Fun Fact: On Disney XD, there was a show where they took a bunch of TH-camr Clips and editing them together into a much more kid-friendly version. Censoring words, making goofy edits of the things they said as they played games like Happy Wheels, and Octodad. One of those youtubers (I wanna say Jackfilms but I think that’s wrong) played Tattletail and for some Strange Reason, they decided to not censor ANY of the ritual stuff. So on Disney freaking XD, you could just pull it up and see 5 tattletaillers try to banish mama with a Pentagram Edit: It was Parker Plays
What’s funnier to me is he sounds so frustrated and mortified(at least has frustrated and mortified as a robotic voice can get) like the devs are just standing there in horror as a madman breaks there game.
My friend had a Furby, he found out that if you turn them upside down they begin to scream. So he decided he would leave it upside down until it screamed itself to death... Years later I began reading about Japan's Unit 731 during WW2. They were a Biological & Chemical Warfare unit that conducted their research on Chinese POW's. I know comparing atrocities is a silly thing to do, but they're RIGHT up there with the worst of the worst. They referred to their subjects as 'Logs' as a way to dehumanise them. Anyhow one of their famed experiments was very similar, turning a 'log' up-side down and leaving 'it' that way until 'it' expires. After that I could never break the connection in my head.
Dunno, i kinda felt it was the weakest jumpscare since it gave her a human characteristic... the whole point of her is to be alien-ish and off-putting All modern horror games are suffering by giving the characters actual personalities, its lame and doesnt work, its just like if a cartoon bear was coming to steal your cupcake
@@leedlelel2373 it doesn't work for you and thats fine but its not objective, the jumpscare works because its the one time she actually gives emotion instead of giving it throughout its reminds us that there is something paranormal going on with these toys, it speaks to how fake she is and that jumpscare showed who she really was a bitter and angry toy its perfect.
@@leedlelel2373 I feel like the adding of personality at the end is very cool. Mama is so mad about being banned that she broke herself so she can express her true desire. That is amazing. My personal opinion but it makes sense that sometimes, antagonists in horror with personalities can’t be stretched to their true scary potential.
@@leedlelel2373 honestly I think it's scarier when something you think is inhuman shows a genuine human emotion. it's like in portal 2 when glados gets removed from her body, you hear genuine pain from her screams making it extremely unsettling, cause it means this robot feels emotions, or even worse, pain. Even in a game like FNAF SB it's scary with the shattered animatronics, cause you hear them crying in pain, and begging for their parts back. So Mama tattletail getting angry is actually equally scary because this thing you thought was just like an animal hunting you down has emotions and understands you enough to respond to the joke, Meaning it knows what it's doing, it's not just protecting it's young. Or if we're going by the "don't leave me!" Line, it could be doing it for another reason. Whether it says it as a manipulation tactic, or if it's genuine, it's still scary.
For anybody curious about the phone: the reason it didn't ring for them is because it stops ringing after you pick it up once, you actually get a special line of dialog if you leave it until Christmas to pick up
@@I_want_White_Cheddar_Popcorn It was basically just a distorted message of someone just saying Merry Christmas, but at the end, you can hear Mama's story song.
i didnt even know tattletail had voicelines saying "why did you do this?" and "you ruined everything" which is really interesting to me considering i thought i knew most things about this game
Tattletail getting mad when you jump off the map with him is funny, but the funniest part is that he even reacts in the first place. Like the Devs knew about this and programmed him to get mad at you for breaking the game. I never knew about this that is HILARIOUS.
I love the idea of Mama Tattletail. A motherly figure for the children who's mother's can't read them a story. Just imagine, you asked your mother to read you a bedtime story, but she's busy washing the dishes. So you go up to your room, turn off the light and turn on the lamp, and get the Mama Tattletail out of a box in your closet. You pick a story out of a stack of cassettes, place it in the Mama, and press play. You then fall asleep listening to Mama read you The Tortoise and the Hare.
Toy company: Our big selling point is taking the parent-children quality time out of the lives of parents and children. Makes things much more efficient, you'll find.
I had something like this as a kid! I had a Mother Goose Casette Player. It looked like a stuffed Mother Goose, but her eyes and beak could move, and she would read the casette stories to me before bed. Usually my parents would still be in the room while I went to sleep, but it was still a super cool thing.
Ignoring the kaleidoscope I always preferred the head canon that the whole experience was just a series of guilt fueled nightmares after sneaking around and opening your present early. It would just make so much sense to me with the strange focus on the door to the child's mother's room, the fact that it all takes place at night, the not supernatural but still unusual things like the front door being wide open and just not addressing it or feeding a toy real frood, and the whole game being about not getting tattled on to mama. It would really work if it was all just symbolic of the child's guilt and fear of getting caught but seen through the filter of a child's mind
I also think this was all just a whole trauma of the child who experimented horror because of a -Furby- I mean Tattletail, btw the Tattletail's lore isn't full of inexplicable things you have to go hard on theories, of course you can just interprets or go easy on theories.
But that's such a lame idea, I prefer the more supernatural aspect to it, and the thought of Waygetter somehow brainwashing the player via vhs is a really cool concept. But we can agree to disagree
As many others have said, this story really comes off as an allegory for somebody processing childhood trauma, specifically around an event that happened on Christmas. This is definitely indicated by a lot of Tattletale’s lines “You’re in big trouble” “I know what you did” and then the secret lines in the void “How could you do this? You ruined everything” These sound like things an angry parent would say to their kid, possibly just before or during the abuse. This could either have been in response to breaking the vase or her discovering that the child already opened their present early. Even the name of the toy, Tattletale, could be indicative that the child didn’t know how to turn it off, so it gave away to the mom that they had opened the gift early. Then the Kaleidoscope episode implies that perhaps they were gaslit into believing a different version of that time that was nicer. The person in the letter could either be the sibling, trying to talk about what really happened, or perhaps a therapist.
I think the letters might be the protagonist themself except they’re older and trying to process trauma. Considering how they talked about going in the kaleidoscope as well. This could also represent how, in life, we can get trauma from all sorts of people or events, because of the experiences with go through. Genuinely I think the allegory of childhood trauma from an abusive parent just makes me love the game more
alsoo!! when you leave the kalideoscope, mama keeps saying “ i love you so much “ as if shes trying to guilt trip protag into staying with her. another detail i noticed is that since tattletail makes noise when it wants something and noise is associated with mama finding and jumpscaring you, it could also allude to neglect in which the protag’s mother is not very keen to taking care of them. or maybe im projecting my own trauma but yeah
it would also explain the absence of the parents of the child in the entire story and how, if you knock on the door during one of the nights, the door opens and mama is there and jumpscares you the child has had such a distorted sense of reality due to the abuse and trauma that they no longer see their parents as themselves but instead as a nightmarish representation of something that the protagonist finds comfort in (tattletail). the failed ritual in the base game could also be a metaphor for how people often end up sweeping trauma under the rug which causes it to resurface at some point in the future (in this case, mama tattletail jumpscaring you on christmas most likely represents your inability to overcome the trauma) also, i find it much more likely that tattletail isnt actually speaking or even alive, you do have to remember that the protagonist is probably somewhere between 3 to 6 years old here and children have a tendency of imagining their toys as being living beings. my explanation for the ''noise going up when the food bar goes down'' is probably the child themselves being hungry and as a result crying, which attracts the attention of the abusive parent. also i definitely think that the letters are from the future version of the protagonist looking back on these memories after a couple years and trying to process them (hence, the eggs lead to the good ending where you can remember your past properly and overcome it, atleast if you exclude the kaleidoscope dlc. i assume its some kind of memory thing where the person can be like ''oh there was an egg on top of the washing machine'' which allows them to more easily remember certain events, hence why it leads to the good ending) i think the kaleidoscope dlc most likely represents an alternative of the bad ending of the base game but instead of the trauma resurfacing, it instead recedes and the child's brain gaslights itself into thinking that their childhood was good and they have to remember what actually happened (this may also explain the letters talking about ''going through the kaleidoscope'' already, as we can assume that the base game is the protagonist's first attempt at trying to remember their past and failing, hence the bad ending and then retrying at a later point to remember it, which is where the kaleidoscope dlc comes in) but yeah this is all just theorizing and my 1 AM ramblings, would love to hear other people's opinions though if they have the patience to read through the entire essay i just made lmao
The fact that Tattletail knows when you get out of bounds and break the game is actually pretty funny. Like, they went through the effort to make Tattletail have unique reactions when breaking the game. That’s pretty cool.
from what i remember it wasnt in game originally, i saw a video(or photo, im not sure)on the steam community page, where they fell into the abyss with tattletail, and were apprently there for a while, and it just, broke. im assuming the devs saw that or got a lot of bug reports and added that
It's a shame that Tattletail isn't as well known as it is today. It's definitely a "lightning in a bottle" type of horror game that doesn't get as much love or attention that it so rightfully deserves.
I need more people to talk about the fact that tattletail has secret dialogue that you'll only ever hear if you're stupid enough to jump directly into the void.
Tattletail was everything it wanted to be and nothing more. It got a cool DLC, and that was it. Which I love. It did what it wanted to do, and then nothing more. No attempts at a crash grab, no stupid kids merch, no overambitous sequels... it was just one game and a DLC. I hate that it sometimes gets clumped with Hello Neighbor, Banban, etc. because it's so much better.
One side of me wants people to remember this game exists, and another side of me doesnt. I dont want Tattletail to get ruined by those cursed cringe content on youtube, but then i feel like this game deserves more than the games that it always gets compared to. Since its a truly finished game with no word from the devs about it anymore, kids nowadays wont even know this exists and thought "well noone talks about it so i guess its trash". Idk, one side of me is happy and content that Tattletail ended this way, and another side of me isnt.
@@saccorhytusonly if it's of main game tattletail though I will not accept the apathetic tattletail. I don't even care if the little man eats everything in my fridge he's gonna have his own special place on my desk. we will game together.
I think the “ORANGE YOU FORGETTING SOMEONE??” Is so genius- like they managed to make that line not cringy, which is hard to do when you’re finishing such a bad joke, but the developers just MASTERED this
I love the secondary layer to that joke, that being the original knock-knock joke it is based on: "Knock Knock" "Who's there?" "Banana" "Banana who?" "Knock Knock" "Who's there?" "Banana" "Banana who?" "Knock Knock" "Who's there?" "Banana" "Banana who?" "Knock Knock" "Who's there?" "Banana" "Banana who?" "Knock Knock" "Who's there?" "Orange" "Orange who?" "Orange you glad I didn't say 'Banana'?"
I’m kinda glad that they made the “mascot” of the mascot horror actually pretty cute and endearing with a hint of eeriness as opposed to just being straight up creepy Damn I did not mean to start an argument my b
My interpretation of the Kaleidoscope is that its supposed to be the kid trying to remember 1998 Christmas after growing up, The notes are being written by the grown up version of the kid trying to "communicate" with his younger self, trying to remember how he had fun with Tattletail as a child in the past because in the present he only remembers him as a boring toy. Also the presence of the cassette that explains the waydrives stands out to me because thats not something a kid would usually hear, its more like an employee training video, I think this means that after growing up the kid got a job at waygetter and only saw Tattletail as a boring product of the company, which is also why Boring Tattletail has the "pizza slice" eye. The events of the Kaleidoscope are the kid having a nostalgia moment.
Wait, what if the person remembers Tattletail as a boring toy and the reason for going through the Kaleidoscope is for the grown up version of the kid to relive his childhood memories. I think it symbolizes the idea that when people grow up, they leave behind the toys they used to love playing with as a kid, since they're getting older.
Furbies are definitely the thing that comes to mind at first, since they are so well known even now - but Tattletail actually reminds me a lot more of another beloved 90's electronic pet: the Wuv Luv! Cause Wuv Luv had a big Mom version that had a pocket for her eggs, and you could buy eggs and get different Wuv Luv babies. My twin and I had 2 identical babies (sweetie), and I remember wanting the big mom so bad. I still remember what our babies looked like, and some of the catchphrases they said. And I remember feeding them with these plastic flower that came with them.
What I think makes tattletail so interesting is that its not really about avoiding a monster. The threat is with you the entire game. Its essentially part of your playable avatar. You arent trying to run from the threat and keep it at bay. YOU are effectively the threat, trying to keep yourself from causing your own demise.
I mean there is an active threat you need to stay away from, but tattletail is also a threat because if you don’t keep it at bay to SHUT IT UP it will keep talking giving away where you are and you die
Honestly I feel like the whole game is a good allegory for childhood trauma and memory suppression. To me, this story captures the feeling of anxiety when you feel you have to walk on eggshells around your parents. Then with the kaleidoscope stuff being about memory suppression and self-gaslighting into thinking it wasn't as bad as it was.
Wow, I never thought of that. Excellent insight! I always thought that maybe Mama is the protagonist's childlike vision of their mother or something. I hate theories like that where people go too deep with the characters and it's doesn't make sense anymore, but your theory makes sense.
I've never thought about that before, but it totally makes sense! especially if you think about tattletail and mama being like a child's view of their relationship with their mother. mama wants her kids to be with her and her only, no matter what it takes. or how doing essential things for tattletail like feeding him is scary because mama might catch you. when you look at it as an allegory, it makes so much sense.
As a victim of that, I entirely agree. I've forgotten some things, and despite how painful it is to pull the barbed wire from the depths of my mind so I can heal, I know it has to be done. I think it's a really good theory, and it perfectly encapsulates that feeling. The mysterious note sender might either be a therapist, or an older protag, trying to remember and heal from it all.
I never thought about that. I never thought about how someone might convince themselves that it wasn’t actually that bad. God, that explains some things in my life. Wtf I didn’t expect insight on my trauma in the comment section of a game about evil furbies. I love this take though, it makes so much sense
The one thing I really like about Mama is how deceivingly unthreatening she appears. Even with her scary eyes and sharp teeth out, she doesn't look like something that would be able to efficiently attack and kill you, and yet, somehow, she still does. It really makes you wonder "how is this overgrown toy able to do all of this."
My favorite moment in Tattletail has to be when Mama is talking about how she caught the children. Even today I find it so eerie. The way her voice sounds almost monotone but creepy, and the distortion of the music makes that moment so off putting, especially the line “but she caught them. Every last one”. Idk how to explain it
I think an underappreciated aspect of this game is the _extremely authentic_ mechanical whirring every time Tattletail moves. Gives an incredible sense of the toy being real, and you can even imagine the weight of holding a toy whose motors sound like that.
It reminds me of how we all collectively came to hate "kiddy" platformers in the mid to late 2000s, only to eventually grow up and realise that we were being stupid and platformers are just as valid as any other type of game.
@@ftrwrwbg right? tfw 30 and just liked the game because I really loved my Furby but was equally scared shitless of it being secretly alive or something. This game always came off as nostalgia bait for people who grew up with the original version of the toy, so the fact that it has such a young audience is a surprise.
This game executes the "horror mascot" beautifully. This game honestly has such a interesting thing that still makes me remember it's title, you can literally say tattletail and I'd be having flashbacks on this game and everything about it, I'm happy someone brought the games name up after years of it being a dead name. P.S! Your commentary is the BEST. Unlike any other commentary videos, your way of commentary is awesome and you explain things well even with humor, keep up the good work dude!
even as a kid when this game came out, I loved the sound design. Especially when mama’s tape is put into her, because the story that’s told is so unnerving, and the voice actor did a really good job. I have always loved this game and I feel like it never got recognized for how good it was.
Holy shit the “ORANGE YOU FORGETTING SOMEONE!?” Hit so hard, mamas emotion in that voice compiled with everything else that happened previous made that particular line and jumpscare go so unbelievably hard
Tattletale never really scared me, but the "WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP" really startled me when I first played it. I didn't know whether I was supposed to get startled or giggle
My first thought as you went through the story was how memories of abuse can become warped with time with denial in order to cope. Kids can come up with some pretty terrible stuff during playtime, and it can be indicative of their home lives, hence why it's suggested that teachers pay attention when kids are playing in school or in other places. I noticed how every single one of the toys, except for Mama, had nearly identical voices. I know that's intentional if they're mass-produced toys, but in the theory it could be related to how kids only *sometimes* put on voices, and that they usually sound pretty similar. And the warped version at the end could be the result of Mama trying to gaslight the child/ren into thinking that they only had happy times, and the abuse didn't happen. When they resist, symbolized by going into the Kaleidoscope and retrieving the genuine memories, she gets angry because it doesn't work.
That could also explain her pleading at the end of the game addon as well. Her suddenly pleading as the character retrieves and escapes with their true memories could symbolize her being caught and the abuse on the children being proven, so after exhausting all of her other options of maintaining control of the situation, she resorts to the "Please come back! I swear I'll never do it again! I didn't mean to hurt you." manipulative phrases they'll use to keep their victims firmly in their grasp. It also explains how obviously disingenuous her doing so is. Only when you're safely away from her is when she tries to be loving and comforting yet when she's nearby she resorted to using violence and fear to get what she wanted from you. The theory is pretty interesting.
i remember this theory was heavily belived!! the kid using tattletail as a scape goat to repress tramua!! i also remember there being a theory where the kid also killed his mom hence the ritual
Personally, I believe the story of tattletale is an alegory for an abusive parent. Likely mother. And the siblings coming together to go away from her. The colidoscope chapter is about the good times, or the times youre told, or mother tells, thus making you wonder if the abuse happened.
I really like that theory. Along with being good memories, the kaleidoscope chapter could also be gaslighting with Mama telling you she never did anything bad The end where she's begging the player not to leave could be like when the child grows up and cuts contact and she's begging them not to leave and refusing to recognize the harm she caused while insisting she loves them.
If Tattletail ever comes back, I'll scream. Official merchandise, Books, Artbooks, anything. I'd eat it UP. I would BUY it so fast. I loved this game so much. It's a staple in my childhood, however with how little I see of it, I don't appreciate it as much as I want to. I used to play a Tattletail-based game on Roblox constantly because of how much I admired them game, but couldn't have it for myself. Even if it was a roleplay game and it's not even Tattletail anymore. Which I honestly really wish it was. I love the new models, and the new stuff, but I will forever miss the Tattletails we had in that game. Regardless of how bad the developer is according to sources. I think they almost had an ARG, but they-- stopped. Probably due to the loss in popularity. I think the Kaleidoscope was an effort to revive the game, but it had no announcements that it even existed, it just literally popped up. Which didn't go the game's falling popularity much good. But regardless, this game is a game that should've been a bigger staple in horror. It deserved way more than it got.
OMG YOU REMEMBER THE OLD TATTLETAIL RP TOO ??? I MISSED THAT SHIT SO MUCH (i mourn my confetti tattletail son every day they took my baby away from me)
THOSE TATTLETAILS WERE SO UNIRONICALLY ORIGINAL AND COOL. I'm so sad they had to face that copyright n' stuff. That game was a peak part of my Roblox childhood. There's like-- nothing left of Tattletail on that game. There's another game with Tattletail, but it's not nearly as good quality.
The fact that tattletail just goes: *"Why did you do this ):"* The moment he breaks the game and falls out of the map is a beatiful way of breaking the fourth wall. Especcialy sense he just says: "You ruined everything." I love this game.
Most interesting mechanics a game has ever experimented with… a mechanical toy you need to keep calm in order to survive, shaking a flashlight for it to work, different ways to know and to avoid the antagonist… hope we see something like it in the future 😌
Touching on sound design, I really appreciate how the Tattletails sound when they move. I own a working Furby, and he sounds just about identical when he whirrs and clicks. Well done to the sound designers :)
tbh i think they nailed the design of the tattletail toy itself, it really feels like an alternate universe furby, a proper design that’s mostly cute but has some underlying weirdness about it that made the furby so intriguing.
i love how affectionate you are towards tattletail, like he's a funky little sibling that you adore but oh dear lord are they annoying and inconvenient sometimes.
This is literally the first TH-camr I’ve ever seen call the TattleTails by their actual name instead of “the yellow TattleTail” or “the blue one”, I’m impressed
Also, to forgot to say, Mama Tattletail may also be inspired by Teddy Ruxpin. Also, I just realised from when you were talking about how Mama is telling you noise will attract her. Instead of a tutorial or instructions telling you, the antagonist is clearly hinting or telling you that she basically is a killing machine that kills whatever she sees. Honestly genius
I love Teddy Ruxpin so much, I’ve got the original and the new version of him. I was born past the time of cassettes so learning how to put it on was cool, but because he’s so old you have to hold the little tape door open a certain way. Tattletail is what made me discover Teddy Ruxpin too so I’m glad I was able to discover both things.
That final "knock-knock" at the true ending of Kaleidoscope was really wholesome. I was dying to hear him say "me Tattletail" once again after the journey.
Fun fact: The creators of Tattletail, Ben Esposito and Geneva Hodgson, have not forgotten about the little guy! In 2022, they released a game called Neon White, where you play as an amnesiac pulled from Hell in order to rid Heaven of demons, under the promise of being earned a spot in it. You can find and collect gifts to give to other “ Neons “, and the preferred gift of one of them, Neon Violet, is a Tattletail toy. As a big TT fan, I was ecstatic when I first found this out, as it’s genuinely a really nice callback to their previous work.
I LOVE the fact that mama hints at what you have to do in order to survive the very moment she speaks. It's not spoken outright, but it's immediately told like some code hiding in plain sight.
When the first megaphone icon appears on screen my immediate thought was "oh god im gonna have to be quiet to avoid the monster", which is then brilliantly confirmed when she says she can hear you
I really love diegetic tutorials like that. Pretty cleverly explains the mechanics without outright telling you with text on the screen. More games should definitely go with this route of explaining mechanics
Something I always find really interesting about Tattletail are the folks who made it, Ben Esposito and Geneva Hodgson. They're also responsible for Donut County and Neon White, and are great at making a wide variety of games in different genres. I've been following them on social media for a while, and they're cool people with fantastic ideas. Go give their other games a shot!
This put into words for something I've always felt. Tattletail feels different, like classic FNaF, it's just trying to tell a story in the most bizarre way. Tattletail almost feels like the experience of *finding* found-footage horror rather than just seeing or playing found-footage games. I guess I also have this weird nostalgia for it, since this (and Little Nightmares) got me into the horror genre. While I do wish for more answers on what's going on, what happened to the characters family, why the Tattletails are alive and WHAT is Waygetter? I think it's good by itself and the mystery is just given enough answers to feel ok, but vague enough that curiosity itches my head every once in a month or so. (Also the aesthetic of Waygetter is so enticing to me for whatever reason)
Im a little dissapointed that this game died so quickly, I didnt even know there was a dlc expansion until this video, which im sad I missed out on seeing! Im glad someone else remembers this game fondly as much as I did and still appreciates it. Honestly, had some really banger fan songs. This was a good video, thanks for talking about Tattletail!
I like to think that Waydrives are just like the tiny HDDs that old iPods use and that they just store the personality or whatever other data. This would open up the possibility of "homebrewing" custom personalities into Tattletails lol.
This game actually has developed enough mechanics to where the rules are consistent, and despite being forced to confront Mama, you can still win through stealth.
What I love about tattletail is how it stays true to being in the perspective of a child. It is just you, your flashlight, and a nagging fur- I mean, tattletail. That’s what makes you inch to the edge of your seat. There are no weapons, there are no places to hide. It is your clever usage of distance between you and mama that keeps you safe.
It also, at least to me, brings to mind the “clever and a little too self assured” kid vibe like that in Home Alone - like the kid is confident he won’t be caught because he’s come up with a “foolproof” strategy for making it through each night
Baldis basics is a genuinely hilarious deep fried shitpost of a game where even the jumpscare makes you laugh outloud, I've never really gotten how it garnered a following of people who genuinely liked the characters and world and though it was scary Good for them, just damn, I never got how many people didn't get the game was a parody
Tattletail was a big part in my life when i was younger. Fueled my curiosity for ages and is probably one of the reasons I’m an artist and big fan of furbies and the like today lol. Im really greatful for the little guy’s honestly, i followed the kaleidoscope with curiosity and interest only for nothing to really come of it, i dont recall knowing anyone else who was a big fan of tattletail, i think im just gonna start drawing them again to feel something lol
Honestly, I sometimes still think about Tattletail. It started off as being a simple horror game that seemed to follow Fnaf 4 but with free roam. It was an amazing game, but The Kaleidoscope didn't really give the game the chance it needed. Let alone the DLC didn't really make much sense to me when I first played it, but it was pretty cool. If Tattletail comes back by some miracle, I think the plot should revolve around how Tattletail isn't really popular anymore, and it faded out of popularity. You play as a toy collector who finds a Tattletail, but little do you know it's a fight for survival. Overtime, you start to learn the story of why Tattletails are no longer made, and why Mama Tattletail was banned. There was originally meant to be a little series of Tattletail for TH-cam, like what Hello Neighbor did, but all we got was some promotional art, and it never saw the light of day again. Dawko played it again a while ago, but I doubt that'll make it popular again. Tattletail was one of those things that had a good run, but it didn't deserve to die out like it did.
It gives family trauma vibes and how attitudes are different from different perspectives. It feels like time makes us realize how we behaved and in the moment not understand how crummy we could be as Angsty teenagers towards younger children.
I do like how openly... Odd the game is. Especially the DLC. Way too many mascot horror games either lean too far into absurdism or too far into providing a decently clear explanation, I like that tattletale just gives you the scenario, and just enough information that you aren't lost or wondering why you're even doing this. Some weird shit happened on Christmas in 1998. The company did something weird, and though they didn't intend it, you're now in danger. And now, years later, someone's tampered with your memory of it in your dreams. And someone else is here to help you, as much as they can. It's connected to 1998, but it's probably not directly. And Mama's ghost is still around, having a grudge for very obvious reasons. There's obviously a lot more under the surface here that we just don't know about, but nothing that really makes the story hard to follow for the sake of being "mysterious" or obtuse. Things can be interpreted many ways, but not so many it becomes pointless to think about. Things are unclear, but not vague. Tattletale is a game that's stuck with me for years after watching it 6 years ago. Now I can see why.
I mostly remember tattletail from when I was a young kid watching playthroughs of it and engaging with the fandom, at the time I never even knew about the kaleidescope mode and not even the full ending so it was really amazing to revisit the entirety of it with this video and realise how much better the game is than I thought before : )
I will forever be sad that Tattletail didn't come out after Bendy. Bendy felt like it was the game that really set the norm for indie games getting official merch. I would LOVE to own a life-sized Mama that functions properly as a cassette player. It'd be horrifying but I'd love every second of it. Now with the game having fallen into obscurity, I don't think it'll ever happen now.
I haven't thought of Tattletail in at least six years, but literally the instant I saw this video in my recommended I thought "ME TATTLETAIL ME LO-O-OVE YOU" and if that doesn't speak to how distinctive and memorable this game was I don't know what does
This genre was really great tbh. I wish it got more recognition. I'm a small indie dev and we just rolled out our game and Tattletail was one of the games that I played a lot during free time and was fascinated by. I think a lot of what makes it so great is their sound design mixed with lighting. I remember as a kid being terrified of a dark basement and this game did a very good job taking that factor into consideration.
We did Maxix Robotics. It was more proof of concept and we had issues with steam analytics but people liked the idea. We are taking our time with a much bigger game with stuff to do which is cool. Hopefully game 2 has demo in april :D@@kuraihikari5785
clicked onto this video on a whim, vaguely remembering the little purple guy from youtube letsplays a couple of years ago. i really enjoyed your commentary, and your joy at certain parts of game really made the video for me. i'm glad to be on a first name basis with buttercup and dewdrop now:) great work, i've subscribed and looking forward to what other stuff you put out
Honestly, considering how drawn out mascot horror properties can be now, theres something admirable about the tattletail devs just dropping a banger n leaving. Great video, this was a blast from the past. That being said they really couldn't have given us a offical tattletail plush before it was over? Love that little skrunkly :(
the way tattletail talked while you were falling out of bounds genuinely unnerved me, like a child angry at you that you didn't follow the rules to their game properly. even worse it doesn't happen right away and leaves you falling for a little while before ending, taking the already unnerving aspect of exploit to a new level
The nostalgia hit me like a truck as fast as light. As soon as i saw the word "Tattletail" after all these years, i clicked like it was the end of the world.
I don’t even have to watch this video to say: Everyone was terrified of Furby’s as a kid… It was only a matter of time before some genius finally took that recipe for disaster and gave us this terrifying game.
I was never terrified of furbies, I thought they were so adorable and wanted to look after them. Even when one of my furbies mouth/beak skin peeled of his face because I kept turning his skin inside out, I still loved him, and that didn't stop me pulling the beak skin of my _other_ furbys! Sure, when batteries got low, his speech slurred and stuttered - that just meant I wasn't loving him well enough!! That meant it was time for the ritual sacrifice: one of my _less_ favourite furbies would be picked based on how little they'd appeased me that month, then I'd swap their life sources, inserting it into my *favourite* so he could keep fluttering his eyelashes and begging for more love for a little while longer. Whenever I'd go out, obviously bringing my favourite with me, I'd put the others in a circle so they wouldn't be lonely and I _knew_ it worked, because when I'd come home, they'd all be chatting "lalalalalala 😊", "I'm hungry 😡" "feed me 😡" "tummy rumbling 😡" "hahaha! 😊". So cute!! Eventually when the baby furbies came out, I thought I'd trained _my_ furbies well enough that they could emulate me and care for the smaller creatures, so I added a few to the middle of the circle. To my massive disappointment, ALL of them continued to beg for food, sing, cry, and sleep, while the baby furbies cried in the middle. I was so disgusted with my now supposedly "adult" (although now I'll admit they would've pinky been teenagers in furbyland and it's rude to expect teenagers to be responsible for new babies) furbies, that I locked them all in the cupboard under the stairs. Despite their incessant complaints, I ignored them all and focussed on my babies. But my love for them was tainted by my disappointment, clearly it was my parenting skills that were the problem, so I neglected them and eventually let a friend 'adopt' them. Over the months, the sounds in the cupboard slowly died out, the final, faint, slurred "I'm scared" before I completely forgot about them. I found them about 6 years ago while moving out and wondered wtf was wrong with me as a child.
@@emstink sounds like you had the 2007 furbies since those are the only ones with "skin". I own one and I pinned a pin on his chest with a t-rex on it that says "if you're happy and you know it, clap your . . oh." Because y'know, t-rex's have really tiny arms. And furbies have none lol
@@CasualVFlowerEnjoyer I did wonder since every time I search up furbies, they have those horrid hard beaks lol, I thought maybe it was a UK thing, but 2005-2007 edition makes sense. I looked them up and they were called Emoto-tronics - definitely not a name kids would remember! I forgot the baby ones had giant Bigfoot legs, I think I found those ones kind of grotesque in comparison with the 'adult' ones, maybe that's why I never loved them as much lol. That's cute lol! I hope your one is still alive, I think all of mine are dead beyond repair since I'd left the batteries in. I remember seeing the 2013 furbies and being really disappointed that they were so horrendously ugly. Plastic ears and flat plastic eyes. No potential there, for either scaring or loving lol
@@emstink Mine are all still in working condition, thankfully. Except for my tyedye 1998 furby but he came to me not working. I've been meaning for quite some time now to try repairing him, since the early furbies are supposedly quite easy to repair as long as it isn't a circuit board issue. I have two English OG furbies and one French OG furby, along with an OG baby furby, 2007 furby and the first edition of the more modern furbies. Personally my favorite is my OG French boy, Dah. I think the main thing that has kept them working for so long is, I always take out their batteries when I'm done loving on them. Also I've heard a lot of horror stories of furby parents leaving batteries in their furby that end up leaking and corroding their insides. There're really no repairing that so its a phobia of mine now. Edit to add;; I was also disappointed by the newer furbies. Not so much because of the plastic parts, those don't bother me. I didn't like that their gimmick is that they change to a number of pre-set personalities depending on how you interact with them. The thing I love about older furbies is that they all have their own unique personality kinda like a real pet. There are things that each of my older furbies do that the other older furbies don't do as much. Like Dah for example, he loves sleeping and he always comments on how sunny/bright a room is. The newer furbies' personalities are so shallow, predictable and soulless. And if you do one particular thing too many times, like petting or feeding, they might swap to a new personality. So any friendship you may have gained at all is squashed because your friend just became a totally different person.
When Markiplier first played it I was OBSESSED it became my comfort videogame. Not only was it funny but it was also genuinely scary at the same time. I need me a tattletail 2 😭
Tattletail 2 could be about the protagonist leaving for college and rediscovering the old tattletail then you have to uhhhhhhhhhhhhyhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I ran out of ideas
I really like that people keep bringing up tattletail lately, it makes it clear that the games still loved and appreciated. Even if its not in a huge spotlight anymore. Edit: I ALSO LIKE HOW YOU ACTUALLY KNOW THE TATTLETAILS NAMES, THAT IS BEAUTIFUL
I completely forgot that Tattletail says something when you boundary break the game But I had no idea he says things about falling into the aether. It’s the little things that make games like these memorable!
Now I know the explanation in 10:23 she ate a kids eyes out yet she was still tested for prototype so they used a prototype version of her for the commercial and then after the commercial she ate a kids eyes out
tattletail means a lot to me as an autistic person who experienced abuse as a child. the way Mama acts is poignantly like my own and many other abusive mothers act -- manipulative, vengeful, try to say shit like "i love you, dont leave me" but also "you will never escape me" in the same breath. and the way the kaleidascope ending portrays Mama's perfect world as all her children acting "perfectly" really speaks to the experience of being punished heavily for acting out and expected to act "normal". i just love it
28:17, theweird thing is, this isnt just some bullshit for the game, memories are influenced by your emotions every single time you remember them, becoming more fuzzy and less real
i usually consider this game to be the last truly scary mascot horror game. it just makes me even more confused thinking about how it got forgotten even tho it had everything going for it. i’m glad that it seems like it’s getting a resurgence during this period of mid mascot horror games. (except for bendy and the dark revival cuz that one was actually good)
It starts with one thing I don't know why It doesn't even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind I designed this rhyme To explain in due time All I know Time is a valuable thing Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings Watch it count down to the end of the day The clock ticks life away It's so unreal Didn't look out below Watch the time go right out the window Trying to hold on, didn't even know I wasted it all just to watch you go I kept everything inside And even though I tried, it all fell apart What it meant to me Will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn't even matter I had to fall To lose it all But in the end It doesn't even matter One thing, I don't know why It doesn't even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind I designed this rhyme To remind myself how I tried so hard In spite of the way you were mocking me Acting like I was part of your property Remembering all the times you fought with me I'm surprised it got so Things aren't the way they were before You wouldn't even recognize me anymore Not that you knew me back then But it all comes back to me in the end You kept everything inside And even though I tried, it all fell apart What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn't even matter I had to fall To lose it all But in the end It doesn't even matter I've put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go For all this There's only one thing you should know I've put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go For all this There's only one thing you should know I tried so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn't even matter I had to fall To lose it all But in the end It doesn't even matter
I am in awe of the editing and writing. You manage to run the gambit between funny and informative so perfectly and this seems so casual and professional at the same time
I don't think we'll get anything new in the Tattletail franchise, but Ben Esposito (the director for Tattletail) hasn't forgotten about it seeing how Tattletail snuck his way into his latest game Neon White as a collectible.
I never noticed she says "ORANGE you forgetting someone?" at the end of the DLC. Thank you for 1. Reviving this game in my memories and 2. Helping me discover such a great revelation.
My theory is the kid has ptsd or some crazy shit like that, but yk ofc telling ur parents "mom I have ptsd because tattletail's mom tried to kill me and then I watched him and his friends banish her to oblivion" Is gonna make you look insane so they put him on meds and so now he barely remembers any of the shit that happened and escaping the kaleidoscope thingy at the end is basically the kid reliving his memories
I love tattletail, Its the perfect representation of a mascot horror, Because unlike other games like fnaf where its all about animatronics possessed by dead children. Tattletail make the story basic, to the point, and mysterious. Also i like how mama’s grinding sound can also sound like demonic screaming
Tattletail is an amazing game and I wish it got more recognition. It's genuinely creepy and fun at the same time and I'm glad to see someone break it down and appreciate it!
This game disappeared so quickly and out of nowhere, that I totally forgot about it. I remembered some kind of a horror game with furbys or whatever they are called, but I just couldn't find it anywhere.
I was one of those kids who enjoyed playing all the big “indie” horror games around 2016-2017, and Tattletail was by far one of the scariest and hardest to beat. I remember sitting with my friend in the basement trying over and over to beat the game, while we both kept screaming. Ah memories
Fun Fact: On Disney XD, there was a show where they took a bunch of TH-camr Clips and editing them together into a much more kid-friendly version. Censoring words, making goofy edits of the things they said as they played games like Happy Wheels, and Octodad. One of those youtubers (I wanna say Jackfilms but I think that’s wrong) played Tattletail and for some Strange Reason, they decided to not censor ANY of the ritual stuff. So on Disney freaking XD, you could just pull it up and see 5 tattletaillers try to banish mama with a Pentagram
Edit: It was Parker Plays
I REMEMBER THAT IS THWRE ANY VIDEO OF IT
Oh wow what was it called?
@@hayond656 it was either Player Select or Parker Plays
@@comicwaterz8346 it was player select, it’s how I found out about cluster truck
@@NightLightOwl11 thank you
14:04
The fact that the Devs knew someone would do this and gave tattletail a voice line for this situation is golden
@gabrielherrmann9377 look behind you
Same as 12:57
What’s funnier to me is he sounds so frustrated and mortified(at least has frustrated and mortified as a robotic voice can get) like the devs are just standing there in horror as a madman breaks there game.
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@@TheAncientBreadMan thanks bread man
My friend had a Furby, he found out that if you turn them upside down they begin to scream. So he decided he would leave it upside down until it screamed itself to death...
Years later I began reading about Japan's Unit 731 during WW2. They were a Biological & Chemical Warfare unit that conducted their research on Chinese POW's. I know comparing atrocities is a silly thing to do, but they're RIGHT up there with the worst of the worst. They referred to their subjects as 'Logs' as a way to dehumanise them. Anyhow one of their famed experiments was very similar, turning a 'log' up-side down and leaving 'it' that way until 'it' expires.
After that I could never break the connection in my head.
oh god
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@@airy214right honestly interesting though
My brother in christ, this is a tattletale retrospective
Are you Matpat
I love how the game doesn’t make mama an immediate threat. They make her presence known and mysterious
BRUH HOW DOES THIS HAVE 852 LIKES BUT NO COMMENTS
Yep, like how they make huggy wuggy lurking around for a bit before aiming for a chase scene.
@@danieljackson9503 idk man. I look away for one second and I have 1k likes on such a simple ignorable comment ;-;
It also helps prevent the player from growing too used to the gameplay.
@@tatarchan5212 Except that game flops massively in the horror aspect unfortunately
A knock-knock joke being one of the most well-executed jumpscares in indie horror history is genuinely the most incredible thing… ever
Dunno, i kinda felt it was the weakest jumpscare since it gave her a human characteristic... the whole point of her is to be alien-ish and off-putting
All modern horror games are suffering by giving the characters actual personalities, its lame and doesnt work, its just like if a cartoon bear was coming to steal your cupcake
@@leedlelel2373 it doesn't work for you and thats fine but its not objective, the jumpscare works because its the one time she actually gives emotion instead of giving it throughout its reminds us that there is something paranormal going on with these toys, it speaks to how fake she is and that jumpscare showed who she really was a bitter and angry toy its perfect.
It scared me and I barely get scared from jump scares in videos!
@@leedlelel2373 I feel like the adding of personality at the end is very cool.
Mama is so mad about being banned that she broke herself so she can express her true desire. That is amazing.
My personal opinion but it makes sense that sometimes, antagonists in horror with personalities can’t be stretched to their true scary potential.
@@leedlelel2373 honestly I think it's scarier when something you think is inhuman shows a genuine human emotion. it's like in portal 2 when glados gets removed from her body, you hear genuine pain from her screams making it extremely unsettling, cause it means this robot feels emotions, or even worse, pain. Even in a game like FNAF SB it's scary with the shattered animatronics, cause you hear them crying in pain, and begging for their parts back. So Mama tattletail getting angry is actually equally scary because this thing you thought was just like an animal hunting you down has emotions and understands you enough to respond to the joke, Meaning it knows what it's doing, it's not just protecting it's young. Or if we're going by the "don't leave me!" Line, it could be doing it for another reason. Whether it says it as a manipulation tactic, or if it's genuine, it's still scary.
For anybody curious about the phone: the reason it didn't ring for them is because it stops ringing after you pick it up once, you actually get a special line of dialog if you leave it until Christmas to pick up
Christmas Eve? Cause that message was creepy.
@@Daveaintrealwhat was it?
@@I_want_White_Cheddar_Popcorn It was basically just a distorted message of someone just saying Merry Christmas, but at the end, you can hear Mama's story song.
@@Daveaintreal ohhhhhhhh, creepy
Dang I didn't know
i didnt even know tattletail had voicelines saying "why did you do this?" and "you ruined everything" which is really interesting to me considering i thought i knew most things about this game
Same!!!! I keep wondering if they were added by the devs to make the player feel bad
Makes me think they programed those bugs on purpose
They added these in newest update just for a joke
@@doggosho3044 I feel like it’s more an Easter egg for people who manage to bug the game than anything.
NPC on the internet realizes the extent of their knowledge isn't equal to the entirety of it.
Wonderful.
Tattletail getting mad when you jump off the map with him is funny, but the funniest part is that he even reacts in the first place. Like the Devs knew about this and programmed him to get mad at you for breaking the game. I never knew about this that is HILARIOUS.
Not really
@@atanaZion why do you despise me so
@@fizzy.milkcan3292 this made me laugh an unreasonable amount
@@fizzy.milkcan3292 its okay fizzy milkcan i think its funny
I think it’s really funny that instead of fixing that part of the game they added to it and basically continued the joke 😂
I love the idea of Mama Tattletail. A motherly figure for the children who's mother's can't read them a story. Just imagine, you asked your mother to read you a bedtime story, but she's busy washing the dishes. So you go up to your room, turn off the light and turn on the lamp, and get the Mama Tattletail out of a box in your closet. You pick a story out of a stack of cassettes, place it in the Mama, and press play. You then fall asleep listening to Mama read you The Tortoise and the Hare.
i mean it's a direct reference to Teddy Ruxpin dolls sooooo
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Ruxpin
sounds like nightmare fuel to me, like i appreciate your generosity oversized furby but i don't trust you :/
Toy company: Our big selling point is taking the parent-children quality time out of the lives of parents and children. Makes things much more efficient, you'll find.
I had something like this as a kid!
I had a Mother Goose Casette Player. It looked like a stuffed Mother Goose, but her eyes and beak could move, and she would read the casette stories to me before bed. Usually my parents would still be in the room while I went to sleep, but it was still a super cool thing.
@@laava32 omg that is so cool!!!! I would love to have/see one!!
This and Duck Season don't get enough credit as quality mascot horror games
FR! You remember duck season?
TRUUU!! T^T duck szn was soooo gud 2.
this comment just made me remember how good duck season was
i remember young me watching a playthrough of duck season but i got so scared😭😭
i remember matpats game theory on duck season and i really wanna play it myself sometimes
Ignoring the kaleidoscope I always preferred the head canon that the whole experience was just a series of guilt fueled nightmares after sneaking around and opening your present early. It would just make so much sense to me with the strange focus on the door to the child's mother's room, the fact that it all takes place at night, the not supernatural but still unusual things like the front door being wide open and just not addressing it or feeding a toy real frood, and the whole game being about not getting tattled on to mama. It would really work if it was all just symbolic of the child's guilt and fear of getting caught but seen through the filter of a child's mind
fRRRRRRRRRRRood
I also think this was all just a whole trauma of the child who experimented horror because of a -Furby- I mean Tattletail, btw the Tattletail's lore isn't full of inexplicable things you have to go hard on theories, of course you can just interprets or go easy on theories.
But that's such a lame idea, I prefer the more supernatural aspect to it, and the thought of Waygetter somehow brainwashing the player via vhs is a really cool concept. But we can agree to disagree
@@Mr_pizzbruh Yes, it's just theories/interpretations, anyone could think what's happening.
@@soupcangaming662 Frrrrrrrrrrrrooooooood
As many others have said, this story really comes off as an allegory for somebody processing childhood trauma, specifically around an event that happened on Christmas.
This is definitely indicated by a lot of Tattletale’s lines
“You’re in big trouble” “I know what you did” and then the secret lines in the void “How could you do this? You ruined everything”
These sound like things an angry parent would say to their kid, possibly just before or during the abuse. This could either have been in response to breaking the vase or her discovering that the child already opened their present early. Even the name of the toy, Tattletale, could be indicative that the child didn’t know how to turn it off, so it gave away to the mom that they had opened the gift early.
Then the Kaleidoscope episode implies that perhaps they were gaslit into believing a different version of that time that was nicer.
The person in the letter could either be the sibling, trying to talk about what really happened, or perhaps a therapist.
I think the letters might be the protagonist themself except they’re older and trying to process trauma. Considering how they talked about going in the kaleidoscope as well. This could also represent how, in life, we can get trauma from all sorts of people or events, because of the experiences with go through.
Genuinely I think the allegory of childhood trauma from an abusive parent just makes me love the game more
alsoo!! when you leave the kalideoscope, mama keeps saying “ i love you so much “ as if shes trying to guilt trip protag into staying with her. another detail i noticed is that since tattletail makes noise when it wants something and noise is associated with mama finding and jumpscaring you, it could also allude to neglect in which the protag’s mother is not very keen to taking care of them. or maybe im projecting my own trauma but yeah
So what’s the tapes for?
it would also explain the absence of the parents of the child in the entire story and how, if you knock on the door during one of the nights, the door opens and mama is there and jumpscares you
the child has had such a distorted sense of reality due to the abuse and trauma that they no longer see their parents as themselves but instead as a nightmarish representation of something that the protagonist finds comfort in (tattletail). the failed ritual in the base game could also be a metaphor for how people often end up sweeping trauma under the rug which causes it to resurface at some point in the future (in this case, mama tattletail jumpscaring you on christmas most likely represents your inability to overcome the trauma)
also, i find it much more likely that tattletail isnt actually speaking or even alive, you do have to remember that the protagonist is probably somewhere between 3 to 6 years old here and children have a tendency of imagining their toys as being living beings. my explanation for the ''noise going up when the food bar goes down'' is probably the child themselves being hungry and as a result crying, which attracts the attention of the abusive parent.
also i definitely think that the letters are from the future version of the protagonist looking back on these memories after a couple years and trying to process them (hence, the eggs lead to the good ending where you can remember your past properly and overcome it, atleast if you exclude the kaleidoscope dlc. i assume its some kind of memory thing where the person can be like ''oh there was an egg on top of the washing machine'' which allows them to more easily remember certain events, hence why it leads to the good ending)
i think the kaleidoscope dlc most likely represents an alternative of the bad ending of the base game but instead of the trauma resurfacing, it instead recedes and the child's brain gaslights itself into thinking that their childhood was good and they have to remember what actually happened (this may also explain the letters talking about ''going through the kaleidoscope'' already, as we can assume that the base game is the protagonist's first attempt at trying to remember their past and failing, hence the bad ending and then retrying at a later point to remember it, which is where the kaleidoscope dlc comes in)
but yeah this is all just theorizing and my 1 AM ramblings, would love to hear other people's opinions though if they have the patience to read through the entire essay i just made lmao
This comment just makes me sad
The fact that Tattletail knows when you get out of bounds and break the game is actually pretty funny. Like, they went through the effort to make Tattletail have unique reactions when breaking the game. That’s pretty cool.
“Why did you _do_ this?!”
Fr lol
from what i remember it wasnt in game originally, i saw a video(or photo, im not sure)on the steam community page, where they fell into the abyss with tattletail, and were apprently there for a while, and it just, broke. im assuming the devs saw that or got a lot of bug reports and added that
The :0 sold me on it. 😂😂
Quite on point for the devs of Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective
It's a shame that Tattletail isn't as well known as it is today.
It's definitely a "lightning in a bottle" type of horror game that doesn't get as much love or attention that it so rightfully deserves.
i'd say it's for the better.
'Die as a hero' and all that.
@epicdude Nah, the sequel is obviously Neon White (where Tattletail actually makes an appearance) which then leads into Wobbledogs
@@PEARLSTOTHEPLAYERSwait, the devs of tattletail made wobbledogs???
Same with Among the Sleep tbh. I miss when Tattletail and AtS were on my page constantly...
At least it's not use for content farming.
I need more people to talk about the fact that tattletail has secret dialogue that you'll only ever hear if you're stupid enough to jump directly into the void.
I know. This game came out in 2016 and I only found out about those lines when I first watched this vid.
Tattletail was everything it wanted to be and nothing more. It got a cool DLC, and that was it. Which I love. It did what it wanted to do, and then nothing more. No attempts at a crash grab, no stupid kids merch, no overambitous sequels... it was just one game and a DLC. I hate that it sometimes gets clumped with Hello Neighbor, Banban, etc. because it's so much better.
One side of me wants people to remember this game exists, and another side of me doesnt. I dont want Tattletail to get ruined by those cursed cringe content on youtube, but then i feel like this game deserves more than the games that it always gets compared to. Since its a truly finished game with no word from the devs about it anymore, kids nowadays wont even know this exists and thought "well noone talks about it so i guess its trash". Idk, one side of me is happy and content that Tattletail ended this way, and another side of me isnt.
I mean I think a real tattletail would be cool if it had personality but other than that I’d hate to see merch
@@saccorhytusFrrr, little guy is so adorable.
@@saccorhytusonly if it's of main game tattletail though I will not accept the apathetic tattletail.
I don't even care if the little man eats everything in my fridge he's gonna have his own special place on my desk. we will game together.
@@chocomelo454hell yeahhhh
I think the “ORANGE YOU FORGETTING SOMEONE??” Is so genius- like they managed to make that line not cringy, which is hard to do when you’re finishing such a bad joke, but the developers just MASTERED this
It honestly hit different, like you can hear the fury in her voice
It really felt like the comeback of a villain
2.2K likes why?
I love the secondary layer to that joke, that being the original knock-knock joke it is based on:
"Knock Knock"
"Who's there?"
"Banana"
"Banana who?"
"Knock Knock"
"Who's there?"
"Banana"
"Banana who?"
"Knock Knock"
"Who's there?"
"Banana"
"Banana who?"
"Knock Knock"
"Who's there?"
"Banana"
"Banana who?"
"Knock Knock"
"Who's there?"
"Orange"
"Orange who?"
"Orange you glad I didn't say 'Banana'?"
I think it's less that she's finishing the joke, but that you probably did forget that Mama is the bad guy with the relief that Tattletail was okay.
I’m kinda glad that they made the “mascot” of the mascot horror actually pretty cute and endearing with a hint of eeriness as opposed to just being straight up creepy
Damn I did not mean to start an argument my b
Its a furby…. We all know furbies are evil incarnate.
Maybe I’m a pedant but I wouldn’t call it mascot horror. They’re not really mascots of the company, just toys they sell.
thats not really what mascot horror means @@DeathnoteBB
@@DeathnoteBB mascot horror as in mascot of the game
@@Leader7353 It means in-universe mascot
My interpretation of the Kaleidoscope is that its supposed to be the kid trying to remember 1998 Christmas after growing up, The notes are being written by the grown up version of the kid trying to "communicate" with his younger self, trying to remember how he had fun with Tattletail as a child in the past because in the present he only remembers him as a boring toy. Also the presence of the cassette that explains the waydrives stands out to me because thats not something a kid would usually hear, its more like an employee training video, I think this means that after growing up the kid got a job at waygetter and only saw Tattletail as a boring product of the company, which is also why Boring Tattletail has the "pizza slice" eye. The events of the Kaleidoscope are the kid having a nostalgia moment.
That makes a lot of sense, and is my new fav hc for it
Wait, what if the person remembers Tattletail as a boring toy and the reason for going through the Kaleidoscope is for the grown up version of the kid to relive his childhood memories. I think it symbolizes the idea that when people grow up, they leave behind the toys they used to love playing with as a kid, since they're getting older.
What about the "I'm just glad I don't have to choose this time, heh"
@@shookengie370 Maybe its like a loop/cycle where the player (grown up) will have to choose- Idk
@@Lunar_Effect the "until next time" can be interpreted as its always the same person
Furbies are definitely the thing that comes to mind at first, since they are so well known even now - but Tattletail actually reminds me a lot more of another beloved 90's electronic pet: the Wuv Luv!
Cause Wuv Luv had a big Mom version that had a pocket for her eggs, and you could buy eggs and get different Wuv Luv babies. My twin and I had 2 identical babies (sweetie), and I remember wanting the big mom so bad. I still remember what our babies looked like, and some of the catchphrases they said. And I remember feeding them with these plastic flower that came with them.
Oh, interesting! Thanks for sharing I absolutely would’ve never known otherwise.
I heard Mama is likely based on a toy called Teddy Ruxpin.
Thanks those look terrifying
Sounds a lot like Mama. Wuv luv, Teddy Ruxpin and Furbies!
Fidgets for me too, I had a newer generation of a furby. But I didn't get nightmares from it, I did with the fidget toy.
What I think makes tattletail so interesting is that its not really about avoiding a monster. The threat is with you the entire game. Its essentially part of your playable avatar. You arent trying to run from the threat and keep it at bay. YOU are effectively the threat, trying to keep yourself from causing your own demise.
I mean there is an active threat you need to stay away from, but tattletail is also a threat because if you don’t keep it at bay to SHUT IT UP it will keep talking giving away where you are and you die
Honestly I feel like the whole game is a good allegory for childhood trauma and memory suppression. To me, this story captures the feeling of anxiety when you feel you have to walk on eggshells around your parents. Then with the kaleidoscope stuff being about memory suppression and self-gaslighting into thinking it wasn't as bad as it was.
Wow, I never thought of that. Excellent insight! I always thought that maybe Mama is the protagonist's childlike vision of their mother or something. I hate theories like that where people go too deep with the characters and it's doesn't make sense anymore, but your theory makes sense.
I've never thought about that before, but it totally makes sense! especially if you think about tattletail and mama being like a child's view of their relationship with their mother. mama wants her kids to be with her and her only, no matter what it takes. or how doing essential things for tattletail like feeding him is scary because mama might catch you. when you look at it as an allegory, it makes so much sense.
and here my ass was like omg scary furby 😫
As a victim of that, I entirely agree. I've forgotten some things, and despite how painful it is to pull the barbed wire from the depths of my mind so I can heal, I know it has to be done. I think it's a really good theory, and it perfectly encapsulates that feeling. The mysterious note sender might either be a therapist, or an older protag, trying to remember and heal from it all.
I never thought about that. I never thought about how someone might convince themselves that it wasn’t actually that bad. God, that explains some things in my life. Wtf I didn’t expect insight on my trauma in the comment section of a game about evil furbies.
I love this take though, it makes so much sense
The one thing I really like about Mama is how deceivingly unthreatening she appears. Even with her scary eyes and sharp teeth out, she doesn't look like something that would be able to efficiently attack and kill you, and yet, somehow, she still does. It really makes you wonder "how is this overgrown toy able to do all of this."
"Probably with the FORCE and the dark side at that"
Obi wan
Bro doesn’t even have arms, how does she do it 😭😭
AIM FOR THE THROAT
@@dream_walker9726 with the FORCE
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My favorite moment in Tattletail has to be when Mama is talking about how she caught the children. Even today I find it so eerie. The way her voice sounds almost monotone but creepy, and the distortion of the music makes that moment so off putting, especially the line “but she caught them. Every last one”. Idk how to explain it
I think an underappreciated aspect of this game is the _extremely authentic_ mechanical whirring every time Tattletail moves. Gives an incredible sense of the toy being real, and you can even imagine the weight of holding a toy whose motors sound like that.
I made a tattletail anamatronic. And yea, it weighs a little ans the eyes do so that vrrt vrrrt sound
@@RasEli03 That is wicked sweet! Got a video of it?
If you want to, you can even imagine what licking tattletail is like
I had a furby at one point, and yeah, thing weighed quite a bit
I'm glad that the gaming community got older. To the point that we can make a complete retrospective on games like Tattletail, and analyse them now.
It reminds me of how we all collectively came to hate "kiddy" platformers in the mid to late 2000s, only to eventually grow up and realise that we were being stupid and platformers are just as valid as any other type of game.
What generation are we all talking about here lol
@@ftrwrwbg right? tfw 30 and just liked the game because I really loved my Furby but was equally scared shitless of it being secretly alive or something. This game always came off as nostalgia bait for people who grew up with the original version of the toy, so the fact that it has such a young audience is a surprise.
i like how he's called "tattletail" because he's constantly tattling on your position to mama
Just a tiny thing, "mascot horror" was coined by John Wolfe in early 2018, not Pastra. It came about after Baldi's Basics blew up.
Hey wait your a famous person!
no way it's the real kane carter
Pastras video is from 2017
Ok thanks for the informa-
*hold up...*
Its a popgoes promotion
This game executes the "horror mascot" beautifully. This game honestly has such a interesting thing that still makes me remember it's title, you can literally say tattletail and I'd be having flashbacks on this game and everything about it, I'm happy someone brought the games name up after years of it being a dead name.
P.S! Your commentary is the BEST. Unlike any other commentary videos, your way of commentary is awesome and you explain things well even with humor, keep up the good work dude!
I agree!
Off topic but I love your pfp
@@magicalmercy Thank you!! :D
Agree i miss this Francise :( also
Also how Is hello neigbor a mascot horror game it does not have mascot themes to it
You have a cute pfp
The video essay mixed with normal gameplay commentary AND silly editing is actually top tier?! This video is so well done
even as a kid when this game came out, I loved the sound design. Especially when mama’s tape is put into her, because the story that’s told is so unnerving, and the voice actor did a really good job. I have always loved this game and I feel like it never got recognized for how good it was.
Yesss
It's still my voice clai, for one of my fnaf ocs lmao
The way she says "turn the page :)" is so uncanny to me for some reason.
I still hear her “Tuuuurn the page..” till this day
Holy shit the “ORANGE YOU FORGETTING SOMEONE!?” Hit so hard, mamas emotion in that voice compiled with everything else that happened previous made that particular line and jumpscare go so unbelievably hard
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Tattletale never really scared me, but the "WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP" really startled me when I first played it. I didn't know whether I was supposed to get startled or giggle
My first thought as you went through the story was how memories of abuse can become warped with time with denial in order to cope.
Kids can come up with some pretty terrible stuff during playtime, and it can be indicative of their home lives, hence why it's suggested that teachers pay attention when kids are playing in school or in other places.
I noticed how every single one of the toys, except for Mama, had nearly identical voices. I know that's intentional if they're mass-produced toys, but in the theory it could be related to how kids only *sometimes* put on voices, and that they usually sound pretty similar.
And the warped version at the end could be the result of Mama trying to gaslight the child/ren into thinking that they only had happy times, and the abuse didn't happen.
When they resist, symbolized by going into the Kaleidoscope and retrieving the genuine memories, she gets angry because it doesn't work.
That could also explain her pleading at the end of the game addon as well.
Her suddenly pleading as the character retrieves and escapes with their true memories could symbolize her being caught and the abuse on the children being proven, so after exhausting all of her other options of maintaining control of the situation, she resorts to the "Please come back! I swear I'll never do it again! I didn't mean to hurt you." manipulative phrases they'll use to keep their victims firmly in their grasp. It also explains how obviously disingenuous her doing so is. Only when you're safely away from her is when she tries to be loving and comforting yet when she's nearby she resorted to using violence and fear to get what she wanted from you.
The theory is pretty interesting.
Damn tattletale just like me frfr
i remember this theory was heavily belived!! the kid using tattletail as a scape goat to repress tramua!! i also remember there being a theory where the kid also killed his mom hence the ritual
Definitely. Also considering we NEVER SEE the protagonists parents, even when we bang on their door.
Bro put all of this over a toy that was hungry wanted brushes and wanted his battery
Personally, I believe the story of tattletale is an alegory for an abusive parent. Likely mother.
And the siblings coming together to go away from her.
The colidoscope chapter is about the good times, or the times youre told, or mother tells, thus making you wonder if the abuse happened.
How do you manage to misspell a word thats literally in the video
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Thats so good, especially since the human mind blocks or makes you forget about extremely traumatic moments in your life
There's a whole song called mama hates you based on this game that released yearssss ago iirc
I really like that theory. Along with being good memories, the kaleidoscope chapter could also be gaslighting with Mama telling you she never did anything bad
The end where she's begging the player not to leave could be like when the child grows up and cuts contact and she's begging them not to leave and refusing to recognize the harm she caused while insisting she loves them.
33:27 I thought it was gonna say 'You're not just an employee, you're the new face of Freddy Fazbear's pizza!
Lol same
Phone Man: that my job!
If Tattletail ever comes back, I'll scream. Official merchandise, Books, Artbooks, anything. I'd eat it UP. I would BUY it so fast. I loved this game so much. It's a staple in my childhood, however with how little I see of it, I don't appreciate it as much as I want to. I used to play a Tattletail-based game on Roblox constantly because of how much I admired them game, but couldn't have it for myself. Even if it was a roleplay game and it's not even Tattletail anymore. Which I honestly really wish it was. I love the new models, and the new stuff, but I will forever miss the Tattletails we had in that game. Regardless of how bad the developer is according to sources. I think they almost had an ARG, but they-- stopped. Probably due to the loss in popularity. I think the Kaleidoscope was an effort to revive the game, but it had no announcements that it even existed, it just literally popped up. Which didn't go the game's falling popularity much good. But regardless, this game is a game that should've been a bigger staple in horror. It deserved way more than it got.
that tattletail roleplay game was peak dude it was a top tier stable memory
WHAT DID THE DEVELOPER DO
OMG YOU REMEMBER THE OLD TATTLETAIL RP TOO ??? I MISSED THAT SHIT SO MUCH (i mourn my confetti tattletail son every day they took my baby away from me)
I got so mad when they rebranded☠️
THOSE TATTLETAILS WERE SO UNIRONICALLY ORIGINAL AND COOL. I'm so sad they had to face that copyright n' stuff. That game was a peak part of my Roblox childhood. There's like-- nothing left of Tattletail on that game. There's another game with Tattletail, but it's not nearly as good quality.
The fact that tattletail just goes:
*"Why did you do this ):"* The moment he breaks the game and falls out of the map is a beatiful way of breaking the fourth wall. Especcialy sense he just says: "You ruined everything." I love this game.
Most interesting mechanics a game has ever experimented with… a mechanical toy you need to keep calm in order to survive, shaking a flashlight for it to work, different ways to know and to avoid the antagonist… hope we see something like it in the future 😌
I like how the egg locations actually make sense for the current night, and arent just sprinkled around the house
Touching on sound design, I really appreciate how the Tattletails sound when they move. I own a working Furby, and he sounds just about identical when he whirrs and clicks. Well done to the sound designers :)
Yeah the whirrrrr and clacks are on point
Idk why but the sound of the flashlight shaking always satisfied me
@@skystuff9913 The flashlight shakes make my brain happy
Nothing like dropping your furby on its head, causing it to repeat the same action over and over again.
Also the voice is on point.
"ORANGE YOU FORGETTING SOMEONE?!"
I love that line so much, the voice actor did amazing!
tbh i think they nailed the design of the tattletail toy itself, it really feels like an alternate universe furby, a proper design that’s mostly cute but has some underlying weirdness about it that made the furby so intriguing.
i love how affectionate you are towards tattletail, like he's a funky little sibling that you adore but oh dear lord are they annoying and inconvenient sometimes.
This is literally the first TH-camr I’ve ever seen call the TattleTails by their actual name instead of “the yellow TattleTail” or “the blue one”, I’m impressed
Also, to forgot to say, Mama Tattletail may also be inspired by Teddy Ruxpin. Also, I just realised from when you were talking about how Mama is telling you noise will attract her. Instead of a tutorial or instructions telling you, the antagonist is clearly hinting or telling you that she basically is a killing machine that kills whatever she sees. Honestly genius
I love Teddy Ruxpin so much, I’ve got the original and the new version of him. I was born past the time of cassettes so learning how to put it on was cool, but because he’s so old you have to hold the little tape door open a certain way. Tattletail is what made me discover Teddy Ruxpin too so I’m glad I was able to discover both things.
That final "knock-knock" at the true ending of Kaleidoscope was really wholesome. I was dying to hear him say "me Tattletail" once again after the journey.
Fun fact: The creators of Tattletail, Ben Esposito and Geneva Hodgson, have not forgotten about the little guy! In 2022, they released a game called Neon White, where you play as an amnesiac pulled from Hell in order to rid Heaven of demons, under the promise of being earned a spot in it. You can find and collect gifts to give to other “ Neons “, and the preferred gift of one of them, Neon Violet, is a Tattletail toy. As a big TT fan, I was ecstatic when I first found this out, as it’s genuinely a really nice callback to their previous work.
I LOVE the fact that mama hints at what you have to do in order to survive the very moment she speaks. It's not spoken outright, but it's immediately told like some code hiding in plain sight.
When the first megaphone icon appears on screen my immediate thought was "oh god im gonna have to be quiet to avoid the monster", which is then brilliantly confirmed when she says she can hear you
I really love diegetic tutorials like that. Pretty cleverly explains the mechanics without outright telling you with text on the screen. More games should definitely go with this route of explaining mechanics
Something I always find really interesting about Tattletail are the folks who made it, Ben Esposito and Geneva Hodgson. They're also responsible for Donut County and Neon White, and are great at making a wide variety of games in different genres. I've been following them on social media for a while, and they're cool people with fantastic ideas. Go give their other games a shot!
I love donut county. It’s such a cute charming game.
WOAH WHAT? DONUT COUNTY IS SO GOOD!
@@RemusHoltikr donut county was some good shit
She worked at ttg too.
@@SirBlackReeds this just sounds like you have bias against OK KO and not actual criticism of their work
This put into words for something I've always felt. Tattletail feels different, like classic FNaF, it's just trying to tell a story in the most bizarre way. Tattletail almost feels like the experience of *finding* found-footage horror rather than just seeing or playing found-footage games.
I guess I also have this weird nostalgia for it, since this (and Little Nightmares) got me into the horror genre.
While I do wish for more answers on what's going on, what happened to the characters family, why the Tattletails are alive and WHAT is Waygetter?
I think it's good by itself and the mystery is just given enough answers to feel ok, but vague enough that curiosity itches my head every once in a month or so.
(Also the aesthetic of Waygetter is so enticing to me for whatever reason)
As soon as I saw a new Tattletail video like this, and not from 4 years ago. I was so happy! I love Tattletail and always will even if it's dead.
you just like me fr
same tattle tail was so fun to watch and i enjoyed watching my fav yt play it
Same!
This game really needs a revival, and I feel like now would be the perfect time for it due to mascot horror being a big talking point.
It's like a ghost that haunts our memories, but the good kind.
Im a little dissapointed that this game died so quickly, I didnt even know there was a dlc expansion until this video, which im sad I missed out on seeing! Im glad someone else remembers this game fondly as much as I did and still appreciates it. Honestly, had some really banger fan songs. This was a good video, thanks for talking about Tattletail!
Dude it's crazy how the game died so quickly, the dlc didn't even take that long to release...
Same.
@@RealValkor I think this game died due to fnaf being at it’s prime.
Mama hates you …
@@theofficialbruhfish8094 I think it was Bendy that killed Tattletail. That game came out a little while after Tattletail.
I like to think that Waydrives are just like the tiny HDDs that old iPods use and that they just store the personality or whatever other data. This would open up the possibility of "homebrewing" custom personalities into Tattletails lol.
This game actually has developed enough mechanics to where the rules are consistent, and despite being forced to confront Mama, you can still win through stealth.
What I love about tattletail is how it stays true to being in the perspective of a child. It is just you, your flashlight, and a nagging fur- I mean, tattletail. That’s what makes you inch to the edge of your seat. There are no weapons, there are no places to hide. It is your clever usage of distance between you and mama that keeps you safe.
It also, at least to me, brings to mind the “clever and a little too self assured” kid vibe like that in Home Alone - like the kid is confident he won’t be caught because he’s come up with a “foolproof” strategy for making it through each night
as a furry seeing this game again made me feel something....
"clever usage of distance" is the most sophisticated way I have seen someone say get the fuck away from
i love how the house is literally just franklin’s house from gta v
Oh wow i just noticed it lmao
Fun fact: baldis basics wasnt mascot horror. It was a mockery of it.
fr you think people would get it immediately from yknow. just looking at it
@@CartoDarko then but npw its so iconic from the old game to the newer remastered version everyone is probably familiar with
@@forgetfullsanity I'm still trying to figure out if the full game is still even in development
Baldis basics is a genuinely hilarious deep fried shitpost of a game where even the jumpscare makes you laugh outloud, I've never really gotten how it garnered a following of people who genuinely liked the characters and world and though it was scary
Good for them, just damn, I never got how many people didn't get the game was a parody
I never knew how people couldn’t recognize that on sight.
Tattletail was made during a time where people actually tried with mascot horror games, and that’s something I can appreciate
Tattletail was a big part in my life when i was younger. Fueled my curiosity for ages and is probably one of the reasons I’m an artist and big fan of furbies and the like today lol. Im really greatful for the little guy’s honestly, i followed the kaleidoscope with curiosity and interest only for nothing to really come of it, i dont recall knowing anyone else who was a big fan of tattletail,
i think im just gonna start drawing them again to feel something lol
Honestly, I sometimes still think about Tattletail. It started off as being a simple horror game that seemed to follow Fnaf 4 but with free roam. It was an amazing game, but The Kaleidoscope didn't really give the game the chance it needed. Let alone the DLC didn't really make much sense to me when I first played it, but it was pretty cool.
If Tattletail comes back by some miracle, I think the plot should revolve around how Tattletail isn't really popular anymore, and it faded out of popularity. You play as a toy collector who finds a Tattletail, but little do you know it's a fight for survival. Overtime, you start to learn the story of why Tattletails are no longer made, and why Mama Tattletail was banned.
There was originally meant to be a little series of Tattletail for TH-cam, like what Hello Neighbor did, but all we got was some promotional art, and it never saw the light of day again. Dawko played it again a while ago, but I doubt that'll make it popular again.
Tattletail was one of those things that had a good run, but it didn't deserve to die out like it did.
I agree. Good comment
The “ORANGE YOU FORGETTING SOMEONE?!” Jumpscare is so well made and genuinely my favorite jumpscare I’ve ever seen
I consider Tattletail a classic, one to come back every once in a while. It’s pretty much the “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” of indie horror games.
It gives family trauma vibes and how attitudes are different from different perspectives. It feels like time makes us realize how we behaved and in the moment not understand how crummy we could be as Angsty teenagers towards younger children.
I do like how openly... Odd the game is. Especially the DLC. Way too many mascot horror games either lean too far into absurdism or too far into providing a decently clear explanation, I like that tattletale just gives you the scenario, and just enough information that you aren't lost or wondering why you're even doing this.
Some weird shit happened on Christmas in 1998. The company did something weird, and though they didn't intend it, you're now in danger. And now, years later, someone's tampered with your memory of it in your dreams. And someone else is here to help you, as much as they can. It's connected to 1998, but it's probably not directly. And Mama's ghost is still around, having a grudge for very obvious reasons.
There's obviously a lot more under the surface here that we just don't know about, but nothing that really makes the story hard to follow for the sake of being "mysterious" or obtuse.
Things can be interpreted many ways, but not so many it becomes pointless to think about. Things are unclear, but not vague.
Tattletale is a game that's stuck with me for years after watching it 6 years ago.
Now I can see why.
I mostly remember tattletail from when I was a young kid watching playthroughs of it and engaging with the fandom, at the time I never even knew about the kaleidescope mode and not even the full ending so it was really amazing to revisit the entirety of it with this video and realise how much better the game is than I thought before : )
I will forever be sad that Tattletail didn't come out after Bendy. Bendy felt like it was the game that really set the norm for indie games getting official merch. I would LOVE to own a life-sized Mama that functions properly as a cassette player. It'd be horrifying but I'd love every second of it. Now with the game having fallen into obscurity, I don't think it'll ever happen now.
its inspired from Teddy Ruxpin
Learn how to build, code, and felt and make one yourself
@@JKBisms you did not actually say “learn to code” unironically
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@@JKBisms this interaction is so fucking funny
I haven't thought of Tattletail in at least six years, but literally the instant I saw this video in my recommended I thought "ME TATTLETAIL ME LO-O-OVE YOU" and if that doesn't speak to how distinctive and memorable this game was I don't know what does
This genre was really great tbh. I wish it got more recognition. I'm a small indie dev and we just rolled out our game and Tattletail was one of the games that I played a lot during free time and was fascinated by. I think a lot of what makes it so great is their sound design mixed with lighting. I remember as a kid being terrified of a dark basement and this game did a very good job taking that factor into consideration.
What’s your game?
We did Maxix Robotics. It was more proof of concept and we had issues with steam analytics but people liked the idea. We are taking our time with a much bigger game with stuff to do which is cool. Hopefully game 2 has demo in april :D@@kuraihikari5785
clicked onto this video on a whim, vaguely remembering the little purple guy from youtube letsplays a couple of years ago. i really enjoyed your commentary, and your joy at certain parts of game really made the video for me. i'm glad to be on a first name basis with buttercup and dewdrop now:) great work, i've subscribed and looking forward to what other stuff you put out
His commentary is hilarious
this dude went from 98 subscribers to almost 10k in a single video. props to you
Wait actually?
4 days later, it's up to 23k! More than doubled it!
@@wooper2654 24k now
It was a joke lol
28k now
Honestly, considering how drawn out mascot horror properties can be now, theres something admirable about the tattletail devs just dropping a banger n leaving. Great video, this was a blast from the past.
That being said they really couldn't have given us a offical tattletail plush before it was over? Love that little skrunkly :(
the way tattletail talked while you were falling out of bounds genuinely unnerved me, like a child angry at you that you didn't follow the rules to their game properly. even worse it doesn't happen right away and leaves you falling for a little while before ending, taking the already unnerving aspect of exploit to a new level
The nostalgia hit me like a truck as fast as light. As soon as i saw the word "Tattletail" after all these years, i clicked like it was the end of the world.
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I'm really gonna miss this game, it baffles me that it didn't get a sequel because it really deserves one.
I don’t even have to watch this video to say: Everyone was terrified of Furby’s as a kid… It was only a matter of time before some genius finally took that recipe for disaster and gave us this terrifying game.
I was scared of furbies as a kid but as an adult I think they're cute in that creepy-cute sort of way.
I was never terrified of furbies, I thought they were so adorable and wanted to look after them. Even when one of my furbies mouth/beak skin peeled of his face because I kept turning his skin inside out, I still loved him, and that didn't stop me pulling the beak skin of my _other_ furbys!
Sure, when batteries got low, his speech slurred and stuttered - that just meant I wasn't loving him well enough!! That meant it was time for the ritual sacrifice: one of my _less_ favourite furbies would be picked based on how little they'd appeased me that month, then I'd swap their life sources, inserting it into my *favourite* so he could keep fluttering his eyelashes and begging for more love for a little while longer.
Whenever I'd go out, obviously bringing my favourite with me, I'd put the others in a circle so they wouldn't be lonely and I _knew_ it worked, because when I'd come home, they'd all be chatting "lalalalalala 😊", "I'm hungry 😡" "feed me 😡" "tummy rumbling 😡" "hahaha! 😊". So cute!!
Eventually when the baby furbies came out, I thought I'd trained _my_ furbies well enough that they could emulate me and care for the smaller creatures, so I added a few to the middle of the circle. To my massive disappointment, ALL of them continued to beg for food, sing, cry, and sleep, while the baby furbies cried in the middle. I was so disgusted with my now supposedly "adult" (although now I'll admit they would've pinky been teenagers in furbyland and it's rude to expect teenagers to be responsible for new babies) furbies, that I locked them all in the cupboard under the stairs. Despite their incessant complaints, I ignored them all and focussed on my babies. But my love for them was tainted by my disappointment, clearly it was my parenting skills that were the problem, so I neglected them and eventually let a friend 'adopt' them. Over the months, the sounds in the cupboard slowly died out, the final, faint, slurred "I'm scared" before I completely forgot about them.
I found them about 6 years ago while moving out and wondered wtf was wrong with me as a child.
@@emstink sounds like you had the 2007 furbies since those are the only ones with "skin". I own one and I pinned a pin on his chest with a t-rex on it that says "if you're happy and you know it, clap your . . oh." Because y'know, t-rex's have really tiny arms. And furbies have none lol
@@CasualVFlowerEnjoyer I did wonder since every time I search up furbies, they have those horrid hard beaks lol, I thought maybe it was a UK thing, but 2005-2007 edition makes sense. I looked them up and they were called Emoto-tronics - definitely not a name kids would remember! I forgot the baby ones had giant Bigfoot legs, I think I found those ones kind of grotesque in comparison with the 'adult' ones, maybe that's why I never loved them as much lol.
That's cute lol! I hope your one is still alive, I think all of mine are dead beyond repair since I'd left the batteries in. I remember seeing the 2013 furbies and being really disappointed that they were so horrendously ugly. Plastic ears and flat plastic eyes. No potential there, for either scaring or loving lol
@@emstink Mine are all still in working condition, thankfully. Except for my tyedye 1998 furby but he came to me not working. I've been meaning for quite some time now to try repairing him, since the early furbies are supposedly quite easy to repair as long as it isn't a circuit board issue. I have two English OG furbies and one French OG furby, along with an OG baby furby, 2007 furby and the first edition of the more modern furbies. Personally my favorite is my OG French boy, Dah. I think the main thing that has kept them working for so long is, I always take out their batteries when I'm done loving on them. Also I've heard a lot of horror stories of furby parents leaving batteries in their furby that end up leaking and corroding their insides. There're really no repairing that so its a phobia of mine now.
Edit to add;; I was also disappointed by the newer furbies. Not so much because of the plastic parts, those don't bother me. I didn't like that their gimmick is that they change to a number of pre-set personalities depending on how you interact with them. The thing I love about older furbies is that they all have their own unique personality kinda like a real pet. There are things that each of my older furbies do that the other older furbies don't do as much. Like Dah for example, he loves sleeping and he always comments on how sunny/bright a room is. The newer furbies' personalities are so shallow, predictable and soulless. And if you do one particular thing too many times, like petting or feeding, they might swap to a new personality. So any friendship you may have gained at all is squashed because your friend just became a totally different person.
When Markiplier first played it I was OBSESSED it became my comfort videogame. Not only was it funny but it was also genuinely scary at the same time. I need me a tattletail 2 😭
I think I read somewhere that the developers are thinking about ideas for a sequel. Don't take my word on this.
I think only having more then 1 game would make the developers know that people realize they can have more games so they will keep asking
Same
Tattletail 2 could be about the protagonist leaving for college and rediscovering the old tattletail then you have to uhhhhhhhhhhhhyhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I ran out of ideas
0:02 "This is a story of" A MAN NAMED STANELY
Stanley walked through the door on the left
Stanley was really fat and ugly, and really really stupid
But he didn't
This was not the way to the office and stanly knew that.
Instead it was charlotte's house
I love how after you jumped off the map tattletail had the voicelines of "Why did you do this" and "you ruined everything"
when he jumped on the roof tattletail also said "we know what you did"
I really like that people keep bringing up tattletail lately, it makes it clear that the games still loved and appreciated. Even if its not in a huge spotlight anymore.
Edit: I ALSO LIKE HOW YOU ACTUALLY KNOW THE TATTLETAILS NAMES, THAT IS BEAUTIFUL
Of course he knows the tattletail's name, its one of the basic human needs. Forgetting it will result in death
14:40 TT's laugh is so fuckin adorable and funny lol.
honestly tattletail was a perfect example of good mascot horror, wish we had more games like this game.
miss this game
Same
No, we need less games like it and more games that are better than it.
@@SirBlackReeds can you give an example of a better game
@@SirBlackReeds Yes* we need more games like it and more games just as great as it.
@@SirBlackReeds weird way of saying yes
I completely forgot that Tattletail says something when you boundary break the game
But I had no idea he says things about falling into the aether. It’s the little things that make games like these memorable!
Now I know the explanation in 10:23 she ate a kids eyes out yet she was still tested for prototype so they used a prototype version of her for the commercial and then after the commercial she ate a kids eyes out
Lucky eyes
That sudden jumpscare in the dlc really made it into one of the more memorable one's,like man it freaked me to a level of shock that I never expected.
tattletail means a lot to me as an autistic person who experienced abuse as a child. the way Mama acts is poignantly like my own and many other abusive mothers act -- manipulative, vengeful, try to say shit like "i love you, dont leave me" but also "you will never escape me" in the same breath. and the way the kaleidascope ending portrays Mama's perfect world as all her children acting "perfectly" really speaks to the experience of being punished heavily for acting out and expected to act "normal". i just love it
tattletail is the real autism creature
@@bugbugbugbugbug5059 you get it :)
YES. My thoughts exactly.
this sounds like a joke copypasta
@@bigboycomedy ...its not.
28:17, theweird thing is, this isnt just some bullshit for the game, memories are influenced by your emotions every single time you remember them, becoming more fuzzy and less real
i usually consider this game to be the last truly scary mascot horror game. it just makes me even more confused thinking about how it got forgotten even tho it had everything going for it. i’m glad that it seems like it’s getting a resurgence during this period of mid mascot horror games. (except for bendy and the dark revival cuz that one was actually good)
what about FNAF 4, now that was scary
@@cheesepop7175Fnaf 4 was before tattle tale.
It starts with one thing
I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It's so unreal
Didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on, didn't even know
I wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside
And even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me
Will eventually be a memory of a time when
I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To remind myself how
I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so
Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me in the end
You kept everything inside
And even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when
I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know
I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
Average Froggygun W
At first I didn’t know what you were even talking about, but then I realized it was the song It Doesn’t Even Matter
@@BomaineBempire no the song is called in the virtual end
@@yeth797 ok
Is this a new spam thing I don't know about yet?
I am in awe of the editing and writing. You manage to run the gambit between funny and informative so perfectly and this seems so casual and professional at the same time
I don't think we'll get anything new in the Tattletail franchise, but Ben Esposito (the director for Tattletail) hasn't forgotten about it seeing how Tattletail snuck his way into his latest game Neon White as a collectible.
I never noticed she says "ORANGE you forgetting someone?" at the end of the DLC. Thank you for 1. Reviving this game in my memories and 2. Helping me discover such a great revelation.
My theory is the kid has ptsd or some crazy shit like that, but yk ofc telling ur parents "mom I have ptsd because tattletail's mom tried to kill me and then I watched him and his friends banish her to oblivion" Is gonna make you look insane so they put him on meds and so now he barely remembers any of the shit that happened
and escaping the kaleidoscope thingy at the end is basically the kid reliving his memories
I love tattletail,
Its the perfect representation of a mascot horror,
Because unlike other games like fnaf where its all about animatronics possessed by dead children.
Tattletail make the story basic, to the point, and mysterious.
Also i like how mama’s grinding sound can also sound like demonic screaming
I like to think mama is the representation of guilt for playing with the presents early
Tattletail is an amazing game and I wish it got more recognition. It's genuinely creepy and fun at the same time and I'm glad to see someone break it down and appreciate it!
This game disappeared so quickly and out of nowhere, that I totally forgot about it. I remembered some kind of a horror game with furbys or whatever they are called, but I just couldn't find it anywhere.
I was one of those kids who enjoyed playing all the big “indie” horror games around 2016-2017, and Tattletail was by far one of the scariest and hardest to beat. I remember sitting with my friend in the basement trying over and over to beat the game, while we both kept screaming. Ah memories
It's been six whole years and I'm still attracted to this beautiful game that I created an OC that I still draw to this day. It's unbelievable!
I love how tattletail just has a shell-shocked expression about jumping into the void (13:55)