THIS HULLABALOO STORY IS PEAK IDENTITY V! (Closing Night Story Event)

[@girlie_ch33se20]

Mike stabbing the balls open was actually him pouring the explosives all over the park which is why it exploded after the fireworks He wanted to atone for his obliviousness to the abuse everyone else faced and went down with the circus since he no longer had anything else to live for💔

[@jotuunn]

damn i understand he stabbed his bombs to pour the explosives but he did WHAT NOW???

[@arthom22]

​@@jotuunn he khs 😞

[@Cubicnoir]

Make sense😢 and Murro Watching all of this as he is the only survivor saddens me.

[@jotuunn]

@@arthom22 oh no i mean the stabbing in his balls part

[@anezuka2464]

I'm sad not a lot of people notice this especially when his hunter named his called Hullabloo and shows his body looking exploded (but still not being able to attack normally because canonically he hates violence)

[@griz507x]

the joker voice actor is insane😭 made me feel the words fr, and murro being so nice and stuff made me feel so bad for him, losing everything like that

[@DragonGirl2000]

Same here, and Murro deserves better 😭

[@white_green]

Fr when he screamed "NATALIE" I legitimately teared up

[@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475]

Nick Wolfhard.

[@shahriarshan2741]

​@@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475 Nick wolfhard? Who's he?

[@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475]

@@shahriarshan2741 Finn Wolfhard's brother? Nick voices Joker.

[@Taro-ut2mp]

WEEPY'S VOICE ACTOR HAD BILLS TO PAY CAUSE THE VOICE ACTING WAS CRAZYY

[@sugarbear8751]

what really gets me is that Joker didn't even get to be seen as himself, purely himself, even to the bitter end. It was always Sergei. *He* was always Sergei, the man he hated most in the entire world apart from himself. Hullabaloo is really a tale of pure misfortune. In a way the circus took everything away from everyone in the end

[@vstro_i]

great analysis ahhhhh

[@cottagecorelover]

Even the fandom confuses Joker for Sergei! 😭

[@Matthiaslover69]

Violetta was more worried about the play because shes used to being abused for messing up in her performances so she saw what happened to her as a punishment for not being a good actor😢

[@SoImCoga]

I can talk about Murro and his cruel irony of existence FOR HOURS His only wish was FREEDOM. He wanted to be free from Hullabaloo, from the abuse and whispers. He hated the place, but never the people. He’s very caring toward everyone, and it was always like that (during Joker’s crash out he didn’t say a word towards Murro - he had no words to say, as Murro was always kind and understanding). And now, that happy boy Mike that sees Bernard in him is no more, oh so lovely Violetta is no more, Natalie and Joker are no more, Hullabaloo is no more. He is free. He has found his freedom IN THEIR DEATHS. THAT IS NOT THE FREEDOM HE WISHED FOR. This is why his letters are so depressing, so stupidly heavy and he just WISHES he dies and joins them, Hullabaloo once more - somewhere beyond the hurt. I cannot with how this funky old dude riding a boar is written, it’s downright CRUEL to make him such a great character. I was happier when he was just a ha-ha funny boar man Also, I thoroughly believed Murro was in on (as in knew it would happen) the final fire. And now it’s confirmed that he was not, and that he had to watch Mike burn himself/blow himself up, while thinking that maybe they can actually be a happy family, a true happy little family now that it’s ALL OVER. i’m not fine.

[@owo3684]

He hurts me so much… 😭 ITS SO CRUEL

[@SoImCoga]

@@owo3684 for real 🥲 everyone in Hulla-Manor deserves a happy ending, BUT MURRO AND VIOLETTA ESPECIALLY

[@akishi1022]

Murro having to see mike off himself is so sad. They were a true family, a real pair. They loved each other deeply like brothers, but yet Mike couldn’t come with him. The one person that had such compassion for him. Gone, and he cant even get him back. 😢

[@vstro_i]

great character analysis!

[@ziabuenacosa5369]

and the fact that in the very next game, Murro and his boar companion has their fate sealed thanks to mercenary (Naib Subedar) :

[@iliannaisreading]

The fact that u rlly cant hate anyone… even Joker… both him and Mike had their breaking points that caused them to lose their humanity. Netease u will pay for my therapy sessions

[@Vespern-3-n]

This is literally what I was trying to tell people! They are so quick attack you if you feel any ounce bad for weepy and they become ableist which is so sad 😭 I also really like his design. The ppl that keep mistaking him for Sergi makes me upset cause it caused more hate on him

[@celestial8117]

Real, even though I hate what he did to Violetta, I can't completely hate him. I understand him a bit

[@iliannaisreading]

@@Vespern-3-n honestly everyone in the story was guilty in some way or another (except violetta, which is why i think she was killed off first in order for the performance to work, sort of like a sacrificial lamb). While some actions are worse than others, all of them have very morally complex actions. I can never defend Weepy for what he did to Violetta, but I can recognize that in the beginning he wasn’t all that bad. After all, he was kind according to the lore before Sergi came in

[@Vespern-3-n]

@@iliannaisreading Yea that’s also what I tell everyone I say no one was 100% innocent but they get mad 😭 I do acknowledge what he did to Violetta and won’t say he’s pure unlike other hypocrites in this fandom to their favs. There is so much that led to his mental instability but they make it invalid all because he snapped and praise Mike for not snapping (someone said this to me literally 😭). In my opinion and how I view it he definitely has a disorder that makes him struggle with relationships and was very much manipulated and influenced also triggered which led him to continue those bad actions. I relate to him ngl so ig that’s another reason I love him sm. I’m just an Edgar and Weepy lover tryna survive in this toxic community.

[@Vespern-3-n]

@@iliannaisreading I didn’t wanna go back and edit just incase you already saw I just noticed you recently commented 😭 but I wanted to add how I relate to Weepy ik I talk too much but I promise this the last thing. Him being disabled made me relate both mental and physical disabilities that man is my representation every time I see him my heart melts 🥹 His limp is everything to me his cute cleft lip ahhh!! I usually limp too because my legs are bad it just makes me happy. Also him being a Clown like it just reminds me of me being alternative and not being the norm. His attachment issues reminds me of myself too cause I have separation anxiety and I have my favorite people and any little thing can tick me off. Anyway that’s all lol ig this one isn’t even relevant I just couldn’t help it but talk about him.

[@Matthiaslover69]

Margies story is such a great example of the cycle of abuse especially the part where she died how she had to find a escape for margie not Natalie and how margies escape was her jumping into the lake that goes through lake side her home town and when she says “im not going back” ITS ALL SO GOOD her seeing weepy as Sergei weepy becoming the very thing he hated all of margies dreams where she in the water and sergie is calling out to her and in her final moments the same thing happens with weepy but she doesn’t swim towards him she accepts her death with a smile on her face because her life is finally in her hands she gets to decide her death literally started crying when it happened

[@Genelere]

The way you kited Smiley by running around the whole map. 😭 I just ran in a straight line and didn't get hit at all

[@CursusCida]

No one’s bringing it up but I just love everything about Violetta’s story and her characterization, even outside of the event. She was born without limbs which made her parents discard her and allowed to be taken into a freakshow as the main performance. When she lost popularity and was thrown away for a second time, that’s when she decided to get the spider prosthetics and become the way she is now. The thing that makes that so sad to me is that it’s a decision clearly made in the mindset of “This is how I can become the most popular freakshow act” and not “This is how I can become a popular actor” which is shown to be her actual goal in life. But she doesn’t believe that anyone would ever pay attention to her in that regard, so she chooses the spider option. This, in the end, leads to her being ostracized more and made fun both within and out of the circus. She wasn’t even a popular figure in hullabaloo as seen in the beginning when the actual popular acts (Mike, Margie) don’t even recognize who she is at first. This is what makes Joker, the only other disabled character at the circus, killing her so much worse to me. He was also ostracized for his disability, but instead of finding camaraderie with Violetta for this, he starts to resent her and doesn’t even view her as a person by the end of it. He sees Violetta as just another obstacle in the way of his and Natalie’s happy ending and talks about her death like an afterthought, something he only thinks of due to its importance to others. TLDR Violetta makes me crazy, I’m so glad this event showed off her story to more players but I wish she got better. (Also surv Violetta when)

[@vstro_i]

ahhhh yeah. my thoughts exactly. since joker has prosthetics too, the mutilation of hers felt like such deeper betrayal.

[@ghostlynilla7450]

THIS, she only ever wanted to be an actor. Seeing her vision of her getting her wish, but without her disability hurt because she was practically raised on that being the reason she wasn't getting her dream.

[@Etheriousflow]

1:38:30 lowkey feel bad for Weeping here. Like he’s genuinely tweaking out but he’s obviously been through so much and only had good intentions, it’s all been too much. I had know idea when weeping first came out that he would be so deep a character, I thought he was a cutey little clown 😢

[@disregardthesun]

The most sorrowful fact is that no matter how hard these five people fought against their fate, all that waited for them in the end was nothing but death: Violetta, who believed that performing on stage was the meaning of her life, died in the first show where she was finally the spotlight. Natalie, who thought she had avoided being sacrificed at Lakeside Village, still couldn’t escape the fate of drowning in the ice-cold waters. Joker, who killed for himself and the woman he loved, finally chose to commit suicide for both reasons. Mike, who loved the Hullabaloo ever since he was a child, sent himself and the Hullabaloo into fire, leaving nothing but ashes. And Murro, who got the “hero’s play”, couldn’t save anyone in the end…🥺

[@Carrot.Guy.]

I don't know that much when it comes to lore so could you maybe explain the part where you mentioned Natalie being sacrificed? I genuinely didn't know about that part in the story T-T

[@shahriarshan2741]

Wait, joker committed suicide? When and how? In this story, we only could see that he ran away.

[@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475]

@disregardthesun At Lakeside, Nat's family were part of a cult that regularly sacrificed to their "Water God" or "Fire God" Nat, ran eloped with Sergi and got married to him. So if she had stayed she would have been another sacrifice to the Gods. Yidhra (Dream Witch) and Hastur, (Feaster" by the way.

[@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475]

@shahriarshan2741 In his Experimental File, it's said he followed Nat in the way he died, meaning he jumped into the lake to be with her. If you look at the Custom Portraits you can buy, you'll see Nat & Joker both in water, signifying their fates like the others showing theirs too.

[@Carrot.Guy.]

@@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475 tyy I knew that she used to live at lakeside but I somehow managed to miss the whole cult thing lol

[@santidevil]

Peak thumbnail good work zeez!! this is the first time a event get me so hard so i hope idv keep making this type of history

[@ZeezVovGeeV]

Yeees Santi now you understand :)

[@aasupe]

@@ZeezVovGeeVI don’t think u recognized his joke…. Or I’m just dirty minded idk

[@malicRowan]

​​@@aasupe get me so hard'' is used when you are heavily impacted not the only thing you think

[@seo_sea_soul]

Bad Santi bad!

[@aasupe]

@@malicRowan yah I just didn’t know a lot of terms and I don’t mean to be offensive but Santi likes to make jokes like that so I assumed it was something like that sorry

[@netcromancer]

Confirmed voice actors :3 Mike: Bryce Papenbrook Joker: Nick Wolfhard Margaretha: AnnMarie Stanislaus

[@nidgithm]

i knew mike's voice sounded super familiar. thanks for this

[@heheboi454]

Thankss, I wonder who does Vio! (and who sings those little songs about each character in hullabaloo!)

[@netcromancer]

@ They will likely upload all Hullabaloo characters' room music to Spotify with credits for the vocals. They have been doing so for all the other room music released so far

[@s3noi]

i think it's such a weird move from netease to make the fans do gymnastics to find the voice actors for the game

[@cherinotcheri]

Margeretha was taking advantage of weeping clown for safety, just like in the first part of the story she said she would play along with sergei! Until she can be free, theres a line of dialouge from murro that says natalie is a horrible actor, jokers other line during the tent scene was something along the lines of being the only one to believe her preformance because he loves her and in that moment her taking the side of the morton brothers was an act of betrayal..everyone could see she was using him. But even in the end margies hallucinations got the better of her, envisioning joker as smiley face and weeping clown. She takes her own agency back and takes her life as a final act of independance and freedom.

[@cherinotcheri]

I love the whole cast, i think we can all pin this down to blaming orpheus to be honest, he takes people who are vulenrable and makes them do these crazy things..drugs them etc. Its so sick, every character potrayed in this event could be empathized with even if theyre actions were unjust (joker, mike) but thats the beauty of idv..most characters are morally grey, and most are those who are on the brink of emotional breakdowns.

[@NotYourProtag]

I finally finished the story yesterday and omg I need to put this out here. Margaretha and Joker are so very Romeo and Juliet coded, with one taking their life and the other following after. They're also represented as the sun and moon, which was interesting because Joker is the sun while Margie is the moon. You'd think with how much of Joker's world revolves around Margie, it'd be the other way around, but it makes a lot of sense when you think about it more. Joker is the sun, warm and passionate. He sets himself ablaze to shine light upon the one he loves, till he burns out. Margie is the moon, distant yet bright. She shines, always so close yet so far. She lives with the light Joker gives her, the freedom he granted her through Sergei's death. However, she can never escape the memories of Sergei, her original sun, the one who burned her. Murro and Mike are, obviously, characterized as the prince and his knight. In a way, it's sweet. In stories, the prince and their knight are close, possessing a brotherly relationship. Mike, the naive prince, was oblivious to the suffering of his people (the other members). Murro, the knight, was aware and suffered too, running away with help from Mike. Ironic, the naive prince protects the knight instead of the other way around. When Mike's eyes are opened to everything, whether he had first turned away, pretended to be blind, or sincerely hadn't understood the situation, it hurt him to his core. The friends and family, the place he called home, was all a cruel performance, a beautiful lie. It's why, once again, he sets Murro free, telling him to go out before him. Once again, the naive prince protects his knight, destroying the home he loved as it was only a nightmare in disguise. Perhaps, as it is his birthright, it is also his sins to bear. For Violetta, I can't think of the perfect representation that's obviously connected to her. I think the best one I can think of is a star. Although that's more closely tied to Mike, it also makes quite a bit of sense for Vio. Since the beginning, Vio has wanted to be one of the performers, the ones who were adored. She was treated more like an attraction, an animal in a cage. All she's wanted was to be treated normally, to be loved like the others. She practiced and practiced, doing whatever it took. The brightest stars die the quickest, exhausting their flames. Her final performance was the most brilliant, making her death all the more saddening. It was her first and last show as herself, receiving the attention she wanted the way she had wished all her life. Even that, too, was only a hallucination. Only death could be so kind to her, faintly reminiscent of the story of the little match girl. Much like Joker, they're someone who cares too much, inevitably fizzling out in the vastness of space. If you read all this, thanks! Idv lore drives me insane

[@vstro_i]

yesyesyeysyeysyeysyesyes

[@arthom22]

Most beautiful thing I've ever read 😢

[@sennoka6300]

i am becoming joker’s no1 defender because everyone mischaracterizes him sooo much even though he has arguably some of the most traumatic experiences, alongside violetta and margie it doesn’t say in this story but when joker was in the circus his role was basically to be the laughing stock, he was humiliated, thrown rotten eggs at and laughed at sure, it was part of the performance, but he hated it, and took huge tolls on his mental health and then of course sergei and margie came, and sergei stole the spotlight from him he obviously took interest in margie and we know what happened, but also a thing that goes sorta unnoticed is that sergei also broke jokers prosthetic leg. and this also mirrors later when he does what he did to violetta and broke her legs. throughout this story he’s basically just becoming the one person he hated the most. with him taking Sergei’s makeup, to everyone calling him, margie hallucinating about him, and up to violetta’s death. i do think margie also had manipulated him, whether intentional or not, i could see either way, but it IS canonical that she used him to escape her situation when she didn’t have any feelings joker would comfort her, sit besides her bed to help her sleep, he knows how to cook her favorite food and she took all of that to her advantage even since the circus days and blatantly betrayed him i sorta hate the scene where they are arguing in the room and she says something along the lines of “we need to escape this place… i need YOU, joker. goodnight” to me personally i feel like this was perhaps unintentionally giving joker the go ahead to finish off violetta granted, he DID genuinely believe that killing her was the only way to move on with the performance and escape, which it was, it definitely was not cuz he hated her or anything because mike or murro even says how the killer didn’t want to kill her themselves in some sort of way he still did care, otherwise he wouldn’t have used hallucinations instead of straight up killing her i do think his breaking point was margie turning on him last second even though his only goal was to protect her, and DESPITE that he still goes back to her and chases after her until she inevitably decides to end her life in the new portrait frames it indicated their deaths too, margie is surround by water, Mike is surrounded by fire, violetta is laying down peacefully, murro is the only one with his eyes open to show that he lived and although not shown, it’s implied joker ended his life as well by jumping in the water for her too after he escaped, because he is also surrounded by water, he makes me so sad, man.

[@melittaa-q3c]

omg thank you!!! People are thinking black and white in the eng chat😭

[@AtheCup]

Thank youuu for this but (I’m not very sure) but in his character files , where the relationships are it is said that Joker had a lot of hostility towards Violetta . So maybe he just hated her from the beginning ? That’s something that I think of . Maybe he sees himself in her so he hates her because he hates himself (I’m overthinking this)

[@sennoka6300]

@@AtheCupdefinitely could be wrong but i wouldn’t doubt that hostility just meant his actions towards her in the end, hostility usually does indicate some sort of hatred, but at the core it just means antagonism which usually results in conflict i don’t think it’s his genuine feelings, but just the fact that he did kill her especially pretty brutally he had no reason to hate her, when everyone was reacting to her death, he definitely seemed heartless but really was just doing a performance in the rhyme it said how the killer must “blame the sun” which he did and was just keeping up the performance to keep the game going i bet he was pretty neutral about her in general, but obviously his love for margie overcame anything and everything else

[@svenboi3965]

@@melittaa-q3ceng chat is too busy posting dirty fanfics about Burke x Aesop to express opinions about canon game lore 💀

[@SaltedCaramrl]

@@svenboi3965B-BURKE?!

[@arthom22]

What he meant by setting up the stage was that he came up with the idea to dress as Sergi, not the rest of the manor game, that was on Orphy

[@kaedaharaalbedo-bz3bd]

Bro didn't have to hack her prosthetics like that 😭😭😭😭 She would definitely wait in the cold if he asked her to do so 😭😭

[@mxssjk5417]

NAH THE JOKER VA HAD DUES TO PAY OML MY REACTION TO IT WAS LIKE SO SHCOKING ?!?! THEY CAPTURED EVERYONES VOIC SO PERFECTLY… AND THE ENDING SCEEN WITH MURRO??1!2!3?3 THIS IS WAYY BETTER THAN ASHES OF MEMORY OML

[@akari707bangtan]

What’s crazy was that Baron deRoss’ initial experiment design favored Joker to be the last survivor. But because of his severe inferiority complex, his emotions became extreme enough to resort to drastic measures even without the drugs.

[@Rieski112]

Murro did survive the game before being put into another game. Murro was also Bernard’s (Ringmaster of Hullabaloo) nephew and he adopted Mike when he was abandoned by his parents. Mike helped Murro escape the circus by faking his death because of how horribly he was treated. Sergi put chemicals in Joker’s makeup which burned his face. Also Margie’s original name is Natasha and she changed it to Natalie when she joined the circus then Margaretha after the hullabaloo massacre. Hope this lore helps you out with understanding the game!

[@Rieski112]

Please feel free to ask me for any information on lore and I’ll do my best to answer! Hope it helps!

[@Roxy377]

@@Rieski112 so canonically did mike blew up , dancer jumps the river and joker (idk how) all died and only murro survived? TBH how does these games works? is this story we just watch a game? How can murror be put in another game when the rest are dead? Or did they actually die? is it just hallucinations by Orpheus? Cause Orpheus was making these games so he can write novels about it right? Btw violetta is dead right, how can she be a hunter ?

[@YaroTavo]

​@@Roxy377 Joker also went to the river. He went to join Marg. It's. Lord have mercy.

[@RiceRise]

@@Roxy377 1. Yes, all of the story (Hullabaloo as we’re speaking about) are all real. Mike did blew himself up (and died), Margie drowned herself, Joker is heavily implied to had also unchained himself and went to drown himself to be with Margie, and yes, Murro is the only survivor of game 8 (Hullabaloo event/game). 2. These games are all pretty much experiments set up by Orpheus himself to test his chemicals onto other people (he usually blackmail them via letters to get them into the manor, or promise them something to get them there). 3. Murro (for some unexplained reasons) decided to stay back at the manor instead of leaving. Which leads him into game 9 (with Naib-mercenary, Kurt-exploder, William-forward and Servai-magician as the other participants) *[For more info on game 9, watch this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aonaZqiootSfatE ] (I recommend checking out their channel as well! They posted a lot of idv lore stuffs)* 4. The perfume that Margie used in chapter 1 is actually hallucinogenic drug putted there by Orpheus. He wanted to test them out on various participant (Margie being the target in this case), (the perfume is actually made by Vera, the perfumer! Orpheus purchased them because of their hallucinogenic properties made by Vera herself). They causes intense emotions or spiked anxiety, which causes the user to see visions (these reactions may vary depending on Orpheus intention with each game). And yes, he will write novels about each game’s deaths and publishes them as novels. (/bastard). 5. For Violetta, I think that Mad Eye founded her body and restored her into soul weaver? Since he works as one of the staff on the manor and probably experimented on her in order to turn her into a hunter. - If u hav any other questions feel free to ask! (I have been stuck in this fandom longer than I should’ve be Xd).

[@Roxy377]

@ you are an absolute legend for this. Just a small question, what happen to detective Orpheus? And when does that happen? I’m very confused with the timeline with the new ashes of memory stuff. I remember Orpheus was trying to find little girl in detective form(identity)? Oh yes also what game is the adult Alice, Orpheus, Mary game?

[@LuiMarina]

As for Mike.. now thinking more on it. I do see why he was really oblivious and naive to the pain hullabaloo members were experiencing. Having arrived there as a child and to be conditioned to view the circus as positive for a long time, of course it will be hard to imagine the negatives of it. It would be hard to break out of the illusion. And my feelings haven’t changed on why he blew everything up. It’s super obvious to see he couldn’t handle the truth and guilt of hullabaloo circus. Super depressing. It doesn’t excuse the lashing out but it does explain why. And it leaves you with complicated feelings. Its beautiful

[@apollosimagination]

This story almost made me cry, it’s so well written.

[@Mirlouu]

Oh, Natalie died....Let's decode!!

[@imverygay7572]

Average IDV match

[@7morbidsaint7]

zeez im gonna be so real with you and say violettas death scene made me cry genuine fat tears i had to take a minute because ALL SHE WANTED TO DO WAS BE RCOGNISED AND NOT FEEL LIKE AN OUTCAST FOR HAVING TETRA AMELIA SYNDROME and oh my god i dont hate joker because of him being SUCB A GOOD ANTAG i feel his emotions on a personal level and his breakdown had so much reason and MURRO... IF THEY LET MURRO HANDLE ALL OF THIS NOTHING WOULDVE WENT WRONG... hes such a kind and gentle and caring soul (...just like alva! im just saying zeez... give old man hermit a chance...!) overall this story was the most touching thing ive ever had the privilege of watching i really REALLY hope they can make all of the games a reality, especially 10b because what do you mean the eye of darkness members (ann and alva) AND LUCA ARE IN THE SAME GAME? CAN YOU IMAGINE THE INTENSE AMOUNT OF TENSION BETWEEN ALVA AND LUCA? alva seeing his student who had killed him but also seeing his best friend in his student. do you think he would hallucinate herman as luca .... i think he would because alva cared so mcuh for the man who ruined his life oh my godi m gonna be sick THIS ALSO MEANS WE COULD GET SMALL CUTSCENES ON THEIR BACKGROUND LORE JUST LIKE VIOS DREAM and mike reflecting back on the circus

[@TuberoseKisser]

NetEase put their whole Hullabalussy into this event

[@UnluckyGolfsih]

Who else had to sing the abcs to decode 😭🙏

[@vstro_i]

i’m embarrassed to say it but it’s true 😞

[@Okk681]

If they had me doing actual decoding on ciphers in-game like that, I’d be so cooked

[@RainTheRatMan]

I had too lol 😅

[@neliremy0751]

I have to say you're one of the only youtubers who understood Mike! I can really notice you take to heart the comments and actually read them, thank you so much.

[@coconut-k4h]

i must say that you shurely CANT hate them all. and joker.. my poor babe i think it's the world was too cruel to him too. cause in his letters there it's literally a phrase about him "Resigned to adversity, enduring, inherently kind, emotional release". he was too broken. it's the story not about, like, good and evil. and that's important. they are broken and the only actual thing we can do is just... feel sorry for them and cry.

[@Avaleis77]

THE STORY IS SO GOOD! I love the way you could tell what the characters were feeling! Its so cool to see how they animated the story and everything, the graphics are amazing! One of my favorite things about the whole story is Jokers VA really knowing how to voice joker! He's quiet but yet so loud when he's mad etc... Everyone's VA did am amazing job 🫶 Violettas death was so upsetting and the little scene they made for her jn her newest costume made me CRYYY, she didn't even say anything about the "strange man" because she tought she did the wrong in the so called performance ☹️ Murro was so kind to her it made me BAWL! He's so sweet I cannot express how much this made me love him! He literally took the blame for not watching Vio and her death 😭In the end Sergei was the villian and I don't really like how people say Joker is the villian, yea he killed Violetta and that was NOT OKAY 😭 but all he tried to do was protect Margie but that harmed her and him as well since she was taking advantage of Weepys kindness towards her 💔 They all were done so wrong 🙁 the story made me cry and feel so bad for everyone EXCEPT SERGEI! And the little scenes they made were Mike finally realized how he never went trough any pain and everyone else did made me cry! Especially Jokers and Vios scene where she said "I'm sorry" AAAA I love this story so much 😭 Netease did an amazing job at animating and writing the story‼️

[@ghostlynilla7450]

The detail of Vio also not having her prosthetics hurts, because it feels like she believes she'd be able to perform without them and then people would actually like her

[@ithakitten]

btw game 0 is next - it's gonna include Ada, Emil, Helena, Galatea and Orpheus. im scared 🥹

[@imverygay7572]

WAIT REALLY???

[@Bluetf_]

How do u know?

[@ithakitten]

@@imverygay7572 yes, they said it in a Q&A once

[@ithakitten]

@@Bluetf_ they talked about it in a Q&A like 2-3 months ago or so

[@Etheriousflow]

The voice acting is flawless. Joker at the end was phenomenal! And Eren va being Mike was so perfect

[@griffin9962]

12:00 aww i was hoping you would sit here for a bit longer..because, did you see the video going around that shows the longer you wait, the louder the knocking gets until it devolves into banging? pretty sure the voice starts yelling too (but id have to double check that part) its so scary ssdshgs

[@ZeezVovGeeV]

Don't worry I did notice this later and covered it in the bonus section!

[@griffin9962]

@@ZeezVovGeeV OH YAY awesome!! i havent gotten to the end of the video i didnt even know that was a section, im excited to see it :D loving it so far btw its so fun to see your reactions to this crazy story

[@ketchup3322]

zeez saying “evil jonkler” was NOT on my 2024 bingo card

[@astrocatalis6188]

the fact Hullabaloo final escene make me feel the SAME EMPTYNESS when i finish Mouthwashing, I LOVE HOW WELL WRITTEN IS THE LORE AND THE SONGS OF THAT CHILD AT THE FINAL??? PEAK. CINEMA.

[@5olitzo]

I think Mike rigged it all to explode. During the cutscene you see him cutting open his bombs, leaving a trail of gunpowder... Still THEY COOKED HARD WITH THE STORY AND GRAPHICS HOLYYY

[@arthom22]

Yes Mike intended to “go down with the ship” as they say, with nothing to live for once he realized how his “home” and “family” truly was underneath ;(

[@mildpsychasthenia]

I was also confused about why mike said he created the whole game but I assume he just meant that he started orchestrating a way to catch weepy once they were in the arena. But it's still frustrating cuz he worded it to sound like he knew what would happen the whole time, which doesn't make sense because yeah he did seem surprised about the playbill and stuff. But I think he only knew because Marg took advantage of weepy's "love" for her and sold him out to mike and murro and that's how they knew they could catch him later.

[@ang1_douk]

I CRIED SO MUCH BRO I LOVE THE HULLABALOO LORE 😭😭🙏

[@greentr0ll]

They all deserved better 😔 Weepy had a valid crashout too and the ending where Mike realized they were all miserable 😭💔

[@vixxenn_]

when the second part released i played it the second i could and honestly, all i could say was just WOW. this story was so, so so amazing and i really can't wait to see if they do more stories like this going forward with the other games in future. i've never felt so in love and compelled by characters before until seeing this story, like i enjoyed ashes of memory too but hullabaloo was just way more enjoyable with its storytelling in my opinion! and also, i've always generally been interested in weepy's character and seeing everything play out in this story along with the voice actor that played him was just so perfect, it brought tears to my eyes 😭🫶 weepy's voice actor delivered perfectly (they all did, for that matter!!!)

[@resting.in.the.mountains.]

Instead of my morning coffee, I had my tears preparing me for the day.

[@fiiiiig]

Sergi put mikes acid (that he puts in his bombs) in jokers makeup because he was comforting Natalie from Sergi’s abuse. Sergi when I catch you Sergi (Mike was out running an errand)

[@BearinaPot]

I was aware of the basics and who died to what, but my soul shattered watching it all happen in real time. like oh my god, it was so devastatingly beautiful. my heart was torn watching it all happen, if this is how hullabaloo goes down; game 0 (adamil, helena, orph, galatea) is going to DESTORY me

[@Kaveh00ssy]

PLUS zeez if u notice their portraits they all closing their eyes in peace except for murro since he was the only survivor IM GONNA CRY BYE-

[@curedechan9911]

Violetta’s death genuinely made me so sad omg and the voice acting is actually amazing omg

[@_MultiFantasy_]

We love Mike having the same voice actors as Makoto and Nagito

[@seo_sea_soul]

I bawled my eyes out at the scene with Violetta's hallucination! 😭😭😭😭

[@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475]

With some of the experiment notes there is good or bad news about Violetta. She may actually have been revived by Burke "Percy" style and participated as a hunter in a later game. It would explain her new and deadly mechanical limbs and her malicious behaviour.

[@jotuunn]

poor vio

[@sgabellorotto]

I litteraly cried watching this story, it's well written and the animations are so good

[@yami-so8iy]

Margie and Joker made me throw a beer bottle at my kids

[@mistymystery9537]

this story event was truly everything... especially cuz the hullabaloo storyline and whatever is personally my favorite, like I literally main weeping 😭. Now that more people know about the lore for hullabaloo and all the circus stuff though... I've been scared to get into matches since my first match after most people did the story, the hunter only came after me... no one else BECAUSE I was weeping-

[@taki4161]

violetta deserved better😔the scene when she was hallucinating and her prosthetics were breaking was so sad😭

[@kozikuronpa]

i giggled a bit and rolled my eyes when joker said “oh a poor violetta!” HES SO FAKE!!!! HE DGAF 😭😭😭

[@automnecorvaisier7541]

So nobody's gonna talk about the music in the log screen was the same on the playbill and when the machines were decoded ? That's literally the same lyrics through the 3 music's obtainable.

[@girlygor3]

I was actually so shocked when margie died omg..

[@Crazybunnyidv]

i remember when little girl, nightmare, and orpheus came out at the same time, it was like peak idv. like zeez, if you ask anyone that day what it was like, i'm sure they would say it was idv history. along with this event, i just know it's going to be talked about. like a "you just had to be there" moment. never ask a idv fan what happen on november 20-21th 2024.

[@irlgorou1256]

21 seconds ago. I am the real zeez fan. Please drop pt2 of idv irl

[@apricitygaming]

i am 21 minutes :,>

[@vorel80]

The story was so good it broke my heart SO BAD. My psychologist will learn hubabubba story.

[@LunarSk13s]

Hubabubba story😢

[@Sourichi]

I never expected to find myself crying to Idv, but alas here we are The voice acting was so good it gave me goosebumps This is truly peak Idv 😼

[@Xafriel]

This is great story, great voice actors and I love it ❤

[@_INXUBUS]

I LOVE THIS STORY AND I ALMOST CRIED!! There are a lot of hidden meanings in this story and I believe that the perfume had the hallucination dr@gs, the perfume bottle had the initials’VN’ for Vera indicates that the circus group arrived at the manor sometime after Vera’s game not sure tho.

[@seashell3403]

This story reminded me why I even started liking IDV in the first place. This story was just insane. I went into this thinking “It’s probably going to be okay, but I don’t really care too much about these characters.” Not even joking the MOMENT I saw Violetta I literally loved her so much, and they somehow made me attached these characters I never even cared about in the span of 2 story quests. Like Violetta’s death was genuinely devastating, it made me feel things. And Margaretha’s death? Jokers insane voice acting? The entire dynamic between all the characters?? Like I was blown away by this. I joined IDV because of the Little Nightmares crossover, mainly because I’m a huge fan of the series (and the biggest Six defender). But I actually found myself interested in the story they had established in Ashes of Memory, the strange creepy mystery of it all was really alluring to me. I was a bit bummed that the story didn’t really have much after ashes, but I was super curious to see what happened. Over time, it started to feel more like a dress up game than anything, and it felt like they kind of lost sight of the story that they were telling. This story just absolutely blew me away, the storytelling, foreshadowing, symbolism, and characterization is amazing. Like I felt impacted by their deaths and it’s insanely tragic. Violetta’s characterization hit especially close to home for me. I see a lot of myself in her as someone who was recently diagnosed with Autism, and seeing her get repeatedly brushed away by friends with something she was truly passionate about was kind of crushing. The way that she ends up hurting Mike without even realizing it, and getting scared when she realized she made a mistake. Her death literally broke my heart, because at the end of the day she was just seen as a pawn. She wants to be kind and understanding but doesn’t understand why she’s being treated a certain way. Idk it’s just really painfully relatable. The climax of her death, as she reaches for something that was never possible. She spent the last moments of her life chasing that dream even as she was physically falling apart. Like oh my god that hurt. Also Margaretha’s death?? Hello?? She’s been clearly haunted by her abuse and experience with Sergi, so much that he ends up in her dreams almost every night saving her from drowning. It shows how there really is only two options for her: live and suffer, or die and be free. She barely had a choice in any of this with people constantly pressuring her. So when she sees Joker at the bridge, she can finally make her own decision. She realizes in the moment that it will always haunt her, and that she would never feel like she truly escaped. So she finally makes a choice not for anyone else but herself, and chooses to die. She could only find a true escape in death. Like oh my gosh the writers went to TOWN with this. The closing part of Mike walking around the circus as he finally realizes how much it hurt the people around him is insane. It’s closure in the most painful way possible. Anyway, sorry for the rant but this is literally my favorite story thing ever in Identity V. I’m so hyped for what the writers are cooking up in the future!

[@Zagrilla]

At first i actually wasn't interested in the Story just because i was also not interested in the journalist story, but omg im happy i decided to play the hullaballo story cause it is actually so well animated, written, voice acted!!🙌 I loved it very much and it defintley made me seek therapy! :,)

[@Theriddlerzz-r3o]

Best written story so far

Violetta is so scary in game, but so cute in suvivor form

[@CookieTaiga]

Gurl she aint survive anything at this rate. That why she not a survivor yet

[@Magnolia_18]

I usually am not too invested in the stories but this really hooked me in! Since I’m fairly new to IDV it makes me think about what other lore I’ve missed from past events

[@CanILiveLater991]

AGHHHH IVE BEEN WAITING… THIS VIDEO IS GONNA COOK SO HARDD AHH I CANT WAIT TO HEAR WHAT YOU FELT ABT IT

[@madessd]

See… the story is so good that I still want to experience it again after my own play through, Santi’s stream and your 2hour long video that I by the way watched entirely in one go. Yet I’m not even a particular fan of any of the Hullabaloo characters…more of an AOM truther as I really like Norton, Melly, Alice. (also a Game 3 fan with Anne, Ganji for favorites.) And this…?? It ridiculously makes me except A LOT for the future. I REFUSE that the next chapter of AOM let me down like the first part because they can produce things like this ? so good and it’s a side story ?? HELLO ??? I am so jealous.

[@vstro_i]

SAME- i played it myself and couldn’t get enough so i watched santis play through, hikarus playthrough, zeez’s (also in one sitting) AND dukos in the span of a couple hours i’m not ok

[@madessd]

@@vstro_i Maybe dancer wasn’t the only one getting high on that perfume, maybe they sprayed that addictive scent all over that story mode so we can’t get enough of it ? Only reasonable explanation… (Hullabaloo needs to take responsibility.)

[@UnderTheMoon3]

Murro is such a king

[@arthom22]

mike,,, my poor traumatized man 😥 he deserved so much better than the end he got :(( they all did

[@Someone-zn4dh]

You have no idea how much I just want to break the forth wall and protect weepy behind me while facing Mike 😭😭😭

[@arthom22]

i wanted to hug them both and carry them to therapy 😭😭😞

[@vstro_i]

i don’t know if anyone here’s a marvel fan, but the way this story is told and showing margie falling repeatedly reminded me of the agatha all along lilia épisode. “i was falling”. sorry but this is just perfect idv. very tragic, the voice acting- phenomenal, animation amazing, the SCORE the story. i’m still thinking about it. i’m a person who loves analysis and idv fed us well aahhh ahhh i’m gonna do a character analysis just cause when i’m done i’ll put it here i just can’t like i’m actually so excited

[@death_metallover6408]

REALLL that part reminded me of that Lilia episode so much 🙏🙏🙏

[@vstro_i]

@@death_metallover6408YES ❤

[@assiaelmabrouki5552]

Your reaction was amazing and relatable! I had the exact same feelings when I finished the story… IDV really HAS to do more events like this! This is truly the best thing about IDV!

[@LuiMarina]

Ever since we properly got to see how to decode a cipher machine, it makes sense who has harder time to decode. Someone said Helena is super smart and that’s why she is fastest decoder. Meanwhile if it was idv survivor I would have 10% decoding debuff once cipher hits like.. 30% progress or something. I get confused easily 😭😭 I’d recite my abc over and over

[@bloodylilii]

THAT SUDDEN KITE AGAINST JOKER SCARED ME SO MUCH. I actually got killed too at first cause I was dumb and I tried to pallet stun him thinking he would not respect pallets... I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one losing the freaking tutorial. I was really looking forward to your reaction to this event! this actually is peak identity v. I hope they'll release more story event like this one

[@Etheriousflow]

1:12:23 this whole sequence is one of the saddest parts 😢 she just wanted to perform with her friends

[@keithismychikibeibi6062]

This story was so good I’m gonna pee myself 😭 actually getting to know the characters was SO NICE, god. This was so tragic… poor Violetta, dying like that, dreaming of being recognized and seen as valuable😭😭😭😭😭 and Margaretha… finding her exit in ending her life is crazy, and after being so traumatized for so long😭😭😭 and and- Murro losing everything just like that, Joker too, and Mike 😭😭😭😭😭 BRO ALL OF THEM SUFFERED ENOUGH WHAT IS THIS. PLEASE PLEASE I’M ACTUALLY BEGGING FOR NETEASE TO KEEP DOING THIS WITH ALL OF THE GAMES SNIFF SNIFF

[@Oaooaoao]

I think u liked the event

[@Radicusmax_New_Art_Cult_Member]

This was such a good story! It’s so good and showcases everything that happened! We don’t get vague clues about what happens. We don’t just sleep and then Violetta is dead, we see Weeping lure her. My favorite part was the breakdown Weeping had at the end. He has nothing left so he just breaks and lays into everyone. He also makes Mike realize that Hullabaloo wasn’t the paradise he thought it was. The scene also made me wish we still had chainsaw Clown. The rocket is cool, but a chainsaw is cooler. He literally has animations for the chainsaw and (little known fact) if you’re carrying a survivor and attack as Clown, it plays a faint chainsaw sound. I hope we get stories of this level for every game. The diary entries are nice, but they’re still really vague.

[@Etheriousflow]

You’re in my top 5 KZbinrs watched on my recap! Zeez gaming

[@simirean]

i cant stop thinking about the story and ESPECIALLY the ending… everything was so good and theres so much parallels and symbolism and everything i feel like im going insane i was never much of a hullabaloo fan before (just bc i never game them any thought) but now i love every single one of them (even joker) i cant wait for the game 0 story AHHHH im going crazy

[@Cherry.4sure]

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO TO COME OUT ITS FINALLY OUTTT!

[@BlinkEmre]

I skipped all of the stuff, decided not to at the circus cutscenes and it still gave me chills, and I didnt even know about the lore. No game had this kinda effect on me, damn this is well made

[@ironalice9452]

Omg the piece of the music box that joker used to escape is wax too mysterious... Like give my girl Margaretha the peace she deserves

[@wasaism]

heh.. im true zeez fan i was in his .5% this event was so heartbreaking and beautifully acted and written.. can’t wait for the next one to come out 💖💖

[@chippisss]

I WAS SO SAD BC OF THIS STORY ESPECIALLY THE END 😭

[@LuchinosCat]

This is so well done, the story was trully amazing. I was never really into hullabaloo story and even didnt like some characters but this event made me so interested on it. The voice acting was SO good, the details, the way the events happens, its really amazing This made me LOVE all the characters, of course im mad at Weepy, but they built his story and everyones elses stories so well that i adore them. It made me love Nathalie, at the beggining she was one of my least favorite characters but the way they made her story and her end was so significant that i adore her and feel so sad for her. Violeta made me feel sad too, she was so sweet and pretty. Mikes whole situation was so amazing to see and Murro... sniff... he is so sweet and makes me cry to know he wanted freedom. Now, as an animation student my teachers told me that one of the hardest things to do is the acting of the character. And they did an amazing jib on the animation, the small details of jokers walk, his body behavior and his hands, Violeta when she gets scared, the way mikes posture show his confident personality, murro watching the fire... everything is so well done. One of the best things to express emotions on your characters are the eyes and unlike ashes of memory, they have button eyes. Which is cool to see how well done they showed their emotions without having "eyes" just by using their gestures and expresions AAAAAAAAAA this is trully one of the best things idv has made besides luchino

[@Zenji858]

I have honestly no words all of the comments already said it 😭 this was crazy I’m sobbing.

[@mileenastoe]

1:58:48 YESSS THIS IS WHAT I'M SAYING. Their story is interesting, but they don't use it !!! You literally have to find people that can explain it good 😭 i need all the lore for each game visually like the hullabaloo story !! Ppl will pay attention to it better istg

[@quirkykawaii4626]

12:28 Neat fact that if you waited just a bit longer he will knock more hurriedly and say “Natalie” louder!

[@veevivii]

YAY IM SO EXCITED TO SEE YOUR THOUGHTS ON IT ZEEZ, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! this was the first time IDV has managed to make me cry

[@LuiMarina]

I also saw the storyboard stuff on Twitter!!! I didn’t expect you to share it here but it’s really nice to see! It’s always really interesting to see behind the scene stuff. It made me giggle when I saw they use reference of Barbie in swan lake dance for Violetta’s final scene… well for Violetta . It’s kinda heartbreaking 💔😭😭😭🙏 help

[@beanbean5019]

i love the constant analysis and observations! really looking into the subtle details :) id love to watch more lore analysis like this in the future!

[@Mariisstage]

Violetta made me cry because just why😭😭

[@ilovekoromaru]

I’m def looking forward to more stories of the same standard! I had so much fun playing through this, it’s peak!!

[@Headhammer]

My jaw was dropped the whole time, im so excited on what theyll do with game 0 🤩

[@LuiMarina]

My favorite group is the one with Aesop Victor Anne and Ganji because I really really really LOVE ganji.. so whenever it’s time to experience their story I will not be sane. I will crash out. I will never recover 🥹🥹🥹 I will wait as long as it takes. Because I want it to be as beautiful or hopefully even better produced as Closing Night. I believe as time goes on Idv team will improve !!

[@isuka2312]

This story was peak, absolute PEAK. I wish everyone in the world can see this I wish netease makes a movie or series about Identity V to advertise the game more.

[@LuiMarina]

Not zeez saying joker sounded like akechi 😂😂 It just shows the standard akechi has set whenever the murderer starts crashing out ☝️☝️☝️ If Robbie ever got to voice a character in idv I think I would also act like joker.. I would not be okay!! ☺️