The anglerfish pretending to be one of the path lights in the abyss was such a horrifying yet smart idea, it just pulls up like “imposter time”

Humans: your directive is to preserve humanity WAU: ok, starting to grow demon eels

I never noticed all the detail with the human faces before. It makes me think that WAU wasn’t only trying to copy humans into machines, but into animals as well.

I like how despite how drastically the Leviathan has been mutated, it being once a giant squid still makes sense. The maw was formed out of the creature's beak, and the tentacles were repurposed as "fins"

Wow, these designs are actually so well thought-of, its unfortunate you cant see a damn thing near those things, all the great details like human parts recreated by WAU just remain concealed from player, yet monster images alone can tell an entire story by themselves

I did not realize SOMA had as many enemies as it does

I never knew there was a Great White shark in the game, even more intriguing is that is appears to have animations implying it was supposed to be an enemy at some point.

The leviathan looks artificially created by wau, seems like it doesn't even have a mouth/digestive system

I like how compared to Mockingbirds, Fleshers, and Proxies, the Wau is surprisingly conservative and more tame in how it infects the surrounding sealife. Like it knows that they are already alive and well, and chooses to allow them to mostly keep there shape while sprinkling its own "touch" onto them, to where you really have to get close to notice the mutations, compared to human and robotic entities it infects and controls. The only Exception of course is the Leviathan, but that's because the WAU decided the giant squid to be its protector, so it obviously went all out. Love the visual storytelling in this game, its amazing.

The human faces raise so many questions. Is there a human consciousness embedded with the fish? Is it mixed together with the animal instincts of the fish in some kind of insane amalgam? Have the fish appropriated human intelligence to become smarter hunters? How aware of their situation are the humans in there?

It's creepy how some of them mutated and develop human faces on their bodies 😨

Body horror and mutated animals are two of my favorite tropes in horror. The angular fish is madness twisted into something recognizable yet grotesque. Its so horrifying, I love it. This game is so cool!

Damn. the human faces on the fish 💀

The monster design to this game is so damn good. Such cool and fascinating ideas

The WAU grafted humans onto fishes so they could survive. Imagine being fully alive and conscious while being attached to one of these things...

Those horrifying human faces the Wau grows onto the surface of living things is so subtle I missed most of them until this

I've been told that "People are afraid of the unknown", but while playing Alien Storm for the Sega Mega Drive I realized that the real terror is not seeing something unusual, but seeing something that looks like us but is no longer us...

the red glowing hole of the leviathan made me think it's an evolved form of those blue "healing" pods you stick your hand into

are the human faces on the animals… actually people? are they sentient? doomed to suffer attached to these things? if so, no wonder Johann wanted to destroy the WAU

I never realized the faces on the fish have eyes that blink holy fuck

I replayed Soma like 4 times and never noticed human parts on fish! That's such a cool and creepy touch

"Wow, this a pretty creepy desi-TOO CLOSE, WAY TOO CLOSE"

the fish in this game were always hard for me to see, but still terrified me, and this video got me freaked out over them even more!

There’s also some fish examples in jars before descending to the abyss

the creepy thing are those human face on the fishes are not only alive but also probably have the same memory as the protagonist since he is the template for all memory transfer procedure. imagine dying from a car accident only to wake with the body of an anglerfish.

Fantastic video! The audio logs at the start of every creature inspection was a wonderful touch, too. Great job! The fact that half the sea-life has faces embedded into them is horrifying. You can even see the one on the Anglerfish moving semi-independently, like it has some consciousness of its own. Really makes you think.

Thanks for making these video's! Really shows off all the little details you wouldnt normally be able to see and appreciate

It took me a moment to realize the Leviathan was covered in faces as well. Really makes me wonder *why* so much of the infected sea-life has these humanoid faces growing out of them, when you don't rly see them coming out of anything else (as far as i remember, anyways)

leviathan looks very similar to bobbit worm, reason why fish have human heads on them is because wau tried to use biomass of fish to "create" human bodies to upload scan into, same thing happened with coral at theta.

The Angler Fish coming at you in the dark with the light revealing some of it's face is one of the most unnerving things I have seen in the game, I just don't want to look back to even look at it.

The anglerfish is so disturbing, because the human face on it looks like it’s in anguish (the way the humans eye look gave me this idea). Also the way that one of it’s fins looks like it was replaced with a human hand just adds to the creepiness.

It’s one thing barely seeing the monsters, and it’s another knowing that there are human faces that move on the monsters

are those faces actual human faces or wau's recreation of humans made of structure gel ? if so... is the wau attempting to recreate human bodies ?

Man this is a crazy amount of detailing on the monster design.

Huh, i got the impression that the leviathan was the mutated form of the Dunbat sub, but apparently not Kinda wonder what happened to it though

It’s sad how the leviathan was a normal squid at some point

I humbly appreciate that you make content about Soma I love this game and changed my view about reality at some point

Yeesh, I know you're only ever able to see it briefly in the dark while underwater, but that shark model is *rough*.

I never saw the eel or the shark before. Great stuff!

This really bodes with what simon says when catherine asks him what happens to his arm “ i killed the wau to stop it from torturing the memory of humanity

I remember seeing the pictures of the sea creatures as I took the elevator to the abyss and thinking - yep, I'm going to see some effed up shit down here. And yes, I fell for the angler fish light too.

The Angler Fish looks like it inspired the sea monster's design from Iron Lung. that said, both are equally terrifying.

Jesus christ that angler fish, first time in a long time i got shivers, this is peak horror.... That fin being becoming a human hand... or the human hand becoming a fin? That is absolutely beautifull. The more i think about it the more i feel like i´d definitly cause some real moral horror if i had an idea how to start.

The eel and sea wolf, never seen them before

I feel like the WAU is Well described with 'it's a little confused, but it got the spirit'

I never considered the possibility until now, but it's quite likely there are human minds transplanted into these fish as well. Organic mockingbirds.

Dear god... those faces on the fish are one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen.

7:16 the guy in the recording was attacked by the angler fish, thinking it was a guide light. why do i have this suspicion that the face on the creature is actually the guy who was eaten

Thanks alot for this man.

These videos are awesome! I always wondered just how much sea life, normal and mutated, the devs put in the game. I think my favorites are a sea turtle and the nasty little deep sea spiders.

Great video and huge fish combined with machine parts are my nightmare

These desings remind me of an Aqua teen hunger force line that went "if i woke up looking like that, i would run to the nearest thing and kill it"

I swear SOMA has one of the best horror designs in a videogame or straight up horror media. The idea alone of an AI that somehow grow phonically is terrifying yet I'm fascinated by it.

That anglerfish is horrifying. Clearly the WAU took one look at Anglerfish in the real world and their nightmare fuel reproductive cycle and thought "hey, I can do that!"

Well not gonna lie, the fishes looks like they have it better than the crews.

They even cared enough to put animated human faces on parts we can't even see. I didnt even know they did! Except the Angler fish. The hand as a flipper is a great detail that can also be easily missed

Under the sea! Darling it's better, Down where it's wetter, Take it from me!

I played this game several times and never saw several of these creatures. I should stop sprinting through the abyss. lol

I think the WAU did not make these bodies as hosts for brain scans like it did with the mockingbirds but tlrather that it captured these fishes and creatures and imbued them with structure gel and pasted the human consciousnesses in them. The look the face in the anglerfish gives as the creature goes on the hunt is almost as if screaming and crying at the same time. I think the human consciousness are trapped inside them while the fish acts like it would normally do but more aggressively - like a reluctant passenger unable to move/speak/act while the creature does as it pleases.

The Anglerfish was such a big nope moment.

Straight up nightmare fuel!

It's very odd that the Leviathan can apparently fit perfectly through that tunnel after the heart of the WAU. Either it was adapted specifically for that or it's been merged with some sort of machine that was built for the tunnel.

Nice video :3

"Could we have your comment on SOMA fishes?" "Nononononononononono"

All the cractures with the grey faces look like they could be in Dark Souls

Those are some sick WoW enemies!

"I should play SOMA sometime.." My agoraphobia : "Nooo..no no no no no no no no. No."

Bro your content is exelent, can you do the outlast series monsters and enemies?

When the Human told the WAU to "preserve humanity", it just okay then process to put human features on everything.

As terrifying as it looks, i think that the future is bright for the earth in the Soma universe. It'll take more than a couple of years to save humanity. For now, i think WAU is in it's infancy, frantically saving as much of humanity as it can. It's like a peasant witnessing a rich man throwing bills out of his balcony. It's trying to catch them all, but most of them end up soggy in the rainwater of yesterday. Though, they'll eventually dry. They won't be the same ever again, but at least the peasant will have them. Basically, WAU is in panic collection mode while there are still souls to snatch and shelter. No matter the cost. In the later stages, i'm optimistic about it's continued efforts in it's pursuit of rescuing humanity. As you can see, it's trying to convert borderline alive human bodies into more suitable vessels to live in. However, it's borrowing them for soul collection. Think of it as replacing the planks of a ship until the original planks aren't there anymore. Will it still be the same ship? That's it's definition. These cyborg abominations are not finished. Humanity will be reborn in gods image, their god being WAU.

Awesome video! I really appreciate all the detail you give when examining the models On another note do you think you will be doing a video like this on Jin Yoshida? No rush at all mate , appreciate you👍🏻

WAU would run out of structure gel and the living ocean life would evolve into new forms, eventually maybe intelligent forms, and discover the dead apex species, humans, of the past.

where you get these from, dude? so cool being able to see the Soma monsters in HD & close up..

Big junji ito vibes

After watching all of your Soma model videos...I don't know how anyone can argue to keep the WAU alive considering what it does/how it does. Does it's small potential for fixing things make it's hellish actions in anyway justified?

there is no corruption within, its going and doing what have been told and instructed, its perfect with every sense

Why would the fish have human faces? Hell, do I even _want_ to know?

These fishes with human face in their bodies remind me of junji ito creature from "The Thing That Drifted Ashore" especially the Leviathan.

There's something about those blue little lights on the leviathian, they flicker when ever the screen glitches, same for Flesher, what's up with that?

The Leviathan is horrifying until it starts doing this 8:45 now I'm just dying of laughter.

I haven't seen the great white shark in the game. Was cut from the game? The only shark I did see what a hammerhead shark that was high up

I wonder why so many of these fish have human faces plastered on them

Whats the music around 4:10? Great vids btw, love this stuff

Those look like fist, at least.

dude I have never played SOMA how the hell did they decide making goo that changes stuff like (that) was a good idea?

Eels and angler fish are already so horrifying to look at, that adding faces and wires to them really doesn't change much. lol Just think, though. We always think about aliens coming to our planet and worry about them being monsters that would destroy or dominate us. Well, what do you think aliens in the Soma universe would do when they saw what the WAU, our creation, had been up to? They'd probably high-tail it out of there and nuke it from orbit.

i think my leviathan was meaty.. strange

Woah dude this is innsmouth backwards

Its a little weird the Gulping eel has faces, like why? Everything else looks so cool about it

Know whats kinda weird? I've only ever encountered the Anglerfish and the Leviathan. Never seen the other two (or, if I did, I didnt register them as threats).

Do the faces on the fish come from their prey? Are they result of the WAU trying to imitate humans? Or is it something different? Either way, horrifying to think about, and I’m kind of glad they left it up to the imagination.

A question in all of this, when you see human faces encased in animals. Are they real human beings and are they conscious? Or, is it the Wau implanting humaoid physical features somehow into other living creations simply becauseof its perverted understanding and drive to preserve humanity? I think it's the latter.

4:14 well fuck that i ain playing soma

Wonder what original species of the Leviathan could be?

Jin yoshida next?

I hate that the human faces move. Never noticed it.

What could the leviathan be??

This is some H R Giger shit.

Pease do Until Dawn

"As an asian i don't f-cking care about the fish shape, all i care is how to cook and eat it."