So does anybody want to start a rotisserie keeper fantasy baseball league?

The important thing is that our little bird guy looks at every version of the princess, including all version of the princess, and says “would”.

The Spectre was created through our unquestioning action, and The Nightmare was created from our utter indecisiveness

Having Jonny Sims voice the Narrator is incredibly fitting, I feel.

my clueless aromantic ass like "yeah the fact it's a love story is just to evoke the ancient idea of two halves, and they're different genders because it's like the ying yang and stuff it's to emphasize their opposition in contrast with the convergence of their relationship, nothing heteroromantic about this princess and knight story it's totally about existential gods and the perspectives are all parts of a single entity and it's just the egg theory mh mh" (well to be fair it's still that but I see how interpreting it as an actual love story is more practical for real world application) also, heart. lungs. liver. nerves. 🗣

Your theory about the mirror gave me a thought. The mirror never gives us time to interact with it before disappearing. This could be hinting at how we never spend time reflecting on ourselves, always charging head first into a situation. When we see the mirror again, it’s after we “lose” the princess. When we look at our reflection, we slowly see ourselves unwinding, as if breaking down from each failed relationship. Your analysis on the game gave me new insights to ponder over. This was really well-crafted and spoken! Thank you for this wonderful video.

This might just be my take, but I think The Adversary being in a cave structure make sense. It's polar opposite princess is kept in a temple-like setting, worshipped and known. Whereas The Adversary is kept in a hole in the earth, much like a pre-Helenistic cult would meet in. One has structures made in her honor, the other is secretly given praise in earthen tunnels.

I dont entirely agree that each part represents a failed relationship, rather than...just a part of a relationship, but great essay all the same. Especially the whole ending section, that conclusion to understanding each perspective was beautiful.

I think the adversary’s barbs shown at 23:53 are tally marks! So like keeping count of the winners in an infinite number of duels

I would like to say that the Nightmare does the most absolutely terrifying thing she could have done, which is break the lock, see you asleep, *move the table and purposefully overturn it*, leave the door *ajar,* and then wait for you to wake up. The purposefulness of those actions when I woke back up put the fear of god into me more then anything else she ever dead. Just. So perfectly done.

42 minute mark, all I could think of when you were talking bout the little men in your head was Whenever you hate yourself, picture your emotions at a war table, they are attacking each other, breaking the wooden table. All you gotta do to break the fight is "GENTLEMEN, NO FIGHTING HERE THIS IS THE WAR ROOM!"

For longing, I see the cartoonist depiction of wind. It's a common thing to see when someone is searching for something, like half the I want songs portray this

The Voice of the Paranoid is my favorite voice. His chant has helped me calm down when I get overwhelmed.

Honestly i think the mirror is just more of an incentive to continue playing , but also consider that once we finally see into the mirror, we understand our godhood. Not a reflection, but that you are the long quiet, and i think its really cool

Regarding the connection between Pain and Unfamiliarity, I feel this has less to do about the idea of self-knowledge and more about doubt and the concept of the relationship itself. Fittingly, they're both routes that operate unconventionally from the others by not having the Princess change into a new one later, and both are accessed by challenging the status quo The Stranger is reached by not engaging with it on the first place, and thus not abiding by the rules in the search of more possibilities to engage with. To explore and see all the paths this could take. However, the consequences of this passive approach is that you never take action. Waiting and seeing will always seem more favorable than taking action, because you might miss a better opportunity if you move now. By trying to see all paths that could be taken, you became too passive. By focusing on the idea of a relationship too much and the ways it could go, you neglected your partner themselves. The Razor, on the other hand, is attained by engaging with the status quo but questioning the outcome in favor of your own judgement. This can't really be it. And your doubts prove to be true. You feel a fool for trusting that things were as they were. And you settle into your own image of the person you're with, rather than with thst person. Every action taken from then on only serves to reinforce this image, everything you do from then on is based on what you think of this image. Even as doubts of your view pile in, you reassure yourself that you were right once. No matter which path you choose to take now, you always arrive at the same conclusion. You were right. Nothing else matters but that you were right. And, at the end of the day, you two are all the worse for it. By focusing on the idea of your partner too much and analyzing every action they take, you neglected your relationship. It's a tale akin to the tale of the oak and the reed. Where the reed is bent over by even the slightest of gales, and the oak is torn apart when overwhelmed by winds it couldn't best. One can be too flexible, and one can be too single-minded. One can be too cautious, and one can be too stubborn. One can be too passive, and one can be too active. If the relationship you have with your partner is to thrive and enrich you both, you have to be both openminded enough to acknowledge possibilities, and rigid enough to know when to stay the course. Otherwise, it'll all end in bitter regret before it can even develop into something better.

If you ask me, the connection of wires to The Adversary is the idea that although they are sharp, they intertwine as equals. Isn't that what Rivalry is all about? There's a reason Rivals to Lovers is a thing in the FanFiction community.

"i’ll be going over a lot of routes" thorn! thorn! thorn! "and i’ll be skipping some of the best ones" awww dang i love her, i have the poster they released up in my living room

This conclusion was the same I had: Been married for a very long time and the complexity of changing together and separately, but moving forward together is encapsulated wonderfully in this game.

What an absolutely beautiful essay. This game was so profoundly deep and compelling to me. I have been in abusive relationships and now I am in a long term relationship. They love me so unconditionally even when i struggled with my Mental health and said some hurtful things. I felt like an unlovable monster who couldn't stop hurting my friends but she never left me. I wanted to try again. I wanted to be better. The game is a masterpiece

I have been searching and longing for someone to finally quench my thirst for this type of deep metaphorical analysis of this game. Many people really cling to the actual aspects of the game without looking into the deep meaning it has abou relationships. What youv'e said are things i desprately wanted to connect in my mind, but, like the shifting mound said, they were unfinished, unpolished. I usually look for essays like this to clear my view of the specific thing that i'm interested in, and i'm so thankful to see that you were able to do that for me. I was finally able to clearly know what i think through your analysis and my reflection of it. I also really appriciate how well you've established that this is just your analysis, and because of that i was able to fully look at your opinion as just an opinion and through that understand what i truly think. I struggle with relationships, romantic and platonic, so this game is such a comfort to me. Thank you.

it was so funny hearing the stuff about the autonomic nervous system because mine doesn’t function properly 💀 dysautonomia

Terror section goes incredibly hard, just OUGH, the entirety of it is amazing

This is so high quality, what the actual heck? Absolutely beautiful beyond belief.

as someone who has struggled with sexuality, love, romance, and all of that mess, new perspectives through videos like theese are (and I can NOT understate this.) VERY helpful when coming to terms with, and discovering, and changing, and becoming a new person. also yeah its 100% an analogy for baseball.

It's gotta take some balls to write a romantic comedy that doubles as a cosmic, psychological meta-horror. And it's gotta take even more talent to actually pull it off.

That's a very good video. Though, I don't get why everyone says that Damsel is "shallow". I do get where people are coming from, she only expresses one desire of her own - to be free, but she isn't really unique in that. Prisoner, Spectre and Witch for example. Each of them wants to get out and that's about it. She is not "objectified" per se, just very very dependant. She still holds her own desire, but wants you to fulfill it - to see the world, but through your lense. Blind devotion is not submission, after all

38:43 i took a very literal meaning from the mirrior and the shiffting mound saying each time she sends you back you will forget, the mirrior is your memories, not the memories of any individual hero of a chapter but the acumulated memories of the long quiet, the mirrior is obscured while in the construct becuase its blocking the individual piece of the hero's and the princess's from theyre respective wholes, the long quest and the shifting mound, reaching for those cut off memories is impossible in the prison, and the narriorator never even knows of your growth only the threat of the princess, since he;s inside the construct with you he cant see things outside it anymore than you or the princess.

This is definitely the best video essay about this game i have seen so far. I grew up with divorced parents and all the relationships ive had didnt last past the “honeymoon” phase. So i never knew what it meant and what it takes for people to stay together for several years or even their whole lifetimes. This game made me hope that i one day get to experience that as well.

49:43 I know the context is largely focused on romantic long-term relationships, but your thoughts about love being a promise reminded me of something I told a very close friend of mine: of love being a promise replenished by promise. At that moment I felt I wasn't alone in this understanding. A great and emotional video essay. So happy to have stumbled across your video. 😊

Horror as Love and Love as Horror is what fuels my appreciation for this game. I wonder if which princess people find the most frightening says something about the barriers they have in love. For example, I find the nightmare the scariest. I felt shaky and out of control in the nightmare chapters. Meanwhile, there was another Slay the Princess essay I watched where the guy went "The beast tapped into my primal monkey brain and made me shit myself."

For the “barbs” admittedly I saw them as scratches, potentially left by claws.

Wow, I never noticed how much the routes mirrored each other! Now I just can't help but wonder how the Narrator fits into your interpretation. Especially considering some theories where we as the Long Quiet are only inhabiting the Narrators Corpse or that the Voices are just aspects of the Narrator that fractured from the echo due to the construct being imperfect.

Man, witch and thorn are so fucking good, my favorite every time.

i literally died when i realised that Jonny Sims is the voice omfg

This is why I love this game. It's an entire allegory to the complexity of romantic relationships but it also takes many steps further with the many different routes, the many different perspectives of the Princess, the many different voices in your head, and the many different decisions you make that brings the many causes and effects behind them, each and all of them symbolizing the many different aspects and characteristics between two individuals of what makes them WHO and WHAT they are as they come together with what strengths and weaknesses they have in order to make their romantic relationships healthy (or toxic). Heck, even when taken this game to cosmic horror levels, between the two eldritch gods that are the Long Quiet (that represents life, stasis, stagnation, and order) and the Shifting Mound (that represent death, change, transformation, and chaos), both creatures that fundamentally embody the laws of the universe, it's still basically a love story between them, no matter how out of this world it is nor how incomprehensible and unfathomable they both are. Once a single cosmic being that embodied the laws of the universe than split from one another and trapped in an infinite prison by the mortal that became the Echo/Narrator, as they are constantly forced by him to confront each other with his desire of the Long Quiet to erase the Shifting Mound so he can rid the universe of of Death forever so it's a rather heartbreaking story between two lovers forced into eternal conflict that's forced by another being that is doing everything he can to get what he wants at the expense of both the Hero's and Princess' constant suffering as they hurt one another. And what I also noticed is that I do find some parallels that the LQ and SM have is with the Yin and Yang Toaism (which you kinda showed a bit of that parallel at the start of your video). Two opposite, yet necessary, principles of Chinese philosophy that both exist to maintain balance to existence. This is where it comes with the Long Quiet and Shifting Mound, both being complete opposites and contradictions from one another yet are still necessary to both have each other to function and carve meaning into existence just like the concepts life and death, stasis and change, and order and chaos, all need to co-exist together. And yet, neither are completely absolute since the Yin and Yang each holds a piece of their respective opposite (Yin having a black dot and Yang having a white dot), this fits with the game here as the Narrator stated that the split wasn't perfect and mentions that both the Long Quiet and Shifting Mound hold a small piece of each other within themselves which is an intention that the Narrator did this that even without the Shifting Mound, the Long Quiet's nature is not complexly stagnant as he still holds a bit of the Shifting Mound's nature to at least keep existence from being completely frozen but not completely be able change like it normally does either. Perhaps this symbolizes with relationships that both lovers are still themselves but also gradually changing certain parts of themselves over time since their love and interactions have carved new perspectives and self reflections with one another and to themselves. In Layman's terms with all of this, ogres are like onions and both have layers.

49:32 I know you uploaded this a few months ago, but I have to say that your words here hit me personally. I’m not old enough to be in a romantic relationship, nor do I feel ready for it, but what you said really resonated with me. I’ve recently been learning about and even meeting all kinds of people, mostly online. I’ve also had a ton of moments where I either simply didn’t agree with or even hated their beliefs, whether they be shallow or personal. Other people’s genders is especially a topic I keep wrestling with in my head as a Christian, slowly changing from “their beliefs go against mine and I should stand my ground when I feel challenged,” to “people are different and I should at least do research to sympathize with them,” and to right now, which is “I’ll never truly understand them, but the least I can do is respect and support them while not having to give up my own beliefs.” I don’t often say something like this wholeheartedly online, but thank you for saying something that resonated so deeply with me. I literally laughed out loud and felt so happy when you said that because it felt comforting to hear that I’m not alone in my thoughts.

I disagree with you on the mirror. Not on its narrative function, but in the idea that what it actually is doesnt matter. To me, it is clear that the mirror is the narrator himself. When the mirror breaks, the narrator dies, because he is it and it is him. This is also why he can't see it. He refuses all self-reflection. The Long Quiet sees the opportunity and tries and fails to take it. But the narrator refuses to even see himself. That's all, great video, definitely gonna check out your other stuff once im done here

The Smitten gives off BIG Laszlo Cravensworth from What We Do in the Shadows vibes. I literally couldn't get his image out of my head every time I heard a line from The Smitten.

The two opposing concepts feels like Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean- you act morally when you meet the perfect middle ground (the virtue) between two vices. This is looking at those two vices on the opposite sides of the spectrum

This is a very good video! I was honestly very surprised how few proper, thorough analysis on this game are actually around, considering how dense it actually is. Honestly, if you wanted to make another video going in depth on the chapter 3 & 4 princesses I'd love to watch it.

Just wait until I tell you that I’ve lost control of my autonomic nervous system. It’s actually moderately common, though I can’t remember the general term. Just that I have orthostatic intolerance.

I'm so glad that last video blew up so I could find this channel and marvel at wonderful stuff like this, that did not feel like 52min but it was and it was worth every second of watch time

I loved Slay the Princess! Thank you for making this excellent video essay about this game. It's great to see it get some love!

Well I've been LONGING for a video essay that explores this theme of love and well damn, I got it. I always saw myself as a bunch of qualities and flaws that I would need to preserve or smooth over, but I realise now that I should be more fascinated by seeing the changes in myself and others.

I absolutely love this game with all my heart and soul. You stole the words out of my mouth and masterfully explained this game. Thank you.

im always glad to see more people discover this amazing game, not usualy one for visual novels but this is just so welldone and imaginitive.

I always think "hero" looks like one of the bird people form draksouls 3

I love this analysis! The spiral of paths appeared so quickly I was like "HOLD UP" and then completely forgot about it xD Thank goodness someone else didn't! Not gonna lie, when I saw the "This is a love story" line, I assumed it was just another cliche trope to be subverted. The fact that it was actually explored as a central theme (among many others!!) goes in there with the bucketloads of everything that blows my mind about this game. I haven't seen a video essay this solid in a while! Let alone about a piece as spiralling as Slay the Princess. Thanks for putting all these thoughts straight, I feel like I understand it a lot better now!

This was so great! I haven’t seen many video essays for STP but I adore this game and hearing some of your thoughts really makes me love the game even more. I’m aro but I’m super obsessed with the love story portion of this game, the push and pull and the nebulous nature of their relationship it’s quite literally about about seeing different sides of different facets of the same thing, the fact that most of the game doesn’t focus explicitly on the type of actions most would agree are strictly associated with romance (except for a few specific instances in different routes) but more about how two “individuals” are so wholly intertwined to the point they perfect reflections of each other. They are beings who are inversions of each other but also a view of the same thing from different angles. (And then they actually have the mirror imagery in game too!!!) And there is so much passion in their relationship and I mean passion in the way they take one trait and push it to an extreme which I feel is something that ties to the concept of love. Too me love is all about that passion and that also leads me to the idea that love isn’t inherently something purely like positive and which is a emotion that is so much more complex than people often give it credit for. I love seeing the different interpretations of love others have since I’m clearly missing some perspectives. This is rambly and probably makes no sense outside of my own head no idea where I was going with this.

Fantastic video!! That last bit about love and long-term relationships is a beautiful exploration of what commitment means. I've never played this game personally, only seen other Vtubers play it, but it seems like choose-your-own-adventure taken to another level and I dig that

“And the people we’ve become, wouldn’t exist without the other” when I tell you I bawled

Great job here! I love this game to bits. As someone who is deeply aro, to me long-term romantic relationships are like, I dunno... skydiving. Really fascinating, wouldn't try them in a million years. But I still love thinking about them, writing about them and exploring their facets.

I noticed that almost all the branches connect together into different chapter 3 vessels. For example: Consumption and betrayal is the beast and the witch, but together they can lead to the same route: the wild, after you keep stubbornly fighting against each other until it kills you both. Skepticism and blind devotion lead to the gray if you kill the prisoner and the damsel coldly. Rivalry and submission lead to the fury if you disregard the Adversary's and Tower's wants and goals until they start falling apart. Terror and longing lead to the wraith when you keep the nightmare and spectre trapped, and have to make them force you to let them go and release them. The stranger and the razor are the only chapters that are separate and without a connective vessel. Maybe the pristine cut will provide that, but what I do know is that the stranger and razor are the only ones where you get to see the their heart (literally and figuratively, since shifty's real form looks similar to stranger and the razor shows her heart.) While watching this essay, this is what I observed. I think that's really cool.

slay the princess is one of the greatest games ever made

(finishes video essay) (immedately tries to write my own) Probably the highest compliment I can give!

this is a very good video, the bit at the end talking about how slay the princess represents how it feels to be in a long term relationship is honestly fantastic

I already wrote a comment, but I want to write another one: I absolutely loved your video! Before, I actually disagreed with the statement that this game could be compared to real realationships, since it seemed too far streched. But your thorough and precise argumentation convinced me otherwise. I also appreciate that this was an actual analysis and not just a reiteration of the game's plot, which I saw in many other videos analyizing movies and games. Additionally, I really like how you compared different princesses and showed similarities or differences, which I didn't notice in my own playthrough. Great job and keep going! :)

Ooh you just, wow. Loving someone is such a scary thing and I just love how you explained it in the end. Knowing someone is so different and ever changing and just accepting them in any case is just love.

The final explanation at the end was just beautiful, you summed up the meaning of Slay the Princess in the best way possible! I truly mean that!!

This was brilliant, thank you so much. I’m shocked that there aren’t more deep-dive style analysis videos on this game. I don’t have much else to say aside from the fact that I never even considered the pieces of that pin-wheel being from routes in the game haha. There is still so much to glean from this game, and I love that.

This is easily the best description/analysis of Slay the Princess I've ever seen, thank you so much !

The I love you in the end hit so hard that I cried for a good minute, and I don't cry at all

The editing for this video is fantastic and wonderfully done. Really captures the atmosphere of the game.

I was not expecting how well thought out and beautiful this essay was.

I'm so happy to find a video I can watch over and over and still really enjoy myself!! Thank you sm! Your truly an inspiration

This was great!! I really like your take on this. I hadn't put much thought into the love story part of this... I really really should have. This is facinating! I'd love to see your analysis of the different Chapter 3 paths at some point, too.

This was a beautiful look at my favorite, favorite game. I’m too tired right now to offer my thoughts, but,,, I loved this. Thank you for making this.

Woooow! U are so deep and witty and hardworking at the same time... such an analysis for this complex game. Job well done!

This was so helpful for understanding the game and the meaning behind each version of the princess!! thank you so much for the excellent wording and breakdown of all the dichotomies. also the terror & longing timestamp is incorrect if you didn't know. I would love it if you made a video about all the different endings because you have such excellent analysis of this game!!

44:48-46:45 nearly made me cry when i first watched it, it's just so beautifully worded. what a perfect way to bring it all in.

This game is perfect, but seriously, this video was also INCREDIBLE. Your explanations were perfect, and it's extremely impressive how you manage to condense the general extremely abstract core story of the game in the literal first minutes of the video, then procede to explain perfectly the meaning of the love story presented in the game. You shared light in the parts of this narrative that I didn't really manage to process, so thanks for that! 10/10, will procede to subscribe and watch every single second of content you made!

This was an incredibly well made video essay, hats off to you

I wish i could describe better how your video made me feel. I love your way of opening and analyzing the story, and was totally emerged into your video. Thank you for explaining, or sharing your theory on the story so clearly and carefully organized! The story of “Slay the princess” has hit me so hard and reflected me on my relationship. I am always feel i myself so undefined and carry so many emotional conflicts that ended up hurting both me and my partner. After understanding the story, i feel somehow… seen. I have been stuck in finding an answer for my mess of emotions, I don’t understand why it’s existed, how it affects my loved one, or what i really want. Your video has made the story come clear and opened a new perspective on the matter to me. “Slay the princess” really is a masterpiece to me 😊 so beautifully written

i adore this video!! as someone whose perspective of love is honestly a mess, slay the princess is incredibly profound to me and this essay encapsulates all of the things i adore about it

By the by, my partner and i have been falling asleep to this thought piece. While we are playing and trying to take turns after every death. This is fun!

Congratulations on this video, honestly, one of the best i've seen on my many years on this platform. Your words have moved me, as someone in a long term relationship as well. Thank you for making this video and making me appreciate this game even more.

Thank you for the beautiful analysis! With this video, I was able to really understand the themes of the game I liked so much. Unlike other video essays where they just recap things, breaking down the details snd metaphors made it digestible. Thank you

If I had to posit a guess as to the Adversary’s arm in the Stranger, I would say it is a series of crosshatched scars. Evidence of continuous and constant bloody clashing, particularly evocative of the path where the Voice of the Stubborn refuses to let it end until you physically cannot continue.

Omg I was looking for a video essay I could understand thank you

Such an underrated video! I haven't been very interested in this game until now, but this analysis was so interesting to listen to, loved it! So thank you

Thank you so much for this video essay. It finally put my feelings into words and it was a perfectly balanced story recap, personal interpretation and possible methaphors!!💜

if you haven’t listened to the magnus archives you need to, jonny sims (the voice actor for slay the princess) is the writer and voices the main character and it’s so fucking good it changed my brain. anyway i just say this because i’ve been binging a lot of videos about slay the princess, and a lot of this seems like direct shout outs to things about the podcast, specially the pairing of terror and longing (since the magnus archives is a horror podcast)

This is such a well made video! Great editing and the beginning visuals were a perfect touch.

Excellent analysis. You brought up a lot of great points I hadn't considered yet, making this game even more fun to play and think about.

Honestly, usually, when I watch a video here on KZfaq, I am not expecting to think. I have fun, I analyse what I watch sure, but typically, I'm never reflecting on myself, and my brain, when I watch a KZfaqr. But this video made me reflect on my life in a way I've never done before. I cried- I won't lie- pretty hard, at your description of love, and relationships at the end. I'm an emotional, social person, I love connecting with others and knowing we're alive. But at the same time, it confuses me. I think about it for hours, how we all just exist and think and we don't even realise how weird it is that we do that, and about love and loss and what it all means and how it doesn't mean anything but it does?? We're all just strange and facinating and horribly beautiful and relationships are a perfect example of how weird we are(all living beings, not just humans, mind you). Idk, I could never put it into the right(ig "smart-sounding") words, and never found anyone else who could either, until now. And of course, this video made me want to play this game, a game I was by all accounts pretty disinterested in and thought to be just another heteronormative weird "woman does sexy stuff for male player to ogle at" game(esp when the game itself emphasised the "love" aspect). I fell back on thinking it would be like other heterosexual dating games with a male lead, based on the kind of letsplayers I saw playing it, and being gay I just figured myself not to be the target audience, and left it alone. I'm proud to say you made me realise I couldn't have been more wrong, and thank you for that. This game is so intricate in ways I couldn't have ever thought possible from the surface. I'd now love to order this game for myself. Amazing, well-thought out, emotionally resonant and inteligent analysis. 10/10, keep it up, and thank you again.

StP is the game that actually made me, after a prolonged resistance, appreciate Freud, Lacan, Melanie Klein and psychodynamic/psychoanalytical psychotherapy. This game is so overly about relationships, the Id/Ego/Superego with the narrator personas, the phallus (the pristine blade), the death drive, the repetition compulsion, that they cannot simply be a byproduct of an "otherwise meaningful" videogame.

This was one of the best game essays ive ever watched

Loved your analysis! It's such a neat game, and I've been waiting to watch longer essays like this until I got more time with the game. Saved this to a playlist for future writing reference, so I'm just leaving a note for myself. Opportunist V Hunted - Proactive Cunning and Reactive Desperation Skeptic V Smitten - Logical Realism and Emotional Idealism Broken V Stubborn - Resigned Depreciation and Resiliient Pride Cold V Paranoid - Bored Proximity and Fearful Avoidance Contrarian V Cheated - Immature Apathy and Entitled Suspicion Hero V Narrator - Well-wishing Complements and Distant Observation/Criticisms Some good ideas for love dynamics, but also good inspo for potential Shards for Hunter? Paranoid and Hunted feel like the ingredients to Failsafe, and Contrarian and Stubborn feel like two halves of the [SmileyOne].

That final dialogue about long term relationships was amazing. I kinda want to read that at my brothers wedding (I will of course give credit 🙏)

omg the quality of this video is honestly amazing! love love love it!

I don’t normally comment on youtube videos but I felt like I really wanted to comment on this one. I’ve always been a huge wimp. I can’t watch scary movies or play horror games. I can’t even play minecraft with hostile mobs on. BUT I do love the intricacies of a beautifully crafted work. Thank you for making this video dissecting everything, in a way that was incredibly clear AND allowed me to enjoy watching the game without being scared. Keep up the great work!

God I love this analysis so much, I’m not sure if you’re attempting to be so poetic but WOWOWOWOWOWOW PLEASE KEEP HAVING IDEAS THEM AND TALKING

excellent analysis, are there any plans for part 2? i wish you covered other chapters or whatever else in this game

This is truly an incredible video essay for an equally incredible game. For whatever its worth, great job

AMAZING VIDEO! I somehow totally missed all this subtext because I am an idiot I was too focused on the main story! 10/10

Wow, just... Wow. I've been trying to figure out what the meaning of this game was for a while. I was trying to figure out why everybody liked it so much. At first I came to the conclusion that it was probably about the meaning of life... And after watching this video, I still believe that's true, but on top of that I see it as so much more. The best way I could describe it is like poetry, but a video game (Which I know is probably a given but still, it just feels so mind-blowing!) Also, I'm just so happy this was the last thing I watched before I went to bed... I had a lot of issues with learning to love myself, self confidence, and figuring out what it means to well, *be* myself. After watching this, I feel like I can do just about anything. Very inspiring video!

Game is a banger and so is this video. Just got a new subscriber, looking forward to more analysis!

this video was EPIC and im glad to have watched it. thank you for sharing

This is one of the best video essays on this game I’ve ever watched. I 100% the game recently, driven by curiosity to explore every option- but this has helped me understand it on a way deeper level than I could’ve anticipated

finally a STP video that actually provides interpretation and analysis. i really don't like this game but i feel like i better understand it now