As someone who is disabled and sometimes is not able to speak for many reasons, it was very relieving to hear you just bark out “don’t fetishise my disability-?!” Because I feel like the game unintentionally made people see how WEIRD THAT SHIT FEELS.

out of all of the plot oddities, it bothers me the most that the game pretends a mute person wouldn't be able to communicate through sign language and writing 🧐

The ending honestly just reaks of deep bitterness, like Faris had already been so deep in the slump that he thought that nobody could pull him out of it and in turn giving off the message that no matter what you try, you cant change something or someone for the better, where he eventually lost all his passion and just ended up making soulless cash grabs. The game as a whole just feels like a geniune unanswered cry for help which was burried deep under bad jokes and trying to be edgy

"Don't fetishize my disability!" My favorite line.

I don't think the unpreventable tragedy is necessarily a bad ending, but it needed to be framed more as "the burden of responsibility for this shouldn't be placed on another kid's shoulders". There's some truth to that imo.

So, Gen Z humour is Audiological Trauma, it seems.

Like you said, I think this game should've just been a weird indie game with random humor than have it center around preventing a school shooter, or be respectful. Sure, it may not get people's attention as quickly, but long term respect is important, along with just thinking through what you make. If Faris wanted a random humor game, Chris could have just threatened MC with something ridiculous, like dropping a moon in 5 days. If Faris wanted a serious story, it could be about a kid who gets a premonition of the tragedy and decides to help Chris, feeling guilty about not helping someone until it's too late, and the question of if people helping for their own goals is really helping.

I just have to say: As someone who has psychogenic mutism (I can't speak in public, but can talk in circumstances where I feel comfortable), it's almost comical how the game implies that being unable to speak means you have literally NO other means of communication. I regularly write notes and use sign language to communicate, and I have almost no difficulty getting messages across to people, without having to say a single word. I'm sure Faris wanted to add 'tension' to the game by making it so you can't actually communicate your thoughts with others, but this was a pretty bizarre way to do it in my opinion, like he's never actually met a mute or deaf person in his life.

Im just kinda shocked that someone who seemed to have SOME chance of making good games ended up falling into the cash grab behavior of game devs. Honestly its kinda sad that this is all you see from them is some sick humor in a topic about something that people are genuinely affected by. This video is great, subbed and hope to see more good videos from you :-)

"DON'T FETISHIZE MY DISABILITY!" Legit made me chuckle

I wonder if the Protagonist being mute was supposed to be a meta commentary/riff on the "Silent Protagonist but still inexplicably everyone's closest friend and confidant" trope.

I just want to point out 1 very important detail. These dudes are Canadian. Obviously, anyone can understand why school shootings are bad. But here in Canada, they're not the threat they are in America. It's like serial killers. You know they exist, and you know they're bad, but the average person doesn't think about serial killers when they're going about their day. I feel like the developer forgot that school shootings are a very real thing people worry about.

Great video. Faris while is seen as a greedy just like his brother in a bad spotlight, he was entirely a different person back then. He seems genuinely cared and loved making game, although tired of no income or way to profit it off, they urgently choose this only option, mascot horror. Guess things can changed by each passing year. Maybe who knows, he could gone some bad crap back then and this is the only way he coped from it. Nice video, a good length of 20 minutes video and entertaining.

That little secret bit where you go left is just genuinely sweet... like he really did have good intentions just wasn't sure what direction to take. If he tried to remake it with a more respectful tone to it i might actually give it shot

This had potential to be a good game, I kinda like the visuals (without those annoying glitch effects) and the voice acting is decent. If only the creator had actual tact and didn’t just insert “lol random” humor. The writing sounds like something from a middleschooler, not a university student

Faris: "Yeah I was feeling sad, I wanted to make this passion project to help me vent and maybe help spread awareness and paint a picture of this serious topic." Also Faris: Adds the most incredibly inappropriate and unfunny stuff you could to a game that's suppose to be SERIOUS.

The "going left" segment at the end is genuinely a great touch. The visual is nice, and so is the message. Despite the glaring flaws of this game and how it portrays its message, this segment feels like it was made by a real person, someone who understands the hardships of life. Beautiful stuff. I love that.

This is sad, not just because the game is disrespectful, but because you can see that the brothers, or at least Faris had a chance to make good games. It's really disappointing to see them fall from what little grace they had. Introvert is a bad, disrespectful, unfunny game, but at least it was made with passion. It had a purpose. But they fell into the cash grab side of things, and it's sad to see. The only good part of Introvert is that message from Faris. It seems genuine, and it seems that he did want to talk and help. It's sad to see Faris, someone who had a chance to make good games, and was trying to be helpful but failed with Introvert, fall with his brother into cash grab and making more Banban games.

I am so pissed at how good this could have been. The visuals of the game are facinating, even if some of the glitch effects are hard on the eyes, the pixel art is smooth even if character designs are simple. The animation and music choice is lovely. If you break this down into components and only saw the visuals; Smooth pixel art with a little bit of an esoteric/I can't think of the word right now, but the sort of horror artstyle of the way the houses are? Visually, this game is wonderful And I am so pissed the visuals are wasted on this. I am of the belief that even when handling serious topics, humor can be included to some extent. But not to loudly have someone yell 'my ass itches'. Like, the teacher going 'blah blah blah' when you first meet Chris is subtle but funny! Making the player mute can also be interesting if the game gave you opportunities to try and communicate. Is your player mute because of a disability or because of trauma? Why do they not even try to communicate in sign language? Hell having a mute character in a school setting would be an awesome way to incorporate passing notes in class as a way to communicate and would make so much more sense that the teacher gets upset with you. Even some of the attempts at humor, such as the nonsense sounds the teacher makes when saying what the class project is? I can even explain that as the character tuning the teacher out. That's... distasteful sure, but it could be worse! Hell i have 0 issue with weird things like the corpse at the beginning just being there. Sometimes shit happens and thats fine. Whatever, it's a game it doesn't have to be 100% real all the time. But I am so so so upset that this talent was wasted not talking to someone about actual writing, about handling this topic with tact. About not having a chance to win despite it promising you that. And you don't even have to win every time. But don't pretend like we have a choice. Take your emotions and make them into art. The best kind of art comes from emotions.... but for the sake of you and your audience and for your mental health... never take personal games like this... and make it seem like there's no good to come out of it... The Beginners Guide comes to mind, a game made from emotion that doesn't have a happy ending.... but it has a hopeful one. It's only self destructive to take your emotions and frame them as hopeless. Anyway... good content, came here from the crooked man video, binging your whole channel now. I like your content and your voice is lovely to listen to. I hope you stick around a while.

How do you only have 1 subscriber? Your commentary, editing, and your explanations to all of this was so thought out and detailed, and spreads awareness of this whole situation perfectly.

When I first heard about this game, I wasn't sure if I should judge it harshly as I hadn't seen the game play. I considered maybe it was just a mentally ill near adult trying to cope with his mental health in a poor way. Now not only seeing the game but your in depth video it makes me feel sad as I think at one point he really did care and have a passion for making games but clearly he just fell down a hole of greed, it's a true shame. This was a wonderfully made video with stunning editing thank you for this I hope you continue to create videos in the future 😊

The Love Interest/werewolf arc is my favorite part of this otherwise terrible, unfunny, and insensitive experience. Especially before the shooting part. It honestly should've been it's own game. Faris could've made a bunch of the unnecessary goofiness into separate games, such as the "chase the hallway man" scene.

I don’t know why but knowing that Emma is killed in every ending just makes me really angry

The fact that I actually laughed at the “my ass itches” segment means either my sense of humor is terribly broken or I need to take a break from my stresses for the sake of my mental health. Could be both

this is the only video i could find covering this, and im very grateful for not only this, but also to get your channel recommended! your editing, scripting and pace is incredibly done, and i really want you to grew as a content creator for how much effort this has!! thank you for clarifying this game! its not good, not in the slightest, but it really shows how much Faris (and also Guepo) changed as a person after the attempts of doing hit games, and then succeeding with GoB. doing games are not easy, this is common sense, everything who has passion and thought behind it is hard to make. but doing something this risky requires attention and seriousness, which it didnt have... they wont learn from this as in recent events, but we still hope for the best

Here in Brazil, we are having a lot of recent problems about threats of School Shootings, it is freaking everyone out at the public schools and seeing a game treat it like THIS, hurts me.

10:43 this is the part where I started screaming internally (in the worst way possible), I like dark humour myself but fetishizing a disability is crossing the line.

This feels like a game that a 13-year-old would make after watching a leafyishere video about making fun of autistic kids

That last part is so peaceful, it's almost painful knowing the game it takes place in and how he seemingly stopped making passion projects in favor of money

I hate that this had a chance to be a beautiful game but in the end it was just sad to see…

I would have been so fucking down for Werewolf Girlfriend The Game, why isn't that it's own thing

So basically a fever dream of somebody deciding to make a game based off of their intrusive thoughts?

I find this game quite troublesome. Besides the fact that take an heavy subject and treats it in such poor taste. As an introvert it's quite weird that the dev thinks that introverts as shooters, fedora tippers types, the weird kids. We are normal people who just don't like to be around too many people and who like to be on our own more.

It feels like Faris tried to make 3 games at once, and 1 of the games horribly clashes with the other two, and you can probably guess which one that is.

The game isn't good but the "going left" section genuinely touched me, not in a bad way though. The lofi and reading "you’ve been strong for too long, it's time to let everything go, I'm here for you" just causes me to break into tears every time, it might be a personal thing though

Oof, sorry that the algorithm didn’t treat ya well.. you seem so down-to-earth and I’m genuinely surprised you don’t have many subscribers. Plus the video seems really well put together!! Just keep doing what you do, my guy

"It's a small universe I created to make my zone-out thoughts and stories a reality." If it had just been that, I think it would've been neat. The surreal things, like the hallman, and the teacher being some abomination that asks you to shoot him, I kinda like those parts. I think a big mistake was labelling it a "teenager simulator". It's got an identity crisis going on. Maybe there should've been two games, or two modes in the same game. One with the real stuff, and one with the bizarre stuff. Also... it kinda makes sense to me that befriending Chris didn't work? He was already troubled. Being a friend under duress isn't going to fix him.

Well, he listed the most important feature of the game at the very least. (A turtle in the school.) Also, I try not to speak on serious subjects unless I've experienced them myself, but a guy called "Mr. Fracking Shit" coming into your class to repeatedly say "my ass itches" is just wrong when the premise of your game is about a school shooting. Also also, I could not type "Mr. Fracking Shit" or "my ass itches" with a straight face at any point while writing this comment.

Dude your gonna get your time to shine with the algorithm, trust me. This videos good, the editing is immaculate, your voice is calming, your art stills are good, nice music. You got this 😊

This feels less like someone trying to make a serious game and more like watching a person's mind visibly and audibly experience psychological horror and horrific mental anguish while they try to wrangle with all the shit going on in their mind and honestly checks out that way from his description. At 14:48 I really do feel like this is just a part of him at the time of making this wanting to release a lot of painful thoughts. I could say a lot about how it's definitely caused by how going through school while around the age of 19 is emotionally taxing and stressful as shit and talk a lot about how I feel like mental health is criminally neglected by society, but for now I'll keep it at this.

Oh man, glad to find a video explaining the whole ordeal with this game. Wishing you nothing but success with this channel!

The youtube algorithm is starting to love smaller creators, thank god we get to see all this great content from underrated creators

"Because you're mute, you can't express anything." Ah yes, I forgot that anyone who experiences any type of mutism can't write or sign and also look like Frisk from Undertale. I hate seeing disabilities portrayed like this. They're disabling, but we have ways to make them less so…

The fact that “humor” is even something that was considered in a game with subject matter like this is disgusting. In fact this shouldn’t even be referred to as a game. Because games are supposed to be enjoyable in anyway. Their is nothing enjoyable about something that effects thousands of families everyday.

This is actually a very interesting-looking peek into Faris' psyche at the time of making this game. It's obvious that, while his efforts were misplaced, he was just trying to make a game to comfort people in a dark mental state like himself, by making a game that he thought would help comfort HIM. Don't get me wrong, he did it awfully, but I can see why that is. It kind of reminds me of Sonichu in a way, similar to how it was a testament to Chris Chan's own constant power trip.

The turtle was a weirdly interesting detail for me, considering that at my high school, we had a tortoise who was owned by one of the science teachers and he would wander around, kids would always be bringing him back to the teacher's room. Really had me wondering if it was someone who went to my HS

"I'm beginning to think my count may have been off." *Chris draws a gun* "My count was off." This single moment of the video was funnier than anything in the game.

Personally, I took the friend ending to mean that the narrative of "Well, the shooter wouldn't have done it if he had a friend!" is false. That blaming the classmates is not the answer. The problem that needs to be solved isn't forcing friends on people, or those weird assembly group things where they force us to 'make friends'. It's mental health. It's access to guns. It's making sure the individual gets the help they need, NONE of which is the responsibility of their classmates. You cannot blame the classmates for not "being nice" to the shooter. You cannot blame the victims who had done nothing to deserve this. Maybe I'm looking too deeply, or having more hope for the games message than I should be. But that was what I got from the ending presented.

honestly, i feel like the game would be much better without all of the 2017 humor within it. if you're going to make a game about school shootings, you should actually make an effort to potray the absolute fear and bloodshed that happens during these attacks - not "haha funni t-pose random xd!!!"

I think the idea that the school shooting couldn't actually be stopped could have worked, but obviously it wasn't handled correctly. None of this was. If this concept was handled better, it could be about... ok see this is really complicated and nuanced. *Not* that some people are inherently evil, your actions don't matter, or anything awful like that. But that sometimes you can't do anything, sometimes you can't fix someone. Sometimes it's not your responsibility, or your fault. Sometimes it was already too late, sometimes the help they need isn't something you could provide. And maybe you made an impact, but it just wasn't enough. But your efforts still mean something, your kindness still means something. Just remember kindness to yourself, too Although I think this lesson would be better told not by a school shooting story, but by a story about abuse. Because that's what I'm really thinking about. That's how I learned this lesson, multiple times over. Because I've tried to fix my abusers so many times and I know how that goes. It doesn't go well. That being said, I've met people who've done messed up things in the past, and have genuinely grown past it, too. And that's why it's important to balance giving people a chance and keeping yourself safe

I hate how the game looks genuinely really good and even somewhat high effort, especially for just a university student. Sucks that BanBan is what he led onto make.

Honestly, your Audio and commentary sound so professional and calming, I really love your voice. I was really surprised when I saw that you're so underrated.

To be honest the love interest ending is kinda funny how she was really a werewolf

As stupid as it is I actually really liked the werewolf thing, in any other game it could be an interesting metaphor. She’s isolated by people thinking she weird/monstrous in someway but also on display via the bullies and the school shooter kid in different ways with violence and distant fixation respectively. The wolf transformation being her embracing that perception of herself for her own advantage for a short time.

There were so many "WHAT THE F#@K" moments that happened as I watched what you showcased from the game. I cannot believe this was even an idea to begin with. Not only was this game utterly nonsensical, but extremely insensitive to almost the point of mockery. EB should no longer be making games if they are constantly putting out works of trash, whether they have deeper meanings to them or not.

15:49 the fact that the game just keeps going after this is possibly the most astonishing thing of all to me

It's sad that this game genuinely had the potential to deliver a strong message about bullying, school shootings, and mental health. The art style is unique, the music is fitting, and the concept of our decisions having consequences in a scenario like this is good. But its disappointing that Faris just couldn't take it seriously enough to produce something meaningful.

Somebody on TheBadd3st's review of this game commented this, but even shows like South Park, where pretty much nothing is safe from being made fun of or mocked, handled the topic of school shootings with more respect than this game did.

Fair warning, this is going to be a long comment. This somewhat reminds me of the game someone made called “V-Tech rampage” where you play as the shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, and have to go around killing people. Obviously this is a little different as it seems that this game is genuinely trying to come from a good place (even though it absolutely missed the mark with that) while rampage was just mocking a horrible tragedy made by a completely indifferent developer (he defends it by saying it’s free speech). I go to Virginia Tech where one of the biggest mass shooting occured on April 16, 2007 and what “V-tech rampage” was “inspired” by and practically recreated. The Remembrance Day for the 32 people lost is actually today as I’m writing this. It has greatly affected the school and it’s community. I know people who have been directly affected by the shooting despite it being 16 years after it happened. Those people lost their siblings and friends. The entire community comes together to remember those precious lives lost that day. There’s a candlelight vigil, a wreath laying at the memorial with a moment of silence and a 5k (3.2 for the 32) with 32 seconds of silence before it. Normally with moments of silence there will be some people whispering (at least in my experiences) however once those signs went up and people said shh, you could hear a pin drop. If that doesn’t go to show how much this affects people and how serious of a topic it is, I don’t know what will. If you can’t really grasp the concept of how many victims and precious lives died that day, here are the names of all the victims which really makes you realize how many 32 lives actually is: Nicole White, Maxine Turner, Leslie Sherman, Waleed Mohamed Shaalan, Reema Samaha, Mary Karen Read, Julia Pryde, Michael Pohle Jr., Erin Nichole Peterson, Daniel Perez Cueva, Minal Panchal, Juan Ortiz, Daniel O'Neil, Lauren McCain, Partahi Lumbantoruan, G. V. Loganathan, Liviu Librescu, Henry Lee, Matthew La Porte, Jarrett Lane, Emily Hilscher, Rachael Elizabeth Hill, Jeremy Herbstritt, Caitlin Hammaren, Matthew Gwaltney, Kevin Granata, Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, and Austin Cloyd. These people were professors, students, parents, and friends to others and their lives were wrongly taken from them. One of them, Liviu Librescu, was a professor who was also a holocaust survivor (the shooting happened on the same day as the holocaust remembrance but was not specifically a hate crime as the shooter targeted anyone and everyone). If you are going to make a game about a school shooting, you have to be sensitive as this is an incredibly real topic that is traumatic and changes people’s lives. I don’t know if “V-Tech rampage” is still up but I remember the creator also saying he’ll take it down if people pay enough for him to. I’m pretty sure he at least didn’t get any money. Sorry again, I know this is a long comment but as someone who not only has younger siblings in elementary-highschool who worries about them but also as someone who goes to VT where the massive shooting happened, this is a serious topic that I’m personally very passionate about. Just please, if you are really thinking about making a game about school shootings be sensitive. These are real people’s lives; there are parents, siblings, friends who have lost someone that they will never get back all because of a horrible monster of a person with a gun and no regard for human lives. This a great video that handles this topic well and the severity of it. Thank you and keep making great videos like this :)

Sir your word choice and maturity makes it feel weird to know that you're a 19-yo and the same age as me, you give out a lot of meaningful insights in a really well structured manner. I'm so glad youtube just decided to recommend this to me today

You seem like such a thoughtful and deep person. Honestly, a game like this seems more like a waste of your personal talents. You're quite good at editing and structuring your commentary and putting your thoughts out in a critical, but still respectful and positive way. Also, I'm not insulting the game. It's obvious the intentions were good. It simply wasn't handled in the right way. Hell, even then, a game probably isn't the best medium for subjects like this. But I respect his attempt, as bad or insensitive as it may have come off. (Also I subscribed, I need more thought-provoking commentary in my life and you definitely deserve more than what you have with this kind of effort)

thanks for playing this - honestly was curious to what it genuinely was like. now i see its even worse than i thought lmao fire vid, very underrated

I think it might be an issue of framing. A little bit back this year a kid at my school ceased their own life (didn't know the fella, nothing I could've done). I could make some raw, brutal art on my thoughts about the seemingly ubiquitous teenager desire to not live, and how repulsive it is that the news felt so expected, effectively normal to hear. Or I could try and make something more composed, something that touches on my feelings but ultimately has a message and themes and some sort of resolution or advice. I think this is an scenario of making some wacky, brutal raw art in a dark place and it failing to meet a standard it probably shouldn't be held to. Also note: it's fine to have humor in a game that deals with terrible stuff. Whether it's to help you get through it or to make it even more impactful, you can do that. The actual terrible tragedies should utterly shatter any comedic tones, but you can have art that deals with heavy stuff, while also having humor in it and I personally find adding some lighter elements to be a great move. Got to have some contrast at least.

I saw you by chance, and the quality of this video is amazing in terms of presentation and pacing that matches channels with a huge audience Hope you get more subscribers :)

I think this game has raised awareness about wolf poaching.

I didn’t realize this was a new small channel. Your editing and your commentary is extremely good.

How do you not have more subscribers? Your comentary and scripts are great, your art is beautiful and your editing is really nice. Love your vids.

I am also a 19 yo game dev. I study game developing in uni. the thing with this game is that i noticed how similar the humour is with some of my own classmates. It's the "I'm not required to be mature enough for my age" mentality many of these people have because they've been spoiled all their life. They will eventually learn that some topics have a certain approach you need to follow, or else you will fail in your career. These people really need a wake up call (like this video) to realise that the world doesn't share the same humor as them.

This is your first video?! Holly crap this is amazing! Also someone named Dominic unmber made a video on how to get all of the fedoras.

Easily became a new fave KZfaqr for sure! Love your commentary and your use of nostalgic Hotel Dusk music! Keep up the awesome work!

Holy crap That game's art style was immediately familiar to me and it turns out it was from this channel called “Midnight Duck” which I used to watch, it basically just animated two sentence horror stories, Pretty crazy.

this game feels like a knock knock joke that ends with everyone in a car crash

i feel like if this game would be way better if they either removed the humor or the school shooting

Goddamn this game depicts ableism really weirdly. First we get the fetishizing of the disability, then we get Emma treating the protag as if he's incapable of communication/emotional expression at all...? Just rubs me the wrong way to begin with. The messages and execution were already bad enough, but by slapping that in there and not really doing anything with it, I'm really unsure if there was some kinda message supposed to be said there, or if the dev genuinely believes some of these things/just wanted an excuse to get around plot points like saying anything when mute people definitely have methods of communication? It just doesn't make any sense to me at all.

The chase scene in the hallways where you get lost was a really cool idea and better than anything in banban but why the hell did he put that in the game? he put more effort into the weird chases and creepy stuff and spent a few minutes on the dialogue. But hey! that's probably more effort than what he put into banban!

This channel deserves more subs it feels like a fever dream only seeing 70 on a lot

I remember my friend once said that his entire class including the teacher thought that he had bring a gun to class on an exposition day, he brought a old grinder machine or something. They all thought that just cause he was shy

The worst part about this is the fact the the visuals and aesthetics of this game are actually pretty good. I feel like this could have become a cult classic if Faris covered the topic in a better way.

reminds me of that one indie game, kindergarten. it’s doing the whole multiple endings thing along with random humor but it’s actually trying to actually spread awareness on serious stuff and just fumbles. i like the idea of having every ending being the bad ending while saying that there’s a good ending (honestly that would be a really good twist in a horror game) but using a topic like school shootings for it really just shows how bad the whole serious part is.

The Hallman sequence is just lifted from another one of their games called swallow the blue.

As an introvert when I was a teenager I too totally committed school shootings when I didn't make friends and not just stayed at home playing video games because I was afraid of talking to new people.

I really enjoy this video. Thank you so much, and very high quality!! :3 I am happy to show my friends this

I know basically nothing about Ganban or the Euphoric Brothers or whatever, but I was a bit intrigued by the title and thumbnail, and gotta say, you have a very wonderful and relaxing presentation style that's very refreshing to see and hear.

A little late here. When I learned Banban was by Euphoric Brothers I'd been hoping someone would cover their other games as they're very interesting, though I've only played one and not this one, which I avoided due to...well. Haven't watched yet so I'm interested to see how it goes. Edit: Oh my god

I've watched this video like 4-5 times now, because It's just so goddamn good. And to think you had one subscriber when you released this, time flies. i hope you'll keep the same quality for your future videos, because you do have a ton of potential.

My initial thoughts went from: “Ok, this game could be kinda icky, but I’ll keep an open mind!” to, “Wow…half of this game doesn’t make any sense, let alone it’s poor handling of such a heavy topic!” To, “Uhh….what is this even meant to be!?” But, after seeing that “secret” at the end, with the message from the dev, I can’t help but feel sorry for Faris. That doesn’t excuse the ickyness of the game, but I think I can understand how Faris might’ve been feeling! I’m sad he felt that he had to go into the mascot horror sub genre and possibly abandon his passion projects just because he had to make money! Regardless of what anyone thinks of Garten of Ban Ban, or mascot horror as a whole, I hope Faris and the euphoric brothers can eventually find their voice, and whatever happens with them in the future, I wish them nothing but the best!💖💖💖

I think that "weird picture" in the ending is a heavily edited Jerma985

That sneaky "dm me" and the colors of the banner (as well as euphoria being the opposite of dysphoria) is all you need to gather to see what are the intents. No wonder they make baby games now, it's an easier target.

17:31 I was told that was an image of a streamer called tyler1, probably put there to be funny or something. :/

After the Don't Escape video and this, I'm putting notifs on, love the videos.

on the one hand, faris was young, and probably struggling with mental illness and other issues. those two factors can really warp your perception of the world, of serious topics, etc. but then, on the other hand... i'm young (17). i'm mentally ill. i would have the sense not to do something like this. additionally, with no intention to defend the game, i _do_ understand why he made it. some people have pointed out it was likely a cry for help, and honestly i've done similar shit before, but the stuff i was doing was writing vague poetry and showing my friends to try and communicate something i was too afraid to say outright. what faris did was make a game that poorly handled its subject matter, and while artistically inspired it was grossly offensive. i understand why, but he should've known better. i don't think people would be quite as mad if he could demonstrate he's matured in the past couple of years, but his and guepo's twitter account is really doing them no favours. i do hope they both eventually learn from all of this, because this game (while not good) shows a lot of potential for what they could make in the future, if only they'd put in the effort.

this channel grew so quickly. ive been here since 10 subs.

I don’t get why being mute is something that prevents him from communicating when he could just know ASL or have an interpreter or something, it just feels like a cop out to not have to write dialogue options into the game

Damnnnnn, over a year since this channel, u r amazing Ben hope u get more views and more success.

I feel like the protagonist in this game has wildly advanced, undiagnosed schizophrenia. It's the only way to explain how insane everything is.

Not including an ending that actually different depending on how you treat your classmate is what made this game fail. Because you didn't even get to count as a friend.

Honestly this game reads off as someone who wants to talk about heavy subjects but is so uncomfortable they add humor to soften the blow. Id talked to people like that. People who have a lot going on upstairs and dont know how to talk about it so they make self depreciating jokes. Or people who have a hard time comforting people so they make jokes. It feels like the creator had good intentions but didnt know how to go about it so they cracked a joke. The issue is, just like anxiety laughing at a funeral, unless people can read your mind it comes off disrespectful and leaves people with a bad taste in their mouths

IS THIS GENUINELY THIS CHANNELS FIRST VIDEO? Omg this is made so well! So glad i clicked on this despite knowing anything about the game or this channel.

This video was very well made! I'm subbing instantly!

I thought I recognized the voice of Ben (the bully) the second I heard it, but I wasn't expecting to ACTUALLY be right when I looked up the cast. The two of us were recurring scene partners in a decently popular audio drama. I don't even know what to DO with this information, you've indirectly cursed me with knowledge. I feel kinda awful on their behalf, that their name is tied to something so disrespectful in the many ways that it is (I'm disabled myself so the way that's treated in the game was a huge yikes to see). They've probably forgotten about it by now, and I know they were just on that grind and hopefully getting that bread too, but mannnn I just *really* wish this game was something one could be proud of having been involved with.