Yo, the king in yellow is about eternal recurrence… Ambrose Bierce… he’s the guy that inspired lovecraft… all his work came after surviving front line combat in the civil war. This dude saw into other dimensions with his ptsd.

“Which led to the only time the game managed to jump scare me” -walks into room - Loud screams - instantly turns back like “hell nah I’m out” I cried of laughter

You making one of the most depressing and emotion-envoking game in my life into a hour long summary with occasional bits of funny actually made it easier for me to cope with how this game deconstructed my soul, thank you.

2 Dark Tark videos in 1 week? This truly is a Christmas miracle.

Elster grindset: don’t care, love wife

You strike an amazing balance between comedy and an actual review. Narration and delivery is on point. Keep up the great content tark ily

The character names and the signs and messages seen on buttons and screens and machines and their UI around the levels are in German. "Storch" is the German word for stork, "Eule" is German for owl, "Adler" means eagle, "Falke" means falcon, "Kolibri" means hummingbird, "Elster" means magpie, "Star" means starling, . The names "Beo" and "Mynah" are the German names for the common hill myna bird. The message on the door requiring the key cards to be opened, for example, says "Sonderzugang", which means 'special access'. The two paintings seen at 16:50 in the room in which Adler confronts Isa are "Die Toteninsel" (The Isle of the Dead) by the Swiss painter of the Duesseldorf School Arnold Boecklin and "Gestade der Vergessenheit" (The Shore of Oblivion) by the German painter Eugen Bracht. The view of the mountains seen at 24:59 is also taken from the latter painting, and both paintings are then also shown in the rapid sequence at 29:52. The image seen on the ship at 30:01 looks a lot like the flag of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The postcard (?) shown at 30:45 says "Raumfahrzeug Typ "Penrose" ", which means 'Spacecraft type "Penrose" ', and the watermark saying "Volksmarine" was the name of the naval force of the German Democratic Republic from 1960-1990. The title at the top of the postcard reading "Operation Penrose; Stolz der Nation Eulan" translates to 'Operation Penrose; Pride of the nation of Eusan'. "Rotfront" refers to the "Roter Frontkaempferbund" (Alliance of Red Front-Fighters), a paramilitary organisation of the German Communist Party during the Weimar Republic. The name "Gestalt" given to some of the humans is a German word that the English language also borrows and translates to 'shape' or 'figure' or 'form'. The big message in red that appears on the screen saying "Stirb" means 'die' in German, and "Warum bist du hier?" means 'Why are you here?', and "Achtung" means 'attention'. The piano music that played in the room was the "Mondscheinsonate" (Moonlight sonata) by Beethoven, and the title on the broken music cassatte reading "Eulenlieder" means 'Owl songs' or 'Owls' songs'. Sierpinski was also the name of Polish mathematician Waclaw Sierpinski, after whom the fractal (a complex geometric shape) of the "Sierpinski triangle" is named, that very much resembles the symbol/logo consisting of triangles seen throughout the game. The symbol in the centre of the key card door could also be a Sierpinski carpet, another fractal named after him. Penrose was the name of another mathematician, the British mathematician and physicist Sir Roger Penrose.

Yoooo I'm glad to see you found Signalis. Was hoping to see a KZfaqr I watch play it. Guess you're the dude

The last bossfight partially works like the Pyramid Head fights in Silent Hill 2, it's on a timer. In each phase, even if you run out of ammo, just dodge damage and Falke will eventually collapse by herself and give you an opening to spear her.

3:20 the warhammer 40k reference of orks thinking that painting things in red makes them go faster, and that it actually works and it is canon in the lore of the warhammer 40k

"Adlers dedicated hate crime pit" actually made me laugh out loud. you got yourself a new subscriber, hope you're other videos are as funny as this one.

NGL I kinda guessed you like Silent Hill, but damm 56 min video on some indie survival horror after year of making Elden Ring videos feels like the most Dark Tark thing ever.

This guy became my favourite youtuber in only a couple videos, I love it

This reminds me of the manga "Blame". I am almost certain it was one of the inspirations for this game.

I know many people did bloodborne's lore but I'd like to watch your take on it especially with your style and to know what "it's canon, it's in the lore" and what's not.

btw, you don't need to wait for the frequency to flash onto the screen to kill the kolibri's. you can adjust your receiver to follow along with the kolibri's frequency, and it'll kill them pretty quickly. you can also just shoot the one with the box around them. they are not immune to death :]

Oh man, this dropped right as I’m in the middle of my own playthrough. Something to look forward to once I’m done with the game! Edit: Two days later, I beat it. I kept the promise…

As Im crawling across youtube looking for every bit of content about this game after finishing it last night, I think Im starting to piece together my theory. Spoilers below: I think everything happened as said in this video: Ariane's life, inspiration from the picture, military service, placement on the ship, and eventual sickness and crash. What I think happened is the ship crashed on a distant planet, which turned out to be habitable, or at least full of mining resources. Later, her country came and built the Sierpenski mining base on top of it, leaving her undisturbed to sleep underneath. Im thinking maybe because of her bioresonent sleep they either couldnt interupt her or didnt want to for fear of her causing bioresonant cataclysm. However, they were able to recover the Elster unit that went with her. Since they lost the original Gestalt neural patterns for the Elster units, they based future Elster units off the recovered Elster who accompanied Ariane. This is the Elster we play as at the very beginning of the game. All future Elsters are copied off her (as seen by the piles of dead Elsters where Adler pushes her down). This is why she always starts with the photograph and hears music, because she needs to recover her memories to remember her promise to Ariane. I think at least hundreds of years pass here, between original establishment of the colonization of the planet they crashed on and the events of the game starting at Sierpenski (right after we pick up the King in Yellow for the first time). Hundreds, maybe thousanes of Elsters make their way through the loop It might even be a very very long time, enough time for even those keeping the secret of Ariane's slumber underneath to forget, and myths to be created about her, as the god that sleeps underground (mentioned in several diaries). The ship containing Ariane, then, is the thing found at the bottom of the base that Falke stumbles into and becomes infected by Ariane's powers. I think this either disturbs Ariane's sleep, causing her to have nightmares where she was in a deep sleep before, or fully wakes her up. Either way, her pain and sickness starts spreading beginning with Falke. I like Dark's theory here that all the kfc flesh is reflecting the tumors from her cancer. The point of this theory is that Ariane is the lovecraftian entity of this story. Sadly, I don't have much after this point. It makes sense that Elster keeps repeating her experiences to try and get to Ariane, but I can't piece together why and how there is a time loop to begin with, other than "ooo bioresonant nightmates", which isn't very satisfying an answer to me (although it would be a very lovecraftian answer). I also am not very familiar with the King in Yellow , and I think that book has something more to do with the story than just being an allegory or representation of banned knowledge. Maybe it inspired Ariane's nightmares?I love theorizing about this game though, so I will keep thinking.

This is a true Signalis moment

I have no idea what I have clicked on. Last time that happened I saw a homeless man destroy a mansion to punish the owner for his bad taste in art

I'm so glad I stumbled on your channel, you are one of my channels to watch

The safety net is actually really normal for that kind of soviet-bloc-type building.

When I finished this game I got promise ending, then I went to sleep, but instead I had my eyes open and I have been staring at a ceiling for some time. When sleep finally took hold of me I was back in this game in its story. I was trully scared and emotionally depleted after finishing this game, I was almost crying at the end.

my dude, I am so ecstatic that you have posted this. I was watching some other channel cover this game, and I just opened your video when I saw it but I cannot state enough what a pleasant surprise it is that you have chosen this game. Cheers and please keep on going with whatever it is you have going on with your channel because it is so refreshing/hilarious compared to other content (IMO).

I totally thought the game was finished after the death cutscene with Elster's arm ripping off, my mind was blown when your vid continued.

In all honesty thank you for covering Signalis it definitely needs more recognition

i had never heard of this game until this video. ive since played it, and its now one of my favourite games! thanks for not only making excellent videos, but also making more awareness of this amazing game! i hope it gets more attention!

I hope you get to 100k subs before the end of the year your videos are hilarious.

When Insubscribed to this channel a Signalis review had to be in the top 5 things I wasnt expecting.

You did such a good job explaining the story!

I really felt like Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass wasn't bleak and depressing enough, so I'm glad someone has reimagined it as taking place in a oppressive, hopeless future dystopia. Ah, that hits the spot.

Your new videos are the best christmas gift!

20:00 "if you crank dat soulja boy" made me subscribe to you lol idk why

13:20 loved the mgs detected sound lol ❗

O damn, I'm in the middle of playing signalis. Nice timing. Edit: I just beat the game and now I am emotionally distraught.

Yoo more recognition for signalis

(3:08) my favorite moment in resident evil: signalis was when the main character said "I guess, we were the residents of evil all along". And evil'ed all over the place! Truly one of the movies by DarkTark.

3:22 I did not expect a Warhammer40k "Red goes faster" joke

Amazing video! Keep up the awesome work!

the red STIRB thats sometimes flashes on screen means “die” in german. the game seems to be german. there are multiple sentences like “give up” and other words

The most scariest moment in signalis is the inventories… goddamn that makes me laugh so hard… that 6 slot really nightmare…

Great vid keep up the great work. Crazy that you can go from basically elden ring shitposts to really good game reviews. 10/10

Cool video loved it❤️✨

Great video, came here after I beat the game. You should know that they just released an update that makes the flashlight and camera eye no longer take up an inventory slot.

The king in whAt- oh nO. *panics in lovecraft lore*

Wonderful video I loved the long form content. I started watching you becuase of elden ring but I'm sticking around because I love the style of videos you make. I really liked how you made jokes and took the game semi lighthearted throughout the video but then did a wrap up at the with your thoughts and ideas about the deeper LORE. Great work! keep at it cant wait for another video

Of all the 5 or 6 Signalis KZfaq reviews that really dive deep, this is definitely one of them. I enjoyed the humor a lot. Cool interpretation of the story, about what I had in mind but you added quite a few more concrete details that made me go "oh that fits so well". I understand how the inventory limit can be annoying, but I thought it was great to have such tight limitation, it forced me to make some hard choices, like going without a flashlight often, or just carrying the ammo I had in my gun. Having the flashlight be a default thing would be cool too, tho. I got the Promise ending, took over 10 hours to finish, and frankly, Elden Ring is probably the only game this year I have ahead of Signalis for my personal GOTY, and not by much. This is a total gem, and an instant cult classic.

This video really filled a Silent Hill 2 reference in my heart.

Awesome video mate. Keep on uploading good vids.

These videos are amazing, you're a legend

11:23 Bro learned how to code in Ren'Py just for a 10-second throwaway joke! Respect! 😎👍

Babe, wake up. New favourite Aussie KZfaqr just dropped an hour long video

You are a really underatted content creator. Great video!

awesome, dark Tark making video on my personal game of the year. a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one - know what I’m watching with Breakfast!

This was a really interesting run through. Love your story telling

I went a bought this after the first day this video dropped, and I really enjoyed this RE/SH spirited game. It was a fun storyline to piece together, thanks for putting this game out there

This dude should have way more subs. He's hilarious as fuck.

listening to the entire serious signalis story section followed up with hearing that the scariest part of the game is the inventory....that got me good

I dunno where you came from, BUT thank you sooooo much for this recommendation, watched 3 minutes of your video, and went to steam. And I just played the game for almost 10 hours, fockin loving it!, still haven't finished, no spoilers pls! Edit: About the inventory, you don't always need a weapon nor ammo, I explain myself, if you want to clear a path, do so, use the weapon and ammo, then store it back. And explore etc. (this is meant for the ppl playing the game, I assume Dark Tark is fooling around :p).

Now I know the basic gist of the story. I was so confused at first about the plot, but now I understand it.

I got pissed off because I thought the game was called signals

I love when you make niche game videos. I think I just love you in general

This game absolutely exudes Nier inspirations as well as silent hill. Gestalts and Replica’s being the most obvious but there’s tons more.

Did bro just say that Elden Rings story is straight forward?

idk who you are and this is my first viewing of your channel and your commentary is top shelf haha. instantly subscribed.

Isn't the king in yellow supposed to make the people who read it go insane?

Wow I didn't expect a legit analysis at the end

Just awesome, great videos 👍

I love your style of videos.

14:15 I'm guessing by this complaint that you didnt use the in game camera eye? Thing was designed to help prevent this.

I just found your channel, I like you. I like that you play these horror games too! I enjoy them so much, just as I enjoyed silent hill games. I sub and like, you rock.

Love the King in Yellow stuff. King in Yellow lore over time also added that he has an own realm where certain people who are "insane enough" can shape parts of the reality of that realm by thought, so I feel like that might be a connection/inspiration to the bioresonant people here.

Eye Module is taking a screenshot of things to record puzzles/notes/etc.

Another brilliant video

This is truly the scary game of all time

Glad some made a video on this game

Your commentary is awesome

I have no idea how you do it but you sound so knowledgeable in everything yet also sound like you have no idea what you are even talking about at the same time. I love your videos man, you are easily my favorite channel. you're so underrated

It's games that leave you wanting more but knowing you'll never get it that are truly the best type of games.

i put signalis right next to the greatest classics like Silent hill. wow. just wow, incredible game

You can use the electronic eye tool thingy to take pictures of puzzle solutions to prevent all the going back and forth shenanigans

Props to this guy almost felt like I was watching An Incorrect Summary which made me laugh a quite a bit.

Bro the recoil bit is hilarious💀

Great video :)

Its really nice to see dark tark expand his content from elden ring like this video and the hotline mia...... Silent hill 2 video☺️👍👍👍

I was about to start signalis,perfect timing.

"perhaps this is hell"

The game is simple. The red desert cutscene explains it. L.S.T.R is simply Diavolo from JoJo's bizarre adventure part five vento aureo, 'golden wind'.

For some reason I read the title of the video in my head in his voice

The game which have obscure radio frequency twerking as a gameplay mechanic.Very nice

Everything besides ELDER RING from DarkTark is _absolutely_ *DELIGHTFUL.* "Keep. It. Up! Go-go-go, BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!"

bro went from making SMT memes to doing video essays about SIGNALIS just like me fr

Great video

Signalis deserves the attention

The most unsettling thing in the video is the subtle minecraft soundtrack in the background.

Tark your a legend by the way 😊

Bro I’m literally playing this game righ. Lemme finish this tonight

idk how you never came across the photo module either but still a good video

I for one welcome this age of Dark Tark Survival Horror lore.

Did not expect the annihilation reference :3 wouldn't be surprised if lstr went into another tower and started reading weird scripture from the wall