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Yes… and the fact she opened the window because the artist would return in a couple minutes, and he would have been able to paint her in the light of the sunset… She was so excited! So excited that she even picked out her favorite earrings, even though they weren’t allowed…😭
The flower garden ending struck me as one of the happier if I understood it correctly. Most are a "I'll show you for messing with me!" But that one is "It's alright, you tried you're best. We're both stuck here, but at least it's beautiful."
I think even the painting herself dreads the sixth day. She doesn't seem to want you to paint the flower, and the French title of the painting "The Forgotten Garden" is something like "I want to stop time" and she says "there's no need to face about tomorrow" if you get the flower ending, implying that she doesn't want day 6 to come. I'm guessing that her mirror trick and the closed door are her last attempts at stopping you.
@@tomhsia4354 You know, that could totally be true. What happened at the end of the sixth day (specifically what the old man did) sickens me to the stomach, I don't blame the painting for wanting to avoid it
"There's no need to face tomorrow... as we can stay at the most beautiful moment." The Forgotten Garden / Je Veux Arrêter Le Temps (I Want To Stop Time)
@@tomhsia4354 based on all of this we can infer that the painting is a failed yandere due to old paintings not having the resources to make anime. so we see the effects of good work, and good venting so for the "perfect" piece, we need good peace.
Here's my best explanation for the ending. The Girl did not let any of the artists paint here correctly because she knew she would be cast aside, forgotten after it was done. But what the painter said, how he wanted to keep painting here, in many backdrops, in many different outfits, she knew she would have a future after the old man was done with her. So she pushed the artist out, not in anger, but to surprise him, finally give him good lighting, so that the old man would be done with her, and she could be free again. She went to grab the scetch because it was her hope at freedom, at Peace. Sadly, no one, except the painting, her mirror image, would know the truth of her fate. The artist believed it a suicide, the servants a curse, and the old man so deranged that he didn't care.
I noticed a pattern. No matter what game. What's going on. What He is saying. He will stop everything the moment he sees a cat and go. "Cat." Like it's a statement to silence all others. And I love it. XD
Don't forget "directed by Hideo Kojima" or "played by [insert actor Kojima has worked with]" every time a character has their name show up in their intro lol
The fact that almost every characters in the game have their own background stories which made this game a lot more alive. The developer must have gone a lot of hell just to make such a game.
It's not just every character, but every single THING in the story is relevant in some way. Every single object that we see on screen starting from the moment we're taken to the painting's bizarre dimension plays some kind of role in the painter and little girl's memories. Absolutely incredible
And the best? It's note extensive backstory. It's succint and concise. The perfect amount. You learn about the characters without the game stopping for too long. That takes some real effort.
The French titles of each painting are interesting because they are not just direct translations of the English titles. For example the “Girl Holding a XXX” says “ Girl with a birdcage” with no censorship in french. Also the painting titled “Searching 1” says “ do not discover” in French, “Searching 2” says “do not open,” and “girl holding an umbrella” says “open memory.” “The forgotten garden” says “I want to stop time.” “Girl with the Blue Flower?” says “the mirror reflects the truth.”
Fun fact: The final painting’s name is a reference to La Danse Macabre, which is art that shows skeletons of people from all walks of life dancing with each other. It’s supposed to be a reminder that no matter who you are, everyone dies.
Not a lot of people noticed but the reason why only one of her eyes is colored because when he was forced to paint that gruesome sight of her only one of her eyes was open her left eye with that single red eye
The end of the 6th day was heartbreaking. She was broken, twisted, barely alive. She had just started to become her own person, just found her first friend, and he ripped it all away. Tore the earring off of her, and demanded the artist paint. And paint. And paint. Splashing color, probably crying and afraid both from her death and the man's rage. And in the end... Her beauty was lost forever. At least we gave her a fitting end. The painting was ancient, weathered, and faded. I wonder if she was able to enjoy herself in that dark gallery. If we gave her any paintings of snacks and cats and birds, if we painted a garden and flowers for her, if we painted her a new home. Or if we forgot her, and she simply languished... In the end, she disintegrated in that beautiful sunset. The real horror is the tragedy that befell her.
My heart sank when she jumped out the window trying to grab at that last painting She did it with no hesitation, as if that was all she had to live for. And it really was. It was the only individuality she ever experienced... This was the one time I didn't want to see someone get punished for indulging in their own beauty
It was so tragic, because it was also such a self-less act, too. She wanted to save those sketches for the painter. She was so excited to be able to finally be free to see the world and to finally have someone to treasure her for being herself. The moment where she opens the window hurts the most in retrospect. She wanted the painter to finally have a chance to paint her with good lighting, so that she could finally satisfy the old man and be free to move on in her life. One can only imagine the excitement and joy that was running through her head...
@@Mach56gss And even sadder still is the fact that nobody except for the painting saw her last moments. The artist most likely assumed she committed suicide from stress, the servants believed she was killed by some curse that made her die the same way as the last person to live in her room, and the old man was completely deranged and probably didn't care about how she died, just fetishizing her corpse and trying to have her mangled dead body painted. She wasn't given the treatment she needed in her last moments and nobody knew the whole truth even in the present. Nobody knew about the fleeting moment of true happiness she was given just before she died. No one except for the painting, whose viewpoint we're treated to in the credits
@@circle3565 The fact that we find out that she was still alive, tho barely and was still breathing after being mangled like that makes it so much fucking worse.
Man, throughout the whole game I was annoyed at the girl thinking what a “brat” she is, but that ending just broke me, I did not expect it to be so heartwarming and hearbreaking at the same time
True. To realize that the old man can't move on that he forced a girl into someone she's not. But, she still do it because the old man, servants, and the mansion is all she has
@@r.a2752 its the way she acts toward the player and artist. I had a feeling she would have a heartfelt ending, and that she wasn't really like that in general but she is "brat-ish".
This game is an amazing piece of art. The most tragic character deaths are ones where they don’t get what they get so close to what they want and it suddenly goes wrong.
I’ve watched other people play this game and one detail I’ve noticed is that they chose different earrings. Apparently, you can choose any earring and it’ll be correct (as in, she doesn’t kill us). Sometimes she says “I’ll be lenient, you choose” but there’ll still be a correct color, and if we get it wrong, we die. But for the earring, it is truly up to us. And she says “I’ll remember it.” In that one moment, we are actually in the story, as in our decision changed the past. The choice was ours to make, as the painter of the story. Another possible theory is that the first painter didn’t choose the same one as us and our decision did not affect his decision or the actual story. Instead, the painting asks us the same question as the one the model asked the original painter. The story is no longer about the model and the painter, but about the painting and us.
@@ShadowReaper695me, lol. Like just last week. You truly don't get punished for the earrings, the only time you do is during day 7 when you paint it a different color from the one you did in day 6. By the end of the game, a text appears saying "thanks for painting me!" And gives you the earring thst you chose and colored
@@enigmatic2878 bruh I am asking about other youtubers who have played it because I want to see their reactions I have already played this game years ago many time i already know everything
It must’ve be very painful for him to paint that portrait, just as he said he wanted to continue painting her after this job, only to realize his first and last painting of her would be so gruesome.
@@user-uq9oe7sc5m She makes it extremely difficult to let the other painters capture her figure, and the painter only made sketches, so that it was the first time he used that canvas.
2:08:45 It's best to avoid painting in direct sunlight, especially during the hot summer months. The heat from the sun's rays cause the paint to dry to quickly, which can cause a number of problems - brush marks, lap marks, inadequate adhesion. Move around the house to avoid the sun as much as possible
This was actually really well written and cohesive. Usually these types of stories fudge a lot of detail and use magical reasons to explain why things don't make sense. This made perfect sense. I'm impressed!
damn those end credits… she opened the windows and let the setting sun light the room so the painter could finish his painting, and so the old man would throw her away after her portrait was done. so she could live a life with the painter, for he wished to continue painting her. it ended so abruptly, that wish. its unfortunate. it really is. the saddest thing is nobody had understood her. nobody understood why she died. she did not commit suicide, and neither was it a curse. she died reaching out to that sketch, that sketch that gave her hope. in the end, the girl was never understood. not even by her incomplete painting. it had tried to act like her, but the “her” it knew was in itself an act. and now, all that remains of her existence is the many portraits of her, the portraits of the Girl with the Blue Flower.
Maybe the painting being nice is also part of what the girl is. I think. It looks odd. She's mad then she suddenly becomes nice. That sounds like the girl, the model.
@@jepjep6740I think at one point, we were possessed by the last Painter. Like they somehow was in sync. Or another theory, maybe we were the reincarnated version of the last Painter.
This was excellent, from start to finish. The beginning got me interested with all the comedic deaths that are pretty creative and the girl in the painting being the right level of sassy about it, and eventually the true story begins to reveal itself for the tragedy that it is. Given all that happened, I think this bittersweet end is the best we could hope for. Also, I absolutely believe the person you play as is the original painter reincarnated; both the painter and the girl died, but they have been reunited now. Add on the funny gallery at the end, I am very happy with this.
Maybe. The girl does say: “I wonder… if he’s watching, too.” As she gazes out into the sunset. Not sure if the artist is a reincarnation, and it’s unlikely since the artist probably died in the late 20th century, not leaving much time to reincarnate directly to our protag. Possible, but that line doesn’t help. Still, it does imply that somewhere out there, the painter’s tortured soul may have finally found peace ;-;
@@enriquethelegendary4724 Doesn't appear that the artist ever had any kids. Judging from the timeline, it seemed that the other victims got the art in a relatively short period of time. Maybe it took a couple years after the artist died for the painting to reach the protagonist. Maybe 2 decades. I think the protagonist was just spiritually attuned, skilled enough at painting, or similar enough to the artist that the artist's spirit came to the protag's aid. Otherwise, the artist's spirit would never have existed in the curse to begin with (as the paint silhouette on the ground), and wouldn't have possessed/merged with the protag at the end of day 4. It seems that the artist's spirit was always lingering in the curse, desperately waiting for someone skilled enough to complete the task they had set out to do on their final day.
Aww that ending is so heartbreaking 3: she died trying to save the artists sketch, never to live her life, never to be able to realise her life beyond a figment of a fleeting dream of an old man's regret, never to be truly understood, never to be remembered as anything beyond the mysterious girl who inexplicably appeared in many paintings at a time, with the only other remaining fragment being what the spirit of a canvas seen, her final moment a 7 day memory trapped within her last painting
It's even worse when you think about her actions before falling. She got dressed up and had opened the windows... she wanted the painter to finish the portrait, and in the light of the setting sun. She wanted him to succeed in the commission so that the old man would disown her - so that she could go live her life with the painter instead. She was so excited that she decided to wear the seashell earrings that she snuck into the room, even though she was forbidden to wear them... Though, it was only 6 days the girl shared with the painter. The cursed-painting spent seven days with him: The seventh day was the painter's last day alive, when he went to the basement to try and fulfill his promise to the girl after all of those years. It was probably his death that caused the curse to manifest.
@@Mach56gss thank you for clarifying what the seventh day was. I just couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that it was the former painter who awoke the painting by painting the earring and not the new painter (us).
I interpreted the curse being the Artist's regret and from being forced to paint her dying body while also being the only one noticing her still slowly dying and not being able to do anything but continue painting and also the Girl's anger for being nothing except the model of a dead person. Or something like that
They could've had a life together. ❤️ The girl was going to be abandoned by her adoptive father after her perfect portrait was completed. Knowing this, she purposefully sabotaged all of the artists that attempted to capture her, all so she could stay at her adopted home. However, the last artist found a genuine attraction to the girl and wished to have her model for him for more paintings. If it weren't for that one "accident ", the last painter could have given the girl a new home and a new family. I wouldn't mind an alternate ending that gives us this conclusion.
man, the backstory reveal really got to me. they're rare, but stories like it really mess with me for some reason. very pretty game, and the scary story at the end was too real man. i'm probably gonna have to try and forget about it for what sanity i've got left tho.
@@Mach56gss it's not actually that she died or the bitter timing that gets me it's the whole thing surrounding her adoption, how the old man treated her as a doll even as she died. it actually makes me a little sick to think too much about.
@@nyankers definitely that too. But I still hate that she was about to escape from that hell and actually had genuine hope in the future for a brief and wonderful moment. That makes all of the inhuman shit that much more disturbing and painful. No wonder there was such a curse.
Still going through the pain. It's an awfully depressing feeling. Of being so close to freedom, some semblance of self, to some form of joy, only to have it all ripped away in a single moment. A moment of time that cannot be done again. A moment that cannot be corrected nor fixed. An accident easily avoided, so painfully obvious, yet so easy to commit. It's just so tragic and unbearably somber!😭💔
Look I rarely tear up while watching games or playing, but those credits and the part when the papers started flying around and she tried to get them and then Manly going softly 'Oh no' really but really got me choking. Like I knew it was going to happen and the girl did tried to kill the protag in 1000 creative ways, but man it hurt. It really hurt.
@@neurotikale3638 Made me sad when the artist walked in and the first thing he did was collect his fallen paintings. He must have thought she left them there on purpose.
The shot of the artist looking down at the blood-stained flowers, to see his entire silhouette go to a murky-black brown to symbolize the terror and grief of a man who died in that moment - that was haunting. The fact that the girl opened the window so that the Artist could finally paint her with good lighting, to finally satisfy the old man and be free to travel the world with the artist - my heart. The fact that the artist, after years of suffering from guilt, at the edge of death, tries to return to the painting and fulfill his promise, dies just as he enters the room, unable to act on his promise - my soul. This story just breaks you in twenty different ways.
How to make it hurt more: The girl and the painting are completely separate beings. The painting was the one who killed you ruthlessly numerous times, the only wrong thing the real girl did was throw tons of fake tantrums and drive the painters away by frustrating them, which she only did because she was afraid she would be discarded and return to being a lonely orphan if they finished their paintings of her. The real girl never harmed you directly or intentionally and was just scared of being abandoned or forgotten
Sad part is... There's chances that she COULD had survived the fall if she got treatments from a doctor Sure, she would have permanent internal damages, lost an eye and stuff but atleast she wouldn't had slowly and painfully died because of the old "brother/father" obsession to immortalize his "sister"...
@@marciosantos1227 I think it already does, though not as advanced and probably has a more bad and unhygienic work conditions, though I suppose considering the "brother" is the richest person in town there's going to be a personal doctor that he could've told to come but he didn't because the brother thought his "sister's" dying image is "beautiful" which is more fucked up-
I think by the artist's words, by the time the maids got to her, it was too late. It's still sad that she was denied a tender, graceful death, and instead was objectified for a madman's ravings.
At the end, when she wanted to save the painters' drawings and she fell, I just couldn't restrain myself from being very sad. I must say i cried when he said "NO!", this story was beautiful. There are so many games that are such touching and beautiful, thank you for playing and showing them man.
Personally I think the story was amazingly delivered. At first it's just horror, then it turns into an interesting backstory that slowly turns sad and it's so carefully told that you really get to spend some time with each character to feel heartbroken at the end. Don't know why but stories like these hit different for me and I loved this one a lot.
This was so sad. When the girl refused to cage the cat I knew she really didn't mean to be some evil bitch painting. For me, I thought the reason she was being so bratty to the painters was to keep them away from being sort of imprisoned with her in that room and pushed away that gloomy painter because she thought she didn't deserve to be painted in those landscape scenes or she knew she didn't have that sort of future. I feel so sad for her and the artist :(
I disagree, she probably pushed him away just to keep up the act. I even suspect that those sketches rather inspired her, which is why she wore the earring, something she wasn't told to do to break out from that everlasting commitment. Now that I think about it, she could've been planning to run away with the painter to be a model for him and escape both the master and homelessness, because that's definitely a possibility she could do, and I imagine the painter would be willing to since it's only when he painted her that a portrait of his became full of life. I personally think that'd be much sadder, just as she found an inspiration and grasp of who she is, it's immediately taken away as she had to watch the person who inspired her watch her die.
28:44 Interestingly, the French text here actually gives away the solution; in English, it doesn’t say what she has, but the French says “girl with a bird cage”
I just finished Death Palette. This is by far, the best game I have ever played. No unnecessary fanservice, no cheap jumpscares, just pure psychological emotions rushing in you. It manipulates your feelings perfectly in every way. You go from hating the girl in the painting, thinking she's a prick, to emphasizing with her, and even emotionally connecting with her. I'm not someone who plays games often, and I usually just finish a game and move on, or usually, most games I play would be those long-time grinding ones. This is by far, the only game that I wish I could forget and play a second time.
Dunno if it's a typo or not, but the only reason I feel the need to correct "emphasizing" with the word I think you meant which is "empathizing" is because... i feel the world today makes everyone feel that being numb and indifferent is cool , or the only way to survive... So few know the meaning of the world... Much respect to you for it. It hit me so bad watching this.. my chest still hurts... and I am holding back tears... because I know I'll keep crying on and off whenever I remember it and relate to it..
I was so sure that the old man was going to catch her in the room with the curtains open, realize she was getting older, and then shove her out the window so she'd stay forever young like his sister.
This was an interesting game. I liked the personality of the portrait. Kinda cute. The deaths were creative. Perhaps the curse of the sister seeped into the painting, after all, it was "finished" in a horrible manner. More so the model than the painting. Poor girl. She really wanted to be her own self rather than a replacement for someone else. The old man was creepy and insane, i wonder if everyone was just in so much of a shock that they just went with it. Glad that in the end the painting was technically completed with girls story coming to light. Dont think anyone would want to stay a memory of such a gruesome event. Maybe not a real good ending since people were killed or entrapped by an ominous painting. To anyone itd look like faded colors splashed onto the canvas much like what we see in the ending or maybe it got even more decrepit after the events of the game. But anyone getting afflicted by the curse would start to see more detail and eventually attempt to paint the portrait. But at least our silent protag feels inspired, at least thats what i think. Loved seeing the concept art from the dev. I can feel the touhou vibes too lol. That shell ear ring was really the most important. Think in the end this game really did embody the portaits whose story it tried to tell. Wanting to be complete and finally done so for everyone to enjoy.
She says it at the start, you are painting with your soul, if you keep putting stuff out of her reach, she doesn't kill you, you simply expire from wasting your soul itself as paint. That's why you have 3 attempts, it's the amount of times you can paint before you die. This also includes if you have to paint multiple objects, you only have enough paint (soul) for 3 attempts, so they get used up per item you paint.
but then she gives you lives back sometimes, which probably means that she's the one who actually holds your actual soul in its entirety, and only allows you a small portion of your own soul which is just enough to paint a bit and survive like a day, before she gives you more of your soul back.
MANLY MANLY there's *more* . Go to the exhibits menu and scroll to the bottom and you'll find an option named "secrets" with a skull icon. After you beat the game you can click that and the girl will talk to you and tell you to find every possible death(for the player). After you find all the deaths, she will reveal some secret information about the game. I haven't found all the deaths yet though so I don't really know what the "secrets" are
i can tell you basically what it said, ill put it under read more though. the girl tells you about the story behind the game, and how long it took. she also unlocks the music room next door.
Damn, this was a good sad game. The creator really knew how to balance absolutely graphic horror that borders too shocking and suspension-breaking with their simpler and stylized style making it more "palatable" (pun fully intended.) Some of it seems a bit cheaper than other parts, I.E. the phone stuff in my opinion, but all in all this was a phenomenal game that I would dare compare to Ib in a lot of ways. The creator of this still has some room for development, but this was honestly one of the best games I've seen in a hot minute. Thanks for playing it through to completion Manly, I don't usually have the time nor energy to search up games "all endings" on youtube (especially when you have to skip between each scene), but when I'm just playing one of your vids in the background it becomes a lot easier to keep an eye and see it play out.
Manly: "I wanna stay for the credits, there's some good stuff here..." Me: **Proceeds to bawl like a baby as the piano comes in and the tragedy unfolds.**
I cannot tell you how happy i got when i saw this, i finished the game a week ago and got absolutely obsessed. There was so much effort put into this game and the story is excellent, and im definitely looking foward to how much attention this'll get onto the game!
@@ahmaddaffaekaputra7057 well there aren't any special paths unlocked by spending money on the game- but there are some extras like sketches you can unlock in the menu
@@LarusoHK it's been a couple years since i last played it, and i've forgotten most of my special knowledge of it, but it still holds a very special place in my heart. And yeah, it's sad that there isn't much content on it :(
for all the completionists out there looking for help, here you go! (Note that these don't include repeats & variations.) Death Timestamps: 7:35 No.1 Beaten 10:22 No.2 Skinned 8:14 No.3 Choked 8:47 No.4 Stretched 9:51 No.5 Peepers 1:00:37 No.6 Bullseye 58:27 No.7 Minced 57:30 No.8 Rolled 1:01:17 No.9 Beheaded 58:53 No.10 Tart 16:27 No.11 Crushed 17:55 No.12 Shattered 18:42 No.13 Moldy 20:09 No.14 Burst 20:59 No.15 Starved 20:36 No.16 Empty 19:43 No.17 Buried 21:27 No.18 Sewed Up 1:05:53 No.19 Dehydrated [AKA let time run out] 1:06:20 No.20 Frozen 29:36 No.21 Pecked 28:41 No.22 Scratched 32:04 No.23 Stomped 30:42 No.24 Caged 33:00 No.25 Unsociable 33:38 No.26 Suffocated 31:13 No.27 Eaten 1:13:03 No.28 Charred 46:10 No.29 Time's Up [AKA let time run out] 47:05 No.30 Instrument [note: trumpet must be missing] 47:32 No.31 Skin-bound [note: book must be missing] 46:33 No.32 Thief [note: crown must be missing] 48:41 No.33 De-skulled [note: skull must be missing] 48:14 No.34 Stars [note: lamp must be missing] 1:23:15 No.35 Boxed 1:26:25 No.36 Ashed 1:27:56 No.37 Thunder 1:32:23 No.38 Blood Rain 1:32:56 No.39 Drained 1:33:39 No.40 Skewered 1:36:28 No.41 Lost 1:37:49 No.42 Drowned 1:43:10 No.43 Flowered 1:47:00 No.44 Inverted [note: selection & color doesn't matter] 1:47:32 No.45 Rusted 1:49:33 No.46 Blood Sea 1:57:15 No.47 Nightfall Edit: since it was brought to light, this list was made for the game's List of Deaths. No.0 Undetermined & No.48 (the actual ending) aren't on it, so they've been omitted out. No.0 Undetermined can be obtained through any other means than the ones used in each timestamp; since Manly obtained it more than once in the video, it's just easier not to list each instance of it.
@@michaelsebastian914 How does forgetting every thing equal a bad ending though? Most people would consider still being alive a good ending even if one had amnesia.
The others were driven insane because they saw it as "the girl with the blue flower" Yeah, there were very view names they could call it, but the girl died because of the symbolism of that flower. She and her painting wanted nothing to do with that flower. That girl saw herself for the first time without the context of being SOMEONE ELSE'S REPLACEMENT or STAND.
The moment the part with making her a pet came up as well as her reactions to the animals came up I knew there was going to be some sort of twist. Nothing that reacts that way to cute animals can be completely evil.
I played this game a lot of time ago when it was still only in japanese. When some of my "non-japanese" friends got interested on it, they had to play while being close to me so i could translate it to them. Now i just realised that it got translations, i finally can tell everyone about it
I dont know japanese but i also played it when there was no english translations and i still love it. Imagine my suprise and excitement when the english translation came out.
I love how straightforward and enjoyable Manly’s content is. He doesn’t draw out games in *numerous* episodes exploring every nook and cranny or intentionally draw out gameplay to get more views. His videos are actually fun to watch, he is fun to listen to and he never bores us.
this game kinda reminded me of ALTER EGO. Enjoyed this and while i can imagine trying to find the solutions at times is annoying, it was a neat game over all
This game was beautiful. I actually ended up being sad at the end of this amazing story. I will be looking out for this developer and what they make in the future.
After watching this several times, I have a headcanon that the main character is either A) A distant relative of the original painter B) A reincarnation of the original painter
I think it’s a man who never saw her as a dangerous painting. Rather a gal The other artists tried poisoning her, drawing random things. One of them while drawing animals instead of taking the blame. Called her repulsive. The current artist never tried anything against her, he simply wanted to keep her happy and that’s what helped him stand out among the others
At 1:46:48, the French is a hint to the puzzle, and translates to “the mirror reflects the truth”. At the beginning, the French is a direct translation of the English title for each puzzle, but after new game+, it starts to deviate into other phrases.
*All Bad Endings* No 00 Undetermined 17:40, 1:27:43 No 01 Beaten 7:44 No 02 Skinned 10:32, 57:08 No 03 Choked 8:26 No 04 Stretched 9:10 No 05 Peepers 9:58 No 06 Bullseye 1:00:49 No 07 Minced 58:36 No 08 Rolled 57:39 No 09 Beheaded 1:01:23 No 10 Tart 59:23 No 11 Crushed 16:42 No 12 Shattered 18:04 No 13 Moldy 18:48 No 14 Burst 20:16 No 15 Starved 21:08 No 16 Empty 20:43 No 17 Buried 19:52 No 18 Sewed Up 21:38 No 19 Dehydrated 1:05:54 No 20 Frozen 1:06:27 No 21 Pecked 29:47 No 22 Scratched 28:56 No 23 Stomped 32:35 No 24 Caged 30:52 No 25 Unsociable 33:15 No 26 Suffocated 34:23 No 27 Eaten 31:36 No 28 Charred 1:13:07 No 29 Time’s Up 46:14 No 30 Instrument 47:16 No 31 Skin-bound 47:41 No 32 Thief 46:58 No 33 De-skulled 48:51 No 34 Stars 48:22 No 35 Boxed 1:23:18 No 36 Ashed 1:26:41 No 37 Thunder 1:28:01 No 38 Blood Rain 1:32:31 No 39 Drained 1:33:04 No 40 Skewered 1:33:38 No 41 Lost 1:36:42 No 42 Drowned 1:37:58 No 43 Flowered 1:43:14 No 44 Inverted 1:47:15 No 45 Rusted 1:47:39 No 46 Blood Sea 1:49:36 No 47 Nightfall 1:57:15
It's specially funny because i can recognize some of them being free songs you can get on the internet. I've ever seen some... R-18 games using it, for lack of a better explanation.
The story made me feel so sad for both the painter and the girl that when i saw this manly's video i was like "oh boy here i go again... let me prepare my emotions."
I liked that the story actually managed to play out quite nicely. It's always a worry that the final chapter will screw up the story, but the creators didn't drop the ball. I kinda like that she realizes what she is. It makes her, the painting, another victim really. Like Manly said, a cursed copy of a copy.
well this was heart breaking!! I wondered halfway through if the painting was haunted by the master of the house or the painter rather than the girl like we were lead to believe....... I thought that might be the case, but I feel like it turned out that the painting wasn’t haunted by any of them. instead, it was haunted by the spirit of all the feelings they had left unresolved. the rage of the girl for not being able to escape, the hopelessness of the painter, the despair of the master.... the memories left to rot and twist into this disgusting amalgamation of something that doesn’t truly represent any of them, but instead the ugly and tragic situation that was born from them. the regret and unresolved problem. I loved how it twisted and turned beyond what you expected. the detail of the painter remembering their red eye staring at them, and the eye being red from the beginning.... and how the master developed from initially a seemingly sympathetic and tragic character, but turned out not to be enamoured with her sister at all, but instead the gruesome death that befell her. I have to wonder, did she really fall, or was she pushed..? the girl’s fate makes me so fucking sad...... I think she was overwhelmed by the artists admission that someone could want her for who she was, not the dead sister she was copying, and she was shocked to see them drawing her as an individual..... i feel she was getting dressed up to meet the artist and leave with him, but the sketches that were so dear to her lead her to the window instead........ the painter and the girl could have had a happy life together, the painter having his art and model to paint to his hearts content, while the girl finally gets a family that love her for her and not what she could be. In the end, even while the girl could never escape, the painting did. They got to see the real world, and feel the sun on their face, and be loved. loved not for the spirit of the girl, or master, or even the painter. Instead, she is only herself. not a copy of the girl as she was a copy of the sister. but just herself. for what seemed like such a simple premise and game, I’m genuinely shocked how much it made me feel.... it was incredibly effective at what it did even if it wasn’t very complex. I wonder if the possessiveness the owners of the painting feel is a hold over of the masters warped feelings for the girl, or maybe the girl’s desire to be loved? or the painters regret and love for the girl? incredible playthrough. as always, thank you manly for showing us all the game had to offer and letting it speak its piece before talking over it. you always show the best games and I look forward to every video. you’ve introduced me to some of my favourite games.
“I’ll make sure you never open your mouth again!” Me, jokingly: “ the victim was discovered with their mouth sewn shut” “I’m rather good at sewing!” Me: :O
when I played this at the beginning I thought the girl was so annoying and evil but as time goes by, I got attached to the girl and almost cried bcs of the ending. edit: nvm I'm crying right now
You saw the last sunset part?she said something like she told not to put her in sunlight, but now she likes it...i think that the girl stays as a painting forever now...with the new painter(us)...and enjoys the life goes by....more like a imaginary relationship... Idk if i'm wrong...but it looked a sad but good ending to me
Aaa, this is so cool that you're playing this! I downloaded this game recently and played it for a spell, but haven't gotten around to finishing it. Honestly, it seems right up your alley what with a nice horror aspect, insta-deaths, good writing, puzzles... and of course, anime. ✨
I remember finding death palette a while back, and thought it looked fun, so I downloaded it, and man was I right on that. It was a true gem I found on mobile, and I spent a while getting all the endings, along with true and final ending. It even made me cry a little, I have to say. Overall, I’m glad that a lot of people did watch this video, and get to experience this wonderful gem of games. Hopefully more will find it.
So I like to summarize story's for fun so if anyone is confused at all by the story allow me to summarize. SPOILERS if its not obvious So in basic terms, a struggling painter was invited to a rich old man's house to paint a portrait of a girl. this had been done many times before with other painters who all left in disgust after finishing the painting, as a result, the old man gets a bad reputation among artists. The artist meets the girl and is told to not upset her, he finds her utterly impossible to work with, making him do anything else besides painting her and dragging out the process and also keeping the room dark and impossible to paint her properly. He also finds a painting of a boy and a horse by a bridge with another figure scratched or blotted out, in a huff, the old man gives him the painting and we later learn that the old man's sister who died young is the reason he adopted this girl and forces her to dress like his long-dead sister to be a proxy for her and even has her sing him to sleep. The painter after seeing the girl looking at the sunset and not done up like the sister he admires her unique beauty though he's unable to paint her because he gawked at her too much. later that night while unable to sleep he sees her singing to the old man in his room and unable to get that weird image out of his head he sketches it. The next day he gives her the sketches to look over and confesses that after the job he wants to continue painting her against all sorts of landscapes. (It's not really mentioned to be a love confession but it kinda sounds like one to me.) She feigns anger because of how dreary his landscapes look but secretly she loved the idea and after chasing him from the room she gathers the sketches on a table and takes out a secret box of earrings and puts one on. (likely inspired by the artist mentioning the seaside.) A gust of wind from a window she opened blows the sketches around and one floats out the window and as she tries to catch it, she falls out the window and is discovered by the maids and artist. on death's door and brought back to her room to die in peace, the old man enters the room and instead of sadness he seems rather calm and after a moment of set up by the open window, he grabs the girl and brings her to the artist demanding he paint her as she is. It's explained here that the Old man's sister was trying to catch her escaped bird when she also fell to her death and the old man found her, bloody, broken and pale, he was stricken by the sight and wanted to see it again which is why despite each painting being of the girl dressed as his sister it never pleased him until he see's the girl battered and broken (real dark stuff) Here is the dark shit, while the girl is dying and broken, the old man forces him to paint a portrait of her broken body bathed in red light, effectively being a twisted version of the portrait he wanted to paint of her in the sunset earlier. It's here the artist blacks out and only remembers waking back up in his studio with the painting splashed with so many colors that it ran black and muddled. (In truth I'm guessing he was so traumatized that after painting the portrait he took it home and disfigured it himself since he himself only remembers her single bloody crimson eye, which is why her eye is red in the game since its the memories of the painter, her original eye color is lost.) The reason the painting is cursed is that the girl was robbed of a peaceful death and the earring by the old man (basically denying the girl her own individuality) and then covered up to be hidden by the painter so it was basically cursed by the girl out of hatred and rage Now sometime later, I think the old man died and his belongings sold off with the creepy paintings of the girl becoming a collector's item amongst artist circles, known only as the Girl with the Blue Flower collection. up until the start of the game, we learn several people go missing and the painting like a cursed videotape gets passed along to curse more people, we also learn the painter died in the basement, I think suicide personally since the other people simply go missing and don't end up dead like him. Finally, it ends up with the protag, a gloomy struggling artist in a studio apartment. The events of the game basically is an amalgam of the artist's memories, with everything outside the painting being what he remembers and inside the painting basically replays the last 6 days of the time the artist and the girl spent together. We think the painting is the girl's spirit but that's not quite true, painting the earring again reminds the painting that the girl was not the sister, and the girl and the painting are both their own individuals. the painting had cursed so many because she was sure she was incomplete (because she was splashed in layers of color to hide the former painting) Instead she remembers the truth now, that she was always complete, and deciding to rest she let's both the protag and the Buyer (the former owner) out of the curse. In the real world, the protag snaps out of a trance of some kind and with his memories intact is shown a ruined faded version of the painting instead of the painting of the girl. The Buyer, remembering nothing, curses his luck and leaves but the protag shines the sunset on the painting, which reveals the true painting, which is the exact opposite of what the painting always made him do. (Symbolism) Thus the game ends on a bittersweet but positive end wow this was a lot longer of a summary than I meant it but god I loved this game's story. packed with little details that only make sense later and fun deaths. Sorry for the long comment but I felt like doing this.
You forgot the part where the painter, just as he died, went down to the dark room to try and fulfill his promise to the girl. Sadly, he passed away right beyond the doorway - maybe it was his will to fulfill his promise that infected the painting with the curse?
Nice summary. I also believe that's what happened. Though I disagree with you on two fronts. Firstly, I think the original painter died from heart problems, not suicide. Secondly, I think the protag decided to destroy the painting with light from the sunset to fully end the curse and let whatever it is in the painting rest in peace.
This game has one of the most touching stories I've ever seen. I actually cried towards the end. The first time any sad story game, move, book, etc. has ever made me do so.
FINALLY!! I waited so much for you to play this game. I believe it will be such a fun video to watch. Keep up with the good videos and bringing us new indie game game-throughs, Manly!
I think this is at the core of the kind of horror that really sticks with you. Like Frankenstein, the real terror is that a sweet love story became a tragedy because of cruelty and neglect. The real monsters are nearly always people and the things they can do to each other without empathy.
most of the time, the english title of the paintings and the french titles match up, but sometimes they don't. this isn't going to be perfect, but the differences i spotted were: (first cat birdcage painting) eng: girl holding a XXX fr: girl with a birdcage (painting the five treasures) eng: symbols of transience fr: vanitas (futility) (looking for the blue box) eng: searching I fr: not finding it (painting a light source to look into the box) eng: searching II fr: not opening it (giving her an umbrella) eng: girl holding an umbrella fr: open memory (making your way to the flowers) eng: the forgotten garden fr: i want to stop time (earring painting) eng: girl with the blue flower? fr: the mirror reflects the truth (last painting) eng: ebony painting fr: pretending to be asleep
I'm happy to see a TH-camr play this game, I remember playing it awhile back and falling in love with it. The art, the story, the deaths, and especially the music. I want to see more people appreciate this small gem of a game.
When you gave the red apple in her hand, and she started to peel the player instead, I was like: "Peel it yourself woman, you have hands. If you can peel me, you can peel the apple. If you don't wanna peel, then eat it." Edit: OH SO NOW SHE DECIDES TO PEEL THE FUCKING APPLE
In a way she reminds of Yukka, down to the general asthetic, love of flowers, and in a way her personality. She's like what I think Yukka would be like if her garden died, melancholic and sad in a strangely beautiful way.
She looks more like Remilia imo, she even lives in a big mansion with servants and doesn't like having sunlight in her room (although for different reasons). Plus the flower in her hair reminds me of the tag-things sticking out of Remilia's cap Bonus points for her going out only in the fog and with a parasol (I gotta deduct points for it not being scarlet mist tho)
I like to think they were actually in love, but it was in that sort of Victorian and very innocent type of love, where instead of "will you marry me" its "I wish to spend the rest of my days capturing your beauty in my art." And her, instead of accepting, being flustered and tsundere about it all and kicking them out, but then imagining that life, dressing up... I like to think her body moved on her own because that was the sketch of her loved one, and in a very sad way, its the same as how the sister died....trying to recover something precious that belonged to someone very important to them T_T
I love the creativity of the solution to the third hard mode sequence. Instead of using the cats you find and painting them black to catch the culprit, you have to use the cat's positions to create an optical illusion that creates a 4th cat in the center of all the cats!
The fact that this game both made me a little nervous because I get really paranoid and made me cry because of the ending shows just how amazing this game is (this is just my opinion)
This game is beautiful, holy hell. I wasn't expecting to cry in the last 50 minutes or so. The poor lass didn't deserve the death she got. Damn it, I need a happier ending.
So the canonical ending will be that I, yes I, take a time machine and cross dimensions to end up in that game world, and save the girl and then take her and the painter away and drop them somewhere else to live their lives in peace as the painter draws her in different backdrops in different poses everyday
For me it really is the happiest ending. The perfect ending. The girl may be misunderstood but not forever as art in itself is amde to be subjective. Which will be represented by the paintings of the blue rose girl made by us the last painter. While most ppl would find them simply bad. Maybe others will understand the beauty in it and want to paint it as well. Maling her legacy live on forever
and here I am still wondering how this man isn't one of the biggest TH-camrs. The games he plays I've usually never heard about, his voice is calming and smooth, and he has quality jokes.
I think most people can tell by now, but the post credit was really the painting's perspective of what happened between the model and the artist. This part is just a theory, but maybe the model didn't want to die, and with her will so strong in that moment, gave life to her painting. However, she never 'lived' her life that would have continued with the artist, and as such was fixated on her life in the mansion, being very particular about every detail regarding her attire and surroundings. And why she knew everything that happened during the model's life could have been 'mirrored' in some way to become memories of the painting.
I think the painting was imbued with the girl's dreams of spending time with the artist. But because the artist blotted the painting out, and locked it away, she never got to visit the sea, the hills, or anywhere with him. Eventually the painting lost all of it's memories, and the promise that it so desperately wanted. The artist spent all of his life painting dismally sad backgrounds without the girl, and in his final moments he tried to fulfill his promise, only to die when just entering the room. *It may have been the artist's wish to grant the girl's wish that manifested the curse*, forcing artists to fix the painting, restore it's memories, and to help it find peace by letting it see the setting sun... be it on the shore of a beach, or on a knoll amidst rolling hills of green... ;_;
Coming back to watch this years later because I vividly remember seeing the thumbnail for this video, finding out it was a mobile game, and immediately deciding it looked so interesting that I needed to play it myself before watching you play it. That playthrough was incredibly fun, and watching you play it after was even better. This game still feels like an underrated gem to me.
Spoilers!!!: I'm curious, did the original Painter fall in love with the model? The line where he says he wants to "paint her alone" forever makes me think so.. and the fact that the model fell out the window to save his sketch only makes me more certain of it. I think the story is about the guilt he experiences, and the way he's haunted by the feeling of never having captured her beauty before the accident. If my theory is right that makes the story all the more tragic..
In my smol opinion the most probable interpretation is an artistic "once in my so far miserable life i found someone so inspiring and beautiful" as he does mention "what was i thinking saying that to a girl of her age", probably recognizing quite an age gap between them.
Not clear whether it was love (yet) but she definitely charmed him a lot, enough to become a muse. Most likely would've developed into love over time imo, if they were allowed to leave the place together.
That would be pretty sad don't you think? The old man only took care of her for because of how she reminded him of his sister, she had to dress and act exactly like her and know that once she stopped being able to look like her he would probably get rid of her. And then if you consider that the moment the painter realized he wanted to paint her was when he finally managed to take a good look at her... in some way doing something very similar (though i suppose not exactly the same since what the old man saw in her was someone else and what the painter saw in her would be closer to who she really was) as what the old man did, since he only cared for her once her under the red sunset. It would only make the whole story sadder, I think, if what he felt for was love rather than admiration, no?
As a writer, one of the hardest things to face is losing the touch of color. Unable to make words out of images, and the lack of, in a sense, color in a painting. An Artist and a Writer creates images and other worlds with words and paint, and when you find something that opens your eyes to infinity, to be able to see past the page and finally into another world... Its hard to let it go. But in his case, he didn't lose it just through letting go. By actively stating that he wanted to paint her, and her immediate reaction, he assumed that she had died from all the stress, and what happened was his fault. He pushed this on her, and she couldn't take it. Imagine how hard that would be. Your passion, your inspiration, causing someone else to die. No wonder he couldn't ever finish her. But she would have wanted him to finish it. And under all that, he wanted to finish the painting too. And so the curse began, a Painting searching for a way to be finished.
perhaps this is just my cute mind but I think the Artist realized there is more to life than being an artist, that this young Girl needed help and needed love (parental/friend love). Girl was like, "Hey if Artist paints me, then Old Guy will kick me out. But Artist will take care of me and I can live as me!" I can just imagine the Artist adopting her and taking care of her. They go on adventures all over the world and he paints her in different environments. A father daughter relationship, if you will. She is appericated and allowed to be as she is, growing up happily. Perhaps Artist doesn't become famous, but he makes enough money that the two of them can live happy. the guilt the artist feels isn't from. "Dang, I should have painted her" but from "Dang, I should have saved her!"
During "the big reveal", i felt less like the painter made a proper portrait and then covered it with paint. More like the painter, while frantic and in some state of dread and panic, just threw colors hastily onto the canvas while trying to portray what the man hiring him wanted. People might only be able to see "the girl", though the mess of paint and colors, if she allows them to, or how to say. Since apparently not anyone could see her beyond (or within) the paint. The "painted in the moment of death" of this game reminded me a lot of "Le Portrait de Petit Cossette", an anime where a man becomes possessed with a young girl he sees the reflection of in an antique glass, and it turns out she was murdered while the surrounding household items (now antiques) watched and cursed the murderer. -The man, seeing the girl in the glass' reflection in modern times, is a reincarnation of the murderer, and the antiques extract revenge on his soul. -Feels like this game had some overlap with that, among other inspirations shown through the various types of death.
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The fact, the girl died because she wanted to save the sketch made me incredibly sad...
Yes… and the fact she opened the window because the artist would return in a couple minutes, and he would have been able to paint her in the light of the sunset…
She was so excited! So excited that she even picked out her favorite earrings, even though they weren’t allowed…😭
Same bros, it was such a wholesome moment...😢
@@Just_a_piece_of_bread do you… do you know what wholesome means?
@@Noone-hk1vf yes,but now that i think about it i think i chose a wrong word for it so sorry bout that...
@@Just_a_piece_of_bread i think the word you are looking for is “sad”.
"Wake up babe, it's time for your daily scheduled painting session"
"Yes honey"
I can really see the meme face on this one
He literally said that at 1:04:28
it would be nice to see that
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@@user-mh4tl5ei7h what if they were quoting
"whatever you do, don't paint her"
manly: *unlocks the best ending by painting her*
YO THIS IS SO UNDERRATED LOL
@@Pro-Diletante you sure?
@@latetwenies Yup.
lol fr this comment is underrated-🤣
How can it be the best ending if it made me cry
Nah I'm just messing
The flower garden ending struck me as one of the happier if I understood it correctly. Most are a "I'll show you for messing with me!" But that one is "It's alright, you tried you're best. We're both stuck here, but at least it's beautiful."
I think even the painting herself dreads the sixth day.
She doesn't seem to want you to paint the flower, and the French title of the painting "The Forgotten Garden" is something like "I want to stop time" and she says "there's no need to face about tomorrow" if you get the flower ending, implying that she doesn't want day 6 to come.
I'm guessing that her mirror trick and the closed door are her last attempts at stopping you.
@@tomhsia4354 You know, that could totally be true. What happened at the end of the sixth day (specifically what the old man did) sickens me to the stomach, I don't blame the painting for wanting to avoid it
"There's no need to face tomorrow... as we can stay at the most beautiful moment."
The Forgotten Garden / Je Veux Arrêter Le Temps (I Want To Stop Time)
@@kamomohilda7954 Ah, it's a reference! Nice to know. Thanks!
@@tomhsia4354 based on all of this we can infer that
the painting is a failed yandere due to old paintings not having the resources to make anime.
so we see the effects of good work, and good venting
so for the "perfect" piece, we need good peace.
I find it weirdly fitting that the dev went through such a development hell, considering the story it tells
The dev repeatedly says the project is cursed in that log too, lol
I hope the poor dev didn't get mou shindeirud horribly 20+ times too lol
that rhymes
He just released all his rage by killing us in unique ways
narcissist, with their high standards and self-importance makes anything a living hell.
Here's my best explanation for the ending. The Girl did not let any of the artists paint here correctly because she knew she would be cast aside, forgotten after it was done. But what the painter said, how he wanted to keep painting here, in many backdrops, in many different outfits, she knew she would have a future after the old man was done with her. So she pushed the artist out, not in anger, but to surprise him, finally give him good lighting, so that the old man would be done with her, and she could be free again. She went to grab the scetch because it was her hope at freedom, at Peace. Sadly, no one, except the painting, her mirror image, would know the truth of her fate. The artist believed it a suicide, the servants a curse, and the old man so deranged that he didn't care.
i like this interpretation a lot!!
this is the best interpentation
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i just finished the game and this is a good explanation on the ending
@@davionvich1956 I'ma do that to
I noticed a pattern. No matter what game. What's going on. What He is saying. He will stop everything the moment he sees a cat and go. "Cat." Like it's a statement to silence all others. And I love it. XD
Yes Manly has many phrases/words he says immediately after seeing specific item.
Like Gordon Freeman XD
he does it a lot with anime or if something is empty or dark or trash he says :”like my soul”
Don't forget "directed by Hideo Kojima" or "played by [insert actor Kojima has worked with]" every time a character has their name show up in their intro lol
And everytime he sees a bunny, he goes ”bun!” It's cute
And let's not forget "peepers" when eyes appear.
Also "triple" when the number 3 appears.
The fact that almost every characters in the game have their own background stories which made this game a lot more alive. The developer must have gone a lot of hell just to make such a game.
It's not just every character, but every single THING in the story is relevant in some way. Every single object that we see on screen starting from the moment we're taken to the painting's bizarre dimension plays some kind of role in the painter and little girl's memories. Absolutely incredible
They did. Originally the game was supposed to be finished in 3 months, instead it was done in a year and a half.
And the best? It's note extensive backstory. It's succint and concise. The perfect amount. You learn about the characters without the game stopping for too long. That takes some real effort.
@@KrivonoshenkO bro what really it was done in a year and a half😱😱😱
Yup amazing work
The reason why her head tilts like that everytime she kills you is due to the fact that she broke her neck after falling out the window. [i think]
Yes
Same with the one eye open.
Yep
I guess make sense
I noticed that when the old man talked through the painting, the same tilt she does when she's mad
The French titles of each painting are interesting because they are not just direct translations of the English titles. For example the “Girl Holding a XXX” says “ Girl with a birdcage” with no censorship in french. Also the painting titled “Searching 1” says “ do not discover” in French, “Searching 2” says “do not open,” and “girl holding an umbrella” says “open memory.” “The forgotten garden” says “I want to stop time.” “Girl with the Blue Flower?” says “the mirror reflects the truth.”
Neat
I only knew a little french, but noticed something was immediately off with the titles and could read some. I thought it was a nice touch.
Im a native French person, glad that some people noticed !
>I want to stop time
DIO: Too bad for you! Muda DA!
It´s called easy mode for french people
Fun fact: The final painting’s name is a reference to La Danse Macabre, which is art that shows skeletons of people from all walks of life dancing with each other. It’s supposed to be a reminder that no matter who you are, everyone dies.
No one can escape from deaths grasp
I thought you were going to say that no matter who you are we are all the same under/without out skin
Tell that to Queen Elizabeth
@@autumnyuki3744 yeah they took it a step further
@@JustZal except queen Elizabeth
Not a lot of people noticed but the reason why only one of her eyes is colored because when he was forced to paint that gruesome sight of her only one of her eyes was open her left eye with that single red eye
I noticed that too
This game is so fucking sad man
Dude this reminds me of a certain other horror game.
The games name starts with the letter O
Final Duet starts playing in the background*
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@@Sketchii_Draws what is it
The end of the 6th day was heartbreaking. She was broken, twisted, barely alive. She had just started to become her own person, just found her first friend, and he ripped it all away. Tore the earring off of her, and demanded the artist paint. And paint. And paint. Splashing color, probably crying and afraid both from her death and the man's rage. And in the end... Her beauty was lost forever. At least we gave her a fitting end. The painting was ancient, weathered, and faded. I wonder if she was able to enjoy herself in that dark gallery. If we gave her any paintings of snacks and cats and birds, if we painted a garden and flowers for her, if we painted her a new home. Or if we forgot her, and she simply languished... In the end, she disintegrated in that beautiful sunset. The real horror is the tragedy that befell her.
This game has had me mildly depressed for the last few days, it's just so amazing
@@awesomegamer-cv4zf same
@@awesomegamer-cv4zf my hatred for the old man is still seething
Girl: **dying, barely breathing**
Old man: haha paint go brr haha yay
@@terateak6903 It's messed up..
My heart sank when she jumped out the window trying to grab at that last painting
She did it with no hesitation, as if that was all she had to live for. And it really was. It was the only individuality she ever experienced...
This was the one time I didn't want to see someone get punished for indulging in their own beauty
It was so tragic, because it was also such a self-less act, too. She wanted to save those sketches for the painter. She was so excited to be able to finally be free to see the world and to finally have someone to treasure her for being herself.
The moment where she opens the window hurts the most in retrospect. She wanted the painter to finally have a chance to paint her with good lighting, so that she could finally satisfy the old man and be free to move on in her life. One can only imagine the excitement and joy that was running through her head...
@@Mach56gss And even sadder still is the fact that nobody except for the painting saw her last moments. The artist most likely assumed she committed suicide from stress, the servants believed she was killed by some curse that made her die the same way as the last person to live in her room, and the old man was completely deranged and probably didn't care about how she died, just fetishizing her corpse and trying to have her mangled dead body painted. She wasn't given the treatment she needed in her last moments and nobody knew the whole truth even in the present. Nobody knew about the fleeting moment of true happiness she was given just before she died. No one except for the painting, whose viewpoint we're treated to in the credits
@@circle3565 The fact that we find out that she was still alive, tho barely and was still breathing after being mangled like that makes it so much fucking worse.
i actually shipped them together is that just me?
@@L0NEW0LF777 In a father - daughter way, right? Right?
Man, throughout the whole game I was annoyed at the girl thinking what a “brat” she is, but that ending just broke me, I did not expect it to be so heartwarming and hearbreaking at the same time
Same I wasn’t expecting it but I really liked the game
True. To realize that the old man can't move on that he forced a girl into someone she's not. But, she still do it because the old man, servants, and the mansion is all she has
she's not a brat
@@r.a2752 its the way she acts toward the player and artist. I had a feeling she would have a heartfelt ending, and that she wasn't really like that in general but she is "brat-ish".
@@r.a2752 she is, and she is def in need of correction💢💢
This game is an amazing piece of art. The most tragic character deaths are ones where they don’t get what they get so close to what they want and it suddenly goes wrong.
It's especially painful when the character is so innocent and deserving of their happy ending as well. ;_;
ah i see what you did there
life is good when you have 2 hours, 30 minutes and 44 seconds of manly’s content
Yes
Yes
Yes
And thats on period- im gonna forget to eat because I'm gonna be binge watching manlys video
Great way to start off my morning! :D
I’ve watched other people play this game and one detail I’ve noticed is that they chose different earrings. Apparently, you can choose any earring and it’ll be correct (as in, she doesn’t kill us). Sometimes she says “I’ll be lenient, you choose” but there’ll still be a correct color, and if we get it wrong, we die. But for the earring, it is truly up to us. And she says “I’ll remember it.” In that one moment, we are actually in the story, as in our decision changed the past. The choice was ours to make, as the painter of the story.
Another possible theory is that the first painter didn’t choose the same one as us and our decision did not affect his decision or the actual story. Instead, the painting asks us the same question as the one the model asked the original painter. The story is no longer about the model and the painter, but about the painting and us.
Who others have played it I can't find anyone
@@ShadowReaper695me, lol. Like just last week. You truly don't get punished for the earrings, the only time you do is during day 7 when you paint it a different color from the one you did in day 6. By the end of the game, a text appears saying "thanks for painting me!" And gives you the earring thst you chose and colored
@@enigmatic2878 bruh I am asking about other youtubers who have played it because I want to see their reactions I have already played this game years ago many time i already know everything
This is a rare occasion of a horror game that doesn't actually use cheap jumpscares to give players heart attacks
Jump scares don't make me feel sad though :(
@@LavaSaver yeah same
Yea but this one make me heart break :[
Instead of giving you a heart attack, it gives you a heart break! Yay!
Breaking people emotionally, like psychological horror kind of if I remember
Another game that doesn't have that many junpscares is OMORI
It must’ve be very painful for him to paint that portrait, just as he said he wanted to continue painting her after this job, only to realize his first and last painting of her would be so gruesome.
Pretty sure it wasn't the first.
@@user-uq9oe7sc5m She makes it extremely difficult to let the other painters capture her figure, and the painter only made sketches, so that it was the first time he used that canvas.
Very paintful
@@Eyliter VERY funny
@@Eyliter BRUH brilliant!
2:08:45 It's best to avoid painting in direct sunlight, especially during the hot summer months. The heat from the sun's rays cause the paint to dry to quickly, which can cause a number of problems - brush marks, lap marks, inadequate adhesion. Move around the house to avoid the sun as much as possible
I didn't knew that, thanks.
🤓🤓
Well MatsuroPallete burns in sun light because she has a curse of her mother
I like the formula to the deaths.
“Are you trying to give me cognitive behavioural therapy?”
“I’ll give you CBT instead!”
That's a weird example but yes that's the formula essentially.
"The victim was discovered bin the studio with their balls crushed by some powerful force."
LMAO
@@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257 I LAUGHED SO HARD
@@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257 Holy shit lmao
This was actually really well written and cohesive. Usually these types of stories fudge a lot of detail and use magical reasons to explain why things don't make sense. This made perfect sense. I'm impressed!
"So why did you decide to trap everyone in a death game?"
"Pfff I dunno."
"Seems legit."
-Gigguk
Ikr this is the best horror mobile game I have played amazing
@@itsfj7889 not really a horror game tho, more of a tragedy story
@@cyandude3664 More like a tragedy story, yes. Which makes it cool.
if you want more good horror games in mobile, there's one called Zelle ~Occult Adventure~... it's amazing
damn those end credits… she opened the windows and let the setting sun light the room so the painter could finish his painting, and so the old man would throw her away after her portrait was done. so she could live a life with the painter, for he wished to continue painting her. it ended so abruptly, that wish.
its unfortunate. it really is. the saddest thing is nobody had understood her. nobody understood why she died. she did not commit suicide, and neither was it a curse. she died reaching out to that sketch, that sketch that gave her hope.
in the end, the girl was never understood. not even by her incomplete painting. it had tried to act like her, but the “her” it knew was in itself an act. and now, all that remains of her existence is the many portraits of her, the portraits of the Girl with the Blue Flower.
Maybe the painting being nice is also part of what the girl is. I think. It looks odd. She's mad then she suddenly becomes nice. That sounds like the girl, the model.
Wait so the painter we're playing as is the painter she's with when she's alive?
@@jepjep6740I think at one point, we were possessed by the last Painter. Like they somehow was in sync.
Or another theory, maybe we were the reincarnated version of the last Painter.
@@L16htW4rr10r by last you mean first right ?
Tbh, I think the credits were from the POV of the painting, so it must have seen why she jumped
This was excellent, from start to finish. The beginning got me interested with all the comedic deaths that are pretty creative and the girl in the painting being the right level of sassy about it, and eventually the true story begins to reveal itself for the tragedy that it is. Given all that happened, I think this bittersweet end is the best we could hope for. Also, I absolutely believe the person you play as is the original painter reincarnated; both the painter and the girl died, but they have been reunited now. Add on the funny gallery at the end, I am very happy with this.
You’re bullying a painting loli and she bullies you in return.
Maybe. The girl does say: “I wonder… if he’s watching, too.” As she gazes out into the sunset.
Not sure if the artist is a reincarnation, and it’s unlikely since the artist probably died in the late 20th century, not leaving much time to reincarnate directly to our protag.
Possible, but that line doesn’t help. Still, it does imply that somewhere out there, the painter’s tortured soul may have finally found peace ;-;
@@Mach56gss maybe you are a descendant of the artist's family?
@@enriquethelegendary4724 Doesn't appear that the artist ever had any kids. Judging from the timeline, it seemed that the other victims got the art in a relatively short period of time. Maybe it took a couple years after the artist died for the painting to reach the protagonist. Maybe 2 decades.
I think the protagonist was just spiritually attuned, skilled enough at painting, or similar enough to the artist that the artist's spirit came to the protag's aid.
Otherwise, the artist's spirit would never have existed in the curse to begin with (as the paint silhouette on the ground), and wouldn't have possessed/merged with the protag at the end of day 4.
It seems that the artist's spirit was always lingering in the curse, desperately waiting for someone skilled enough to complete the task they had set out to do on their final day.
@@Mach56gss it can be that the "I wonder if he's watching" comment was directed to the old man who adopted her. Maybe idk
Aww that ending is so heartbreaking 3:
she died trying to save the artists sketch, never to live her life, never to be able to realise her life beyond a figment of a fleeting dream of an old man's regret, never to be truly understood, never to be remembered as anything beyond the mysterious girl who inexplicably appeared in many paintings at a time, with the only other remaining fragment being what the spirit of a canvas seen, her final moment a 7 day memory trapped within her last painting
It's even worse when you think about her actions before falling. She got dressed up and had opened the windows... she wanted the painter to finish the portrait, and in the light of the setting sun. She wanted him to succeed in the commission so that the old man would disown her - so that she could go live her life with the painter instead.
She was so excited that she decided to wear the seashell earrings that she snuck into the room, even though she was forbidden to wear them...
Though, it was only 6 days the girl shared with the painter. The cursed-painting spent seven days with him: The seventh day was the painter's last day alive, when he went to the basement to try and fulfill his promise to the girl after all of those years. It was probably his death that caused the curse to manifest.
@@Mach56gss thank you for clarifying what the seventh day was. I just couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that it was the former painter who awoke the painting by painting the earring and not the new painter (us).
I interpreted the curse being the Artist's regret and from being forced to paint her dying body while also being the only one noticing her still slowly dying and not being able to do anything but continue painting and also the Girl's anger for being nothing except the model of a dead person.
Or something like that
so the paint was actually alive when the girl died, the painter had real talent to make a paint "look alive" enough to actually take life.
They could've had a life together. ❤️
The girl was going to be abandoned by her adoptive father after her perfect portrait was completed. Knowing this, she purposefully sabotaged all of the artists that attempted to capture her, all so she could stay at her adopted home.
However, the last artist found a genuine attraction to the girl and wished to have her model for him for more paintings.
If it weren't for that one "accident ", the last painter could have given the girl a new home and a new family.
I wouldn't mind an alternate ending that gives us this conclusion.
Rare to see you here
Yes gamerz
Aaaaaaa this story stays in my head rent free for a “what could have been” conclusion.
That's why fanfiction is a thing
The tragedy is the point of it.
man, the backstory reveal really got to me. they're rare, but stories like it really mess with me for some reason.
very pretty game, and the scary story at the end was too real man. i'm probably gonna have to try and forget about it for what sanity i've got left tho.
I'm with you there. The ending was terribly terribly sad ;_;
@@Mach56gss it's not actually that she died or the bitter timing that gets me
it's the whole thing surrounding her adoption, how the old man treated her as a doll even as she died. it actually makes me a little sick to think too much about.
@@nyankers definitely that too. But I still hate that she was about to escape from that hell and actually had genuine hope in the future for a brief and wonderful moment. That makes all of the inhuman shit that much more disturbing and painful.
No wonder there was such a curse.
I found this game randomly and finished it in one sitting, messed me up for a bit too but damn was it written so good to play with our emotions
Still going through the pain. It's an awfully depressing feeling. Of being so close to freedom, some semblance of self, to some form of joy, only to have it all ripped away in a single moment. A moment of time that cannot be done again. A moment that cannot be corrected nor fixed. An accident easily avoided, so painfully obvious, yet so easy to commit. It's just so tragic and unbearably somber!😭💔
“Manly! It’s 4:00 A.M, time to paint me!”
“Yes, honey.”
Perfect
Perfect
Perfect
Perfect
perFect
"The victim was discovered in the studio with the handle of an umbrella from their head." Totally the best ending
Getting “Another” vibes from that…
Sticking it where the sun don’t shine
Look I rarely tear up while watching games or playing, but those credits and the part when the papers started flying around and she tried to get them and then Manly going softly 'Oh no' really but really got me choking. Like I knew it was going to happen and the girl did tried to kill the protag in 1000 creative ways, but man it hurt. It really hurt.
yeah i full-body clenched at that like "oh god no"
it's somehow so much more tragic than the idea of her chasing the bird
@@neurotikale3638 Made me sad when the artist walked in and the first thing he did was collect his fallen paintings. He must have thought she left them there on purpose.
The shot of the artist looking down at the blood-stained flowers, to see his entire silhouette go to a murky-black brown to symbolize the terror and grief of a man who died in that moment - that was haunting.
The fact that the girl opened the window so that the Artist could finally paint her with good lighting, to finally satisfy the old man and be free to travel the world with the artist - my heart.
The fact that the artist, after years of suffering from guilt, at the edge of death, tries to return to the painting and fulfill his promise, dies just as he enters the room, unable to act on his promise - my soul.
This story just breaks you in twenty different ways.
How to make it hurt more:
The girl and the painting are completely separate beings. The painting was the one who killed you ruthlessly numerous times, the only wrong thing the real girl did was throw tons of fake tantrums and drive the painters away by frustrating them, which she only did because she was afraid she would be discarded and return to being a lonely orphan if they finished their paintings of her. The real girl never harmed you directly or intentionally and was just scared of being abandoned or forgotten
whats the credits music called
Sad part is...
There's chances that she COULD had survived the fall if she got treatments from a doctor
Sure, she would have permanent internal damages, lost an eye and stuff but atleast she wouldn't had slowly and painfully died because of the old "brother/father" obsession to immortalize his "sister"...
Right, the description about her still barely breathing when the artist painted her broke me :(
Yes buuuuut in the time she fell doctor (the ones that could save her) didnt exist in that time
@@marciosantos1227 I think it already does, though not as advanced and probably has a more bad and unhygienic work conditions, though I suppose considering the "brother" is the richest person in town there's going to be a personal doctor that he could've told to come but he didn't because the brother thought his "sister's" dying image is "beautiful" which is more fucked up-
@@miushies kinky
I think by the artist's words, by the time the maids got to her, it was too late. It's still sad that she was denied a tender, graceful death, and instead was objectified for a madman's ravings.
At the end, when she wanted to save the painters' drawings and she fell, I just couldn't restrain myself from being very sad. I must say i cried when he said "NO!", this story was beautiful. There are so many games that are such touching and beautiful, thank you for playing and showing them man.
This game knows where to hit you and it shows
The end depressed me so much on god
I literally just beat death palette about a week ago. Really good game. Although, it brought out rage I never knew I had
Same friend
It seems as anytime I find these good horror type games he plays them after I finish them
Same
It's ironic that multiple people just beat this game exactly a week ago
@@reubeno3843 yea, I beat it in one day while I just happened to be doing laundry. It was a real pain.
Manly: *sees something blank/empty*
Also Manly: Ah yes, something that my soul relates to
Yes this is to true about him
Thing: *resembles bunny*
Manly: Bun!
@@eldritchgod4308 also: "peepers!"
Accurate
Personally I think the story was amazingly delivered. At first it's just horror, then it turns into an interesting backstory that slowly turns sad and it's so carefully told that you really get to spend some time with each character to feel heartbroken at the end. Don't know why but stories like these hit different for me and I loved this one a lot.
The model was a really bossy bunch.
But yeah, it's really sad tho at the end.
This was so sad. When the girl refused to cage the cat I knew she really didn't mean to be some evil bitch painting. For me, I thought the reason she was being so bratty to the painters was to keep them away from being sort of imprisoned with her in that room and pushed away that gloomy painter because she thought she didn't deserve to be painted in those landscape scenes or she knew she didn't have that sort of future. I feel so sad for her and the artist :(
I disagree, she probably pushed him away just to keep up the act. I even suspect that those sketches rather inspired her, which is why she wore the earring, something she wasn't told to do to break out from that everlasting commitment. Now that I think about it, she could've been planning to run away with the painter to be a model for him and escape both the master and homelessness, because that's definitely a possibility she could do, and I imagine the painter would be willing to since it's only when he painted her that a portrait of his became full of life.
I personally think that'd be much sadder, just as she found an inspiration and grasp of who she is, it's immediately taken away as she had to watch the person who inspired her watch her die.
It was explained by the player character that she acted bratty and demanding so that no one ever gets to finish painting her.
Based
28:44 Interestingly, the French text here actually gives away the solution; in English, it doesn’t say what she has, but the French says “girl with a bird cage”
I just finished Death Palette.
This is by far, the best game I have ever played. No unnecessary fanservice, no cheap jumpscares, just pure psychological emotions rushing in you. It manipulates your feelings perfectly in every way. You go from hating the girl in the painting, thinking she's a prick, to emphasizing with her, and even emotionally connecting with her. I'm not someone who plays games often, and I usually just finish a game and move on, or usually, most games I play would be those long-time grinding ones. This is by far, the only game that I wish I could forget and play a second time.
Dunno if it's a typo or not, but the only reason I feel the need to correct "emphasizing" with the word I think you meant which is "empathizing" is because... i feel the world today makes everyone feel that being numb and indifferent is cool , or the only way to survive...
So few know the meaning of the world... Much respect to you for it.
It hit me so bad watching this.. my chest still hurts... and I am holding back tears... because I know I'll keep crying on and off whenever I remember it and relate to it..
I agree. The game is one of the best games I know, but it's not available in every country. That's the second reason I was crying at the end.
“The best stories are the ones that stay with you after reading them” -Leonardo da vinci
same i want to forget it so i can play a second time
@@ezz7809 Yeah ik, I live in the UK, and I can't download it here :(
I swear, Manly's editing is so good that sometimes I don't even notice the transitions, it's so smooth. Thanks Manly.
wait there is a transitions?
Whaaaaa
Im sure many of us dont even know there a transitions
I never know theres transitions in his video....
The girl: freezes Manly to death 💀
Manly: I C E I C E B A B Y
The cop saying that who found the body:
I was so sure that the old man was going to catch her in the room with the curtains open, realize she was getting older, and then shove her out the window so she'd stay forever young like his sister.
that too would have been a painfully sad end.
I was so scared by that idea which came to my mind horribly fast ... Too fast ...
This was an interesting game. I liked the personality of the portrait. Kinda cute. The deaths were creative. Perhaps the curse of the sister seeped into the painting, after all, it was "finished" in a horrible manner. More so the model than the painting. Poor girl. She really wanted to be her own self rather than a replacement for someone else. The old man was creepy and insane, i wonder if everyone was just in so much of a shock that they just went with it. Glad that in the end the painting was technically completed with girls story coming to light. Dont think anyone would want to stay a memory of such a gruesome event. Maybe not a real good ending since people were killed or entrapped by an ominous painting. To anyone itd look like faded colors splashed onto the canvas much like what we see in the ending or maybe it got even more decrepit after the events of the game. But anyone getting afflicted by the curse would start to see more detail and eventually attempt to paint the portrait. But at least our silent protag feels inspired, at least thats what i think. Loved seeing the concept art from the dev. I can feel the touhou vibes too lol. That shell ear ring was really the most important.
Think in the end this game really did embody the portaits whose story it tried to tell. Wanting to be complete and finally done so for everyone to enjoy.
IS THAT.. A MOGEKO PFP???
manly this entire game
"you killed me but i appreciate the artistry"
poo poo pfp
@@AnprimGang k
She says it at the start, you are painting with your soul, if you keep putting stuff out of her reach, she doesn't kill you, you simply expire from wasting your soul itself as paint. That's why you have 3 attempts, it's the amount of times you can paint before you die. This also includes if you have to paint multiple objects, you only have enough paint (soul) for 3 attempts, so they get used up per item you paint.
but then she gives you lives back sometimes, which probably means that she's the one who actually holds your actual soul in its entirety, and only allows you a small portion of your own soul which is just enough to paint a bit and survive like a day, before she gives you more of your soul back.
MANLY MANLY there's *more* .
Go to the exhibits menu and scroll to the bottom and you'll find an option named "secrets" with a skull icon. After you beat the game you can click that and the girl will talk to you and tell you to find every possible death(for the player). After you find all the deaths, she will reveal some secret information about the game.
I haven't found all the deaths yet though so I don't really know what the "secrets" are
i can tell you basically what it said, ill put it under read more though.
the girl tells you about the story behind the game, and how long it took. she also unlocks the music room next door.
He would have liked that
I finished all the deaths all the chapters all the Eastereggs now idk what to do with my lfie 😂
Spoilers!
The secret rooms contains all the background music used in the game, from the first title screen to the credits.
Damn, this was a good sad game. The creator really knew how to balance absolutely graphic horror that borders too shocking and suspension-breaking with their simpler and stylized style making it more "palatable" (pun fully intended.) Some of it seems a bit cheaper than other parts, I.E. the phone stuff in my opinion, but all in all this was a phenomenal game that I would dare compare to Ib in a lot of ways. The creator of this still has some room for development, but this was honestly one of the best games I've seen in a hot minute.
Thanks for playing it through to completion Manly, I don't usually have the time nor energy to search up games "all endings" on youtube (especially when you have to skip between each scene), but when I'm just playing one of your vids in the background it becomes a lot easier to keep an eye and see it play out.
Manly: "I wanna stay for the credits, there's some good stuff here..."
Me: **Proceeds to bawl like a baby as the piano comes in and the tragedy unfolds.**
I cannot tell you how happy i got when i saw this, i finished the game a week ago and got absolutely obsessed. There was so much effort put into this game and the story is excellent, and im definitely looking foward to how much attention this'll get onto the game!
Is there any purchases path or ending in the game?
@@ahmaddaffaekaputra7057 well there aren't any special paths unlocked by spending money on the game- but there are some extras like sketches you can unlock in the menu
Do you still like the game? I just played it and watched this vídeo and i'm obsessed now, sadly there Isnt much content of this game like playtroughs
@@LarusoHK it's been a couple years since i last played it, and i've forgotten most of my special knowledge of it, but it still holds a very special place in my heart. And yeah, it's sad that there isn't much content on it :(
@@Milkshake-Bakes Nice, i think it be in my heart for a long time too
for all the completionists out there looking for help, here you go! (Note that these don't include repeats & variations.)
Death Timestamps:
7:35 No.1 Beaten
10:22 No.2 Skinned
8:14 No.3 Choked
8:47 No.4 Stretched
9:51 No.5 Peepers
1:00:37 No.6 Bullseye
58:27 No.7 Minced
57:30 No.8 Rolled
1:01:17 No.9 Beheaded
58:53 No.10 Tart
16:27 No.11 Crushed
17:55 No.12 Shattered
18:42 No.13 Moldy
20:09 No.14 Burst
20:59 No.15 Starved
20:36 No.16 Empty
19:43 No.17 Buried
21:27 No.18 Sewed Up
1:05:53 No.19 Dehydrated [AKA let time run out]
1:06:20 No.20 Frozen
29:36 No.21 Pecked
28:41 No.22 Scratched
32:04 No.23 Stomped
30:42 No.24 Caged
33:00 No.25 Unsociable
33:38 No.26 Suffocated
31:13 No.27 Eaten
1:13:03 No.28 Charred
46:10 No.29 Time's Up [AKA let time run out]
47:05 No.30 Instrument [note: trumpet must be missing]
47:32 No.31 Skin-bound [note: book must be missing]
46:33 No.32 Thief [note: crown must be missing]
48:41 No.33 De-skulled [note: skull must be missing]
48:14 No.34 Stars [note: lamp must be missing]
1:23:15 No.35 Boxed
1:26:25 No.36 Ashed
1:27:56 No.37 Thunder
1:32:23 No.38 Blood Rain
1:32:56 No.39 Drained
1:33:39 No.40 Skewered
1:36:28 No.41 Lost
1:37:49 No.42 Drowned
1:43:10 No.43 Flowered
1:47:00 No.44 Inverted [note: selection & color doesn't matter]
1:47:32 No.45 Rusted
1:49:33 No.46 Blood Sea
1:57:15 No.47 Nightfall
Edit: since it was brought to light, this list was made for the game's List of Deaths. No.0 Undetermined & No.48 (the actual ending) aren't on it, so they've been omitted out.
No.0 Undetermined can be obtained through any other means than the ones used in each timestamp; since Manly obtained it more than once in the video, it's just easier not to list each instance of it.
U forget the no.0 undetermined
I looked at number 5 and 6, and i thought “oh wow, Manly is better than i thought.”
I don't consider nightfall to be a bad end.
@@kalezuki9231 it's a bad end (for the painter) but it's not death
@@michaelsebastian914 How does forgetting every thing equal a bad ending though? Most people would consider still being alive a good ending even if one had amnesia.
The others were driven insane because they saw it as "the girl with the blue flower"
Yeah, there were very view names they could call it, but the girl died because of the symbolism of that flower. She and her painting wanted nothing to do with that flower.
That girl saw herself for the first time without the context of being SOMEONE ELSE'S REPLACEMENT or STAND.
The moment the part with making her a pet came up as well as her reactions to the animals came up I knew there was going to be some sort of twist.
Nothing that reacts that way to cute animals can be completely evil.
Lemme introduce you to Hilter real quick
@@lexblde0063 bro used his ultimate attack 💀
I played this game a lot of time ago when it was still only in japanese. When some of my "non-japanese" friends got interested on it, they had to play while being close to me so i could translate it to them. Now i just realised that it got translations, i finally can tell everyone about it
@中村奈々 dammnti
I dont know japanese but i also played it when there was no english translations and i still love it. Imagine my suprise and excitement when the english translation came out.
I love how straightforward and enjoyable Manly’s content is. He doesn’t draw out games in *numerous* episodes exploring every nook and cranny or intentionally draw out gameplay to get more views. His videos are actually fun to watch, he is fun to listen to and he never bores us.
Pretty much the only horror let's player who I'd actually rather watch than just play the game myself
this game kinda reminded me of ALTER EGO. Enjoyed this and while i can imagine trying to find the solutions at times is annoying, it was a neat game over all
Same, even if Es was a lot less murder happy.
We can only hope for manly to one day play it
@@jpark4302 To be honest, she had a phase where she wanted to choke us.
She's still best girl-
mmyes alter ego
That game was so good, es
This is the day. The best day of my life. The day that Manly looks at an apple and simply says "Apple". This was all I ever needed. Thank you.
Apple
Yes, apple
In fact, apple
I cried when I experienced how she passed. I don't know what else there is to say. I hope she finds solace - the girl with the blue flower.
20:05 "Oh... I get it, you're a pun ghost!"
I feel like Manly has finally found his one true murder waifu
And then he just say
*"E A T"*
That's a child 😭
This game was beautiful. I actually ended up being sad at the end of this amazing story. I will be looking out for this developer and what they make in the future.
I really hope they make something just as good in the future too tbh, this game is amazing and I was mildly depressed after the video
After watching this several times, I have a headcanon that the main character is either
A) A distant relative of the original painter
B) A reincarnation of the original painter
most likely B
Idk l think it has to be A
Personally think he was just possessed by the Original Painter because their soul or thought process was insync
I think it’s a man who never saw her as a dangerous painting. Rather a gal
The other artists tried poisoning her, drawing random things. One of them while drawing animals instead of taking the blame. Called her repulsive.
The current artist never tried anything against her, he simply wanted to keep her happy and that’s what helped him stand out among the others
At 1:46:48, the French is a hint to the puzzle, and translates to “the mirror reflects the truth”. At the beginning, the French is a direct translation of the English title for each puzzle, but after new game+, it starts to deviate into other phrases.
*All Bad Endings*
No 00 Undetermined 17:40, 1:27:43
No 01 Beaten 7:44
No 02 Skinned 10:32, 57:08
No 03 Choked 8:26
No 04 Stretched 9:10
No 05 Peepers 9:58
No 06 Bullseye 1:00:49
No 07 Minced 58:36
No 08 Rolled 57:39
No 09 Beheaded 1:01:23
No 10 Tart 59:23
No 11 Crushed 16:42
No 12 Shattered 18:04
No 13 Moldy 18:48
No 14 Burst 20:16
No 15 Starved 21:08
No 16 Empty 20:43
No 17 Buried 19:52
No 18 Sewed Up 21:38
No 19 Dehydrated 1:05:54
No 20 Frozen 1:06:27
No 21 Pecked 29:47
No 22 Scratched 28:56
No 23 Stomped 32:35
No 24 Caged 30:52
No 25 Unsociable 33:15
No 26 Suffocated 34:23
No 27 Eaten 31:36
No 28 Charred 1:13:07
No 29 Time’s Up 46:14
No 30 Instrument 47:16
No 31 Skin-bound 47:41
No 32 Thief 46:58
No 33 De-skulled 48:51
No 34 Stars 48:22
No 35 Boxed 1:23:18
No 36 Ashed 1:26:41
No 37 Thunder 1:28:01
No 38 Blood Rain 1:32:31
No 39 Drained 1:33:04
No 40 Skewered 1:33:38
No 41 Lost 1:36:42
No 42 Drowned 1:37:58
No 43 Flowered 1:43:14
No 44 Inverted 1:47:15
No 45 Rusted 1:47:39
No 46 Blood Sea 1:49:36
No 47 Nightfall 1:57:15
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i was looking for the stars ending in day4+ 😭
why does it say Peepers
@@RubyPiec Eyes
@@Zortcell Thank you 💚
I remember crying at the end. Like damn. I grew so attached to her overtime and the fact that she lets us put an earring on her near the end too 😭
Me too...
This OST goes way better than expected. Reminds me of Umineko with how the soundtrack works great despite seeming a bit too hype out of context.
It's specially funny because i can recognize some of them being free songs you can get on the internet. I've ever seen some... R-18 games using it, for lack of a better explanation.
@@VelhoTeste
i miss Age of War...
Played this before, it's such a good game, highly recommend.
It's like the first time I played a game before manly lol
I also played this game recently. It's a great horror game for your phone.
Same, I played this game before, so I know what is going to be.
@@luckystar3641 same, but i played it the same day it was translated to english in mobile
The story made me feel so sad for both the painter and the girl that when i saw this manly's video i was like "oh boy here i go again... let me prepare my emotions."
I liked that the story actually managed to play out quite nicely. It's always a worry that the final chapter will screw up the story, but the creators didn't drop the ball. I kinda like that she realizes what she is. It makes her, the painting, another victim really. Like Manly said, a cursed copy of a copy.
well this was heart breaking!!
I wondered halfway through if the painting was haunted by the master of the house or the painter rather than the girl like we were lead to believe....... I thought that might be the case, but I feel like it turned out that the painting wasn’t haunted by any of them. instead, it was haunted by the spirit of all the feelings they had left unresolved. the rage of the girl for not being able to escape, the hopelessness of the painter, the despair of the master.... the memories left to rot and twist into this disgusting amalgamation of something that doesn’t truly represent any of them, but instead the ugly and tragic situation that was born from them. the regret and unresolved problem.
I loved how it twisted and turned beyond what you expected. the detail of the painter remembering their red eye staring at them, and the eye being red from the beginning.... and how the master developed from initially a seemingly sympathetic and tragic character, but turned out not to be enamoured with her sister at all, but instead the gruesome death that befell her. I have to wonder, did she really fall, or was she pushed..?
the girl’s fate makes me so fucking sad...... I think she was overwhelmed by the artists admission that someone could want her for who she was, not the dead sister she was copying, and she was shocked to see them drawing her as an individual..... i feel she was getting dressed up to meet the artist and leave with him, but the sketches that were so dear to her lead her to the window instead........ the painter and the girl could have had a happy life together, the painter having his art and model to paint to his hearts content, while the girl finally gets a family that love her for her and not what she could be.
In the end, even while the girl could never escape, the painting did. They got to see the real world, and feel the sun on their face, and be loved. loved not for the spirit of the girl, or master, or even the painter. Instead, she is only herself. not a copy of the girl as she was a copy of the sister. but just herself.
for what seemed like such a simple premise and game, I’m genuinely shocked how much it made me feel.... it was incredibly effective at what it did even if it wasn’t very complex. I wonder if the possessiveness the owners of the painting feel is a hold over of the masters warped feelings for the girl, or maybe the girl’s desire to be loved? or the painters regret and love for the girl?
incredible playthrough. as always, thank you manly for showing us all the game had to offer and letting it speak its piece before talking over it. you always show the best games and I look forward to every video. you’ve introduced me to some of my favourite games.
“I’ll make sure you never open your mouth again!”
Me, jokingly: “ the victim was discovered with their mouth sewn shut”
“I’m rather good at sewing!”
Me: :O
You later: :‡
@@thefullmetalalchemist GOT 'EM
@@БогданКрименюк damn I should play Skullgirls again
I love that in the credits, we see the story in the canvas POV. its so great
protag: gets frozen in ice for painting the wrong thing
manly: :o ice, ice, baby :/
when I played this at the beginning I thought the girl was so annoying and evil but as time goes by, I got attached to the girl and almost cried bcs of the ending.
edit: nvm I'm crying right now
You saw the last sunset part?she said something like she told not to put her in sunlight, but now she likes it...i think that the girl stays as a painting forever now...with the new painter(us)...and enjoys the life goes by....more like a imaginary relationship... Idk if i'm wrong...but it looked a sad but good ending to me
@StefanThePro wanted to protect her😞😞
Yeah the game did pretty well attaching us to what was seemingly a murderous brat (at first), storytelling was nice
Same I want to paint her now
@@the_royalrider the sunset directly washed the painting away, that's why it was empty at the end. The curse was lifted and the girl fade away
As someone who adore lores in games, this is so well written.
I'm absolutely in love with the story. The tragic end almost made me sob.
Manly will spend a multiple days digging out every ending of most games he comes across. I love this man.
Aaa, this is so cool that you're playing this! I downloaded this game recently and played it for a spell, but haven't gotten around to finishing it. Honestly, it seems right up your alley what with a nice horror aspect, insta-deaths, good writing, puzzles... and of course, anime. ✨
I remember finding death palette a while back, and thought it looked fun, so I downloaded it, and man was I right on that. It was a true gem I found on mobile, and I spent a while getting all the endings, along with true and final ending. It even made me cry a little, I have to say. Overall, I’m glad that a lot of people did watch this video, and get to experience this wonderful gem of games. Hopefully more will find it.
So I like to summarize story's for fun so if anyone is confused at all by the story allow me to summarize. SPOILERS if its not obvious
So in basic terms, a struggling painter was invited to a rich old man's house to paint a portrait of a girl. this had been done many times before with other painters who all left in disgust after finishing the painting, as a result, the old man gets a bad reputation among artists.
The artist meets the girl and is told to not upset her, he finds her utterly impossible to work with, making him do anything else besides painting her and dragging out the process and also keeping the room dark and impossible to paint her properly. He also finds a painting of a boy and a horse by a bridge with another figure scratched or blotted out, in a huff, the old man gives him the painting and we later learn that the old man's sister who died young is the reason he adopted this girl and forces her to dress like his long-dead sister to be a proxy for her and even has her sing him to sleep.
The painter after seeing the girl looking at the sunset and not done up like the sister he admires her unique beauty though he's unable to paint her because he gawked at her too much. later that night while unable to sleep he sees her singing to the old man in his room and unable to get that weird image out of his head he sketches it. The next day he gives her the sketches to look over and confesses that after the job he wants to continue painting her against all sorts of landscapes. (It's not really mentioned to be a love confession but it kinda sounds like one to me.)
She feigns anger because of how dreary his landscapes look but secretly she loved the idea and after chasing him from the room she gathers the sketches on a table and takes out a secret box of earrings and puts one on. (likely inspired by the artist mentioning the seaside.) A gust of wind from a window she opened blows the sketches around and one floats out the window and as she tries to catch it, she falls out the window and is discovered by the maids and artist. on death's door and brought back to her room to die in peace, the old man enters the room and instead of sadness he seems rather calm and after a moment of set up by the open window, he grabs the girl and brings her to the artist demanding he paint her as she is.
It's explained here that the Old man's sister was trying to catch her escaped bird when she also fell to her death and the old man found her, bloody, broken and pale, he was stricken by the sight and wanted to see it again which is why despite each painting being of the girl dressed as his sister it never pleased him until he see's the girl battered and broken (real dark stuff)
Here is the dark shit, while the girl is dying and broken, the old man forces him to paint a portrait of her broken body bathed in red light, effectively being a twisted version of the portrait he wanted to paint of her in the sunset earlier. It's here the artist blacks out and only remembers waking back up in his studio with the painting splashed with so many colors that it ran black and muddled. (In truth I'm guessing he was so traumatized that after painting the portrait he took it home and disfigured it himself since he himself only remembers her single bloody crimson eye, which is why her eye is red in the game since its the memories of the painter, her original eye color is lost.) The reason the painting is cursed is that the girl was robbed of a peaceful death and the earring by the old man (basically denying the girl her own individuality) and then covered up to be hidden by the painter so it was basically cursed by the girl out of hatred and rage
Now sometime later, I think the old man died and his belongings sold off with the creepy paintings of the girl becoming a collector's item amongst artist circles, known only as the Girl with the Blue Flower collection.
up until the start of the game, we learn several people go missing and the painting like a cursed videotape gets passed along to curse more people, we also learn the painter died in the basement, I think suicide personally since the other people simply go missing and don't end up dead like him. Finally, it ends up with the protag, a gloomy struggling artist in a studio apartment.
The events of the game basically is an amalgam of the artist's memories, with everything outside the painting being what he remembers and inside the painting basically replays the last 6 days of the time the artist and the girl spent together. We think the painting is the girl's spirit but that's not quite true, painting the earring again reminds the painting that the girl was not the sister, and the girl and the painting are both their own individuals. the painting had cursed so many because she was sure she was incomplete (because she was splashed in layers of color to hide the former painting) Instead she remembers the truth now, that she was always complete, and deciding to rest she let's both the protag and the Buyer (the former owner) out of the curse. In the real world, the protag snaps out of a trance of some kind and with his memories intact is shown a ruined faded version of the painting instead of the painting of the girl. The Buyer, remembering nothing, curses his luck and leaves but the protag shines the sunset on the painting, which reveals the true painting, which is the exact opposite of what the painting always made him do. (Symbolism) Thus the game ends on a bittersweet but positive end
wow this was a lot longer of a summary than I meant it but god I loved this game's story. packed with little details that only make sense later and fun deaths. Sorry for the long comment but I felt like doing this.
Thank you very much, i was struggling to understand the story, this really helps
You forgot the part where the painter, just as he died, went down to the dark room to try and fulfill his promise to the girl. Sadly, he passed away right beyond the doorway - maybe it was his will to fulfill his promise that infected the painting with the curse?
Nice summary.
I also believe that's what happened. Though I disagree with you on two fronts. Firstly, I think the original painter died from heart problems, not suicide. Secondly, I think the protag decided to destroy the painting with light from the sunset to fully end the curse and let whatever it is in the painting rest in peace.
This all to sad and depressing. I only like happy endings :(
@@BuetifullPersun Same, my dude, same... ;_;
10:06 I see Manly hasn't forgotten Angels of Death's "peepers" drinking game.
I swear, I fucking scream everytime this man says "peepers"
It's funnier when the ending was called peepers lol
The story is so depressing that it's almost painful. I'm generally pretty stone-hearted when it comes to fiction, but this one actually got to me.
Masterpiece in story telling. Everything else molded together well too. Music, visuals...
lmao bro you need to grow up
@@ByzantineRefugeewho are you lil bro 💀
This game has one of the most touching stories I've ever seen. I actually cried towards the end. The first time any sad story game, move, book, etc. has ever made me do so.
FINALLY!! I waited so much for you to play this game. I believe it will be such a fun video to watch. Keep up with the good videos and bringing us new indie game game-throughs, Manly!
I think this is at the core of the kind of horror that really sticks with you. Like Frankenstein, the real terror is that a sweet love story became a tragedy because of cruelty and neglect. The real monsters are nearly always people and the things they can do to each other without empathy.
i legit cried a lil bit when i look at the ending credits where the truth unfold😭,this is a really good game😩
You're not alone... It was so sad, she was just about to have such a happy ending...
most of the time, the english title of the paintings and the french titles match up, but sometimes they don't. this isn't going to be perfect, but the differences i spotted were:
(first cat birdcage painting)
eng: girl holding a XXX
fr: girl with a birdcage
(painting the five treasures)
eng: symbols of transience
fr: vanitas (futility)
(looking for the blue box)
eng: searching I
fr: not finding it
(painting a light source to look into the box)
eng: searching II
fr: not opening it
(giving her an umbrella)
eng: girl holding an umbrella
fr: open memory
(making your way to the flowers)
eng: the forgotten garden
fr: i want to stop time
(earring painting)
eng: girl with the blue flower?
fr: the mirror reflects the truth
(last painting)
eng: ebony painting
fr: pretending to be asleep
I'm happy to see a TH-camr play this game, I remember playing it awhile back and falling in love with it. The art, the story, the deaths, and especially the music. I want to see more people appreciate this small gem of a game.
When you gave the red apple in her hand, and she started to peel the player instead, I was like:
"Peel it yourself woman, you have hands. If you can peel me, you can peel the apple. If you don't wanna peel, then eat it."
Edit: OH SO NOW SHE DECIDES TO PEEL THE FUCKING APPLE
and it was fcking horrible peeling skill
I love how this comment actually reads like one of those logs lol
@@sayospecter6731 now that you mention it. This coment do look like a text log from the game lmaoo
The touhou-esce artstyle really makes this game more endearing tbh
exactly how I saw the thumbnail. looks dead on touhou sprite.
That was the thing i like of this game
In a way she reminds of Yukka, down to the general asthetic, love of flowers, and in a way her personality. She's like what I think Yukka would be like if her garden died, melancholic and sad in a strangely beautiful way.
She looks more like Remilia imo, she even lives in a big mansion with servants and doesn't like having sunlight in her room (although for different reasons). Plus the flower in her hair reminds me of the tag-things sticking out of Remilia's cap
Bonus points for her going out only in the fog and with a parasol (I gotta deduct points for it not being scarlet mist tho)
Resembles Satori
I like to think they were actually in love, but it was in that sort of Victorian and very innocent type of love, where instead of "will you marry me" its "I wish to spend the rest of my days capturing your beauty in my art." And her, instead of accepting, being flustered and tsundere about it all and kicking them out, but then imagining that life, dressing up...
I like to think her body moved on her own because that was the sketch of her loved one, and in a very sad way, its the same as how the sister died....trying to recover something precious that belonged to someone very important to them T_T
This game was an absolute masterpiece, it's really underrated. I found it about a month ago
I love the creativity of the solution to the third hard mode sequence. Instead of using the cats you find and painting them black to catch the culprit, you have to use the cat's positions to create an optical illusion that creates a 4th cat in the center of all the cats!
The fact that this game both made me a little nervous because I get really paranoid and made me cry because of the ending shows just how amazing this game is (this is just my opinion)
This game is beautiful, holy hell. I wasn't expecting to cry in the last 50 minutes or so. The poor lass didn't deserve the death she got.
Damn it, I need a happier ending.
Yeah I really wasn't expecting the game to be as good as it was. That ending definitely hit hard, I didn't cry but I was close.
@@pluto3194 same man, same.
So the canonical ending will be that I, yes I, take a time machine and cross dimensions to end up in that game world, and save the girl and then take her and the painter away and drop them somewhere else to live their lives in peace as the painter draws her in different backdrops in different poses everyday
@@shanks1847 and I tag along to shove the old man out a window
For me it really is the happiest ending. The perfect ending. The girl may be misunderstood but not forever as art in itself is amde to be subjective. Which will be represented by the paintings of the blue rose girl made by us the last painter. While most ppl would find them simply bad. Maybe others will understand the beauty in it and want to paint it as well. Maling her legacy live on forever
"You kinda look like Remilia from Touhou.. Just without the wings."
lmao that was my first thought
It's like a mix between Yuuka and Remilia
Kinda look more Satori than Remillia.
._.
"Lord forgive me for neglecting my art classes"
Now feel like to pay attention and attend art classes......
and here I am still wondering how this man isn't one of the biggest TH-camrs. The games he plays I've usually never heard about, his voice is calming and smooth, and he has quality jokes.
I think most people can tell by now, but the post credit was really the painting's perspective of what happened between the model and the artist.
This part is just a theory, but maybe the model didn't want to die, and with her will so strong in that moment, gave life to her painting. However, she never 'lived' her life that would have continued with the artist, and as such was fixated on her life in the mansion, being very particular about every detail regarding her attire and surroundings. And why she knew everything that happened during the model's life could have been 'mirrored' in some way to become memories of the painting.
I think the painting was imbued with the girl's dreams of spending time with the artist. But because the artist blotted the painting out, and locked it away, she never got to visit the sea, the hills, or anywhere with him.
Eventually the painting lost all of it's memories, and the promise that it so desperately wanted. The artist spent all of his life painting dismally sad backgrounds without the girl, and in his final moments he tried to fulfill his promise, only to die when just entering the room.
*It may have been the artist's wish to grant the girl's wish that manifested the curse*, forcing artists to fix the painting, restore it's memories, and to help it find peace by letting it see the setting sun... be it on the shore of a beach, or on a knoll amidst rolling hills of green...
;_;
Coming back to watch this years later because I vividly remember seeing the thumbnail for this video, finding out it was a mobile game, and immediately deciding it looked so interesting that I needed to play it myself before watching you play it. That playthrough was incredibly fun, and watching you play it after was even better. This game still feels like an underrated gem to me.
glad you like it. it's one of my fav games
Spoilers!!!:
I'm curious, did the original Painter fall in love with the model? The line where he says he wants to "paint her alone" forever makes me think so.. and the fact that the model fell out the window to save his sketch only makes me more certain of it.
I think the story is about the guilt he experiences, and the way he's haunted by the feeling of never having captured her beauty before the accident. If my theory is right that makes the story all the more tragic..
In my smol opinion the most probable interpretation is an artistic "once in my so far miserable life i found someone so inspiring and beautiful" as he does mention "what was i thinking saying that to a girl of her age", probably recognizing quite an age gap between them.
Not clear whether it was love (yet) but she definitely charmed him a lot, enough to become a muse. Most likely would've developed into love over time imo, if they were allowed to leave the place together.
That would be pretty sad don't you think? The old man only took care of her for because of how she reminded him of his sister, she had to dress and act exactly like her and know that once she stopped being able to look like her he would probably get rid of her. And then if you consider that the moment the painter realized he wanted to paint her was when he finally managed to take a good look at her... in some way doing something very similar (though i suppose not exactly the same since what the old man saw in her was someone else and what the painter saw in her would be closer to who she really was) as what the old man did, since he only cared for her once her under the red sunset. It would only make the whole story sadder, I think, if what he felt for was love rather than admiration, no?
As a writer, one of the hardest things to face is losing the touch of color. Unable to make words out of images, and the lack of, in a sense, color in a painting. An Artist and a Writer creates images and other worlds with words and paint, and when you find something that opens your eyes to infinity, to be able to see past the page and finally into another world... Its hard to let it go.
But in his case, he didn't lose it just through letting go. By actively stating that he wanted to paint her, and her immediate reaction, he assumed that she had died from all the stress, and what happened was his fault. He pushed this on her, and she couldn't take it. Imagine how hard that would be. Your passion, your inspiration, causing someone else to die. No wonder he couldn't ever finish her.
But she would have wanted him to finish it. And under all that, he wanted to finish the painting too. And so the curse began, a Painting searching for a way to be finished.
perhaps this is just my cute mind
but
I think the Artist realized there is more to life than being an artist, that this young Girl needed help and needed love (parental/friend love). Girl was like, "Hey if Artist paints me, then Old Guy will kick me out. But Artist will take care of me and I can live as me!"
I can just imagine the Artist adopting her and taking care of her. They go on adventures all over the world and he paints her in different environments. A father daughter relationship, if you will. She is appericated and allowed to be as she is, growing up happily. Perhaps Artist doesn't become famous, but he makes enough money that the two of them can live happy.
the guilt the artist feels isn't from. "Dang, I should have painted her"
but from
"Dang, I should have saved her!"
I just recently finished this game I never expected manly to play this game
same here! I'm glad he's playing it! What a nice game it is.
SAME I JUST FINISHED IT YESTERDAY
@@SodaSizzleI helped you finish it
Finished today like, 10 minutes ago and went to here
During "the big reveal", i felt less like the painter made a proper portrait and then covered it with paint. More like the painter, while frantic and in some state of dread and panic, just threw colors hastily onto the canvas while trying to portray what the man hiring him wanted.
People might only be able to see "the girl", though the mess of paint and colors, if she allows them to, or how to say. Since apparently not anyone could see her beyond (or within) the paint.
The "painted in the moment of death" of this game reminded me a lot of "Le Portrait de Petit Cossette", an anime where a man becomes possessed with a young girl he sees the reflection of in an antique glass, and it turns out she was murdered while the surrounding household items (now antiques) watched and cursed the murderer. -The man, seeing the girl in the glass' reflection in modern times, is a reincarnation of the murderer, and the antiques extract revenge on his soul.
-Feels like this game had some overlap with that, among other inspirations shown through the various types of death.