I literally bought the game because of mark

If it was on PlayStation I’d buy it

@@seasplitter5987 The game is getting a PlayStation 5 release in the fall, and with it, a new update with an array of new content will be added to the game! Even if you watch this playthrough all the way, once the port drops it'll still be worth the buy!!

They are also working on scarlet hollow, which is a horror visual novel game with a shit ton of choices and paths (and romance options!?!). in my opinion, it's even more impressive than this game.

Same, I bought it 5 minutes after watching episode 1.

if they all sound like Jonathan Sims, they can bicker all they want

How didn't I recognize Jonny Sims voice?! I think I'm just so use to it, that my brain just accepted it without question

I kind of love that idea. Sounds weird but I love the “Several voices in one head with several perspectives/personalities that can’t agree.” dynamic.

They all sounds like Jon, but one sounds like Jon imitating Elias.

I had the worst nightmare after listening to TMA season 2's finale so I decided to take a break... and then I clicked the first video and heard Johnathan Sims' voice and nearly shit myself. He's following me 😭

Speaking of Lady D there is a version of the Princess that Mark needs to see lol

​@@blackroseamor Lmfaooo💀

​@@blackroseamorTwo versions.

​Wat@@blackroseamor

He's going to love the Tower.

I guess Will Smith is the King Kai to Mark’s Goku.

Finally someone made a comment about it😂

Yep, gold! XD

Lol, I didn't get the joke at first

@47:08 for my future reference

Thanks for the game, Mark made me discover it, I explored it a lot and have still more to discover but one ending made me smile and get teary eyes. It also gave me more ideas about other separations and love stories in a way. Very inspiring.

Hi devs!! I love StP. It's such a beautiful and meaningful game; you can really see the love that went into it. Thank you for working on the Pristine cut too

It's easy to see how much love and care has been poured into this game. I have yet to play through all the routes but it's truly an incredible experience. Thank you for making my favorite game of 2023 ❤

Bought the game back in January and it’s super fun to see Mark playing it now. Can’t wait for the Pristine Cut!

y'all are so sweet!

That was my first playthrough, and I knew I was in for something really special. The Paranoid really is the GOAT.

The Paranoid was my first route too after the Follow Instructions route. The princess is So terrifying during that path. I think the Hero is my favorite of the Voices, but Paranoid is a close second

best voice by far

Paranoid is the 3rd best voice

Well, Contrarian is always good for a laugh. He's so mischievous. I enjoyed having him around more than most voices in my playthrough.

.... i never thought of that. Wow

What

What's the metaphor, for all of our uneducated (me)?

@@spam-el3ee there is the story, of Yin and Yang essentially which is the actual “plot” But the metaphor is vulnerability in relationships. Every time you enter an Arc with a new princess, that is a new relationship/how it could have gone. there’s a preconceived notion that ending it, letting her go, killing her, all of that could be “wrong” but there’s not wrong choices in figuring out how to navigate a relationship, especially with so little knowledge given to you. each decision will shape the princess and help her grow and learn so that she may be her best self when she meets her best partner. just as we are doing the same with the new voices. so don’t be afraid to get too anxious, to accidentally hurt someone you love, to smother, to idealize, to misunderstand, to want to protect yourself at the expense of any other. we are human and complex. and what makes us good, is the process. is the learning. that’s the long and short of it all, there’s a lot of good video essays on the true meaning that explain it way better than me

(that’s why the choices go away, it’s implying you’re learning from the decisions you’ve made)

Literally my favorite part of this game, I LOOOVEE how he hept going in the backround!

My toxic trait is that I needed slash fanfiction of the Paranoid X the Cold yesterday. So many hurt/comfort oneshots could be born from the concept of this scene alone

the repetition made me focus on my body a lil more than I was comfy with lmao. Also hearing Paranoid speed up here and there was a very cool detail aswell

If you like the male voice, it's Jonathan Sims, the voice of the podcast The Magnus Institute which he wrote. I only started it a few weeks ago, so it was very surprising to find his voice here!

if you like the female voice (Nichole Goodnight), I recommend The NoSleep Podcast. She features regularly on the show. And I too was super surprised to hear her voice. Thought I was going crazy until I saw the credits.

@@slackolantern I expanded this comment to recommend the same thing. There's two podcast, Magnus Archives, which is finished, and Magnus Protocol, currently on Season 1.It's an excellent horror podcast. I hope you are enjoying, Slackolantern! Also Jonny has such a talent for scathing sarcasm, it's simply delightful

Fun fact, they also did a Dev-stream where the devs played through some of the routes and gave insight into the games process. In the meantime, they had the dialogue turned off, and The VAs reenacted the lines playing in the Stream, live. Even the times where the voices bicker amongst themselves.

@@Caffeinated_Firefly Yeah, I'm trying to catch up so I can listen to the Magnus Protocol as it's released.

Bro, I don't want to scared you but you have the worst possible bot on your replies 💀

Ikr

Thankfully they went away-?

​@@Alavariix seems like it

Under the episode where he literally chooses the path where he doesn't do what he's supposed to

all of the voices and the narrator are voiced by one guy - jonathan sims, i personally love his perfomance in this game A LOT like a lot lot

If you like Jon and his accent and his scathing sarcasm, I highly recommend the Podcast "The Magnus Archives" where he voices the protagonist. It's a horror podcast, too!

​@@generalgozdzikov7343it's genuinely crazy how well he does these voices. There are a ton of scenes where it's just him talking to himself as several different characters, and even referencing some specific context about the player's choices, and it never feels broken or weird. I'm just happily suspending my disbelief like, yeah these are 5 different guys who just happen to have the same voice.

@@Caffeinated_Firefly yeah I've heard about it, probably gonna listen after i finish Welcome To Night Vale

Unless you end it before it gets started

@@quattuorvigintupletritrigi8357 id say that represents abandoning the relationship at the first sign of conflicts instead of confronting the issues, only for you to keep running across the same problem again and again.

It's more about the perspectives gained during said relationships. And not all of them are toxic. Light spoilers: Plus she doesn't destroy the world in this one, and she doesn't want to, she just wants to spread fear and terror wherever she goes. After all, the world needs fear. Anyway, the world pretty much ends itself and even she has no idea what's going on before she's taken.

@@reubensalter8125 that makes sense, but I need to ask, what are the non toxic endings? And why would she want to spread fear and terror after leaving? Why is she fear?

@@cielbie8251 I mean she already explained it herself: the world does need fear. And she didn't choose to become this, we did; when we locked her away and began to perceive her as a monster. She didn't want to be like this, hence "I am what I am." As the entity explains at the end "She seeks companionship, but the only thing she knows is how to hurt." This is best exemplified during Moment of Clarity where she projects her hurt and despair onto you, simply because she wants you to understand how she feels. Then there's also when you rescue her and the narrator says "...the moment feels gentle, tender even." Anyway, the non-toxic relationships are Adversary, Prisoner, Thorn eventually and Wild depending on your choices.

"theres not enough room in this town for the both of us"

Reminds me of Manly and the Smitten.

Lol yeah 😂

Mark is a contrarian to the contrarian

Maybe he just doesn't like the echo. It's like when you put a mic close to the speaker and it screams the sounds of the damned at you

underrated comment right there

She banged on it to break the lock, in breaking the lock and perhaps therefor the frame, the door could swing both ways.

there's actually a bit where The Narrator acknowledges that lol

Hahaha I totally missed that 😅

​@@lordriceiboop588 Wait, where? 😅

I thought the same!! Love Robert Frost

hah! very fitting too!

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Play full game

Angela

DnD

You should probably add a spoiler warning to the beginning of your comment, I’m not sure if he’s figured that bit out yet

​@@ghostboy4115it was kind of obvious

​@@ghostboy4115this is something you should know about by your first playthrough of the game by engaging in dialogue with the princess avatar at the end of the route. Ironically, since Mark HASN'T asked her much of anything, he has the more "authentic" experience of the hero, who ALSO doesn't know any of that because he has his memory reset every new route

I absolutely do NOT like her because of what you wrote. Seems really immature to just have your personality set as "people think I'm cruel therefore I will be cruel".

@@zanderlucioperca i mean, maybe if i saw he as a person. But i think shes more of a concept or an entity. The princess is seemingly unaware of the choices the user makes (cant see the mc hold a knife as theyre walking down or anything). Shes a part of the literal fabric of that universe. I think "the stranger" shows it well too if he ever meets her

Nah

Yah

I'm in the middle of if that's true or not

Uh-huh, let me get back to you on that.

Its a shame he essentially locked himself out of the Contrarian centric Chapter (Stranger) but It is a What It is

Voice of the Smitten: I concur my dear fellow!

​@@Dead25mVoice of the Stubborn: Yes!! Behold the perfect woman!!

​@@reubensalter8125😂 I member

Voice of the Cold- Shut up

@@Alavariix That's the narrator. Cold would be more like "Yeeesss. She is quite bad isn't she? Not much we can do about that I suppose. I wonder where else we could go?"

I would, but my first exposure to this was RTGame's entire playthrough, so it's probably a little late. Still, I might pick it up when the free DLC (mentioned in another comment thread) drops.

But I've already watched 2 parts from mark and I'm loving it

Actually did this when I saw Mark was playing it. It's an incredible experience to say the least. Highly recommend playing it yourself, especially when going in completely blind. Now I'm watching Mark to see what choices he makes

I plan to get it when it comes on Switch. It's a wonderful game.

@@Rockacroc1928 All the routes are pretty fun, especially the endings.

Okay, I already watched someone else play through the entire game, but please... don't spoil things like this for people who haven't seen it yet. Literally 2 spoilers in your first sentence. Mark even asked for none.

Pffft- Mark is so real for that. Either you concentrate on everything with no interruption, or there is zero concentration to begin with.

He's such an MVP. I love the trope of a character who's scared shitless, but enduring immense fear in order to help, and help survive.

@@GrimmBones It even funnier when Hero takes over just so he can talk

There's another route where that happens but you get to see it happening.

What are these reply 😭

Theres more than just that and its epic

@@Rozy727 Some bot probably setup by a political activist trying to demonize their opponents.

And there would be more coming soon! The game is getting a free dlc.

@@darkcrydotmrihavetoomanyst1440WHAR

To be fair Lixian invented time travel to make sure Mark makes the right choice

I mean, they don't have fancy animated avatars, do they? no fancy on-screen text even, generally maybe if they had more of a presence, people would recognize them more, eh?

@@jan_harald honestly I would love that, I think it's just due to how Mark intracts with lixian in his videos we know him more

@@jan_harald They're still paid employees of Mark and deserve recognition. Lixian shouldn't get all the credit, especially when Lixian doesn't edit every video.

There are no other editors, just like there is only one CEO of Cloak. Mark would never hide anything from us.

It is fascinating. The narrator was already shown to be the one whose willing to bend the truth if you just listen to him and just kill the princess. Where he traps you in the cabin for eternity, thinking it a reward. Yet, Mark is still intent on listening and believing him, murdering or trapping someone because he was told to. Maybe it's just all in hindsight of the story I guess?

That's what a TRUE contrarian would do. Defy expectations by cooperating when everyone would normally rebel.

maybe due to the narration and style of choice

Maybe because he also made a similar story and quote: "you little shits never listened or followed anything so I'm gonna do what the narrator says" (he said this in his stanley parable ultra delux edition play through)

@@insaneyoohoo Part of me thinks that's just Mark fucking around and being curious to be honest. It's a VN, there's not much else you can do besides the story anyway.

Oh my god. This looks terrible, im so sorry❤🙁

I, um, was reading through the comments to see if anyone else had these thoughts. I don't have DID, but I know people who do and have described what it's like to me. It so clearly fits a lot of the descriptions, it makes me wonder (so far, anyway) if the game doesn't take place in a mind scape fully.

by this do you mean the different voices talking and overlapping each other while one is in the "drivers seat " trying to make decisions? /gen

I was searching for a comment about this- I don't have concrete confirmation that I have DID or OSDD- but I do experience something pretty much exactly like the voices, the narrator, and the player

!!! Also as one with DID, I had this exact thought too! Even with assuming very likely that it wasn't an intentional representation of some of our community's experience with having DID, it still feels phenomenal being able to connect to a ~something~ out in the world! (And especially given how well loved this particular "something" is, unlike a certain movie I shan't name and will eternally loathe the existence of...)

OMFG TY

52:55

in fairness quite a few games detect when you leave at some points. It woulda been a cool secondary ending if that did something, would fit the theming of the game too.

I mean, he listened to the narrator and didn't give her a hand.

He also likes space, double whammy

How has he not played that game. Its like, Markplier. The game

​@@kennyharris8456and existential time loops.

It’s one of those games that you see it on the store and go, “sure, I’ll check it out.” But after playing through it you just sit there staring at the end screen

outer wilds would be a perfect fit

Then Will’s voice coming back at the end😂😂😂 55:28

@@izzywoods794 thank you for replying this. I left the video 5 seconds before it ended lol

Lol

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Hmm. D'you think that the new finale-ending it's adding will be exclusive to an all-Chapter 3 run? On reflection, that would be a bit more limiting than this game normally does things, but possible.

I mean, you can get a chapter 3 out of the damsel. And you can get two different chapter 3s from the witch

YES!!!! HE'S A "COWARD" BUT THE BRAVEST AND STRONGEST OF THEM ALL

my fav is cold tbh but second place is paranoid

Yeah! I arrived to the 'stairs maze' and the amalgam of princesses during my first play, it was my favorite! And I think Mark would love it

That’s the first one I got on my play through and it gave me perspective to all the things that would come

I think manlybadasshero went through that route? Then again, he pretty much explored EVERY route of that game

Maybe after the main full run he explores the other routes, he was saving before some options to revisit later so its a possibility.

​@@floricel_112 he did all of them, yeah

SO REAL !!!!!

Johnny Sims.

he’s great in this, but don’t forget the voice of the princess! Nichole Goodnight also does a phenomenal job in this game.

Isn’t that the guy from the Magnus Archives?

​@@artlly_yes, its the same guy

Also makes me think of way back when he played FNAF 2, the line about learning "Chica is actually a girly girl, has made the life of me so fun! I don't know why it'd be fun. Don't read to much into that!" "What are you tryna say?"

Nrdu e❤🎉

AMISI Nordine

Truly a parasocial moment

Then it would make "Voice of The Smitten" the true narrator

​@jeffhardysoul I don't know. The Smitten isn't love, he's obsession. The Smitten is bound, while love should remain free.

@@highwind1369 There's more than one type of love or person to love.

Can't believe Lixian invented tine travel just for this video 😊

​@@elliesteele2027 right? The greatest editor ever

Time stamp?

@@cassidi8422 7:00

@@cassidi8422 7:08

At that point I kinda wish he DID do the princess just because it'd be funny. I'm actually surprised that in the first video Mark didn't say anything. I'd really think The Magnus Institute would be something he'd enjoy.

Omg thats why the va sounded so familiar!

@@slackolantern FRR!!! Jon would slay at being the princess (pun intended)

SAME! The fact it sounded like he was Mark’s King Kai from dragon ball z made it so much funnier

I don't think Lixian edited this video

@@carmandirda the description says he had a part in it!

He is, contrary to how it may appear, in fact the only one in the loop

Quite literally "out of the loop" as hes the only one who doesn't go back when you game over

well the princess is blatantly evil too, you kinda just have to pick which evil is less evil

@@waffler-yz3gw That's not exactly correct.

@@dezdannaselaphiel8634 Well, is death evil? Is.. The absence of death evil? I dunno. But I'm sure that living forever would eventually become a living hell.. So I'd say.. It's up to the eye of the beholder.

Oh trust me, he knows exactly what is going on and you shouldn't trust him (source: trust me bro)

​@@MidnightDrakeI feel like the narrator is god, it might be way too of a clerical perspective but think about it, he knows indefenitly what is good or bad for you and what you need to do and what you shouldnt do, yet, he has no real power over you, it is your choice wether to face away from his guidince or not, but, you have the garantuee that he WILL guide you indefinite of your choices. And the only place where he doesent guide you? Death, he has no guidence at, and after death, you have made your choices. and the reward for believing in his word? Perpetual happyness, heaven. I might be entirely wrong, but this shows just how beautifull and articulated this game is.

He seems interested in finding "deducing" what's going on I hope he gets the prisoner nexf

@@lukerubrum5618The second he starts fighting the base princess in any capacity is when this playthrough’s gonna go off the rails. Or he could just ask if she’s armed and get the funniest route in the game

​@@thesalsaguy4395which one is that?

​@@shadow-fayerazor

​@@shadow-fayeThere's Razor, and then there's... moar Razor. I hope Mark stumbles into that one.

the fool jingles miserably across the floor.

@@icarusissleepy Exactly XD

Rose? I remember some players being confused on what flowers were there. They're poppies (look at the petals). Someone asked the devs and confirmed that they are, indeed, poppies. They're pretty symbolic.

@@oceanicGrimalkin easy mistake, since the Princess herself is actually, "The Thorn", which is also symbolic, but also also not something Poppies have.

Thanks for the corrections! The original post has been edited to reflect. I think I defaulted to calling her the rose due to the thorns and the romantic inclined achievement.

@@nicklien222 Thank you as well. Poppies also suit her pretty well considering what she is.

@@xanadu6784 I tried being vague on purpose on the comment section even on names of Princesses for a reason, but fair. Although, poppies with thorns do exist.

I really hope mark gets the Thorn,she is the best princess and everyone will love that storyline,Specially the romance'd thorn

@@kevinhenrique4256 that's most peoples fav (me included ofc) just didn't want to spoil in any way

@@kevinhenrique4256 I got the Thorn for my very last vessel, my very first playthrough and it felt like such a fitting end to everything it was so beautiful

There is another route that also features all voices.

mark says so even in the first episode - "this is giving me some real Stanley Parable vibes..."

You’re saying your own personal experience having it? And also that was my very first thought just with the narrator and the hero and I was kind of surprised not to have found another comment about it

congratulations! :D

Graduated from highschool or college / university? I've been watching mark since I was 6 or 7, and two days ago I finished Grade 10.

@@koolaid33 high school, ain't at university yet lol

Always feels weird seeing Americans say graduate when talking about high school lol

@@db5094 I'm not American lol

Pristine cut?

​@@samanthadyck5214 it is a free content update that will add 35% more content including new chapters and extensions to existing ones

​@@samanthadyck5214 Free DLC that expands a few chapter 2's into more chapter 3's, and refines most of the existing chapter 3's.

@@samanthadyck5214 I don't think my comment went through last time sorry if it did tho the pristine cut is a free content update that will add 35% more content including new chapters and extensions to existing ones

Mark needs to ge the thorn in this playthrough

Like Mc isekai ?

@@code066funkinbird3 Yeah perhaps.

Wait, it's getting new endings? I thought it was only going to get new Princesses and expansions on old Princesses.

Not quite but an interesting theory

The narrator being the eyes and not being able to see a mirror?

I do indeed love the lart gaining…

well, for cosplay you'd need a looot of severed hands...