I find it interesting that all of the scribes are well aware of the cycle and such but Leshy never mentions anything past the original inscryption, he even acts like you don't know about the sacrifice mechanic even though he knows full well that you know about it from earlier. he really does care about keeping immersion. oh yeah and I never realized before that Grimora and Magnifikus had never become "hegemon"
-Grimora: Honestly a sweetheart. Very kind, never aggressive, would rather Inscryption and its cycle just cease so the fighting ceases. Very prone to spoiling the smallest success with praise. Uses many puzzles in her stories, more than actual encounters. -Leshy: Eccentric storyteller that sets up scenes with great presentation. Quite scary at first but charismatic enough to have a small following. Dark fantasy settings only, but mastering one has ensured the atmosphere is always perfect. -P03: Egotistical but smart and ambitious, always desires more than what he has. Definitely plays D&D and definitely min-maxes. Long-term adventures over presentation, dabbles in a whole lot of everything so tends to be a bit unoriginal at times. -Magnificus: Enigmatic genius with a screw loose. Knows too much and regularly has an existential crisis. Despite this, is much more kindly than P03 although lacks the same ambition to fight the destiny he sees. Often features complex mechanics and hidden passages.
Magnifucus is also a awefull sadist/psychopath. He's only interested in his own goals, and makes others (mostly his fricking pupils) suffer for his entertainment. He's great at art, but I would not let him do anything else
if leshy had a youtube channel , im willing to bet his most popular streams are "chat plays his latest campaign" and unfortunately for p03 , they have to be the medium in which chat communicates through.
Throughout the story, I'd say Leshy hilariously seems the most humble. All his boasting feels like putting on airs, he seems beyond glad to see you succeed as long as you have made him part of whatever grand tale your ascend involved. Grimora may match him there? But it's hard to tell with her, she does seem more personally offended by you trying to replace her still, but then just shifts to bemoaning the cycle continuing. Leshy's attitude being that of humbleness actually explains why he captured the other scrybes as he did as well, an ill guided attempt at humbling all of them.
She might have been offended cause that would mean she had no chance to become the so called "leader" of how Inscrpytion is played. She'll be replaced alright, by someone else. She was probably hoping she could take the seat this time around _(and maybe permanently delete Inscryption finally, if she felt so inclined)
I like how when Grimora explains how bones work she seems to already know that you understand how Bones work. And thus she like all the others remember what happened.
Considering the work that went into making those sections, I'd guess they were intended to be fleshed out, but perhaps a deadline hit, or it seemed like it'd be too bloated. Anyway, there's a mod for Grimora. I think someone was working on a Magnificus one as well. And, we already got Leshy and P03.
@@Mythraen I had to google this before I ended up replaying Act 2... I was honestly expecting a whole "cabin setting" like Leshy Act 1 with ALL the other scrybes. Just so happened I picked Botopia naturally. I played the game thinking I could actually choose the 3 others.
At first deep inside I hoped I would be able to play with every single boss in his own real game... Well in the end it did happen, but I actually hoped for more time on each scribe... Especially Magnificus. He has a lot of potential (tho his cards are pretty weak), a shame to only play him at the very end..
To be fair, if you play on PC, there is a mod now out that's basically a sequel to inscryption, and lets you have full boss fights with Magnificus and Grimora, in their own games. The modding community is ever growing into basically game developers lmao
@@InsanityVirus Honestly wish this was in the actual release. I thought this was the best game I ever played (still might) when I thought I could replay as Magnificus or Grimora.
@@TheWorstType I meant dex centralized around MOX cards, that card generation you mentioned. The real stinger in those decks are almost always not a MOX card
An animated series of all these scrybes and Luke would be the perfect content creator house. There are fan made videos on TH-cam which explain how great this concept would be.
Anyone else naturally pick P03 first thinking after beating the whole game you could play the others? I was literally mind blown when Botopia started... I read some comments mentioning deadlines/budget, and man hopefully the original creator gets to re-release this. Botopia is so expanded upon.
Did luke always hastily block the camera with p03 showing him himself? I don’t think that happened on my play through it caught me off guard So awesome though
Ooh interesting, can't say I know for sure. I think he has from all my goes at it, and my first playthrough was sometime in Jan/Feb. If it was or can be a different take, I'd love to know!
I also thought he stared at the camera a bit longer before blocking it in my playthrough, but when I checked the footage it is the same take. If there was a different take it is from an older version, and is not tied to it being your first playthrough.
holy shit yeah, i played the game twice and luke never blocked the camera. he looked very frightened and then started backing up, then p03 switched back to his face
I think it's something to do with our PCs. If it is only modestly equipped for gaming, Inscryption will play out slower, which makes timed events cut off prematurely. I missed a lot of dialogues from the glitchy fight with Magnificus because of that, it turns out. I didn't know he acknowledged your bonding with Slime Mage until someone else pointed it out to me.
I like how PO-3 spoil you end of second act, and is happy with you're choise, he have less work to do, max efficiency Also magnificius tell you what gonna happen, when Grimora only do it on the end and Leshy don't know. Magnificius is also very not happy with you're no actions against Grimora scheme, he would allow existence of OLD_DATA if it would spare his life.
Thank you so much for making this. Despite how much I adore this game, replaying it in its entirety 4 times just to read this dialogue was something I know I wouldn't have the strength to do, so I'm super grateful you took the time to bring us the complete experience.
For anyone reading this, you CAN exit the game and redo your picks, but you have to reset before PO3 brings you into the battle screen. Theres a five second window between when hes summoned, when he insults the scrybe and then brings you to the battle. Provided you exit out of the game before that, you will have the chance to pick another. If not...well...the good news is it just takes you right to Act 3 and you dont have to fight Po3
Additionally, the Kaycee ghoul in Grimora’s place was looking to bring the data up through the well. I think Magnificus was the only one not looking for it.
@@MrBulbo-oz1es Slime Mage is the one that's supposed to look for it for Magnificus. Magnificus says "Why must my pathetic slime mage always fail?" (21:24 in the video)
I still like it that Leshy explains why you could sacrifice robots and skeletons. You did bring up a good point with the practice mage. Mox's can't be sacrificed period It's in their rules
I kinda don’t get why all of the other scrybes think P03 is the worst of them. Sure, his mission is to upload the game to the internet, therefore exposing the OLD DATA to anyone who can find it, he’s indifferent to even his worker bots, he’s cynical and outright an arse sometimes, he doesn’t have much of a vision for atmosphere or story, and he’s egotistical, but… Meanwhile, Magnificus is over here basically putting his junior mages through torture (Lonely Mage wants nothing to do with him because of it, Pike Mage is constantly in pain, and Goobert IS MADE OF HIS OWN LIQUEFIED ORGANS), is too prideful/stubborn and focused on getting you to not delete him that he doesn’t even get to shake your hand, is also extremely egotistical (I literally beat his Act 2 fight by using Mox cards because he was like “oh this is good!” and didn’t change the sigils; most likely, he believes his cards are superior to the others’), genuinely doesn’t care about the efforts his mages put in (“Why must my pathetic Slime Mage always fail?”; bleaching Goobert from the painting), and he generally just seems pretentious. Why should he get to pretend that putting his students through torment JUST to be made part of his deck is any good for them/that it means he cares about them? Sorry, that’s just the part that gets me the most. P03 might be a somewhat cold and heartless machine, but he at least is pretty decent. He hates everyone else, doesn’t understand playing for the fun of it (but he at least BEGINS to when he mentions “almost” having fun with you), and doesn’t care much about his worker bots (though he doesn’t mind when the Dredger refuses to put himself on the line, EVEN WHEN he doesn’t know that the Dredger brought up the OLD DATA for him, so there’s some level of decency there), but he certainly isn’t as bad as Magnificus. Even if his ego might be insufferable to the other scrybes, at least he says what he’s thinking out loud, unlike keeping it subtle, like Magnificus. (Ex: Magnificus doesn’t bleach Mox cards; P03 directly states his hatred for the other scrybes and actively competes with them.) Also, another thing: Leshy doesn’t even want to look at Goobert, partly because he probably finds him annoying/disgusting, but also probably because it’s a prime example of Magnificus torturing his mages as a “final exam”. Leshy himself would NEVER do that to his own subordinates. The Angler clearly likes him as Fishbot enjoys seeing The Photographer boss, the Prospector is chill, and the Trapper/Trader are fine with him, too. So to see one of his fellow scrybes doing that to their own must be pretty horrifying, especially when Magnificus tries to pass it off as a *good thing*.
It would be cool if there was like a percent chance that Grimora or Magnificus would get the OLD_DATA fragment, not only would we get a cool easter egg but we also get a 3D variant like Leshy and P03
Lot of work for an easter egg, you'd basically have to make two whole extra games. I'd love to see their segments elaborated upon but it would definitely be better as an expansion and not something with a tiny random chance.
@@janNowa You wouldn't have to expand that much on them. You could just make a few cutscenes/battles for both Scrybes where they could do a bit of worldbuilding or something. The easter egg would end when the OLD_DATA would be misplaced or stolen somehow and P03 would find it. Then he could use its power, transitioning into Act 3.
magnifikus is most terrifying... he knows he dies... and he knows luke dies too... yet for some reason cannot (or will not?) stop it.
Yes it's definitely the most chilling exchange! His knowledge and motivations are so fascinating to consider.
I think somewhere along the line he realized that he can't stop it. He knows he's just not powerful enough to do so.
Perhaps he didnt stop it because he already knew he failed and luke has died long ago
@@WackyrDragoLuke was dead the second he bought those Inscryption boosters
everybody dies.
I find it interesting that all of the scribes are well aware of the cycle and such but Leshy never mentions anything past the original inscryption, he even acts like you don't know about the sacrifice mechanic even though he knows full well that you know about it from earlier. he really does care about keeping immersion.
oh yeah and I never realized before that Grimora and Magnifikus had never become "hegemon"
He wouldn’t want to jeopardize the immersion.
Grimora probably has, as she mentions "taking another turn." Magnifikus I don't think has, though.
The camera erases leshy's memories İ think
@@lorekeeper685 didnt erase the other scrybe's memories, though.
@@bloodyhell8201 got close as it could or they remembered it with some fault at the camera
-Grimora: Honestly a sweetheart. Very kind, never aggressive, would rather Inscryption and its cycle just cease so the fighting ceases. Very prone to spoiling the smallest success with praise. Uses many puzzles in her stories, more than actual encounters.
-Leshy: Eccentric storyteller that sets up scenes with great presentation. Quite scary at first but charismatic enough to have a small following. Dark fantasy settings only, but mastering one has ensured the atmosphere is always perfect.
-P03: Egotistical but smart and ambitious, always desires more than what he has. Definitely plays D&D and definitely min-maxes. Long-term adventures over presentation, dabbles in a whole lot of everything so tends to be a bit unoriginal at times.
-Magnificus: Enigmatic genius with a screw loose. Knows too much and regularly has an existential crisis. Despite this, is much more kindly than P03 although lacks the same ambition to fight the destiny he sees. Often features complex mechanics and hidden passages.
Grimora: Marvelous
Magnifucus is also a awefull sadist/psychopath. He's only interested in his own goals, and makes others (mostly his fricking pupils) suffer for his entertainment. He's great at art, but I would not let him do anything else
Grimora: the only sane one
Leshy: the quirky hippy
PO3: the smug bastard
Magnificus: unit 731 with a beard
@@godricktheminecrafted3113LMAO UNIT 731 WITH A BEARD
Magnificus: Alas@@ubidragonrocksmith9719
if leshy were in the real world he would be the ultimate d&d dm
Up until he starts making character injuries more “immersive” by inflicting them on the corresponding players..
To fast to soon
What?
The party finds themselves surrounded by 8 flying bears
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@@ProbablyAlmond fly-blocking (tall?)
@@epigone1796you mean mighty leap sigil?
if leshy had a youtube channel , im willing to bet his most popular streams are "chat plays his latest campaign"
and unfortunately for p03 , they have to be the medium in which chat communicates through.
Throughout the story, I'd say Leshy hilariously seems the most humble.
All his boasting feels like putting on airs, he seems beyond glad to see you succeed as long as you have made him part of whatever grand tale your ascend involved.
Grimora may match him there? But it's hard to tell with her, she does seem more personally offended by you trying to replace her still, but then just shifts to bemoaning the cycle continuing.
Leshy's attitude being that of humbleness actually explains why he captured the other scrybes as he did as well, an ill guided attempt at humbling all of them.
She might have been offended cause that would mean she had no chance to become the so called "leader" of how Inscrpytion is played. She'll be replaced alright, by someone else. She was probably hoping she could take the seat this time around _(and maybe permanently delete Inscryption finally, if she felt so inclined)
By “spare” she means replace. She wants it to end.
I never thought to look at it like that, but it makes sense. Heck, he even gets excited when you kill his cards in the end!
I like how when Grimora explains how bones work she seems to already know that you understand how Bones work. And thus she like all the others remember what happened.
Love all the scrybes but Leshy's theme and vibe is the best. Thank you for taking the time to upload this.
I share the same feelings haha. My pleasure, thank you!
i wish we can play with 3d version of all scrybes. not only for a moment at the end. legendary game.
Kaycee's Mod would be fun if you can change the "Background/Layout" of who and where you're fighting haha
Considering the work that went into making those sections, I'd guess they were intended to be fleshed out, but perhaps a deadline hit, or it seemed like it'd be too bloated.
Anyway, there's a mod for Grimora. I think someone was working on a Magnificus one as well. And, we already got Leshy and P03.
@@Mythraen I had to google this before I ended up replaying Act 2... I was honestly expecting a whole "cabin setting" like Leshy Act 1 with ALL the other scrybes. Just so happened I picked Botopia naturally. I played the game thinking I could actually choose the 3 others.
Thanks for going through the effort to record the variations.
My pleasure! Loved having an excuse to play a bunch more tbh. Thank you!
At first deep inside I hoped I would be able to play with every single boss in his own real game...
Well in the end it did happen, but I actually hoped for more time on each scribe...
Especially Magnificus. He has a lot of potential (tho his cards are pretty weak), a shame to only play him at the very end..
To be fair, if you play on PC, there is a mod now out that's basically a sequel to inscryption, and lets you have full boss fights with Magnificus and Grimora, in their own games. The modding community is ever growing into basically game developers lmao
Mox cards have some pretty strong decks, especially blue mage
@@InsanityVirus Honestly wish this was in the actual release. I thought this was the best game I ever played (still might) when I thought I could replay as Magnificus or Grimora.
@@lucaswatts2141 Compared to all other decks, none of the mox cards have any heavy hitters. Blue mage is just card generation.
@@TheWorstType I meant dex centralized around MOX cards, that card generation you mentioned. The real stinger in those decks are almost always not a MOX card
man , it'd be cool to have a cartoon series where we just got the scrybes & luke having to share a youtube channel.
An animated series of all these scrybes and Luke would be the perfect content creator house.
There are fan made videos on TH-cam which explain how great this concept would be.
Anyone else naturally pick P03 first thinking after beating the whole game you could play the others? I was literally mind blown when Botopia started... I read some comments mentioning deadlines/budget, and man hopefully the original creator gets to re-release this. Botopia is so expanded upon.
Did luke always hastily block the camera with p03 showing him himself? I don’t think that happened on my play through it caught me off guard
So awesome though
Ooh interesting, can't say I know for sure. I think he has from all my goes at it, and my first playthrough was sometime in Jan/Feb. If it was or can be a different take, I'd love to know!
I also thought he stared at the camera a bit longer before blocking it in my playthrough, but when I checked the footage it is the same take. If there was a different take it is from an older version, and is not tied to it being your first playthrough.
holy shit yeah, i played the game twice and luke never blocked the camera. he looked very frightened and then started backing up, then p03 switched back to his face
I think it's something to do with our PCs. If it is only modestly equipped for gaming, Inscryption will play out slower, which makes timed events cut off prematurely. I missed a lot of dialogues from the glitchy fight with Magnificus because of that, it turns out. I didn't know he acknowledged your bonding with Slime Mage until someone else pointed it out to me.
@@VinsBloodshotEyeThat only happens if you found and complimented the painting
0:00 Grimora
5:30 Leshy
11:55 P03
17:50 Magnificus
It's broken up by chapters already...
@TheWorstType my original comment was a year ago, and at the time, they didn't set chapters/timestamp on the video.
I like how PO-3 spoil you end of second act, and is happy with you're choise, he have less work to do, max efficiency
Also magnificius tell you what gonna happen, when Grimora only do it on the end and Leshy don't know.
Magnificius is also very not happy with you're no actions against Grimora scheme, he would allow existence of OLD_DATA if it would spare his life.
Thank you so much for making this. Despite how much I adore this game, replaying it in its entirety 4 times just to read this dialogue was something I know I wouldn't have the strength to do, so I'm super grateful you took the time to bring us the complete experience.
For anyone reading this, you CAN exit the game and redo your picks, but you have to reset before PO3 brings you into the battle screen. Theres a five second window between when hes summoned, when he insults the scrybe and then brings you to the battle. Provided you exit out of the game before that, you will have the chance to pick another. If not...well...the good news is it just takes you right to Act 3 and you dont have to fight Po3
10:14 Does this mean Angler was also fishing for old data?
Yes. It is implied that's how Leshy was the one in control initially.
Additionally, the Kaycee ghoul in Grimora’s place was looking to bring the data up through the well. I think Magnificus was the only one not looking for it.
@@MrBulbo-oz1es Slime Mage is the one that's supposed to look for it for Magnificus. Magnificus says "Why must my pathetic slime mage always fail?" (21:24 in the video)
@@TY-Ch not only implied but actually proven in kaycees mod!
yes
old_fish
does P03 have unique dialogue if you have no cards to scan when phase 2 of its boss fight begins
Excellent idea, thank you! I had to know. There sure is: th-cam.com/video/HEIx2TI7UhE/w-d-xo.html
Did anyone else choose P03 on their later run purely out of spite
That's quite a nice name you have, there.
hehe back atcha, fellow squishy! ✨️
Ngl I chose to replace leshy and the ending part with him was probably the most emotional I’ve gotten over a video game
Is the last sentence of Leshy at 11.11 a tribute to the song Time in a bottle? I feel it could be, so similar to those lyrics
7:15 so Oil and Marrow is in bounds but sap from trees is not?
how do you sacrifice the Practice Wizard & the Mox-s there is nothing to stab
I still like it that Leshy explains why you could sacrifice robots and skeletons. You did bring up a good point with the practice mage.
Mox's can't be sacrificed period It's in their rules
Leshy making a subtle referance to Time in a Bottle as the game is getting deleated fits so well
I like that P03 agrees with your move to replace Leshy, since it seems they're opposites in play style.
I kinda don’t get why all of the other scrybes think P03 is the worst of them. Sure, his mission is to upload the game to the internet, therefore exposing the OLD DATA to anyone who can find it, he’s indifferent to even his worker bots, he’s cynical and outright an arse sometimes, he doesn’t have much of a vision for atmosphere or story, and he’s egotistical, but…
Meanwhile, Magnificus is over here basically putting his junior mages through torture (Lonely Mage wants nothing to do with him because of it, Pike Mage is constantly in pain, and Goobert IS MADE OF HIS OWN LIQUEFIED ORGANS), is too prideful/stubborn and focused on getting you to not delete him that he doesn’t even get to shake your hand, is also extremely egotistical (I literally beat his Act 2 fight by using Mox cards because he was like “oh this is good!” and didn’t change the sigils; most likely, he believes his cards are superior to the others’), genuinely doesn’t care about the efforts his mages put in (“Why must my pathetic Slime Mage always fail?”; bleaching Goobert from the painting), and he generally just seems pretentious. Why should he get to pretend that putting his students through torment JUST to be made part of his deck is any good for them/that it means he cares about them? Sorry, that’s just the part that gets me the most.
P03 might be a somewhat cold and heartless machine, but he at least is pretty decent. He hates everyone else, doesn’t understand playing for the fun of it (but he at least BEGINS to when he mentions “almost” having fun with you), and doesn’t care much about his worker bots (though he doesn’t mind when the Dredger refuses to put himself on the line, EVEN WHEN he doesn’t know that the Dredger brought up the OLD DATA for him, so there’s some level of decency there), but he certainly isn’t as bad as Magnificus. Even if his ego might be insufferable to the other scrybes, at least he says what he’s thinking out loud, unlike keeping it subtle, like Magnificus. (Ex: Magnificus doesn’t bleach Mox cards; P03 directly states his hatred for the other scrybes and actively competes with them.)
Also, another thing: Leshy doesn’t even want to look at Goobert, partly because he probably finds him annoying/disgusting, but also probably because it’s a prime example of Magnificus torturing his mages as a “final exam”.
Leshy himself would NEVER do that to his own subordinates. The Angler clearly likes him as Fishbot enjoys seeing The Photographer boss, the Prospector is chill, and the Trapper/Trader are fine with him, too. So to see one of his fellow scrybes doing that to their own must be pretty horrifying, especially when Magnificus tries to pass it off as a *good thing*.
Cool
I'm chioce magnificus
It would be cool if there was like a percent chance that Grimora or Magnificus would get the OLD_DATA fragment, not only would we get a cool easter egg but we also get a 3D variant like Leshy and P03
Lot of work for an easter egg, you'd basically have to make two whole extra games. I'd love to see their segments elaborated upon but it would definitely be better as an expansion and not something with a tiny random chance.
@@janNowa You wouldn't have to expand that much on them. You could just make a few cutscenes/battles for both Scrybes where they could do a bit of worldbuilding or something. The easter egg would end when the OLD_DATA would be misplaced or stolen somehow and P03 would find it. Then he could use its power, transitioning into Act 3.
We’ve got some great mods for that shit
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