Welcome to the If I Played Two Horror Games About Getting Old I'd Have 2 Nickels Club, how If I Played Two Horror Games About Getting Old I'd Have 2 Nickels are ya?

I love it when games let you go "You know what? Maybe I SHOULDN'T partake in a horror game. I'm out." right at the start.

“So there’s multiple endings. Huh let’s see if we turn down this case and get an ending.” -> Gets happy ending Me: I have seen enough, I’m satisfied

I really like the idea of dementia being portrayed as a virus causing glitches in a person's brain, because that's a good, easy-to-understand metaphor! It's also a really terrifying experience for most, and seems really surreal and confusing, so the game's really accurate in that way, and sad. Honestly, even if the CIA plot was real, I'm pretty sure she still was developing dementia, and that was being used by the people to their advantage, and the Glitch Witch wasn't real, but part of Gail's mind.

wow what a lovely game about a senior detective retiring and going bowling with her grandkids! a bit short but very pleasant :) really glad she didn't go through some sort of extremely harrowing and supernatural event and that was in fact the whole game!

Love when a title does double duty. Decline the investigation, get the happiest ending. Play through the game, experience a mental decline.

Kinda ironic how the only unambiguously helpful and friendly character to Gail is the punk looking Arcade owner

I fucking love how incredibly happy the first ending is. No catch, just straight up bowling with the fam

I mean, what I loved about this, is that no matter if its actually a glitch witch or just dementia... I noticed the arcade cabinet they utilized for the experiments is Polybius. That is a nice nod to real life creepy pasta. If you do not know search it up XD

This game is a beautiful and horrific way of showing a mental decline. Alzheimer's and Dementia are very similar to glitches in the brain, losing time and the plaque build-up in the brain causes parts of the mind to be blocked off and inaccessible kinda like holes or missing code. My great-grandma would personally forget the year, who I was, miss days miss paying bills and so much more while I did everything I could to help her. This is absolutely a metaphor or even more likely the mental decline from the first perspective put in an amazing visual way. One of the reasons the first ending is the best is the stress let off of Gail allowed her to prolong her mind for some time enjoying the days with her grand kids and her daughter but the more she stressed herself out and frustrated herself the more confused she became making the cycle worse and worse.

You know, I'm just going to stop watching after that first, good ending. That's going to be the game for me. Woman retires, goes bowling, everybody happy.

I like this, two endings, two possibilities. Either it WAS the CIA developing Polybius 2, or you're just senile and making it all up.

16:58: code translates to "yes". Manly was right

What a neat little game. I like how they tied in Polybius into the story too. It's cool how there's been more games and media making references to Polybius now X'D

Interigating children without a parent/council present, convicted felons working at schools, and Polybius to boot! Ahhh. The 80's were sweet... Wait, What?!?

To me it was real, and the roots thing actually proves it - like, the Witch planted her roots in the protag's mind when she played the arcade the first time, and she "ate at her mind". And since the protag was already old and had some mind decline, then if the protag resists the witch at the end, and thus "removes the roots", it leaves an empty hole, as the Witch alluded to, and thus the protag is left REALLY diminished. So the only way for the protag to have a good ending is to decline the case at the beginning, since she doesn't get "implanted" with the Witch's roots then.

This game is truely evil. It used a character who's old enough to realistically suffer a mental disorder thematically similar to a glitch as a protag for this game. Now they have plausable deniability on this whole game. Is it real or not? Worst off she could be legit suffering and just happened to stumble across something crazy. The Polybus arcade theory being randomly included is even more cray. What a sinister set up for a non-existant sequel.

I love how if you do as the title says, and decline the case, you get an instant good ending. I don't know where the rest of the video is going to go, but I'm considering that the canon ending.

ah, wait, the glitch witch seems to have started taking hold after collecting the token (?) or at least playing the game, i wonder if you could avoid the whole interaction with the commissioner about the arcade fiasco by flat out denying the game also was it just me who kinda screamed internally at how she (A) didn’t immediately phone in the dead body and (B) didn’t turn in the coin? like, damn, it was at the crime scene and even she said it was possibly a clue. i’m probably looking into it too much

I can see this working as a short film of sorts because the plot was actually intriguing for the duration that it had. The last two endings were especially interesting because either choices makes you wonder if the alternative was the truth after all.

I think the story was about the arcade machine because when youre on that you can read "Polybius" as the title, the game that never existed. There were also back then theories that it was a secret CIA test to manipulate brains. So i think its based on that theory with the demetia maybe just thrown in there for people who dont know Polybius and make it more plausible that her mind is more easy affected by Polybius.

6:27 - I'm sorry the kid was held all night? ...That's freaking hilarious "WHOOPS ACCIDENTALLY DETAINED THIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KID OVER NIGHT MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE RETIRED AFTER ALL"

"You know what? Say we go bowling. Let's do what our wives THINK we're doing." And Detective FroZone was as happy as could be, spending time with their granddaughter bowling.

The Glitch Witch definitely seems inspired by the creepy faces in Game Boy Camera. The music in the game even sounds like one of the tracks that accompanied those creepy faces on the error message.

This man has the most chaotic method of making video titles, I always spend half the vid trying to decipher them.

The inclusion of Polybius really gives people who know about that story some foresight into some details later on in the game. Really neat touch.

manlys videos always bring comfort to me. I love horror games and I love his voice. I hope all his viewers enjoy as much as I do, cheers

The fact that you could actually play this on a Gameboy is awesome to me. Helps that the art is still quite clear and impressive given their limitations. I always enjoy a good detective story, even if this one doesn't require much sleuthing. Both interpretations work well enough, but I feel, given the reoccurring theme of age, retirement, and missed opportunities of spending time with your loved ones, that the more depressing, realistic version of the events is more likely.

*I sure hope there's no Spooky things or Jumpscare's in this game.*

There's a special place in my heart for games with Gameboy graphics like this. The soundtrack was interesting as well. Watching the video as I'm eating, let's eat, frens

My grandmother suffered from dementia and it's one of the most horrible things to watch someone grow through. I honestly feel like the Glitch Witch is real, and because Gail has the beginnings of dementia, she's more vulnerable to the glitches, which is why the degredation is so unnaturally quick. Dementia at its worst will happen steadily over a period of months, a few days would require a specific illness and wouldnt be general mental degredation

Suppose this is what happens when you don't patch the bugs and glitches of a very old game, they start to become sentient.

I like how the arcade machine is POLYBIUS. That's a nice touch.

I think the dementia is a red herring. Once I saw the game was Polybius I figured it was CIA mind control. Are you familiar with the urban legend about that arcade game in the 80s? If not check it out it’s some crazy CIA MK Ultra type stuff.

A preety nifty detail is that the arcade game was called POLYBIUS. It is kind of an urban legend. Supposedly the CIA made this arcade machine, back in the day and it made people feel weird and stuff.

The moral of this story is regardless of what's going on in the city, family just wants to spend time with gran gran.

"you know what sir you are right, im going home." *and thus the detective who was three days from retirement, retired and spent her days with her child and grandchildren.*

SPOILERS FOR THE VIDEO So the police commissioner was in on it the whole time according to the last arcade game. Yet, why did he give us the option to turn the case down in the first place? If he really wanted to use "a senile old detective", why did he tell Gail to spend times with her grandkids? Perhaps it was his last act of mercy for Gail. Anyway, you'd think Fred would know to kill the teacher in a secluded location, him being CIA and all. I guess he panicked, or wanted to traumatize some kids. Too bad for him the kid in the front row was also under the control of the glitch witch. Or maybe the CIA used the kid to get rid of him? Hm.

Based on the good ending, this game teaches us the importance of quitting our jobs to go bowling.

at 16:58 I'd like to point out that she did infact say YES in binary lol

So glad there’s an ending where you can go bowling with your grandkids. I love it when horror games have quick happy endings like that.

this really portrayed how terrifying dementia can be

If it wasn't / isn't dementia or some thing else , wonder if her boss was in on some thing or affected too and started gaslighting her , either consciously or under influence of infection or witch / evil. What if her family ( at least the adult members ) were on on it / infected or cursed or what ever as well....hmm...

Decline ALL endings? What if i like an ending? Surely you can't decline ALL of them right?

This went from, "analogy for dementia" to "MK-Ultra" pretty fast.

"It was just a secret experiment" feels a little cheap each time, but this one had a nice main story.

I really like your voice. I mean late when I don’t want to look at my phone i just use headphones and listen to your gameplay. It’s like fascinating podcast with asmr voice ^^

I love that this game includes the fact that the person needs to be on the system originally in order for the fingerprints and dna to work

I feel like this game is heavily inspired by Polybius The non existent arcade game filled rumors and conspiracy stories men in suits, mind control, and all that kinds of stuff

It’s so funny, I’m away from home this weekend and I’m by myself for the most part, so my courage to watch horror games at night has weakened. So a day upload is so much more watchable for me rn.

There was a horror game like this in the legendary game boy of retro games. I think it's great of you to find these games. I'll enjoy the video clip! Thanks!!

What I’m impressed is that this game would work on a Gameboy. Probably just wasn’t checking, but I haven’t heard of many recent game being playable on a Gameboy.

I love how one of the endings is literally a happy end that's just an immediate "nah, let's not, actually". xD

me alegraste el dia, me levantaste el animo y escuchar lo que dijiste me calmo, la verdad me siento tan mal cuando pasan muchas cosas dificiles en mi vida mia, te amo mucho

I watch your game plays a lot and i can say i feel a sleep a lot to them I find your voice perfectly peaceful and calming ~ Keep the good work ~

Okay: Do not tell me that when looking at the title screen in the corner of your eye, you aren't also seeing "kill me" instead of "decl ne" with the font choice. If that wasn't cleverly done on purpose it's one creepy coincidence given the type of game.

*here, play this narrative.* "Nah, fam." *Good ending*

Aren't we all technically playing a game where we're getting old? 🤔

Really wish we could’ve seen what happened once we joined the glitch witch.

Lots of connections between the CIA, Mind control, POLYBUS, dementia, “glitch witch” and others. Very interesting game

[Cabinet Man plays in the distance ominously]

Manlys commentary and MultiEnd games go together like PB&J. Try HROT, it's got a horror theme but it's a lot more FPS quakelike. I'd love to see your playthrough of it, or the other games from the same dev.

Also man, so excited to be working on my own game project. It's a meta Monster Capture rpg with some hidden horror elements so I hope you'll end up playing the Chapter 1 demo when that gets done, hopefully, by the end of 2023

manly gets the first ending: ah, this is the literal best ending. better not watch the rest

20:40 the way Manly said school sounded 100% like the Minecraft hurt sound.

It’s actually not unheard of or that rare for a child to be a murderer. Even as old as 12 or younger. Although a child ending up being the murderer is probably not gonna be the case most of the time, it definitely could be the case. One child shot at the school across her house because she hates Mondays she said. That case is pretty well known I would think but I don’t remember more details then that. But yeah another reason to be scared of children

Where do you find all the cool games? I am everytine suprised about all this games I would never see without your channel.

I feel like there might be another ending, y'know the lady said ill be back if its a joke, what if you come back, once you read the passages on the comps?

What a nice poem from the glitch witch at the end! I’d fall for and join hands with any women who serenaded me with such rhythmic words. *I might be too easy to corrupt…*

Im adding this to the "Manly is a soulless being that retains his strength through horror games" conspiracy lore Coincidence ? ??🤨 I think not-

This game is way more intriguing than I thought it would be.

22:00 I liked the little glitched out voice Manly did here lol

I really like how you explore every possibility, like collecting all weeds vs none.

"Rise from your grave." Nice Altered Beast reference, lmao.

You can see the name of the arcade game while playing. This game seems to be based on Polybius urban legend, which is about govn't mind-control program using said game.

i appreciate manly's narration of the glitch witch so much. matches it to a T

I'm Not ready to be old I'm still a child

Polybius (the name of the arcade machine) was a very popular creepypasta back when arcade machines reigned king when it comes to interactive media. Said to be a CIA experiment related to MK-ULTRA that can cause seizure and death to players, its goal is to find people with special talents. Highly suggest watching Ahoy's vid on the matter to learn more!

Honestly the sounds from this game are very relaxing

Interesting, the world map really looks like London with all the bridges crossing the Thames river.

I see join vs fight against the glitch witch as someone giving into vs struggling with the delusions and confusions dementia can cause. You could give in and believe you're really back in the glory days of your youth, and as nonsensical everything is, you're as happy as you were back then, or even willing to keep doing your current work to, in the detective's case, solve what's going on from the inside. You could resist, deny there's something wrong, that nothing makes sense and so you get confused and frustrated, and try to push through until you can't remember how to perform basic tasks and are trapped in your own rotting mind.

i found you by chance recently im glad to be here :)

"this game contains flashing lights" warning with a bunch of flashing lights on it :/ someone didn't think that through

The realization that this game was at least in part a Polybius fangame absolutely floored me and I will never recover.

It's nice to see the skate or die shopkeeper get more work.

i love you manly. you help me when i’m in the dark

There are stretches of audio where you sound just like Jonathan Frakes aka William T. Riker from Star Trek The Next Generation

I do not fear death. I am not religious, but it's simply a reasonable observation to think there has to be something after this, better or worse, and that it is likely an infinite recurrence. We came here from literally nowhere after all. What I do fear is losing my mental faculties. Even the most deranged schizophrenic is still "there," but when your brain starts physically dissolving in your skull, there will come a point when you are just completely unplugged from the matrix, meat without a "soul." You slowly lose grip of reality until all that's left is flickers of old synapses firing, but there isn't any coherence, and after that, until you aren't even aware of them. You are basically dead and you just keep moving.

Hi hiya Manly! Decl1ne is rather charming isn't it? Being a gameboy game and the main theme is about age and all. I'll try to explain a little bit from what I can figure out in this game's story. I've noticed the video game cabinet that the protagonist keeps getting her 'evidence' from is called 'POLYBIUS". POLYBIUS is a popular Creepypasta story for those who don't know, its about a rare one-of-a-kind arcade cabinet with the same name back in the 80's that was popular enough to be getting huge lineups, but it suddenly and swiftly disappears. Players would report to have strange symptoms such as hearing woman cry, seeing grotesque faces and scenery in their peripheral vision, getting headaches, blacking out, and developing *amnesia.* The owner of the arcade says that men in black came by occasionally to collect records. Really fun to see a game call back to POLYBIUS, the real killer was a conspiracy all along!!

Ahhhhh they went “Polybius” with this, I really liked that concept of a killer video game and it too according to myth was used by the CIA, (I say myth bc im not certain if it’s even true) and it also had a monster inside the game as well apparently, that’s really awesome! They made a movie for Polybius and I feel like this an epic nod to that never thought someone would make a game based off that concept tbh! (Sorry had to find this post bc I studied this story years ago and couldn’t remember until now, in the movie, they get pulled into the game and I believe the “glitch witch” is a nod to the legend of the demon that’s in that arcade, bc that’s what the movie was about was the CIA and the demon apart of the game itself.)

Manly always makes our day with his uploads , It would be awesome if he played the silent age or limbo Even tho both aren't horror games but anyways Great Video 👌

No, it was definitely real. The kid mentioning her by name before Amy sort of decline happens confirms it's real

Ohhh, Decline as in you can decline the case to get a good ending, or mental decline. Very clever.

I think the whole glitch witch is real. They create some machine with mine controlling capabilities, affect the user based on their minds (which is how the detective can see the event). The government tries to hide their experiment after the teacher reports kidnappings, so they put an old detective on the job. The commissioner then tries to deter the old detective from the start. If she rejects, he then tries to gas light her into thinking she has dementia or crazy (what actually happens when 1 week time skip).

I like how this game can be deemed a metaphorical story about dementia, but that isn't what this is about. The arcade game you play is Polybius, this is a fan game about the mind-controlling, CIA-planted arcade game named Polybius.

16:59 I thought you were joking but the binary actually does translate to "yes".

I just got an email that this game was released a few hours ago. Talk about bleeding edge, Manly! :)

It gave me a feel of the game Observer, like a futuristic style with the arcade/glitch surreal type, and the ending...really good game

2:46 was a good troll outro ngl

Whoa, kinda gives me World of Horror vibes Very spooky