Thank you! A game like this needs to be experienced with no commentary. I can’t stand it when you’re trying to take in the atmosphere and some guy is just yapping away about nothing in the background.
That's a demon, if you're curious. The way Slavic possession works is basically some guy (little imp or whatever) gets inside you through the mouth, crawls back out the same way. Hiccups used to be explained away by the whatever it is trying to crawl in or out, and sores/tearing on the corners of the mouths of intellectually disabled people who can't control their saliva. (Demons are also very often portrayed either as blobs of shadow like the devil in the near-ending sequence or as these kind of fuzzy guys with strange eyebrows, like this anti-jumpscare.) There's a game Black Book with a subplot about a girl hosting a cat-shaped demon - when you fight it, her art shows her (~12 years old) with her head thrown back and her mouth just absolutely shredded to accommodate that character leaning out. The demon thing comes up a few more times in this game in the Russian dub, but a) here rather than emphasizing the social/anthropological functions of the spiritual ecology of the period, the focus is on how the institutions founded on the Church's law fuck people over, and b) I haven't watched this yet so I don't know if that cultural detail gets elided in English or not. The other nuns call Indika "бесноватая" in Russian though, something like "infested with a devil", which is a period-accurate kind of way to discuss what's probably her schizophrenia. It's funny/a touch absurd here; I like this artistic choice, though, because of Indika's situation. Vasya from BB is socially recognized in a profession that sustains people like her (an orphan adopted by the existing village sorcerer; you get magic and pass it down in this cultural system via horrific things happening to you, like insanity, orphaning, etc - a lot like it is with some Inuit shamans). But Indika is a city girl and was a nun from the age of 15, so of course she spent her formative life at the forefront of Victorian-equivalent progress, and her scrupulosity turned her conscience into this sort of purring tulpa. Hopefully this has been fun to learn :))
@@moistspaghetto4043 I wouldn't say she's schizophrenic. This game is just illustrating that she's smart enough to doubt what she's told, and can't help her mind analyzing and deconstructing everything all the time, even herself. It's just her thoughts, made visible for the sake of the player.
A very interesting game. It steps around the matter of intent a bit too much in it's arguments, I feel like, but it's still thought-provoking. It definitely does a very good job at having the camera angles and what the player needs to do to progress work with the games narrative. It's well done.
Just saw your video on notification tab. This name INDIKA reminds me of my country India. Similar in nature. Let us see what the game shows. Edit : I just saw the game info on Steam. The Kazakh devs are unique guys. Better than Americans who are just selling games at higher price and the games are awful of theirs.
I get your point, and there is something to it, but as far as I can tell there is something heartfelt about this game. Some aspect of personal experience perhaps. You can't just transplant that on something else. Maybe someday someone will make something like this for one of those religions. It will be messy, but all the more worthwhile for it, I'd say.
Devs who would be able to do something like this for Islam live in Muslim countries with censorship and no culture of antitheism such as developed in Russia - yet. Devs who would be able to do something like this for Judaism are Hasidim, the same situation, only also it is just 75 years after the genocide that left alive only the most fundamentalist of them. (Seriously - some old Hasidic literature approaches very normative points of view, it's just that Hitler killed all of the moderates and everyone left over justifiably freaked it). There are people who would do it and people who would play it, but they are all too angry and wounded to be able to talk about it to an audience honestly. Even an audience of themselves. This is my society, I know its relationship to the facts about its 19th century spiritual ecology. Give it a decade or two, don't be pessimistic :)) it's a matter of the right people believing the idea will sell, which requires people who understand the cultural context of the art to be able to have some reaction other than fear, hostility and the feeling of betrayal. Not really a question of certain things being too precious at all, just an issue of "is anybody going to listen to somebody making this type of art and is it worth it to make", which for the moment we can safely say is not a yes in either case.
@@-M--MuhammadAryaAvrionza In the game, players take control of Indika, a nun looking to adjust to a monastic life. The twist in the tale comes in the form of her companion: she has a connection with the Devil himself; and it is this connection, or relationship that is further explored in the game. The game emphasizes on this story-telling device and the conflict between the church's perspectives and lifestyle and her own doubts and religious beliefs.
Indika is the perfect example of a spiritually immature person. Shes doesnt understand God at all, and joins a convent not to love God but for her own gain. She doesnt take responsibility for her actions, and blame God for her mistakes. She treats everything like a game…
Wow... what an incredible load of bullshit. Shirako, you did a fine job playing through it; no condemnation of you. But what a disappointingly hollow, empty, up-its-own-ass game this was. All that, and the moral is just, "Nihilism!" What an insulting waste of the astonishing effort all those artists and designers put into this game. What a waste. So many places in the story where I thought it was leading to something interesting, and then, nope, just a cruel, emotionally-manipulative rug-pull by a depressed, bitter, sadistic writer. As a writer myself, if you make fiction with the aim of pulling people down into the pit with you, that's a failure.
I mean, most "christians" these days don't even embrace Christianity. As they implement degeneracy, debauchery and Satanism into their faith. Your pfp is a perfect example.
I don't even think it was specifically anti-Christian. It was *anti-hope.* This is a game made by someone so depressed, he thinks he should spread his bad mood to everyone else.
@@AlexReynard Or someone who hopes for a better future? And wants to tell people we don't have to live in such a world? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder friend, i think someone else might be depressed
@@shlokwaghela9560 Nah. I've seen works that acknowledged the broken side of life with sadness and compassion. Tom Waits and Charled Bukowski come to mind. Then there's people who are depressed and don't want to get better; they want to bring other people down. Games like this, and movies like Melancholia or Synechdoce New York are the latter. Bitter intellectuals trying to rationalize why they're miserable jerks by blaming the world. To heck with 'em.
Thank you! A game like this needs to be experienced with no commentary. I can’t stand it when you’re trying to take in the atmosphere and some guy is just yapping away about nothing in the background.
And ALL of these games is yabbing way to much all the damn timen some louder than the other one. Some yapping about utter nonsense and so forth.
The end section with the devil is wonderfully written.
The guy running behind her while shooting and failing is way too funny
What a… strange game I just watched. And really enjoyed how strange it was
I just beat it and those were my exact thoughts
I can feel the cold and isolation from here. Not to Mention the religious fundamentalism.
Nothing wrong with religious fundamentalism
@@avialiner Its a self made mental prison tho.
Literally everything about it is @@avialiner
No you can't, if you do, you have a mental disorder.
Yes you can, because you can feel anything.
Choose 1.
@@avialiner Well actually, there’s a lot wrong with it.
Such a weird game. That little fat guy dressed in white who came out of that preist's (bishop?) mouth was so bizarre.
That's a demon, if you're curious. The way Slavic possession works is basically some guy (little imp or whatever) gets inside you through the mouth, crawls back out the same way. Hiccups used to be explained away by the whatever it is trying to crawl in or out, and sores/tearing on the corners of the mouths of intellectually disabled people who can't control their saliva. (Demons are also very often portrayed either as blobs of shadow like the devil in the near-ending sequence or as these kind of fuzzy guys with strange eyebrows, like this anti-jumpscare.)
There's a game Black Book with a subplot about a girl hosting a cat-shaped demon - when you fight it, her art shows her (~12 years old) with her head thrown back and her mouth just absolutely shredded to accommodate that character leaning out.
The demon thing comes up a few more times in this game in the Russian dub, but a) here rather than emphasizing the social/anthropological functions of the spiritual ecology of the period, the focus is on how the institutions founded on the Church's law fuck people over, and b) I haven't watched this yet so I don't know if that cultural detail gets elided in English or not.
The other nuns call Indika "бесноватая" in Russian though, something like "infested with a devil", which is a period-accurate kind of way to discuss what's probably her schizophrenia.
It's funny/a touch absurd here; I like this artistic choice, though, because of Indika's situation. Vasya from BB is socially recognized in a profession that sustains people like her (an orphan adopted by the existing village sorcerer; you get magic and pass it down in this cultural system via horrific things happening to you, like insanity, orphaning, etc - a lot like it is with some Inuit shamans). But Indika is a city girl and was a nun from the age of 15, so of course she spent her formative life at the forefront of Victorian-equivalent progress, and her scrupulosity turned her conscience into this sort of purring tulpa.
Hopefully this has been fun to learn :))
Is true😂
@@moistspaghetto4043 I wouldn't say she's schizophrenic. This game is just illustrating that she's smart enough to doubt what she's told, and can't help her mind analyzing and deconstructing everything all the time, even herself. It's just her thoughts, made visible for the sake of the player.
A very interesting game. It steps around the matter of intent a bit too much in it's arguments, I feel like, but it's still thought-provoking. It definitely does a very good job at having the camera angles and what the player needs to do to progress work with the games narrative. It's well done.
So bummed out that they used British accents. Takes me completely out of the Russian settings.
The settings remind me of Little Nightmares (especially the factory buildings).
The Nun game....Indika... that's cool
Nice camera work.
Well played, Shirrako. 👏
How do u walk on that small wooden thing at 1:07:00 on ps5 ?
Is this game on x box or PlayStation 🤔
😮 is on robolox apple console 😂
Just saw your video on notification tab. This name INDIKA reminds me of my country India. Similar in nature. Let us see what the game shows.
Edit : I just saw the game info on Steam. The Kazakh devs are unique guys. Better than Americans who are just selling games at higher price and the games are awful of theirs.
This game is not Kazakh, it was made by Russians. Perhaps most organizations have moved their headquarters to Kazakhstan.
This has nothing to do with india, or anything in the country. The nature is also not similar.
Unique, wonderfull game... Recomended for everyone...
I think this nun was an action hero before 😅
Swell, I like this game. I've waited it here 👍👍👍 P.S. Indika with short hairs resembles Alicia Vikander)
Salam dari Marudi Sarawak agi idup agi ngelaban arus arus arus adir adir adir
Game dari mana
Indika
@@Hiprockdiva1 ya gw tau indika, tapi asal nya, gw baru tau si, dari Rusia
русская
A message for the devs.
Now make another game just like this but with Judaism or Islam as the featured religion.
*Do it, devs. I fucking dare you.*
devs r christian why they bother
catholics always want to make it about themselves.
I get your point, and there is something to it, but as far as I can tell there is something heartfelt about this game. Some aspect of personal experience perhaps. You can't just transplant that on something else.
Maybe someday someone will make something like this for one of those religions. It will be messy, but all the more worthwhile for it, I'd say.
Russian developers. they won't do it
Devs who would be able to do something like this for Islam live in Muslim countries with censorship and no culture of antitheism such as developed in Russia - yet.
Devs who would be able to do something like this for Judaism are Hasidim, the same situation, only also it is just 75 years after the genocide that left alive only the most fundamentalist of them. (Seriously - some old Hasidic literature approaches very normative points of view, it's just that Hitler killed all of the moderates and everyone left over justifiably freaked it). There are people who would do it and people who would play it, but they are all too angry and wounded to be able to talk about it to an audience honestly. Even an audience of themselves. This is my society, I know its relationship to the facts about its 19th century spiritual ecology.
Give it a decade or two, don't be pessimistic :)) it's a matter of the right people believing the idea will sell, which requires people who understand the cultural context of the art to be able to have some reaction other than fear, hostility and the feeling of betrayal.
Not really a question of certain things being too precious at all, just an issue of "is anybody going to listen to somebody making this type of art and is it worth it to make", which for the moment we can safely say is not a yes in either case.
2 hours 30 minutes wow
Solid 9/10😊
dark ass game
Great game.
How do you hit the F balls? It is impossible,.
indika kangen band
Indika is a Sanskrit/Indo Aryan word, not from the Austronesian language family
Andika ajg
How is this nun so chill?
strange..
🥶
1:30:27 nun is cringe as well
Eh. Not a fan of how it handled the genre, but I still give it a 5/10 for effort.
Antichrist's religion?
👍
Game apa ini
Indika
@@Hiprockdiva1 iya tau maksudnya tentang apa
@@-M--MuhammadAryaAvrionza In the game, players take control of Indika, a nun looking to adjust to a monastic life. The twist in the tale comes in the form of her companion: she has a connection with the Devil himself; and it is this connection, or relationship that is further explored in the game. The game emphasizes on this story-telling device and the conflict between the church's perspectives and lifestyle and her own doubts and religious beliefs.
Damn i fell asleep at the 1st 5 mins of the game hahahha
Indian game??😮
No, Russian
لماذا لبسة حجاب ھي مسلمة 🤔
وش هذا
ما اعرف بس عرفت أسم العبة أنديكه
Indika is the perfect example of a spiritually immature person. Shes doesnt understand God at all, and joins a convent not to love God but for her own gain. She doesnt take responsibility for her actions, and blame God for her mistakes. She treats everything like a game…
Just like god made you to play his games
wtf.
Wow... what an incredible load of bullshit. Shirako, you did a fine job playing through it; no condemnation of you. But what a disappointingly hollow, empty, up-its-own-ass game this was. All that, and the moral is just, "Nihilism!" What an insulting waste of the astonishing effort all those artists and designers put into this game. What a waste. So many places in the story where I thought it was leading to something interesting, and then, nope, just a cruel, emotionally-manipulative rug-pull by a depressed, bitter, sadistic writer. As a writer myself, if you make fiction with the aim of pulling people down into the pit with you, that's a failure.
That was is mora an anti-Christian game than expected, including spreading heresy like we are our own gods and devil.
I mean, most "christians" these days don't even embrace Christianity. As they implement degeneracy, debauchery and Satanism into their faith. Your pfp is a perfect example.
That's not heresy, that's just facts
I don't even think it was specifically anti-Christian. It was *anti-hope.* This is a game made by someone so depressed, he thinks he should spread his bad mood to everyone else.
@@AlexReynard Or someone who hopes for a better future? And wants to tell people we don't have to live in such a world? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder friend, i think someone else might be depressed
@@shlokwaghela9560 Nah. I've seen works that acknowledged the broken side of life with sadness and compassion. Tom Waits and Charled Bukowski come to mind. Then there's people who are depressed and don't want to get better; they want to bring other people down. Games like this, and movies like Melancholia or Synechdoce New York are the latter. Bitter intellectuals trying to rationalize why they're miserable jerks by blaming the world. To heck with 'em.
mmm i played it, its weird game, not so good. if i had known i wouldn't have bought it. seriously deceived
I couldn't agree more. It was a lot of effort to just say, 'Choices don't matter, life is meaningless, so there.'
First
Yeah, first simpleton.
@@TheLastRelevantSage2 nah. First to read this Reddit ass comment
@@P00P- Understand. "First simpleton to read this Reddit ass comment." 😁
@@TheLastRelevantSage2 go to school or something. Do something more productive than insult me? Idek what you’re trying to do
And for this they even ask for money?
I mean, the artists deserve to be paid, for sure. I've never seen more correct-looking snow in a game.
Its like watching a real life🏔🌫🌨movie💯 This gotta be 🖥🖲 version right @Shirrako
Kedua.
First
Yeah, first simpleton.