Fun fact: if you choose to replace leshy in act 2, he actually thanks you again during his final goodbye, happy you wanted to face him once more.

the final battle w leshy rlly got to me. the games ability to make me feel nostalgic for something that happened only hours ago

By sheer dumb luck I had a touch of death card on the table when he put down the moon. So 1 click followed by his "you really destroyed the moon" was pretty anticlimatic, but funny.

Grimora's version of Inscryption is underrated, it deserves its own separate Act

My favorite line was "why is the ferret talking shit to us?" That made me laugh pretty hard

I don't think when he took the moon he didn't care about the atmosphere anymore. I think it helped add to the atmosphere. It was easily defeated by most sigils, but only Leshy could be intimidating enough and badass enough to literally grab the moon.

What. The. Fuck. How does a game like this even get made? This is honestly without a doubt the most fascinating game I've ever seen, not to mention the actual gameplay itself looks fun as hell.

I feel like out of all the scribes, Leshy was the one to learn from his mistakes despite being the least ambitious. From the lore from the trader during act three, they deliberately state that a force beyond their comprehension is responsible for the scribes being such horrible people in certain situations. And out of all of them, leshy learned from his mistakes in the end. Grimora may have done them a mercy by deleting the game, but she just fed her own ego as the scribe of death in the end by gloating that she was the one to do it. Magnificus is shown to have not learned a thing by the goo mage's picture being whited out in the end, and P03 speaks for himself based on his horrid actions and the attempts to spread such a horrible disc for his own ego. In the end Leshy admires you for your perseverance and your ability to overcome him and the rest of the challenges you were faced by. In the end, he realized that while the game was important, it wasn't everything. And that speaks volumes about leshy's character compared to the others, especially if he improved while under the influence of the OLD_DATA.

3:04 "The title of a true warrior" **proceeds to name a card "Garfield"**

the "too fast, too soon" thing isn't because you didn't experience the mechanics properly. It's so you're forced to die. You aren't allowed to beat the angler or the trapper on your first attempt. Of course, you can anyways if you get a good enough deck, but that's entirely up to luck

Moral of the story? If you find a strange disk with mysterious powers in a forest,put it back where you found it and don't tell anyone about it

Been waiting for so long for a video like this, amazing work. Just one minor detail, Luke wasn't killed to retrieve the Inscryption disk, if that were the case they would've killed him upon their first interaction; Luke was killed because he saw the OLD_DATA, as the woodcarver pointed out, "To know it is to die". Another small detail, I know you didn't want to talk about the ARG, but according to some of the intel we've got from it, the Scrybes didn't "cut it close" when "killing" PO3, they outright failed, as they only disconnected the monitor, so to speak. PO3 was actually successful in uploading the game, which is how in-canon the game is up on Steam and we're able to play it, so to speak. The whole ARG lore is pretty confusing but there's a bunch of really important stuff there.

during the delete battle wish leshy, i remember throwing cards around at random. just hoping that it would change the outcome... leshy is my favorite scribe. hands down.

I find it funny that whilst the real Kaycee Hobbes died from ‘fire related complications’ the skeleton in act 2 was hit by a piece of falling ice - a direct opposite, possibly hinting that either it isn’t actually kaycee, or, more likely, the fire was a cover-up

Kaycee choosing Leshy to be the one in power is even more supported now by the beta just released called Kaycee's Mod, which is an endless mode for Leshy. Keeping the game and the Old_Data in stasis forever. Edit cause people keep saying: yes I know this is no longer a valid theory.

Playing against leshy in the end was sweet. In the face of death he just wants enjoy playing and remember the adventures you have shared together.

I think it's interesting that there's clearly 4 main mechanics in the game, Leshy has blood, Grimora bones, P03 battery and Magnificus has gemstones. In act 1, you play with blood and bones. And in act 3 you play with battery and gemstones. Almost a shame you didn't get to see the 2 other scribes in power

And each Scrybe represents a part of playing a game. Leshy was the simple mechanics with great story and roleplay. PO3 was the set of rules with a improvised story and strategy over everything else. Grimora was the "Fun never ends" type, since from what we see this is basically what she would do. And Magnificus was the complex mechanics with many sets of rules except without a story or over the top plays. Together they could make a perfect game for the Player, but because of their rivalry it never happened and never will

40:16 magnificus was using his goo mage. If you choose him at the end of act 2 he says "why must my pathetic goo mage always fail"? and when you talk to the angler in act 2 he tells you that he found the corrupted fish and beat the dredger, goo and kaycee. Goo also made a reference to this in act 1, saying that the angler beat him

The last battle against leshy makes you feel a hole in the chest. The music, the warm light and his last speech makes you feel nostalgic. Even after the OLD_DATA turned him into a sadistic psycho, he still cares about the game and enjoys playing it

I love how you can skip some of this simply by doing the puzzles earlier. You can miss so much by simply playing the game as intended.

I honestly hope they release like a dlc or continuation or just something that lets you play the games of the other scrybes, maybe depending on who you pick to replace at the start of act 2 will be who obtains the old data and who you have to play the game of, or, if you pick leshy, who you can play a continuation of

19:09 the instant shift from dead serious to "I don't give a fuck" is the funniest thing ever

One of my favorite mysterious with the Scrybes was the question of Magnificus' true goals, and you answered it perfectly. He was too greedy, and just as ambitious as the rest. Out of all of them, Leshy was the least ambitious, only desiring his cycle, his game, the craving for life and death and to perfect the cycle to last an eternity if he has to. But even so, every other Scrybe desired to break it so they banded together to put a stop to Leshy's cycle. But just because they helped you reset the game, it doesn't mean that any of their intentions, aside from Leshy, are less ambitious. Each one of them wants an extreme ultimatum and to use the power for their own purposes. They tried to collect the Old Data's fragment, only for the worst and most ambitious and developing Scrybe to obtain it. P03. Which leads me to talk about the rest of their motives. Starting with the two most clear ones, Grimora and P03. Grimora wants to end the cycle for good, and attempt to delete The Old Data so there would be no more power games, no more suffering, and to dispel this evil for good. This makes her incredibly extreme, but come from good intentions similarly to Leshy, but is still very ambitious as in the end she desires to destroy the game where as Leshy wants to play it forever. P03 however, is the opposite. He wants total domination, and to ascend beyond the confines of this game, uploading it and being the main Scrybe in all of them. He doesn't care what happens with the Old Data, he doesn't care what happens to the other Scrybes or the world. He just wants the perfect strategic card game, and for him to be in total control of it. Though he is even aware that in other versions, the other Scrybes will take over, it doesn't matter to him for as long as he is in charge in at least one game, he's won. This makes P03 the most ambitious of the Scrybes. He doesn't even cease a chance for this power the second Leshy lost in Act 1 and the cycle broke. He worked his Dredger overtime in hopes that he'd get it before any of the others. Had the other Scrybes not interfered in Act 3, P03's selfish actions would be the most catastrophic. Although... There is one individual who was overshadowed since the very beginning. Magnificus. No one really knows of his true intentions, or dares to speak of them. The only one with a theory is the Bridge Constructor who suspects his ambitious are so horrible that she shouldn't even think of it. However through his actions and powers, we can get a clear idea as to what he wants. Magnificus was the one with the plan, the one who knew how to break the cycle using his precognitive eyes to tell the future, and he orchestrated the events of the cycle being broken. Because of his knowledge, Magnificus was the most dangerous out of the Scrybes for if he was given more power, his ambitious, over the top and greedy nature would potentially allow him to surpass even P03 as the worst choice to be hegemon. Leshy knew this and made sure he was the most difficult to get to by locking him behind many puzzles. Though Magnificus was still many steps above Leshy, as he can communicate with the player to give him clues to break the cycle showing he is also telepathic if only a little bit. So with all of this power, he is overconfident in himself. He desires to mold and paint the world into his true vision, similar to Leshy. But to go beyond and achieve total dominance, similar to P03 by using the power of The Old Data to ensure another cycle where the game can either be destroyed, uploaded, or stuck in a loop can't possibly happen. He is no better than Leshy or P03 with how he treats his servants, he tortures them and expects them to become perfect duelists only for them to be destined to fall to the player in act 2 so he doesn't even respond to any of their victories as it doesn't matter. So judging by that we also know how he'd treat the player. He wants to mold them into the perfect duelist, and to create many possible duels that the likes of the Scrybes couldn't possibly comprehend. He wants to control the world, but AND make it the only world with no possible cycle. Had Grimora not delete Inscryption and Luke not choosing to see what is at the bottom of the game, Magnificus might have won in the next cycle, and might have took complete, omnipotent control. This ambition however, just like all those who came before him... lead to his downfall instead. He is ENRAGED by Luke not doing anything to prevent this, furious at the future he and Luke have to endure when they could have had the most incredible challenge possible with luck and strategy combining into a masterful array of colors and a whole world to themselves. But no... And so in his greed, in his anger, he challenged the player to a final duel before the canvas returns to blank. But, the unfortunate reality is that this malicious tyrant disguising as a wise old man will NEVER get the satisfaction he aches for, and will forever be overshadowed by the rest of the Scrybes. He can't even get a handshake because he doesn't even deserve one, for he is just as bad, if not worse, than P03. So it's only fitting for such a wolf in sheep's clothing to perish in a way such as this. Magnificus is no hero, no savior, no well respected master and sympathetic individual who recognizes his pupils for their true talent and colors. No.. He is only a tyrant in disguise, craving total omnipotence and control over the world of Inscryption. Someone who wishes to harness the power of The Old Data to both prevent another cycle where he is humiliated, and prevent the game from being uploaded, squandered, or deleted. He may seem like the most sensible, the most calm and the least willing to act, but only because of his poised domineer for behind the bushes, glare the eyes of a monster.

"In the end, we don't stand a chance" Incorrect, you can beat Leashy in act 1, you just need a scissor and a beast with 5 power. Ultimately, all this changes is that you get to become a *winner* early, and don't escape

Awesome video dude, would love a deep dive into the world of Daniel Mullin lore, or just a general overview. Keep up the good work!

I found Kaycee being the dead daughter in the video and one of Leshys human cards to be quite sad. But dang this game has so much jam packed action and lore in it

The ending of the game actually got me in the feels. I felt sad Magnificus didn't get to shake your hand

6:18 actually I'm pretty sure that only happens if you havent found enough secrets. If you havent solved enough puzzles or discovered enough things, he'll still do that even if you get the bar after 15 turns, and if you have found enough he'll let you beat each phase in one turn. He just doesnt want you to get to the end on your first couple of runs without solving all the puzzles you need to actually *win*.

I acted in this game and I think you know more about it than I do.

The bone Lord... A man you must prove your worth though the game... Sacrificing the black goat in the first... Acquiring the full orb in the second... And finding him in the third... This is all information you left out that I would love to know more about and why he is alive as well

This game is darker than I thought. Thanks for explaining everything!

19:06 it caught me of guard because he was so chill until then XD.

Here is the video connecting all of Daniel Mullins games together! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i62kh8ikr6fYoH0.html

Thank you for the time and effort spent capturing, narrating and editing.

The quality of this video is very good. Text is of an appropriate size and font for easy reading, your voice has the right volume and is easy to understand, and you manage to maintain the atmosphere of the game during your explanations. Keep this up, and you'll be going places.

I really love the way this video was composed and formatted. The way you created a list of questions that were implied to us as we played and then attempted to answer them and cross them off the list as we played the game. Great video! Thank you!

its worth pointing out that The Hex deals with similar themes of video game characters becoming self aware, and effecting non digital space. from this, i can assume that in the Daniel Mullinsverse something causes digital programs to gain sentience- is it perhaps the OLD_DATA? im not exactly sure, but it seems to me that Sado might be the main link between The Hex and Inscryption

Kaycee has been inscribed by Leshy, she was on one card that would sometimes appear in Act 1 when tou go on the point where you are given a cars from yours and past player's deaths

The little number of views this video has is unfair! I loved the way you kept a list and slowly answer them throughout the video. You can really see the amount of effort put into it. Great video. Keep the good work!

great video, i havent finished it yet, but im curious on if you talked about the flash-frame where she becomes like a top-hated woman right before shooting the guy, like a frame after the black bars appear

I think you might be entirely correct about everything you mentioned in terms of leshy being in power, and it can be further supported by the fact that the mod that they added is called kaycee's mod where you're permanently in leshy's cabin.

Thank you for this amazing run through! Very well made, very informative!

Really good lore explanation and i love the question format!

30:15 you can see when the upload stopped. 68%, meaning that the moment Leshy grabbed P03 the upload was at 69%. Nice.

It’s strange your channel has so little subscribers with so many views on this video it’s actually a shame you didn’t ask people to sub because you’ve deserve it. I look forward to seeing more content from you and like others said I would like to see more about Dan mullin lore (although i see you’re already plannning to in your description)

Kudos to you my friend, this is a really well made video. Thank you for making me love this game even more now.

This is a really good video dude! I was surprised when I was about to like it and there wasn't thousands of likes, it definitely deserves it though!

I've been curious about the pictures that you find around P03's gameboard after beating all the Uberbots. If you wonder around you'd find floating detailed pictures that I think might represent aspects of the game like pliers, goo, fish etc. Then there's also diary entries that P03 says that the Archivest must have kept around, I only found two of them but they were about El and Er (I think those were the names. I'm not 100% sure)

Great video. This game is absolutely mind-blowing

YOU ARE SO UNDERATED! I LOVE HOW YOU MAKE YOUR VIDEOS, ITS SO JUST AWESOME. But actually your amazing at this stuff!!

Thanks for this breakdown. I played the game but had so many questions and you pretty much answered them all. This was a great game and I wish there were more like it.

Your description of the first act is so vastly different to what I had experienced. I beat him on my 4th run. I had just unlocked the greater smoke, and already had the film roll. No ring, no wall paintings. No green man painting solutions, no victory cards, no static card.

I can't believe you forgot to mention the very important information that the slime's name is Goobert

Thxs!! I heard this guys talk about it on the Where do We Begin? Podcast and got curious! Then one of my favorite artists made an animatic for it and I just needed to know!! I kinda wanna draw my friends and I as cards now! ^-^

Clear, complete, enjoyable. Great video! Really good work

i always wondered if the bosses temporarily take control of leshy when he puts their masks on. dialogue from the fisher bot (or whatever he’s called) where he complains about not being a boss in act 3 implies that the characters retain their sentience, even while one of the scrybes is in control. at least, thats how i see it

Damn, I just realize that the let's play I've seen where the guy finished act 1 in litteraly only 3 runs without playing before is a fucking miracle

amazing video and the only one ive found that explains everything in detail

Bruh, you deserve so many more subscribers. Excellent video. Looking forward to seeing more of your stuff.

Ok so the bear thing and “going to fast” is just him saying you didn’t die enough to get past this point, it basically stops you from finishing act 1 without dying at least three times.

The world creation and story and characters in this game is incredible.

i used to love itsjustjorde´s little nightmare theory videos. this hase a the same vibe and i absolutly love it ! keep it going dude

This video is absolutely fantastic! Keep up the great work!

This game is so much more deep and unique than I thought it would be

Nice video :)) I really love this game and that Gnosia game too.

I love the “ and why is the ferret talking shit to us?”

Thank you for the video! I needed this explaining

Holy shit, this is so underrated. I watched all of this thinking you were really well-known because the quality is just so good. I wish people could see more of your stuff, it’s so good. Keep up all the amazing work.

‘magnificus’ means magnificent in Latin which is easy to guess but more than that, the word itself is constructed from ‘magnus’ (meaning ‘great’) and the adjectival suffix ‘-ficus’ which means bringing or making (related to the verb ‘faciō’ meaning ‘I make’ or ‘I do’). In other words: his name can literally mean ‘maker of great things’ which makes a lot of sense for a painter character. Another detail which is kind of a stretch - but which I think is cool anyway - is that the word ‘magnus’ is often heard in English in the phrase ‘magnum opus’ or ‘great work’ which really suits his obsession with creating perfect works of art.

you are so underrated this is great!

i always love games that breaks the 4th wall, and this is the number one game next to oneshot for me.

Great video, even though I was actually looking for something to tie in with the other games. One remark for the section at the end: Kaycee's actions as explained by you don't make much sense, do they? If she wanted to get rid of the evil old data, why not just destroy the floppy disk? Why make it findable? Like... does she want the Old_Data gone or not?

6:07 I don't think this was in the beta that testers were given to try the game before it was out officially

man, your voice is relaxing! looking forward to your future videos!

Very professional for a “small channel” will definitely stick around 🙃

P03: Wants to upload the game for everyone to play with GameFauna: Chaotic Evil, Kills innocence for Old data that Shouldn't even matter...

Wow, I totally didn’t put it together that whoever broke into Luke’s house was the one who left that note with the first cipher clue

the moon fight was funny since i had refundable squirrels from my totem and then an atter when he put down that moon it was just instant win. but act 3 man, such a slog

Oh my god this is amazing and mixed with bits of humor it is great

I don’t know if it was brought up but in the 3ed act you can find lost files that point to Kacey and Luke being related and Luke started his channel to distract himself from the grief. The one problem with these facts is that it contradict another fact. Luke called Kacey’s mom and she didn’t know him. Of course she could be faking it to try and not being up his repressed trauma or something darker but fact to fact they contradict each other.

i have a feeling something people have missed that would clear up abit of the confustion on things like "who is playing the game" with the arg ending showing p03 uploaded the game i wouldnt be surprised if he also uploaded all the info that luke had which results in us seeing his attempt there is also a strong theme of cycles in the game with us continuing the cycle of playing the game to the scribes passing around the OLD_DATA to gain control what if we the player are also joining that cycle we by playing the game just so happen to be mirroring the actions luke had done in the past just as p03 did what leshy probably has done and so on

Dang your channel is very underrated, new sub!

Bought my brother in law this game after having played it myself when it came out and reliving it through him has been great. I forgot how complex this game was and I’m hoping that now with his influence along with my own, we are able to convince my sister to play through it aswell lol. Awesome video game

What I don't get is why Kaycee would leave ANY clues as to where she'd left the disk. If she knew enough of what was on it to want to hide it in the first place, why undo all that by leaving the coords of where you hid the thing? I don't know about you guys, but if I don't want someone to find something I've hidden, I sure as hell wouldn't leave any indication of where said hidden thing was.

6:34 its funny because I skipped this forced death mechanic by accident on my second and third run. Combining pliers and knife you can win a round instantly, so the bears never attack. The game progresses normally, until the next boss also triggers this, which can, in turn, also be skipped. The game can be finished this way but you are stuck on act 1 loop 1 (pre-vision). I actually didnt know how to progress until I read I had to die on purpose.

Thank you for the beautifull explanation! I like the game even more now.

Wow I can tell your gonna become a popular KZfaqr in the future, great video

Hey man, thanks for the summary. I am surprised that you didn't touch on Ouroboros card, not only the name signifies the endless cycle of life and death, but the only card which has a perma-scaling and allow to break you the game. Not to mention the only non-talking card with no duplicate copies throughout the game (AFAIK) and even locked behind a puzzle in Act 3. As if someone put that card in order to get player cheat the game, breakout the cycle and get to the old data as fast as possible. You also didn't touch on the question, "What happens now that OLD_DATA has been accessed and unzipped'?

You can actualy beat Leshi in the "too fast" phase if you have a good enough deck ^^ (and get blesses for next parties)

I like that the game lies about Kaycees death too, in the crypt puzzle her death is hit by ice rather than in a fire. I loved this game, I legit thought it was just escaping from the cabin at first and then it kept going at an enthralling and good pace.

Archivist boss fight was easily one of my favorite moments in the entire game

There is a French KZfaqr [BobLennon] who killed leshy the first time in his first run. It’s only after we told him that he was supposed to die, that finished the game the way it was intented!

Grimora's game would have been really interesting. Sadly it ended.

playing against leshy in the end is sweet, as this will be both players final game with eachother as leshy and luke die in the end

This and the matpat videos are all you need.

I was instantly hooked when I saw this game. It’s more like an interactive film then a game which is not a bad thing. I mean look at earthbound.

The binary text in the video of a woman going to Luke's house, the code translates to "Amanda" if I recall, and she might've been the one who put down luke

It’s funny the sheer amount of effort grimora, Leshy, Magnificus put into their games while P03 copies the maps other bosses/cards and mechanics (Gems/Mox, Exoskeleton/Skeleton, The Overworld, Leshy’s Camera)

Thanks dude. I had the pieces, i just needed to put them together.