WORLD OF HORROR - Encountering and Defeating? Something Evil

WORLD OF HORROR just dropped an update that finally enables and adds the Something Evil sidequest and it's a doozy. As of right now I am unsure if the achievement for defeating it is bugged or if there's a story way to properly defeat it. If I figure out an alternate way this video will probably be updated. Video contains no commentary.
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[@JeanMarceaux]

[YOU CAN'T FIGHT] [YOU CAN'T RUN] [YOUR DEMISE IS HERE] Manly: yeah yeah, whatever, I'll pay you in eldritch molotovs to fuck off.

[@marcelinelansing7475]

Manly: You're gonna burn alright.

[@mariosonicfan2010]

*[YOUR* *DEMISE* *IS HERE]* Manly, preparing to spam Ithotu Flame: _unoreversecard.jpg_

[@eduardodiaz9942]

Well, he screwed himself anyway. By the time Something Evil is defeated he was at 97% Doom

[@RenShinomiya121]

@@eduardodiaz9942 Monument abusing

[@Ian-gx8jp]

I read that as unor-evers-e-card

[@n484l3iehugtil]

@@Ian-gx8jp I read that as un-or-ever-secard

[@RaptorX7777]

*ends the fight with 97% doom* You've won, but at what cost?

[@EveryTimeV2]

Thanos snapped out of existence.

[@destroidhak2556]

Y o u r h u m a n i t y w a s t h e c o s t

[@doneedanickname3522]

s c r e w t h i s t o w n

[@selfmademusic206]

The cost of an achievement

[@letsreadtextbook1687]

How evil-sounding do you want to name your monster? Game Devs: Yes

[@destroidhak2556]

Something truly evil: has 99 HP. Manly with ithou flame: and i took that personally

[@ScorbunGame]

The fact that "something truly evil" replaces your characters sprite at 3 encounters is ****ing disturbing. I can see this being a run killer if your not prepared for it.

[@DAliasReaper]

Oh, it gets so, so much worse. When you reach level 4, all your items gets replaced with her head staring at you.

[@user-gs2fu3bm4b]

Funny thing, I triggered her 8 times already and reached level 3 attention only once lol. Events that trigger her interest are so rare it's tideous.

[@ScorbunGame]

@@user-gs2fu3bm4b The only event where you can deliberately trigger her attention at this point seems to be looking at the picture in Mr. Ooo's room.

[@damonkatumaru]

[EMERGENCY Code: Clone] Defeat the Dark spawn doubleganger!

[@boeman6702]

@@aliasmcgames What happens, Im too scared to do anything

[@supe4701]

Something truly evil found you: panik You spam Ithotu flame which ends up killing it: calm Doom is now at 97 percent: *panik*

[@Darkmage1293]

Krillin: "Maybe you should stop him before he does something reckless." Trunks: "There is literally nothing he can do to make this any worse, save blowing up the planet." ManlyBadassHero: *CHARGING UP DOOM COUNTER WITH ITHOTU FLAME* Trunks: "HE IS GOING TO BLOW UP THE PLANET."

[@splitjawjanitor5369]

"BUT I LIVE HERE!"

[@shawnheatherly]

World of Horror, the game that just keeps on impressing me. Good to know they have plans for some more secretive bonus bosses, a true challenge if you're not prepared. I loved seeing your mouse shaking after one of the events popped, I get the feeling you had been trying to get that to trigger for quite awhile.

[@TheElectricRaichu]

Technically, he didn't have to do that one event at all. STE has a few events and 4 are only needed to summon it. There's 5 to my knowledge, with one of them being when you rest at about 3 counters or so, where it appears in the screen of your computer saying, "STE knows where you live"

[@JeanMarceaux]

@@TheElectricRaichu and it raises your STE counter by 1 every time you rest (as long as it's above "0?").

[@zanrak3922]

During the fight theres an Option "Die For Me" that says "Kills you instantly" - maybe thats a special Ending?

[@TheXBladeist]

Or an Alice reference from SMT. Would not surprise me

[@jackhazardous4008]

Nah, one of the steam trailers shows your character just commits no-longer-wanting-to-be-alived with their weapon

[@LPavownage]

The way the combat music's been slowed down like this drips with menace. I'd like to listen to it again and again. I wonder if SOMETHING TRULY EVIL is a reference to Tomie?

[@misssunnysyu]

Could be. Tomie's an evil b'tch.

[@Tacklepig]

This feels like there should be more story to it. It also somehow feels familiar, like I've read some of these things somewhere before...I think I know the whole "suffer for me", "cry for me" thing from some other story.

[@kakashihatake326]

If you dont have offensive spells you have to Suffer and Cry until its satisfied which will give a combat option to end the encounter. It also gives you options to kill you instantly.

[@CopperIron]

@@kakashihatake326 It's also how to get the achievement.

[@DAliasReaper]

I've killed SOMETHING EVIL with Ithotu Flame + Regeneration + Memory Fragment in a level 1-only run also. The sad part is that it won't stop if you actually kill it. It keeps coming until you actually respect its mechanic (that and you won't get the achievement for beating it unless you actually do the Stamina/Reason damage thing until an option saying "its sated" appears on the middle top).

[@windego999]

Is there a way to avoid it or does it seem like it's just random chance that it'll show up and want you dead?

[@Selnathorn]

@@windego999 Well, it seemingly only appears in certain locations. And for some events you have the choice to actually look at the pictures.

[@DaFieFie]

I have a feeling the devs did not anticipate Ihotu Flame being as bonkers as it is. It breaks a lot of encounters like this.

[@Dasgath]

@@DaFieFie It also works with koetaru, the giant calamary, but you get the ending as if you ran away.

[@cr4b4ppl]

@@windego999 it's been a year but if you dont choose the "what's that?" option when encountering Mr.000 you can completely avoid it

[@Inriri]

That boss fight was lit

[@circle4602]

except for the 97% doom after the fight

[@Chivi-chivik]

I like how the mangaka neighbor is Junji Ito (that, or they made him look very similar XD)

[@GespenstKAF0]

It's pretty much supposed to be him

[@MortimerSCrane]

I think it's like Oetaru, where you can technically kill it with damage but you're not supposed to.

[@JeanMarceaux]

I love how one of the ways to kill Oetaru is a shotgun. Reminds me of that one moment from Mokey's Show: "You might have a brain, but I have a gun"

[@PepsiObsessi]

We vibin this Tuesday on Manly's channel

[@Khalless]

Meanwhile in the woh server. Someone made a “something truly horny” custom event.

[@omiorahman6283]

Sauce for science research

[@JeanMarceaux]

Of course they did.

[@elliot_rat]

i hate the internet

[@greenherb3229]

@@elliot_rat I mean most of the other mods in the discord is pretty cool (and they actually bother to list which characters that are NSFW, example being Veronica from OSC's pack which has an NSFW costume or Yumi... who is part of the same pack and the reason why she's NSFW is due to her lore). It's also basically the only place to find the mods so yeah, just don't check in Eldritch Swamp.

[@Darkmage1293]

[YOUR DEMISE IS HERE] "Good thing I brought a shotgun."

[@Seydaschu]

I think this thing is feeling the emotion of Dorcelessness.

[@Umbraqua]

Someone is actually taking the Thalasin+...huh.

[@doneedanickname3522]

I remember a reddit story about something like this. I've forgotten what it was. Something about paintings, one weird woman, the same image across walls, and death coming closer. I'll try my best to find it again but it's pretty similiar. It was written before World Of Horror came out

[@tdilawmd]

Fashion Model by Junji Ito is the inspiration for this monster

[@PaladinGear15]

He went Roy Mustang vs Lust on this thing xD

[@user-gs2fu3bm4b]

Wow, what a manly badass hero has slain this foul spirit?

[@TheElectricRaichu]

I didn't know you could defeat Something Truly Evil via combat damage. I just appeased it by feeding it stamina and reason. I do know STE has at least 5 different events involving it with 3 of them being starting triggers for the whole secret. It's interesting watching your playthrough of it after playing through it myself. I didn't notice how OP the hammer or the character with the ally perk were until yesterday (they've patched the game to nerf them a bit, but at the time of when I played/you played they were). The fact that there wasn't a proper ending for one of the Old Gods and that the cause of death for the spider god were different before the recent patch (in your "all endings" video) is interesting, specifically for the latter.

[@jacobp.2024]

I guess we finally found evil's weakness.. Fire.

[@NaturalFlirtGamer]

_Really spooky_ Especially since Something Evil possessed you walking around!

[@bargleboof4557]

5 minutes ago? That’s like 5 minutes from now

[@XxNekuraKyomuxX]

you’re spoiling us with all these uploads manly..... i might just give you all of my college funds-

[@chalcedonycoral1943]

Heh, that horror manga artist quite resembles a certain someone. :D I wonder how would Junji Ito feel about this game :D

[@Ayyaii24]

I've found this playlist recently and they've inspired me to run a lovecraftian monster of the week campaign with investigations inspired by the ones in world of horror and the ones provided in monster of the week, plus other games you've played in the past. I haven't run a campaign in quite some time, and the last one i did run was dnd and it went down in flames as i was inexperienced and going through some stuff at the time. I recognize this probably isn't your intended outcome when playing games but you've managed to reawaken my passion for horror and the unknown while helping me with my fears of various horror game genres. I don't know what about you has inspired a change within me, but I do want to say that i do want an NPC that the players have to interact with that with during a mystery, or maybe a recurring character. Thanks a million, my guy, i appreciate all that you do!

[@cr4b4ppl]

Nice

[@Megaman_Zero]

thanks a lot for the upload! i really wanted to see the whole something evil thing

[@chrisgudorf3652]

No matter how many times I close my eyes and see this monster staring back at me, I know that he is not real.

[@bently13]

It's funny how after the latest trailer for WoH it's implied Something Truly Evil takes over your person, so I imagine whilst MBH is casting these spells the reality is that he's burning his apartment down...

[@KennethRCox]

this game really gives me mega chills and I'm just watching the gameplay instead of actually playing it.

[@EveryTimeV2]

It's not really a scary game. It has horror aesthetic but the jump scares are not even that convincing. It's more like a horror theme game, explores 'abstract horrifying concepts'.

[@KennethRCox]

@@EveryTimeV2 it still give me the chills regardless of what genre it fits under.

[@arachnus100]

When STE finally caught me, the music actually completely cut off instead of playing this distorted theme. Literally the scariest shit I've ever encountered in a video game.

[@Pahjuju]

Is there any lore regarding Something Truly Evil? I don't quite understand if it's a reference or something. Still, pretty amazing and great boss fight. Also, apparently to get the achievement, you have to defeat it another way, I think the devs didn't expect you to be able to actually defeat it by killing them.

[@mediocrebox]

It's not even true defeat. You basically placate this Eldritch abomination with your blood and sanity temporarily and that somehow counts as unlocking the achievement. She'll find you in another random enemy encounter later no matter what you do. I found it pretty cheeky that the achievement says "meet and defeat SOMETHING EVIL" when what the player did is anything but defeat it.

[@ScorbunGame]

I think there's gunna be a mystery in the full game involving this boss, the way you encounter it is to involved for it to just be a random thing you encounter. My guess is that it's gunna involve teaming up with a monk or something to drive it back.

[@usov656]

My guess is that the dev wanted to implement a stalker type enemy to the game that chases you through it without being connected to any investigation, like how in resident evil, silent hill and other horror games you're chased by a specific recurring enemy through the whole game. It'd be cool if there was more about it, but explaining it defeats the whole eldritch unstoppable abomination vibe it has.

[@HongKongPhooey89]

The music for this encounter is awesome!

[@NervousLatte]

Nice! I feel like I don't have the patience to play this one myself, so I'm excited to watch!

[@akulatraxus9153]

Alternatively you can sacrifice stamina and/or reason with the combat options. Once you have sacrificed enough (I think it's 8) you get a new option to have it leave you alone.... for now.

[@racheltiffany9892]

The one dislike was the evil being salty

[@erikjohnson2885]

This run: *Mustang Burning Envy (from full metal alchemist)* *SNAP* *SNAP* *SNAP*

[@shadesmcf]

That must have been one hot flame. That was an insane side quest.

[@RichterBelmont2235]

You borrowed the flame from a god that burn down the great library of Alexandria. Yes it's hot, much hotter than the previous version too.

[@VitaminSteevie]

Thanks for making this! She's hard to get honestly

[@balrogdemorgoth4741]

Damn, that was fast, the update is super recent.

[@GearUltimatum]

Goddamn the battle theme is so fucking good

[@julianaoliveira3736]

I got this by accident and it scared the crap out of me

[@MalarkySparky]

Oh good! That leaves us with a cool 97% DOOM.

[@BADMAN121able]

So this thing can only be beaten by Spells, and it has 99 HP it's gonna kill your run one way or the other!

[@Hero-fe6mp]

Why did manly post 3 vids on the same day??

[@geminiymir8385]

R/madlads

[@damonkatumaru]

...Because he lost control of his life!

[@EveryTimeV2]

I don't think you can actually defeat the evil entity itself by reducing it's HP to zero. But according to the wikipedia, even if you do defeat it by reducing HP to zero, the encounter values determining whether you'll meet it don't reset, or disappear. I interpret that as meaning "you would just encounter it again anyway". The game seems designed in a way where you have to specifically plan to win that battle by outhealing it and 'hoping' that you 'win' the encounter by appeasing something evil. Ways you could damage it: Thrown items. Spells. Consumables(?) I don't know if dust of seeing would help that fight by reducing its power (thus damage and dodge chances) to zero. Or if that actually works.

[@liamschallock5346]

"Towering.... fierce.... terrible.....nightmare, made material."

[@harryc657]

This is such a strange but cool event. Played through the game a few times already, but i never encountered this guy. I only see a few events with his pictures, but wound up beating the game before it could manifest.

[@dsagent]

I like that Suicidal is a status effect

[@stephenmemelord2303]

Just found out if you make three sacrifices (obviously not all three of the same type) then you can select a new option to get it to go away...

[@noemiemaurice5551]

Somebody loves this game~ (can't wait to be able to get it for myself tbh it does look awesome) Edit : Ito is your neighbor XD

[@totalfailforfun4721]

"You're gonna burn all right."

[@daxondelly2141]

Just watched Vinny’s world of horror stream now I saw this.

[@chalcedonycoral1943]

That was badass!

[@kingocoffee6354]

I'm tripping on all these uploads, did the stars align, or

[@linkwannabe]

Something Truly Evil is kind of a mouthful, so when I'm playing I've taken to calling them *Ste*ve :D

[@nabskull1567]

After you get the event you can keep resting at your apartment to get the encounter number up

[@markcullimore1]

You're not supposed to fight it that way Manly. You're supposed to suffer and lose stamina and reason.

[@sadrabbit53]

Shhhhh

[@Luminethereploid]

97% Doom...probably wasn't worth it.

[@nickblinko5677]

99hp god dayum.

[@pedrostormrage]

I know there's a specific ritual you can perform to get rid of ghosts (which is clap, bow, clap, bow, clap) , but I don't know if this enemy is considered a ghost. Alternatively, maybe the "proper" way to defeat it has something to do with the "suffer for me" or "bow for me" actions (since they're specific to this fight), but that's just a guess.

[@Lunar_Atronach]

The bows and claps dont work, just tried it today and it said it wasn't a ghost

[@Mr20percentcoolerbro]

I hope someone posts this slowed down version of the forest combat theme

[@cuteherogirl15]

Is it my birthday? Your spoiling us with all these vids manly.

[@fushigiman140]

this is secret boss you have to find photo and give to artist you can prevent something evil encounter by not give photo to artist

[@Raidenze]

That's way less cool than beating the crap out of the boss with your own hands though.

[@Thelothuo]

feel like it should count for _something_

[@canadianturtle7240]

JUNJI ITO CAMEO!!!!!

[@Sr38890xx]

Honestly really like the battle theme it has, wish I could find it somewhere

[@neilrickston5293]

I think the theme is called "Forest Combat".

[@Sr38890xx]

Huh, can't believe I never noticed it was just a slowed version of that theme. I guess I should say instead, I wish this slowed/slightly pitched down version Something Truly Evil has was uploaded.

[@blep9808]

nice

[@Hellscrap3r]

It looks like the girl from Uzumaki. You all know the one I mean.

[@billtrent6520]

Ya remember first encounter him i look at Wrighter drawing big mistake i might as been looking at scp -096 at this point.

[@jackhazardous4008]

Doesn't this monster also do stuff with your desktop if you minimize the game?

[@jongwooksun7649]

This tactic does not work anymore. RIP

[@antspirals1063]

unfortunate that this method doesn't work anymore

[@yaoimandel1293]

There's music for this encounter? I encountered Something Truly Evil yesterday and for me, there was no music, no SFX, and all of my items (and I believe spells as well) said "FOUND YOU". Maybe it's a random thing, but I personally feel that this encounter is a lot cooler with no music or SFX.

[@alexsan1492]

Manly, wheres the flavor when there is no you reading?

[@elliot_rat]

dorceless

[@RGrizzly23]

i wonder how looks like this game in ps4

[@asra-5180]

I think it bugged because you used a ritual to defeat it.

[@mediocrebox]

Bugged? No. Random glitchy graphic is intended in Something Truly Evil's fight. She's not the only one with this too, Glitched Magician is a big offender. Time Skipper at school to a lesser extent. That was a regular offensive spell Manly used to 'kill' STE. It may have Ithotu's name in it, but it's not a ritual spell. If it's the combat options you are talking about, STE is just that powerful ingame. It's too bad that defeating her doesn't even award you with -10% DOOM when choosing to satiate her with some 'modest' Stamina and Reason does. 60 EXP or -10% DOOM is not worth the hassle of getting into a fight with her.

[@asra-5180]

@@mediocrebox i mean because he didn't get the achievement. Maybe the game doesn't accept rituals for the final blow.

[@lionofash7700]

@@asra-5180 It's possible he already did it with a test run and then did this after as a recording.

[@asra-5180]

@@lionofash7700 READ. THE. DESCRIPTION.

[@clickedsole]

I've never been this early

[@ml8443]

This hurts my eyes

[@CassberrySauce]

Definitely doesn't seem like the intended way to defeat it.

[@Gho00st]

apparently it just keeps attacking you in random encounters even after you defeat it until you appease it

[@EveryTimeV2]

It's definitely not an encounter designed to be defeated by traditional memes and when you look at what happens after you 'cheese' the encounter, doesn't look like it was designed to take those things into account.

[@someonesomething1600]

You used alot of your doom gauge. Why didnt you just finish her with a regular attack!?

[@FarisFlowers]

All of his offensive actions were replaced with shit like "suffer for me" and "cry for me", so he really isnt able to attack normally. It would have to be a story action that can kill this thing

[@someonesomething1600]

Oh thanks for explaining. I thought he forgot to attack normal or just overkilled.

[@TheKelsmommy]

I almost encountered this...this thing last night while playing and I'm so glad I avoided somehow. Let me tell you, I was SHAKING

[@happilyisolated]

Maybe you're not supposed to win?

[@Psychobathtub]

?

[@oscargonzalez3599]

You've gained a new status: SUICIDAL! Me: wow, great, what I need it [sarcasm voice]