The creator of the game has said that the Batter himself did not change, but the way you viewed him did. Instead of him being innocent, on a mission to purify the world, you finally realized he was a monster out to destroy it. And thats why your view of him changed. The Judge, on the other hand, is not a monster at all, and your view of him had no reason to be altered. You're just seeing him the way he really is, or the way his actions make him seem to be, depending on what you think.
Oml just got into OFF *ehem* 2018 *ehem* so that means... Those people who Batter fought wasn't actually a distorted being but because of batter's perspective that they are monsters... That's amazing lmao
3:48 is actually a mistranslation. It’s supposed to say “I will not allow you to lay a hand on the son who brought US into the world.” The error was fixed in later versions tho
I assumed that Hugo is the son of Vader Eloha and The Batter, as Dedan said something like "your mother will be back soon when she found a place for all of us to settle in". But that would still be accurate if Hugo, probably an orphaned boy who survived the apocalypse preceeding the game, wishing for parents so desperatly that they really manifest. Then Queen and Batter each headed out to look for lands to rebuild. And while Qween was successfull, Batter found the Nothingness that turned him against his own family. I really like that Mortis encourages people to build their own interpretation of the character's connections
This is the first ending I had. I chose the Batter and now that I think about it was for a quite ironic reason. I just thought that I should finish what I've started. That since this is the "official ending", this is the way it's supposed to be. And then I saw the Batter's quote: "Escaping from your purpose is impossible." Ultimately the Batter became the puppeteer, and I've become the puppet.
Seeing the batter kill that kid with no remorse really fucked me up. And that music too. A music box is playing while this kid is being beaten to death by his father figure. It's sick. It makes me so upset
@@chaosinc.382 f u c k, i though i actually was the only one that put auto, funny enough the only time and first time and last time i used auto, was against hugo.......
The reason The Judge stayed the same if you chose The Batter's side is because your perspective of him stays constant, regardless of whether you agree with him or not. But if you chose to save what remains of the vacant world with The Judge, The Batter's transformation symbolizes that you do agree with him, that the Batter has gone too far.
I mean, it makes sense. Batter fifth just bludgeon a defenseless kid to a fine paste, so... That was pretty monstrous. Cant see much justification fer that one.
It also may be because the Judge hallucinates. In Zone 0 he mentions that he can't tell what real and what isn't. Now that you're on his side, you see things his way.
@@chaosinc.382 well if there is a defense for that, there is actually, not the best one but better than nothing, remember that his mission is to purify the world, because it was so rotten that it was killing itself, and it was better for it to rest than live in pain for the rest of time.
Valerie was dead all along, the one you fought was Japhet who was using Valerie's body as a host; Valerie tried to eat the bird, but got killed instead.
No it was the fact that The Judge NEVER changed that proved to me that you saw the clearest when you were with The Batter. You perception only changes if you view The Batter as bad. That's all. Also it's not certain if you kill Valerie as Valerie is already either possessed or dead by the time you even arrive at Zone 2. All that seemed to be left was his body that Japhet was using. Also during the Japhet battle, The Judge acts sad saying his name as if he is already dead too.
It attacks twice (when bashing normally), is 100% accurate and never misses, has every elemental attribute but plastic and deals critical damage every hit
Well, that's cuz Sugar is a Secret Hidden Boss while the Queen is just a regular Final Boss. Secret Bosses are usually known to be stronger than the Final Boss.
I have never played or even seen OFF but why in the world was my first interpretation of this: Batter is actually an adult version of Hugo who was so bitter from being left alone for so long that he travelled back in time to destroy the world, the queen who built it, and younger him????
That actually makes sense. The only problem is that the batter is clearly revealed to be the father of hugo. But who knows? Maybe the same way that the guardians saw hugo instead of the batter while going through the 5 chapter of “the room”, queen saw his husband instead of his grown up son.
That does make sense. They did pull of the perspective very well. I just found it weird he would change so drastically and suddenly. Especially since if you chose The Batter's side, he and you would still view the Judge as who he is. Leading me to believe that The Batter is the one who sees everything the clearest. Still I would have enjoyed fighting with The Judge against the Human-like Batter and his 3 add-ons.
I accidentally chose the wrong one! I'm so stupid like I didn't even want to kill the baby and the queen, so I wanted to side with the judge but I fucked it up or something and I ended up killing the judge??? I don't even know but shit man that game is some cool shit.
It was confirmed by Mortis Ghost that all the Elsen were male and couldn’t reproduce, so they were doomed to extinction anyway. He might’ve been doing them a favor. Plus it did look like a crappy world to live in.
It was 100 percent reasonable. No reproduction. Sugar addicted cannibals. Corrupted guardians with evil mindsets. Etc. etc. it was all torture and wasn't worth prolonging any further.
@@umamifan Sadly, it seems you're right. But still. One has to wonder if there was any way of saving them. Saving the worlds. Perhaps with its destruction it shall be born anew somehow.
@@chaosinc.382 unfortunately no rebirth ending. Look up a game called Everhood, basically all of the characters are immortals who have been living for eons (aka a very very very long time) who all went insane from being unable to die. The main character kills them but they are vengeful as a result (saying things like "who gave you the right to kill us?" And such) but it ends in everyone being thankful in the afterlife as they move on.
I enjoyed playing by The Judge's side but I hated how the game instantly changed The Batter into a crazy monster looking thing who didn't even have his add-ons anymore. When you scan him it says they are there but apart from that I do not see them. Besides that, I don't know why he had to become like that. He doesn't look like that when you play as him at any time at all. If you chose The Batter's side, The Judge still stays a cat. A powerful one, but still a cat. Not some demon specter.
dude, PLEASE SOMEONE ROAST ME AND BURN ME FOR THIS but the reason i actually played OFF was because of the animation of sans vs the judge, then i asked a friend why is he called the judge?, and he said that his fight was similar to the sans fight, and i got hyped and literally spent the hole day playing off, literally leraning the lore, ALL THAT because i wanted to fight a fricking talking cat, pathetic is it not?, at least i helped the dev whit buying it.
Anyone else thought it was kinda lame how the game was like "choose an ending"? Usually the ending is chosen based on your choices thru the game but here its just like "yeah bro choose whatever suits you"
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The creator of the game has said that the Batter himself did not change, but the way you viewed him did. Instead of him being innocent, on a mission to purify the world, you finally realized he was a monster out to destroy it. And thats why your view of him changed. The Judge, on the other hand, is not a monster at all, and your view of him had no reason to be altered. You're just seeing him the way he really is, or the way his actions make him seem to be, depending on what you think.
Oml just got into OFF *ehem* 2018 *ehem* so that means... Those people who Batter fought wasn't actually a distorted being but because of batter's perspective that they are monsters... That's amazing lmao
Man i just thought the batter was secretly a giant monster the whole time we just couldnt see it
Am I the only one who thinks what the batter did was reasonable lol everyone was pretty much doomed from the start
@@ten4241 nah me too, the world was pretty shitty. honestly if i was an elsen/burnt or a spectre id rather be purified
the judge is just the judge
3:48 is actually a mistranslation.
It’s supposed to say “I will not allow you to lay a hand on the son who brought US into the world.” The error was fixed in later versions tho
Ohhh. That makes things a lot clearer, that's for darn sure.
@@chaosinc.382 Why does that makes things clearer?;0
@@Westblader lore reason
@@Westbladerit doesnt. However, I think Hugo is painted to be the one who created the world of OFF, somehow. Willed it into existence.
I assumed that Hugo is the son of Vader Eloha and The Batter, as Dedan said something like "your mother will be back soon when she found a place for all of us to settle in".
But that would still be accurate if Hugo, probably an orphaned boy who survived the apocalypse preceeding the game, wishing for parents so desperatly that they really manifest. Then Queen and Batter each headed out to look for lands to rebuild. And while Qween was successfull, Batter found the Nothingness that turned him against his own family.
I really like that Mortis encourages people to build their own interpretation of the character's connections
This is the first ending I had. I chose the Batter and now that I think about it was for a quite ironic reason.
I just thought that I should finish what I've started. That since this is the "official ending", this is the way it's supposed to be.
And then I saw the Batter's quote: "Escaping from your purpose is impossible."
Ultimately the Batter became the puppeteer, and I've become the puppet.
Ooh. That last bit you said got me goosebumps it did.
holy shit
Cronge
I think that was for the Cat
Funny it is just a game... ha ha... ha
just a game
This game has one of the best title drops I've ever seen. Usually they're incredibly corny, but this manages to pull it off really well
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pull it OFF
Seeing the batter kill that kid with no remorse really fucked me up. And that music too. A music box is playing while this kid is being beaten to death by his father figure. It's sick. It makes me so upset
Tis pretty hard to watch. Reckon lotsa folks stick that part on auto battle.
@@chaosinc.382 I had to. I just sat there for a moment, then pressed auto and looked away until the music stopped, letting me know it was over.
@@chaosinc.382 f u c k, i though i actually was the only one that put auto, funny enough the only time and first time and last time i used auto, was against hugo.......
@@chaosinc.382 I didn’t do auto battle. Fight was painful, sure, but I already finished drakengard ending e, nier automata, and the Lisa rpg.
@@chaosinc.382 not me :)
The reason The Judge stayed the same if you chose The Batter's side is because your perspective of him stays constant, regardless of whether you agree with him or not. But if you chose to save what remains of the vacant world with The Judge, The Batter's transformation symbolizes that you do agree with him, that the Batter has gone too far.
I mean, it makes sense. Batter fifth just bludgeon a defenseless kid to a fine paste, so... That was pretty monstrous. Cant see much justification fer that one.
It also may be because the Judge hallucinates. In Zone 0 he mentions that he can't tell what real and what isn't. Now that you're on his side, you see things his way.
@@chaosinc.382 well if there is a defense for that, there is actually, not the best one but better than nothing, remember that his mission is to purify the world, because it was so rotten that it was killing itself, and it was better for it to rest than live in pain for the rest of time.
Valerie was dead all along, the one you fought was Japhet who was using Valerie's body as a host; Valerie tried to eat the bird, but got killed instead.
i love how after batter beats up the queen, shes all like
*_yeah you want some coffee_*
i guess batter doesnt like coffee
JoJo fan?...well My sister is not me...😐
he wanted dessert but she said no dessert for him u-u
The judge's smile is creepy, yet cool at the same time.
I bet you his inspiration is either the Cat from Coraline or Cheshire Cat probably...
@O b s c u r e ? I thought he had no lips...
I always liked the smile for Enoch or Zacharie’s cat mask better.
@@theseashellqueenfandomgal9333 this game is older than Coraline though
No it was the fact that The Judge NEVER changed that proved to me that you saw the clearest when you were with The Batter. You perception only changes if you view The Batter as bad. That's all. Also it's not certain if you kill Valerie as Valerie is already either possessed or dead by the time you even arrive at Zone 2. All that seemed to be left was his body that Japhet was using. Also during the Japhet battle, The Judge acts sad saying his name as if he is already dead too.
I think I just felt my heart self-destruct.
I just love how the music ambiance progresses troughout all the game
I like how Zacharie gave you a worse bat and was still claiming that it was the best one
It attacks twice (when bashing normally), is 100% accurate and never misses, has every elemental attribute but plastic and deals critical damage every hit
Sugar's battle took me longer than the Queen
Off easy *dab*
Well, that's cuz Sugar is a Secret Hidden Boss while the Queen is just a regular Final Boss. Secret Bosses are usually known to be stronger than the Final Boss.
Yes, the special ending and the true ending will be up tomorrow.
The batter's pretty dramatic about turning off the lights.
yea ha ha, somebody of 2022 still seeing/playing OFF?, anybody....................?
I actually watched a playthrough this week and I’m sad I didn’t get into the game sooner
At 11:16 I was hoping he was going to say that it's 'batter' like that. 🤣 I'm sorry, terrible joke but couldn't resist.
XD
I read it like that too xd
Tch, a perfect opportunity missed.
and when the batter said "it's batter like that" the audience let out the loudest cheer yet
I have never played or even seen OFF but why in the world was my first interpretation of this: Batter is actually an adult version of Hugo who was so bitter from being left alone for so long that he travelled back in time to destroy the world, the queen who built it, and younger him????
That actually makes sense. The only problem is that the batter is clearly revealed to be the father of hugo. But who knows? Maybe the same way that the guardians saw hugo instead of the batter while going through the 5 chapter of “the room”, queen saw his husband instead of his grown up son.
That's an interesting interpretation.
That does make sense. They did pull of the perspective very well. I just found it weird he would change so drastically and suddenly. Especially since if you chose The Batter's side, he and you would still view the Judge as who he is. Leading me to believe that The Batter is the one who sees everything the clearest. Still I would have enjoyed fighting with The Judge against the Human-like Batter and his 3 add-ons.
The batter set out to purify, but if he has a monster form than I am 1000% sure that he is impure.
That's why he turned off the switch. After murdering everything in the world, there's only one more person left. Himself
Escaping from your purposes is impossible
I accidentally chose the wrong one! I'm so stupid like I didn't even want to kill the baby and the queen, so I wanted to side with the judge but I fucked it up or something and I ended up killing the judge??? I don't even know but shit man that game is some cool shit.
That's a lot of blood.
Am I the only one who thought what the batter did was reasonable lol everyone was pretty much doomed from the start there was no saving any of them
He was a bastard that did something no one asked him to do. He had no right to do what he did.
It was confirmed by Mortis Ghost that all the Elsen were male and couldn’t reproduce, so they were doomed to extinction anyway. He might’ve been doing them a favor. Plus it did look like a crappy world to live in.
It was 100 percent reasonable. No reproduction. Sugar addicted cannibals. Corrupted guardians with evil mindsets. Etc. etc. it was all torture and wasn't worth prolonging any further.
@@umamifan Sadly, it seems you're right. But still. One has to wonder if there was any way of saving them. Saving the worlds. Perhaps with its destruction it shall be born anew somehow.
@@chaosinc.382 unfortunately no rebirth ending. Look up a game called Everhood, basically all of the characters are immortals who have been living for eons (aka a very very very long time) who all went insane from being unable to die. The main character kills them but they are vengeful as a result (saying things like "who gave you the right to kill us?" And such) but it ends in everyone being thankful in the afterlife as they move on.
Alas, the puppeteer has been puppeteered
My mind is blown...
Suda 51 was here?...
Well... BOI!
Man, the Batter must suck at chess if the Queen gives him so many fool's mates
Two broken, lonely men battling for a dead world.
I really love your gameplay
The switch is now on
*OFF*
Chills my spine
I just can't believe this game still doesn't have a remake for PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox one
What if instead Of OFF was WOKE
I sided with the Judge because he is a cat.
I'm not a deep woman...
dimensionallce the look of someone changes with the chane of the way you think of them
I enjoyed playing by The Judge's side but I hated how the game instantly changed The Batter into a crazy monster looking thing who didn't even have his add-ons anymore. When you scan him it says they are there but apart from that I do not see them. Besides that, I don't know why he had to become like that. He doesn't look like that when you play as him at any time at all. If you chose The Batter's side, The Judge still stays a cat. A powerful one, but still a cat. Not some demon specter.
this game is literally about perspective. the batter sees the judge as a cat but now the judge sees the batter as a monster
There’s a reason why the Batter changes like that, but I don’t know about the add-ons.
if you do nothing on the switch option will happen nothing and you just can choose the option of switch off?
When you set the switch to OFF, the game ends, but selecting Do nothing will just close the dialogue window and nothing is different.
14:24 credits
10:59 Yeah, Karin. What's the deal, yo?
10:59
9:26 child Abuse!
FaithfulServant41 l ikr poor hugo
“Kick the baby!”
“Don’t kick the baby.”
OFF huh...interesting. are you going to be doing the special ending?
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hi!!!!
When during the game did you get the fifth element? I don't know what I missed.
Does the Batter have four eyes, or two closed ones with eyebrows? Hmm..
Its two closed ones with eyebrows
He has one set of eyes with eye black underneath.
@@smallguy73 I thought it was just face paint some batters use.
Ok but some of the themes of sans' fight have to be based on this. A sad final fight to protect the world from destruction? Come on, that's so similar
It's not an uncommon trope. But it is eerily similar, seeing as the Judge and Sans are both fighting to protect a desolate world.
@@chaosinc.382 and the fact both of their little brothers were killed by the main character and are always smiling.
A prudent player will notice that both Undertale and Deltarune are both heavily inspired by OFF.
dude, PLEASE SOMEONE ROAST ME AND BURN ME FOR THIS
but the reason i actually played OFF was because of the animation of sans vs the judge, then i asked a friend why is he called the judge?, and he said that his fight was similar to the sans fight, and i got hyped and literally spent the hole day playing off, literally leraning the lore, ALL THAT because i wanted to fight a fricking talking cat, pathetic is it not?, at least i helped the dev whit buying it.
Bruh.
8:55 who guy u fighting
your own child, who created you and your wife to act as parental figures for him as he created the rest of the world
Anyone else thought it was kinda lame how the game was like "choose an ending"? Usually the ending is chosen based on your choices thru the game but here its just like "yeah bro choose whatever suits you"
It's not like it matters anyway, the result is almost the same either way. I think that's the point. It's not the destination, it's the journey.
@@avacadotoast5571 Laaame. I guess it can be excused as the game came out a while ago.
14:20
No no no, im not gonna watch the video. Im not gonna read comments. I DONT WANNA SPOILERS BYEEE
Then why were you here?
what
Then why did you come here?
I admire the inner turmoil lol