A Digital Horror Tragedy - Milton Math Games Explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2024
- Make sure to check out the channel @miltonmathgamesarchive!
Hey everyone! It's been a while. Today I'm talking about the Digital Horror ARG Milton Math Games Archive. As we unfold the secrets it has in store together, we'll find out why this digital horror is more of a digital tragedy than anything else.
chalkmuncher - Creator, Milton, Stylized minaxa Sprites
Avery - Co-Creator, Misc. Help
Dei - Charlotte
Camray - Tobee
ItsLuiz - Garrett
Spid3rW3b - Raven
Phantom Eclypse - Friend 2
piximouse - Editing, Jamie
minaxa - Direction, Script, Editing, Janitor/Friend 1
// watch videos early:
/ @minaxa
// socials:
linktr.ee/minaxa
// discord server:
/ discord
// timestamps:
00:00 intro
01:37 Milton Math Games Archive
41:08 miltonmathgames.com
56:28 Timeline & Theories
1:04:56 closing thoughts
// music used (in order):
♫ FNAF Sister Location OST: Demolition Inevitable
♫ deltarune - School
♫ New Super Mario Bros. U - Acorn Plains
♫ Yume 2kki - Cutlery World
♫ Tomodachi Life - Mii Maker
♫ Yume 2kki - Forest Pier
♫ Kirby's Epic Yarn - Quilty Court
♫ Nintendo 3DS - Mii Maker
♫ Wii Party - Swap Meet
♫ Milton Math Games - Website
♫ Mii Channel - Plaza
♫ Kirby's Epic Yarn - Patch Castle
♫ The Flower Duet - Leo Delibes (Lud & Schlatt's Musical Emporium)
♫ Milton Math Games - Hallway
♫ UNDERTALE - Ruins
♫ UNDERTALE - Alphys
♫ Stardew Valley - The Smell of Mushroom
♫ Milton Math Games - Run Game
♫ Milton Math Games - Tobee (8-Bit Version)
♫ Milton Math Games - Raven
♫ Stardew Valley - The Lava Dwellers
♫ Stardew Valley - Visitor To The Unknown
♫ Milton Math Games - Puzzle
♫ Stardew Valley - Crystal Bells
♫ Milton Math Games - Tobee
♫ UNDERTALE - Here We Are
♫ deltarune - Faint Glow
♫ Super Mario Galaxy - Stardust Road
♫ Super Mario Galaxy - Freezeflame Galaxy
♫ Super Mario Galaxy - Space Fantasy
♫ Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Cosmic Cove Galaxy
♫ Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Rosalina
#digitalhorror #arg - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
I'd like to clarify some stuff real quick, since it seems a decent amount of people have come to incorrect understandings from this video.
My level of involvement with the creation of Milton Math Games is nothing except for my voice role. I have not confirmed any story details or theories with the creator, and I am not in any discord server or group related to its development. I don't know the story! All of the analysis in this video is my own! I also planned on making this video a LONG time ago, before I became friends with the series' creator.
Hopefully that clears some stuff up!
Hi
@@veryepoc6949 Hi
The car accident was not an accident
36:57 ...slow?
@@thesauce179 slow
Why does Milton's voice actor sounds like he's trying his best not to be shushed in a library
No idea but it sure made me think of simpler times. Clunky computers setups. Off white plastic for the casing of components and the sound of the rubbery mousewheel on the desk.
The clearest voice acting in edutainment stuff I have memories of is Jumpstart games. And those had some serious money behind them.
So all in all. Well done on their part!
Idk if it's intentional or not but a lot of old browser game voice acting was like that
Sounds like early chris-chan, lol
He sounding like he's wearing coder socks
@@BucketBoatable I assumed mysticat but that too
I just got an idea: a parody of analogue horror that's a tutorial on how to get humans from the point of view of the monsters
good idea
I think that one has done this for one of their videos. I think it's Gemini TV or whatever it's called? It's been a bit but the video was a tutorial for the viewer to successfully break into a human home and "make a nest"
@@tierghan5433 you're right! it's Gemini Home Entertainment and the video you're referring to is called "Home Invasion Help"
@@tierghan5433 something like that was in vita carnis
@@ihatelagalot that's the one
Personally I don’t think Jamie was murdered. I think he was just playing out in the woods and he had an accident. The human body is simultaneously fragile and durable. Sometimes just a fall in the wrong place can be lethal.
Yeah I've broken bones from dumb stuff it's definitely possible
And since Charlottes injury was also an accident, I think it’s likely. Like a theme
@@GooseWithAPassport o broke my arm by falling on top of It after tripping on a wire. I mean i was 4 yo and i was already hurt, but still.
tbh i really hope that it's an accident, i feel like a lot of the "haunted game/website" series goes for the murder route, which, while horrifying, kinda makes them all predictable...
@@Bonkpunktexeyeah and i also feel like accidents can also be horrifying in their own way if that makes sense
Thanks for letting me voice in the beginning of the video!
he dont kno u lil bro
@@natedor7739 hes literally in the description
@@natedor7739 are you dense
@@natedor7739 he is literally one of the mods in the discord server
@@natedor7739 bruh
I love how there's just a small section of the video comprised of Minaxa thirsting over Garrett
Valid
Very valid. Garret has rizzed me
i may be aroace but oh my god garrett
i need him
Does him simping allow me to ship the janitor with Garret?
There are raccoon dogs, soooo
Edit: I should not have searched them up on google images why do they have hairy hot air balloons for sacks they’re even bigger than what they do to anime girl chests
>cool analog horror video
>look inside
>character trapped inside digital realm
many such cases
I dunno if they are trapped in this case, or are more possessing as a form of trying to communicate with Charlotte
>player finally remembers
Just had an idea for a more lighthearted series idea. Some person makes/tries to recover a website but is impeded by a demon or other supernatural entity. Instead of just not noticing his videos and website text being changed, they take notice of this and make it their mission to find the entity and make it stop. It goes from both sides trolling the other, to a fist fight between the poster and entity. Absolutely no horror value whatsover, just a flame war between a ghost in the machine and a very irritated user.
W idea
i love this
Sounds like an expanded version of my average day at work 🤣
You should check out the June Archives, That is also horror ARG series that delves into the Dark side of Nostalgia.
Flipnote digital horror is something I never expected to see but I am so happy it exists now.
we dont talk about no nostalgia 'round here, pardner
@@cassidygoober y
@@jan_Eten you see, that's the joke- (the series is revolving around nostalgia n stuff lol)
oh i saw that arg! was cool
I have a theory about where Jamie's body is. I don't know if all the details line up, but it would make sense to me for Jamie to have died in the same car crash that injured Charlotte. If his body was thrown from the car (this crash was severe enough to leave her hospitalized and "lucky to be alive") and landed in the woods, he might not have been visible to first responders. Charlotte doesn't remember him, so she wouldn't be able to tell anyone to go looking for Jamie's body. If Charlotte and Jamie were too young to drive, Jamie wouldn't have told his parents where he was, so they wouldn't know to look for him in proximity to Charlotte.
This is an interesting theory. That would be an interesting twist if that turns out to be the case. We’ll have to see though with the 2 yet to be uploaded videos.
Two kids managed to steal a car and no one noticed? How fast would the car had to have been for his body to have been launched so far away that no one would have been able to find him
@@chaosbeam4654that but he could’ve also just not been wearing a seatbelt
@@silliestlesbian how does that change what I said. The car would have to be going really damn fast, unreasonably fast. A seatbelt wouldn’t change that
@@chaosbeam4654 I mean, it's a couple of kids driving in what seems like the rain, considering the video before the last one posted as of writting I think we're meant to assume they were driving in the rain and got into an accident. It makes sense for him to go flying out the windshield into a ditch somewhere or something and not be found due to the sevarity of Charlotte's wounds and her not remembering he was with her in the first place (if this theory is right)
Also on the map of the US, both Delaware and Ohio are missing.
Checks out
Not like anyone was gonna miss em
I ate them
@@skulledduggery :(
@@skulledduggery WHY DID YOU EAT THEM?!?!?!?
y'know its funny how a website dedicated to teaching small kids has one of the characters regularly evade taxes
I think the last word around 27:15 might have been "Fractured" making it "Shattered Memory, Fractured Mind"
I think you're absolutely right
I think Tobee may just be the greatest little guy ever
He's the average tax evader and I love it
I'm fairly certain the way Charlotte's brain scan looks is indicative of Schizophrenia, if I remember the images correctly from Undone (animated Amazon show aimed at adults).
Alma, the main character's, schizophrenia was triggered by a traumatic brain injury after she hit a light pole. Her late Dad was the first person she saw clear as day, but no one else did.
I also feel like videos are a peek into her consciousness - that would explain how she is unfazed by certain things. However, why should she "wake up" though? Is she in a coma or something?
the original image appears to be a brain scan showing dawson's fingers, which are lesions (scars) in the brain of a person with multiple sclerosis (an autoimmune disease where a person's immune system attacks their nerves' sheaths, causing nerve damage and a whole host of issues) and are often a diagnostic marker for MS.
the image is on a website meant to be an archive for the australian family physician, which was the peer reviewed scholarly journal of the royal australian college of general practitioners (or RACGP for short) from 1971 to 2017 before another journal named the australian journal of general practice (or AJGP for short) took over in 2018. the image is specifically in an article about MRI brain imaging and what to look out for in them to diagnose different conditions like:
- stroke
- aneurysm
- cerebral infection
- glioblastoma (cancer that starts in the brain and/or spinal cord)
- schwannomas (tumors that grow in the nervous system)
- frontotemporal dementia
@@verloren844 i think it's less of her "waking up" and more of her snapping out of an episode if OP is to be believed.
also the words shattered and mind overlaying the brain scan are the literal meaning of schizophrenia with schizo = shattered or fractured and phren = mind
the puns were already enough laughing material, but the bloody tidal wave 😭
Dap du du dap du du
I'm just happy he knows what tidal wave is
Tidal Wave! *Zoink*
@@SecretAgentSans Youre not gonna believe whats at the start of kowareta
I loved the part when Garett used his W rizz on Milton and then everyone was saved
Womp Womp.
Womp womp
Womp womp
it was peak analog horror
womp womp!
"she's either stupid or slow" he says about the girl who canonically got brain damage
I don't think she had brain damage at that point since it's old footage from her as a child or early teen (while the car crash must've been in her late teens) but it's still a bit rude hahahaha
Tobee is like the chill gym teacher that subbed in your english class.
There is no way he is a grown man with the way he talks ☠️
@@ScoutFanpage don't bully him !!!!
this might truly be the first video to hit a miltillion views
his vid on baldi already got a million views?
@@notmocka miltillion and million are very difereent things..,,... /j
A truly remarkable feat for a youtuber such as minaxa to reach.
My favorite part was when Milton said its Milting time and Milted all over the website
@@binkeppi yeah man
23:58: "At the edge of the universe, humming a tune. For merely dreaming we were snow........."
a siren soundsss like the goddess who promises endless apologies of paradise....and only she can make it right
@@erzeca but things are different..... toniggghhhttt
@@scottbuck1572 *piano*
It’s now or never, a reverie endeavour.
Awaits somnambulant directives to tame the helm 💯👈🤯
Also I like that a Hawaii: part II song plays when he said Hawaii
I love the concept of a lost media aggregation being intertwined with a missing persons case by having someone trapped within the media itself and being unable to properly rest until someone's finally solved it.
My theory is that not only was Jamie a part of the crash, but that Charlotte was trying to show him how to drive since she had Just gotten her license.
But after the crash, because Charlotte was so grievously injured, it's likely Jamie didn't realize just how badly he was hurt too, but was the first to wake up. He didn't understand what was happening, didn't know Charlotte was hurt so bad, got lost in the woods trying to find help or get a hold of where they were, and then succumbed to his wounds in a remote part of the woods near where they crashed.
This theory comes primarily from Jamie's wording implying he was involved in the accident in some way, and the site itself being based around, well, teaching kids. He was at a point where he was learning a lot of things, potentially how to drive.
I'm ngl it looks very promising but the first episode definitely had a rough start, got into the "somethings not quite right" thing a little too fast and maybe spilled a little too much about the plot but yeah it looks good
I agree and while I understand it and he’s not unfunny or mean this video is a little hard to watch because he’s so biased towards it, I’m glad it’s a good bias at least but it’s hard to watch when the whole video is just like (very basic ARG content) ‘this is the most fire thing I’ve ever seen I’m gagged miltillions must watch’ you know
@@mikanviolaYou can't necessarily blame him for it though, as it's a project his friends made so of course you're gonna hype it up no matter how basic it is
@@glassofmid I guess so it’s just kind of annoying to see since this channel is clearly about trying to honestly review ARGs and that’s what they get a following for and I assume ad revenue so that’s what viewers are generally looking for. I think there are also other TH-camrs who have covered the works of their friends and expressed their pride and happiness regarding it without making what are essentially untrue statements about it doing something new and original with the genre since there’s practically nothing here that hasn’t been done before. It’s not morally wrong or anything I just find it kind of dumb
@@mikanviola Oh no, I totally get what you mean by the annoying bias, but I simply brushed the biased portion off. If anything, I first assumed and was annoyed that since he voiced a character, that he knew all the lore and everything so he'd essentially spoil everything, but he states knows nothing besides voicing his character. If you can get passed the biased portions, the video is sorta the same as all the other ones imo 🤷
27:25
THAT DANG HAMMER HAS ME ROLLING, IM SUPPOSED TO BE SERIOUS AND ANYLIZING BUT I HAVE BEEN LAUGHING AT THAT HAMMER BANGING AGAINST CHAROLETTES HEAD HAS BE DYING
*B o n k*
Say goodbye to your memory chucklenuts bonk!
(Noclip noises)
23:55 NOT THE HAWAII PT II REFERENCE 😭
Also, don't ask what happened to Simon.
Me when I'm in the forest looking to see the trees (none were there) 😢😢
Me when he found a girl. She found the Erl King. (The Lover)
That face when they were in the white wood, gamboling out (to picnic)
@@Bowie_8me when in the light trees broke above and then they fell below 🥶‼️
People need to do more videos analyzing digital horror series. The subgenre deserves more love, dammit!
Sagan hawkes has some good videos about digital horror
Jamie - went missing on 6/14/05
Me - born on 6/17/05
Welcome back, Jamie!
guys..... I found em
WE FOUND EM!
27:20
I’m probably wrong but I personally think that it might say, “Shattered memory, reduced mind”. Just a wild guess looking at how the second word is spelled but I’m bad at cursive so idk. It does seem pretty on point for the theme they go for here though.
it also can be shattered memory, fractured mind
7:02 I forgot this game had existed, seeing the short clip made it all connect to a lost neurons in frontal lobe clicked together again. I have now a mission to find the title to preserve for myself.
Have u found it yet?
@@FROSTYVR-_9 Yes! It's called "Meeblings"
OMG I've always wondered where I've played that game before!! I tried so hard explaining about remembering this before to my friends.. but lo and behold 🙏
The Tobee comics and the fact the guy evades taxes canonically is maybe my favorite thing. Just adds a bit of flavor to the character that vibes with me specifically.
Its a really cool series, the character designs are very pretty and i can really see how much fun the creators had making it! Sadly it feels like all the other ARG out there.
> Kid-realted media that seems innocent, accompanied by cute characters.
> Oh no! It's not innocent!
> Loud noises, glitches and distorted images.
> Dead kid appears.
I get it, its not easy to make a story; but some things can't make me get immersed on it enough (like the constant repeated jokes, or the references to other media) when i try to ignore the repeated themes.
Overall, i wish the creators the best and hope they improve in their future projects :)
As someone who grew up with a Wii, when you gave the “loud unpleasant noise warning” I knew EXACTLY what was coming. Never thought that godawful crash noise would be nostalgic to me, but here we are lol. Love your content!
I love how the loading screens are clearly inspired by Club Penguin, right down to the blue gradient background and loading spinner.
Also, as a web developer, I can see that the source code of the website is… well, questionable at best. (I mean, come on, just look at that spacing!) I mean, I guess it fits the theme of “developers who don’t quite know what they’re doing”…? I dunno.
I love that you’re using your platform to give visibility to small creators/people you care about. That being said, I found Milton Math Games to be a little lack luster in multiple ways. But no shade I’m glad there’s more arg art out there
I'm a simple woman. I hear a TH-camr mention Marble Hornets, I get nostalgic and- Oh God. PLEASE do a Marble Hornets retrospective. I try to watch the series every October. I have it on DVD because why the fuck not? I'd love to see your perspectives.
Why dont you just watch the Night Mind Version?
@mitchellalexander9162 Because I like Minaxa, his style, and his takes, and I'm curious to see SPECIFICALLY his thoughts on the series because everyone's perspective is unique?
Also because I didn't even know who Night Mind was and that they covered Marble Hornets until you said the name and I looked it up to see what you were even talking about.
I recommend Sagan Hawkes retrospect of Marble Hornets. His vibe is similar to Minaxa
@@Trunks1stApprenticeI somehow find it hard to believe that you like this kind of content, yet after all of these years of youtube, and NM's channel being up, rhat you haven't seen or been recommended a video by him.
@sheebuhenu4074 I don't actively seek out new channels. I almost didn't even subscribe to minaxa. I tend to just stick with the channels I've been subscribed to for years.
I also don't really engage with other fans of things I like because fandom culture was a mistake.
So at minimum, I probably saw their channel in my feed one day and immediately went "don't recommend channel" without even thinking on it. At max, I have never heard of them or seen them.
As much as I want to enjoy this ARG, I can't, at least not as an ARG. It's not an ARG, it's an AR Story. There is no game, there is no mystery.
You are not given crumbs to piece together, after only the second video, you already know the most important informations, and for the next infos to come, you aren't given any hint or anything until the information is given, removing the need to establish theory.
In addition to that, they made a few mistakes about flash games: having 3D transition (when he walks the hallway) is pretty advanced stuff, not the kind of things you find in unassuming games. For games of this quality, you would generally get no transition between screens
Same for the good quality voicelines. Flash games often had poor quality voice or no voice at all, recording voices at the time wasn't that easy. There were professional voice recorders in the scene, but they were generally focused on flash animations. Games generally either didn't use voice, use stock voices or voices from the creators using whatever mic was on their computer/headphones (generally so bad in tone and quality that it's funny). The only exception was if the game absolutely needed voices, but it isn't the case in this ARG. Whatever the teachers say could be written. Especially since it was a quizz. Either the quizzes only contained a few questions (thus barely replayable) or you needed to record voices for all questions.
In opposite to Lacey's games or ChezzKidsgames, it doesn't feel like a flash game that could have existed.
For example: why is there a need for server? The game seemed to have no online functionality, so the flash game should be part of the page and load just fine. The ARGs of flash games work because they tell that the sites where the games were hosted went down, not that only the games refused to load; because flash games were inserted directly into the page (making it possible to easily download the game, reason why so many flash sites stole flash games from others sites). Except for the multiplayer flash games (mostly MMO), once the game loaded, you could cut out internet and it would work just fine.
I really want to enjoy it, I like the characters design and the synopsis, but it's just slightly interesting , nothing more, IMO.
Milton still isn't beating Ruff Ruffman (Yes, I am a Canadian and I will die on that hill, FETCH! With Ruff Ruffman was a peak show)
Based take
@@gloffmelk-go6my Ruff Ruffman SLAMS that poser.😤
Dude there was an episode of Fetch where the kids did a tourist trap attraction near my hometown and I went there years later
@@CassiusStelar That’s cool!
@@azlanmalik247 it was S5E13
Thank you for this unregistered hypercam 2 tutorial very helpful.
ok this was probably unintentional but i NEED to get this out
at 13:34 when tobee tries to call the player a superstar but got cut off by that glitch, the "star" sounds like it cuts to an extremely crunchy audio of a man screaming *"STOP!"*
lmao i love how the moment i saw the game at 31:15 i said "thats made in bitsy"
ive used bitsy for years at this point, super glad to see someone use it for something like this
Honestly tho i know the creator obviously put a lot of effort into it, i just think ARG are getting pretty repetetive they are more like [insert mascot] archives and i mean i hope someone gets a creative idea or something becose it gets kinda of repetitive not to insult the creators they put a lot of effort
ARGs that are entirely done through online means I can understand, especially those that are considered to be “mainstream” or are trying to gain popularity. It’s statistically harder to make an analog series or an ARG styled series without some sort of character or mascot unless they are previously well known. Something like Cicada for example doesn’t necessarily have a mascot, while the ARGs for something like Bioshock or Gravity Falls are technically centered around a specific person.
It’s about reach and affordability, really. There are a TON of ARGs that are offline-centered that don’t follow this “mascot” trend, it’s just about knowing where to look.
If you’re speaking of analog series on the other hand, I entirely agree.
Then I really suggest you check out "Hey peabrain, you teleport?" It's long over, but very interesting! Izzyzzz's has a video on it!
I loved the old-school clipart themed Minaxa, adorable. I can tell this series is special to you. Fantastic video!
As someone who grew up in the GBA/DS/Wii era, it makes me happy to see the Wii used (even in such a minor role) as a device for storytelling, honestly there’s so many wiis out there, probably with long dead family members Miis on, old photos of those people on the Photo Channel etc., god knows there’s tonnes of that on my old childhood wii, just such a fun idea for the plot, I like it
43:59 The art looks like it's from Schoolhouse Rock, which was a video series that used music to teach math, grammar, and about how our (USA) government works. I think it's from the 70s
That aside, I'm pretty sure that exact style of clipart was all over American classrooms for years.
Honestly, I think Jamie might've just had an accident while on the path to or from the creek, it's the sort of thing that happens and it wouldn't take from the themes of grief the story has.
But the coords given were out of Colorado. Barely, but still.
17:42 I will now be adding "suspiciously jamie-shaped" into my vocabulary
Ngl old internet sites that turn out to be haunted is getting overdone nowadays but damn... this one has such a high production behind it that I cant help but respect it a lot.
Still think the genre can go in some other more interesting ways tho
It's cool to see you starting from analysing horror vids to going over spooky games and actually being part of a spooky series(even as a small role). Take your time making more of these quality vids. I will be looking foward to the next one!
LET'S GO NEW MINAXA VIDEO!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
very excited to watch this
I absolutely love milton's voice though
48:29 TOONTOWN!!! Omg those ads does bring me back, good job website designers!
Man I gotta say I absolutely love the addition of The Smiler. It's SO reminiscent of The Webkinz Killer and as a very normal person that played Webkinz in my childhood and still sometimes plays even today, it made me so weirdly giddy to see it!
I remember finding this after seeing Chezzkids stuff! Ive been following since the beginning, glad to see that its getting this coverage because it also nails that old edutainment style. I hope it expands more with subtle hints and such~
I love this ARG thing but I hated it in the beginning cause he kept saying how it was the most epic thing he’s seen
I like how the painting in the first episode hinted to "jamie" being stuck but it was a pretty good starter!
50:23
"I love you Lacey"
(PTSD INTENSIFIES"
do not remind me
18:00 Heck yeah, Wii crash sound my favorite
My childhood Wii used to crash all the time as a kid, hearing it reawakened some buried memory lmao
At 28:43 I believe that’s a quote from the sci-fi novel I have no mouth and must scream which would make sense considering both Jamie and the character in that book are in similar situations.
I don’t think it is. At the very least it isn’t from the section where the protagonist is in that situation. It may be in the game but I couldn’t find anything. Correct me if I’m wrong.
During science class (Which I’m not sure if you saw this cut),In the “Ravens experiments” when raven is telling Ronnie her colors. There’s a text that appears near the help button for a SPLIT second,The screen goes black that says “Someday, I’ll be found”. Which is either Jamie trying to contact Charlotte once again through the mini-game,I almost missed this in the video! Though it had that weird sound for a moment. Luckily i did catch it!
bro i went on the site and typed "charlotte" and the sound effect scared the living god outta me 😭😭
Also cool vid
..i didnt expect to hear Hawaii Part II
amazing album AND amazing video as always!
Uncool math games
Lmaoo 😂
This is pure creepy gold! 🤩⭐️. Can the next episode be about the deep dive of Kinetopet horror game.
i love your voiceovers so much. was so excited to see a new upload
Google returns the text of the website, so someone “trapped in the website” could effectively alter the search results by altering the text of the page at the time google caches it.
Eggman blew up the island, that's why we don't talk about Hawaii
there goes hawaii the island is gone
I watched this video while cleaning my shower. I really enjoyed it. I understood everything that wad happening when without looking at the screen, and for that I commend you.
I love Milton so much!!!
The glasses , the voice and the design just..!!!☺️☺️
I love and can’t wait it to see more
I had never heard of Milton Math Games until I saw this video, which I saw in my recommendations. I like that one dog with the glasses, though, cute design.
A whole hour of good content from Minaxa, what could make this day even better?😆
I feel like this story could benefit from more subtlety. The first episode came out swinging, which is fine for most genres, but it removes the slow-burn aspect of digital horror that is such a strong point in similar works. I am not saying that Milton Math Games should have been more in line with other ARGs, but there is a reason why I and many others associate that slow buildup with great horror. The art and nostalgia is on point and I would say that this series excels in those categories especially, but it just isn't enough to counteract the fact that I keep getting fed too much exposition. If the author of the series makes anything in the future, and I hope they do, I hope they will utilize their artistic skill and technological knowhow to make something a little more suspense building.
I've barely gotten through a fourth of the video (I do not intend to finish it bc tbh im not interested at all), and honestly? MMGA seems not very good. As some one else has pointed out in the comments, the references and memes are extremely out of place, the story and concepts are nothing really new, and it feels like everything was a bit of an after thought.
The references are egregious to me, how am I supposed to take this story and arg seriously when there seems to be like 20 different and obvious easter eggs/references to media (media not relevant to or present in the 2000s-2010s) per episode?
I can't say I've ever experienced an early 2000's flash game website, but I played a lot of flash games throughout the 2010s. I say that to mention how MMG is most definitely to me not a website with edutainment themed flash games. It feels more reminiscent of an edutainment /software/, like iStation.
Another thing is how much it feels like a series that's more interested in giving people nostalgia than an interesting, new, and researched story.
This one is just my hot take but making the fake series game site into an actual website is pretty bad to me. I thought MMGA's lore was that MMG is a lost website, with the channels in-universe creator, trying to archive pictures and videos of it so that it won't be lost forever, and presenting the story to us that way. I feel like us, the audience, should be engaging with this story through the information only the videos provide (there's definitely exceptions, I'm just saying mainly through the videos).
This feels like a story made a middle schooler. What I mean by that, is that a) it is unoriginal, simply a mishmash of overdone and popular tropes, b) lacking any kind of fore thought and adding everything that comes to mind, and c) amateur. As a former middle schooler and bad writer, I understand these things and know that you have to start somewhere even if it's bad. It's how art and their artists grow and evolve over time. Improving stories and abilities through practice and putting things out there.
I hope the creator(s) continue what they do, sincerely. I also hope they get lots of /constructive/ criticism that help them improve their craft.
Yeah it's so cookie cutter, all these ARGs are the fucking same. Usually I just watch them as the equivalent of comfort food but I'm getting tired, to the point where the first PLEASEHELPME message just make me sigh & laugh. and the calling out to a specific name, good lord
not to mention the fact that this video was basically only made out of nepotism and you have a bad arg on your hands (definitely not Urbanspook levels of bad but COME ON it’s so predictable)
Bro I knew EXACTLY where you were going with that Hawaii joke at 23:53
Petition for minaxa to cosplay the racoon janitor on his next Milton video
I unironically really love Milton's design. It's very well done
Been sharing for this vid watched the live stream and it got me hyped love the work
I love how you changed your character for the video :3
woahhhh i’m a new sub and wasn’t expecting to catch a video this early
Hay haven’t started the video but I just like to say I’m finally getting over my fear of video unpacking the lore of ARG’s about flash games anyway can’t wait to watch
videos like this are the only way i can consume horror in its entirety, its like having a friend to hold my hand through it since im too scared
Got to the end of the video, minaxa I love your other videos that delve into analog and related horrors, but honestly this one feels like more youre trying to convince the audience that this is interesting than you showing WHY its interesting
The voice acting in the arg is severely lacking, many aspects of the medical and tecnological background for why events are happening are either stretchs or outright unconvincing despite the effort in trying to sound smart, and yeah, even the presentation of the game website isnt very nostalgic despite you pointing out many times how nostalgic >you< felt
Theres also way too many references to other media, that takes out the viewer from the immersion of what the arg is trying to sell, a lot of attention to easter eggs that reference the time the website is supposed set at instead of focusing on the story
Congrats to the developers of the project,art should always be made, but it feels very ammateurish
Sorry for any grammar errors, english is not my first language
I'd say nostalgia is a pretty personalized thing, while you may not have felt nostalgic a lot of people (myself included) did ^^
No offense to the voice actor, but Milton’s voice acting is really bad. Especially in the first episode, there definitely needed to be another take or two.
god damn, this series is so cool. i have to commend the commitment to the websites too, its such a great layer of interactivity. i'm rly excited to see more of this too! loved ur video!!
Ahhh I remember throwing up watching this video(it was completely unrelated to the videos quality,you did a great job!)
just visited boulder , colorado. thanks youtube for recommending me this video, i feel so safe rn😛
20:30 this vaguely reminded me of riddle school and that was a huge blast to the past. Who else here played riddle school while you were in class wishing you could escape too?
Milton is so 💅
Minaxa falling for the furry fox boy (I love the character designs and art)
i was able to smell the old computer room of my school while watching this video. it is quite an experience
If the team ever decides to sell Milton plushies, I would buy one for sure
oh god nepotism
Milton's voice sounds so precious
The glazing is insane
It’s really cool that you voiced one of the characters! You Went from just covering digital horror to taking part in it. That’s awesome!
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hi charlotte
Oh hi, how are ya doin?
Haha I was just binging your back catalogue and got this notif
i love how the very first thing I noticed abt Garrett's classroom is the framed picture of Milton sitting on his desk asgdkjghlku
24:01 as a person born and raise in Hawaii, I did question about its location (we’re not real)
now I haven't watch the arg yet but just from this video it feels like jamie need more of a character cause i feel almost no emotional attachment to them not really giving me a reason to care about their death now i think the later parts did fix that a bit but it still needs more like a flashback or smth from before jamie died just to make them feel like a real kid that isnt just a spooky sprit trapped in a website talking with someone that used to know them, but other wise it very, also good video it was very informative and interesting (sorry for like the shit grammar and spelling lol)
if i see the “im stuck” plot line one more time…
right? like... i'm sorry, but when op said, "this might be the coolest sequence i've ever seen in an online horror series," i couldn't help but think, "are you saying that because your friend made it, or have you just not seen a lot of unfiction?" because every facet of this project feels incredibly derivative and half-baked, at least to me. the corny, overdone premise of, "help me! i'm a dead kid stuck in a nostalgic kids' edutainment website with a ~dark twist~!" just doesn't do it for me anymore and the terrible pacing, lack of believability that this could be an actual game, and the way the videos practically beat you over the head with constant s.o.s. messages and spooooky audio and visual glitches only compounds that. i'm not trying to be mean, but none of the ideas presented here are new and they're also not executed in a particularly unique or clever way, so it just sorta feels like someone's rough draft attempt at replicating lacey's games, chezzkids, or teeny toys without fully understanding what made those series work.
@@monicaraybrandt THANK YOU FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT LETS GET MARRIED
@@feralbxte i'm glad i'm not the only person who thinks so! (´▽` ；)
Hell yeah a good morning minaxa video
It's always nice to see another Garrett