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I like that the “good ending” is basically saying fuck it and leaving work early

Hey, it's me the lead game designer/programmer of this game, just wanted to say thanks again for giving another one of my games a play.

I love how it's implied that by saying the incantation to get the monster caught by The Hunter, the Hunter is just like, "aight, you cool" cause you helped lead it to the monster. Cause in the other ending where it appeared, it's implied that if you didn't say any incantation it would have just eaten the planet with everyone else.

Judging by the thumbnail pic I think it’s safe to say the girl is indeed what one would call, a monster

Imagine being a supernatural entity called "The hunter" and yet failing over and over again to hunt the right prey. Edit (31/03/2024): Guys I appreciate the comments but this is a 1 year comment and yes hunters need to study and hunt their prey if your prey can body swap just kill everyone in a 4 km radius.

Oh, the translation to that Incantation she gave is WHEW. (SPOILERS) It's gaelic, roughly means "Let's turn bodies". His Incantation is also gaelic, and means "You are not welcome". Very interesting that they used an actual language for the incantations instead of, like, unreadable fonts or similar!

11:10 "we are all gonna go for all endings, so dont worry about it" I always appreciate Manly getting all endings while trying to understand game's lore

This game gives a lot of the same vibes as Slay the Princess. The voice acting and art style are very similar and I'm growing to enjoy this flavor of horror game.

The writing is really good tbh. She talks like she's constantly lying or making stuff up on the spot. She also answers in ways most people wouldn't like when he asked her major and she says "I took a lot of classes that weren't part of it" Most people would just say their major and what it entails.

Ya know if he would have just said “Oh sorry I didn’t know where the girl went, I blacked out, she must have attacked me and escaped” seeing as how this can be supported with the fact that she attacked the cops rescuing her in the first place, then the rest his lawyer can handle.

It seems like Heather had been controlled by the monster first, made the professor abduct Darcy and switched with her. It explains her inability to get basic facts about Darcy's life correct. Pretty sure the incantation is meant to switch someone's body with the monster (the hunters incantation offerd a protection), the professor was taken and Heather's body was left twisted and shriveled.

What I mostly love about this game is the artwork! Even as a horror game, the developer did a great job of capturing that part perfectly!

At 9:06 for a half second, her bony face shifts into hostile rage

I like the attention to detail, when the entity takes over the protagonist body, you can notice that the way it speaks is totally diferent, like its reading a script but in a nonchalant way.

This feels like Papers, Please but horror themed, and I’m actually really into this idea. Even the playback is a nice touch.

Based on what she said when she steals your body, she's on the run and has been hiding by taking other people's bodies. It clearly isn't a permanent solution though, since we aren't the first. So, in ending 3, where you say the incantation she tells you, you take her place and she continues to steal bodies to hide herself. In the endings where you leave and someone else does the interview, she likely gets them to say the incantation and they die in her place (the body mentioned in ending 4). In ending 2, the hunter catches her, and for whatever reason, decides to destroy the world she was in. In ending 1, the hunter catches her, and because of whatever we did, it spares the world (also note that it doesn't leave her body behind, even though it left the bodies of the other victims). So it sounds like this is just inter-dimensional shenanigans. She's an eldritch small-fry on the run, stealing bodies to escape a powerful enemy she made. She agreed to the interview to get us to say the chant because she's running out of time. Unless she finds someone else to take her place, the Hunter will catch her and destroy the world along with her unless we say the chant revealed by contradicting her. So the real questions are, what did she do to attract something that powerful, and what does the chant do that changes the outcome? I can't really figure it out, though. The only thing I can think of is what James said about the chant, it's revealed by partially breaking her grip on reality, so maybe the chant completely breaks her hold, sending her to a different reality, and the Hunter destroys that reality instead? If she was sent to a different reality, it would explain why she disappeared when the other victims didn't despite being killed by the same thing. It also makes sense in that it doesn't actually change what the Hunter does, it just changes what it does it to (the other reality we sent her to). The theory is still pretty weak, though.

I love that the incantation is just straight up Scottish Gaelic for "You're not welcome (here)" 😂 The voice actor's pronunciation is a bit dodgy, but I do enjoy when I see a language I know being used for magicy purposes, like Welsh and Gaelic. If anyone's curious, the other incantation is "Let's turn (exchange) bodies"

Woman: *bleeding from demonic eyes, drooling from fangs, head full of horns, and face split open to reveal nothing but endless teeth* Interrogator: "Nah, she's normal. Bring in the next girl." 4 year old girl: "I have a pimple on my nose." Interrogator: "MONSTER, TAKE HER DOWN!!!" *BANG BANG BANG*

Oh boy, sure hope this girl is not actually a monster-

21:44 An interrogation room without any cameras or voice recorders? I just feel this ending was made this way just to not get any happy end, realistically, the body would either disapear or be contorted, and the investigator wouldn't be a suspect, he could even use the disaperences and his explanation plus the professor's notes as evidence of the supernatural nature of the case, I feel this should be the happy end and if the idea was to make none of them actually happy this one should have another downside

11:40 - 4/5 ending 22:13 - 1/5 ending 22:17 - 5/5 ending 23:00 - 2/5 ending 24:20 - 3/5 ending

When I read the video title at first I imagine it would be _random_ whether the girl is a monster. As in, you get thrust into a session where it's _already_ been decided whether she's human or not. And during the interrogation you'd have to either agitate the entity enough to reveal itself, or recognize she's a normal human and avoid stressing her even more.

i love how the interrogator is so chill.

I feel like we need more visual horror novels like this, it's good and I enjoyed it

at 9:06 after he pulls the binder down, theres a split second frame of yhe girl with a new face, looking angry and then looking scared/worried.

Ending 4 seems like the best one - she just died, the Hunter is gone, and you and other people are safe.

"She was a victim of an abduction as well as a bizzarly unnatural homicide." ...Wouldn't that make her dead?

Currently at 7:50, I wanna guess the rest . Heather was a monster, killed Darcy, overtook her body That's why they're getting a lot mixed up . Just heard manly say the same ---- Alright I'm done with the video and honestly that's not what I expected at all

Ending 1 doesn't make any sense because he has the entire conversation on tape. He can just give that tape to his attorney, and his attorney can figure out how to free him from the facility.

I really like the idea of making monsters sympathetic or at least despearate.

Very neat. Also love how tbe only ending where the protagonist doesn't get screwed over is tbe one where he just leaves.

20:13 the face in the picture startled me

Glad to see the developer try and highlight a different aspect of their strengths, I like their 2D art getting put front and center. This was nice, some good otherworldly hororr.

I enjoy the Lovecraftian reference in the Innsmou(th)nt hospital. A lovely "In the know" secret.

I like how calm the interrogator is I wish to be as calm as he is.

Fun game. Could easily make a longer one; like a Turing test for Lovecraft monsters

Okay so this game has gaelic in it! "Chan eil failte oirbh" basically means "You are not welcome" but the pronunciation is off Ch in gaelic is pronounced like a K and te is pronounced like a cha "Fawll-che" and bh is a v so "orv" "leig leinn cuirp an tionnadadh" is meant to be "Let us convert our bodies" I assume but again pronunciation is different "Lay-g, lay-n, corp an chown-dag" Now it might not be Irish Gaelic so it might have different pronunciation but yeah

Slay the Princess vibes from the art

The subtle face change at 9:05 literally gave me full body shivers when I rewatched it. Holy shit that's terrifying.

This type of concept for a game sounds very interesting it brings so much curiosity about "Heather" and what she is hiding and I am super into it! ^^ thank you for playing this cool game 😊❤

Damn creepy, minimalistic, but well done. I think there might have been more to it if you had to assess a series of such patients and try to detect IF they are monsters and react as appropriate... but it is an interesting idea with good execution. Props to the dev.

I'd develop it if I new how, or had time to learn. Hear me out, Intera-gator. You're a gator interrogating to find zebras or other prey. Where it gets interesting is, sometimes you'll have zebras that actually have a really bad disguise or a gator that just looks like it has a bad disguise. It's actually impossible to tell if they are or not, from appearance alone but possible from dialog. Also, there is one crocodile. Because it's not a gator, it doesn't count. It is the absolute one time that you can use appearance to tell them apart and it's completely random

22:00 wouldn't they have the video tape recorder as evidence for what happened?!?!?

She’s a monster! HANS GET THE FLAMMENWERFER!!

Guys remember, the ending where he is held under suspicion is the one where she 'disappeared', not 'died'. The hunter took her, leaving no body to be found, and he doubted that anyone would believe him if he told the truth, so in the end he was incarcerated. Saying that she attacked him and escaped would require evidence of her bonds being removed, the assault that followed, and her subsequent escape, but since it's a lie none of those things exist. Also in the ending where he gets his body snatched he directly addresses someone outside the room within earshot of Darcy, likely a guard. With all that to consider, it's objectively impossible for her to have made an escape even if he did free her. Although... Along those same lines it's impossible for him to have somehow hidden her too, but it's still way more plausible that he knows what happened to her and is purposefully hiding it (which is the truth), so it makes sense to suspect him.

I've been pretty impressed lately with some of the lovecraftian horror games that have come out. Some of them are really great. I highly enjoyed sucker for love due to the fact that they had horror AND comedy. Every once in a while I love me a Horror comedy Video Game. 😁 Thanks for the upload Manly! Hope you have a fantastic day/night. You and your family stay safe and healthy.💜🤝

This eldric being's acting skills are comparable to Tommy Wiseau I did not kill her, I did naaaaaat Oh hi Hunter

It's interesting to me. If you do nothing the hunter enters this world, but like... what about if the entity hides from it? What's stopping the entity from just breaking in anyways since it DID get someone. From what it seems to be, the Hunter can only get into the world if it gets the correct person, sure, but then why does it, after having gotten the correct person, destroy everyone else? Maybe it thought they were intentionally hiding them. I guess that makes sense, it thought they were accomplices. And by revealing her, to it, you make it clear you AREN"T helping her, you don't want her, and it's just like "ya you chill"... hopefully.

If I had a nickel for every time I had to ask a woman questions to determine if she was trustworthy and not a monster I would have two nickels which is not a lot but it is weird it happened twice.

9:05 her angry face actually scared me D:

from Google translate, 'Leig leinn cuirp a thionnadh.' means 'Let us turn bodies.' in Scottish Gaelic and 'Chan eil fàilte oirbh.' means 'You are not welcome.' in the same language could this game, therefore, take place somewhere in Scotland or somewhere in the UK?

I really love this kind of horror game, the interrogation part that is

At around 9:05 when MBH closes the book you can tell she/it seems very pissed at the investigator

It's 2 AM here and your video with it's thumbnail decided to show up in my recommendations, thank you manly it's not like I want to sleep anyways 😄

9:06 she looks like a 3d rage emoji

Ending 5 is the best ending, always follow your intuition.

To this day im still mad the little cube dude coudnt defend emself against that monster that always gets em from behind.

Kinda makes you wonder what that creature did in the first place to get...in the situation she's got, haha 🙃

Wow, that was actually a good "visual novel"-ish game. I actually enjoyed that more than I expected.

holy fuck this game has such good potential. I'd have loved if it was longer, took more time to crack “Darcy,” and there was more interrogating; more piecing together the crime scene and what happened. devs have a VERY beautiful game right here, I would love to see it expanded on someday

The actor's accent is all over the place, but I still enjoyed the game.

The voice acting could be "bigger" for lack of better words, but I liked this!

"What exactly happened?" *hears my voice outside the room and the voice I'm speaking with isn't mine* "Not again."

I like to imagine games like this going on in real life and manly is just sitting there after her name she gave a name and he just keeps flipping that file up to his face and then looks at her and then just continue to do that for 5 minutes straight file face file face file face like a bouncer checking an ID they have a strong suspicion is fake

There is a one frame foreshadow where she looks upset that you're finding contradictions at 9:04

Also another contradiction in entity's words is that it calls the other thing a "hunter" and says if it gets access to our world it'll destroy it, if it really is a thing that destroys worlds then it would've been called "destroyer", "decimator" etc. But a hunter? And it's said by the entity that hides from that hunter? Brilliant writing

The artwork for this game was amazing, I love the detail

rip to the replacement interrogator but if I was in charge of an otherworldly entity I would simply not get killed by it

I laughed too hard at the "YOUR DADS A LAWYER" like i can imagine some cop sitting out side the room then "YOUR DADS A LAWYER"

the guy is surprisingly calm for someone just got trapped in a pocket dimension and facing a otherworldly being.

"Leig leinn cuirp a thionndadh" is Scottish Gaelic for "let's switch bodies," while "Chan eil failte oirbh" means "You are not welcome."

“What state ? ” Depression is the state I’m in

New upload like rn I am at church and this pops up and I’m like hell yea

11 PM sounds like a great time to watch this.

Nice stuff. Keep the good content coming!

Manly: I am on a timer with this also Manly: Majority of time wasted looking throw all the pages regardless of if they were relevant to the situation or not, or just plain speculating.

Feels kinda like a alternate metamorphosis.

I'm curious as to why James Murphy's profile pic ended up changing? Why was he disguised as an older person before? At 23:43 is that James Murphy? It's a really interesting concept would love more like this.

I get it. When you find out those words, which ironically you find out only when it starts to reveal its true face, you're revealing the its secret to the Hunter. You're basically giving him its X Y Z coordiantes. And in return the Hunter lets you go. My only grip with the ending is...why do they arrest you? Like, the protag has the recorder with him, moreover they did disappear in front of them. Appearing only like 5-15 minutes later. And only the protag appears. So not only they cannot ignore the fact that something genuinely supernatural is happening but that the detective just stopped an incursion from happening basically.

i havent watched you in a month and im still glad i can get you on my reccomended.

I don’t know if my eyes are messing with me, but her body kept jittering and pulsing, makes sense with what happens, but if it’s intentional from the devs that’s pretty cool.

You could see the body snitcher or heathens face change into creepy face at 9:05

This deserves a remake. It's interesting as it is, but it could be a classic with subtler/better VA, a bit slower gameplay with maybe some interspersed detective scenes and stronger visuals. I don't say any of that to denigrate what's there, I'm saying the means didn't weigh up to the idea, which is great.

It took 10 minutes of randomly pausing the video before I realised that the faint wailing was coming from the game and not the street outside

Monster Chick: starts to lie immediately Manly: not my first rodeo

Plot twist - main character and the girl are narrator and princess from “slay the princess”

the ambient screaming in the background took me a long time to figure out- it's a nice touch

2:16 Innsmouth, yeah first red flag.

Hear me out…

All I can think is "are you asking whether I'm a Lovecraftian horror or a lesbian?"

The scary "spider face" also isn't her "Face"... she's more of the shadow you see at the start of the reality. The scary faces it makes is the Hunter slowly grabbing her, trying to do the same thing to her as he did to you, AKA "Removing skin from every opening (mouth, eyes) i had, bones bending like rubber) and she was in pain, trying to just get this over with as fast as it can, that's why it got really angry at the "questions"

I like how you can just choose to not take the job.

I've recently started trying to learn 3D animation myself. I've considered making a horror game over the past few months but my coding isn't the best so I might just make the 3d models and hire someone to help code it, or I'll just forget the idea altogether. I don't have any plans for one anyway, just something I thought might be fun.

i love how 3 seconds in its just chaotic. 'HER NAMES DARCY!?!?!??!?!'

The game is rough around the edges, but it gives a cool feel to it I think! :) I like it!

I was going to watch this then I realized that it was close to nighttime and I'm not brave enough to have this in my head when I got to sleep or the toilet.

I'd like to see more of this game. Reminds me of that Princess game.

Placing my bets in this girl 99% monster

hey manly, i'd love to see you check out the demo for the game "DREDGE" it's a fishing-boat Lovecraftian game, one of the highest quality horror experiences i've seen this year tbh and im sure it will be up your alley.