Katie, what you had to say in the last 10 minutes of this video brought me to tears. I can't explain it except to say that I've been married almost 12 years now, and I felt so... seen while hearing you talk about being in a relationship. Thank you. I'm not much into visual novels, but I think I'm going to have to get Slay the Princess even after watching all of that.

Just a random thought but I have always found it fun when I see people play this game, but I immediately thought of going up, so did my mom, but my friend said down, and I asked why and he gave me an interesting answer. He said "I feel that you need to go down first so you can get up after" he has always been a little pessimistic, but my mom said without question up because "you should always go up in life whenever you can" the choice didn't really matter but I still feel that up was the right one even before she said it, I hardly gave down s second thought, it was only ever up for me. I do think it ties into the way I was raised and how I think of the world, but I found it to be very interesting and introspective

My favorite part is, and this's just my experience, that its not JUST a romantic love story! To me it really encapsulates how I personally feel about long-term platonic relationships as well, how intricate and messy they are. It really shows how well writen the game (and this essay!) is 💛 (Sorry if I've already commented this btw, it somehow ended up on a short lol)

The Antimemetics guy wrote a book of short stories? Sweet! I know what I'm reading next!

"Else Heart.Break()" is another great game that involves more complex programming. It's the only game I've encountered that lets you hack into a soda can.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ithxfd2fzt_din0.html I'm curious what you thought/think of Davey Wreden's upcoming game "Wanderstop" which looks to subvert the cozy game with a splash of... panic attack?

Amazing video. You guys missed that the hex is inspired in the Wreck it ralph movie. Sado being the main character of Wreck it ralph, and the bartender appears in the first scene of Wreck it ralph movie + The multiple games is the same as the movie. Other than that, really amazing video <3

What is this peak???

wow the production quality on this is so high and so well crafted. i expected this to be a much bigger channel. good job

29:22 Probably the most horrifying part of the video.

This channel is amazing! I hope you end up blowing up with the all subs you deserve, everything just feels so high quality Also I really do enjoy some of the flavor text in the captions haha

Omg i remember playing this in class years ago!

Faking me out with Stardew. When you forget your zombie in Graveyard Keeper, does it default to slumbering toward humans to eat their brains?

Unfortunately, being male is not a cheat code. It's a lot more pressure than privilege.

2:45 Since when did Toby Fox make the binding of isaac ... poor edmund.

I'd been on the fence about graveyard keeper for a while and this sold it for me!

This is one of my favorite games. Just so fun and chill exploring the island. Definitely need more games like this. I know of obra din and outer wilds, but thats it.

If their skins matched in colour, then the only way to tell them apart would be the turd-coloured band they call a patty :sob:

49:13 its too real!! After 3 years me and my boyfriend still find new things about each other, and never had a boring convo. New convos everytime. And he always says: you’re a new person everyday, as a joke, but its real.

Great video! Thanks for showing me this game. The One is so magnificently creepy because it looks so out of place, but mostly because it stares directly at the camera (the player) in a context where it shouldn't. It gives me the chills! Also, I might just be me connecting dots that aren't there, but the first movie (Ambrosia) is thematically about "breaking the law" as much as the second one, which you analyse it to be. I read this in how The one plays the temptation that makes the monk break his vows. Also, the scene where the left part is a close-up of the monk lying on the ground, and the woman in a gown and headdress entering from the right in the middle-ground, making her appear much smaller than the monk, instantly reminded me of The Odyssey. That scene resembles the part where Odysseus has killed the cyclops, Polyphemus. This both adds up with how the narrative of the scene in the movie is that the woman has come to deliver the the monk his fate (the woman having caused his death), and also how we aren't given a name, but just to call that immortal being "The One" and how Odysseus tricks Polyphemus by calling himself "No one" (which plays into a prophecy from an oracle, "No One will kill Polyphemus"). If you want to over analyse this, you can again relate this to the last scene where The One in-fiction is going to take over (kill us), the player from having watched its death on a screen, and how the technology forces us to only "see" from one perspective (eye) like a cyclops.

I don’t know why but this made me emotional. That conclusion hit hard

First video I've seen of this channel and it was such a banger, I love Daniel Mullins' games and I just as much love videos discussing and dissecting the metanarratives in them, the effort put into this video is evident and I hope more people see it

Really cool video, Adam Millard suggested well, I'll be binge watching here forna while :)

I'm a streamer that knows about *most* indie game releases I care about and I'm not huge on cozy games as a whole, yet I *still* found two games I was unfamiliar with and am now interested in from this video =)

It's always good to invest your time in something productive. Just as productive as the sponsor for this comment: RAID SHADOW LEGENDS!

You know who sent me.

It's almost like Leshy is an apple, and the moon is the man

Imagine if Daniel Mullins and Dan Salvato teamed up, would we get Doki Doki Island 3: The Pony's Inscyption? xD

I learn more about healthy love relationship through this game and this video ...than from real life.

I guess this is my cue to play more of Immortality. Bought it a long time ago and never got into it, will try again today! (Loved Her Story, btw)

Incredibly interesting! I've played lots of subverted cute games, but subverted horror is new to me. Glad you're talking about this game!

I clicked on this video without knowing that I would be self-reflecting and introspective at the end, holy heck

this reminds me a lot of the concept of transhumanism. your self grows to make a new entity that includes the character in the game, just like when you use a tool it is absorbed by yourself to create a new entity that thinks in new ways; "if you only have a hammer, all your problems look like nails" style

I absolutely have to recommend Who's Lila? Also great video! Loved it and now I'm subbed :)

Adam millard gave a recomendation for you and after watching this wonderful video on a very good game i can see why. Consider me subscribed

I've never thought about the antithesis of the common criticism of ludo-narrative dissonance. Good job on this video! Subbed! 👍 Discovered this channel through Adam Millard! ✌️

Inscryption is probably a great game, but...I hate playing card games.

Re: The Adversary and the thorny barbs - in folklore thorny bushes, trees, and the like were often linked with the Devil (e.g. Blackthorn as a notorious cursing-tree), and the Devil himself was often named as The Adversary; the prime-evil, one who stands-against God and the divine order; adversary being derived from the Latin adversarius, meaning opposed or opponent. Thus the Devilish form the Princess takes on in this aspect may reflect that cultural perspective of evil as opposing, obstructing, and wounding; the thorns and barbs mirroring this neatly. The horns themselves may also be mirrored in the spikes of the thorns; weapons for defense against an adversary, whether that be an animal trying to eat the barbed plant, a rival horned male with whom an animal must butt-heads, or the player taking an antagonistic stance towards the Princess. Horns and thorns; physical manifestations of the need to protect, defend, and overcome that which is arrayed against us. Of course the eternal conflict which Player and Princess then enjoin reveals how futile these weapons of defense become, should that adversarial stance become the sole perspective through which we approach the world and those around us. We can't relate to the other in any real sense without relinquishing our weapons, at least for a time, so that we are vulnerable, open to the dual possibilities of wounding and true connection.

Adam sent me here... What can i say? WORTH.

I subbed because of this great video. Congrats for being recently referenced in the video How "Good Design" Ruins Games.

That was pretty long, but I felt like what you said was worth while... which is why I watched until the end.

I will say I'm surprised you liked the expansions better than the original with regards to Case of the Golden Idol. I know my fiends and me who played it, did not enjoy the expansions as much as the original. I do appreciate all the games you've introduced me to. I hadn't heard about Blood on the Thames and that looks like a game that will definitely hit a lot of my buttons.

Adam Millard sent me here and I'm so glad he did, your videos are great :) Definitely gonna check out Cryptmaster, I'm a fan of typing games and they seem like they have a lot of untapped potential

How can i make up my mind... If its made up for me?...

37:54 into the fall... 1 and all...

35:42 is the game metaphysical?... You learning the old version of the meme word, the idea, is her being in you. But you have to choose control or not.

31:33 all minorities are equal=all get beat up.

31:33 payback is overdue. So much for my i.o.u.

31:33 i like supernatural stuff.

31:33 an artist getting attacked, Thats just me everyday. /(its just friday.).