Is the ship just a metaphor for the escape mechanism the children needed to survive the trauma and tragedy of their childhood? A fantasy world in which they had some measure of control? And, after Lily (I assume) died, Jimmy simply carried on pretending and assuming other personas. His dissociation was eventually sanctioned by the world when he became an actor--THE actor--who is the protagonist? I dunno--I'm lost. LOL. While the environment is lush and the gameplay is interesting at times, I just find the story and the characters flat. I can't seem to develop empathy for them. It's a good thing that you're so entertaining, Chris. ツ
Act 3 Bloody Roots... also known as the Tim Burton inspired Act. I think one thing that I liked about this act is how some of the Mannequins are animated in a way to look Stop-Motion. In one of my Horror game ideas, I had this thought that the enemies would move like there in Stop-Motion but wasn't sure about how I'll be able to do and whether it looks like. So seeing this act was good at giving me an example of a Stop-Motion look in a video game.
This game is seriously fun, very impressive and so many nods to to the first game. Like the note about getting wounded in the war and getting a medal for it and all the medals from the last game
I noticed the brain is on the scarecrow. The tin heart mannequin had an axe in its back. And the mannequin for the lion was feral. These "ingredients" are scarecrow, tin man, and the cowardly lion. Then they lead to the Emerald city.
That was an amazing act! The huge one-eyed skull looked so fantastic and all those little details like the paperboats on the ground during the chase...just great. I'm still thinking about the mannequins. Are we also some sort of a lifeless empty person when we're not playing a role? Or is that how we see other people? The story is very interesting!
I realise this game isn’t everyone’s cup of tea judging by your recent poll and I’m prepared to wait for the ending, but I really want to know what happens. I’m enjoying it!
My current theory is that one of the kids died horrifically as a child -- I go back and forth on which one I think is more likely -- and the player character is the surviving sibling who "becomes anyone they want to be" by pretending to be the dead one and using that persona for their acting.
I agree. My take is that its Lilly who is the survivor pretending to be James. Especially with one of the last lines of the hedge maze being that it's "James's day too." Heavily implying that both James and his mother are dead.
@@rosssnyder4490 Their mother died in childbirth, so the anniversary of her death would be "James's day" as well, since it's his birthday. I'm assuming that all the remembered conversations we've been hearing were real, and that the dead sibling died either on the ship or shortly after they left it.
While I think it would be a fantastic twist that Lily is the survivor, I can't help but feel that, between the mirror scene in Act I, and how every poster discovered is accompanied by male dialogue, that the protagonist is male. Unless the game is trying really really hard to trick the audience, in which case the twist that the protagonist is Lily wouldn't be great writing. My alternate theory is that the actor we're playing, famous for his method acting, has finally gone delusional, and the entire game is just him 'building' a fictional character for the upcoming movie, starting from the childhood up. Of course, with the end of Act 3 talking about becoming alternate personas, that theory's becoming less likely as we go.
@@britishraptor7703 I'd have to go back to see what the ratio is, but there's also been female dialogue in several posters, and at least one that was female only.
@@Tabbyclaw While there was certainly plenty of female dialogue present, especially in the first act, I don't remember any female-only dialogue. However, it's just as likely that I'm wrong! So, I guess we'll just have to see how it all turns out in future videos. If anyone can be bothered to go back and check, though, it would be interesting to see the ratio (just because I like random statistics, not out of competition).
As "many" Mannequins in this game as Dark Fall 3. Also, I'm reminded when you use the electric plugs of Observer...plugging in the TV's and yeah...Andross battle..like a trip through ol' times this episode...'cept we're way beyond mode7 here bro
I think that the color density is reflecting the increased memory-it is more 'real' as you regain yourself through memory...that was probably clear as mud.
35:11 I guess those are supposed to be houses floating in space.... However, between the black and white and the general space-i-ness, I can't shake the impression that those are Borg Cubes...
This game is very interesting but a little confusing on plot. The B&W sequence was a little too much but still good. Thanks for your play through, subbed to see it's end.
My theory is the boy suvive after lily died and become a actor, now here needs to pretend to be the main character in one pirate movie that his sister loves, but to build that persona his memories from his childhood are come back. The second actor looks like the moment they escape from the house and needs to go to the ship for some reason, they have a lot of problem in the path because of food(maybe is scarse because of the war). The poster, the movies and the designer of the cinema suggests this happened in the ages of 30/40/50 and the accent of the kids are from imply they are from england(?), if this is true that moment in the elevator with the manequim probably represent the work class on the factory that they have to pass to arrive on the ship. And my last point is the last slide, probabily they father loses his eye on the war. I think it's a great game, but it become harsh to know where to go without loses some collectible like pages, slides, posters... You are doing a great gameplay cju! Sorry for the bad english.
Lily sounds a lot like the young Haley Mills .. Whoever it is doing a wonderful job, as is the young boy...great voice acting,. I like the non black and white better too..still engrossing!
I’m actually loving this game more than the first… I loved the first of course… but I felt like there were more puzzles and more things to interact with and although I somewhat was understanding this story… I was totally left guessing half the time too . The first one the story was just very obviously predictable… and I think it’s such a standard horror trope that I felt like there was something missing in that one. In this one the black and white can be a lot … and definitely was happy to get some color back… I enjoyed the way this story has been playing out. Like we are on a ship… but filming a movie on a pirate ship, but somehow crossing from the top level of skyscraper to skyscraper by walking on the light to the movie theater and all the way back home .. the chase sequence part’s delivered more in this one as well…. Yeh I just liked this one better I think. They’re both so good
I wonder if the lack of connection to the main character in the first Act is deliberate, instead of the result of poor story creation. Because an actor should be a tabula rasa, a blank canvas, when it comes to adopting a role. The character he's supposed to portray is foreign to him, outside of him. He is not supposed to carry his experiences/burdens to a character, but rather adopt the mannerisms of the character onto himself. In a sense, the character shapes the actor and not vice-versa. At least, that's the idealized version of acting. I feel this dichotomy between being a blank canvas for the art and carrying your own colors into it (to tie it more into the first LoF game) is what the two paths represent. The path of the director is to be the blank canvas, let go of the past in a destructive and absolute manner, make the role shape the actor. The path of the sister is to remember your past and let it shape your art. The actor shapes the role. On a personal note, rather than James being the protagonist, it would be interesting to see Lily in that role. James as a child is not shown to have any skill in acting. Lily is the one who can portray characters, ad-lib their play games, write lore for their pirate roleplaying. Lily is everywhere, as the game stated before. She is almost prominently the main star of every item-examining flashback. So I wonder if James died somehow and Lily adopted his character in rememberance. And instead of viewing James' journey in remembering his past (digging up old wounds for the sake of art and acting and the director), it is instead Lily's journey in remembering her brother.
Sometimes I'm not sure if you're Lily or James. Most of it points to being James, but then you have sequences where it's Lily's inner monologue. So confusing. Apparently you grew some kind of Lovecraftian horror in that flower pot.
It might be too late for this depending on how much more you've recorded, and I can't remember if you've come across this in the other episodes, but I believe if you try to leave the hub before playing the movie, there is a cut scene that appears
I played the first two acts myself and honestly I was bored as all hell. Decided to watch the rest of the game here. Let's hope this game is more enjoyable to watch than to play.
Is the ship just a metaphor for the escape mechanism the children needed to survive the trauma and tragedy of their childhood? A fantasy world in which they had some measure of control? And, after Lily (I assume) died, Jimmy simply carried on pretending and assuming other personas. His dissociation was eventually sanctioned by the world when he became an actor--THE actor--who is the protagonist?
I dunno--I'm lost. LOL.
While the environment is lush and the gameplay is interesting at times, I just find the story and the characters flat. I can't seem to develop empathy for them. It's a good thing that you're so entertaining, Chris. ツ
Act 3 Bloody Roots... also known as the Tim Burton inspired Act.
I think one thing that I liked about this act is how some of the Mannequins are animated in a way to look Stop-Motion. In one of my Horror game ideas, I had this thought that the enemies would move like there in Stop-Motion but wasn't sure about how I'll be able to do and whether it looks like. So seeing this act was good at giving me an example of a Stop-Motion look in a video game.
Really enjoying this walkthrough, and your witty, insightful, and hilarious commentary!
This game is seriously fun, very impressive and so many nods to to the first game. Like the note about getting wounded in the war and getting a medal for it and all the medals from the last game
This chapter really reminds me "what remains of Edith finch". Beautiful, surrealistic and melancholic
I noticed the brain is on the scarecrow. The tin heart mannequin had an axe in its back. And the mannequin for the lion was feral. These "ingredients" are scarecrow, tin man, and the cowardly lion. Then they lead to the Emerald city.
That was an amazing act! The huge one-eyed skull looked so fantastic and all those little details like the paperboats on the ground during the chase...just great. I'm still thinking about the mannequins. Are we also some sort of a lifeless empty person when we're not playing a role? Or is that how we see other people? The story is very interesting!
This is one of the better games I’ve watched in a while!
I realise this game isn’t everyone’s cup of tea judging by your recent poll and I’m prepared to wait for the ending, but I really want to know what happens. I’m enjoying it!
Can't wait for the next one. Always enjoy your vids as I quite like the format you edit them in.
My current theory is that one of the kids died horrifically as a child -- I go back and forth on which one I think is more likely -- and the player character is the surviving sibling who "becomes anyone they want to be" by pretending to be the dead one and using that persona for their acting.
I agree. My take is that its Lilly who is the survivor pretending to be James. Especially with one of the last lines of the hedge maze being that it's "James's day too." Heavily implying that both James and his mother are dead.
@@rosssnyder4490 Their mother died in childbirth, so the anniversary of her death would be "James's day" as well, since it's his birthday. I'm assuming that all the remembered conversations we've been hearing were real, and that the dead sibling died either on the ship or shortly after they left it.
While I think it would be a fantastic twist that Lily is the survivor, I can't help but feel that, between the mirror scene in Act I, and how every poster discovered is accompanied by male dialogue, that the protagonist is male. Unless the game is trying really really hard to trick the audience, in which case the twist that the protagonist is Lily wouldn't be great writing. My alternate theory is that the actor we're playing, famous for his method acting, has finally gone delusional, and the entire game is just him 'building' a fictional character for the upcoming movie, starting from the childhood up. Of course, with the end of Act 3 talking about becoming alternate personas, that theory's becoming less likely as we go.
@@britishraptor7703 I'd have to go back to see what the ratio is, but there's also been female dialogue in several posters, and at least one that was female only.
@@Tabbyclaw While there was certainly plenty of female dialogue present, especially in the first act, I don't remember any female-only dialogue. However, it's just as likely that I'm wrong! So, I guess we'll just have to see how it all turns out in future videos. If anyone can be bothered to go back and check, though, it would be interesting to see the ratio (just because I like random statistics, not out of competition).
49:10 i love how it goes awkwardly quiet at that part, and again, why did people think this game drags out?, its more interesting than before
As "many" Mannequins in this game as Dark Fall 3.
Also, I'm reminded when you use the electric plugs of Observer...plugging in the TV's
and yeah...Andross battle..like a trip through ol' times this episode...'cept we're way beyond mode7 here bro
I think that the color density is reflecting the increased memory-it is more 'real' as you regain yourself through memory...that was probably clear as mud.
35:11 I guess those are supposed to be houses floating in space....
However, between the black and white and the general space-i-ness, I can't shake the impression that those are Borg Cubes...
Act 1 was a bit of a slow intro to the game, then 2 nearly put me to sleep, but Act 3 was brilliant. Hope they continue like this one.
Ayeee love the videos😀
47:17 that sound, wanna watch godzilla 2 again
This game is very interesting but a little confusing on plot. The B&W sequence was a little too much but still good. Thanks for your play through, subbed to see it's end.
👍 good stuff , I appreciate creativity and uniqueness in games 🦑🖖🧿🔒🔑🛳🏴☠️🗡
My theory is the boy suvive after lily died and become a actor, now here needs to pretend to be the main character in one pirate movie that his sister loves, but to build that persona his memories from his childhood are come back.
The second actor looks like the moment they escape from the house and needs to go to the ship for some reason, they have a lot of problem in the path because of food(maybe is scarse because of the war).
The poster, the movies and the designer of the cinema suggests this happened in the ages of 30/40/50 and the accent of the kids are from imply they are from england(?), if this is true that moment in the elevator with the manequim probably represent the work class on the factory that they have to pass to arrive on the ship.
And my last point is the last slide, probabily they father loses his eye on the war.
I think it's a great game, but it become harsh to know where to go without loses some collectible like pages, slides, posters...
You are doing a great gameplay cju!
Sorry for the bad english.
Lily sounds a lot like the young Haley Mills .. Whoever it is doing a wonderful job, as is the young boy...great voice acting,. I like the non black and white better too..still engrossing!
17:34 you made me laugh: the Lord of the Rings with the mouths 😂 This chapter is much better then the other two boring ones
Chirs please play the dark pictures. It's really good
I’m actually loving this game more than the first… I loved the first of course… but I felt like there were more puzzles and more things to interact with and although I somewhat was understanding this story… I was totally left guessing half the time too . The first one the story was just very obviously predictable… and I think it’s such a standard horror trope that I felt like there was something missing in that one. In this one the black and white can be a lot … and definitely was happy to get some color back… I enjoyed the way this story has been playing out. Like we are on a ship… but filming a movie on a pirate ship, but somehow crossing from the top level of skyscraper to skyscraper by walking on the light to the movie theater and all the way back home .. the chase sequence part’s delivered more in this one as well…. Yeh I just liked this one better I think. They’re both so good
I wonder if the lack of connection to the main character in the first Act is deliberate, instead of the result of poor story creation. Because an actor should be a tabula rasa, a blank canvas, when it comes to adopting a role. The character he's supposed to portray is foreign to him, outside of him. He is not supposed to carry his experiences/burdens to a character, but rather adopt the mannerisms of the character onto himself. In a sense, the character shapes the actor and not vice-versa. At least, that's the idealized version of acting.
I feel this dichotomy between being a blank canvas for the art and carrying your own colors into it (to tie it more into the first LoF game) is what the two paths represent. The path of the director is to be the blank canvas, let go of the past in a destructive and absolute manner, make the role shape the actor. The path of the sister is to remember your past and let it shape your art. The actor shapes the role.
On a personal note, rather than James being the protagonist, it would be interesting to see Lily in that role. James as a child is not shown to have any skill in acting. Lily is the one who can portray characters, ad-lib their play games, write lore for their pirate roleplaying. Lily is everywhere, as the game stated before. She is almost prominently the main star of every item-examining flashback. So I wonder if James died somehow and Lily adopted his character in rememberance. And instead of viewing James' journey in remembering his past (digging up old wounds for the sake of art and acting and the director), it is instead Lily's journey in remembering her brother.
Layers of Fear got pretty metal
Sometimes I'm not sure if you're Lily or James. Most of it points to being James, but then you have sequences where it's Lily's inner monologue. So confusing.
Apparently you grew some kind of Lovecraftian horror in that flower pot.
"No! Give me the boss fight!" lol
You missed something at the end of the hedge maze it was sitting on the slab that was tilted over.anbody know what it was???
57:30 those were creepy puppets in my opinion
4:25 i like the beat of the song
Man I miss playing this game on the PS4
Some of the scenes look like Harry Potter Movie @@
And the scene in the room with three doors looks super like Mario Game
24:58 it looks like the guy from the movie scream
This Act was more entertaining than the previous 2, but still not quite as good as the 1st LoF. I really enjoy Lilly and Mr. Hardy 's parts. 👍
Wish I was under CJ’s table. Help calm him when stressed 😈
The dad reminds me of one piece like he ate a devil fruit
Играва е сè само не досадна! More please
It might be too late for this depending on how much more you've recorded, and I can't remember if you've come across this in the other episodes, but I believe if you try to leave the hub before playing the movie, there is a cut scene that appears
9:10 reminds me of the wizard of oz
I played the first two acts myself and honestly I was bored as all hell. Decided to watch the rest of the game here. Let's hope this game is more enjoyable to watch than to play.
I preferred this act over the 2nd.
My thought your the same person as the first character buy when u were young. Could be way wrong.
"The fish grew into trees"
Helo CJU Games let's go wet de Beautiful game myn 🤓✌️👌👍🌟🤘
this part was more fun
This game is confusion it's not like layers of fear 1. It's not that horrific
This game is boring af lol. Nothing against you cju
dude,go play fortnite if you're bored 🤐
@@crypticalenvelopment fortnite is even worse.. nice try
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