I don’t think the gurgling noises are because he drowned in water, I think it’s because quite literally he’s suffocating on structure gel. When the suit was put on it was filled with structure gel, which indicated he most likely suffocated because of the structure gel in the helmet
Maybe. My thinking is that WAU resurected him after some horrible injury outside and leaking gel was because it filled the parts between the plating and suit after WAU interfaced with it. But if he did got got after putting the suit on- this might have been because everyone at Tau were extremaly malnurished and WAU read it as Jin being basically dead and got to work
@@garyslayton8340yeah i’m along the lines of this. I think the WAU is both inside and around him and he’s in almost a state of “half death”. he isn’t in full control of himself
@@garyslayton8340 Maybe, depends on how much sentience you really want to give to the WAU. "WAU doesn't suppose to want anything" and the way it attempts to fulfill the objective of helping humans seem to imply it's lack of ability to feel malice or other emotions that would guide it to attack. There is the happening from Omicron, but this one might as well been it trying to repair Ross faster.
@@masterzoroark6664 I would assume the wau sees simon as a threat to itself Wich is enough in my opinion Or maybe jin sees simon as some kind of monster We allready know structer jel can cause hallucinations
The barometric pressure turned Jin into a soup when he cracked, and the WAU did its job of keeping him alive, or in this case keeping what was left of him Also he could think youre another Jin because he can clearly see, but probably figures out that you arent one and gives chase And him walking around with a weird almost swimming motion to his arms and clunky movement, giving chase, then stopping dead in his tracks when hes been spotted. It looks like hes stuck in some kind of WAU loop of repeating what he did when he died.
Jin was the scariest part of SOMA for me, partly because my first playthrough had an interesting thing happen. I remember seeing a map showing the location of the diving suits, and it showed that there was another one apart from Simon's that was in use. That was scary as I thought there was something else living out there. When I got to Tau I explored slowly, and a few minutes after getting inside, I heard the airlock water flush going again and thought that something had followed me to Tau, and was coming in after me. I hid and then Jin appeared, so I thought this mutated gel gargling monstrosity had followed me there! Really terrifying moment.
right? when i first saw his face and heard him gurgling, i felt dread. and then he began sprinting. seeing his twitching animations up close here helped bring that feeling back
the reason for him being so powerful compared to the other wau creations is probably due to him being one of the most preserved human specimines to be manipulated by the wau. having an almost human-like range of motion and senses
I've played this game twice through and both times managed to only encounter Jin for like 10 seconds, then just easily skirted by him. I never realized how in-depth and characterizing of a "monster" he was. The hesitation when you look at him is chilling - especially given the (headcanon?) context that he can probably see himself in the reflection of your visor.
By the looks of the diving prep room, I am pretty sure that he got somehow "killed" right after putting it on. It's at least implied by the smears of structure gel coming from the locker where the suit was.
@@hatad321the protocol might not be to kill, but the WAU is absolutely hell-bent on 1. Preserving life, even if you don't truly call it living 2. Preserving it's mission. It caused the black boxes to explode in order to prevent the WAU program being shut down.
It seems to me that the presence of a structural gel in the suit was not the reason for Yoshida's death and his transformation into this, because the WAU would not kill him because of its protocol. Perhaps it assumed that he could die while being outside the station and it would not be able to resurrect him, so it put a little gel in the suit in advance, in case he suffered outside the station and then he could be revived, i think that this is what happened to him (sorry for my bad english)
Yin was such a great boss fight. I just wish, in retrospect that it was bigger. After all, you can pretty much just stare stun him, go to that door and wait for that long ass time, and still get through before he gets to you. I also think it should be fine to remove the stare option. Or maybe it's something you can use once. It'd be greater if you somehow had to solve a puzzle in one of the rooms in that area, or something. Jin is such a great monster that he deserved more attention. Like the door opening sequence being interrupted at some point and you have to just press a switch elsewhere for it to continue. And, as you probably can tell, I love the monster in Amnesia: the bunker. So, having this one being the roaming or simply recurring monster in the facility, or even outside it, that'd be fantastic. Clearly, a monster like Yin who was one of the smarter ones and humanoid, should be able to climb friggin ladders, seeing as he managed to go both in and out of the facility. Yin was obviously also so great in how he was set up. The subtle information before that there was another suit active. The buildup, and how there's a map beforehand showing the route you need to take. Brilliant stuff.
The way the tendril that's supposed to break through Simon's visor moves, it makes me think the way Jin kills him specifically is that he smashes through the visor, coils around the base for Simon's 'occular gear' that has his cortex chip on it as well and just literally rips his 'head' off and out of the helmet.
I think the reason he hesitates is because he has _some_ fragment of his humanity left that tells him not to harm Simon before being reclaimed by the WaU's control.
@@TheMountainMan-wz8xf Just a reminder, the WAU itself isn't malevolent, it's not even reached sentience by the time Simon starts his journey. It's probably whatever is left of Yoshida's brain acting out in panic / distress.
When I played Soma I didn't even realize this monster was a threat. I somehow managed to just avoid him after the initial scripted door encounter. I could hear him stumbling around but that was about the only interaction I ever had with him
Didn't notice those Logs. When Jin went outside, the Logs registered a WAU Subject in the enviroment with him, resulting in his infection, transformation.
Eyes are probably dangling around, hidden behind the visor or something probably smeared with the structure gel. Still have no clue how it senses Simon.
This vid made me appreciate Frictional’s sound design even more, the horrible gurgling roars he emits are scary enough but I’ve never noticed the subtle mechanical grinding noises his suit makes!
I feel like proxies and flashers are much weaker physically, they are mostly threats to Simon due to the electromagnetic influence, but to humans they are probably not nearly as dangerous (still dangerous but don't cause them to cease functioning just by being near). This one on the other hand wears a powered suit and has tentacles strong enough to pierce the armored visor designed for extreme depths.
@@delivererofdarknessshoguno1133proxies would realistically be the weakest enemy in soma, it has no arms, can’t see, and can be fooled easily by just throwing an object in a random direction. All you’d need is something sharp tied/taped onto something like a pipe to take one down
Tau is one of my fave stations and i accualy am kinda working on a mod to repair it, sadly im only good at making the map but not making it work in the game. I also commissiont an artist to make a wallpaper art of taus hallway i hope it will turn out good. Im also really happy to see ppl still make videos about soma to this day
it´s his regular grab animation, but due to Brutal Monsters Mod instead of just stabbing you and fading to black, you are thrown away and given a second chance to escape, it´s not easy as you would need to have some doors to close at the ready since he will start running again a couple seconds later I prefer it this way though, because the tension does not immediately wear out when you get caught for the first time
I think what happened to Jin was that at some point food was basically gone, He would go out in the ocean and fish for any type of wild life there was, I believe at some point something went wrong in the airlock, the immense pressure may have cracked his helmet thus drowning him. the wau latched on to him and well he became what he is now
I love you videos dude, ive been watching you for years because your videos are so good with explanation and getting better views of the models and animations!
This dude managed to jump my ass pretty hard, the giant metal door swung open and he just stood there in front in the doorway. Before charging at me while I was processing what I was seeing.
This TH-cam channel is fascinating! Also, glad to see you use the Boogeyman from Silent Hill Downpour as your profile picture. Honestly, it's the most underappreciated Boogeyman design and I feel it really gives a more intimidating presence then Pyramid Head (on design, not the scenes).
I know the player need a threat... but what is the justification in lore for the wau's creatures to attack humans ? Isn't the wau trying to preserve human life ? Simon is one of its mocking bird after all
there are two reasons, reason A: the waw sees you as a potential threat Reason B: the machines think they need more gel so they kill you for it. however i might be wrong but this is what i think is the reasoning on why everything that can walk is after your throat.
@lordshivonski6149 another reason you forgot to mention is that at this point in the narrative, Simon has a powerful poison that can kill the WAU due to the special structure gel he used earlier. The WAU is using Jin to stop Simon and learn how to resist the modified gel.
@@MiguelHernandez-lo5lg but even before that, the bubble heads and Acres also attacked Simon... though later Acres attempts to trap Simon in dreamy meat moss
@@SgtThiel he attacked everyone to begin with, thought not really "killing" akers goal was to put everyone in the mind coral hive so that they were in a "dream paradise" cause remember all the bodies in his area are breathing, but covered in coral
Wait, are you supposed to look at him? I beat that section by just sneaking and constantly staying on the move because I thought he was like amazing at smelling Simon or something. I was wondering why I died so much
One small detail about the power suit I didn't even think of until just now. The power suit helmet was strong enough to withstand Raleigh Herber's blackbox exploding inside of it with no damage at all, and yet the Wau's tentacles were strong enough to break through it.
While I'm more for this game as a story and character experience, I am glad that Safe Mode doesn't remove monsters, because there's so much character in them and seeing the effect of the WAU feels like an essential part of the experience. Sure, there is one crew member you meet early on being kept alive by a WAU-formed respirator system, but that's just one of many horrors it can put a person through.
I was wondering, could you do a full showcase of the brutal monsters mod? I usually play with it but since I love to play the sneaky way I often don't engage in pursuit with most of the monsters. And the times I did I was cornered.
I always wondered how Yoshida survived for this long. If I understand correctly food had already run out around the start of the year, and no one had accessed the suits until Yoshida did it. (Except Coetzee, who went to the surface by climbing the space gun to Omega station) We know what Sarah did to survive, maybe Yoshida became that desperate that he tried to survive on structure gel. It can't be a coincidence that one day after the WAU takes over the suit Yoshida accesses it. Awesome video's, by the way. Really detailed and informative. Learning a lot of stuff I didn't know.
I just want to say i was absolutely fascinated by all of the wau creatures/"survivors" when the game came out, and i'm really impressed at how thorough you've been in finding all of them and looking in closer detail.
every time you press a button to open a door the game tells him which door it was, so the only way to have him behave like a normal enemy you can avoid is if you have already opened all doors and then you can afford to sneak around without alerting him. which is pretty much the only way to find the time to read the computer terminals in the two rooms beyond the door with the 8 seals.
I wonder if it was a mutated octopus what got inside his suit at merged with his body ??? Saying because some octopuses can get inside tight places and use their tentacles for hunting. They also have like a beak mouth they use to eat.
Jin Yoshida was real though, and after Soma I stumbled upon another game about deep ocean, Barotrauma, and saw a REALLY BIG similarity to husks and their behavior
During my very first play I stood in front of that door like an idiot waiting for it to open 😂 It was taking so long to open, then I thought "yeah that gives you time to hide, I should have expected that"
Me and my boyfriend were playing Soma together, and we were just annoyed at the monsters, but when Jin appeared…Oh boy, we didn’t say a word during all the gameplay… 😰
Thank you for this, a couple of days ago I was thinking about Soma and I had the weird urge to take a better look at the character models. There weren't any in-depth videos but then yours appeared, really pleasing to watch
I remember playing with a mod that makes the game harder, I was hiding behind that little shelf in the room near the airlock- and suddenly Jin was haul assing past the entrance. I could hear him running the whole time, not once was he walking normally, it was scary 😂
2:10 I don't know about him being "drowned" but I will add one point in support of him being killed out in the open water. The airlock goes off when you enter this area. It scared me a bit, expecting something to show up behind me, but as I continued forward and opened the first big bulkhead door in the interior, there was Jin waiting on the other side. EDIT: I see in another comment you stated it was Ross that follows you in. Thinking back on it that makes sense. You can't see him because he glitches your senses. Of *course* it was him following you in. Still freaked me out, though.
I was looking for a comment about it and though I’ve watched the video in the past I don’t remember if it’s covered. (I haven’t finished rewatching it again.) Jin will leave structure gel footprints wherever he goes. So theoretically you could see if he had followed you or is going a certain way. I used this knowledge to watch lets players and see if maybe when they thought they were safe, Jin was right around the corner because of his foot prints. Haven’t gotten to apply that knowledge yet but he does leaves prints wherever he goes.
Yes, I made another video were actually were I spent a considerable amount of time just following after Jin and the other Monsters as he leaves his grimy little footprints
I don't think Jin died outside, actually. Since he accessed the suit and there's a trail of structure gel leading from where the suit was stored, it seems likely to me that it's here, donning the suit, where the WAU transformed him into a monster. If his suit had been ruptured while under water, his entire body would've been turned to soup in an instant and there wouldn't be much left for the WAU to reanimate at that point. There certainly wouldn't have been anything part of Jin's brain to give the monster its sometimes human-like behaviors. Otherwise, Jin must have taken the suit, gone out, died, been reanimated, *gone back to the diving room* and hopped into the suit recepticle again, and then gone back out. That doesn't make a huge amount of sense to me either
I really wish we knew more about him. The dragging marks out of the suit bay imply he died as soon as he got into the suit. But did he? Did he die drowning and the WAU led him back? What was his purpose? Arggh I wish there was like a comic or something that explored more of the world.
I love how this game has completely fucked with my whole perception of 'What is the human consciousness?' We pilot a robotic suit composed of various human remains, a random black ooze known as structure gel, robotic parts and a copy of a human conscious. This whole time we are to believe Simon is a human being despite what the game tells us, then here arrives Jin Yoshida, the complete polar opposite of Simon. A reanimated figure that once belonged to an actual human being that was recently alive, now possessed by unknown horrors without a single ounce of humanity in sight.
In the omicron dive suit room there is a read-out with power suit tracking beacons between TAU and climber station. There are 3 green plus signs and 2 pulsing red triagles on that readout, do you know what the green symbols represent?
Would you mind taking a look at the SOMA: Cutting Room Floor series by Mav_? The Omicron one looks really interesting and nobody has posted anything about any of the mods. The Upsilon and Ark one too. They are all on the workshop or moddb. I love your videos by the way!
When you get to the bottom of the climber, the climber reads 392.92 atmospheres of pressure at around 4000 meters. This means that this monster and its diving suit can survive 5774 psi continuously. Holy fuck.
Astronomical numbers to be sure makes it even scarier seeing how he seemingly can build up enough force to penetrate Simons Visor, who wears the same suit
This dude scared me to death when I first encountered him. I actually quit the game bc I wasn’t expecting him. (I dont read the storyline very much lol)
it's a shame that some of the enemy encounters in this game were so annoying to play. not sure if it was a bug or something but jin seemed like he could just teleport behind me without warning after i'd lose him around a corner or something. the only way i beat this section was when the game bugged out and he didn't spawn in
I don’t think the gurgling noises are because he drowned in water, I think it’s because quite literally he’s suffocating on structure gel. When the suit was put on it was filled with structure gel, which indicated he most likely suffocated because of the structure gel in the helmet
Maybe.
My thinking is that WAU resurected him after some horrible injury outside and leaking gel was because it filled the parts between the plating and suit after WAU interfaced with it.
But if he did got got after putting the suit on- this might have been because everyone at Tau were extremaly malnurished and WAU read it as Jin being basically dead and got to work
@@masterzoroark6664my personal theroy is that jin never really died and that he is being "piloted" by the wau
@@garyslayton8340yeah i’m along the lines of this. I think the WAU is both inside and around him and he’s in almost a state of “half death”. he isn’t in full control of himself
@@garyslayton8340
Maybe, depends on how much sentience you really want to give to the WAU. "WAU doesn't suppose to want anything" and the way it attempts to fulfill the objective of helping humans seem to imply it's lack of ability to feel malice or other emotions that would guide it to attack.
There is the happening from Omicron, but this one might as well been it trying to repair Ross faster.
@@masterzoroark6664
I would assume the wau sees simon as a threat to itself
Wich is enough in my opinion
Or maybe jin sees simon as some kind of monster
We allready know structer jel can cause hallucinations
dude just wanted food and got turned to an abomination
and now into an animation
The barometric pressure turned Jin into a soup when he cracked, and the WAU did its job of keeping him alive, or in this case keeping what was left of him
Also he could think youre another Jin because he can clearly see, but probably figures out that you arent one and gives chase
And him walking around with a weird almost swimming motion to his arms and clunky movement, giving chase, then stopping dead in his tracks when hes been spotted. It looks like hes stuck in some kind of WAU loop of repeating what he did when he died.
That’s really horrifying
Jin was the scariest part of SOMA for me, partly because my first playthrough had an interesting thing happen. I remember seeing a map showing the location of the diving suits, and it showed that there was another one apart from Simon's that was in use. That was scary as I thought there was something else living out there. When I got to Tau I explored slowly, and a few minutes after getting inside, I heard the airlock water flush going again and thought that something had followed me to Tau, and was coming in after me. I hid and then Jin appeared, so I thought this mutated gel gargling monstrosity had followed me there! Really terrifying moment.
It´s actually Ross that follows you into the station, when you go back to the entrance after the alarm goes off you can see him come in
@@umukzusgelos4834 ah that makes sense!
So glad we finally got to Jin. His design is a real treat
right? when i first saw his face and heard him gurgling, i felt dread. and then he began sprinting. seeing his twitching animations up close here helped bring that feeling back
the reason for him being so powerful compared to the other wau creations is probably due to him being one of the most preserved human specimines to be manipulated by the wau. having an almost human-like range of motion and senses
I've played this game twice through and both times managed to only encounter Jin for like 10 seconds, then just easily skirted by him. I never realized how in-depth and characterizing of a "monster" he was. The hesitation when you look at him is chilling - especially given the (headcanon?) context that he can probably see himself in the reflection of your visor.
By the looks of the diving prep room, I am pretty sure that he got somehow "killed" right after putting it on. It's at least implied by the smears of structure gel coming from the locker where the suit was.
WAU protocol isn't to kill people, perhaps the gel was already in the suit and he had some incident outside that caused the suit to fail and kill him.
@@hatad321 wau literalmente causo que le estallara la cabeza a toda la estacion
@@hatad321the protocol might not be to kill, but the WAU is absolutely hell-bent on 1. Preserving life, even if you don't truly call it living 2. Preserving it's mission.
It caused the black boxes to explode in order to prevent the WAU program being shut down.
SOMA is still alive after 8 years
Wait has it been that long what the fuck
@@sonnyobrien the game got released in 2015, so its been 8 years now xd
Crazy; it feels like only a few years ago! Just happy to see people still love the game :) A top 5 for me for sure
Wau doesn’t let it die
Him sprinting is pretty frightening ngl, even in this more clinical viewing
The sound design in this game is immaculate, these wet gurgling noises are straight up nightmare fuel
The sound design is one of my favorite parts; absolutely beautiful what they achieved
Best enemy introduction and the scariest among all the monsters, in my opinion. I really liked the video, interesting design
It seems to me that the presence of a structural gel in the suit was not the reason for Yoshida's death and his transformation into this, because the WAU would not kill him because of its protocol. Perhaps it assumed that he could die while being outside the station and it would not be able to resurrect him, so it put a little gel in the suit in advance, in case he suffered outside the station and then he could be revived, i think that this is what happened to him (sorry for my bad english)
So he got killed by deep sea creature and cause the power suit was rigged with structure gel, he got WAU'd posthumously.
@@therandomlaniusedward2140 most likely
Yin was such a great boss fight. I just wish, in retrospect that it was bigger. After all, you can pretty much just stare stun him, go to that door and wait for that long ass time, and still get through before he gets to you. I also think it should be fine to remove the stare option. Or maybe it's something you can use once.
It'd be greater if you somehow had to solve a puzzle in one of the rooms in that area, or something. Jin is such a great monster that he deserved more attention. Like the door opening sequence being interrupted at some point and you have to just press a switch elsewhere for it to continue. And, as you probably can tell, I love the monster in Amnesia: the bunker. So, having this one being the roaming or simply recurring monster in the facility, or even outside it, that'd be fantastic. Clearly, a monster like Yin who was one of the smarter ones and humanoid, should be able to climb friggin ladders, seeing as he managed to go both in and out of the facility.
Yin was obviously also so great in how he was set up. The subtle information before that there was another suit active. The buildup, and how there's a map beforehand showing the route you need to take. Brilliant stuff.
Short and Sweet
The way the tendril that's supposed to break through Simon's visor moves, it makes me think the way Jin kills him specifically is that he smashes through the visor, coils around the base for Simon's 'occular gear' that has his cortex chip on it as well and just literally rips his 'head' off and out of the helmet.
I think the reason he hesitates is because he has _some_ fragment of his humanity left that tells him not to harm Simon before being reclaimed by the WaU's control.
Or maybe more of a "Wait, why am I so mad at this guy?" And the WAU's like "Just do as I say!"
@@TheMountainMan-wz8xf Just a reminder, the WAU itself isn't malevolent, it's not even reached sentience by the time Simon starts his journey. It's probably whatever is left of Yoshida's brain acting out in panic / distress.
When I played Soma I didn't even realize this monster was a threat. I somehow managed to just avoid him after the initial scripted door encounter. I could hear him stumbling around but that was about the only interaction I ever had with him
Didn't notice those Logs. When Jin went outside, the Logs registered a WAU Subject in the enviroment with him, resulting in his infection, transformation.
What I wonder is how Jin can see or hear at all, since his head is just a mass of tentacles with no sensory organs.
Eyes are probably dangling around, hidden behind the visor or something probably smeared with the structure gel. Still have no clue how it senses Simon.
@@evagineer91653:03 welp, that explains it. Blind people can still hear, even the tiniest click of a flashlight.
Prob the tentacle Mass have some small eyes and they give info to the brain.
Like that thing who makes pearls (i dunno how Is called in english)
This vid made me appreciate Frictional’s sound design even more, the horrible gurgling roars he emits are scary enough but I’ve never noticed the subtle mechanical grinding noises his suit makes!
This feels like one of the few enemies in the game you could probably actually fight if you tried tbh
It's in a power suit and can shoot tentacle attacks, i think i'll take my chances with the yiangshi
@@d00mnoodleSimon is also in a power suit
I feel like proxies and flashers are much weaker physically, they are mostly threats to Simon due to the electromagnetic influence, but to humans they are probably not nearly as dangerous (still dangerous but don't cause them to cease functioning just by being near). This one on the other hand wears a powered suit and has tentacles strong enough to pierce the armored visor designed for extreme depths.
@@delivererofdarknessshoguno1133proxies would realistically be the weakest enemy in soma, it has no arms, can’t see, and can be fooled easily by just throwing an object in a random direction. All you’d need is something sharp tied/taped onto something like a pipe to take one down
Have him throw hands with the WAU shark
Tau is one of my fave stations and i accualy am kinda working on a mod to repair it, sadly im only good at making the map but not making it work in the game. I also commissiont an artist to make a wallpaper art of taus hallway i hope it will turn out good. Im also really happy to see ppl still make videos about soma to this day
Good Luck with your project then
Everybody gangsta till’ Yoshida sprints at you like Usain Bolt
P.S. Jin looks like the aftermath of mixing the grimace shake and structure gel
So glad people are still talking about this game, one of my all time favourites
Is the animation where Jin throws Simon from the ladder actually in the game or is it modded? It looked really great!
Well, I always wondered what would happen if Jin I was next to you when you were climbing a ladder
it´s his regular grab animation, but due to Brutal Monsters Mod instead of just stabbing you and fading to black, you are thrown away and given a second chance to escape, it´s not easy as you would need to have some doors to close at the ready since he will start running again a couple seconds later
I prefer it this way though, because the tension does not immediately wear out when you get caught for the first time
I think what happened to Jin was that at some point food was basically gone, He would go out in the ocean and fish for any type of wild life there was, I believe at some point something went wrong in the airlock, the immense pressure may have cracked his helmet thus drowning him. the wau latched on to him and well he became what he is now
I love you videos dude, ive been watching you for years because your videos are so good with explanation and getting better views of the models and animations!
Keep these videos coming man they're fantastic
I swear, when I first encountered Yoshida I was unerved, but the moment he went from shambling to a full on sprint, I paniced.
These videos are great broski, keep it up.
Will Do
I cannot stress enough how much i love this channel, the videos you makw are always about the games i like the most
Thank-you for making these! Fantastic series, I can tell there was a lot of care put in not always noticed while trying to keep out of his way
This subtle but open-to-interpretation depth of this story and characters makes it my favourite horror game
This dude managed to jump my ass pretty hard, the giant metal door swung open and he just stood there in front in the doorway. Before charging at me while I was processing what I was seeing.
He is now more handsome than before.
Have you ever been French kissed by him straight into your water-proof screen?
the gross sloshing sounds and tendrils slithering in the suit just make him even creepier
This TH-cam channel is fascinating! Also, glad to see you use the Boogeyman from Silent Hill Downpour as your profile picture. Honestly, it's the most underappreciated Boogeyman design and I feel it really gives a more intimidating presence then Pyramid Head (on design, not the scenes).
I know the player need a threat... but what is the justification in lore for the wau's creatures to attack humans ?
Isn't the wau trying to preserve human life ? Simon is one of its mocking bird after all
there are two reasons,
reason A: the waw sees you as a potential threat
Reason B: the machines think they need more gel so they kill you for it.
however i might be wrong but this is what i think is the reasoning on why everything that can walk is after your throat.
@lordshivonski6149 another reason you forgot to mention is that at this point in the narrative, Simon has a powerful poison that can kill the WAU due to the special structure gel he used earlier.
The WAU is using Jin to stop Simon and learn how to resist the modified gel.
@@MiguelHernandez-lo5lg but even before that, the bubble heads and Acres also attacked Simon... though later Acres attempts to trap Simon in dreamy meat moss
@@SgtThiel he attacked everyone to begin with, thought not really "killing" akers goal was to put everyone in the mind coral hive so that they were in a "dream paradise" cause remember all the bodies in his area are breathing, but covered in coral
Yeah I never understood that tbh, especially in this case Jin is almost entirely WAU
This one enemy always makes me think of the husks in barotrauma
Wait, are you supposed to look at him? I beat that section by just sneaking and constantly staying on the move because I thought he was like amazing at smelling Simon or something. I was wondering why I died so much
he will freeze for a bit if you stare him in the face yes
Now this is what I was waiting for since a long time, Thanks alot again mate.
If SOMA were to ever get a DBD chapter, I can see Jin be the killer and Simon being the survivor.
Thanks for making these, some of the things in the game are hard to fully notice
One small detail about the power suit I didn't even think of until just now. The power suit helmet was strong enough to withstand Raleigh Herber's blackbox exploding inside of it with no damage at all, and yet the Wau's tentacles were strong enough to break through it.
interesting how jin has electric motor noises for every movement he makes
While I'm more for this game as a story and character experience, I am glad that Safe Mode doesn't remove monsters, because there's so much character in them and seeing the effect of the WAU feels like an essential part of the experience. Sure, there is one crew member you meet early on being kept alive by a WAU-formed respirator system, but that's just one of many horrors it can put a person through.
These videos are life savers for drawing these characters
well, glad to be of service
that door at the start sounds like its having a good time
I was wondering, could you do a full showcase of the brutal monsters mod? I usually play with it but since I love to play the sneaky way I often don't engage in pursuit with most of the monsters. And the times I did I was cornered.
perhaps if time allows for it
I always wondered how Yoshida survived for this long. If I understand correctly food had already run out around the start of the year, and no one had accessed the suits until Yoshida did it. (Except Coetzee, who went to the surface by climbing the space gun to Omega station) We know what Sarah did to survive, maybe Yoshida became that desperate that he tried to survive on structure gel. It can't be a coincidence that one day after the WAU takes over the suit Yoshida accesses it.
Awesome video's, by the way. Really detailed and informative. Learning a lot of stuff I didn't know.
I just want to say i was absolutely fascinated by all of the wau creatures/"survivors" when the game came out, and i'm really impressed at how thorough you've been in finding all of them and looking in closer detail.
i always thought Jin had full on wall hacks against the player,he always knew where i was or where i was going and/or hiding.
every time you press a button to open a door the game tells him which door it was, so the only way to have him behave like a normal enemy you can avoid is if you have already opened all doors and then you can afford to sneak around without alerting him. which is pretty much the only way to find the time to read the computer terminals in the two rooms beyond the door with the 8 seals.
jin yoshida my beloved 😍🖤
Jin really reminds me about those enemies called "husks" in barotrauma
Now that I think about it Barotrauma took the concept and design of Jin Yoshida for the Diving Suit husks.
makes me realise how much having a shotgun loaded with magnum shells helps in alleviating the fear factor lol
I wonder if it was a mutated octopus what got inside his suit at merged with his body ???
Saying because some octopuses can get inside tight places and use their tentacles for hunting. They also have like a beak mouth they use to eat.
Jin Yoshida was real though, and after Soma I stumbled upon another game about deep ocean, Barotrauma, and saw a REALLY BIG similarity to husks and their behavior
During my very first play I stood in front of that door like an idiot waiting for it to open 😂
It was taking so long to open, then I thought "yeah that gives you time to hide, I should have expected that"
Me and my boyfriend were playing Soma together, and we were just annoyed at the monsters, but when Jin appeared…Oh boy, we didn’t say a word during all the gameplay… 😰
I just hates how he fucking camps at the exit door
W-w-w-w-wait, he can throw you out of ladder? That looks sick!
Thank you for this, a couple of days ago I was thinking about Soma and I had the weird urge to take a better look at the character models. There weren't any in-depth videos but then yours appeared, really pleasing to watch
literally the husk parasite
I remember playing with a mod that makes the game harder, I was hiding behind that little shelf in the room near the airlock- and suddenly Jin was haul assing past the entrance.
I could hear him running the whole time, not once was he walking normally, it was scary 😂
I always was very disturbed by the unscrewing sound the door makes.
2:10 I don't know about him being "drowned" but I will add one point in support of him being killed out in the open water. The airlock goes off when you enter this area. It scared me a bit, expecting something to show up behind me, but as I continued forward and opened the first big bulkhead door in the interior, there was Jin waiting on the other side.
EDIT: I see in another comment you stated it was Ross that follows you in. Thinking back on it that makes sense. You can't see him because he glitches your senses. Of *course* it was him following you in.
Still freaked me out, though.
The thought of Ross always following you in some way as you progress through TAU but you cannot see him...
it ´s certainly something
He reminds me of the husk from barotrauma.
I was looking for a comment about it and though I’ve watched the video in the past I don’t remember if it’s covered. (I haven’t finished rewatching it again.) Jin will leave structure gel footprints wherever he goes. So theoretically you could see if he had followed you or is going a certain way. I used this knowledge to watch lets players and see if maybe when they thought they were safe, Jin was right around the corner because of his foot prints. Haven’t gotten to apply that knowledge yet but he does leaves prints wherever he goes.
Yes, I made another video were actually were I spent a considerable amount of time just following after Jin and the other Monsters as he leaves his grimy little footprints
The only thing that made it more less scarier i thought it was a among US character
urgh...
Can't believe this monster were once human
I don't think Jin died outside, actually. Since he accessed the suit and there's a trail of structure gel leading from where the suit was stored, it seems likely to me that it's here, donning the suit, where the WAU transformed him into a monster. If his suit had been ruptured while under water, his entire body would've been turned to soup in an instant and there wouldn't be much left for the WAU to reanimate at that point. There certainly wouldn't have been anything part of Jin's brain to give the monster its sometimes human-like behaviors. Otherwise, Jin must have taken the suit, gone out, died, been reanimated, *gone back to the diving room* and hopped into the suit recepticle again, and then gone back out. That doesn't make a huge amount of sense to me either
Soma my beloved
I really wish we knew more about him. The dragging marks out of the suit bay imply he died as soon as he got into the suit. But did he? Did he die drowning and the WAU led him back? What was his purpose? Arggh I wish there was like a comic or something that explored more of the world.
I love how this game has completely fucked with my whole perception of 'What is the human consciousness?' We pilot a robotic suit composed of various human remains, a random black ooze known as structure gel, robotic parts and a copy of a human conscious.
This whole time we are to believe Simon is a human being despite what the game tells us, then here arrives Jin Yoshida, the complete polar opposite of Simon. A reanimated figure that once belonged to an actual human being that was recently alive, now possessed by unknown horrors without a single ounce of humanity in sight.
On close inspection, he looks like a husk - the corpse parasite from the game barotrauma.
Forbidden underwater among us
In the omicron dive suit room there is a read-out with power suit tracking beacons between TAU and climber station. There are 3 green plus signs and 2 pulsing red triagles on that readout, do you know what the green symbols represent?
I believe those are Blackboxes from Workers, at least that´s what they indicated on a map on Theta that shows you the location of the staff members
Small thing I noticed- Jin is the only monster in SOMA that isn't limping in one way or the other
Hehe, he is power speed-shambling
@@umukzusgelos4834 crusty knees quite probably
"Small thing I noticed.. Jin is a chad"
dude we know
Would you mind taking a look at the SOMA: Cutting Room Floor series by Mav_? The Omicron one looks really interesting and nobody has posted anything about any of the mods. The Upsilon and Ark one too. They are all on the workshop or moddb. I love your videos by the way!
Thank You.
Perhaps I will keep it in mind
I think Yoshida is the hardest monster in the game. He always finds you and stabs you in the back. And also the second scariest monster next to Akers.
When you get to the bottom of the climber, the climber reads 392.92 atmospheres of pressure at around 4000 meters. This means that this monster and its diving suit can survive 5774 psi continuously. Holy fuck.
Astronomical numbers to be sure
makes it even scarier seeing how he seemingly can build up enough force to penetrate Simons Visor, who wears the same suit
You are real af for this
This really reminds me of Infested Marine From StarCaft 2 damnn
Is Jin infected with WAU or something else because it looks and acts entirely different
WAU, I think every monster act differently
the User Log of his Suit reveals that a WAU application accessed the Suit before he put it on
So the gel burst out of his helmet
must have inspired among us
Very cool series..
thank you
Really reminds me of barotrauma husk
Is there any animations worth looking at for Simon or is he pretty much just hands throughout the game?
he has some, but most of it is either legs and hands
Imo easily the freakiest of them all
his design could've been so much cooler if the 2 flashlights on his helmet didn't look like googly eyes bro
So that how a husk looks like 3D
This dude scared me to death when I first encountered him. I actually quit the game bc I wasn’t expecting him. (I dont read the storyline very much lol)
it's a shame that some of the enemy encounters in this game were so annoying to play. not sure if it was a bug or something but jin seemed like he could just teleport behind me without warning after i'd lose him around a corner or something. the only way i beat this section was when the game bugged out and he didn't spawn in
you sort of have to do a ring around the rosy with him, while opening the doors
What is the name of the program used to view models and animations?
HPL Model Editor
@@umukzusgelos4834very thanks
The sad truth is, that he most likely committed suicide. Seeing the wau-infested suit, he put it on.
YEEESSS
Bro got the Husk Virus
Я сначала думал, что это Хаск из Баротравмы
Barotrauma husk?
Ah yes, the husk. Europa is a treacherous place, may your submarines voyage safely, guys