I have to say I really loved this video and it really made me see the story of the game very differently. Especially with what happens and is implied in the secret fourth ending of the game you showed us.
Considering the implied rape connotations with the hunter, it makes the wolf's design all the more gross and horrifying. Symbolically, his long neck and head being located down from his body might represent something more phallic. Combined with the QR code message saying "why am I bleeding down there?", it makes the "eaten" aspect of the creature Blanchette encounters more clearer in context. The wolf's design might actually be how the mycelium network, and by extension the doll, sees the hunter, a phallic monster that "eats" his victims. I never thought I see the day that a Little Red Riding Hood adaptation dipped into symbolism straight out of Silent Hill.
Also, I agree with you saying that the best ending is the main character and her grandmother becoming a part of the fungus. Especially if the other outcomes of the story doesn't end the best for the main character.
There is just not enough fungi based horror! The imagery is just so perfect! I know of like three or four horror books with fungi as the focus and that's it! If anyone has any book recs or anything with fungi horror please reply! I am currently reading Annihilation, and I have read Mexican Gothic as well. I know there's a retelling of the house of usher but with fungi zombies I've read too. Also the book about the girls school and they're stuck on that island with an infection or outbreak spreading.
A thought just struck me, if your theory about the hunter actually being the wolf raping and killing the main character before throwing her down the well. Then maybe the doll and the consensus that is connected to the mushroom infection is possibly the hunter's original victim? I say this because if you really think about it, it does seem to make sense. Especially if what ever it is that caused the infection in the first place wants the main character's body as a host and how in the fourth and final ending where if the main character eats the mushrooms, she sees that mess of flesh and bones mentioning how the wolf eat it and threw it down the well or something like that.
Oh I see... The girl under the well is a prior victim, and her rotting body is reaching out spreading her consciousness through the mushrooms! The infection of the grandmother is simply her trying to escape her trapped fate :( Also BTW the Hunter/Wolf I believe is stalking us through the forest. This is because if you pay close attention at 11:05 when VR is moving to the next area, the transition doesn't happen immediately. Instead, the shot lingers for a split second longer, and we see a tall lanky dark figure rush after the protagonist!!! Whilst this could be the Well Girl, I think the size, shape, and quickness of the body as well as the lack of apparent mushrooms on it clearly implies that it's the Hunter stalking her through the forest!!!
@@VirtualResidence O shit, I was wondering if you simply haven't noticed since you didn't point it out directly, but wow you even had to slow the footage, talk about a blink and you miss it Hint!
Well, I must say I'm shocked about this "mucorales"'s finale, but it actually follows the original story in an accurate way. The whole story of Little Redhood is about a girl going through puberty and leaving home to explore the outside world. Yes, the reason she has a red hood is to simbolyze her having her first period. When I first read the message in game "why am I bleeding down there?" I thought it could refer to that, and it probably does. In fairytales forests are always associated with life outside the house and, as such, they also have dangerous people in it. The wolf is supposed to represent the people that want to harm you and hurt you. Fairytales have always been used on a pedagogical level to subconsciously teach kids about the dangers of life. "Dont trust the wolf in the forest" is "Dont trust strangers when you go outside" The hunter in the original story is actually the savior who, we can say, "punishes" the wolf for trying to take advantage of Little Redhood. However many horror retelligs potray him as the actual wolf. Its another way of interpreting the story and a way of saying "anyone could hurt you" (little pessimistic, but oke-), so I understand why some creators do that. The role of the grandma is supposed to be a representation of the girl reaching full maturity and, I think, becoming a mom herself. When in the original the wolf tricks Little Redhood and takes the grandma's place, he's preventing her from becoming a mature adult with agency. With the fungus storyline here, however, I'm not sure if that's supposed to underline this idea. But considering that the mushrooms come from the well where a wolf's victim is held in, it could be seen as a way of "the outside world" to protect the girl from the trauma. Overall, this was a great analysis of the game! I never actually saw the ending 4 so it was kind of a deep shock for me, but I can see the developer's reasonings for doing this. I just feel bad for the og hunter. All dude did was save the girl and grandma and everyone went "what if YOU are the actual villain!?" EDIT: after watching this I was a bit distressed and decided to read a book about therapy I bought. Started a chapter, and it was about s****l assault and the main parallel is with Little Redhood. I’m officially done like WHAT 🥲
Something about the Hunter unfortunately made me nervous even before the deep dive. Mainly, it's some random man she doesn't know and has never seen before... And yet he suddenly knows what's happening and comes to get her from her front door, instead of reaching out and contacting authorities to deal with the situation? Something about it just made me so nervous. Then when the "why am I bleeding down there?" hit, I didn't realize it may have applied to the little girl specifically, but I immediately did go "oh. Oh no. He r'ped the doll girl" I still don't know if I'd say that the main character IS the doll or if the doll was a prior victim, but regardless, clearly the Hunter isn't actually a good guy... What a tragic tale. Between the "wolf" and the mushrooms... It makes me wonder if he has something to do with the mushrooms too, or if the mushrooms represent something symbolically?
I immediately knew that the hunter was someone to be afraid of, and I was genuinely surprised when the last ending didn't immediately include something obvious. I kind of sat there and wondered if that simplicity was just a false. The worst part about it is that he knew where she was staying, which meant that he had followed her back at some point. Yes, he had been stalking her through the woods, but it hadn't been some impulse decision. He had at least one victim before her. He knew what he was doing, and he clearly had no remorse for his actions. I think what is just as scary is to know that no matter how you play, she will never return home. I think it's a nice metaphor for growing up, even if said metaphor hurts to acknowledge. The other theme of being so young and being so helpless is also very hard to accept. In that situation, the one adult she knows is too sick to help her, the other victim is too trapped to save her, and her perpetrator is someone she would immediately trust because she is a child. She is a child, and even if she wasn't, the weight of that situation is too much. A part of me wonders if the grandmother and the doll are more connected than we first think. Is it fair to say that maybe the doll is a representation of the grandmother's assault, and the metaphor of mushrooms is her instilling a sense of fear and defensive isolation into the girl? It feels like a stretch, but in a game of metaphors and meanings, I'm trying to bridge the gaps. The feeling of disassociation in the first part of the game, then the slow crawl of realization, instilling this sense of connection... Maybe the metaphor of mushrooms to the grandmother is something like substance abuse? She's sick, she's dying to something, and that something is only pulling her further in. The doll may represent her past self, and the mushrooms may be connected to the doll to symbolize where and why the grandmother is sick. That younger self is suffering. Something is growing from her, and it's only infecting her future self and those around her. Again, this is just a theory, but there has to be more to the grandmother than we think. Whether she scares the little girl into hiding or she herself becomes an abuser, I know she's more than a bedridden old lady. There's intention there.
I really like your recent game summary/analysis videos, they are just the right length and go into more depth than the usual VIDEO GAME EXPLAINED content which I often find shallow and frustrating. When I seek out analysis videos I always look for some personal interpretation, thematic throughlines and different viewpoints to consider and you definitely provide food for thought! So thank you for making these videos and I hope your work will pay off! All the best for you and your channel 😊
Thank you! I really plan on bringing this level of quality and the roughly 20 minute runtime (unless more is needed and it's still enjoyable to watch).. Hey and I love interpreting things and looking deeply at the experience so, im just having fun, its you awesome people who support me and the developers that make the content what it is!!
This was really awesome and it's great to see smaller creatives getting screen time! I can't play horror myself despite loving it because I wouldn't be able to sleep at night, but being able to see these lesser known gems is really fantastic so thanks so much ❤
If you like this persons style check out Myvurn Gutter.. it’s horror adjacent style but not scary more dark and humorous.! I’m sure LuN would love the support… and I’m glad you enjoyed the video!! ❤️
Ooooo and if you think about it, the grandma didn't seem to feel any pain as her own body mutated due to the mushrooms. And you're right, Blanchette seemed perfectly happy to accept the mushrooms sewn into her skin and felt no pain. Honestly, when you put it the way you did - that the "death" of Blanchette and her grandma may not actually be death but rather their consciousnesses simply changing form. Changing into the same type of consciousness that the girl in the well possesses. The question of whether this will lead to separate consciousnesses in a network or lead to a sort of hive mind merge between the three characters, or a mix of the two (individuals but with access to a hivemind/telepathy type thing), is yet to be seen But to me it seems like all they need is some new bodies and they'd be set... Albeit, they're gonna need to get better at not uh, mutating the bodies so much if they ever wanna leave the forest. ... I vote grandma kills the hunter and takes his body. That is unless it means he'd join the network too in which case they should just kill and not take him over After all, with grandma, Blanchette, and the well girl, it's now 3 eldritch mushroom creatures against 1 eldritch wolf fellow
Thank you so much! I Really appreciate that! Make sure to like it and share it if you can to help both me and the developer get the game in the algortihmn!
"Why am I bleeding down there?" gave me the same chill I felt from another horror game, in which a very young girl asks "Why is my belly getting bigger?"
Ive seen so many gorey games, the most terrifying jumpscares, but this game is somehow just different. In a good way. First time in a long time i be quaking and shaking in my boots, watching this at 11:03 pm. Looks like no sleep for me though.
Great job on the video man, I enjoyed the presentation, format and the insight you provided on this game. I looked up it off of some guy on ig reels who gave a brief summary on the game and I ended up watching your video instead 😂
I did purchase both their other games, Shita Ni looks a little more in the vein of my channel. However I still have one more level to beat for the game I’m playing in my next video… it’s a hard one but had hooked me into it.
11:00 Something followed us, a shadow i think , also there was morse coad when the pentagram attacked, but I don't think there was a translation for it.
Am I the only one who thinks the girl in the well is also Blanchet? (sorry I don’t know how to spell her name) There’s a game similar to this one called Lily’s well that has a similar reveal, I highly recommend you check it out if you haven’t already.
That was actually my first theory.. that the girl was actually murdered by the wolf/hunter and then she was “walking the forest” but the developer said they are seprate entities.
Awww, I was hoping to see what happens if you tell the Hunter NO to going out of the house with him. Does he demand she leave with him? Does he start to insist she has to or try to convince her it's safe? Does he force her to come with him?
Thank you! And of course! Be sure to check out the developer on steam! Also subscribe if you haven’t the next video will be on a very interesting horror game… 😬
Love tuis video! Very immersive and the way you edit and explain everything really draws an audience in. Hope to see more from you, and this game dev, however disturbing it may be.
@@VirtualResidence your latest video certainly “got“ me as I was sooo certain Orphism was related! as I said over there its pretty humbling and neat to be proven wrong but to still be able to have fun reading into things. keep up the awesome work
No. Some Infections if not nost target the host survival instincts or wear it down. So even that is not a happy twisted ending.. killing the Wolf then burning the mushrooms before taking the car .. now that might be
@@VirtualResidencecontent warnings are valuable for your audience, but it's standard practice to also include spoiler-free labels - even MPAA movie ratings include why (e.g. "graphic violence")
@@VirtualResidencealso you probably didn't mean it this way, but your reply comes across like "mom my shoes hurt my feet" "would you rather have no shoes???"
Wow, I'm surprised this game is darker than I thought The hunter actually being an abuser is fucked up but it's a neat way to had depth to this short story
Hello can I recommend you a horror movie, it’s called Organ 1996, it’s a weird trippy movie, I think it has some deep meaning. It’s kinda similar to Mucorales but with the people replacing the organs into plants bc the people are organ traffickers so yeah.
I’ll look into it lol 😂 not going to lie I’ve used discord pretty sparingly, so I’ll have to do a little investigating. But it would be a great way to get more suggestions and what not for games!
So, you said that this human in the well wants the girls consciousness.. Maybe in the ending 1 it gains it, that's why the girl says it feels good.. Maybe it's already the human inside the girl. Or maybe I'm wrong 😂
Yea that’s what I believe too. The first ending all the consciousness are in the network and the girl in the well can experience and walk the forest in Blanchettes body.
I see why you think the mushroom ending is the lesser of several evils but im just kinda stuck on how in every scenario, someone is trying to use Blanchette for her body, both the initial abuser and his victim(s) in a seemingly unending cycle.
Analog horror- is described as a subgenre of horror that has a visual style usually with low fidelity graphics trying to replicate analog media or the limitations of it. Narrative style usually relies on environmental story telling/ subtext Basically analog horror doesn’t have to be the backrooms or vhs style found footage.. it essentially uses analog style media to make the experience creepy. So I believe personally that Mucorales qualifies as it.
It isn't, but the reason why someone would refer to it as analogue horror is that the aesthetics of the genre are directly pulled from creepypasta posts, with many projects being direct or indirect adaptations of those forum posts into a new medium. Video games were common subject matter for creepypasta stories and because of the age of the people who initially made up those stories, a lot of them took place in, or referenced media from the 90s. This is thought of by the community as "analogue" because it was a transitional period in which the Internet was not really rolled out to the majority of people and pretty much all television broadcasting and home video was still on analogue formats, such as VHS and local television broadcasting, which was far more regional for people who did not have a cable or satellite subscription. Back then, there was a reasonable chance that you could have watched a television series that never existed outside of the area you lived in and that was fertile ground for coming up with a series of stories about gruesome things appearing on the news, television shows that nobody has ever heard of, government experiments on isolated communities, and obscure, unfinished or unreleased prototypes of commercial software being obtained from yard sales or car boot sales from shady people selling bootlegs. The main thing that distinguishes analogue horror from creepypasta is probably that the people who make it don't try and pretend it's real for the most part and rarely choose to be anonymous. This sits in the camp of being the sort of thing that a creepypasta would have been written about, but it's intended to be a standalone experience as opposed to just being a spooky video-game bought from a shady guy at a flea market that made the person who played it so crazy that they joined Something Awful and paid actual money to tell people about it. Just be thankful for the fact that it's not a slideshow with photos of people who have weird faces.
@@VirtualResidence Fair, though I think that aesthetic needs to imply an analog medium, _(such as the ever popular VHS tape recorded from a camcorder, digitized and uploaded to TH-cam as found footage or firsthand vlogging,)_ while this is very generally just a spooky video game. Home Safety Hotline is a better example of analog horror in a video game, because its interface is diegetic and masquerading as Windows XP or Windows 98
Thank you for finding out the entire story of my game and putting it together in this awesome video!
Your very welcome thank you for letting me check it out! Hope the video gets you some more traffic!
I have to say I really loved this video and it really made me see the story of the game very differently. Especially with what happens and is implied in the secret fourth ending of the game you showed us.
Thank you this game is amazing
What an amazing little game!! I love the art style used for it!! Cant wait to properly check it out!!!
You have a lot of potential!
Considering the implied rape connotations with the hunter, it makes the wolf's design all the more gross and horrifying. Symbolically, his long neck and head being located down from his body might represent something more phallic. Combined with the QR code message saying "why am I bleeding down there?", it makes the "eaten" aspect of the creature Blanchette encounters more clearer in context. The wolf's design might actually be how the mycelium network, and by extension the doll, sees the hunter, a phallic monster that "eats" his victims. I never thought I see the day that a Little Red Riding Hood adaptation dipped into symbolism straight out of Silent Hill.
Nice evaluation!
it goes more with the original fairy tail
Also, I agree with you saying that the best ending is the main character and her grandmother becoming a part of the fungus. Especially if the other outcomes of the story doesn't end the best for the main character.
Yes its the old "the lesser of evils" idea.
There is just not enough fungi based horror! The imagery is just so perfect! I know of like three or four horror books with fungi as the focus and that's it! If anyone has any book recs or anything with fungi horror please reply! I am currently reading Annihilation, and I have read Mexican Gothic as well. I know there's a retelling of the house of usher but with fungi zombies I've read too. Also the book about the girls school and they're stuck on that island with an infection or outbreak spreading.
A thought just struck me, if your theory about the hunter actually being the wolf raping and killing the main character before throwing her down the well. Then maybe the doll and the consensus that is connected to the mushroom infection is possibly the hunter's original victim? I say this because if you really think about it, it does seem to make sense. Especially if what ever it is that caused the infection in the first place wants the main character's body as a host and how in the fourth and final ending where if the main character eats the mushrooms, she sees that mess of flesh and bones mentioning how the wolf eat it and threw it down the well or something like that.
It very well could be multiple victims in the well and its becoming a collective consciousness... FREAKY...
Oh I see... The girl under the well is a prior victim, and her rotting body is reaching out spreading her consciousness through the mushrooms! The infection of the grandmother is simply her trying to escape her trapped fate :(
Also BTW the Hunter/Wolf I believe is stalking us through the forest.
This is because if you pay close attention at 11:05 when VR is moving to the next area, the transition doesn't happen immediately. Instead, the shot lingers for a split second longer, and we see a tall lanky dark figure rush after the protagonist!!!
Whilst this could be the Well Girl, I think the size, shape, and quickness of the body as well as the lack of apparent mushrooms on it clearly implies that it's the Hunter stalking her through the forest!!!
Exactly I slowed the footage to show you that he follows us.. it’s crazy and kind of looks like the crooked man from another RPG maker horror game.
@@VirtualResidence O shit, I was wondering if you simply haven't noticed since you didn't point it out directly, but wow you even had to slow the footage, talk about a blink and you miss it Hint!
Well, I must say I'm shocked about this "mucorales"'s finale, but it actually follows the original story in an accurate way.
The whole story of Little Redhood is about a girl going through puberty and leaving home to explore the outside world.
Yes, the reason she has a red hood is to simbolyze her having her first period. When I first read the message in game "why am I bleeding down there?" I thought it could refer to that, and it probably does.
In fairytales forests are always associated with life outside the house and, as such, they also have dangerous people in it.
The wolf is supposed to represent the people that want to harm you and hurt you.
Fairytales have always been used on a pedagogical level to subconsciously teach kids about the dangers of life.
"Dont trust the wolf in the forest" is "Dont trust strangers when you go outside"
The hunter in the original story is actually the savior who, we can say, "punishes" the wolf for trying to take advantage of Little Redhood.
However many horror retelligs potray him as the actual wolf. Its another way of interpreting the story and a way of saying "anyone could hurt you" (little pessimistic, but oke-), so I understand why some creators do that.
The role of the grandma is supposed to be a representation of the girl reaching full maturity and, I think, becoming a mom herself. When in the original the wolf tricks Little Redhood and takes the grandma's place, he's preventing her from becoming a mature adult with agency.
With the fungus storyline here, however, I'm not sure if that's supposed to underline this idea. But considering that the mushrooms come from the well where a wolf's victim is held in, it could be seen as a way of "the outside world" to protect the girl from the trauma.
Overall, this was a great analysis of the game! I never actually saw the ending 4 so it was kind of a deep shock for me, but I can see the developer's reasonings for doing this.
I just feel bad for the og hunter. All dude did was save the girl and grandma and everyone went "what if YOU are the actual villain!?"
EDIT: after watching this I was a bit distressed and decided to read a book about therapy I bought. Started a chapter, and it was about s****l assault and the main parallel is with Little Redhood. I’m officially done like WHAT 🥲
When coincidence becomes scary
Something about the Hunter unfortunately made me nervous even before the deep dive. Mainly, it's some random man she doesn't know and has never seen before... And yet he suddenly knows what's happening and comes to get her from her front door, instead of reaching out and contacting authorities to deal with the situation? Something about it just made me so nervous.
Then when the "why am I bleeding down there?" hit, I didn't realize it may have applied to the little girl specifically, but I immediately did go "oh. Oh no. He r'ped the doll girl"
I still don't know if I'd say that the main character IS the doll or if the doll was a prior victim, but regardless, clearly the Hunter isn't actually a good guy... What a tragic tale. Between the "wolf" and the mushrooms...
It makes me wonder if he has something to do with the mushrooms too, or if the mushrooms represent something symbolically?
I immediately knew that the hunter was someone to be afraid of, and I was genuinely surprised when the last ending didn't immediately include something obvious. I kind of sat there and wondered if that simplicity was just a false. The worst part about it is that he knew where she was staying, which meant that he had followed her back at some point. Yes, he had been stalking her through the woods, but it hadn't been some impulse decision. He had at least one victim before her. He knew what he was doing, and he clearly had no remorse for his actions.
I think what is just as scary is to know that no matter how you play, she will never return home. I think it's a nice metaphor for growing up, even if said metaphor hurts to acknowledge. The other theme of being so young and being so helpless is also very hard to accept. In that situation, the one adult she knows is too sick to help her, the other victim is too trapped to save her, and her perpetrator is someone she would immediately trust because she is a child. She is a child, and even if she wasn't, the weight of that situation is too much.
A part of me wonders if the grandmother and the doll are more connected than we first think. Is it fair to say that maybe the doll is a representation of the grandmother's assault, and the metaphor of mushrooms is her instilling a sense of fear and defensive isolation into the girl? It feels like a stretch, but in a game of metaphors and meanings, I'm trying to bridge the gaps.
The feeling of disassociation in the first part of the game, then the slow crawl of realization, instilling this sense of connection... Maybe the metaphor of mushrooms to the grandmother is something like substance abuse? She's sick, she's dying to something, and that something is only pulling her further in. The doll may represent her past self, and the mushrooms may be connected to the doll to symbolize where and why the grandmother is sick. That younger self is suffering. Something is growing from her, and it's only infecting her future self and those around her.
Again, this is just a theory, but there has to be more to the grandmother than we think. Whether she scares the little girl into hiding or she herself becomes an abuser, I know she's more than a bedridden old lady. There's intention there.
I really like your recent game summary/analysis videos, they are just the right length and go into more depth than the usual VIDEO GAME EXPLAINED content which I often find shallow and frustrating. When I seek out analysis videos I always look for some personal interpretation, thematic throughlines and different viewpoints to consider and you definitely provide food for thought! So thank you for making these videos and I hope your work will pay off! All the best for you and your channel 😊
Thank you! I really plan on bringing this level of quality and the roughly 20 minute runtime (unless more is needed and it's still enjoyable to watch).. Hey and I love interpreting things and looking deeply at the experience so, im just having fun, its you awesome people who support me and the developers that make the content what it is!!
I think that the gunshot you hear is actually the wolf killing the doll, or maybe just another one of his victims
I think it was actually the dog
4:10 "FIND MORE MUSHROOMS"
"DONT TALK TO STRANGERS"
"HIDE INSIDE"
Good job 🧐
Thank you
This was really awesome and it's great to see smaller creatives getting screen time! I can't play horror myself despite loving it because I wouldn't be able to sleep at night, but being able to see these lesser known gems is really fantastic so thanks so much ❤
If you like this persons style check out Myvurn Gutter.. it’s horror adjacent style but not scary more dark and humorous.! I’m sure LuN would love the support… and I’m glad you enjoyed the video!! ❤️
Ooooo and if you think about it, the grandma didn't seem to feel any pain as her own body mutated due to the mushrooms. And you're right, Blanchette seemed perfectly happy to accept the mushrooms sewn into her skin and felt no pain.
Honestly, when you put it the way you did - that the "death" of Blanchette and her grandma may not actually be death but rather their consciousnesses simply changing form. Changing into the same type of consciousness that the girl in the well possesses. The question of whether this will lead to separate consciousnesses in a network or lead to a sort of hive mind merge between the three characters, or a mix of the two (individuals but with access to a hivemind/telepathy type thing), is yet to be seen
But to me it seems like all they need is some new bodies and they'd be set... Albeit, they're gonna need to get better at not uh, mutating the bodies so much if they ever wanna leave the forest.
... I vote grandma kills the hunter and takes his body. That is unless it means he'd join the network too in which case they should just kill and not take him over
After all, with grandma, Blanchette, and the well girl, it's now 3 eldritch mushroom creatures against 1 eldritch wolf fellow
Maybe if you kill them first the consciousness fades and then you could steal the host body
@@VirtualResidence ooo that's true, if you're careful to kill them but not infect them til the body is dead maybe that'd work
Can’t remember if you asked about a discord channel, but I had one made. Go to my channel page and the community tab has a link in the latest post!
@VirtualResidence I didn't but hey, no prob, I'm of the belief "always be plugging" haha
Wow I am GLAD TH-cam recommended you to me - a great underrated game from a great underrated TH-camr! Also, you have a GREAT voice!
Thank you so much! I Really appreciate that! Make sure to like it and share it if you can to help both me and the developer get the game in the algortihmn!
So, like a true fairytale, the message is "listen to your elders".
Facts
"Why am I bleeding down there?" gave me the same chill I felt from another horror game, in which a very young girl asks "Why is my belly getting bigger?"
What game is that?!
@@VirtualResidenceis called “my eyes deceive” and it’s roughly based on the Josef Fritzl case.
Is that my eyes deceive?
@@ahmadbintang9697 yes
Ive seen so many gorey games, the most terrifying jumpscares, but this game is somehow just different. In a good way. First time in a long time i be quaking and shaking in my boots, watching this at 11:03 pm. Looks like no sleep for me though.
Sometimes simple graphics and eerie vibes is all it takes!!
Holy shit, I never would have realized that the Hunter is the wolf!
lol it’s because the game lies/ leads you to believe it’s just the mushrooms playing tricks.. what a great twist!
Great job on the video man, I enjoyed the presentation, format and the insight you provided on this game. I looked up it off of some guy on ig reels who gave a brief summary on the game and I ended up watching your video instead 😂
I’m glad you liked it! I encourage you to check out some of my other content as well, if you enjoy horror games!
Este si es contenido de calidad.
Sigue haciendo un excelente trabajo!
Wow! I hope you cover some of their other work, because this one is so interesting!
I did purchase both their other games, Shita Ni looks a little more in the vein of my channel. However I still have one more level to beat for the game I’m playing in my next video… it’s a hard one but had hooked me into it.
Played Mouthwashing and found your channel from searching that. Glad to find you.
Glad you’re here! Thank you for commenting🥰
11:00 Something followed us, a shadow i think , also there was morse coad when the pentagram attacked, but I don't think there was a translation for it.
I left it for you guys to solve ;)
Am I the only one who thinks the girl in the well is also Blanchet? (sorry I don’t know how to spell her name) There’s a game similar to this one called Lily’s well that has a similar reveal, I highly recommend you check it out if you haven’t already.
That was actually my first theory.. that the girl was actually murdered by the wolf/hunter and then she was “walking the forest” but the developer said they are seprate entities.
Thank you for responding and the information, that gives me more things to think about! Btw awesome video
I appreciate that!
Great video!! I really liked the breakdown, and I’m obsessed with the fairy tale horror concept the game dev came up with too!
Thank you! Yea totally check out the developer on steam. They have some cool games!
Awww, I was hoping to see what happens if you tell the Hunter NO to going out of the house with him. Does he demand she leave with him? Does he start to insist she has to or try to convince her it's safe? Does he force her to come with him?
great video! i really enjoyed the deep dive and how you were able to explain the story of the game while also giving your own thoughts along the way!!
Thank you! And of course! Be sure to check out the developer on steam! Also subscribe if you haven’t the next video will be on a very interesting horror game… 😬
Love tuis video! Very immersive and the way you edit and explain everything really draws an audience in. Hope to see more from you, and this game dev, however disturbing it may be.
Very glad you liked the video! Definitely stay tuned ;)
Awesome video n awesome game. Subbed and gonna buy when I can to support the dev. Really nice to stumble onto something so novel
Thanks for commenting and subbing! Can’t wait for you to see what’s next!!!
@@VirtualResidence your latest video certainly “got“ me as I was sooo certain Orphism was related! as I said over there its pretty humbling and neat to be proven wrong but to still be able to have fun reading into things. keep up the awesome work
Grandma is just high in shrooms
Fun times with grandma… 👵
omg, i'm so happy to be here early! i am really looking forward to your channel's growth! you'll grow big in no time. 🎀
Thank you and I’m happy you’re here 🥰
11:06 what is that black thing that slides almost into the character when you go to cut the tree?
That my friend is the wolf.. or at least perhaps a representation of it!.
great breakdown and video!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
thank you for the video! 😊
Of course! I hope you enjoyed the breakdown.
No. Some Infections if not nost target the host survival instincts or wear it down. So even that is not a happy twisted ending.. killing the Wolf then burning the mushrooms before taking the car .. now that might be
lol but grandma is lost!!!!
Does anything happen when you sleep when the wolf knocks?
Not as far as I remember!
Great video !
Thank you!
Amazing video and great job
Thank you be sure to share it around if you can!! 🥰
Friendly reminder that a trigger warning that doesn't specify what the trigger is for doesn't help anyone make an informed decision
ikr!!! I've seen this happen too many times in vids!!!
Would you rather I put no warning?
@@VirtualResidencecontent warnings are valuable for your audience, but it's standard practice to also include spoiler-free labels - even MPAA movie ratings include why (e.g. "graphic violence")
@@VirtualResidencealso you probably didn't mean it this way, but your reply comes across like "mom my shoes hurt my feet" "would you rather have no shoes???"
I mean, if you're aware you have triggers, you should probably proceed with caution. If you're unaware, nothing can warn you anyway.
I really enjoyed you summary great video brother.
Thank you so much!
Wow, I'm surprised this game is darker than I thought
The hunter actually being an abuser is fucked up but it's a neat way to had depth to this short story
It really is fantastic I can’t wait to make content on LuNs other games!
Hello can I recommend you a horror movie, it’s called Organ 1996, it’s a weird trippy movie, I think it has some deep meaning. It’s kinda similar to Mucorales but with the people replacing the organs into plants bc the people are organ traffickers so yeah.
That sounds pretty cool.. I like horror and trippy vibes.
Ya! Btw are u going to make a discord server, bc I wanna show you more suggestions
I’ll look into it lol 😂 not going to lie I’ve used discord pretty sparingly, so I’ll have to do a little investigating. But it would be a great way to get more suggestions and what not for games!
@@VirtualResidence ok good luck with the videos!
Hey we now have a discord server if you want to join. Link is in the pinned comment on the newest video. Or in my channels info page!
So, you said that this human in the well wants the girls consciousness.. Maybe in the ending 1 it gains it, that's why the girl says it feels good.. Maybe it's already the human inside the girl. Or maybe I'm wrong 😂
Yea that’s what I believe too. The first ending all the consciousness are in the network and the girl in the well can experience and walk the forest in Blanchettes body.
10:44 What about these codes tho?
Nothing crazy..
“Find more mushrooms”
“Don’t talk to strangers”
“Hide inside”
@@VirtualResidence Damn, I tought maybe It could give a hint to find the lost image for the ending 4 out 3, but still cool
Yea I think the ending 4 of 3 png was just a red herring to get you to search the games files and see the QR code
How did you get the forest to glitch out? Does the whole game end up looking like that once you get that 4th ending and try another cycle?
Yes 4th ending and then the forest will be glitch on following runs.
I see why you think the mushroom ending is the lesser of several evils but im just kinda stuck on how in every scenario, someone is trying to use Blanchette for her body, both the initial abuser and his victim(s) in a seemingly unending cycle.
Very good assessment!
mong anh phân tích về tựa game Mucorales Game vì bên việt nam vẫn chưa có ai làm và tôi thấy game rất hay :)))
darkwood but its in rpg maker
The developer mentioned they really love darkwood! It’s a great small experience. I also purchased Shita Ni which is cool!
Wait... did you catch/decipher the morse code that flashes onscreen when you step on the pantygram?
I wanted to let you guys have some fun ;)
@@VirtualResidence lmao nooo alright first one says "FIND MORE MUSHROOMS", the second says "DONT TALK TO STRANGERS" and the third says "HIDE INSIDE"
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-.. --- -. - / - .- .-.. -.- / - --- / ... - .-. .- -. --. . .-. ...
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You got it! Good job 👏
Thank you for this incredible video! Looking forward to more! :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm unclear on what part of this is analog
Analog horror- is described as a subgenre of horror that has a visual style usually with low fidelity graphics trying to replicate analog media or the limitations of it.
Narrative style usually relies on environmental story telling/ subtext
Basically analog horror doesn’t have to be the backrooms or vhs style found footage.. it essentially uses analog style media to make the experience creepy.
So I believe personally that Mucorales qualifies as it.
It isn't, but the reason why someone would refer to it as analogue horror is that the aesthetics of the genre are directly pulled from creepypasta posts, with many projects being direct or indirect adaptations of those forum posts into a new medium.
Video games were common subject matter for creepypasta stories and because of the age of the people who initially made up those stories, a lot of them took place in, or referenced media from the 90s. This is thought of by the community as "analogue" because it was a transitional period in which the Internet was not really rolled out to the majority of people and pretty much all television broadcasting and home video was still on analogue formats, such as VHS and local television broadcasting, which was far more regional for people who did not have a cable or satellite subscription.
Back then, there was a reasonable chance that you could have watched a television series that never existed outside of the area you lived in and that was fertile ground for coming up with a series of stories about gruesome things appearing on the news, television shows that nobody has ever heard of, government experiments on isolated communities, and obscure, unfinished or unreleased prototypes of commercial software being obtained from yard sales or car boot sales from shady people selling bootlegs.
The main thing that distinguishes analogue horror from creepypasta is probably that the people who make it don't try and pretend it's real for the most part and rarely choose to be anonymous.
This sits in the camp of being the sort of thing that a creepypasta would have been written about, but it's intended to be a standalone experience as opposed to just being a spooky video-game bought from a shady guy at a flea market that made the person who played it so crazy that they joined Something Awful and paid actual money to tell people about it.
Just be thankful for the fact that it's not a slideshow with photos of people who have weird faces.
How-exactly-is this analog horror and not just horror?
Analog horror is any horror that has analogue media aesthetic. I would say this qualifies!
@@VirtualResidence
Fair, though I think that aesthetic needs to imply an analog medium, _(such as the ever popular VHS tape recorded from a camcorder, digitized and uploaded to TH-cam as found footage or firsthand vlogging,)_ while this is very generally just a spooky video game.
Home Safety Hotline is a better example of analog horror in a video game, because its interface is diegetic and masquerading as Windows XP or Windows 98
That’s fair lol I’ll have to put that game on my list to check out!
more vids like this mmmmmm😮😮
Will do!
I cannot endure the thumbnail because i cant look at a dog being injured. Please change thumbail, such like dead deer or grandma
Its just a dog.
@CowpokeScav bro
I mean im sick of that since i have a dog
At least set the wolf as thumbnail is better
@@KimSooJin2010 I have a dog too, I don't feel sick with the thumbnail.
Great video!!
Thank you!