Welcome to the What Is Your Favorite N64 Game? Club, how What Is Your Favorite N64 Game are ya?

The fact that Manly's first instinct when encountering a horror creature is to run up and slap it with no hesitation is why I love watching him play games. Very relaxed atmosphere that makes for a nice experience.

Thank you so much for playing our game!! It means a lot to squeaks and I, and we really appreciate all the support from everyone! :) ❤️

Random fun fact: The "Not work on any emulator" is kinda true for custom N64 games, not just bs for creepy points. I've dabbled in 64 Homebrew and there are only 2 that really run games with true system accuracy. Older Emulators are basically coded to only run the specific library of the 64 and just lock up when trying to run games that aren't recognized.

For how the actual game looks, the cutscenes look fucking outstanding.

So what I think is happening in this, the "starlings" are this company's attempt at literally "bringing the characters to life" by genetically modifying employees that died. The application forms specify the "donor," their cause of death, and the target mascot that they're going to be formed into. That's pretty much all I was able to figure out.

I think Connor spitefully added the wolf to represent Mark (the CEO). A carnivorous creature that "put all his friends to work." The wolf's minigame represents the mindset Connor feels trapped in. A deadline is chasing him, he's lost in a maze not sure where to take the game while desperately searching for the boss's money. Connor was probably waiting in delight for the moment the boss realizes its supposed to be him. He didn't.

The guy who made this game is actually in a discord server with me. The mods literally announced that manly played his game and everyone is congratulating him on getting here. Very cool to see his game get here!

It's amazing how you can already tell how much effort the creators put into the game just by the opening irl cutscene. Like they ACTUALLY played it on an old box TV. I can totally imagine this being an actual piece of lost media from the 90's or something, the ones where you played as a child but it was such a fever dream that you don't know if it actually existed or not

It's a small thing, but I love how Manly always immediately turns to choosing violence on innocent NPCs the first chance he gets. It's funny to me.

I think the plot is this: The Starlings are dead people: people revived to become living mascots for some equivalent of Disney. Instead of putting souls into Animatronics, they're literally reviving people as zombies and then making them wear Mascot suits. Brandon, the first one, is unstable and violent- but the sheer power and secrecy of the company keep his attacks under wraps: and anyone he kills, end up "becoming" a Mascot. Buckee Brandon stalks, then drowns Olive, making her permanently become Olive Otter. Then he kills a random cook at a Buckee's diner, who becomes the Goose. Brandon's used as muscle to intimidate and harass, and also silence witnesses it seems- as the head of the company shows up with "Brandon" but most obviously showed up with Buckee Brandon to terrify the head developer. This makes the video game company go bankrupt, because the Head of the Buckee Company is somewhat cracked- if that ungodly thing that is Brandon is "the face everyone loves" and not the cutesy polygonal one, and an entire company ends up out of work. It's also likely that the Head Developer did not jump- that big fancy house was not the house of a 90's era developer. He was probably thrown, but kept a camera on his person to try and record evidence, and told his son to retrieve it. The son finished the game and put the secrets in there, but also wasn't mentally well after his dad's passing and a seeming evil presence hanging over him and his efforts. It's also possible the whole "n64" thing is a lie in universe- it was originally going to be an n64 game, but it took years before the Son could get the skill to get the game: the slapdash credits sequence may just be people the Son found in universe to help him finish his dad's game from the unpublished Demo.- the game is short and about the size of a demo. The release of Shipwrecked64 now suggests something happened that wrecked Buckee's brand that prevented damage control, perhaps the Starlings went amuck and the deaths became too hard to cover up, or like what almost happened to Disney, got ran into the ground by bad management once the old man passed away.

Hey man, im FreshDecimate, the guy who did the "spooky" models and character designs for this game I just wanna say its an absolute honor to see you play this as I have been watching you for roughly a year now so its nuts to me to see something II helped create be covered by a big youtuber :)) (PS, I helped with the story too and actually came up with the Goose/Deepfrier idea)

Fun fact: The sound the character makes as he jumps is known as a "Cuica" or Monkey drum . It's part of the standard general midi (SGM) drum kit and is also a part of samba percussion. Said drum was also used as part of the "Baldi's Basics" music

Here's what I can piece together from the ARG: It begins with Brandon, a worker at StudioGrounds Park, owned by Broadside Animation. Brandon Lester died of a Fentanyl overdose. His body was then converted into Bucky the Beaver. He was vetted by Luis W for safe use in the park. Olivia Finch, a co-worker, complained when Bucky/Brandon showed up at her employee cabin repeatedly and began mashing his head against the glass door. Brandon invited her outside to see something. She drowned. Her body was turned into Olive Otter. She was vetted by Johnson for safe use in the park. Gary Wilson, another co-worker, was bludgeoned and burned to death by Bucky/Brandon. His body was converted into Giovanni Goose, a fork still stuck in his eye. He was vetted by Tiffany Waters for safe use in the park. Nathan Stewart was an office worker at StudioGrounds Park. He found information about the Starling Project. Bucky/Brandon found him. Nathan died of assault and was turned into Walter Walrus, bloody wounds and all. His wife, Grace, never found out. Like Brandon, he was betted by Luis W. for safe use in the park. Fast-forward. Some time has passed. The park, and thus Broadside Animation, had become a success. Mark Mullins of Broadside Animation was approached by Connor Thomas of computer game studio Cogware. Cogware wanted to make an N64 game featuring characters from Broadside. It... didn't go well. Connor committed suicide as a result. The game passed to his son, who apparently gave it to a friend named Daniel... and that's where we enter the story. So... what is a Starling? Basically, they're modified zombies for running the mascot costumes. In essence, they _are_ the costumes, or rather the costume is their protective outer layer of skin. An important question, though, is how much of the original person remains... and just who is behind the murders committed by Bucky/Brandon.

The dialogue cutscenes are suprisingly good, with good voice acting to match. It nails the "creepypasta/haunted cartridge" game vibes that were so popular a few years ago.

This game perfectly emulated the Jank of trying to figure out where you’re going in an N64 game

So the beaver was a big franchise, some weird shit started happening with experimental Fnaf animatronic magic, they somehow put the body of a dead person into a suit and called it a starling, extremely unstable but free labor. Basically acts as a mascot but is just a dead body in a suit. This is Bucky. Bucky starts weirding out other employees, some of them have mysterious disappearances, idk if Bucky is being ordered to kill or just doing it. Either way the dead people are getting put into suits, more starlings. The main programmer knows this all is happening, somebody close to him got hurt, he makes this game to expose what’s going on. Funding gets cut and the game becomes this crazy passion project, where he’s unloading emotional trauma and evidence into this kids game. Eventually he can’t handle it and offs himself, leaving the game to his son with some instructions for how to find all of the files

I had a horrible nightmare last night about murderous mascot/animatronic creatures so perfect timing!

the realistic cutscenes in this game freaked me out and i cant quite put my finger on why. the realism maybe??? the goose guy one especially made me feel like i was watching an actual murder.

These "Starlings" are... what, humanoid animal mutants? They treat them as such... From what I gathered, they're dead people that are then turned into those things to appear at a vacation attraction of sorts, though they can also appear with imperfections and stuff like that. Weird. Maybe it's an allegory for something else? Hard to say. The thing is, they then say these are costumes, despite talking about types of deaths and imperfections like "bleeding". Maybe they do those Starling things to mascot performers that die for some reason? Another thing I noticed... When zooming into the files, the camera described different motions for each one. A 'Z' for the Walrus Guy, a 'C' for Olivia, an... upside down 'U' for Gary, and a reverse 'N' for the Beaver.

I love the realistic intro to the game, it gives me heavy nostalgia

34:57 Manly's automatic response to run up to the statue and slap it's butt is EVERYTHING to me

I have to say, the creators did an *extremely* good job with the design of the "starlings", from the moment I saw all of them in the first "bad ending" cutscene, before I'd even seen any of the files, I was already sure they were somehow corpses or made from corpses just based on their appearance. Easily one of the most conceptually and visually disturbing things I've seen in one of these types of games in a while, definitely way more gruesome and creative than the now-typical FNAF knockoff "scary haunted animatronics" I was sort of expecting initially.

Am I the only one that thinks the "hyper realistic" pictures of Bucky and his friends at the end of the "Bad End" are absolutely fucking terrifying?

34:58 He really just paused and then turned around to spank the statue 😂

Olivias reaction to her coworker slamming his head into her door repeatedly, hard enough to leave a stain is just straight up: “This is making me lose sleep“. Maybe that‘s just me, but this seems more like a case for the psychiatric hospital and not your superiors

Freakiest thing just happened. When Manly said "it's randomized" at about 6:26 my ceiling light turned itself on and then off again

Honestly I think the only “complaint” I have for this in regards to the N64 part of the game is the fact that literally every character uses Mario’s torso from Mario 64, tho even then it’s less of a “complaint” and more of a “it’s so personally distracting it’s actually kinda hard to focus on what’s actually happening in the game itself” which, is honestly kinda funny ngl lmao.

Man, nothing can beat this distinctive feeling of peace and safety (even with horror games) that manlybadasshero gives me. Getting home, really tired, lay on bed, and slowly get dazed until sleep by manly’s videos is a piece of heaven

I can not describe the amount of absolute terror and horror this game gives me. Something about it just pushes all of the buttons in my brain to want to go into fight or flight mode. Really taking me back to when I was a child and when I'd stay up afraid of the creepypasta of the week coming to kick down my door lmao

Comments I’ve seen so far have missed this, but I gotta give them props to harkening back to “Ben Drowned” plain ol’ “Your Game is Glitching Out Unnaturally” uncanny horror with bizarre animations, wacked out text, texture corruption, and audio mishaps We’ve come a long way from those early 2010’s .EXE horrors havent we

I wonder if that last bit referencing grabbing the camcorder means there's a secret tied to that camera on a bench. Maybe if you play again you can interact with it now that you've found that secret?

I love the animations they have for talking. The headbobs and arm movement really give them a lively feel with the n64 graphics.

I was thinking this game is more towards the idea that they made this unaltered version as a form of evidence that the police can use to track down and arrest the killer. It might be haunted or it was intentional to inform its players that something is wrong with this game and hopefully would be dedicated into figuring out why this is the case. I can imagine that this games development and production covered the deaths of people who were involved with this game and the programmers would make this unaltered version first but cutout the creepy stuff in it to avoid them being targeted. As stated earlier, they would release the altered copies with the unaltered one to hopefully have somebody deliver this to the police.

Theory time: I think that mark(the game dev) spiraled into insanity after losing his job hence why he was harassing a ex coworker and after he jumped to his death his son possibly could have been the one to kill goose guy(possibly the guy who fired his father) this game has a lot hidden but still it’s fun to theorize :)

I love the aesthetics to this game. The low polygon and empty N64 style look really gives an unnerving atmosphere. I might be biased though because I just really like the N64 lol.

This is the best N64 game ever made from a technical aspect. There’s absolutely no fog to limit graphic rendering

I love how manly's immediate reaction to discovering a character is attempting to slap them and then, if they react, beating them senseless

(smacks wall) These bad boys hide so many secrets (smacks wall again, in a slightly different spot)

okay, now THOSE drawings were seriously disturbing. Haven't been cringing like that in actual fear for awhile

What do you mean I shouldn’t play random game cartridges I found? Bloody Slaughterhouse 3: Revenge Killing of the Knive’s Edge Uncut Edition is a perfectly fine farming simulator

i like how manly passes by stautes, turns back and slaps one of their bums then walks away

(43:59) Room Ambience: Elevator Music Manly: *Slaps "statue's" ass to test its responsiveness*

I really like this game, and I feel like it's improved by the fact that it's one self-contained, complete experience. The "RL" footage cutscenes were really well done, and the character designs were great. I really appreciate that someone finally dug deeper into the creepiness of mascot suits themselves, instead of them being a sidenote in a FNaF fangame like usual.

I love how Manly finds out he can punch the girl mascot, and immediately unleashes a fury of fists on her. Never change, Manly 💖

When he yelled "get the fuck out" at 43:19 it made me so happy to hear how bad the audio was

Ngl the was NOT what i was expecting going in, i kinda just assumed that it was gonna be like cooking companions or something where they had to eat the other characters one by one to survive but ngl i think i like the way it ACTUALLY went quite a bit better

I'm getting some major Walten Files vibes coming from this, especially when those cutscenes pop in.

I understood it like this: Starlings are experiments made from workers at the park who've died, turning them into mascots of some sort. The application forms serve to give details about the victims to the surgeon responsible for the operation (who I believe are the larger names signed at the bottom), having to swear they'll keep this a secret & will be killed ("terminated") if the operation fails. What's weird is that the signed names appear to have the same surname, except Olivia's dealer who's just Johnson. It seems like there are 2 plots going on, with Mark's park not doing so well which made him have this crazy idea, & Connor being a crazy dev who tried to resurrect his son Patt through a game. According to his files, Connor actually worked at the park years ago & is hinted to be experimented on too, remembering scalpels, hands on him, going under the knife, etc. The beach was the theme of his game bc thinking about it calmed him before operations. I still don't know how the game ended up trapping the souls of the actors though. But either Connor's discovery led to what Mark did or vice-versa. Also why do you guys think Brandon's operation being a success entailed him killing the others? Was it to make more like him? And how did he die, I couldn't read his cause of death. Thanks for reading lol.

30:22 congratulations, you unlocked the "Smack the Coconuts Out of Me!" Achievement!

I like how despite the game is supposed to be happy and fun, it just feels off. Even without the horror aspect, the game feels scary and real. The “main” world just feels empty and soulless (like manly) even without the scary parts, so it always manages to keep you feeling odd or disturbed and I love what the creators did with it. :D A good horror game always keeps you on your toes!

Nice to see a game that replicates the old systems well, gets that _all-natural_ crunchiness.

_Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale... a tale of a fateful trip_ I really enjoyed the scary hidden parts. The whole experiments piece and strange notes about the characters were pretty freaky along with the cut scenes. Well done and nice addition to 'analog horror' genre. Thank you as always for finding all endings too!!

Wow, props to the creators for putting so much effort into this game! You can tell this wasnt just cobbled together in a single evening. Kudos to you creator(s)! And kudos to Manly for doing such a good playthrough and showing off this amazing work!

If I remember correctly starlings are a psychopomp. Or a soul ferrying entity. Like the Grim Reaper. So maybe these Starlings are corpses repurposed into Park mascots

The goose death remind me one of the wrong end from corpses party, where the big hammer guy cook the girl face with his hammer. The text gore was so powerful that I just kept thinking about it when the cutscene was playing.

Man animal crossing looks different then I remembered.

This is the first game in awhile that's given me genuine creepy vibes and I'm digging it.

Bucky should have left his friends and used his beaver powers to chop down trees with his teeth to build a raft. your friends are not worth it.

Interesting to see how different the original was from the "rebuild" version.

the madlad beat the trend to the punch over a year before, very epic

"I'll call that a complete mini game" this man is a legend

I don't think the game itself is haunted, though there is something possibly supernatural going on. My reading is that the game was meant to be a tie-in/ad for this Broadside Vacation theme park, where they use reanimated corpses in mascot suits called Starlings as entertainers. It doesn't look like they are very safe or ethical. The owners were not pleased with the simplicity of the main game and kicked the devs out without full pay. In retribution they leaked the dirty laundry about the Startling "malfunctions" in the game files.

Did some digging into this because I watched the video and immediately caught some Brainworms about it; so this is actually part of a series, Broadside Beach! Definitely give the other related material a look. Also: the scrambled text on the signs translates to “Layer 2 Room (1/2/3, depending on which Secret Failed Minigame Room you’re accessing)”, as decrypted by a commenter on another playthru and corroborated by the game’s official Twitter. The dev’s comments in their YT channel’s community also hint at a “layer 3” section of the map files that I’m not sure anyone’s gotten a look at yet? Food for thought.

Personally I prefer the PS1 aesthetic of games like No One Lives under the Lighthouse or Bloodwash. But this and Crow 64 do a good job with their aesthetic, and I appreciate that.

30:23 dang they did a really good job with that scare it's really well done.

Hey Manly, theres a new version of Shipwrecked 64! the game now, has a lot of puzzles and secrets that send you to youtube and a whole lot of new things.

I want more of this game so badly!! Or more of this story and or developer?? I just want more of this game tbh. I am obsessed!!!

I misread that as all 64 endings, so you can imagine my confusion at how the video wasn’t longer lol.

I actually know the person who made this! I was in a discord server with them ! I'm so amazed to see how far their game is and how well done it's been worked on!

I never noticed that Mattie B Raps was in the credits lmfao

How would it feel to have an online shopping site exclusively for cursed tapes and games? Would people casually sell stuff like "Mario 64 Haunted By Demon (150$)" Or would people be begging on the internet like "Guys please just fucking buy this off of me, my pet dog has already died and I don't have much time!! (1$)" Would the government do anything about it?

Will you ever play the full release? None of the youtubers I watch heard it exist and the youtubers that do play it never play the full game. You're like the only gaming youtuber I know who could give it proper justice

OKAY So after looking back at some of the clues, this is the super basic stuff I gathered: There are animatronics or animatronic creatures called the Sterlings, which follows that usual idea of a human being wearing a suit, or perhaps even haunting one of those costumes. And the story basically tells us that there was Bucky Beaver (who is Brandon Lester) first, who killed three work associates, who eventually become Giovanni Goose (Gary Wilson), Walter Walrus (Nathan Stewart) & Olive Otter (Olivia Finch). This all confirms in from the fact that you see the cutscenes of Bucky killing the three people. 4:59 Lines up with Walter Walrus/Nathan Stewart's account of dying to assault, which is seen off camera. 30:49 The call being from Olivia mentioning specifically Brandon (Bucky) stalking her residence, which we can assume that it ends with her drowning. It already talks about Brandon acting strange, which can be alluded to that he already was dead in the suit. 33:27 Both the bashing to the head and pushing it into the stove was only two minutes apart from each other. So we can assume it was one person being killed in the whole scope of it, that being Gary who dies from severe burns. Now with each page accounting lining up with each seen death, we can guess that the Sterlings project does something with the humans and meshes them into a suit to turn them into a Sterling. That itself is written under another person performing the project which is written on the right side. The only thing I gathered from the audio between Connor who developed the game and the company spokesman Mark was that they brought a Brandon to film the demo. I'd guess that Connor kills Brandon or the likes to start the madness then, for his vendetta of his passion project being torn down.

This game really gave me nostalgia to the early gaming creepypasta days.

Well now that Night Mind made a 4h video on it you bet everyone is waiting for Manly to come back to this.

What a Story behind this Game. So, some Holiday getaway Park hires people to portray their mascots in suits. They also hire a budding Game Developer to make a Game For Them. And in Secret, they use the bodies of their mascot actors, which have a shockingly high mortality rate, to somehow Bring their characters to Life. I can't quite identify the cause of Brandon's death, but He seems to have been the First, and after being given the Green light to Work once more, He eventually, potentially by himself, potentially by directive of those leading this Programm, murders the other actors, leading to Them suffering the Same fate. Meanwhile, the Dev and the company Grow frustrated with one-another, as the Dev adds alot of Personal touches and aspects, specifically For His son, to the Game, which the Company does Not Approve of. After the Project is axed and the devteam fired, leaving Them without a Job and thus a way to Pay the Bills, the Dev Programms hints about the Secret doings of the company into the Game and gets as Many copies Out as He can in the hopes that that'll expose the company and Drive it Into Ruin.

the real horror is how an N64 game was running at 60fps.

Twenty minutes in Manly gets an ending, world is saved etc, but it IS a creepypasta game...30 mins left to the video. *whistle*

38:08 I just noticed this ending repeats the phrase “Let them Drown” repeatedly.

"I don't think this is probation, I think they just want free labor." So, in other words, probation

Whenever Manly says Secret, I can feel his eyes shining, I'm sure about it.

People saying the "intro" looked authentic? My brother in Christ were you even alive during the N64 days?! Literally no game I ever played looked like that.

Can't wait until the Wii or DS becomes the super spooky haunted console devs use

THE CHEEK SLAP AT 34:58 HAD ME DYING😭😭😭

Lol, I love the part we’re you slapped the giant beaver statues’ booty 😂

34:58 best part of the video right here

glad to see you're playing this dev's game, when i playtested this game for the first time in the past, i felt like the duder was gonna make it big. :P

33:48 the little "you ok, bro?" Cracked me up for some reason

It's really cool how you can see the deformities in the characters when they appear on the first bad ending, like the fork on eye.

Although I didn’t really get scared, I appreciate the style and idea behind this.

i love how manly always brings attention to things other usually wouldn't. like here he even specified the game had a twitter account. he didn't have to go out of his way to check it out but he did. these gameplays are just really great introductions to the entire fandom of whichever game he is playing, he always gets all the endings and more.

This games is gonna be up there with some of the most subtly well done games I think I've ever seen. I hope this game gets the recognition and praise it and the developers deserve! (not to mention genuinely disturbing me with how horrific and well the cutscene animations were)

4:16 how does one even get their boat stuck at the top of a hill my pal

How the hell did he end up in the poolroom from the backrooms

This was actually really creepy no lie lol the story is pretty interesting tho. Edit: Now that I think about it, this game reminds me of Crow 64 but this was more in depth and a bit more creepy.

I'm glad you were transparent about it being a fictional N64 game. People still try to tell me that catastrophe crow was a real game.

I hope you play the new version of this game.

Holy shit the imagery at 22:00 was genuinely distressing. It’s been awhile since a horror game made me feel that way

The bit where they make fun of the controllers is amazing