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The ending actually made me sad. Little kitty cat just wanted to race. Kitty didn't ask to fall through 7 circles of hell.

At the end, I really wanted that bug spooky guy to just do his creepy walk over and then just push your cart over the line.

Tried my best to figure out what the cat said. 1. Dont be scare__ . Wont hurt (you?) 2. The waters here are soothing 3. ____ dont scare the fishes off

Here’s what I managed to pick up from the gray cat in the city level. When fishing off of the side of the road: “Hey! Don’t scare the fishes off!” For every other interaction: 1st time - “Don’t be scared! I won’t hurt you” 2nd time - “The waters here are soothing”

You know, just once, I want to see one of these "Haunted" or "Tell the story of some horrible event with cute imagery" games where the *ghost* is the one scared and confused, and the player helps them find peace and move on, either by playing the game, or by "spending time" with the ghost.

I think my favorite thing in any of these "retro" style horror games is when you see the monster and they move nothing like everything else in the game Just having a higher frame rate really makes it feel like it doesn't belong

You know what's the most sad? All of that was the first lap.

Sometimes I wish these sorta games would have some more buildup to them. Imagine if this game played like a normal, fun little mario kart clone with perfectly functional and beatable levels, with some minor oddities happening here and there. Then you get to the final cup and things start to go completely bonkers.

The 1/3 at the top was for Laps, not position. You are alone here.

Ending up stuck in the brown dimension might be hell because it’s poo, but it might also be chocolate which is good

Okay, the sound of kids screaming/crying when some the balloons popped really rattled me. I’m loving the Mario kart 64 look of this game though. They nailed down the little details so perfectly.

This goes up with that hamster chef game on the list of horror games I wish would be done legit because it seems fun to play. Besides that the balloon popping with the noise of children in distress was a really good way to be disturbing.

Part of me is curious to see what would have happened if Manly jumped the spike strip at the end. If you notice, the spikes dont go up until AFTER he runs over it.

Through my knack for pattern recognition, I think I deciphered the messages. 15:39 "Don't be scared! I wont hurt you." "The waters here are soothing." 16:43 "Hey! Don't scare the fishes off!" "Hey! Don't scare the fishes off!" 19:08 "Don't be scared! I won't hurt you." "The waters here are soothing."

Anything involving the N64 controller is true horror.

Mandatory theory comment: I think this is about a driving accident. 1st course doesn't give us much aside from the crashed car and child's drawing, but I think of it as the inciting incedent. You can't make the counter go up no matter how many laps you drive, doesn't it make you want to *break away*? You only progress by *breaking the rules*. 2 and 3 are similar in that they show affected people. 2 shows us a girl afraid to be on the same level as us, brushing it off as just mud she's freaked out by despite us never getting mud on us. The bunny on route 3 is clearly a victim. They say they can't feel anything, but once the world goes wonky, he's lying prone and only repeating that he feels something. Route 4 is. Obvious. Corpses lying prone, screaming, drawing implies the corpse is the kid's friend, the works. Room 5 is similar. You have to hit balloons except some are blood filled and induce screaming children. What's interesting is the character there, who isn't supposed to be there and when she says she's not ready to wake up, she explodes like a balloon. Our character also explodes like a balloon. A symbol of death maybe. Then we have route 6. A partially submerged road. No one else, just us and a faceless cat. I think the cat is a representation of us, or how we see ourselves after the accident; Faceless, incomprehensible, and as the translation implies, scary. And they see us in a similar light as we're scaring the fish. Then route 7. The scene of the crime according to the teeth pile. We're murdered by our victim (the teeth in the pile likely belong to the monster by the flashing images) and we're just left with "Congratulations: You Won the Game!" As if the game is saying "You didn't have to do this, but you did! You caused so much death! Are you proud of yourself?" At least that's my interpretation lol.

The ending kind of gives me the sense that the game is in a sort demo state as of now because of how the death feels like something that would be used in a prologue chapter before the real adventure begins. Something that goes like, the player's best friend suddenly disappeared one day and they get the game from their friends parents, only to find that they have to make a character instead of playing as the title cat character. The beginning of the journey then leads to a fork in the road where the player is given the choice to not get involved and play a simple kart racing game or go deeper in order to find out what happened to their friend and slowly uncover an ancient evil spirit or something like that.

I don't know if this actually supports multiplayer, but actually having that option appear on the menu helped a lot for the feel tbh.

did you know the music in the shi- i mean... "chocolate" falls level (level 2) is whats called a shepherds tone, an auditory illusion that sounds like its going down infinitely but its actually not... shepherds tones often cause psychological distress in most people if listened to for long enough

Nothing is scarier than the Blue Shell

i love the Style of this, i just wish it leaned into the kart gimmick a little more like it doesn't feel like a horror racing game, it feels like a kind of typical "walking in spooky environments and collecting vague lore" game where your sprite happens to be in a car

first one of these "n64" style games that actually kinda gets the style right (a lot are just low res and that's it), i appreciate that pretty much everything is a billboard sprite like you would have seen on the actual system, and the texturing on the actual 3d objects is clear, with very sparse use of 3d only where it's needed. (because that's what the system was good at, poly budget was insanely small but it could do a lot with 2d images and unlit textures on objects)

When you're driving to your mimi's house but accidentally fall off the world and end up in the poo dimension, hate when that happens, such an inconvenience

this is NOT the Garfield Kart i knew.

My goodness! The style and graphics are just on point! Even though it's obviously a horror game, it's enough to have me wondering what this world would be like if it wasn't horror. As another comment said, id you told me this was some limited edition content for MK64, I would've believed you.

Honestly.... This game was more sad than scary. Just made me very sad for the Cat. As someone who often is alone. I feel for the Cat.

I have to say, I adore the presentation of the flooded highway interchange. It's just got such a vibe to it, ya know? Like it's obviously a bit creepy, but also feels rather appropriate for the game type it's trying to emulate. Just interesting all around. Feels like the kinda thing you'd read a couple of mid mid-2000s creepypasta about.

"Skrunklesoft" 10/10 fake dev names

it's more of a diddy kong racing-style game. specifically how the character model moves while turning and such, honking at characters initiates dialogue, the balloons, etc.

not only are the VISUALS extremely faithful to mario kart 64, (even the little "bounce" that happens everytime you drift is straight from the game!) but also the gameplay! mario kart 64 is the only installment in the series where you can actually go offroad exploring areas such as peaches castle from mario kart 64! obviously you can go offroad in other mario kart games, but in other games there's not really many places to go other than the racetrack. so cool!! i can tell the developers really care alot about mk64 :D

"I think you need the ExpansionPak, my friend." lmfao I forgot all about that thing.

I'll let you all in on some deep Manly lore: if you want to rattle his cage just give him a racing game with no other players and no feedback on if he's even going the right way. Works every time.

the screaming writhing burnt corpses are awesome as hell. underrated detail

okay wow the modeling and gameplay really reminds me of when i would play mario kart on my dsi… i knew of maybe 2 secret paths that would help you get ahead in the race … but the emptiness is already setting and eerie tone and then the cart crashed and the drawing… haunted game maybe?

I like that the beginning is so cute with the bubble letters, pastel colors, and the pink sweet cat

This is giving me turbo from wreck it ralph vibes

the exploration aspect really adds a lot to this, especially when a lot of other retro-style horror games are very railroaded.

This would be a fire racing game tbh That track is so Nice to look at

If I had a nickel for every time there was a horror game featuring a purple cat in 2024, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

I think the ending was fumbled - all that buildup only for it go exactly as you would expect. Everything else, really cool. The balloon room made me think of the watermelon room

I really thought it was going to be a Wreck It Ralph situation, and those drawings were of the actual main character - a sheep

True horror would be the takedown of Bloodbornekart.

I remember as a kid I had a digimon racing game for the gameboy advance, and for the timer races I love exploring off the race map and see how far I could go before hitting the invisible wall. Finally seeing a horror adaptation for this exploration

i can see where the room with all the balloons, you're actually hallucinating, and what you see as balloons are actually people wonder if at the end, you can jump the spike strip

This game was incredibly interesting and horrifying in a Childhood Trauma kinda way, with the glitches and all. I loved Mario Kart 64 and Diddy Kong Racing, and these two strike me as the biggest inspirations for this game! Mario Kart for obvious reasons and Diddy Kong Racing for the exploring and talking to characters aspect.

That was a wild first lap

9:15 "do you feel it now mr crabs?"

Been watching since Ib, Mad father, corpse party and all those classics. And just checked that was 10 years ago! Hard to believe. Big respect for the grind, Manly

I'm honestly surprised that this looks like an ACTUAL N64 game. Not many PS1/N64-style games get that graphical style accurately.

that monster is horrifying. i love monsters in games that are actually scary

Such a cool game. It starts as an innocent kart racer and very fast you realize that something isn't quite right. Loved the presentation and open ended design of this. A lot of this relies on player discovery and when it all starts clicking, it's great

Kitty descends the nine circles of hell. The title screen is limbo. Level one is lust, with bright happy colors and music. The picture depicts someone on the edge of a drop. Level two is gluttony, the “mud” leaving Kitty slow and impotent. The picture depicts Kitty with devil horns pushing that person off. Level three is greed, with the Egyptian pyramids representing wealth. The picture depicts the first person’s descent into hell. Level four is anger, the fallen figures screaming in pain and anger for their fate. Level five is heresy, except instead of flaming tombs the heretics are in balloons I guess. The picture depicts the person befriending the teeth-basher. The teeth-basher goes to the living world and brutally kills Kitty by repeated blows to the face. Level six is violence, which is Kitty’s true fate for pushing the first person to their death, since he can’t recognize himself or what he is saying (the text may also be garbled because all his teeth have been knocked out). The picture shows Kitty arriving to their new hell, with the first person looking on. Level seven is fraud, the cutesy medium of the game giving way to the truth showing the bloody teeth. Level eight is treachery, with seemingly helpful arrows leading to the finish line but it stays just out of reach as the spikes come out of nowhere leaving Kitty stranded and subject to their ultimate fate, eternal torment by the teeth-basher.

The soundtrack on the mud world is kinda cool, a reverse shepherd tone going on there

watching this on a cruise international waters manly video

Once this game is finished, I really hope it has a completely normal campaign that you can play by avoiding all the creepy stuff and staying on the track. The idea of it being an otherwise normal Kart racer would add to the realness.

Manly: Where you play a kitty that must win a series of races... And nothing goes wrong. Me: Famous last words.

I think kitty kart has potential to be a full game maybe

15:31 he just standing there menacingly

my guess for the story (assuming its in the order we find the pictures) is some fluffy haired kid is lonely and got bullied, but at some point got visited by a... thing that tormented the other kids back for him, either intentionally or for him, with them being based on how they bullied him. pig tail girl shoved him in mud or a pool so shes trapped in a pit of it, the dog did something in the desert so hes trapped there, mouse might've embarrassed him at a party so shes trapped in a void of screaming balloons, and its possible the cat we play did something at a road and/or involving fishing (possibly left him at a lake and drove home? who knows) so its a flooded roadway

I love his monotone voice during all the unspeakable horrors he's played through over the years

him constantly honking the horn is both very funny but also a lil annoying lol

feel like theres something involving those golden balloons in that balloon area, but overall the game seems pretty neat

I had feeling this reminds me in some way of Yume Nikki especially with different maps being like different worlds, and then Manly himself mentioned that right as I had that thought! 20:17

feels like this would have been a lot better as an actual kart racer

The ending is, a lot more brutal than I expected

Cute game, and well done... But also, not yet what I crave for. As an avid consumer of unfiction, I want a TGIF that's not another walking simulator (from Petscop to Rapid Eyes and even Shipwrecked). That's part of why I'm a fan of Diminish, it's a platformer/rage game playing heavily on its mechanics/gameplay to convey its story/atmosphere. Well here we have a race game, but eventually you just go to places and see stuff. It doesn't really play on the race gaming conventions/mechanics. Admittedly I don't see how to exploit them for storytelling but that's the point. Eh, it was a game-jam, it's quite amazing in that context. I'm just rambling. EDIT: Oh yeah, and why so many N64 ghost-titles? C'mon, the Saturn was the cursed console.

well... that's terrifying in my book, a colourful cartoon game with disturbing things and uncomfortable moment, the congratulations room with the balloons that pops something else besides confetti's caught my attention and I've never felt horrified when I found out what's inside those balloons.. and the kids crying and people screaming when it pops.. my god I'm speechless of what to say about this game.

7 circles of hell. Someone below me nailed it.

that long highway part was so good

Getting your tires popped a foot from the finish line and never getting to cross is SO unsatisfying lol. It's more disturbing than the fact that your character gets bludgeoned at the end!

I'm always super happy when I see a new MBH video. Just always good to have on either watching or in the background, it's a win-win

Reminded of when I was around 6 and a friend tried to glitch a map in mario kart 64 apparently a rumor that the beach level if you fell through a part you would end up at peach's castle.

I really like the highway track with the white cat. Really soothing and calm

This was really good, definitely one of my favorites of this low poly nostalgia horror games. I hope to see more like it!

Well the fact it was submitted to lsdjam explains more than half of the weird stuff.

Although somewhat disjointed, this felt similar to shipwrecked and catastrophe crow. I love this style of horror. Hopefully it can become a bigger genre

19:50 KRIS! GET BACK HERE!!! WE NEED TO SEAL THE DARK FOUNTAIN

Goddamnit why can’t purple cats just be normal for 5 minutes

It's cool, and exactly the kind of game that draws my interest and imagination. That said, I can't really understand the hidden story. There are pieces here and there: 1. First world, girl is near the cliff, and the well with an crashed cart implies someone jumped into the well; 2. Second world (chocolate world), I'm guessing the girl "fall down", and needed help, but the other girl refused to help because she would get dirty; 3. Third world (desert world), a character who doesn't understand desert, or feel anything? And the world just gets progressively unstable; 4. Fourth world-- the scare. Someone was clearly in trouble-- probably how things _actually are;_ 5. Fifth world, birthday world. Made me go "is this THAT kind of story too"? lol 6. The last three is more obvious-- highway, to parking lot, to underground parking lot, where you finally... "win". The progression here is clear at least, though not sure who the white cat is supposed to be. Maybe the evil entity, if you apply fishing to people. I'm thinking that maybe the game is just cool and creepy, and there's not really meant to be a... full plot that tie everything together. At least I can't draw anything conclusive from this. Feels like there were multiple plot lines honestly.

They did a great job at keeping it creepy. Felt uncomfortable the whole time. I need to watch something happy after this

Manly I'm going to be honest with you. Whatever I feel sad or something or just feel like I really need to scare I watch your videos. They make me jump I'm not going to lie. I hope you have a scary day!

Con: there isn't a plot, there isn't even a coherently inferable plot. there's just a bunch of spooky scary creepypasta imagery Pro: instead of a screaming jumpscary that closes the game, the glitchy shadow man walks over with the sound of boots on gravel(?) and graphically beats you to death with a hammer

apologies for turning off the audio during the cyan and pink world, not even your buttery smooth voice could soothe the bleeding in my ears

The cat in the Mario Kart vehicle looks like one of the hedgehogs from Sonic when you're driving. The sound has the Nintendo 64 vibe, I like honk button it has in the game.

"Lovely Sweet Dream" Heh. You'd definitely have to know about this game prior. Imagine trying to play it straight and think it's trying to compete with Big Rigs for best 3D racing title.

😄That was a fun ride, Manly! Now you need to try your hand at Slasher Kart for N64! Seeing Michael Myers, Jason, Pennywise, and Co. racing down Rainbow Road is a 'Scream' - no pun intended.

this actually gave me genuine apprehension! WELL DONE!

I actually know the guy who made the character models for this game, so it's pretty cool to see a video on something he worked on.

You can see how much love and effort was pur in that game. That's just amazing

my expectations for this game were pretty low given how many “cute thing gone scary” games there are but the horror elements of this one combined with the polish of the game really elevated it for me!! its so high quality and the dialogue along with that crazy sound design made it so good

really fantastic visuals, very good ominous wandering, I really liked basically everything. except the ending. it, personally, felt like a lackluster and generic end to an otherwise really entertaining and bizarre game and I feel like the devs could do better than that tbh

And that's all in the first lap

"It says I'm first" N-no. That's the lap count. Lap 1/3.

if i was the cat i would simply get out and walk when my tires were punctured

Perfect timing, I was watching a Manly compilation. Bro is too funny.

I don’t see anyone questioning wether you can hop over the spikes at the end, since it doesn’t seem to have any other purpose

Looks like an average vinesauce corruptions stream to me

first thing manly does after getting into the game is going straight for the unintended way blindly

4:52 Aint no way bro got possesed by Mickey