"Dead kiddos aside"

8:21 "Even though they were unharmed..." Well, ONE of them was certainly harmed. You can see all the others keep chasing the boy but one is dead, or at least stunned.

The actual one in control is us the player, making us truly "Inside" the game itself. What a great concept and ambitious yet ambiguous title. Playdead really does existential storytelling right! Great video absolutely!

I started following because I loved your Soma narrative, now I'm kind of sort of hooked to your voice. I mean that in the least creepy way possible. Thanks for the ... good.. voice? Yes, that. 😊

I got 7 mins in and shut the video off. I was way too into it and then realized I’m dumb and i will be spoiling the entire game for myself if i keep watching. I played limbo and i loved it. I havent heard of this game but now i need to pick it up. Ill be looking forward to watching this video all the way through after i beat it :)

on thing I wish more people talked about in the visuals of inside is the animations! Its really interesting how if you look at how the boy is animated, you can really see him being manipulated. like when he jumps, he's almost surprised that his body is acting this way. I think he is conscious in some way when you compare the way he acts compared to the automatons. makes the secret ending kinda nice, he's free from our control as players :)

Well made video ! Your theories are very interesting and I love the fact that you don't dismiss any other ideas as being "wrong". I never made the parallel between the forest at the beginning and the fake one in sector 2! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and helping us making our own!

One other little Easter egg - In the director's office, you can spare the person. If you wait long enough, he will slide to the side and escape.

Three observations, an alternative interpretation, and a cipher: 1. Women are rare at the start of the game; Only one or two among the sleepwalkers, one or two among the observers (with what looks like family). There are none outside the city (unless you count the 'mermaids', if they have a gender). At the end, among the scientists, engineers, and office workers, there are no women. 2. The Boy, and so the blob, has no empathy or compassion. With the way The Boy attracts animals to gather around himself, I started to call him 'Wonder-child! Friend of all nature!' but while my reaction to the animals and people was one of empathy, the child himself did not care for them. 3. The art of Inside has a similar effect on me as the art of Simon Stalenhag: A sort of attentive calm and eeriness. They also have common elements: namely that of odd technology and nature, and everyone acting as if this is normal. But the art has a different purpose. Stalenhag is more neutral in tone, Inside is more critical. I think the main theme in Inside is nature and technology. Or perhaps natural vs built environments. At the start we are in a seemingly natural place with technology inside it. We then see animals, chicks, and then we see a farm, for the use of animals. Later we go through a broken, dilapidated, and flooded place. Far down inside it we find animals ‘making do’ in the braking environment. A built environment is a sort of technology we use for living. Technology is commonly seen as a means to an end, an instrument. But a lot of technology that we make requires human use, and so, to make sure that humans use things in the right way, humans have to be treated in some part as an instrument, a means to an end. So a feedback loop is made. Humans and other animals can become technology for technology. While there do seem to be classes, those who are mind controlled and those who are not, the higher ups seem to be enmeshed in a dystopian flavoured bureaucracy. Everyone is ‘inside’. Everything, including the final area, is built. (I don’t think that the story was an organised conspiracy. Too many died. They probably had a model of a new area because they had just built an area. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the workers were helping during the escape because they wanted to help and some wanted to herd.) This is a game running on a computer. Everything it it is artificial and made by technology four the end of our entertainment, thus the machine in the secret ending There is one other interesting thing that people have found. You noticed numbers in various areas. As it turned out they make a Polybius Square cipher. It reads: “pity this busy monster manunkind” which is a title of a poem by E. E. Cummings. In full the poem goes: pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness --- electrons deify one razorblade into a mountainrange; lenses extend unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish returns on its unself. A world of made is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this fine specimen of hypermagical ultraomnipotence. We doctors know a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go

You should look into Rule of Rose...I think you’d find that games lore interesting.

Your analysis of games/Lore are my absolute favorites! I've been binge watching your channel. Keep it up ^^!

I love you stuff dude, keep it up! Also, you probably get this a lot, but you sound like Rod Serling, the Narrator from the Twilight Zone, which makes each video nice to listen too.

I somehow thought you didn't curse in your videos... I'm amused that you do.

This is such a good video it's so calm and depressing I put it on before I sleep

Bravo! Interesting, relaxing to listen to, hilarious, and does the game justice.

Honestly these videos and this channel are as criminally underrated as these games.

Truely one of the most beautiful examinations of video game I have ever seen. You deserve so many more views.

Dude, I first found you channel through your EXECELLENT Bioshick vids, and wanted to wait until I played INSIDE to watch this one. Your voice and tone are perfect

The scene the monster dies on is a scene already created in a room, almost like the control over the outcome you thought you had was an illusion, and you were never free from the plan. I think that illusion of choice coupled with the idea of gamers being the ones who are making these illusionary choices, was the point

You videos are so good! Your channel really needs a boost, as there are so many games channels out there and very view of such high quality.

I love your videos. Your voice is very soothing.

8:30 sometimes a chick does die when using the mechanism.

I honestly don’t think I can appreciate game commentary any more than I appreciate yours. Top notch

Amazing job with this video man! Keep up the good work

Hey Gameological Dig, would you ever do a Let's Play of SOMA? It would awesome! Your voice is fun to listen to.

This was great, best analysis I've seen so far,

I haven't watched it yet, but It'll be a masterpiece of a KZfaq video. I'm sure.

Best analysis of inside I've seen.

Your interpretation of Inside's narrative/theme is very similar to mine. In fact, it might just be exactly the same as mine. As far as what Playdead intended with this game, I think you're right. It's been, what, a few years? And people are still not entirely sure what to make of what it all means, and they're still talking about it as though they will find the "truth." Looking at myself, it's certainly part of what's kept me so fascinated by the game for so long. I've played it through maybe three times, trying to glean different things from it each time, including what the secret/true ending means in the context of the rest of the game, and I'm still entrenched in trying to discover what it all means. Excellent video. I'm glad you took the time to put this together.

Just found your channel! Very nice content. Thoroughly enjoyed this video on one of my recent favorites: INSIDE. Have you considered making a video on Bloodborne? A game with a very convulted story and message. One of my all time favorite games and lores.

i enjoy your content very much, please keep up the amazing quality and i would love to know what you think of little nightmares and the dlc, your soma series was awesome and helped point out things i missed when i played

Finally a good review of this game. Thank you

Loved it ., I hope u do more

Another excellent video from you. Thank you Vincent! :)

Damn I wish you were still making videos. Your SOMA videos were S tier. I read that Inside could be a story about the meat industry, how animals are used as commodities like how we see people being packed and shipping on the trains (holocaust visuals?) in Inside. Limbo was, well, Limbo seeing as we come back to the sister and her probable grave at the end, from I think falling out of the treehouse? Or … being pushed…. I don’t remember that game, or the other. I haven’t played them in many many years. Might be time for a replay.

8:19 I hated the puzzles that required me to exploit living beings, especially the animals. I don’t know if you noticed, one of those poor little chicks actually does die when they all fall down, one stops moving. 🐤☠️🥺😥

Another awesome video. I will be frank and say this, you are perhaps the only KZfaqr of whose videos I have all watched and watched in full. Furthermore, your theory-crafting and implication that your own views might be wrong or right in regards to this game speaks to an integrity and acknowledgement of your own faults, (at least in this regard of theory-crafting), that one rarely finds in the world today. Overall, I enjoyed this video, and encourage you to make more lore-based videos, theory-based videos, and critical game reviews. They are all enjoyable and of a regard that I consider reputable and credible.

This was a great video, enough for me to donate to you on patreon in fact! You did seem to miss one important link however - the test cubicles you find in Sector 5, rectangular and covered in glass windows on their sides, have flooded varients found in Sector 2 (seen in-video at 19:42 during the light-adverse mermaid section), indicating that not just the occulus building, but the entire facility of sector five is the second time they have built this place. One wonders whether the flooding of the First Facility was a disaster unrelated, or the result of another catastrophic failure like the one you orchestrate at the end of the game - except even more so than anything your character acheives of course.

Great videos, I can't wait until your next Dishonored video

I just finished this game lol it is amazing and you explain it very well

Great analysis, i mean this is truly insightful, i understood why i loved this game so much, thank you!

My idea why the malformed sleepwakers exist is due to over injection of those parasytes. They might be the huddle prototype's or apeepwalkers prepped for being added to the huddle

Absolutely wonderful art game.

I watched a lot of INSIDE review/analysis and yours is one of the most complex and interesting. Thank you. btw I got a question, in all the game we can see a "traffic sign" with the U letter on it, at first I just though it was a traffic signal, but then it appears in places which is like ridiculous to be there. What that could possibly mean? U from "you", or maybe "turn around, turn back", is just a little observation but maybe has some meaning.

Outstanding review.

Excellent theory. Awesome game.

Brilliant Game, excellent commentary

Looking at the "Secret Ending" my thinking is that it's not just about ladders of controll- it's far more about player control. Without your choices as an outside influence the world would be doing nothing- it would be left inactive. The rampage, in my opinion, is a "reward" for the player, reward for the "brain of the character"- you are attached to a powerhouse and let loose around the "Evil Lair".

I would go even further and say that even the player is not in control but the developers of the game is. Inside is a masterfuly crafted and polished game which captures your mind and strings you the player along. The child is controlled by the player and the player is controlled by the developer.

This should have a million views.

I never noticed the chicks going into the machine. I thought there was maybe some already inside it, or it generated them. And to think that was the only cute and lighthearted part of the game.

Great take on the game.

To what I have come to understand inside is a metamodernism art peice where the meaning is in the eye of the beholder.

I was unfamiliar with your channel until this video and truth be told, I had to check my playback speed. Good video though!

LMAO! You missed him getting chopped up in the fans and entrails flowing!!!

As usual an extreme good video :3 I love these deep mysteries, i loved how you deconstructed dishonered. I wish you could deconstruct more complex games, youre very heavily going for linear games. Mh, thief already has been talked about in every aspect possible, so how about OMG would you try system shock 2? System shock has some extreme lore behind it...

New to the channel and really enjoying everything so far, new sub for sure, I haven't finished this yet but wanted to comment before I forgot, did you realise that 08:28 one of the baby chicks does actually die... it isn't obvious but it kind of adds to how little it affects you as a player

Such a stunning game

you should look into doing a lore series of Prey, I think it's right up your alley

A very interesting video of a game that isn't my style in terms of playing, but is definitely my style in terms of watching and analyzing. I was wondering if you would cover this game, as it seems like a game that fits this channel's goal quite well. I think this might be one of the your best videos so far, but it's hard to say. One of my personal favorites of yours though. I don't have much to say about this game, especially not as much as your previous videos, but I do think your theories are the most likely I have heard overall. I also remember one thing from Joseph Anderson, another excellent youtuber, and how he mentioned that some games, like Inside, Limbo, and Little Nightmares, use their vagueness to create an experience that is unique to the individual who plays the game. Each player will have their own feelings and emotions they take out, and can use that to form a theory. This concept highly supports your statement that uncertainty is the whole point of the experience. That uncertainty lets it be unique to the individual who plays. The only problem with this concept is that it makes the whole "Headcannon" Analysis theories even more valid, even if they are more unusual or strange then the more common ideas. It's a point to consider if you do more games like Inside on this channel. Realizing a game is creating an experience for the player, that they can take their own interpretation from, can help building your own theory as well as analyzing the game.

Hope you take all the time you need if you do, but please do a video on Death of the outsider.

that rocky seaside model is a picture of where he ended up, why? because its a picture of their laboratory! they have an underground lab for who knows how long, they might want to teach their children what the outside looks like.Or maybe for recreational, to keep the doctors "sane".

I like the indictment interpretation.

Inside for me is a commentary on social parasitism and a critique of technological "progress". Now they're making their new project, it'll be a masterpiece, let's see what they want to tell us in the next game.

This is still excellent.

Was that the South Park Cash 4 Gold music at the beginning?

It is also one of the most beautiful games I have ever seen...

underated video

I love your vids man ever thought of doing podcast type vids?

How the fuck you don't have more subs!?!? Your stuff is goooood

BRO PLAYDEAD IS AMAZING. I LOVE PAYDEAD MORE THAN GOD. THAT IS IT

31:20 if you wait this guy will hide. The same with some other people, if you let them escape they will survive.

Great vid, really helped me to sort through my own thoughts on this game. On the subject of mind control parasites and pigs, there's a film called 'Upstream Color' that I think you'd find interesting. Its story is much smaller in scope than Inside's, but it explores similar themes of control and in my opinion has far more to say about the nature of it. I'd wager the developers drew a lot of inspiration from it, at least as a starting point.

Quick question, have you ever played any of the Metal Gear games?

In almost every puzzle you successfully complete something or one entity dies in sacrifice. You mention the chicks...... One chick lays dead after you do the puzzle. The human drones also. One dies on basically every puzzle and even the alternative ending.

If the artificial forest is section 2, I think the first forest is section 1, which is also artificial. Which ties into the end of the game. Saying that you’re always inside. You think you’re on a beach, but your on your couch playing a game (inside).

I love your theory, but doesn't the early shot of the van make an implication that the people grown in pods don't come out zombfied. The van then has to travel through a farm site which grows the worms. I agree that the second site was abandoned, perhaps because the clones seem to be drawn toward their controller the facility found it harder to draw the clones away into a worm farm and so had to build another facility which drew the clones through a farm on their way to to the controller. It's not a big point but it does make a few implications, first that the child you control is always seen within the facility and secondly therefore that as the child had to break into the facility (as referenced as the first step of the game) that the child is very likely an outsider, one of the children of the normal folk. It does seem a little convoluted but working upon what you have presented it seems at least a possible option.

Are we sure when we unplug the machine only turned of the boy

cool

And what if... after pulling the plug in bunker only partially, you still need to do something....? ;)

it makes a lot of sense that the blob was controlling you. In the same way the chicks were never in control, you were, this would mean that we were always controlling the boy via the blob ie we were playing as the blob from the start. This adds a lot to the suggested "it was all planned' ending because that ending posits that you were never actually free, you were always working under the control of a greater power, so in that abstract sense the corporation was always controlling the blob, who was always controlling the boy, so in a sense it's almost irrelevant who you're actually playing as. Feel like not a lot of people appreciation perspective as a tool for understanding writing. I remember my teachers hammering in the different perspectives you can write from. I just finished the caretakers 6 hour album and it's annoying seeing people more often come to the conclusion that a portion of it takes place outside of the rest of the stories perspective when there's no reason to assume that's the case and a much more plausible explanation that keeps it within perspective. Insides looseness is frustration but I'll give it credit for appreciating perspective like I do.

10:35 why do u assume they still had their humanity back then? They seemed just as docile as the ones we encounter later on

8:23 They....they're not unharmed. If you look closely, one didn't make it...

Whoops...

You should do a video on little nightmares too.

3:35 I wonder how you managed to have the boy walk instead of run.

Then who/what controls the players?

Also The secret ending is the only good ending for the boy

Whoops

Note that one of the chicks died

Dude... The hutle was made to control the walker army... You try to control the actions of thousands.... Hundreds of thousands, it is the hive

I think you should make your voice audio louder. It's hard to hear, but meanwhile the game clips you insert are very loud so it's not normalized. Just wanted to share my two cents.

Humble is a giant walking potato

There is no need for swearing

Glad I didn't buy this. The story seems pretty cut and dry. It's pretty obvious that its a meditation on control. And there isn't much to the gameplay.