@@whytheheckarewedoinginhere1886 IK. Once CPS came to my house just because my sister had a lot of earwax in her ears. Apparently it “looks like blood”. she wasn’t taken, but it was annoying.
Bruhh CPS sucks. We had to report a literal abuse case and the worker who came out to the family we reported watched the dad beat his daughter and then just left because "nothing was wrong" The kid is now homeless and CPS still wont do shit. Because they still say nothing is wrong
My theory is that the mom did the "thing" with a bat creature similar to the boy. She got pregnant and kept it a secret convincing the husband it was his. After the child was born and grew older, the dad realised the child looked very "different"from the other kids and confronts his wife about it. She confesses what she did. He gets mad and murders her and keeps the boy (who he now knows isnt his) in the basement.
it can not be man bat sperms just dies inside, it can not grow or anything else thats why people having seggs with dogs dont get pregnant and make a mutant dog man thing
IMO the child was completely in the right. At least ignoring the ending where he kills people. It seems like, to me at least, that the father killed his wife in a drunken rage, with the only witness being his son, so he locked him in the basement. I think the child somehow gained the powers through the dreams, rather than having dreams and instantly knowing how to use his latent vampire magic. It also seems like the father had no idea that the child was becoming more monsterous, as he seemed surprised by his child growing in size and spitting acid at him. I think that what happened is the father killed the mother, locked the kid in the basement, the kid got powers somehow, then the ending is decided by the player. So, IMO, the father was the real monster.
I hypothesize that the father's actions are closely related to his descent into alcoholism. He probably made the right call to keep his son in the basement but ended up abusing him due to his drinking. It would explain in the one ending where he killed himself after he took the life of the other person that he still cares about as I believe he didn't intend to kill his wife.
@@KordellCunningham keeping his son in the basement was a bad choice, if the father had shown some compassion and actually cared for his son, then the child wouldn't have become so violent.
dude just because a child is born a monster or something it doesnt mean its "Moral" to treat it like how the father treated it. if anything the real monster here is the one who abuses the monster while the monster is the most humane one
Sometimes isolation can be necessary, but abuse never is. The father was not right. He should have at the very least made a safe and pleasant environment for his child, fed him good food, given him love, not have hit and chained him,... poor little guy
I can't figure out how he's still got the kid, if he murdered the Mother. Either he's covered it up VERY well or the Police in that town during the murder are corrupt as hell...
Monster like him don't care about any one but them self, that's why they jade be lock up and never see the light of day ever again and then get in the death S for all there evil deeds like these
The part were the child was crying made ME cry, I sympathize with the kid he lost his only friend the only companion he ever had so it's no wonder why he would absolutely cry loudly
yea, at the very least have a way to save smelly, like if you manage to choke yourself out earlier, you'd get the abilities sooner and would save smelly before he died
I can relate, too, unfortunately. My only comfort was the thought that I’d one day turn 18 and could leave if I endured until then. Big hugs 🤗 I’m so very glad you’re in a better situation now. I wish you love, peace and healing and the best life has to offer❤️
It’s a case of: “do I value humans over this supposedly inhuman creature” or “do I think every sentient thing deserves decency, thus the father is a POS” ultimately, the game asks you whether the knowledge of the boy being a monstrous creature and having strange powers warrants the father’s abuse, when you were likely hating the father from the beginning. The idea that the child killed his mother though is in my opinion, faulty. Also, the fact doesn’t change that in every interaction, the father is the aggressor, in ending two he created the monster the boy ended up becoming.
i agree. only in one ending does he kill anyone. in the other endings he either leaves to live peacefully with cats or he ends up dead himself. he was an innocent kid who was tortured, it doesnt matter what he looked like.
killing his own mother is easily ruled out because it is shown that the child awakened his powers through the fear of the dad beating him up every time he did something wrong
This story is very much like the story of Frankenstein’s monster where he wanted love and affection and tried to make friends but everyone ran away from him in fear. With that being said, I agree with those in the comment section, abuse is never okay against children even if they are monsters. And it wasn’t even him spanking the child. HE BEAT HIM WITH A BASEBALL BAT! How is that even okay?
Yeah, that was a bot much, especially because it most likely isn't the story meant to be told. I will not say that I know the developers intentions, but in a more realistic take is that the child may be mentally handicapped or something along those lines and the father and the kids are too ignorant to the child's needs. Honesty, if it was because the child was handicapped, the game still paints that in a horrible light, idk. It feels weird that a game would try and make the stance that "some children deserve to be abused and locked in basements"
Especially because none of the actions prove he was actually a bat and didn't just have a disability that made people assume he's a monster. There's a ton of injuries and diseases/defects that cause pale skin which many would consider as bat like
Did the developers say that or did he say that? Either way a kid is a kid, they don’t truly understand how to control their emotions, hence why bat boy grew up to be bad (at least in 2 of the endings)
Yea honestly when he said that I felt really disgusted. Just because your child has “deformities” doesn’t mean you get to kill your wife and lock up your son and constantly beat him. Like in this case the boy was actually supernatural but him killing his father and the bullies was because of their abuse, not because he had no concept of right or wrong. He obviously did, with forgiving Smelly: “i am not my father”
I'm so, SO glad you covered this. I watched a playthrough of this really gorgeous game a while ago. As someone who suffered through similar trauma as this throughout my lifetime, it was very easy to get sucked into the narrative and the survival-esc situation that it posed... even if there were a few... odd moments. The game is ultimately very depressing and horrifying in it's own regard, and portrays that sense of helplessness really well, especially with how whenever you make the simplest mistake or noise, you face near immediate repercussions in the form of your father- whom one would assume would be the first you could trust in a situation like this- abusing you relentlessly, until you are knocked unconscious by his beatings or simply sleeping away the pain and ache. From the start to the end, I really felt this game. It may not be even close to a masterpiece, nor nearing one of the best games out there; but it does what it claims to achieve very well, and it does it some justice in itself.
My theory is that the father didn’t keep the boy in the basement for the child’s safety, I believe the father feared and hated the boy for how he looked and what he could do. The father even said (in a display with father rat and momma rat) to the mother,” Look at the spawn you’ve given me!” Also, the guy was just plain abusive and probably did kill the mom since the kid didn’t have his powers yet. In short terms, the dad was an abusive coward who sucked major time. The son was unfortunately born different than others so he was mistreated and abused. The mom was scared for her life, and because of small “mistakes,” she died by domestic violence.
@@ParvinBut Actually, Ending 1 would disapprove of this, because they say, "Although the police try to calm the population by declaring they are all baseless inventions," which meant the populace was afraid of the kid. So nobody would report the dead body. And in the end, the father actually did care about his son but was still not justified and is still a monster
It seems alot of the comments are ignoring that the kid probably looked like a monster from at least some kinda puberty or something. And maybe the mother was also a monster just undercover untill the dad found out and freaked out. Fear and embarrassment can make people do horrible things, especially to things not human. Makes sense why he gave him low quality food and beat him when he got into stuff or made to much noise. Alot of people do that to dogs. It's even a common trope in anime that humans are illogically creul to anything not labeled as human (and if you go even further real life). But then again, human or not, nothing deserves abuse if it hasn't earned it. Super powers, having bat puberty, or whatever. You could still have a loving relationship even if isolated untill further notice. The kids probably looked down there, got scared, and wanted him to just die. Humans man, just mean.
Yeah, I thought that too. I personally don't think that the kid murdered his own mother. From the looks of it, the dad despised the mother and abused her too so I think it makes more sense that he accidentally beat her to death. I don't know where people are getting the idea that it was the child who did it
@@dlr_rosa254 Because the child killed the other kids who called him a freak, showing that in that bat form he wasn't in full control or is more blood thirsty (Pun not intended ) But honestly, this game story would be better if it just stuck with reality and not the bat boy reveal.
Yes thousands of children are locked in their basement because they have supernatural powers But seriously its disgusting how a human can treat a fellow human like that
When Smelly died, and the child started crying, I actually felt that. My cat helped me get through some of the hardest times in my life, losing him would actually be devastating, the child felt just that. This was so sad.
While the game is good I would’ve liked for it to have just been a story about abuse and mistreatment towards children, things like this should be made more human
I honestly feel like the story would be better if they just don't add the bat stuff? Feels like the story would be much more human where it's all just imaginations of the child finally having power over his abuser rather than him being born as a freak . The ending kinda flops because the dad has justification to abuse the child . maybe if the ending have him dying and the father being punished or the child escaping and finally be able to live a healthy life will be much better
I agree with you on that part where the ending should have been somewhere that the child could have escaped had a better life but I can't agree with the bat as the story is literally symbolizing abuse through a child's eyes or just a victim's eyes.
Yea same…it just feels like a punch in the gut after making us sympathize so much with the kid just to say “lol you wrong he was a nightmarish monster this entire time” especially nowadays with so many people trying to help children like him out of situations like this
@@LogisticPeach Ah sorry if you think about that . I didn't meant to say the abuse is justified , it's just that the game build up so many sympathy for the child only for us to be told that the child is a monster and is dangerous making me feel that the ending has less impact than just making the child human
I think that what really happened is that the boy killed his mother accidentally, and his father was able to cover it up but was afraid of the boy, so he kept him in the basement. The father probably was conflicted and didn’t know what to do as he hated the boy from killing the mom and that he was afraid of the boy as he wasn’t human.
I feel like the father should've trained him to control his monster form or at least treat him good instead of treating him like an animal so he uses the abilitys he has for good and not kill with it and yes i know it may not be possible for him to control his monster form BUT he still treat him like an animal.
This one gets to me. My biological father was a piece of trash who ended up being 2 counts of child abuse, 1 of child neglect, and 1 of spousal abuse. He did a lot of awful things and even now as a grown woman, I still keep a weapon in my bedroom out of habit. If I don’t, I can’t sleep, I feel too exposed. I also have issues moving away from my family because often times, when I would try, that bastard would show back up and I’d return to help my mother and sister. I can’t stress this enough, if you notice a family who seems to have an abusive member, call DSS or the law. It is never “not your business”, that’s called bystander effect and it’s just as bad as joining in on the abuse. Again I say, IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING, you very well may end up helping someone more than you thought it would
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I don't think the kid was evil inherently, but the abuse and the lack of help from seemingly the whole town has played a role in shaping him. I don't think he kills purposefully, he's just reacting the way he's had too all his life and now people will always brand him as a monster not knowing why he is the way he is
@@GAM3RK1NG. that's one ending, my guy. If we're gonna talk about what the kid deserves, why not take into account the ending where he lived peacefully with cats and not hurting anyone? And thats also not even what I was talking about either lmao. I'm saying he's not inherently evil because let's be real, he wouldn't have killed those kids if he was raised properly and not treated like a monster. Idc if you think there's "proper justice" for ONE ending cause its not even what I asked 💀
It seems that the kid only got his powers during abuse and isolation. He probably would have grown up normal if he had, you know, lived normally. He was probably just locked up and abuse because he looked disabled. Children will also abuse the disabled, because they're psychopaths. I also doubt the Father actually cared, he just knew he couldn't get away with it and so went out like a coward.
@@thomasvangompel7211 don't want to get into heavy details, but I'll just say he's incredibly abusive, sexist, homophobic, racist and all that bad shit
this is the first time I completely disagreed with your take on a games story. the way I see it, the boy had some sort of disability growing up to cause the abusive father to chain him in the basement, the father was in absolutely no way right to do that. no wonder he grew up to be a serial killer because his father did that to him (not saying that this happens in real life, just a stereotype) I think people are trying to take this in some sort of supernatural direction but I see it as very raw and real. but thats just how I take it, especially as someone who had an abusive father as well. there are going to be some exaggerated bits like the acid and growing to an extreme size in the end, but thats so this story would translate better into a game
I've been locked up by myself as a child, beaten, neglected. But nothing I have ever gone through compares to this. I personally think all abusive parents should be executed. This way when I die I can find them in hell and make them SUFFER.
@@local_rp3969 just because he looks weird and has powers don't mean he boutta go out and slaughter people, what makes a person isn't how they were born, it's how they were raised.
That's the strongest child in all of existence. Just dealing with soo many cuts, diseases, bruises, beat marks from a WOODEN BAT that can kill a full-grown male, and just dealing with it... That child is a god. What an emotional dark game.
@@GAM3RK1NG. it attacks innocent people depending on the second ending but you can’t blame him for becoming a monster since he was a product of his environment is environment being nothing but a basement kids bullying him and his father swinging a bat at his head whenever he made too much noise.
My cat died on the very first day of this year, my 4 year-old niece took her outside the house and some dogs mauled her (the cat) to paralization, she couldn't move and eventually stopped breathing within an hour, she was still kicking and spasm as I held her and cried. I had to bury her. The cat dying hits me so hard
I honestly feel like the father is selfish there’s no justifying what his actions were because I felt like the child that he had he was not proud of and he felt embarrassed by it which is why he continue to abuse the child because it doesn’t make any sense I understand keeping your child away from other kids but why does he have to get abused and obviously the monster or boy has human traits so it’s obviously easy to teach him right from wrong it just doesn’t make any sense the dad dropped the ball worst dad in the world baring that father from Fullmetal alchemist
See nothing will have happened if the father didn't kill the mother and/or if the mother left sooner. Rarely is a child evil by nature and if they gave the boy a proper upbringing there was going to be little chance for him to become a killer
I know the feeling of this loneliness, the feeling of seeing everyone around you but still feeling lonely or left out because nobody bothered. Rarely I see people like these coming out as forgiving types as most of them will turn to revenge or just hate people for treating them as such.
I think the boy gaining powers and becoming batlike might be symbolic of how the abusive parents can turn their children into monsters. The whole cycle of abuse thing
One thing i find honestly super sad is that no matter what ending you get, none of them are good. The abused boy is either treated as some conspiracy theory, a murderer(though he is in that one), and only when hes been murdered is he sympathized with. It's nearly worse that no one seems to care until he's dead, because if the kids knew he was trapped and were bullying him the adults probably did too :((
If I am the developer of the game, I would remove the part where the child got the supernatural abilities. He will just be a plain boy locked by his abusive father in their basement. The aim of the game is to either acquire help outside their house or stealth/brute-force his way out his abusive situation. To acquire help, I am thinking of acquiring skills such as writing. After crafting a sufficient note that could inform someone of his situation and location, he will use his companion Smelly because it was shown in the game that Smelly can go outside, right? Basically, it will be about about acquiring human skills to escape. I think that would be a much better concept because child domestic violence is a real thing that happens to millions of children around the world. Initially, I honestly found the idea of this game deeply horrifying and compelling for the social issue it tried to address. But the ending showing that the child is literally a monster made me question the emotions I felt throughout the game. It suddenly left me dissociated from the protagonist.
But in ending 1 he has a normal life, most likely without any murders and possibly shows compassion to others since he decided not to kill the father despite what he did
I think Eminem's stepdad sums up the whole game perfectly I'll leave a link to the song if anyone's interested but who hasn't heard it at this point? Maybe it's just me but it makes too much sense the entire game made me angry abuse is never justifiable I'm not surprised that one of the endings involves the child eventually snapping and killing his dad if he had shown love maybe it would have been different he pretty much set himself up for this long ago he chose to abuse and torture his child and now he's paying the price
I have a separate take, I feel that somethings take place in his imagination, climbing on walls, fighting monsters, and becoming a giant to scare his dad. I think the venom part could be true but in another sense, he's trapped in a basement, possibly with chemicals he's never seen before, one day he gets more curious than normal and realizes what they are, he then uses them in each ending. (Thowing them on the father and burning him, buring the metal bars, ect.) The "bat-boy" thing is probably because he's pale and sickly because of his time locked away and starved.
I was thinking the same thing. People seem to take the whole monster thing as being actually true, but I think it's more symbolic than anything. From what can be seen throughout the game, and the child's pov, I think it's possible they were abused because of their appearance. In the display with the rats, the father says "Look at the spawn you’ve given me!” This could mean that the child was physically deformed, or that they had a disability of some sort. The father was ashamed and embarrassed at having a kid that wasn't "normal" and started mistreating the child and the mother. Then I'm thinking that, after God knows how long of dealing with the abuse, the mother had gotten tired of her husband's actions and tried to leave with the child, but the father caught them and killed the mother (either by accident or on purpose). Then, like the coward he is, he locked the child in the basement and continued to abuse them. The father possibly even blamed the child for their mother's death as a rationalization for his treatment, as many abusive parents will often use the death of their partner to justify their abuse, especially if the partner died when the child was born. As the child spends possibly years of the inhumane treatment, from the father and from the other children in the neighborhood, they begin to become bitter and hateful, their mind delving into dark territory, which is where the dreams come in with the child gaining powers. They're to symbolize the child becoming twisted by negativity and becoming more and more monstrous as time goes on. Then, after Smelly's death, the child loses their one tether to humanity and just completely loses themselves to their hatred, figuratively transforming into a monster. Then, after killing the father, the child goes on to murder the other children who had tormented them and laughed at their suffering, ultimately becoming a serial killer. The whole game is just symbolic of how monsters are created by the environment they are brought up in. People like to think that people are just born as psychotic killers and monsters, and some of them are. But many are made into monsters because the people around them, for whatever reason, decided to treat them like they were garbage, with no decency or respect or love.
My cat actually came looking for Smelly when when he/she was crying in the vent. And then jumped up into my lap when I teared up as the kid mourned for the kitty.
Holy shit!!!! I was totally expecting the kid to be dead from the beatings and those “dreams” be delusions/his life flashing before his eyes…….but for the kid to actually be a monster…..that’s a nice twist.
Kind of a cope out ending imo. Instead of better explaining why the dad believed beating the kid daily was a better option or what happened to the mom or how the town knew. they just say monster child and expect us to agree with it.
A really sad but amazing game. Its possible that the mother was a monster herself but like the child she was as human as anyone else was, which is why she didn't defend herself against the father even as he was also abusing her. In some ways I think this game sends the message that you can't judge a book by its cover and even if look or are a monster, the real monsters are based on one's actions rather than their identity or how they look. The child only became a monster after taking out his revenge on others while the father was already one for abusing his family.
I think the choice of depicting the child as a “bat boy” was a homage to children with disabilities. Any child can be abused, but it’s sad to note that children that are considered “abnormal” are more likely to be abused. And considering just how much of the horror genre is characterized by Ableism, I’m pretty sure that’s the case.
The worst thing my dad ever did to me physically was kick me in the ribs when he meant to kick the dog but he was so drunk his aim was off It was during a barbecue and in front of his family my uncle jumped up and punched him in the face as I cried I had 3 bruised ribs ........come to think of it my parents divorce started not long after that incident
My theory is that the child is kept at home so they don’t get attacked for being different, but they picture it as them being imprisoned. The fact that in the 3rd ending, the dad commits suicide after killing the child, likely means he feels guilty for doing it, which wouldn’t make sense if he hated the child.
This one of the few horror games that made me cry, If I see something sad I just can’t help but cry and I was in tears playing through the entire things and I’m glad I played it, it was amazing the entire way through
Is this a theory or the official canon? I personally think that the conditions the child was in caused him to morph, and he earned abilities along the way because he was slowly transforming
12:23 "The father trapping him down there could've possibly been the right choice" No it wasn't?? Maybe if the boy was already a monster and was being kept down there for everyone's safety, then (MAYBE??) it would've been the right choice. But he wasn't trapped down there for everyone's safety, he was trapped down there because his father is abusive. Yes, the boy became a monster and killed people, but he's still a child and children don't really know right from wrong. His father on the other hand, knew what he was doing and abused him and possibly fed him animal food. You can't call the boy a monster because of his appearance when the real monster is the father.
have you even consider that his mother might have been a monster or somthing and father killed her because he discovered that she might even have been a vampire
Personal theory: the dad was abusive to the mom, maybe angry that "she gave him a monster son" (awful way of thinking, but it could've been his thought process). The mom, in the mean time, though loving and caring, made money by taking him to fairs and exposing him as a "freak", thus why the kids know that he is a bat boy. The murder could have happened in one of two ways: 1) the dad murdered the mom, as the kid narrates, either because he didn't want the mother to expose his son anymore, now matter how much of a "monster" he was (giving way to the protection theory), or just out of rage. 2) the son was the culprit, by accident, vomiting acid on her. Over all, very interesting game! Also whoever voiced the kid did an incredible job, holy shit it was brutal.
Great story, very dumb ending. It would have been a lot better if the kid was trying to cope with his situation by imagining he has super powers and such. Would have made it significantly more relatable and much more impactful than this bat boy story. This twists the narratives from a deep psychological trauma and cool concept to: haha bat boy goes brrrrrrrr. Father was trapping monster *clap* *clap*
Hard disagree, I thought this ending was really interesting and while your idea is neat too, I think the original game's ending is great too. Although to be fair, that's probably a large part because I'm an absolute sucker for any "sympathetic/protagonist monster" stories.
I think the husband killed wife cuz I think the wife loved her child so much she wouldn’t want anyone to take him away from her so the husband did the rational thing and killed his wife and he couldn’t handle the guilt so he took it out on his son usually abuse so that’s what I think what happened.
How is murder the rational thing lol? They could've just homeschooled their child and kept him hidden until he learned to properly control his powers. I think the mother was also part bat and got unexpectedly pregnant with the father. Maybe they thought about being a family but when they saw that the kid turned out more bat than human, the father turned bitter and turned to drinking. He probably accidentally killed the mother in a past beating and then focused all that abuse on his child.
If you’re going to make a game about child abuse, make a game about child abuse. The bat boy reveal in the endings is interesting but it takes the “oomph” out of the entire thing for me. Tons of children go through this all the time. R, I know you cover horror games but next time *please* throw in trigger warnings. I legit cried when Smelly died and the boy was howling over his death.
From what I gather, ending 2 is likely only the bullies and father who died. As he showed compassion, and clearly likes cats in the first ending, he likely punished the bullies. Our knowledge of the bullies is very limited, so I have a theory: The boy is born odd for whatever reason, and in the game he seems to be VERY young, we're talking maybe 5-6 from his drawings and crying. At this age, kids start being painfully cruel, but they can also respond with violence if upset or hurt by someone, so it's possible he started developing an odd appearance and may have been in contact with the children at some point, such as trying to play with them in the garden. They in turn could've lashed out, bullied him, and made his parents realize the world will hate him, sealing their fate should he escape as he would remember the hurt and retaliate as a child does. The mother loves her son regardless, but the father can't handle the stress of work and of a freak child. He starts to drink, more and more over time, till one day he comes home and gets angry. His wife defends her son, maybe even threatening to leave as his spite grows stronger and stronger. He gets mad. REALLY mad. Maybe mad enough to try kill the boy. He lashes out, but kills the wrong person in his drunken stupor, as the mother tries to defend the child but merely gets her skull split by a metal bat instead. The boy sees this and is horrified, the father blames the son because "if you were never born, she'd still be alive". He beats him, locks him up, because he resents him and wants him to suffer, drinking himself to death in the process. At the end of the game, when his son mutates, he panics and realizes he won't be able to beat him anymore, fearing for his life. But, in ending 3, when he kills the boy, he realizes... There's no one left to blame. Alone with his thoughts, his son and wife dead by his own hands, realizing that he's killed both and suddenly seeing clearly for the first time in his life, he turns the gun on himself. No amount of alcohol can wash away his sins now. He can drink to forget, but he will always remember. He pulls the trigger and the last of the family is gone. It's just a theory, but I like to think it holds water quite well.
I'm fully convinced that the poor kid gaining supernatural powers (climbing, jumping, spitting acidic vomit) is based off children making up revenge fantasies against their abusive parents, where they imagine themselves as monsters or heroes while the abusive parent is the villain or the weaker monster itself.
I have an idea that the father is a military veteran (judging by the posters) and his alcoholism may stem from PTSD and the death of his wife. It may be likely that the father suffers from violent outbursts thus resulting in the abuse
the moans and groans of the child when he finds his dead cat and being chained if awful, he goes through an awful condition with his face, being bullied, in an unsafe housing space, no mother, no great food, no education, a drunk dad and being inhumane, his drawings cant even be on paper, practically being around a basement with metal items that can fall oon him. its truly sad.
Keeping the child away from people makes sense if he's a bat like monster, but abusing him is completely wrong in any sense. He didn't deserve to be beaten and starved everyday. Maybe if he had been shown love, raised properly and taught about the world he may not have gone out and killed people after finally being free
I want the devs to update the game to make an ending where you escape with smelly before smelly dies and there is a way to get acid spit early so you and smelly escape early
When I was younger (5-7 year old) my mom went on a work delegation abroad. I was left with my dad that has beaten me up in various ocasions, and not letting me out of the room. I had a degu ive got when i was 6, but he has stabbed it with a knife at my own eyes. When my mother came back, she divorced my dad and now im free because of her, still with many bruises and trauma.
Dialogue I have for the three endings. Ending 1: You've done it son. I'm proud of you. I never wanted to beat you... I got consumed by my own addiction. That's on me boy. And the beatings. And the dog food. You've escaped, but I can never feel more proud of you... Goodbye, son. I hope you don't have to see me again. Live a good life... without me in it. Ending 2: Heh... you killed your own father... ...It's okay. I deserved that. I wanted to keep you safe... yet I gave you the worst life possible because of my addiction. You never deserved any of it. And Smelly? I'm sorry for your loss. You can live your own life now. You're free. Free from my oppression, free from anything bad. Goodbye son. May you live a long and healthy life. Be happy for me, okay? I'm sorry... son. I just wanted to care for you... keep you safe from those horrible bullies. But I got consumed by my own addiction... and I tortured you. Beat you in the most terrible ways any child can experience. Then... I killed you. Something which I never should have done. I'll be honest. You were a good kid. You were never a monster, so you deserve a happy ending. I'm the monster here... physically and mentally. I deserve a terrible ending. Goodbye, son. Rest in peace. May you sing with the angels high above.
What sickens me when I play games like this is you just know what the Father's attitude would be if he went to Court, that he'd suddenly become Dad of the Year and scream "YOU CAN'T TAKE MY KID, I'M HIS FATHER! I LOVE HIM, CAN'T YOU SEE THAT?!" EDIT:Ok, I should have waited until the end... Good on you,Dad...
Honestly. I don't think the father killed himself in the third ending because he cared. I think it was because he was a coward, who didn't want to face the consequences of abusing and later murdering his own child (If that doesn't get you life without parole or death, you're certainly going to end up forever kept at a measurable length from anyone.)
11:23 the picture does not explicitly show that the father killed the mother, nor does the roleplay with the rats, it may have been that the mother was sent into the basement, where the child killed her.
@@Smileyfacemanguy well, there is no blood on that blue stick, if it was implying that the father killed the mother with that, you would think it would have blood, no?
Ending 1: I honestly like better because the fact that the Bat Boy kind of wanted to be close to the cats just like smelly. He wasn't trying to hurt anyone and he wasn't trying to be a problem as all he wanted was to show his love but just like many things in this world people hate things that they don't understand. Ending 2: I really didn't care for the sending because the fact that it was just straight-up Revenge because it said he went after three boys and his father indicating he killed the bullies and went after the father as well. Ending 3: The third ending was just stupid as the father did not pay for his crimes he just killed himself just so that he didn't have to deal with the guilt of killing his own child. When it came to the mother though I kind of came to the conclusion that it might have been the child but it would have probably been by accident like if the child sneezed and accidentally spit acid when sneezing which caused her to die through her face melting along with her eyes.
Yeah even though the child is... different. The child didn’t deserve to be treated like that. Honestly the ending where the father and bullies die is a happy one to me 💁🏼♀️
Gamersault if you could do hunting bigfoot i would like to see you explaine it but anyway great video but i felt bad for the cat just fells wrong. Hope you have great day
Theory: the reason he kept the kid in the basement is because the dad doesn’t want to grow attention to him and so that people don’t get suspicious of the house and go there and the dad knocks him out to grow less attention
Yeah but by doing that he caused a rift between his child which caused one of the three endings to happen unwanted attention from the FBI or straight up the unwanted attention from a bat child. And last but most certainly not least a killer bat creature on the loose whatever his form of protection was it probably would’ve been better if he was just doing the whole treating him like a normal kid that never goes out of his room type of scenario
This game broke me, I never found a game that made me sad as much as this game. how the kid was treated and the cat dying just caused me to break down.
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It's even sadder when you realise that there are kids who are going through this and will probably never be saved.
Yeah, meanwhile CPS takes kids away from their good parents without any evidences to be sure that they not abusive.
ya
@@whytheheckarewedoinginhere1886 IK. Once CPS came to my house just because my sister had a lot of earwax in her ears. Apparently it “looks like blood”. she wasn’t taken, but it was annoying.
Bruhh CPS sucks. We had to report a literal abuse case and the worker who came out to the family we reported watched the dad beat his daughter and then just left because "nothing was wrong"
The kid is now homeless and CPS still wont do shit. Because they still say nothing is wrong
@@blendedmilkk that's some serious shit
When Smelly's lifeless body was discovered and the child mourns for his loss, I actually cried too. That was the saddest part for me.
chees 🧀
As it happened I remember my lost cat so it hit hard
I was hoping Smelly would survive.
But alas, it was not to be.
RIP Smelly.
Press F to pay respects.
Why on earth did I scroll the comments during the video 😿
@@darthmomo6548 because you're curious
My theory is that the mom did the "thing" with a bat creature similar to the boy. She got pregnant and kept it a secret convincing the husband it was his. After the child was born and grew older, the dad realised the child looked very "different"from the other kids and confronts his wife about it. She confesses what she did. He gets mad and murders her and keeps the boy (who he now knows isnt his) in the basement.
Makes sense except idk why he wouldn't just kill it like the dad cares about the boy to a extent which wouldn't make sense if he wasn't his
are you telling me the mother banged a bat?
it can not be man bat sperms just dies inside, it can not grow or anything else thats why people having seggs with dogs dont get pregnant and make a mutant dog man thing
@@kevinjones7685 he might had kept him out of spite
@@Re-writer233 true, idk where you find a creature like this though XD
IMO the child was completely in the right. At least ignoring the ending where he kills people. It seems like, to me at least, that the father killed his wife in a drunken rage, with the only witness being his son, so he locked him in the basement. I think the child somehow gained the powers through the dreams, rather than having dreams and instantly knowing how to use his latent vampire magic. It also seems like the father had no idea that the child was becoming more monsterous, as he seemed surprised by his child growing in size and spitting acid at him. I think that what happened is the father killed the mother, locked the kid in the basement, the kid got powers somehow, then the ending is decided by the player. So, IMO, the father was the real monster.
I think the ending was metaphorical. Showing how abusive households can create literal monsters.
@@sophiawilliams4810 That's what I got out of the game. It was hard for me to watch. But it is a beautifully well done game.
The Kidd was always a monster he just started becoming one day by day until smelly's death made him snap
I hypothesize that the father's actions are closely related to his descent into alcoholism. He probably made the right call to keep his son in the basement but ended up abusing him due to his drinking. It would explain in the one ending where he killed himself after he took the life of the other person that he still cares about as I believe he didn't intend to kill his wife.
@@KordellCunningham keeping his son in the basement was a bad choice, if the father had shown some compassion and actually cared for his son, then the child wouldn't have become so violent.
dude just because a child is born a monster or something it doesnt mean its "Moral" to treat it like how the father treated it. if anything the real monster here is the one who abuses the monster while the monster is the most humane one
Agreed
that goes without saying.
I personally think if the child was raised right and wasn’t tortured and beat they could have been a “superhero” with their bat like powers.
it was a very terrible take indeed
I’m pretty sure he was throwing out questions and playing devil’s advocate. I doubt he meant for that to be his real takeaway.
Sometimes isolation can be necessary, but abuse never is. The father was not right. He should have at the very least made a safe and pleasant environment for his child, fed him good food, given him love, not have hit and chained him,... poor little guy
I can't figure out how he's still got the kid, if he murdered the Mother. Either he's covered it up VERY well or the Police in that town during the murder are corrupt as hell...
Monster like him don't care about any one but them self, that's why they jade be lock up and never see the light of day ever again and then get in the death S for all there evil deeds like these
there is no way a child cries like that
@@freakystories3583 are you talking about the dad or the child?
How could isolation be necessary?
The part were the child was crying made ME cry, I sympathize with the kid he lost his only friend the only companion he ever had so it's no wonder why he would absolutely cry loudly
yea, at the very least have a way to save smelly, like if you manage to choke yourself out earlier, you'd get the abilities sooner and would save smelly before he died
This poor child, being tormented and being treated badly. Reminds me of my childhood. I say the true horror is the brutality of humanity.
I'm so sorry for whatever you went through. Hope that you have a better life now
@@oliviaforrester2983 I'm quite alright now, I'm happily live with my grandma and going to college. I thank you for the encouragement
Most of the deaths in history were because of humans
I can relate, too, unfortunately. My only comfort was the thought that I’d one day turn 18 and could leave if I endured until then.
Big hugs 🤗 I’m so very glad you’re in a better situation now. I wish you love, peace and healing and the best life has to offer❤️
Humans are the true monsters
It’s a case of: “do I value humans over this supposedly inhuman creature” or “do I think every sentient thing deserves decency, thus the father is a POS” ultimately, the game asks you whether the knowledge of the boy being a monstrous creature and having strange powers warrants the father’s abuse, when you were likely hating the father from the beginning. The idea that the child killed his mother though is in my opinion, faulty. Also, the fact doesn’t change that in every interaction, the father is the aggressor, in ending two he created the monster the boy ended up becoming.
i agree. only in one ending does he kill anyone. in the other endings he either leaves to live peacefully with cats or he ends up dead himself. he was an innocent kid who was tortured, it doesnt matter what he looked like.
I value neither, Ave Akranhan.
killing his own mother is easily ruled out because it is shown that the child awakened his powers through the fear of the dad beating him up every time he did something wrong
True
This story is very much like the story of Frankenstein’s monster where he wanted love and affection and tried to make friends but everyone ran away from him in fear.
With that being said, I agree with those in the comment section, abuse is never okay against children even if they are monsters. And it wasn’t even him spanking the child. HE BEAT HIM WITH A BASEBALL BAT! How is that even okay?
it’s not okay to murder innocents
Not to mention it's made of steel, it's like a metal pipe
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and it's filled with people who are filled with shit and the vermin of the world inhabit it...
Yhhhhh it's the one year anniversary of you creating video games explained for horror congrats
@Mijia Ersin have you heard of *single* player Sudoku?
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to be completely honest "maybe it was right to abuse this child because he became a monster after ceaseless abuse" is a pretty rancid take my guy
Yeah, that was a bot much, especially because it most likely isn't the story meant to be told.
I will not say that I know the developers intentions, but in a more realistic take is that the child may be mentally handicapped or something along those lines and the father and the kids are too ignorant to the child's needs.
Honesty, if it was because the child was handicapped, the game still paints that in a horrible light, idk.
It feels weird that a game would try and make the stance that "some children deserve to be abused and locked in basements"
Especially because none of the actions prove he was actually a bat and didn't just have a disability that made people assume he's a monster. There's a ton of injuries and diseases/defects that cause pale skin which many would consider as bat like
@@JDM-is-my-name the child was either gifted or cursed with the powers needed to escape, based off of what he was forced to live in; rot and decay.
Did the developers say that or did he say that? Either way a kid is a kid, they don’t truly understand how to control their emotions, hence why bat boy grew up to be bad (at least in 2 of the endings)
Yea honestly when he said that I felt really disgusted. Just because your child has “deformities” doesn’t mean you get to kill your wife and lock up your son and constantly beat him. Like in this case the boy was actually supernatural but him killing his father and the bullies was because of their abuse, not because he had no concept of right or wrong. He obviously did, with forgiving Smelly: “i am not my father”
I'm so, SO glad you covered this. I watched a playthrough of this really gorgeous game a while ago.
As someone who suffered through similar trauma as this throughout my lifetime, it was very easy to get sucked into the narrative and the survival-esc situation that it posed... even if there were a few... odd moments.
The game is ultimately very depressing and horrifying in it's own regard, and portrays that sense of helplessness really well, especially with how whenever you make the simplest mistake or noise, you face near immediate repercussions in the form of your father- whom one would assume would be the first you could trust in a situation like this- abusing you relentlessly, until you are knocked unconscious by his beatings or simply sleeping away the pain and ache. From the start to the end, I really felt this game.
It may not be even close to a masterpiece, nor nearing one of the best games out there; but it does what it claims to achieve very well, and it does it some justice in itself.
My theory is that the father didn’t keep the boy in the basement for the child’s safety, I believe the father feared and hated the boy for how he looked and what he could do. The father even said (in a display with father rat and momma rat) to the mother,” Look at the spawn you’ve given me!” Also, the guy was just plain abusive and probably did kill the mom since the kid didn’t have his powers yet.
In short terms, the dad was an abusive coward who sucked major time. The son was unfortunately born different than others so he was mistreated and abused. The mom was scared for her life, and because of small “mistakes,” she died by domestic violence.
It doesnt explain why the father killed himself then in the 3 ending
@@laurdragan968 maybe he didn’t want to go to prison for the rest of his life
@@ParvinBut just keep the body hidden nobody would care if he was dead
@@ParvinBut Actually, Ending 1 would disapprove of this, because they say, "Although the police try to calm the population by declaring they are all baseless inventions," which meant the populace was afraid of the kid. So nobody would report the dead body. And in the end, the father actually did care about his son but was still not justified and is still a monster
It seems alot of the comments are ignoring that the kid probably looked like a monster from at least some kinda puberty or something. And maybe the mother was also a monster just undercover untill the dad found out and freaked out. Fear and embarrassment can make people do horrible things, especially to things not human. Makes sense why he gave him low quality food and beat him when he got into stuff or made to much noise. Alot of people do that to dogs. It's even a common trope in anime that humans are illogically creul to anything not labeled as human (and if you go even further real life). But then again, human or not, nothing deserves abuse if it hasn't earned it. Super powers, having bat puberty, or whatever. You could still have a loving relationship even if isolated untill further notice.
The kids probably looked down there, got scared, and wanted him to just die. Humans man, just mean.
Yeah, I thought that too. I personally don't think that the kid murdered his own mother. From the looks of it, the dad despised the mother and abused her too so I think it makes more sense that he accidentally beat her to death. I don't know where people are getting the idea that it was the child who did it
@@dlr_rosa254 Because the child killed the other kids who called him a freak, showing that in that bat form he wasn't in full control or is more blood thirsty (Pun not intended ) But honestly, this game story would be better if it just stuck with reality and not the bat boy reveal.
yet that bat killed innocent people who did nothing wrong so, monsters man.
@@GAM3RK1NG. but he didnt know that and he never did know hes w monster..... Why didnt the father just show him a mirror im wondering
Did you really just say that people who do that to dogs are normal?
I feel like the bat boy twist was supposed to be symbolism for the cycle of abuse, and how it turns those into fugertive monsters.
Yes
The sad part about this is that this happens to 1000s upon 1000s of children every single day.
Yes thousands of children are locked in their basement because they have supernatural powers
But seriously its disgusting how a human can treat a fellow human like that
Yeah, I watched Manlybadasshero play this and had to constantly close the video because of how scary and disgusting(the abuse) was
I wish I was surprised, but I'm not. All this does is fan the flames of my hatred for humanity.
@@Anonymous-hx3pu yeah, it sucks how corrupt society is
When Smelly died, and the child started crying, I actually felt that. My cat helped me get through some of the hardest times in my life, losing him would actually be devastating, the child felt just that. This was so sad.
While the game is good I would’ve liked for it to have just been a story about abuse and mistreatment towards children, things like this should be made more human
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wow dude thank you for making such a good game like that that was so good...
please for the love of god add a way to save smelly, like getting choked out earlier to get the abilities sooner
Cool game bro
Why’d you have to have Smelly die you guys made me cry please add an ability to save Smelly :(
Hi
I honestly feel like the story would be better if they just don't add the bat stuff? Feels like the story would be much more human where it's all just imaginations of the child finally having power over his abuser rather than him being born as a freak . The ending kinda flops because the dad has justification to abuse the child . maybe if the ending have him dying and the father being punished or the child escaping and finally be able to live a healthy life will be much better
I agree with you on that part where the ending should have been somewhere that the child could have escaped had a better life but I can't agree with the bat as the story is literally symbolizing abuse through a child's eyes or just a victim's eyes.
Yea same…it just feels like a punch in the gut after making us sympathize so much with the kid just to say “lol you wrong he was a nightmarish monster this entire time” especially nowadays with so many people trying to help children like him out of situations like this
I do not think that the ending gave the father any kind of justification to abuse the child, he had plenty of better options when it happened
It’s just a bat child how is abuse justified?
@@LogisticPeach Ah sorry if you think about that . I didn't meant to say the abuse is justified , it's just that the game build up so many sympathy for the child only for us to be told that the child is a monster and is dangerous making me feel that the ending has less impact than just making the child human
I think that what really happened is that the boy killed his mother accidentally, and his father was able to cover it up but was afraid of the boy, so he kept him in the basement. The father probably was conflicted and didn’t know what to do as he hated the boy from killing the mom and that he was afraid of the boy as he wasn’t human.
That's just a horrible uno reverse
i think that you're wrong
Yep they are right
@@someguy8115 It's a theory
He clearly only keeps him alive out of spite. I wouldn't call that "conflicted"
I feel like the father should've trained him to control his monster form or at least treat him good instead of treating him like an animal so he uses the abilitys he has for good and not kill with it and yes i know it may not be possible for him to control his monster form BUT he still treat him like an animal.
I mean yeah, even if he kept him locked away he could've treated him well but instead he angered him
The question is if he was a bat thing than was his mother also cuz humans cant breed demons
@@horacemorell3230 but humans could birth the son of god. Maybe he's the anti Christ or something.
This one gets to me. My biological father was a piece of trash who ended up being 2 counts of child abuse, 1 of child neglect, and 1 of spousal abuse. He did a lot of awful things and even now as a grown woman, I still keep a weapon in my bedroom out of habit. If I don’t, I can’t sleep, I feel too exposed. I also have issues moving away from my family because often times, when I would try, that bastard would show back up and I’d return to help my mother and sister. I can’t stress this enough, if you notice a family who seems to have an abusive member, call DSS or the law. It is never “not your business”, that’s called bystander effect and it’s just as bad as joining in on the abuse. Again I say, IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING, you very well may end up helping someone more than you thought it would
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How you know this? Sus
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I don't think the kid was evil inherently, but the abuse and the lack of help from seemingly the whole town has played a role in shaping him. I don't think he kills purposefully, he's just reacting the way he's had too all his life and now people will always brand him as a monster not knowing why he is the way he is
that monster killed innocents either way, bad childhood or not. justice was served and he died.
@@GAM3RK1NG. NO you're stupidly wrong
@@GAM3RK1NG. that's one ending, my guy. If we're gonna talk about what the kid deserves, why not take into account the ending where he lived peacefully with cats and not hurting anyone? And thats also not even what I was talking about either lmao. I'm saying he's not inherently evil because let's be real, he wouldn't have killed those kids if he was raised properly and not treated like a monster. Idc if you think there's "proper justice" for ONE ending cause its not even what I asked 💀
@@GAM3RK1NG.Bro... that's literally messed up that you said that...
It seems that the kid only got his powers during abuse and isolation. He probably would have grown up normal if he had, you know, lived normally.
He was probably just locked up and abuse because he looked disabled. Children will also abuse the disabled, because they're psychopaths.
I also doubt the Father actually cared, he just knew he couldn't get away with it and so went out like a coward.
This game shows how humanity could be oh so cruel, kinda reminds me of how my first 6 years of my life were forgotten due to what my own dad did
What did your dad do
@@thomasvangompel7211 don't want to get into heavy details, but I'll just say he's incredibly abusive, sexist, homophobic, racist and all that bad shit
@@thomasvangompel7211 if they've forgotten then it was probably something extremely traumatic.
blame the monster too, the one that killed random people and even killed children.
@@thomasvangompel7211 check their name
this is the first time I completely disagreed with your take on a games story. the way I see it, the boy had some sort of disability growing up to cause the abusive father to chain him in the basement, the father was in absolutely no way right to do that. no wonder he grew up to be a serial killer because his father did that to him (not saying that this happens in real life, just a stereotype) I think people are trying to take this in some sort of supernatural direction but I see it as very raw and real. but thats just how I take it, especially as someone who had an abusive father as well. there are going to be some exaggerated bits like the acid and growing to an extreme size in the end, but thats so this story would translate better into a game
He's not a serial killer tho, the only people he kill is his abusive father and the boy who bully him
I've been locked up by myself as a child, beaten, neglected. But nothing I have ever gone through compares to this. I personally think all abusive parents should be executed. This way when I die I can find them in hell and make them SUFFER.
The serial killer is only one of a few endings if is the bad ending
when being a fatherless child was a better choice
So you think turning into beast that cause a fear into your relatives and people is good
@@local_rp3969 bro it's just a joke chillax
@@local_rp3969 r/wooosh
@@znain-kx9sh Reddit moment
@@local_rp3969 just because he looks weird and has powers don't mean he boutta go out and slaughter people, what makes a person isn't how they were born, it's how they were raised.
When a horror game only has bad endings
It's not even spooky at this point just sad
That's the strongest child in all of existence. Just dealing with soo many cuts, diseases, bruises, beat marks from a WOODEN BAT that can kill a full-grown male, and just dealing with it... That child is a god. What an emotional dark game.
Well he is some form of bat monster
Ya
ain’t no child, that monster attacked innocent people.
@@GAM3RK1NG. it attacks innocent people depending on the second ending but you can’t blame him for becoming a monster since he was a product of his environment is environment being nothing but a basement kids bullying him and his father swinging a bat at his head whenever he made too much noise.
@@mattmetawolf8634 so you can’t blame hitler for “being a monster” i guess, because he had a horrible childhood.
My cat died on the very first day of this year, my 4 year-old niece took her outside the house and some dogs mauled her (the cat) to paralization, she couldn't move and eventually stopped breathing within an hour, she was still kicking and spasm as I held her and cried. I had to bury her. The cat dying hits me so hard
that’s horrible. As someone who has lost a cat, I am so sorry.
Me too. I love kitties. That was really sad. Condolences.
My dog also died during the last day's of the December. He was with us the when he was born and died at the age of 12. His death was really tragic.
Me too. It’s got me crying like the kid
I'm sorry to hear for your loss, losing a cat is very hard...
I honestly feel like the father is selfish there’s no justifying what his actions were because I felt like the child that he had he was not proud of and he felt embarrassed by it which is why he continue to abuse the child because it doesn’t make any sense I understand keeping your child away from other kids but why does he have to get abused and obviously the monster or boy has human traits so it’s obviously easy to teach him right from wrong it just doesn’t make any sense the dad dropped the ball worst dad in the world baring that father from Fullmetal alchemist
See nothing will have happened if the father didn't kill the mother and/or if the mother left sooner. Rarely is a child evil by nature and if they gave the boy a proper upbringing there was going to be little chance for him to become a killer
I know the feeling of this loneliness, the feeling of seeing everyone around you but still feeling lonely or left out because nobody bothered. Rarely I see people like these coming out as forgiving types as most of them will turn to revenge or just hate people for treating them as such.
I think the boy gaining powers and becoming batlike might be symbolic of how the abusive parents can turn their children into monsters. The whole cycle of abuse thing
One thing i find honestly super sad is that no matter what ending you get, none of them are good. The abused boy is either treated as some conspiracy theory, a murderer(though he is in that one), and only when hes been murdered is he sympathized with. It's nearly worse that no one seems to care until he's dead, because if the kids knew he was trapped and were bullying him the adults probably did too :((
If I am the developer of the game, I would remove the part where the child got the supernatural abilities. He will just be a plain boy locked by his abusive father in their basement. The aim of the game is to either acquire help outside their house or stealth/brute-force his way out his abusive situation. To acquire help, I am thinking of acquiring skills such as writing. After crafting a sufficient note that could inform someone of his situation and location, he will use his companion Smelly because it was shown in the game that Smelly can go outside, right? Basically, it will be about about acquiring human skills to escape. I think that would be a much better concept because child domestic violence is a real thing that happens to millions of children around the world. Initially, I honestly found the idea of this game deeply horrifying and compelling for the social issue it tried to address. But the ending showing that the child is literally a monster made me question the emotions I felt throughout the game. It suddenly left me dissociated from the protagonist.
IS THIS BASED?
Ending 3 is probably the best possible ending in this game. The child doesn't become a murder or monster and the father takes his life
Yeah good riddence
To the father, not the child
But in ending 1 he has a normal life, most likely without any murders and possibly shows compassion to others since he decided not to kill the father despite what he did
However, in ending 2 he gets his revenge for all the torment his father inflicted on him. Only that i expected more savagery other than acid spit.
i just like the endings where the father dies :)
*[My parents may anger me sometimes, but I’m very lucky I was blessed with them. I feel sad for all of the poor souls that have to go through this.]*
The kid's crying made me actually tear up. The situation given is just too hard to take for the player's perspective like, shit
I think Eminem's stepdad sums up the whole game perfectly I'll leave a link to the song if anyone's interested but who hasn't heard it at this point? Maybe it's just me but it makes too much sense the entire game made me angry abuse is never justifiable I'm not surprised that one of the endings involves the child eventually snapping and killing his dad if he had shown love maybe it would have been different he pretty much set himself up for this long ago he chose to abuse and torture his child and now he's paying the price
murder is never justifiable, the monster deserved pain
I have a separate take, I feel that somethings take place in his imagination, climbing on walls, fighting monsters, and becoming a giant to scare his dad. I think the venom part could be true but in another sense, he's trapped in a basement, possibly with chemicals he's never seen before, one day he gets more curious than normal and realizes what they are, he then uses them in each ending. (Thowing them on the father and burning him, buring the metal bars, ect.) The "bat-boy" thing is probably because he's pale and sickly because of his time locked away and starved.
I was thinking the same thing. People seem to take the whole monster thing as being actually true, but I think it's more symbolic than anything.
From what can be seen throughout the game, and the child's pov, I think it's possible they were abused because of their appearance. In the display with the rats, the father says "Look at the spawn you’ve given me!” This could mean that the child was physically deformed, or that they had a disability of some sort. The father was ashamed and embarrassed at having a kid that wasn't "normal" and started mistreating the child and the mother. Then I'm thinking that, after God knows how long of dealing with the abuse, the mother had gotten tired of her husband's actions and tried to leave with the child, but the father caught them and killed the mother (either by accident or on purpose). Then, like the coward he is, he locked the child in the basement and continued to abuse them. The father possibly even blamed the child for their mother's death as a rationalization for his treatment, as many abusive parents will often use the death of their partner to justify their abuse, especially if the partner died when the child was born.
As the child spends possibly years of the inhumane treatment, from the father and from the other children in the neighborhood, they begin to become bitter and hateful, their mind delving into dark territory, which is where the dreams come in with the child gaining powers. They're to symbolize the child becoming twisted by negativity and becoming more and more monstrous as time goes on. Then, after Smelly's death, the child loses their one tether to humanity and just completely loses themselves to their hatred, figuratively transforming into a monster. Then, after killing the father, the child goes on to murder the other children who had tormented them and laughed at their suffering, ultimately becoming a serial killer.
The whole game is just symbolic of how monsters are created by the environment they are brought up in. People like to think that people are just born as psychotic killers and monsters, and some of them are. But many are made into monsters because the people around them, for whatever reason, decided to treat them like they were garbage, with no decency or respect or love.
@@jorienwachukwu466 Exactly this, you brought this across so well!
he still killed civilians
@@GAM3RK1NG. Civilians who tormented him and laughed at his suffering.
@@GAM3RK1NG. I don't think that's 100% true either
My cat actually came looking for Smelly when when he/she was crying in the vent. And then jumped up into my lap when I teared up as the kid mourned for the kitty.
Wow what an intense and strange game. Very sad at first.
Holy shit!!!! I was totally expecting the kid to be dead from the beatings and those “dreams” be delusions/his life flashing before his eyes…….but for the kid to actually be a monster…..that’s a nice twist.
Kind of a cope out ending imo. Instead of better explaining why the dad believed beating the kid daily was a better option or what happened to the mom or how the town knew. they just say monster child and expect us to agree with it.
A really sad but amazing game. Its possible that the mother was a monster herself but like the child she was as human as anyone else was, which is why she didn't defend herself against the father even as he was also abusing her.
In some ways I think this game sends the message that you can't judge a book by its cover and even if look or are a monster, the real monsters are based on one's actions rather than their identity or how they look. The child only became a monster after taking out his revenge on others while the father was already one for abusing his family.
the monster attacked random people bruh
@@GAM3RK1NG. At that point, he was too far gone. He was abused so much and for so long without any help that he went on a killing spree.
I remember the bat boy story on the covers of tabloid magazines in grocery store. The ending really caught me by surprise.
Ending 2 makes sense he became a serial killer since of his abusive father just like how other serial killers are made
Yea he became a monster too
I think the choice of depicting the child as a “bat boy” was a homage to children with disabilities. Any child can be abused, but it’s sad to note that children that are considered “abnormal” are more likely to be abused. And considering just how much of the horror genre is characterized by Ableism, I’m pretty sure that’s the case.
the kid crying over smelly also made me cry bruh, when it comes to kids bein like this i get so damn emotional.
i also had an alchoolic parent but they never hit me just kinda was mad smelt bad wobbaly and swore a lot
The worst thing my dad ever did to me physically was kick me in the ribs when he meant to kick the dog but he was so drunk his aim was off
It was during a barbecue and in front of his family my uncle jumped up and punched him in the face as I cried I had 3 bruised ribs
........come to think of it my parents divorce started not long after that incident
@@mysticfire5850 well that sucks my parents wanted a divorce but i hel them together
No wonder you have that pfp
That name is creepy but I need to understand the story so thank you
Lmao
My theory is that the child is kept at home so they don’t get attacked for being different, but they picture it as them being imprisoned. The fact that in the 3rd ending, the dad commits suicide after killing the child, likely means he feels guilty for doing it, which wouldn’t make sense if he hated the child.
8:34 this is the most sad part ever
0:34 huh You Are Grounded is in the same universe as Halloween? Cool
This game is basically an adaptation of the horror tale "Born of Man and Woman" by Richard Matheson
This one of the few horror games that made me cry, If I see something sad I just can’t help but cry and I was in tears playing through the entire things and I’m glad I played it, it was amazing the entire way through
Is this a theory or the official canon? I personally think that the conditions the child was in caused him to morph, and he earned abilities along the way because he was slowly transforming
I guess you can say it was a morbing time
12:23
"The father trapping him down there could've possibly been the right choice"
No it wasn't?? Maybe if the boy was already a monster and was being kept down there for everyone's safety, then (MAYBE??) it would've been the right choice. But he wasn't trapped down there for everyone's safety, he was trapped down there because his father is abusive.
Yes, the boy became a monster and killed people, but he's still a child and children don't really know right from wrong. His father on the other hand, knew what he was doing and abused him and possibly fed him animal food.
You can't call the boy a monster because of his appearance when the real monster is the father.
have you even consider that his mother might have been a monster or somthing and father killed her because he discovered that she might even have been a vampire
Personal theory: the dad was abusive to the mom, maybe angry that "she gave him a monster son" (awful way of thinking, but it could've been his thought process). The mom, in the mean time, though loving and caring, made money by taking him to fairs and exposing him as a "freak", thus why the kids know that he is a bat boy. The murder could have happened in one of two ways:
1) the dad murdered the mom, as the kid narrates, either because he didn't want the mother to expose his son anymore, now matter how much of a "monster" he was (giving way to the protection theory), or just out of rage.
2) the son was the culprit, by accident, vomiting acid on her.
Over all, very interesting game! Also whoever voiced the kid did an incredible job, holy shit it was brutal.
Great story, very dumb ending. It would have been a lot better if the kid was trying to cope with his situation by imagining he has super powers and such. Would have made it significantly more relatable and much more impactful than this bat boy story. This twists the narratives from a deep psychological trauma and cool concept to: haha bat boy goes brrrrrrrr. Father was trapping monster *clap* *clap*
I guess the dev team were a bunch of kids
Hard disagree, I thought this ending was really interesting and while your idea is neat too, I think the original game's ending is great too. Although to be fair, that's probably a large part because I'm an absolute sucker for any "sympathetic/protagonist monster" stories.
Disagreed.
Monster is also often code to disability, think Quasimodo
It meant that the kid became the monster he hated so mush
His father
8:42 made me cry imagine hearing a child cry so much
I think the husband killed wife cuz I think the wife loved her child so much she wouldn’t want anyone to take him away from her so the husband did the rational thing and killed his wife and he couldn’t handle the guilt so he took it out on his son usually abuse so that’s what I think what happened.
I mean, hurt people, hurt people.
How is murder the rational thing lol? They could've just homeschooled their child and kept him hidden until he learned to properly control his powers. I think the mother was also part bat and got unexpectedly pregnant with the father. Maybe they thought about being a family but when they saw that the kid turned out more bat than human, the father turned bitter and turned to drinking. He probably accidentally killed the mother in a past beating and then focused all that abuse on his child.
We have no info on the mother other than she is dead.
Man i wish more people played this game id love to see their reactions to the story
If you’re going to make a game about child abuse, make a game about child abuse. The bat boy reveal in the endings is interesting but it takes the “oomph” out of the entire thing for me. Tons of children go through this all the time. R, I know you cover horror games but next time *please* throw in trigger warnings. I legit cried when Smelly died and the boy was howling over his death.
From what I gather, ending 2 is likely only the bullies and father who died. As he showed compassion, and clearly likes cats in the first ending, he likely punished the bullies. Our knowledge of the bullies is very limited, so I have a theory: The boy is born odd for whatever reason, and in the game he seems to be VERY young, we're talking maybe 5-6 from his drawings and crying. At this age, kids start being painfully cruel, but they can also respond with violence if upset or hurt by someone, so it's possible he started developing an odd appearance and may have been in contact with the children at some point, such as trying to play with them in the garden. They in turn could've lashed out, bullied him, and made his parents realize the world will hate him, sealing their fate should he escape as he would remember the hurt and retaliate as a child does.
The mother loves her son regardless, but the father can't handle the stress of work and of a freak child. He starts to drink, more and more over time, till one day he comes home and gets angry. His wife defends her son, maybe even threatening to leave as his spite grows stronger and stronger. He gets mad. REALLY mad. Maybe mad enough to try kill the boy. He lashes out, but kills the wrong person in his drunken stupor, as the mother tries to defend the child but merely gets her skull split by a metal bat instead. The boy sees this and is horrified, the father blames the son because "if you were never born, she'd still be alive". He beats him, locks him up, because he resents him and wants him to suffer, drinking himself to death in the process. At the end of the game, when his son mutates, he panics and realizes he won't be able to beat him anymore, fearing for his life.
But, in ending 3, when he kills the boy, he realizes... There's no one left to blame. Alone with his thoughts, his son and wife dead by his own hands, realizing that he's killed both and suddenly seeing clearly for the first time in his life, he turns the gun on himself. No amount of alcohol can wash away his sins now. He can drink to forget, but he will always remember. He pulls the trigger and the last of the family is gone.
It's just a theory, but I like to think it holds water quite well.
This video for me got personal . I ran away from an abusive home. There is still hate inside of me , but I have moved on
I'm fully convinced that the poor kid gaining supernatural powers (climbing, jumping, spitting acidic vomit) is based off children making up revenge fantasies against their abusive parents, where they imagine themselves as monsters or heroes while the abusive parent is the villain or the weaker monster itself.
6:37
if only the other kids were nicer and more encouraging
GamerSault: plays "You're Grounded"
TH-cam: oh look he is playing Five Nights at Freddy's
I have an idea that the father is a military veteran (judging by the posters) and his alcoholism may stem from PTSD and the death of his wife. It may be likely that the father suffers from violent outbursts thus resulting in the abuse
the moans and groans of the child when he finds his dead cat and being chained if awful, he goes through an awful condition with his face, being bullied, in an unsafe housing space, no mother, no great food, no education, a drunk dad and being inhumane, his drawings cant even be on paper, practically being around a basement with metal items that can fall oon him. its truly sad.
The cat dying was a bit too dark
Keeping the child away from people makes sense if he's a bat like monster, but abusing him is completely wrong in any sense. He didn't deserve to be beaten and starved everyday. Maybe if he had been shown love, raised properly and taught about the world he may not have gone out and killed people after finally being free
Wow what a crazy and interesting story. Took me on a roller coaster of emotions.
You finally uploaded you are grounded story explained
I want the devs to update the game to make an ending where you escape with smelly before smelly dies and there is a way to get acid spit early so you and smelly escape early
When I was younger (5-7 year old) my mom went on a work delegation abroad. I was left with my dad that has beaten me up in various ocasions, and not letting me out of the room. I had a degu ive got when i was 6, but he has stabbed it with a knife at my own eyes. When my mother came back, she divorced my dad and now im free because of her, still with many bruises and trauma.
Dialogue I have for the three endings.
Ending 1:
You've done it son. I'm proud of you.
I never wanted to beat you... I got consumed by my own addiction.
That's on me boy. And the beatings. And the dog food.
You've escaped, but I can never feel more proud of you...
Goodbye, son. I hope you don't have to see me again.
Live a good life... without me in it.
Ending 2:
Heh... you killed your own father...
...It's okay. I deserved that.
I wanted to keep you safe... yet I gave you the worst life possible because of my addiction.
You never deserved any of it. And Smelly? I'm sorry for your loss.
You can live your own life now. You're free.
Free from my oppression, free from anything bad.
Goodbye son. May you live a long and healthy life.
Be happy for me, okay?
I'm sorry... son.
I just wanted to care for you... keep you safe from those horrible bullies.
But I got consumed by my own addiction... and I tortured you. Beat you in the most terrible ways any child can experience.
Then... I killed you. Something which I never should have done.
I'll be honest. You were a good kid. You were never a monster, so you deserve a happy ending.
I'm the monster here... physically and mentally. I deserve a terrible ending.
Goodbye, son. Rest in peace.
May you sing with the angels high above.
All kids deserve parents. But not all parents deserve kids
What sickens me when I play games like this is you just know what the Father's attitude would be if he went to Court, that he'd suddenly become Dad of the Year and scream "YOU CAN'T TAKE MY KID, I'M HIS FATHER! I LOVE HIM, CAN'T YOU SEE THAT?!"
EDIT:Ok, I should have waited until the end...
Good on you,Dad...
Honestly. I don't think the father killed himself in the third ending because he cared. I think it was because he was a coward, who didn't want to face the consequences of abusing and later murdering his own child (If that doesn't get you life without parole or death, you're certainly going to end up forever kept at a measurable length from anyone.)
Watching this 4 mins after release
When the kid cried, I got a lot of Golum vibes
This is more of a sad story then a scary story
11:23 the picture does not explicitly show that the father killed the mother, nor does the roleplay with the rats, it may have been that the mother was sent into the basement, where the child killed her.
Prove
@@Smileyfacemanguy well, there is no blood on that blue stick, if it was implying that the father killed the mother with that, you would think it would have blood, no?
@@kommandantgalileo bruh the father is still a bad person wether he killed the mom or not
@@Smileyfacemanguy never said he is a good person
Ending 1:
I honestly like better because the fact that the Bat Boy kind of wanted to be close to the cats just like smelly. He wasn't trying to hurt anyone and he wasn't trying to be a problem as all he wanted was to show his love but just like many things in this world people hate things that they don't understand.
Ending 2:
I really didn't care for the sending because the fact that it was just straight-up Revenge because it said he went after three boys and his father indicating he killed the bullies and went after the father as well.
Ending 3:
The third ending was just stupid as the father did not pay for his crimes he just killed himself just so that he didn't have to deal with the guilt of killing his own child.
When it came to the mother though I kind of came to the conclusion that it might have been the child but it would have probably been by accident like if the child sneezed and accidentally spit acid when sneezing which caused her to die through her face melting along with her eyes.
i belived that the father killed the mother
@@ryanp7546 I agree
Cool video
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Awesome, happy birthday :)
Yeah even though the child is... different. The child didn’t deserve to be treated like that. Honestly the ending where the father and bullies die is a happy one to me 💁🏼♀️
Or maby the food he was given to had posin in it and thats y the cat died
Gamersault if you could do hunting bigfoot i would like to see you explaine it but anyway great video but i felt bad for the cat just fells wrong. Hope you have great day
What a horrible idea to watch this while having dinner...
smelly dying kept me up at night when i first watched a playthrough of this game
Idk the endings feel cheap, like they didn’t want to make an ending that actually fit the narrative that has been playing the whole game.
Ouch the cat dyeing really made sad I cried rip Smelly
Theory: the reason he kept the kid in the basement is because the dad doesn’t want to grow attention to him and so that people don’t get suspicious of the house and go there and the dad knocks him out to grow less attention
Yeah but by doing that he caused a rift between his child which caused one of the three endings to happen unwanted attention from the FBI or straight up the unwanted attention from a bat child. And last but most certainly not least a killer bat creature on the loose whatever his form of protection was it probably would’ve been better if he was just doing the whole treating him like a normal kid that never goes out of his room type of scenario
This game broke me, I never found a game that made me sad as much as this game. how the kid was treated and the cat dying just caused me to break down.