I was thinking the same. I'm 1 hour and 14 mins in and I realized nothing has REALLY happened suspense wise yet but I'm still hooked. the mystery and characters are written well enough to keep this going.
@@Zaneyy030im pretty sure theres gonna be a movie called the maid about a cleaner in a hotel figuring out a murder which is based of a book with the same name
Have you read Nita Prose's Molly the Maid series? There's only two books currently but the books follow a maid solving mysteries that take place at the hotel she works in. Very similar in that way to the game
You were so close Gab! You just had to inspect the note in the safe with detail mode. I missed it the first time as well. I worked with the people who made this game and they deserve this hype. Thanks so much for playing it! edit : The rest of the safe codes were in the basement. In the laundry room if I recall properly.
The VIP guest is Alfred Hitchcock, by the way. He’s a British director (or he was), very prevalent in the 50s, and he had two dogs, that he was very particular about feeding them. He also had a phobia/aversion to eggs explaining why he was so angry when he received eggs as Andrew was talking to him on the phone. Andrew’s hint about prolonging the suspense, is reference to Hitchcock being dubbed the “Master of Suspense”
@@youyeedyourlasthaw yeah my friend helped me figure it out, he was definitely on the list of people I had and then we narrowed it down together and finished the gane together it was fun
Okay but Sean coming in while you were snooping in Mr. Spades' room actually scared me. I am a little zooted, so my first thought was fully "Put the paper down, you got caught!"
Omg right I’m surprised no one has mentioned this before. I’m all happy she confessed but that was the most terrible timing 💀💀 When I first saw the scene I went like wtf?? Wha-
I absolutely LOVED this game! Played it last week and was wondering when Gabs was gonna play it. I would love for the devs to make more games like this one! Fun Fact: If you chose Andrew as your acolyte he will tell you that he stayed at the same psychiatric hospital as Paul & knew him. Sophie will also disclose that her mother is mentally ill as well. Andrew ends up getting fired at the end for disclosing his stay at the hospital to Bernard but opens up his own bookshop! Although choosing Beth as your acolyte is definitely the canon ending 😉
@@teongreen5254 There is literally nothing that would even remotely proof that Sophie is not gay. Especially since when you romance Beth she makes the first step to do so.
There's actually no consequence for looking through Beth's locker, even if you tell her you went through her locker. She doesn't mind. Also there is an ending you could have gotten where Paul, Anne, and Marcella all go free while the REAL CULPRIT gets put in jail. I haven't seen anyone who I've watched play it so far make it happen though. You needed to know about Mr. Cruz's client sending him death threats, and the fact the client was traveling alone, but brought those stuffed bears along (and inspected them, I guess, because they have burn marks from the fire his three children died in). That was the room you start out in, btw. You may have also needed the safe codes, which you can apparently get from the basement somewhere, before you came back up for the keys.
I re-did the ending and got the evidence that the real suspect committed the crime, but Paul still went to jail whilst the women were set free lol. Not sure what I'd need to do differently to change that, though.
@@CharlieMidk on a second look it looks like Paul maybe still goes to jail even if the actual suspect is identified? it seems like a shitty thing for a game to do with such a strong gay theme in it
@@Invalidationcoded The video Gab watched of the best ending shows the real murderer jailed and Paul is free, laying flowers on Lindsey's grave. I was confused at first, but the editor of that video showed all the endings one after another, so the next one was Paul locked up, which is a different ending.
Evelien being all confused about the cucumbers..."do you think they were using them for sex toys?" yes...Yes thats exactly where my mind went the moment it said cucumbers in the trash LOL. I was a foster child as...well a kid lol...one of my foster moms had a story about when she was a hotel maid. Basically hotel she worked at had maids cleaning rooms in pairs. Either her or her partner that day (can't remember exactly) found a cucumber in the bed and picked it up BAREHANDED and was like "what do you think this was for?" The other responded with something along the lines of "omg don't touch that with your BAREHANDS they weren't making a salad in bed!!!" The one with the cucumber finally realized what the cucumber was in the bed for, freaked, and threw it across the room.
The only thing I ever found in a hotel room was a baseball under the bed when I was in Boston, from the local Stadium.. feel bad for whatever fan obviously lost their foul ball catch or whatever it happened to be, though.
I feel your pain 😭Like, "please, no, I'm just a little bitty child, please parent, do not say such things to me!" Funny in hindsight, but in the moment? TRAUMA 😱
@@Palitato ooof a fenway park foul ball is pretty up there in collectors too as its slowly becoming one of the older baseball fields. lots of parks got koved or completely redone but fenway is entering historic territory. we talking early years of base ball.
You should play the other endings, there is a romance path wit Andrew too, his is more related to the mental institution and how he is not an "agreeable people". It's such a nice touch that the game gives you these two love interest, Beth and Andrew, and how well their backgrounds work in the story. Good writing is something so important, is good to see some games still pay attention to it.
Belivet, what Bernard called Sophie in the elevator, has gotta be a reference to Thérèse Belivet from Carol, a famous lesbian romance film staring Cate Blanchett. Love this Dev, hope they make more stuff:))
Yep. The movie, as I've heard, was based on a book named "The Price of Salt", which is actually on the reading list of Mrs.Cruz. And Sophie kinda looks like Therese. So I'm certain it was a deliberate reference 😅
Not just a film but a also book! First, it was called The Price of Salt but it ended up being called Carol too as well. The author, a woman, was inspired when she saw a beautiful woman at work and so she began to writing the story. Maybe she was kinda sapphic, who knows. 👀
For ensuring the police arrest the right guy you've got to inspect the note you found in the safe. It got me the first time too, it's the same as when you had to click on the photo in paul's safe to see that Marcela is wearing the other key. For the safe in 509 you find half the code on a slip of paper down in the laundry room along with an inventory list of items removed from clothes for cleaning (to confirm it's from hector's tux) the other half you get from the list of codes that you found! The game is great but I found the endings kinda frustrating, it'd do well to have a skip feature for when you're trying to get a better ending.
Especially if it's an actually useful one instead of those who just give some vague nonsense about "content some players may find distressing". Those aren't helpful at all and you just know they're only there to seem "edgy". This is a nice change of pace for sure.
Personally, I just wish that it was optional; sometimes I feel like it gives a liiiitle too much away. Like, a regular warning for flashing lights/violence/suicide and then an optional Further Content Warning you can choose if you want. Then it would be perfect 🤩
@@ThegreatMizuti777Yes! Exactly. There's some topics I'm OK with and others, not, due to personal truama. I really hate the vague disclaimers where it's like ok great, how is that supposed to help me?
I love the writing in this game! They sound so natural, but at the same time fictional. Just super cozy, I don't know how to better explain it. It wasn't cringy like dialogue tends to be in indie games. Love it. :D
We 👏 Need 👏 More 👏 Of 👏 These Really there is HARDLY any games with lesbians let alone the main character being a good lesbian main character. Like I need MORE
Even for straight guys like me, I love the different sexual orientations being represented. But I don't exactly know how to make an interesting story out of an asexual character. Because if you are not interested in people that way... then it might just not be part of the story. Maybe some kind of forced relationship or something. More talented people than me could possibly do that, especially with life experience. But please keep the good romance stories coming, with gay couples too!
as someone who has PTSD and panic attacks, it's so weird listening to the way they talk about Paul. "he's dangerous" "he's a monster" "he looks human but, he's not" when all they know about him is that he had a nervous breakdown. dude is just traumatized
Ooookay did we totally miss the part where he’s a stalker? Oooor? Like they were just going on what they KNEW at the time. I mean if you were working at a hotel and found this random guest was using an alias, legit stalking you.. not just photos of you at work but a WHOLE MAP marked with places you’ve recently been.. then you found he was in a mental hospital for TEN YEARS wouldn’t you be scared? I mean come on.. if this was real life I think circumstances would be pretty much the same!
@@MamaBear_2629 yeah, not sure why the plot did that for Paul when they try to advocate mental health . Feel like him just staying and being caught in the crossfire would have been better and make the stalker a different character. Your comment about the ten years is unnecessary though.
@@danmakes2497 eh, no I don’t believe it was unnecessary. Because when someone is in a a hospital for mental health reasons the “typical” is for a week MAYBE a couple weeks but anything beyond that shows someone was more than likely committed or has an extremely serious mental health disorder(s) and that, again, mixed with the stalking etc would scare me, and though not proud of it, I’ll be honest my mind would wander and it wonder did he commit a crime? Did he hurt someone? Because again he had extreme details and photos of her! If that was me I’d be really scared and freaked out. 10 years is exceptionally long to be in any mental health facility, and without knowing WHY and with the info presented, again, it would scare me. So I feel like the amount of time is relevant to how it would make me feel. And I’m pretty confident in saying I don’t believe I’d be alone in that feeling 🤷🏼♀️ again, I’m just saying going on the info known! It makes him LOOK “bad”. That’s all. But again, that’s why it’s so important to have all the facts before coming to conclusions on things, but then again they weren’t going about things the right way either, so I’m not saying they’re innocent in snooping and all that! But, I don’t see how my comment was unnecessary, but of course you’re entitled to your opinion, I’m just explaining why I added that to my comment.
Really loved your playthrough of this game. As a French-Canadian, I also really loved the setting and your attempt at getting the accent right :) Got so excited to hear "Tremblay" in a let's play, it's by far the most common name in Quebec to this day. To give you a bit of context, the period going from the 40s to the 60s in Quebec is called the Great Darkness. It was a time where the government was in the hands of corrupt conservatives, when the Roman Catholic church was extremely powerful and when average Quebeccers were kept in ignorance. At the time, the government, under the impetus of the Catholic Church, really cracked down on anything they saw as immoral (from art to any form of alternative lifestyles). It ended with the Quiet Revolution in the 60s which culminated with the October Crisis in 1970 (terrorist activity and War Measures Act). It ended darkly, but it's a period when Quebec threw off the shackles of the Catholic Church, took control of its natural resources and invested heavily in its education. Nowadays, Quebec is probably one of the most open and progressive region in North America.
Sorry for the rant :( Catholic conservatives make lives worse for everyone? How could that be? I have never heard of that before :O Except.. maybe.. there was once or twice.. actually not that I think about it.. It was literally every god damn time. The burned scientists who would advanced human medicine more than thousand years (Trying to prove diseases do not come from demons or immoral behavior was heavily punished by the church, they ofter murdered people at the stake, brutally burning them. They persecuted crippled people, other sexualities, mental health sufferers too... There was never any god making these rules. It was always intolerant assholes using an immaginary space daddy to shun everyone and everything they don't understand and find icky. And it continues to harm people to this day. Everytime parents turn down medication that could save their child because god will save them for sure.. and then the kid dies or gets permanent injuries from the disease.. That is how we still stuffer from abrahamic religions to this day. Not to mention the Orthodox church that is controlled by the russian state to further control their population... Religion is and always was a tool to control and manipulate people. And we somehow still fall for it. I hate this world sometimes. But people like Beth and Evelyn make me believe that a positive future is possible and out there somewhere. Smaller communities have lots of good people in them sometimes. Just got to find them. Sorry for the rant. I just hate conservatives and how they use religion to control and manipulate people. Banish them from society and making them think that they are freaks when they are just normal with different genes. Sexualities are as natural as hair colors and catholics make children believe they are freaks and that often ends in depression and suicide. I wish catholics would stop existing and science, reason and acceptance could take over the world. Oh how wunderful that would be.
Oh that's fascinating! My headcanon of it is that... **SPOILERS BELOW*** Williams is the killer. That he committed arson, killing his wife & 3 children to cash out on their life insurance payouts that he'd receive upon their deaths. But, their deaths didn't add up to Mr. Cruz, so his company refused to pay out on the policy because of suspicion of the Williams family's deaths. If Williams is willing to murder his whole family just for insurance payouts, then he is definitely capable of murdering Mr. Cruz for refusing to pay the insurance payouts. If this is how you view it, then Mr. Cruz is rather innocent too, even if Marcela feels trapped in a marriage with him. Judging from the letter from Mr. Cruz's mother, he seems sympathetic to Marcela being unhappy with the marriage & that may be why he hasn't pressured her to have kids with him (unlike how his mother pressures him in the letter). Though, Mr. Cruz seems to misconstrue Marcela & Paul's interactions as an indication that Marcela is cheating with Paul.
Ah, a CLUE/Cluedo reference ❤ Do you think that they meant it as a nod to the CLUE board game and movie? Cause the movie is also set in the 50s and the board game released in 1949
as someone born in montréal it's absolutely wild hearing all these references to places i've been, surnames & 1st names i've grown up around.. kickin my feet at all the little details
I love how her first playthrough was like, "i shan't throw a thing away!" and the second, "ah, a receipt for 2 Kg of cucumber? Gone." Amazing job with this game, absolute loved it! Thanks for the time and energy you put into these games, they're absolutely delightful. 💜
Hoenstly, super duper props Gab, for taking the time and interest to take us through the endings and try the ending a few extra times after the first finish (so few gamers on TH-cam are invested enough and considerate enough to give all that extra pathway-ing a whirl, and see if they can get a better ending themselves). You rock! :) And the game was very deeply involved, but nice to see all that work and time really does pay off and affect so many aspects of the ending. Too few games (esp these days) really build out true multiple pathways (even fewer do so affecting so many elements). It's nice to see a solidly made game that made that effort too. Kinda cool.
The second ending Gab got is so sad for me. I'm glad she protected the gays, but she completely missed that Paul needed protection, too. It wasn't just the LGBTQIA+ community who was prosecuted unfairly in the 50s - people with mental illnesses were prosecuted just as unfairly (and still are). I'm glad she went back and tried to get the real killer caught (even though it didn't work out).
Paul was also gay right? He was writing for a guy named Lindsey who died, because he was inspired and wanted to tell him his feelings, or did I get that part wrong. It's a little sad she didn't pick up on the fact that he had something wrong with him in that first instance, mentions of the war and how life is hard gave it away to me pretty quickly, so hearing her call him a creep after learning that was a little sad, even if he had been nothing but a stalker before that point 😅
@@Ren-rh1zv No, you're right - Lindsey was also a man and I believe someone who Paul fought with in the war (I'm going based off memory on that part...). Once I heard he was in the war and that life was hard, I immediately thought "PTSD" and was kinda upset that she missed it. I guess not everyone is as primed as I am to notice things like that though... Which is part of why mental illness is so heavily stigmatized - symptoms are overlooked as other behavioural quirks, like being "creepy" in this case.
@kayzmavc4596 I get what you mean, but Paul DID get very obsessive over his new job, he got obsessive over Sophie too. PTSD aside, the dude had major serial killer vibes. It's unfortunate, but following people and tracking them for no good reason will always make you look dangerous. I say this as someone with mental illness. I really liked his character though! He wasn't completely innocent, but was poorly misunderstood.
This game is so cool ! I think the secret client is Alfred Hitchcock and he ends up hiring Paul as an actor for his new movie if Paul doesn't go to jail.
Lol im only 30 minutes in and chuckling at how similar this is to my experience working in a hotel just a couple years ago. Also hotel doors don't always just close automatically. A lot of them catch on the latch unless pulled all the way closed. I was constantly having to send housekeeping to check rooms whose doors weren't shut properly.
2:55 I love that old Telefunken radio. My dad had one like it. You turn on the power and wait three minutes for the tubes to warm up. 3:45 $2000 interest on a principal loan of $1500 in one year is 133% APR. Usury.19:30 Yes, women used to lose any rights to their husband's pension in a divorce, no matter how much she supported him. This was finally changed by legislation in the 1970s, and then men responded with 401k and "prenuptial agreements" in the 1980s. The war over the family dollar is ongoing.
my sister also calls people she loves bean AND her name is also Beth so i saw this video and saw the character Beth in it and it reminded me of her so much :]
Gab! You missed a tiny scrap of paper in the lost and found in the laundry room. So, the laundry ticket you found in Cruz's room matches the inventory above the lost and found tray, telling you who lost the paper scrap. The note has the last three digits for the safe (conveniently). Edit: Also, the game is kinda brutal about the true ending. If the cops have no gays, or psychiatric patients to pin it on, they will assume you protect them unless you are perfect about covering your tracks. You then have to lie to the cops that Cruz told you about Mr. Williams.
I actually remember an older woman who went to the food bank to get cucumbers to use for *certain* pleasure. She also just casually said it to people and called it "organic pleasure". I was 14 when I heard that so yeah traumatised from that 💀Anyway, love this game...❤
My husband works at a hotel as a maintenance lead and he said almost every room after having an occupant would have something broken. Had one that broke the whole sink and another broke the whole shower. Apparently, there's alot of people who doesn't give a shit about other people's bathrooms.
That lady had her identity stolen on my Birthday (Oct 16th) and I TOTALLY have EXACTLY that same jewelry box that's on her desk in the room!! AM I THE IDENTITY THIEF?! DID I DO A MUURRDERR?
She kind of reminds me of Max from Life is Strange, just how polite she is and she is really cute 🥰 I'm not very far into this video but I'm enjoying it so far.
Not that it is any of my business and I would not want to know unless she wants to talk about that stuff.. I think she is a little bit Bi. She always makes comments about womens bodily apperanca in ways straight men usually do. But that might just be a smart catering to yts audience. Also the stories she told over the years might suggest that she atleast experimented. But I don't know for sure and all this is speculation. A straigh person can still be totally in favor and a fan of gay relationships, real of fictional. I am an example of that.
i used to do house keeping and man i have stories. i wont say the weirdest, grossest or explicit things i found but i'll tell you one thing that made me real annoyed. one time a guest decided that ironing his clothes with water wouldn't cut it. so he used beer instead.
@@Maddy-bc5op hilariously that is exactly what i thought aswell. We just had to replace the one in that room for the time being cuz the beer iron needed to soak in vinegar water to get the smell out.
Doing a rewatch (and noticing things anew) and still tempted to buy it to see what happens if you ask for Andrew's help instead, as much as I adore Beth
“Well we couldn’t find a fingerprint so…” and nowadays we can track your phone usage and location, get your DNA from basically anything you touch, see you on every CCTV camera, get car black box data, track weapons by serial number and other data… digital forensics and genetics have made it so hard to be a criminal nowadays! I love it!
@@Doug.DimmadomeI mean it’s not easy to get away with murder unless you’re 1. insanely rich or 2. have the right connections (usually a combination of both lol), but average people still try because they think they’re smart enough not to get caught. Even in a perfect world with a flawless justice system, you’d still find people trying to escape the law after doing something awful because people are dumb and people also just kinda suck lol
and yet, people were still fear mongering about "tracking chips in vaccines" like, babe, they don't need to put a chip in you to know when you shit, the internet already tells them.
@@clorby22 it is certainly not easy not saying that. But there is a huge difference in batting someone with a ice pick in a hotel (the game lol) or like uhmm Agent 47, Hitman style. Per example. Agent 47 has usually no money issues though, true. I'm not trying to deny your point just nuance it a bit. :-)
This was the COZIEST way to spend my Sunday afternoon. I caught bits of this on stream and just knew I’d have to come back and finish the whole VOD later. Thanks for going back and showing us the other ending options! I’m always so interested in these games that have different ways the stories can play out. ☺️
Love the mystery aspect And the characters nosy behaviour. She loves to work alone to keep an eye on the others. She can snoop around in Solitude.😶🌫️🥸
I am severely in love with Beth. I'm slowly going through this stream because it's so comforting, but I'm so happy to watch you go through it. The vibes are impeccable.
So all together the guy who took out loans ended up taking a staggering $13,784. I used a calculator to determine how much that would evaluate to today. Value of $13,784 from 1957 to 2023 $13,784 in 1957 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $150,980.91 today, an increase of $137,196.91 over 66 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.69% per year between 1957 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 995.33%. 😬😱
I couldn't wait and rewatched this pt on your twitch and I was absolutely fascinated by this whole game. Everything looks so pretty and the story is wonderful. Even if the 3 or so endings left me feeling a bit unsatisfied, they still had a proper closure and were true to the genre. What made me the happiest is watching a story that represents the struggle of gay rights from that era, its not only interactive but highly informative in its own artsy way. I felt proud too. Anne & Marcela's love on the other hand brought me back to my own love story with my first girlfriend at the time, we both had to hide from family and homophobia too, and this is a recent situation that still exists in the world sadly. Thank you for sharing with us these games Gab, will never stop enjoying your channel & streams, and for being an ally ❤
People that go "I was born in the wrong decade" & talk about how great the 50s were, they're usually white, straight and male. Because it wasn't such a great decade for anyone else
@@79Bobolaadmiring the best of the aesthetics is fine as long as the shitty parts are acknowledged. I wouldn’t want anyone to feel back about the fashion and aesthetics of a great era for it
Yeah the fashion for women back then at least was gorgeous 😅 Design in general was beautiful too and stuff was usually still built to last. But that’s really it 😂 If you weren’t a white UPPER class male: tough 🙈🤦🏼♀️
Wow, this game was phenomenal to watch. What a fantastic story. Very impressed by the direction, the voice acting, and the framing / cinematography as well.
2:43:02 Aaah, that's what the note was referencing! "Unlike my favorite bar, this one is black" Black cat hair, etc; cat collar on the bed. Did Gabs ever look at the collar? I had to look up the part with the suitcase, but the only guide I found at the time of writing just said it was in the clues in the room, and simply gave the solution of "GR" for the first letters
I'm a Jacques and my brother's name is Maurice. I was sorry to inform him that the first time I encountered characters with our names and his namesake was a homophobic shitbag. xD This game is such a cool niche concept though and I think my little summary caught his interest nonetheless. Such a hidden gem, this game.
A game highlighting how to be a magic cleaner and an investigator, I love it. I was once a hotel maid for a bit so I definitely remember being curious and snooping how I could. Human behavior in hotels haven't changed that much. Cool thing is if there was unopened food or something I would sneak it for myself. Usually I cleaned rooms that already left. Beth is my favorite, she had an amazing character and her humor is fantastic.
I just stumbled upon this game on my recommendation page and I was searching for my favorite TH-camrs to see if any of them had played the game yet because the thumbnails looked intriguing. None of them had though. Now two hours later or so I grabbed my phone and saw that you uploaded it ❤❤ Yaaay can't wait to watch it fully, thank you!
asylums used to be used to segregate disabled people not just mentally ill people. Prisons were used similarly as well. The first mass incarceration in the US wasn't of prisoners, it was of disabled people. People could spend their whole lives in asylums and be subjected to horrible abuses. There's a really good article about it called "DEVIANCY, DEPENDENCY, AND DISABILITY: THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF EUGENICS AND MASS INCARCERATION" by Laura Appleman. It talks about how those places also sterilised disabled people and would ship intellectually disabled women (after being sterilised) away to farms so they could not 'seduce' or 'be seduced by' men.
i legit screamed when i realised this game had a french canadian setting! i absolutely love when my culture is represented in games fantastic video btw
"before I arrest you for violating your guest's privacy" I mean...is that a crime? A friable offense, surely, a violation of privacy, definitely, but is it illegal to look through things that people leave out in a hotel room when they know that cleaning staff will be coming through? Especially when you _aren't_ just some random person wandering in but the cleaning staff that the guests know will be going through? Isn't that part of why they give you safes in hotels, so that you _can_ hide things from housekeeping? I don't think HIPPA applies to this situation, is what I'm saying. She wasn't even _selling_ the information or even making it known to anyone else (girlfriend aside, but they don't know that) If I broke into someone's house to snoop through their drawers, I'd be arrested for trespassing and breaking and entering, I don't think I'd be charged for flipping through their photo album, especially if I didn't actually damage the photo album. Honestly, if this cop said that to me, my immediate response would be to ask for a lawyer and then say nothing else because I suspect that is not actually a crime. What do I know though? This is the wild world of the 50s and there are some wacky laws on the books that just aren't enforced.
The way I saw it, the detective is trying to scare Sophie into talking and hopes she doesn't know that he can't arrest her for that. There is actually an alternate version of the scene that plays if he doesn't suspect her, in which he says he doesn't care about her snooping and just wants to know what she knows.
i can’t tell you how many games i just wouldn’t know about if it wasn’t for you playing them! even though this game is fairly new, i’m so happy i know about it now! it looks great so far, i’m about an hour in :)
Okay so I think to get the new management ending you have to make sure that Bernard can’t blame the murder on the “deviants”, so you have to completely clear Anne, Marcela and Paul. Getting Wendy or Linda or neither fired only impacts Sophie’s position in the hotel, not who runs it. At least that’s my understanding of the story!
A sapphic romance murder mystery? Take my money 😂 Watched minx play this and loved it, I was going to mention it to you buuuut I forgot… you got the brain waves atleast lol! Happy murder solving! I’m currently dying in bed hoping I don’t have Covid 😅 but atleast I turn 30 this week!
YESSS. This game has been on my wishlist for a while, even though I genuinely don’t think my computer could handle it. Very excited to see you play this one!
That's amazing, Sophie's surname Belivet I think is a reference to the 50s lesbian novel by Patricia Highsmith, also known as Carol! And the relationship between her and Beth is so similar to the book
omg the motion blur in the game was making me nauseous the entire time 😭 But I also I absolutely loved this game, I played it on my own before watching this playthrough and I loved it! I was also so thankful they had a content warning at the beginning, so considerate!
The devs either grew up in Canada/Quebec or did a LOT of research!! The Weston's name and brand is where the hellion Galen Weston comes from, who was causing a lot of issues for Canadian grocery chains after the pandemic! There's loads of actual Montreal and Canadian history references in here! ❤
Montreal represent ! Its amazing how they could make a mystery game in these early years in a city we see very not often ☺️ The vibe is heartwarming ❤ always impressive hearing gab with her many talents ❤️ keep it up ❤
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idk if it's just me or not but the aesthetics of this game, the storytelling style, and the scenes are just written like a very good novel.💓
I agree. It felt a lot like a good movie
Would absolutely love a movie like this. And can Gwendolyn please play Beth 😭
I was thinking the same. I'm 1 hour and 14 mins in and I realized nothing has REALLY happened suspense wise yet but I'm still hooked. the mystery and characters are written well enough to keep this going.
@@Zaneyy030im pretty sure theres gonna be a movie called the maid about a cleaner in a hotel figuring out a murder which is based of a book with the same name
Have you read Nita Prose's Molly the Maid series? There's only two books currently but the books follow a maid solving mysteries that take place at the hotel she works in. Very similar in that way to the game
You were so close Gab! You just had to inspect the note in the safe with detail mode. I missed it the first time as well. I worked with the people who made this game and they deserve this hype. Thanks so much for playing it!
edit : The rest of the safe codes were in the basement. In the laundry room if I recall properly.
Ohhh thanks for clearing that up!
The VIP guest is Alfred Hitchcock, by the way. He’s a British director (or he was), very prevalent in the 50s, and he had two dogs, that he was very particular about feeding them. He also had a phobia/aversion to eggs explaining why he was so angry when he received eggs as Andrew was talking to him on the phone. Andrew’s hint about prolonging the suspense, is reference to Hitchcock being dubbed the “Master of Suspense”
That was a fun easter egg ngl. hitchcock would prolly have stormed into the dev's office and complained about it tho
I love that honestly
@@welshlout3400 haha absolutely he had quite a temper apparently
@@youyeedyourlasthaw yeah my friend helped me figure it out, he was definitely on the list of people I had and then we narrowed it down together and finished the gane together it was fun
oooh so the ending where paul was at a movie set is related to the vip guest being interested in him? that’s so cool
Okay but Sean coming in while you were snooping in Mr. Spades' room actually scared me. I am a little zooted, so my first thought was fully "Put the paper down, you got caught!"
this made me laugh i love it
this is soo funny😭
anyone have a timestamp for this? :')
@@neleh231 Around 37:05 ^^
The whole point was that he is not Mr Spade you know..
Sophie: I just found a body
Beth: I'd like us to be more than just friends, Sophie
lmao
Omg right I’m surprised no one has mentioned this before. I’m all happy she confessed but that was the most terrible timing 💀💀 When I first saw the scene I went like wtf?? Wha-
Hey... you got to shoot your shot when the opportunity presents itself.
Lol
Real ones know how much chat was in love with Beth this whole stream 😂 every time she appeared on scream we were like ‘BETH’
I love Gab chat its so fun most times, wholesome others, and a joy to be there always lol
I was the same when I was playing it hah
Yeah and every time Beth called her ✨ bean ✨ we were like BEAAAAN
shes so sexy and funny ❤😊
Did they also lose it at Beth saying "yeah, that's one way to put it" when Sophie said the two married women could be good friends?
I absolutely LOVED this game! Played it last week and was wondering when Gabs was gonna play it. I would love for the devs to make more games like this one!
Fun Fact: If you chose Andrew as your acolyte he will tell you that he stayed at the same psychiatric hospital as Paul & knew him. Sophie will also disclose that her mother is mentally ill as well. Andrew ends up getting fired at the end for disclosing his stay at the hospital to Bernard but opens up his own bookshop! Although choosing Beth as your acolyte is definitely the canon ending 😉
No, Andrew is the canon ending. Sophie definitely isnt gay and the relationship with Andrew is way cuter.
@@teongreen5254 You're allowed to have your own preference but if both options exist in the game, that means Sophie is bi or pan.
Personally I would've romanced Andrew, but I think the route with Beth was very entertaining. She's such a funny character.
@@teongreen5254 There is literally nothing that would even remotely proof that Sophie is not gay. Especially since when you romance Beth she makes the first step to do so.
There's actually no consequence for looking through Beth's locker, even if you tell her you went through her locker. She doesn't mind. Also there is an ending you could have gotten where Paul, Anne, and Marcella all go free while the REAL CULPRIT gets put in jail. I haven't seen anyone who I've watched play it so far make it happen though. You needed to know about Mr. Cruz's client sending him death threats, and the fact the client was traveling alone, but brought those stuffed bears along (and inspected them, I guess, because they have burn marks from the fire his three children died in). That was the room you start out in, btw. You may have also needed the safe codes, which you can apparently get from the basement somewhere, before you came back up for the keys.
I re-did the ending and got the evidence that the real suspect committed the crime, but Paul still went to jail whilst the women were set free lol. Not sure what I'd need to do differently to change that, though.
@@CharlieMyeah I don't know the full details, I just saw that ending in another video lol
@@Invalidationcoded Just saw Gab got that ending too, so who knows! Something about leaving doors open?? I'll go through it again one day and try. 😅
@@CharlieMidk on a second look it looks like Paul maybe still goes to jail even if the actual suspect is identified? it seems like a shitty thing for a game to do with such a strong gay theme in it
@@Invalidationcoded The video Gab watched of the best ending shows the real murderer jailed and Paul is free, laying flowers on Lindsey's grave.
I was confused at first, but the editor of that video showed all the endings one after another, so the next one was Paul locked up, which is a different ending.
Evelien being all confused about the cucumbers..."do you think they were using them for sex toys?" yes...Yes thats exactly where my mind went the moment it said cucumbers in the trash LOL. I was a foster child as...well a kid lol...one of my foster moms had a story about when she was a hotel maid. Basically hotel she worked at had maids cleaning rooms in pairs. Either her or her partner that day (can't remember exactly) found a cucumber in the bed and picked it up BAREHANDED and was like "what do you think this was for?" The other responded with something along the lines of "omg don't touch that with your BAREHANDS they weren't making a salad in bed!!!" The one with the cucumber finally realized what the cucumber was in the bed for, freaked, and threw it across the room.
that’s so funny 😂 the fact that you were told that as a kid though is wild
The only thing I ever found in a hotel room was a baseball under the bed when I was in Boston, from the local Stadium.. feel bad for whatever fan obviously lost their foul ball catch or whatever it happened to be, though.
I feel your pain 😭Like, "please, no, I'm just a little bitty child, please parent, do not say such things to me!" Funny in hindsight, but in the moment? TRAUMA 😱
In Europe, I found an iPod, entirely in French. We did manage to change the language, but to Mandarin by accident, and then we were totally lost, lol.
@@Palitato ooof a fenway park foul ball is pretty up there in collectors too as its slowly becoming one of the older baseball fields. lots of parks got koved or completely redone but fenway is entering historic territory. we talking early years of base ball.
You should play the other endings, there is a romance path wit Andrew too, his is more related to the mental institution and how he is not an "agreeable people".
It's such a nice touch that the game gives you these two love interest, Beth and Andrew, and how well their backgrounds work in the story. Good writing is something so important, is good to see some games still pay attention to it.
Belivet, what Bernard called Sophie in the elevator, has gotta be a reference to Thérèse Belivet from Carol, a famous lesbian romance film staring Cate Blanchett. Love this Dev, hope they make more stuff:))
Yep. The movie, as I've heard, was based on a book named "The Price of Salt", which is actually on the reading list of Mrs.Cruz. And Sophie kinda looks like Therese. So I'm certain it was a deliberate reference 😅
Not just a film but a also book! First, it was called The Price of Salt but it ended up being called Carol too as well. The author, a woman, was inspired when she saw a beautiful woman at work and so she began to writing the story. Maybe she was kinda sapphic, who knows. 👀
@@reveterne Patricia Highsmith was most definitely a lesbian.
For ensuring the police arrest the right guy you've got to inspect the note you found in the safe. It got me the first time too, it's the same as when you had to click on the photo in paul's safe to see that Marcela is wearing the other key.
For the safe in 509 you find half the code on a slip of paper down in the laundry room along with an inventory list of items removed from clothes for cleaning (to confirm it's from hector's tux) the other half you get from the list of codes that you found!
The game is great but I found the endings kinda frustrating, it'd do well to have a skip feature for when you're trying to get a better ending.
I love when a game or another form of media puts a trigger warning in the beginning! Super considerate.
I'm super grateful too!
Especially if it's an actually useful one instead of those who just give some vague nonsense about "content some players may find distressing". Those aren't helpful at all and you just know they're only there to seem "edgy". This is a nice change of pace for sure.
Personally, I just wish that it was optional; sometimes I feel like it gives a liiiitle too much away. Like, a regular warning for flashing lights/violence/suicide and then an optional Further Content Warning you can choose if you want. Then it would be perfect 🤩
@@ThegreatMizuti777Yes! Exactly. There's some topics I'm OK with and others, not, due to personal truama. I really hate the vague disclaimers where it's like ok great, how is that supposed to help me?
I am sorry but I have to ask... How then are you dealing with the news on tv or internet? or Newspapers?
I was so caught up in the storyline found through all the snooping, that i lived in a world where i forgot there was an entire m*rder
U just reminded me omg I’m not even halfway thru this is about to get crazy
I love the writing in this game! They sound so natural, but at the same time fictional. Just super cozy, I don't know how to better explain it. It wasn't cringy like dialogue tends to be in indie games. Love it. :D
I think the voice actors really carry it
I’m so glad I could join the stream for this one, I wasn’t expecting to be sucked into a double lesbian romance AND a murder mystery!
We 👏 Need 👏 More 👏 Of 👏 These
Really there is HARDLY any games with lesbians let alone the main character being a good lesbian main character. Like I need MORE
@@JeanneCutieJsame with asexuals, we’re never represented lol. But all the gay works for me I’m panromantic lol
Even for straight guys like me, I love the different sexual orientations being represented. But I don't exactly know how to make an interesting story out of an asexual character. Because if you are not interested in people that way... then it might just not be part of the story. Maybe some kind of forced relationship or something. More talented people than me could possibly do that, especially with life experience. But please keep the good romance stories coming, with gay couples too!
I love how Gab IMMEDIATELY flocks to the gay romances lol it makes my day
same 🥹
Is she lgbtq, or just a very enthusiastic ally? 😂
Her responses are always so cute!
@@trashcat492 I believe she's just a very enthusiastic ally :)
as someone who has PTSD and panic attacks, it's so weird listening to the way they talk about Paul. "he's dangerous" "he's a monster" "he looks human but, he's not" when all they know about him is that he had a nervous breakdown. dude is just traumatized
I mean, to be fair he is also a stalker, not just a poor war vet with PTSD
same, it's really uncomfortable. Shoutout Eugene though, one of the few characters in the game who is actually an advocate for mental health
Ooookay did we totally miss the part where he’s a stalker? Oooor? Like they were just going on what they KNEW at the time. I mean if you were working at a hotel and found this random guest was using an alias, legit stalking you.. not just photos of you at work but a WHOLE MAP marked with places you’ve recently been.. then you found he was in a mental hospital for TEN YEARS wouldn’t you be scared? I mean come on.. if this was real life I think circumstances would be pretty much the same!
@@MamaBear_2629 yeah, not sure why the plot did that for Paul when they try to advocate mental health . Feel like him just staying and being caught in the crossfire would have been better and make the stalker a different character. Your comment about the ten years is unnecessary though.
@@danmakes2497 eh, no I don’t believe it was unnecessary. Because when someone is in a a hospital for mental health reasons the “typical” is for a week MAYBE a couple weeks but anything beyond that shows someone was more than likely committed or has an extremely serious mental health disorder(s) and that, again, mixed with the stalking etc would scare me, and though not proud of it, I’ll be honest my mind would wander and it wonder did he commit a crime? Did he hurt someone? Because again he had extreme details and photos of her! If that was me I’d be really scared and freaked out. 10 years is exceptionally long to be in any mental health facility, and without knowing WHY and with the info presented, again, it would scare me. So I feel like the amount of time is relevant to how it would make me feel. And I’m pretty confident in saying I don’t believe I’d be alone in that feeling 🤷🏼♀️ again, I’m just saying going on the info known! It makes him LOOK “bad”. That’s all. But again, that’s why it’s so important to have all the facts before coming to conclusions on things, but then again they weren’t going about things the right way either, so I’m not saying they’re innocent in snooping and all that! But, I don’t see how my comment was unnecessary, but of course you’re entitled to your opinion, I’m just explaining why I added that to my comment.
Really loved your playthrough of this game. As a French-Canadian, I also really loved the setting and your attempt at getting the accent right :) Got so excited to hear "Tremblay" in a let's play, it's by far the most common name in Quebec to this day. To give you a bit of context, the period going from the 40s to the 60s in Quebec is called the Great Darkness. It was a time where the government was in the hands of corrupt conservatives, when the Roman Catholic church was extremely powerful and when average Quebeccers were kept in ignorance. At the time, the government, under the impetus of the Catholic Church, really cracked down on anything they saw as immoral (from art to any form of alternative lifestyles). It ended with the Quiet Revolution in the 60s which culminated with the October Crisis in 1970 (terrorist activity and War Measures Act). It ended darkly, but it's a period when Quebec threw off the shackles of the Catholic Church, took control of its natural resources and invested heavily in its education. Nowadays, Quebec is probably one of the most open and progressive region in North America.
I agree 100% with you! It's nice to hear Tremblay in a game for once :)
Fascinating context, thank you for spelling it out!
Sorry for the rant :(
Catholic conservatives make lives worse for everyone? How could that be? I have never heard of that before :O
Except.. maybe.. there was once or twice.. actually not that I think about it.. It was literally every god damn time. The burned scientists who would advanced human medicine more than thousand years (Trying to prove diseases do not come from demons or immoral behavior was heavily punished by the church, they ofter murdered people at the stake, brutally burning them. They persecuted crippled people, other sexualities, mental health sufferers too... There was never any god making these rules. It was always intolerant assholes using an immaginary space daddy to shun everyone and everything they don't understand and find icky. And it continues to harm people to this day. Everytime parents turn down medication that could save their child because god will save them for sure.. and then the kid dies or gets permanent injuries from the disease.. That is how we still stuffer from abrahamic religions to this day. Not to mention the Orthodox church that is controlled by the russian state to further control their population... Religion is and always was a tool to control and manipulate people. And we somehow still fall for it. I hate this world sometimes. But people like Beth and Evelyn make me believe that a positive future is possible and out there somewhere. Smaller communities have lots of good people in them sometimes. Just got to find them.
Sorry for the rant. I just hate conservatives and how they use religion to control and manipulate people. Banish them from society and making them think that they are freaks when they are just normal with different genes. Sexualities are as natural as hair colors and catholics make children believe they are freaks and that often ends in depression and suicide. I wish catholics would stop existing and science, reason and acceptance could take over the world. Oh how wunderful that would be.
Just a note for anyone wondering: TBWM devs say there are more than 3 possible murderers here, and it’s completely open to interpretation who did it.
Oh that's fascinating! My headcanon of it is that...
**SPOILERS BELOW***
Williams is the killer. That he committed arson, killing his wife & 3 children to cash out on their life insurance payouts that he'd receive upon their deaths. But, their deaths didn't add up to Mr. Cruz, so his company refused to pay out on the policy because of suspicion of the Williams family's deaths. If Williams is willing to murder his whole family just for insurance payouts, then he is definitely capable of murdering Mr. Cruz for refusing to pay the insurance payouts.
If this is how you view it, then Mr. Cruz is rather innocent too, even if Marcela feels trapped in a marriage with him. Judging from the letter from Mr. Cruz's mother, he seems sympathetic to Marcela being unhappy with the marriage & that may be why he hasn't pressured her to have kids with him (unlike how his mother pressures him in the letter). Though, Mr. Cruz seems to misconstrue Marcela & Paul's interactions as an indication that Marcela is cheating with Paul.
Yea i was figuring this as well. There are still more less obvious suspects
Ah, a CLUE/Cluedo reference ❤
Do you think that they meant it as a nod to the CLUE board game and movie? Cause the movie is also set in the 50s and the board game released in 1949
as someone born in montréal it's absolutely wild hearing all these references to places i've been, surnames & 1st names i've grown up around.. kickin my feet at all the little details
as a night desk worker at a hotel, I WISH I could talk to guests like Beth, ESPECIALLY during snowstorm calls!
I love how her first playthrough was like, "i shan't throw a thing away!" and the second, "ah, a receipt for 2 Kg of cucumber? Gone."
Amazing job with this game, absolute loved it! Thanks for the time and energy you put into these games, they're absolutely delightful. 💜
Hoenstly, super duper props Gab, for taking the time and interest to take us through the endings and try the ending a few extra times after the first finish (so few gamers on TH-cam are invested enough and considerate enough to give all that extra pathway-ing a whirl, and see if they can get a better ending themselves). You rock! :)
And the game was very deeply involved, but nice to see all that work and time really does pay off and affect so many aspects of the ending. Too few games (esp these days) really build out true multiple pathways (even fewer do so affecting so many elements). It's nice to see a solidly made game that made that effort too. Kinda cool.
I absolutely LOVE this game, especially the relationship between “bean” and Beth! I was crushing over Beth myself, ngl 😆
This game plays like a whole ass movie! The angles and shots are amazing! I love this!
The second ending Gab got is so sad for me. I'm glad she protected the gays, but she completely missed that Paul needed protection, too. It wasn't just the LGBTQIA+ community who was prosecuted unfairly in the 50s - people with mental illnesses were prosecuted just as unfairly (and still are). I'm glad she went back and tried to get the real killer caught (even though it didn't work out).
Paul was also gay right? He was writing for a guy named Lindsey who died, because he was inspired and wanted to tell him his feelings, or did I get that part wrong. It's a little sad she didn't pick up on the fact that he had something wrong with him in that first instance, mentions of the war and how life is hard gave it away to me pretty quickly, so hearing her call him a creep after learning that was a little sad, even if he had been nothing but a stalker before that point 😅
@@Ren-rh1zv No, you're right - Lindsey was also a man and I believe someone who Paul fought with in the war (I'm going based off memory on that part...). Once I heard he was in the war and that life was hard, I immediately thought "PTSD" and was kinda upset that she missed it. I guess not everyone is as primed as I am to notice things like that though... Which is part of why mental illness is so heavily stigmatized - symptoms are overlooked as other behavioural quirks, like being "creepy" in this case.
@kayzmavc4596 I get what you mean, but Paul DID get very obsessive over his new job, he got obsessive over Sophie too. PTSD aside, the dude had major serial killer vibes. It's unfortunate, but following people and tracking them for no good reason will always make you look dangerous. I say this as someone with mental illness. I really liked his character though! He wasn't completely innocent, but was poorly misunderstood.
people could also be arrested for having 'ugly' disabilities in public until 1974
This game is so cool ! I think the secret client is Alfred Hitchcock and he ends up hiring Paul as an actor for his new movie if Paul doesn't go to jail.
I was literally waiting for Gab to play this because I watched someone play a little bit of it and just knew Gab would do it a great justice
This game is literally “be gay do crime” and I’m LIVING
Lol im only 30 minutes in and chuckling at how similar this is to my experience working in a hotel just a couple years ago. Also hotel doors don't always just close automatically. A lot of them catch on the latch unless pulled all the way closed. I was constantly having to send housekeeping to check rooms whose doors weren't shut properly.
"Most women are snooping" says the literal man-detective who's made snooping his career 😂
What a beautiful game! Great video!!
Game recognising game
2:55 I love that old Telefunken radio. My dad had one like it. You turn on the power and wait three minutes for the tubes to warm up. 3:45 $2000 interest on a principal loan of $1500 in one year is 133% APR. Usury.19:30 Yes, women used to lose any rights to their husband's pension in a divorce, no matter how much she supported him. This was finally changed by legislation in the 1970s, and then men responded with 401k and "prenuptial agreements" in the 1980s. The war over the family dollar is ongoing.
Honestly I have been calling people I love “bean” for years and it was so exciting to hear it used within the game. Loved the game play Gab
My mom has called me bean through out my whole life as one of my nicknames 😂
My 4yo sons nickname is Bean, sweet bean, little bean, baby bean etc
my sister also calls people she loves bean AND her name is also Beth so i saw this video and saw the character Beth in it and it reminded me of her so much :]
“The police is here. Time to hide the gays.” - Gab, 2023, with the statement of the century. ♥️🏳️🌈
I cracked up! 😂❤
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🥰🫶🏻😂♥️
Gab! You missed a tiny scrap of paper in the lost and found in the laundry room. So, the laundry ticket you found in Cruz's room matches the inventory above the lost and found tray, telling you who lost the paper scrap. The note has the last three digits for the safe (conveniently).
Edit: Also, the game is kinda brutal about the true ending. If the cops have no gays, or psychiatric patients to pin it on, they will assume you protect them unless you are perfect about covering your tracks. You then have to lie to the cops that Cruz told you about Mr. Williams.
What a lovely game. God Sophie and Beth are such great characters, and they work so well together. What a refreshing change of pace.
I actually remember an older woman who went to the food bank to get cucumbers to use for *certain* pleasure. She also just casually said it to people and called it "organic pleasure". I was 14 when I heard that so yeah traumatised from that 💀Anyway, love this game...❤
Organic pleasure 💀
@@autumntzu2085 it's biodegradable 😭
My husband works at a hotel as a maintenance lead and he said almost every room after having an occupant would have something broken. Had one that broke the whole sink and another broke the whole shower. Apparently, there's alot of people who doesn't give a shit about other people's bathrooms.
That lady had her identity stolen on my Birthday (Oct 16th) and I TOTALLY have EXACTLY that same jewelry box that's on her desk in the room!! AM I THE IDENTITY THIEF?! DID I DO A MUURRDERR?
Oops, go straight to jail, do not pass go!
The ladies are not the killer though :)
She kind of reminds me of Max from Life is Strange, just how polite she is and she is really cute 🥰 I'm not very far into this video but I'm enjoying it so far.
Pretty sure the devs of this game were inspired by life is strange. I could be wrong though. 😊
You know, Seán is great and all but I think Evelien has become my favorite TH-camr
I now watch her videos more. She`s the best
I prefer the calm tone of this channel.
the seán to evelien pipeline is so real
@@swerzeyI was the other way around. Sean is really nice but he's so bloody loud 😆
@@swerzeyyesss
You have no idea how many times I had to repeat watching because I fell asleep a couple of times but glad to say now that I completed the video 😂
I started playing this and immediately thought "I wonder if Gab has a stream vod of this? It feels like a game she'd play" this is spooky lmao.
So sweet for Sean to come in during the stream and bring her something that made her happy. ❤ Great mystery!
i also rly love that gab welcomes lesbian romance without hesitation, it’s very cozy and warm for me 😊
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Not that it is any of my business and I would not want to know unless she wants to talk about that stuff.. I think she is a little bit Bi. She always makes comments about womens bodily apperanca in ways straight men usually do. But that might just be a smart catering to yts audience. Also the stories she told over the years might suggest that she atleast experimented. But I don't know for sure and all this is speculation. A straigh person can still be totally in favor and a fan of gay relationships, real of fictional. I am an example of that.
Never thought Gab speaking in an intense French accent would make my day
Maybe I'm just a nerd, but the VIP guest has to be Alfred Hitchcock. Right?
That's what I guessed too ! The suspense hint, a weird english man, and the terriers, it has to be !!
OMG I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING!! as soon as andrew said that line about suspense i was like AYO 👀 THE MASTER OF SUSPENSE
The bit about the eggs was the biggest clue. Hitchcock famously hated eggs.
As a housekeeper, we see a lot of... Unsavory things in rooms way too much
i used to do house keeping and man i have stories. i wont say the weirdest, grossest or explicit things i found but i'll tell you one thing that made me real annoyed. one time a guest decided that ironing his clothes with water wouldn't cut it. so he used beer instead.
Ah, the Winchester method. Probably terrible trying to clean the iron. Or the smell
@@Maddy-bc5op hilariously that is exactly what i thought aswell. We just had to replace the one in that room for the time being cuz the beer iron needed to soak in vinegar water to get the smell out.
At least throwing away those love letters and mementos resulted in a happier ending for them in 3:20:03
Almost 4 hour long mystery game I'm in. I'm only less than half an hour in but this is really making me want a Murdoch Mysteries game
This also reminds me of the DS game hotel dusk room 215 just the player character is detective/salesman instead of a maid
If this game was 50 years earlier and in Toronto Murdoch would not give a crap about the sexualities of the people involved
Doing a rewatch (and noticing things anew) and still tempted to buy it to see what happens if you ask for Andrew's help instead, as much as I adore Beth
We’ve been needing more spooky-ish hotel games! So excited! 🫶🏻🕺🏻
“Well we couldn’t find a fingerprint so…” and nowadays we can track your phone usage and location, get your DNA from basically anything you touch, see you on every CCTV camera, get car black box data, track weapons by serial number and other data… digital forensics and genetics have made it so hard to be a criminal nowadays! I love it!
Weeeell... Up to a point. Otberwise criminality would be non existant. Bofh "industries" keep evolving.
@@Doug.DimmadomeI mean it’s not easy to get away with murder unless you’re 1. insanely rich or 2. have the right connections (usually a combination of both lol), but average people still try because they think they’re smart enough not to get caught. Even in a perfect world with a flawless justice system, you’d still find people trying to escape the law after doing something awful because people are dumb and people also just kinda suck lol
and yet, people were still fear mongering about "tracking chips in vaccines"
like, babe, they don't need to put a chip in you to know when you shit, the internet already tells them.
@@clorby22 it is certainly not easy not saying that. But there is a huge difference in batting someone with a ice pick in a hotel (the game lol) or like uhmm Agent 47, Hitman style. Per example. Agent 47 has usually no money issues though, true. I'm not trying to deny your point just nuance it a bit. :-)
The cops are the ones doing the crimes dude
Anyone else notice the Easter egg from Carol when Sophie gets called "Miss Belivet?" I was so hyped. It's a very Carol-esque setting anyway.
This was the COZIEST way to spend my Sunday afternoon. I caught bits of this on stream and just knew I’d have to come back and finish the whole VOD later.
Thanks for going back and showing us the other ending options! I’m always so interested in these games that have different ways the stories can play out. ☺️
As a queer person whos been institutionalized before the interogation scenes no matter what hurt my heart
i looooove this game but i can’t stop thinking about who beth’s voice actress is! she sounds exactly like the mom from haunting of hill house
Her name is Zoé Tremblay-Bianco. She's an actress from Montreal!
@@OlivierLowbirth ah thank you!!
I just saw someone comment that you shouldn't have gone for the gay ending because all the good men would be gone???? Wtf is wrong with ppl
Love the mystery aspect
And the characters nosy behaviour. She loves to work alone to keep an eye on the others. She can snoop around in Solitude.😶🌫️🥸
I am severely in love with Beth. I'm slowly going through this stream because it's so comforting, but I'm so happy to watch you go through it. The vibes are impeccable.
"Focus on your hus- HEEEUUUGGGUHHH" Got me laughing so hard.
Me getting a Dutch jumpscare like we're on bingo with that 34.
So all together the guy who took out loans ended up taking a staggering $13,784. I used a calculator to determine how much that would evaluate to today.
Value of $13,784 from 1957 to 2023
$13,784 in 1957 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $150,980.91 today, an increase of $137,196.91 over 66 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.69% per year between 1957 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 995.33%. 😬😱
This kind of content is my favorite from you. I like these mystery games that do not have ''extra'' violence but rely on text and puzzles and secrets.
That was a tricky one! I appreciate you going through the extra effort to find out as much as you can about the other endings. Such dedication!
Almost 4 hours? I’m so ready! Thanks Gab!
watching this while im working at a hotel thats an hour away from montreal makes me feel like im the main character
I couldn't wait and rewatched this pt on your twitch and I was absolutely fascinated by this whole game. Everything looks so pretty and the story is wonderful. Even if the 3 or so endings left me feeling a bit unsatisfied, they still had a proper closure and were true to the genre. What made me the happiest is watching a story that represents the struggle of gay rights from that era, its not only interactive but highly informative in its own artsy way. I felt proud too. Anne & Marcela's love on the other hand brought me back to my own love story with my first girlfriend at the time, we both had to hide from family and homophobia too, and this is a recent situation that still exists in the world sadly. Thank you for sharing with us these games Gab, will never stop enjoying your channel & streams, and for being an ally ❤
People that go "I was born in the wrong decade" & talk about how great the 50s were, they're usually white, straight and male. Because it wasn't such a great decade for anyone else
Stating FACTS
Agree, I only envy the fashion tbh lol.
@@79Bobolaadmiring the best of the aesthetics is fine as long as the shitty parts are acknowledged. I wouldn’t want anyone to feel back about the fashion and aesthetics of a great era for it
Yeah the fashion for women back then at least was gorgeous 😅 Design in general was beautiful too and stuff was usually still built to last. But that’s really it 😂 If you weren’t a white UPPER class male: tough 🙈🤦🏼♀️
Exactly
Are we not gonna talk about how beth calls sophie bean 1:09:05
1:29:25 Gab: "What's this?"
Me: Bleeding.
Gab: Sleeping.
Me: Oh...
😳😅
I thought the same thing. 😂🤣
Wow, this game was phenomenal to watch. What a fantastic story. Very impressed by the direction, the voice acting, and the framing / cinematography as well.
2:43:02 Aaah, that's what the note was referencing! "Unlike my favorite bar, this one is black" Black cat hair, etc; cat collar on the bed.
Did Gabs ever look at the collar? I had to look up the part with the suitcase, but the only guide I found at the time of writing just said it was in the clues in the room, and simply gave the solution of "GR" for the first letters
I'm a Jacques and my brother's name is Maurice.
I was sorry to inform him that the first time I encountered characters with our names and his namesake was a homophobic shitbag. xD
This game is such a cool niche concept though and I think my little summary caught his interest nonetheless.
Such a hidden gem, this game.
Ah, if only making a bed was as easy as in this game, I would do it every day
Edit, this is still the first half, but Beth is amazing
A game highlighting how to be a magic cleaner and an investigator, I love it.
I was once a hotel maid for a bit so I definitely remember being curious and snooping how I could. Human behavior in hotels haven't changed that much. Cool thing is if there was unopened food or something I would sneak it for myself. Usually I cleaned rooms that already left.
Beth is my favorite, she had an amazing character and her humor is fantastic.
I just stumbled upon this game on my recommendation page and I was searching for my favorite TH-camrs to see if any of them had played the game yet because the thumbnails looked intriguing. None of them had though. Now two hours later or so I grabbed my phone and saw that you uploaded it ❤❤ Yaaay can't wait to watch it fully, thank you!
asylums used to be used to segregate disabled people not just mentally ill people. Prisons were used similarly as well. The first mass incarceration in the US wasn't of prisoners, it was of disabled people. People could spend their whole lives in asylums and be subjected to horrible abuses. There's a really good article about it called
"DEVIANCY, DEPENDENCY, AND DISABILITY: THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF EUGENICS AND MASS INCARCERATION" by Laura Appleman. It talks about how those places also sterilised disabled people and would ship intellectually disabled women (after being sterilised) away to farms so they could not 'seduce' or 'be seduced by' men.
i legit screamed when i realised this game had a french canadian setting! i absolutely love when my culture is represented in games
fantastic video btw
"before I arrest you for violating your guest's privacy"
I mean...is that a crime? A friable offense, surely, a violation of privacy, definitely, but is it illegal to look through things that people leave out in a hotel room when they know that cleaning staff will be coming through? Especially when you _aren't_ just some random person wandering in but the cleaning staff that the guests know will be going through? Isn't that part of why they give you safes in hotels, so that you _can_ hide things from housekeeping? I don't think HIPPA applies to this situation, is what I'm saying. She wasn't even _selling_ the information or even making it known to anyone else (girlfriend aside, but they don't know that)
If I broke into someone's house to snoop through their drawers, I'd be arrested for trespassing and breaking and entering, I don't think I'd be charged for flipping through their photo album, especially if I didn't actually damage the photo album.
Honestly, if this cop said that to me, my immediate response would be to ask for a lawyer and then say nothing else because I suspect that is not actually a crime. What do I know though? This is the wild world of the 50s and there are some wacky laws on the books that just aren't enforced.
The way I saw it, the detective is trying to scare Sophie into talking and hopes she doesn't know that he can't arrest her for that. There is actually an alternate version of the scene that plays if he doesn't suspect her, in which he says he doesn't care about her snooping and just wants to know what she knows.
A gay loving ending, I think is fantastic! I am also lesbian. I also liking the old time period and French.
i can’t tell you how many games i just wouldn’t know about if it wasn’t for you playing them! even though this game is fairly new, i’m so happy i know about it now! it looks great so far, i’m about an hour in :)
Okay so I think to get the new management ending you have to make sure that Bernard can’t blame the murder on the “deviants”, so you have to completely clear Anne, Marcela and Paul. Getting Wendy or Linda or neither fired only impacts Sophie’s position in the hotel, not who runs it. At least that’s my understanding of the story!
And don't clean the room him and Linda the one at the end of the hall gotta leave evidence of him being a devinate too
This has got to be my favourite play through you’ve done gab!
29:49 who the hell told Gab she’s screaming? Rude.
A sapphic romance murder mystery? Take my money 😂 Watched minx play this and loved it, I was going to mention it to you buuuut I forgot… you got the brain waves atleast lol! Happy murder solving! I’m currently dying in bed hoping I don’t have Covid 😅 but atleast I turn 30 this week!
I am uncomfortably early for this
Very happy about it though, love your videos
same lol
I was gonna say same but damn! You got here a minute or two after postage 😂
@@TheCornDavis it literally said 40 seconds when I clicked on it lmao, I was losing my mind a little
I am comfortably early for this
YESSS. This game has been on my wishlist for a while, even though I genuinely don’t think my computer could handle it. Very excited to see you play this one!
This game was so lovely, it’s a shame the best ending is so tricky, but it was still a great experience
That's amazing, Sophie's surname Belivet I think is a reference to the 50s lesbian novel by Patricia Highsmith, also known as Carol! And the relationship between her and Beth is so similar to the book
Probably a coincidence, but seeing Shaun come up to check on Gab during her Gayest stream is hilarious to me 😅
omg the motion blur in the game was making me nauseous the entire time 😭
But I also I absolutely loved this game, I played it on my own before watching this playthrough and I loved it!
I was also so thankful they had a content warning at the beginning, so considerate!
VIP British guest actually Hitchcock. He had ovaphobia, that's why he made a scene over eggs, and that explains the endless list of idiotic orders.
The devs either grew up in Canada/Quebec or did a LOT of research!! The Weston's name and brand is where the hellion Galen Weston comes from, who was causing a lot of issues for Canadian grocery chains after the pandemic! There's loads of actual Montreal and Canadian history references in here! ❤
One of my fav games to come out this year! I loved every minute ❤️
Try Milo and the Magpies...youd love it. It s about getting a cat back to its home by brining it through gardens..its fun.
It's so cool to see a game take place in my hometown of Montreal!
Montreal represent !
Its amazing how they could make a mystery game in these early years in a city we see very not often ☺️
The vibe is heartwarming ❤ always impressive hearing gab with her many talents ❤️ keep it up ❤
I absolutely LOVE when you and Sean throw in Hot Fuzz references. Seriously my favorite movie hands down, I can quote the whole thing 😂