t “pure” anymore. Furthermore, she knows Mirko is untrustworthy, so she sets him up to get killed by her dad. I’m not saying she had it all planned out. I’m just saying she’s not naive. When she was a 15 year old girl, her choices were either marrying this guy she never met, or running away with that boy (who probably would abandon her). She didn’t like either choices, commits various “sins” to get rid of these two choices. That is why she is “evil”, because she couldn’t accept the path “God” had laid out for her.

[@AbsolAhm]

This game was one trippy ride. I'm glad it caught Harry's attention

[@itsmjeezy2596]

Agreed 👍 I would even consider this game a masterpiece if it wasn't for the ending, kinda feels like the writers just hit a dead end. Nevertheless I still thoroughly enjoyed the story and trippy visuals.

[@Gurgamo]

It's great to see this getting thousands of views already. GamingHarry has been working really hard for a long time and I'm happy to see other people catching on.

[@relaxedplum]

You've been on a roll man! 💪

[@zadeyb0y]

A trombone is really difficult to try to play with one hand, I feel like they probably meant to give him a trumpet or something and wrote the wrong thing lol

[@beanclam]

Agreed. I feel like they were going for the symbolism of him heralding Judgement Day (for Indika, at least) with a trumpet. That instrument was clearly not a trombone or a modern trumpet, but just a long horn that looped around. Maybe it was a localization error? They didn't realize the symbolism of the trumpet?

[@chavamara]

Ilya was also drunk at the time, and probably didn't really know what instrument he was buying and if he could actually play it.

[@JoeyB0b]

That was not a trombone

[@justintime6242]

That’s the point…he’s so drunk that he bought an instrument he needs two hands to play.

[@pooroldnostradamus]

@@beanclamThe entire first-person segment has a certain Day of Wrath feel to it with its ruins, aimlessly wandering people, and yes, the horn.

[@Subject_Keter]

"Oh hey I stole your bike and deflowered you, now save my from my own actions or your evil!?!" 😂😂😂 Ya no.

[@SweetAkorn]

"deflowered" 😂😂 cute.

[@wadwad1222]

Just like my cousin. He gets crazy when drunked and then calls me to make a lie for his sake, lol.

[@TheJdog2612]

@@wadwad1222dang threw yo cousin under the bus quick 💀💀

[@nashsanadiki3104]

This dude was born for audiobook works 😊 voice is relaxing 😌

[@saga2964]

Yet very engaging! (For example, Sam Harris is extremely relaxing....but you end up being lulled into a stupor, rather than listening to the material! Lol)

[@AiSyYoo]

I hope more tubers are like him. I'm so disappointed in yt for letting channels with lazy narration with incoherent writing, AI tts and fake stories/disinformation/blatant lies

[@williamowens2063]

so many uploads recently, it's amazing! thanks :)

[@kimladener7015]

My englisch is not so well so for the Next Part Google-Translater was helping In the end she is free from the Iliosion that blind faith can/will save her. She also now sees the real consequences of her actions (loneliness/being an outcast). Now she can therefore decide whether she tells her father the truth and thus truly repents or whether she can continue to live with all of this and move on.

[@bskiy]

Exactly!

[@sarahparker4023]

Thank you so much for doing this story

[@grumpyAF]

I'd love more games like these. Faulty but innovative and inspiring discussion than AAA junk and live service with no soul whatsoever

[@Skelepun]

Incase someone is down here to check the comments before watching: yes, this game does contain themes and implied/indirect depictions of SA.

[@LeanneKrv]

The environment look huge and weird. It might be just a world building choice, or it could be her seeing the world and herself differently. She might feel insignificant and small and that she doesn't really belong. Thus altering her view of the world as big and alien.

[@littlejunior4570]

Banger after banger, keep it up Harry!

[@iamtrying2690]

Got to be one of the strangest uploads I watched from your channel, Mr. GamingHarry. Good story!

[@johnericzabala262]

I like you playing short games and making videos of them. It's fun

[@CaptainFriday-p3q]

That weird windy metal affect on that train part is achually a real phenomenom when the engine blows up

[@alonhaketchum5252]

Thank you for the amazing content!

[@Fonzzz002]

Tbh, Mirko was a dick and I had no desire seeing Indika run off with him. First he steals her bike, then wants to steal from her father. Dude was using her and you must lie in your bed the way you made it.

[@bandgeekforlife406]

Indika reminded me somewhat of a family friend who is a Christian with schizophrenia. She has struggled against visual and audio hallucinations of a demonic bent for most of her life. She's a stronger person than most people I know. Christian doctrine says that the world is imperfect because of The Fall (aka the great Adam and Eve kablooie). That's why people are imperfect. We are warped by the world around us. Other parts of scripture indicate that God has a purpose for every person. So regardless of the way the world has shaped us, our lives have meaning. We can choose to pursue that or not. I know that my family friend with schizophrenia believes that wholeheartedly- and truly, she has been an inspiration to countless people. I have numerous health problems (including Depression and pretty bad Fibromyalgia) which have been debilitating since my teens, and I also believe that. Honestly, there were times when I wanted to... not exist... because I was in so much pain with no clear cause, and I didn't understand why, at 15, I was dealing with that. Then I had the thought that if my reason for being was over and done with, I'd be gone. But if I continued existing, there was still a purpose for my life. You have no idea how uplifting that simple concept has been through the past decades (especially prior to getting an actual diagnosis, at 18- for some reason illness seems more withering to morale when you don't know the cause). Obviously this is a simplified version of doctrine, with some personal views. I don't want to argue or anything like that, just put in a short explanation/answer for some of Indika's doubts.

[@Subject_Keter]

I know that fucking feeling, so i had a bone fragment that migrated to my spine and was trying to cut my spine down. All my support was not only actively not helping me but making fun of me for it intill my doctor got "annoyed" at me and said "fuck it, we scan it" and bam. Even rigjt before the operating room my family was still being little shits and demanding me to blindly listen to the doctor who.. forgot my name and my issues. 😂 Luckly we are meant to be stronger then the people that raised us. But this game reminds me of the first thoughts i had when they talked about the Bible, Printing Press and how the church is basically like potato. It is between you and God, not one one else. No church, no family or any person shouls be able to get in your way as all you need is the bible and yourself. It is your personal path to walk .. not theirs.

[@613aristocrat]

Literally a playable movie. I would be more interested if this was a genre of movie I liked.

[@leonwilliams3294]

Gaming Harry on a Friday evening. My week is complete😊

[@thefoxjo]

love your content! i'm just wondering how in the heck are you going to cover Silent Hill Ascension 😅

[@Savasvania]

Don't make Harry suffer like that! Lol

[@apple8464]

This has been one of the most miserable and tragic games in this channel, ever. I really wish Indika and Ilya their happiness.

[@Chubbasaurus]

I had to go look who up made this just to make sure it wasn't Ninja Theory - this game gives me serious Senua's Sacrifice vibes.

[@Maitreya-7777]

I watched this game 's walkthrough and it was mind blowing. Never expected a very amazing game come out of Russia.

[@AiSyYoo]

there's plenty of games from russia with deep story telling. they're mostly hidden gems. if you'd like, i recommend allod, space rangers, desolate, and atomic heart; they're really good ❤ i am not russian btw, i am from philippines. i'm just lucky i discovered these games ❤ some games (not just from russia) that i played have no english translation so i machine-translate everything. takes more time but i enjoy the process

[@ravenglebsky9404]

Nothing good comes from russia

[@johnisaacfelipe6357]

Its Ukrainian

[@nobodythisisstupid4888]

@@johnisaacfelipe6357where’d you get that from? The devs are Russian and the publisher put out a release a few years ago that they had to move to Kazakhstan due to the Russo-Ukrainian war making it unsafe for them to stay in Russia.

[@pineapplesmoovey7898]

whoever made this game was smoking some good indika

[@duncang8960]

I personally think the oversized animals and environments are actually an interpretation of her mental illness. It seemed very similar to alice in wonderland syndrome. Which is something you see in some people with schizophrenia and other delusional disorders.

[@nashsanadiki3104]

Maybe Ethan Winters can lend Ilia his magic juice

[@anantrawat2311]

Ilya isn't made of mold

[@dreamersdisease2481]

Truly an awesome game I love that scene with that guy coming out of the nun's mouth, this unforgettable. The first half is really great it's just the second half kind of loses the momentum.

[@imnindigo44]

Thank you for doing this one. I was curious about it but didn’t want to play it 😅

[@crypto66]

Dude's entire midsection got GIBBED.

[@L7CK7]

Really cool look at a niche game most people would have missed!

[@jae7798]

I knew of someone like Indika, using religion to cope with their mental illness, blaming or attributing said mental illness towards the devil and never escaping that torturous cycle of thinking that you know what's going on while also being clueless about it. I hope they're doing well and has since started reading the bible.

[@chucklebutt4470]

Lol was with you until you hoped she started reading the bible?? Why the hell would MORE religion help her when she needs professional help.

[@Celkworm]

Now I can talk a lot about Indika, but not the game

[@redboy8985]

My man!

[@Magmarr434]

The destiny youtuber/streamer? 😂

[@simonem5890]

my first thought as well

[@redwiltshire1816]

I’m more a sativa guy personally

[@NovemberGolf55]

@@Magmarr434he was based

[@ab-gail]

As a Christian I can relate to Indika’s struggles with being holy enough, wrestling with guilt and concerns about a lack of faith. Her story actually reminds me of the struggles of Martin Luther who eventually kickstarted the Protestant Reformation all over the idea that our faith saves us not our works. It’s a shame if Indika lost her faith completely I hope she would find it as it’s not our works that redeems us. It’s only the work of Jesus Christ on the cross that did that. This game also reminds me of the movie Ida which was also about a nun. This game would make a good movie as well but not in the way that it should’ve been one like some games. Thanks for the rundown.

[@pixelcount350]

Nah, I like the way the games ends. I don't want the Christian mythology to be pushed down my throat you know.

[@Name-xf9du]

The great Cthulhu shall save all

[@williamhare3528]

@@pixelcount350 Can you elaborate on what you mean by that? The way it's reading now is that a game about religion ought to end with the religion being considered/proven "false" or else it is pushing that religion down the player's throat. If that is always required, wouldn't it then be pushing atheism down people's throats?

[@tiffanywyatt5137]

​@@pixelcount350I don't understand what you want. You willingly played a game about a nun and don't expect it to have elements of faith in it?

[@pixelcount350]

@@tiffanywyatt5137 You mean the nun losing touch with her faith. Yeah, It's a representation of how dogmatic belief can lead to misfortune for everyone.

[@Fihyyhvcffggcfffa7961]

dude....................................this is an awesome game

[@MontrealVII]

Hello Harry, i am highly admired your work on these kind of lore explaining things. even when i don't really play the game i always watch the video just to need a better understanding what is that game tell us about, what is the meaning, etc. And i gotta tell you, Alan Wake 2 DLC recently coming out. And remedy connected universe, at least for me i find it hard to understand what is going on since im not really a active english speaker. And i played Control before so i got a tiny bit of understanding but still, so maybe you could help me or us to get a better knowledge of what is remedy connected universe is all about. thank you Harry

[@AlexReynard]

In the beginning, we think the nuns in the monastery are being cruel to Indika. Then over the course of the game, we learn that, no, she's actually a lying, insufferable deconstructionist who ruins everything for people around her, while caring only about how these events make *_her_* feel. She doesn't want to be close to God. She only wants to escape the feeling of guilt.

[@AlexReynard]

Indika is a game like Mouthwashing, except it sides with the narcissist protagonist. It defends her actions by insisting that life is terrible and nothing matters, so she's not actually evil for repeatedly ruining people's lives. Literally the _only way_ to defend Indika's behavior is to try and erase the fundamental distinctions of good and evil. _That's_ how much of a blame-avoiding, self-righteous klutz she is. So just imagine how deep of a hole the writer/director Dmitry Svetlow is in, to have made such a story.

[@techwizard9699]

Hey bud, can you make a video about Quantum Break? I played it recently and was blown away.

[@kittyvanoosten8578]

It surprises me you don't mention the fact that Ilya's arm keeps moving even after it's been chopped off. That is fascinating to me, just like the head of Senua's boyfriend keeps breathing. Ilya might have had a point. And in a ways, the Kudets have worked for Indika, as the problem of her possession has been solved now she doesn't have any faith at all.

[@Faeree]

Idk if I'd say the animals are just big for bigs sake (I did not play this game at all, only watched this video, so take this with a grain of salt) but hounds, pigs, and fish are all important aspects of the bible, so maybe they had more reason to be big. Idk if Illiya mentions how big the fish are, but I wonder if she saw them as bigger than they were?

[@yxnilI]

Very cool video!

[@mikaross4671]

This game is a hidden gem! Thank you for reviewing it.

[@friendlyfoe9707]

Hope you do the imaginary friends game soon 😊

[@flaviosilva2480]

We need a second one !!

[@AncientPrayers]

If A24 movie developed video games 😃

[@_taxman_]

There are two types of people who played this game: those that loved it, and NPCs.

[@mohitsalhan9344]

I think with the end where that demon disapears that is could mean that she lost all hope in god and in herself and stopt asking for forgiveness so the devil got what he wanted and left her because his job was done

[@Empire_JeSzO]

Wow im early, only just caught up on your vids from the last 2 months and got another. 👍

[@dorshushan232]

Wait I'll you play Sativa, gonna blow your mind.

[@hitman2adrian]

Here my 3rd comment in one of you videos asking you to please do a lore and order of Cry of fear ❤

[@genPackman]

Even though many people feel devastated at the end, I find the final optimistic. After all the abuse and shit shows she endured for most of her life, she is finally free. She can finally think about anything other than religion and guilt. But I love the ambiguity that leaves room for interpretation. The scene that hit me really hard is Indica being r*ped. It is rare when developers have balls to include such event in a story of a protagonist. No resque from shiny hero, no deus ex machine of any kind. And the cherry on the cake, Indika feel like it is her fault, self victim blaming.

[@hexagon918]

Maybe the story is out for the interpretation. But what I think is that the game really makes you question your innate desires of a being a human which are kept in check when you're religious. The belief system of God by human is represented by Indika but the inner sinful cravings however sinful or naive it may be is indicated by the demon, Illya and the outside's environment. And most of the people missed out is the points that we accumulate is like the good deeds we committed during our life following the path of God. But the the message "points don't matter" is a clear representation of inner conflicting voice of a human that questions the very belief system of our religion and whether or not all the points(good deeds) we collected even matters when it's time to leave earth(die) I really like the story because it leaves us to interpret what we think of God or a set of beliefs and the struggle to follow those paths.

[@devantebaillou6970]

"This companion is the devil" that's extreme 😵

[@AaronBowers-pp7ib]

Definitely gotta play this one

[@king-oc5pe]

You should do the story of Still Wakes the Deep

[@GamingHarryYT]

I will when it’s out

[@king-oc5pe]

@@GamingHarryYT let gooooooo!!!!!

[@BotMac-ut9pi]

can you do an entire story of wolfenstein pls? i like you entire stories series

[@asgads]

an incredible game and easily in my top ten 2024

[@indianmonk3380]

18:10 why is there a karl marx portrait, can anyone explain?

[@Jacobi_Jay]

Fun theology fact, @15:48 indika is seen following the theology of St. Augustine and Martin Luther. To oversimplify, these theologians believed that humanity is created evil and the only way to obtain salvation is when god gifts it to us. They believed humanities “wicked” nature makes us powerless to save ourselves and therefore god has to actively gift us salvation at the time of our birth. This is due to the original sin Adam and Eve committed. After the original sin was committed, humanity remains powerless/ helpless to change our wicked nature and cause our own salvation. Huge props to the story writers for implementing this into the game!

[@Ode_the_Sage]

So you mean basic Christian theology?

[@slavicapybara_7892]

It's kinda funny because Indika is Orthodox nun and Orthodox don't subscribe to these people for theology

[@moistspaghetto4043]

@Jacobi_Jay hello from three weeks later, thank you! I don't think Indika knows about Martin Luther existing. It's implied in-game that not all of the nuns in this convent can read. St. Augustine is relevant to her direct experience of her religion only as a historical footnote (not even the same as other saints but a "blissful one", a category mostly otherwise including blessed fools - her church has some harsh opinions about a number of people Protestants venerate), and Martin Luther is irrelevant completely. The entire game is steeped in specifically Orthodox theology (we don't see it here but there is actually a leveling system fundamentally based on a normative Russian Orthodox reading of personal sin and culpability, and all of the little rituals and setting details are also not just badly written Catholicism; the devs are all Orthodox themselves, at least baptismally). Orthodox sin is a little bit different from Protestant sin in some specific details, which might be of academic interest to you as an enjoyer of fun theology facts. The most important one is probably that while roughly everyone who had access to Thomas Aquinas (so, everyone not reliant on Greek sources) believes that original sin entails inheriting Adam and Eve's sin (grossly simplifying, you of course know about the difference between St Augustine and Luther vis a vis culpa and reatum but I digress) the Orthodox churches in general do not believe that. Their theology is that Adam's sin is ancestral, not hereditary; individual humankind is born fundamentally clean, but able to sin at all because of original sin having come to pass. (Incidentally, they share this with Jews.) There are some super cool unexpected parallels between Orthodoxy and Protestantism, but the fall of man isn't the place to look for them - you'd have better luck comparing their ecclesiologies!

[@johnisaacfelipe6357]

Created evil? Wrong, Saint Augustine never taught such a thing

[@tianoyes656]

i like this video :)

[@Argacyan]

There is one thing this video either omits or got wrong: The devil isn't just trying to convince Indika, but the game shows him as in dialogue with her. The devil also never lies (while people including the nuns do), but is framed as raising correct criticisms or observations about the world around Indika. The Kudets being a hollow relic people pray to for no reaction in the end is a stand-in for religion being hollow & after she makes that realization, her rosary beads break & spill out on the floor symbolizing her faith being shattered to completion. The devil disappears because she has no faith in christianity anymore, which conjured up the devil in the first place.

[@GamingHarryYT]

I know. I mentioned that in the last chapter. She doesn’t believe in God anymore, so therefore she doesn’t believe in a devil.

[@Subject_Keter]

Like how the nuns lied and treated her bad. It the same. Cant trust literal evil.

[@Kris_413]

The worst thing we can do as Christians is to fall into despair, that's what the devil wants.

[@WangNurMouth]

Devil doesn't need to lie, since he will always gives u want you want, but never what you need.

[@deezmusic2062]

It’s literally explained at the end of the video. Some people are so desperate to share their interpretation that they don’t bother to finish the video first or, I don’t know, pay attention to what is being said.

[@conq1273]

This Indikate Gaming Harry is the Goat🎉

[@mohsenbayati3627]

Nice

[@pikahchan]

you should look into Pamali, the Indonesian folklore horror game. there's 2 movies out already.

[@jasondphoenix]

Interesting game...pretty descent with an overall very cynical tone...though the ending feels lackluster...just kinda ends. Also, just my opinion, but I feel like the devil doesn't really exist and the whole thing is just her inner psyche that manifested in the form of the devil and in the end, he disappears because her faith was completely shattered, meaning she no longer believes in god....and the devil.

[@rookie2321]

I haven’t finished the game yet but the most disgusting part I hated so much was when she got arrested and the guard abused her.

[@goldgem2]

That's like, 10 minutes before the game ending so you must have finished it by now lol

[@justink8156]

Yeah I get you, definitely really sad and fucked up.

[@MrMarcusIndia]

Surely that scene is supposed to make you feel disgusted and uncomfortable.

[@Gurgamo]

Wacky horror is my favorite

[@Vox_Dissensionis]

Has the lore & order series ended?? I miss the intro man!!

[@elwen8525]

One detail at the end of the game is that she breaks her cross and beads

[@thepyrokitten]

I mean, yeah he was probably hallucinating because his arm was infected or something.

[@xein-khrs]

Maybe there’s a detail about the fish and the cans being bigger than them though? They have traveled through those absurd places that I can’t think any sense of it. I can’t settle with those little details without knowing what’s behind it, hoping there is more to this game. I get the point of Indika’s religious crisis and how she ended up losing her faith. However, all the places, the people around the two characters, the endless walking in the game, the relationship of Indika and Ilya, and even the man in white from the nun’s mouth don't make sense. I can’t even take note of everything I noticed from the game right now, but there are a lot of things questionable in this game than just the game’s intention of philosophy to the players.

[@li_B4shar_il]

I saw some really negative reviews on this game, i played it myself and i personally liked it a lot now i like it even more after watching this video, i think the only reason players strongly disliked it was because the game was "extremely boring and weird" and the misunderstanding of the story

[@GutsTheStoner]

Lets talk indica and sativas oh wrong video haha

[@alishonnelson5264]

Please make a story explained on a horror game called Kamla

[@Datguyamir]

I saw this in the ps store and was just like wow this sounds wild. Login to youtube a week later and a fire video is out!

[@bladeoffrost6439]

I wish you could do Signalis next

[@ViolenceCity]

Not sure why they made the minigames so important to the story. Happy to see this video though. I really enjoyed the demo and this gave me closure.

[@GamingHarryYT]

Because I believe the mini games display the vibrancy and innocence of Indika’s youth. After she went to the convent, everything was shown as dull, bleak and cold.

[@Janal_Hoe]

Wait..as of writing this i also noticed the minigames parallels alot with Indika's encountering Ilya. In both scenarios, she met a guy both with backgrounds in crimes (her ex-lover was a petty thief, Ilya was a runaway convict), they eventually grew closer intimately, and then she kinda unintentionally backstabs him, one out to protect herself while the other especially at the catherdal, when she exposed his corrupt status to the Father and the way she wrapped Ilya's arm around her as the guards grew close made it look like he's about to be framed(?). Maybe i misrepresent the interaction there idk most of dialogues but i thought it's still a cool detail nonetheless.