The Lore & Story of Dead Cells (with ALL DLCs)

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  • @somepersonig3000
    @somepersonig3000 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +462

    I have a theory:
    The malaise didn't start from the island, it started from OUTSIDE the island. My reasoning is because first it started from stilt village, which is the dock of the island and spreaded from there to everywhere else. What further strengthens my reasoning is the lighthouse ending being the world outside the island has already been infected by the malaise.

    • @noobyboi6324
      @noobyboi6324 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

      it would make the queen's attempts at keeping people out more tragic, as she has slain more survivors than she has saved

    • @somepersonig3000
      @somepersonig3000 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      @@noobyboi6324 ikr, but it is what it is. Besides, the survivor would had died anyways

    • @noobyboi6324
      @noobyboi6324 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@somepersonig3000 remember that party ship from the trailer for the lighthouse?

    • @somepersonig3000
      @somepersonig3000 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@noobyboi6324 didn't see it...

  • @allgreatnike1009
    @allgreatnike1009 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +386

    It's kinda ironic that we play as the villain who only really cares about himself.
    The story is indeed a tragedy that is masked behind amazing gameplay & lore that takes a bit more effort to understand. But once you do you dont really see things the same.

    • @radiofloyd2359
      @radiofloyd2359 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It's a tragedy but in a satirical way kinda like don't look up

  • @catlover7466
    @catlover7466 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +344

    I immediately knew the king’s identity when the beheaded says “how can see ahead of himself with that huge crown on his head bla bla” perspective

    • @dexnacorn7807
      @dexnacorn7807 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      How did that direct you i am curious now? How did you figure it out like that

    • @Shadow30.
      @Shadow30. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@dexnacorn7807 to be fair it was obvius, i had my own thots that we play as the king the moment i saw that statue in Promenade of the Condemned

    • @dexnacorn7807
      @dexnacorn7807 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Shadow30. Please explain your whole thought process

    • @Shadow30.
      @Shadow30. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@dexnacorn7807 we look similar and have amnesia + i played games with similar plot points

    • @dexnacorn7807
      @dexnacorn7807 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@Shadow30. Ok i get the amnesia and the fact this happened to you before but how tf does beheaded look like the king
      Is it because they are the only 2 males with normal looking bodies?

  • @mofoman1239
    @mofoman1239 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +429

    The legend is back. All the lore I know is that you are cool gas guy that doesn’t die.

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      That pretty much sums it up. Lol. Good to see you again, mofoman. Thanks for watching! :)

    • @mofoman1239
      @mofoman1239 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@SquatchGamingChannel not so cool at the end tho kind of an a**

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Ah, yeah. The "whole word is doomed" is a dick move. But we all have those days, don't we?!? Lol.

    • @jawad215skaiki5
      @jawad215skaiki5 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The end FEELS LIKE ”LOL”😂😂

    • @KathyRossArtTherapy
      @KathyRossArtTherapy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not meaning to be rude but…..what is that pfp……

  • @OnCoated
    @OnCoated 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +232

    Dead Cell's lore is so intriguing. Wish we didnt get a cliffhanger as a finish. Great vid and keep up the great work

    • @triggerhappy4199
      @triggerhappy4199 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Same

    • @spirittail4958
      @spirittail4958 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Well if it helps there's an animated series of questionable canonicity being made so there's a chance we might get an answer to that cliffhanger

    • @OnCoated
      @OnCoated 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@spirittail4958 Naa, I think it plays in a different timeline/universe

    • @spirittail4958
      @spirittail4958 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@OnCoatedalso possible given we have time travel and timeline shenanigans happen in canon

    • @OnCoated
      @OnCoated 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@spirittail4958 Could be. Gotta keep the hopes high

  • @dumbvillage9253
    @dumbvillage9253 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +108

    I had a theory that the king's behavior is the same as who you see as Beheaded. Until i heard of Morass of the Banished. I thought it was basically just "some guy who's flaws are kinda funny and his self absorbness is comedic" to "a cruel and selfish king ready to sacrifice billions of lives for himself". And only ever because of a change in circumstance, the Malaise revealing the bad side of his bad side.

  • @MrChuckleslol
    @MrChuckleslol 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    Excellent story cover. The only thing you missed was that, according to the wall with the weapons of the queens servants, the time keeper appeared to be one of her guard as well. Being from pagan origin, she was likely using techniques and/or technology from the ancients to mess with time. This would also explain why in the clock tower, there are lore rooms with floating weapons, in a similar fashion to the fractured shrines. Her ability to mess with time may have also factored into why the king married the queen and built the clock tower in the first place. But aside from that, you covered it all incredibly well!

  • @cacovonluca
    @cacovonluca 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +107

    Really amazing video! Just two things to mention...
    Firstly, what about the whole thing of the Queen and the Gardener's affair?
    • In the Delapidated Arboretum, the same lore with the couches, when you interact with one of them it reads the following messages: _"Gloves, a pitchfork... Maybe a courtier tried their hand at gardening? No, you wouldn't find one that would sit on such a shabby piece of furniture. Or wear this outfit. It seems the gardener had his entrances into the palace too."_
    • Also, another thing to notice is that one of the Gardener's Logs (one that you yourself read in the video) states the Queen's people don't recognize him anymore, which is weird... Why would the Gardener ever leave the Delapidated Arboretum? And most of all, why would he go all the way to the Queen's place? Hmmmmmmmmmm......
    Secondly, this us mostly a theory, but what about the whole "Time Keeper is the 4th Servant"?
    • Firstly, an analysis on them. The Servants each use a different type of weapon, Calliope uses a Survival-based weapon (Wrecking Ball), Euterpe uses a Tactics-based weapon (Gilded Yumi) and Kleio uses a Brutality-based weapon (Bladed Tonfas). The Time Keeper not only uses all of those three, but also her own magic, which maybe could count as a fourth weapon type, which the Beheaded is simply not able to perform since it don't require just skill, but knowledge (which, let's be honest here, the beheaded kinda lacks that). Also, about weaponry (thanks Cookie), in the room with the Queen's portrait we see a weapon rack with five weapons, but three of them are not present. Those three are the Gilded Yumi, Bladed Tonfas and Wrecking Ball. What are the two left? A sword and a dagger, the same weapons the Time Keeper uses.
    • Design-wise, all of them are women with yellow and white based outfits and all of them wear masks, tho it's good to notice that Time Keeper has a lot of blue, which can just be a contrast to the red clocktower, to represent her "ice" powers (proved by her blueprint drops of Ice Shards and Ice Crossbow).
    • Also, there's something really interesting here. The name of the Servants are the same name as three of the nine muses in Greek Mythology, thus the Time Keeper's real name could be any of the other muses (Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Urania, Erato, Thalia or Melpomene).
    • Another thing to notice is that Kleio uses a "frisbee-like" attack that's shown by a yellow beam of light, exactly like one of Time Keeper's attacks.
    • Lastly i just want to point out how "random" TTK is to the lore, like... You're telling me this girl randomly decided to play with time because of the Malaise? Nah, i think just like how the King granted the Astrolab to the Alchemist, he granted the Clock Tower to the Time Keeper as another person trying to find the solution for the cure to the Malaise. And it would also make sense for her to know the King, her being an ex-Servant (also, i always associated the colored rooms in the High Peak Castle to three of the main Malaise Scientists. The Green Room to the Gardener, the Blue Room to the Alchemist and, with this connection, the Red Room to the Time Keeper).

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      I've never heard of these, and didn't see any evidence/implications in the game that would hint at these. Do you mind taking the time to go into detail about them?

    • @HaphazardousSpace
      @HaphazardousSpace 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@cacovonluca you could also mention the fact that in the room with the King and Queen portraits, the weapons from the servants are gone, and the only ones left are a sword and dagger, which are exactly the type of weapons Time Keeper has on her, although she seems to have left those there and found better ones.

    • @cacovonluca
      @cacovonluca 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@HaphazardousSpace True! Completely forgot about that detail!

    • @cacovonluca
      @cacovonluca 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@SquatchGamingChannel Edited the comment with more evidence :3

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      @@cacovonluca You mind if I pin this comment so others can see it?
      While I think they stray pretty far into speculation, others might like to read them!

  • @captainramen8315
    @captainramen8315 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +113

    summary:
    king was a dick
    king (being a dick) makes an oopsie
    *p l a g u e*
    entire kingdom (plagued) vows to stop king and fix his mistake
    king (plagued) gets new body (not plagued) but loses his memories
    king (not plagued) proceeds to kill his kingdom (again) to leave
    king can't leave, oopsie too big (kingdom fail :( )
    king finds alchemist who can drink anti-plague potion
    king steals anti-plague potion and drinks it, non plague body go bye bye
    new plan, king (not plagued) gets old body (plagued) back to drink anti-plague potion
    king (plagued) drinks anti-plague potion, becomes normal
    king IS a dick

    • @Serbofreak
      @Serbofreak 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Long live the king!

    • @danielsimmons8861
      @danielsimmons8861 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Serbofreak no

    • @legalwaterdrinker3286
      @legalwaterdrinker3286 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@danielsimmons8861 You could try to kill the Beheaded if you want

  • @v2jo_re
    @v2jo_re 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    Good video, but theres some things you forgot about. The time keeper didnt just play with time randomly, she repeated the same day over and over again, to keep (infected) survivors, mainly the king, alive. Also the only reason the gardener went to the lighthouse was because he was good friends with the queen. This game has very good lore, but i think they couldve done it better. I like the way they did it, like youre not forced to understand it, but for those who want to try, they couldve made things a bit easier to piece together

  • @moroi3397
    @moroi3397 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    It's insane that, after nearly five hundred hours and finishing all of the story, I'm fairly sure I haven’t seen all the rooms or flavour texts I saw in this video.

  • @nikto7297
    @nikto7297 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    This game was so great, I wonder if they're gonna make alive cells next

    • @arzentvm
      @arzentvm 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      living cells

    • @nikto7297
      @nikto7297 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@arzentvm not-dead-yet cells

    • @puffycat9498
      @puffycat9498 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Reincarnated Cells

    • @MinerShrew
      @MinerShrew 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Dead cells: The Selfless timeline

    • @puffycat9498
      @puffycat9498 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lobotomy Cells

  • @ashleylightheart126
    @ashleylightheart126 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    A headcanon I wanna propose for how "stories" of other heroes gets involved in this world could be
    1) The Timekeeper messing with time created a nexus point that caused artifacts of other worlds to be dragged in.
    2) A alternate universe version Castlevania is canon in the world and it was the castle approaching the island that via Dracula's and Death's magic to "resist death", unintentionally combined with malaised messing up the dimensional stability of the island. (This is assuming that all DLCs take place at the same time and chronologically following their real life releases and we assume that the entire world hasn't been malaised and its just a majority of it. Good luck Belmonts)

  • @ItsHoplight
    @ItsHoplight 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    TH-cam recommendations ate with this one, 20 seconds into the video I thought “this guy sounds familiar” come to find out I watched his deadcells video from 3 years ago 🙏🏾 the run back 💀

  • @yatta747
    @yatta747 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    "Conjunctivitis" and the fact that's an eye 😭. Anyways very cool

  • @raghuvaidya5485
    @raghuvaidya5485 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Never knew dead cells had such a comprehensive lore. I guess it adds up with all the DLCs .
    Great to see you back and doing well and I hope you keep doing what you do . Cheers my dude and congrats on 100k

  • @mobgabriel1767
    @mobgabriel1767 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    its such a shame that the whole staphy thing didn't go anywhere,it would have been nice to fight a lovecraftian god maybe even make him the source of the malaise
    maybe even give the beheaded/king a semblance of redemption by making him rally up his former allies(now bosses like the giant, the hand of the king, the collector and the queen) across multiple runs for one last charge against the god who ruined up their lives

  • @FlymanMS
    @FlymanMS 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    The part about DLC themed with other games really shows how tacked on they felt. Great summary tho.

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Agreed. Also, as an aside, I was so disappointed when The Queen and the Sea DLC came out and there were like... No lore rooms. Big bummer for me.
      Still fun though!
      Thanks for watching!

  • @0Z4ND3R0
    @0Z4ND3R0 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    At 24:24 I expected you to say that how in the game after the a few runs the Gardener was disappeared and then later on, reveal the real identity of the Scarecrow is the Gardener.
    But none the less, great video
    👍

  • @KariCoolia
    @KariCoolia 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    See I loved deadcells but the lore aspect was something that always irked me, like literally I didn’t even get half the war rooms throughout my run so it’s nice to see someone did it all cohesively
    Great work as always, always love these videos

  • @rickard486
    @rickard486 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Even though I'm still trying to beat Dead Cells at 5BC to get the true ending, I can still say it's the most fun roguelite game I've ever played. Great video man and wow you're almost at 100k subs!

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This and Risk of Rain 2 have drained soooo much time out of me while making videos for them. Lol. If you had to guess, what do you think my playtime in Dead Cells is?
      Yeah, I know! Super exciting! I think I'll hit it around September/October if I keep trending the way I have the past couple months!
      As always, Rickard, thanks for the continued support, my man!

  • @TitaniumAlloyz
    @TitaniumAlloyz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Im glad you made this video. I have accepted that i will never get past 4 BC, and this video came just in time. The revelation that you are the king the whole time blew my mind. Very well put together man!

  • @WastelandRegis
    @WastelandRegis หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I really have to give a hand to you for tracking all of these disconnected bits to bring the full story together. Unlike Dark Souls, where the locations and characters are consistent in their location and connectivity, you really have to work for the story here and hats off to you for summarizing. Really great video!

  • @joeywall4657
    @joeywall4657 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is by far the most cohesive and robust summary of the story I've come across. I'm late to the game. Only started playing a few months ago. I think I'm going to enjoy the experience more now that I have an actual idea of what's going on around me. Thank you!

  • @benallen895
    @benallen895 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Lovely video lad, just a quick correction at about 17:25 "the venus flytraps had a new appetite for flesh" --> They always did, they are carnivorous plants.

  • @xxsentientrapturexx5375
    @xxsentientrapturexx5375 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I watch A LOT of lore videos, and this has to be the coolest story I've seen in a while. Thanks for it! You've got a sub in me.

  • @o3MTA3o
    @o3MTA3o หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm so glad I watched this because there's no way Id be good enough to get all of this on my own.
    You did a really good job piecing it together. Youre a good storyteller.

  • @wyattkillman2027
    @wyattkillman2027 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Happy to see another Squatch video pop up.

  • @cdesigner9178
    @cdesigner9178 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Wasn't there something in one of the loading screens about a rewritten line from Call of Cthulhu, stating that some sort of Elder God was involved in the story, and how it starting to wake up could have been the cause of the Malaise?

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      That’s one of the blurbs for the Infested Shipwreck, and it translates to something “In his home at Dobor, dead Staphy waits dreaming.”
      The word “Staphy” is the replacement for Cthulhu in that sentence which would be the name of the Cosmic God. Staphy also calls to mind “staph infection” which seems to insinuate that there could be a connection to the Malaise. But since development on the game has stopped, we’ll never know if they intended to develop that thread further.
      However, the Leghuggers (and maybe Armored Shrimps?) are called “lil staphy” in the code, so the blurb seems more like it’s hinting at them rather than a cause of the Malaise. I mean, I guess they could be the cause, but we see that they lay eggs and hatch from a dead body instead of reanimating it from the dead, so doesn’t seem like they’re the cause. (Unless it’s one of those things where they brought the pathogen in with them, but we see no evidence of that in the game, so it’s all just speculation.)
      As an aside, I wish they developed that Staphy/Eldritch God thread further in another DLC rather than make Return to Castlevania, but I can’t blame them for making what they wanted to make and it’s out of my control (and never gonna happen now), so oh, well.
      Thanks for watching!

  • @SkyAcerecon
    @SkyAcerecon 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    Honey wake up, Squatch Gaming Official just posted.

    • @catlover7466
      @catlover7466 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      People need to stop saying this shit every video every channel wtfff

  • @aidenxiques3486
    @aidenxiques3486 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Fun fact for everyone! If you wear one of the Dracula outfits and go fight Dracula, his “intro speech” will be different.
    Turns out he doesn’t like it when people copy his attire…

  • @MateWantTea
    @MateWantTea 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    Thank you for coming back man. We all missed you.

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Not going anywhere yet! Just takes me longer to make these. Lol.
      Thanks for the support, man! Appreciate it!

  • @PhreezingPoint
    @PhreezingPoint 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Yeah, I’m 392 games in and have yet to beat this shit even once there’s no way I was gonna do that so I’m gonna spoil it for myself.

    • @PhreezingPoint
      @PhreezingPoint 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Also only made it to the hand of the king twice

  • @JS-lx1kr
    @JS-lx1kr 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Man i love to fall sleep to your voice and dream with the stories you narrate

  • @ding0172
    @ding0172 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am so thankful for this video, I always wished to know more about dead cells lore and finally there's something complete and exhaustive. Amazing job!

  • @rickard486
    @rickard486 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Congrats on reaching (and surpassing) 100k subs! I was just rewatching some of your old videos when I realised.

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks, Rickard! Hit it a couple of weeks ago! Never though I'd see the day... Super exiting stuff!
      Thanks for the support through the years, man! Appreciate it!

  • @BBQ_Bacon_Burger
    @BBQ_Bacon_Burger 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Underrated asf, bro took his time to cook and release a banger video.

  • @thatguywesmaranan
    @thatguywesmaranan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    SG back again with another banger of a lore video!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @Shadow30.
    @Shadow30. 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    even aftel all that the Queen is sorry that she have to kill him, not to mention calling behheaded "my love" im suprised to be honest thie means that thrue it all they didn't had that bad of a reletionship... good for them i guess?

  • @UPTsans1020
    @UPTsans1020 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Mushrooms aren’t plants, they’re fungus, which for the uneducated is something else entirely. 17:08

  • @jordancrow869
    @jordancrow869 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    From a lore blurb I saw on a loading screen it said 'the first to be infected was the guards of the prison but maybe noone noticed a change in the prisoners'

  • @dummy_vicc2976
    @dummy_vicc2976 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    as someone who tried dead cells but didn't really enjoy the gameplay loop despite how cool the vibes were, i really appreciate this video

  • @syauqi-Dy
    @syauqi-Dy 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What an epis story!🔥🔥
    Kamu menceritakan cerita game ini dengan sangat baik. Saya tidak akan menontonnya hingga akhir sampai saya bisa menamatkan dead cells itu sendiri.
    Good jod bro👍🔥🔥

  • @DominicBednar-ot3fn
    @DominicBednar-ot3fn 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I think is super funny that the banished who lived in a horrifying area with giant beast were more successful than the rest of the kingdom

  • @rc7575
    @rc7575 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've been trying to figure out the lore for a long time. Thanks for this.

  • @MuJoNeSs
    @MuJoNeSs 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing work and care for the lore/game. It was very entertaining. Thank you so much.

  • @Thatreallycooluser
    @Thatreallycooluser 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wow guys turns out not having festering corpses all over your land helps with slowing down disease spreading

  • @goreobsessed2308
    @goreobsessed2308 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ive beat this game so many times all i get is theirs a king and someone was experimenting on alot of dead dudes ah nice so i got the important bits

  • @javieryzabal2122
    @javieryzabal2122 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Glad to see you back mate!

  • @Beeyo176
    @Beeyo176 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is the lore video I never knew I needed. I don't think I got past 3 or 4 BC and, therefore, don't know the whole story.

  • @calemr
    @calemr 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Glad I can experience this.
    I Loved Dead Cells, but I just cannot get past 1 cell or a few of the optional, tougher routes.

  • @HaphazardousSpace
    @HaphazardousSpace 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh, finally ! That's really nice.
    Small complaint: some of your statements seemed to be a little too speculatory, and near the end you were moreso telling what a 5BC player would see rather than going too deep into it with the explanations.

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thanks for the feedback! Whenever speculation starts to get thick, I always try to use words like "may" or "seems" or things like that to indicate that there's some wiggle room in the interpretation, but I guess I didn't do it well enough! Lol. Where do you feel the speculation was heavy?
      And what kind of explanations would you rather seen towards the end?

    • @HaphazardousSpace
      @HaphazardousSpace 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@SquatchGamingChannel Well...
      Near 7:54 you said the apostates were part of the royal court, but the images you showed read to me as them simply being people that lived on the island and happened to be good at medical things, but were later banished to the shores. (do note that I have not played Dead Cells in a while so maybe there is evidence but you didn't show it)
      At 11:38 you mentioned an order to keep people in prison after they were proven to be healthy, although the dialogue only mentions them serving their time, which seems to me like it's just talking about prisoners being kept in prison for some time because that's how prison works in most places, people usually serve time in prison, then are freed. The king seems to just want people infected to stay there and not be freed, so they don't infect anyone else. If they were healthy, there would be no more need to keep them there than anyone else, really, although I guess they did start putting everyone else there too eventually.
      15:07 Why do you act as if infected animals came significantly later than prisoners ? Perhaps they simply were not focused on because they were more easy to get rid of and/or harder to notice/there were less of them. This "it was soon found" just feels a bit odd to me, you could have just mentioned that the Malaise was not limited to humans and that infected animals were still very dangerous.
      For 18:27 it could just be that the people using it... died...
      Also at 23:00 this isn't a case of too much speculation but I feel like the "day 1" repeat was hinting at a time loop which you did not go much in depths about despite it being required for special dialogues on replay from some people and everyone being brought back to life every day (perhaps also the tutorial knight stating that you were not the only one in the "you cannot die" situation).
      27:41 The alchemist claims that "some say" the sap is doing that, so he's taking some to try it out, I'm not too sure on the Ancient Basin connection but I guess both are orangeish.
      At 29:39 I don't actually remember much since it's been a while but wasn't it implied that the giant was killed after complaining about the alchemist to the king ?
      Other things:
      At 32:36 in 5BC you can have malaise infection though can't you ?
      At 33:48 you did not really explain how cells seemed to magically appeared in chests and all, seems you tried to say it like it just happened leaving only questions with no theory on how or why, same with Boss Stem Cells, which I mean could just be noncanon or something, same with the crossover weapons and skills.
      35:40 you didn't really explain the rune you gain there, which is kinda very important for 48:04
      43:20 you make it seem like the Giant cannot be fought before 4BC, you don't say it - and do imply that it's not needed by later talking about how something special happens at 4BC - but the way you tell the story is confusing.
      Also the end was a little... anticlimactic ? Like "ehh they fight the end", although I guess it's just how the game ends. Still, I would've liked for you to talk more about what this could mean and truly end.
      It just feels to me like the way you told the events of the game were a little too... I don't know, precise ? Like, on what exactly happens in a playthrough, with things that seem unnecessary to talk about, and not enough talking about what those events actually mean.
      Am I annoying complaining about too much speculation at times then asking for more speculation at other times ? (oops-)
      Oh, also, side note, this may seem like a lot but overall I'd say this video is really good.
      The editing especially, putting gameplay showcasing evidence for your claims in the background is just genius and I wish more people did similar things rather than trying to explain "so you see in this room here you can find this dialogue which says-", those take way too long to explain simple things but your format is very efficient.

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wow, real thorough! I'll share my thoughts for each!
      7:54 - I can see that interpretation! My thinking came from the the line "The most senior of the King's medical advisors..." which suggests they were in the employ of the King. "Royal Court" probably wasn't the best words to use, but they did have an association with the King
      11:38 - To me, the message "even after they have served their time" means to not let any prisoners leave, period. Doesn't matter if they were healthy, sick, or their sentence expired - they were to be kept in Prison no matter what. There's also the Prisoner that mentions that he was healthy, but felt the need to break out of the Prison (you can see a clip around 09:46 of what I'm mentioning). He's not infected, but, suggested by the tally marks on the wall of the cell, he's been kept in Prison for looong time, most likely past the end of his sentence.
      15:07 - Guess it was just poor word choice!
      18:27 - Guess it was just poor word choice!
      23:00 - I wanted to keep the Time Shenanigans vague because when you scrutinize it more heavily, it kind of falls apart. Why do some people stay dead, like the King's Original Body or the Tutorial Knight, after a reset? Why doesn't the Homunculus King/Beheaded lose all his runes and Boss Cells and Items and whatnot after a reset? Why does the reset happen after going through the Fountain instead of after the Time Keeper warps away? Why can't the Time Keeper of the "Original Loop" reset that loop after the King drinks the Panacea and kills the Collector to try and find a way to stop him from doing that? Why can't she stop the King's Infection or prevent the further spread of the Malaise? Without a timeline of when she starts her work (besides "before the events of the game") and what the extent of her powers are, I thought it best to gloss over it and mention the loop stuff later.
      27:41 - That's a case of when I use "seem" to frame it a possibility instead of definite thing. Plus, I feel the implication is pretty strong from the game in that regards.
      29:39 - Not that I've seen. In that lore room, it just says "I don't know what happened between him and the King..." so it doesn't say for sure. The Giant gives us the best idea in the dialogue I showed. But happy to be corrected if that's the case!
      32:36 - Yup! It used to happen on lower BC difficulties too. I figure that's not the King (as in the Homunculus form) being infected, but the body he inhabits. Or something like that
      33:48 - That's because there's nothing out there about it!
      35:40 - Ah, true! Although, it is weird that the King gets that ability only after he keeps his first run, isn't it?
      43:20 - Good point! I guess I could have taken some time to talk about the Giant fight when I was talking about how the Island changed, eh?
      Are you genuinely asking me? I would say No, you're not being annoying. First of all because I asked you, and secondo f all you're obviously passionate about this and seeing your excitement about it is great to see! :)
      Happy to hear you enjoyed! Like I said in the video, I'm not perfect so the video isn't perfect, but I did the best I could!
      Awesome to hear you like the editing. Sometimes I worry that I'm approaching these types of videos the wrong way since I don't do the style you mentioned (the whole "so this letter says, 'blah blah blah' which we can take to mean yada yada yada" style), but I've always like to back up my words with evidence, so this style seemed natural to me. I haven't always been perfect with that, straying way to far into speculation sometimes (just watch my Risk of Rain story summary video for an example!), but always try my best to share what these stories are about.
      Thanks for the chat, man! Enjoyed talking with you! And thanks for watching!

  • @Anonymouseyoutuber
    @Anonymouseyoutuber 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just seeing this video has made my day, niw it's time to finally watch it :)

  • @Steelbreaker12
    @Steelbreaker12 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love your content, choom. I look forward to the next!

  • @SubZeroFrost
    @SubZeroFrost 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    11:05 Thats my boy the Jedi crab

  • @iliasik2nd
    @iliasik2nd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think that part with crossovers and Castlevania doesn't beling to lore, they probably havent thought about them in lore terms. But what about the end is that time keeper probably send an alternate king to kill the original one, so he wont interrupt her work ressurecting timeline with panacea in it.

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sure, but if I didn’t include it, I couldn’t say the video includes all the DLCs! Besides, I feel like it slots in pretty well/inconsequentially!
      I could see that as a possibility, but I think it’s just the Alternate King going through the Island like normal. He just meets the King instead of the Hand at the end.
      Thanks for watching!

  • @cataddict_
    @cataddict_ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO DEAD CELLS STORY VIDEO

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The last one ever! Hope you enjoyed! Thanks for watching!

  • @THEBOSS-ed1vr
    @THEBOSS-ed1vr 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    49:27 the incorrigible ASS in history vs the incorrigible ASS of today🔥

  • @illegal-jargon
    @illegal-jargon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What build is that in the Dracula fight, that was disgusting damage

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It revolves around the Oiled Sword and Fire Grenade.
      You hit them with the Oiled Sword to apply Oil stacks on the enemy. Throw the Fire Grenade to set the Oil on fire. Now attacks with the Oiled Sword do Crits for ten seconds. The reason why the damage is so high is because the Oiled Sword I had did double damage to a target that was covered in Burning Oil which synergized perfectly with the whole build, allowing for massive damage.
      The other two items (shield and infantry grenade) could be swapped out with your own preference of items.
      Not sure how viable the build is on higher difficulties (usually use Tactics for those runs). Really only played with it on 0BC. In theory, would still be devastating.

  • @user-ck5yq8xl3p
    @user-ck5yq8xl3p หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You should cover the story of Stasis Bone Totem

  • @JohnWick-ut1tj
    @JohnWick-ut1tj 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    FINALLY......my favourite unhinged the Beheaded suffering being told

  • @SAVETHAWRLD
    @SAVETHAWRLD 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    No way the collabs from different games are canon 😭

  • @sloth3066
    @sloth3066 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Squatch gaming is back !!!

  • @BetaToonzOfficial
    @BetaToonzOfficial หลายเดือนก่อน

    YES! Finally some Dead Cells LLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRE!!!!
    MatPat would be proud! 🤩

  • @iMeta4
    @iMeta4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have to pause at the Astrolab because I have not beaten 5 BC yet. Otherwise, I need to return to this video.

  • @THECARTHAGEEMPIRE
    @THECARTHAGEEMPIRE 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for explaining everything

  • @King-11-
    @King-11- 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    sorry if I am wrong, but is it just me or the video is basically all the previous video combine together with extra stuff?

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, the story hasn’t fundamentally changed, so if you’ve watched the old stuff, this won’t include anything groundbreaking. But it does put everything in order while adding new stuff. I guess you could call it a “Definitive Edition” of sorts.
      At least I didn’t just chop up my old videos, splice them into a new one, and upload that. That would have sucked. Lol.
      Hope you enjoyed! Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!

  • @aftershock7064
    @aftershock7064 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this was actually cool as hell

  • @kudokoshi4257
    @kudokoshi4257 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I never knew this games lore was awesome. Ama buy this game

  • @fullmoonsword4673
    @fullmoonsword4673 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video, now I can turn off lore rooms in the settings XD

  • @greenpanda1332
    @greenpanda1332 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “2 clears on the games harfest difficulty”
    Dies slowly inside as ive only done it once and that once was a god blessed run with 3 items that combo well together

  • @Saint_Wolf_
    @Saint_Wolf_ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    So close to your play button! Here from the Hotline Miami days and not going anywhere!

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I've been averaging about 500-600 subscribers a month, so hopefully by October, I'll get there!
      Wow, you've been around a long time! Thanks soooo much for the support through the years, man! I really appreciate it! :)

    • @Saint_Wolf_
      @Saint_Wolf_ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SquatchGamingChannel Keep at it, you'll make it, I'll be here for the whole ride, I always enjoy and return to the content, it's absolutely beautiful. Keep strong, man.

  • @666TheCultist
    @666TheCultist 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Now, here's a question: What happened to Timekeeper and Gaint after Timekeeper messed-up the time loop.

  • @GrindyVine
    @GrindyVine 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    2K more SUBS LET'S GOOO!!!

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've been averaging about 500-600 subscribers a month, so hopefully by October, I'll get there! Can't wait!!!

  • @kaibrizbon
    @kaibrizbon 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome vid, if you a chance, take a look at Fading Afternoon I need a breakdown of it's story

  • @brandenlol6030
    @brandenlol6030 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    STARTED!!!

  • @zkj82972
    @zkj82972 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    We should make a Dead Cells movie

  • @necron8992
    @necron8992 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    NO FUCKING WAY THE CROSSOVER CONTENT AND CASTLEVANIA DLC ARE ACTUALLY CANON TO THE LORE?!?!?

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why not? Besides, I couldn’t say the video included all DLCs if I didn’t go over Return to Castlevania. And it fits in quite nicely/inconsequentially with where it’s at in the video!
      Thanks for watching!

  • @Sam_Hue
    @Sam_Hue 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Would love to see the story of Chrono Ark

  • @Islam-x1x5b
    @Islam-x1x5b 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Damn I thought it just had a good gameplay but the story is amazing too man

  • @danielstivic7411
    @danielstivic7411 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    well...i like listeing to lore videos in backound and well...i just bouht the game and all dlcs ...thanks

  • @mahirbilir7951
    @mahirbilir7951 หลายเดือนก่อน

    wait only thing i didnt understand was what was the deal with the half spider half lady in the forgotten sepulcher? you didnt mension her

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don’t really have a lot on her. When she first meets the King, she says he’s the Anomaly that “She” mentioned. The “She” is probably the Time Keeper and the “Anomaly” part is probably referring to the King’s resistance to being reset like the rest of the Island whenever the Time Keeper does her time shenanigans. That’s really the best I’ve got
      Hope you enjoyed! Thanks for watching!

    • @mahirbilir7951
      @mahirbilir7951 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@SquatchGamingChannel so she is not that important, understood and i want to thank you for making this great video and answering my question :)

  • @Jaeghir
    @Jaeghir 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My body is ready

  • @darkblu117zcrookedneck8
    @darkblu117zcrookedneck8 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can you do a story of this games. And i really enjoyed you're story explained videos.
    Iconoclast
    Genopanic
    Axiom Verge 1&2

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you, Darkblu! Happy to hear you enjoy them so much!
      As for the games:
      1. I actually have a script and lots of shots recorded for a video on Iconoclasts. I even recorded audio at one point last year, but it got corrupted, so I had to scrap it and I haven’t gone back to it since. It’s on the backlog though, and I’ll probably make a video on it sooner or later!
      2. I’ve never heard of Genopanic. I took a look at it, and I really like the look of it! I don’t think I’ll ever make a video on it, but I might play it at some point!
      3. I’ve thought about doing the Axiom Verge games, but there’s not a lot of requests for them, so I haven’t started the process.
      Thanks for the requests, Darkblu! I can’t get to all of them, but I do keep them in mind when deciding which games to make videos on!

  • @KonbiniNoTakeda
    @KonbiniNoTakeda 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We're so back now.
    Also, hey, do you think you could cover Rogue Legacy 1 and 2 lore? there's no Lore video about it on YT and the lore seems deeper than what you find on first look

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've heard of the games, but never knew there was a lot of lore in it. I took a quick look, and it looks like you're right: there does seem to be more there than you would think. Are the two games linked at all? Or are they independent stories?

    • @KonbiniNoTakeda
      @KonbiniNoTakeda 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SquatchGamingChannel Not completely sure about it, there are NPCs that are present in both games, but it does seem to be different stories since the concept of different universes (threads) is present

  • @Caleb-j2m
    @Caleb-j2m 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This started with a fake hero wars add where the guy won😮

  • @dazapling
    @dazapling 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This story feels really close to hollow knight's story, even though it isn't :) my brain just isn't braining today :)

  • @NivedGhosttt
    @NivedGhosttt 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Bruh I just watched your 3 year old lore video and I got the same question for u .WHU WON the fight between the present beheaded and the loophole glich beheaded please man I beg you 🎉🎉🎉🎉😢😢😮 say it I am very curious

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Idk. I guess we’ll have to wait until Dead Cells 2 to find out!

  • @thederp9183
    @thederp9183 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    MY GOAAAAAAT!!!

  • @The_void_calls_you
    @The_void_calls_you หลายเดือนก่อน

    No way he called the mushrooms plants 😢

  • @Hi45999
    @Hi45999 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I came here because I just got the true ending a few minutes ago and I am sooooo confused

  • @paperverp
    @paperverp 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You forgot to talk about how smelly the island is

  • @Sokaras3
    @Sokaras3 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The banks are newer area? I cant recall them being mentioned before

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was added in an update between the Queen and the Sea and the Return to Castlevania DLCs. Once per run, in the Collector Hallway between levels, a special chest will appear that will take you to the Bank and replace the level you were going to go to. It’s pretty neat!
      Thanks for watching!

  • @last_surprise9507
    @last_surprise9507 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Some how i got my first boss cell and made it to the giant without ever realizing the player is the king😅

  • @wdamanthanks7966
    @wdamanthanks7966 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    nice channel,.. (having only watched this video, he said)

    • @SquatchGamingChannel
      @SquatchGamingChannel  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This literally made me laugh out loud. Thanks for the chuckle. Happy to hear you enjoyed the video and if you watched anything else, I hope you enjoyed that too.

  • @ignatiuspennyfeather232
    @ignatiuspennyfeather232 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I didn’t know that they added risk of rain to dead cells lmao

  • @captive-audience
    @captive-audience 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thank you

  • @dominator2707
    @dominator2707 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    so we are the king huh

  • @DravenZaragoza
    @DravenZaragoza 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good vid

  • @edkitodesu5806
    @edkitodesu5806 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pretty sure the gardener had an affair with the queen anyways great video