At the end, the man playing the piano is the son, the one you thought you were playing the whole time. The mask was seared onto his face, a final determination by his father that the mask was worth more than what was beneath it. He survived. You did not. Fickle grace, but a fair end.
Something that a few of the comments have seemed to miss. The man playing the piano is indeed the prince/king/main character's abused son. However, if you look closer, the woman in green was the young maid who was kind to the son. The younger woman standing in between the piano man and the woman-in-green wears the same broach/necklace as the woman-in-green but has the same facial features as the piano man. She is their daughter and the granddaughter of the now dead prince. So it seems like the son at least got a happily ever after.
I think that the father singing during the true ending is him coming to terms that he doesn't deserve a second chance, and his death is a more befitting end for the vain egotistical father
For some reason, the final song is seriously pulling my heartstrings and I can't help but feel for that king. He's evil, alright. But I can't help but feel sorry for this pathetic man.
You must have a good heart to be capable of feeling pity for monsters like him. But the message is pretty clear; his only worth is to burn in heck. The man killed his own wife, ended the lives of many innocents, and mutilated his son for selfish petty reasons. His suffering and death were products of his own choices. You can feel pity if you want, it’s perfectly valid for someone this pathetic. But regardless it’s a good day on earth when sins catch up to sinners, and the victims survive and prevail.
It’s really cool how the whole time the game makes you feel sorry for the protagonist, thinking he’s the son, only to find out that your playing as the father. Then I immediately think “oh wow. Man I really got what I deserved then huh 😭”
@@smileguyanimations8776 Actually, I was sorry for the protagonist being a horrible person who completely got what he deserved. Why the writers make it look like you feel pity for that asshole?
The end was the only half decent thing he ever did and even that makes us feel dissatisfied sure he's in Hell but that's a better place than Jail which he would have been sent to for his crimes.
So it goes (and please correct me if wrong): 1. The Camera which took unrealistic pictures of the prince for vanity. 2. The (cat of nine tails?) whip. 3. The wine goblet 4. Either a mirror or cult icon thing 5. The collar of his wife's puppy he was jealous of. 6. A ..16:11 not sure.... Edit: the young maid's apron 7. A gag Edit: Possible eye patch? 8. A butterfly costume 9. A mask (forced son to wear) 10. His wife's necklace. 11. A baby rattle? 12. The noose.
I’ll wager that these items you collect are core pieces of his past, very dark and painful things he locked away deep below to forget them. After his first journey, his memories have reopened those dark corners, and left him with no choice to get them once again. Him collapsing from collecting them could be that the trama behind them is so intense, it’s too muchto handle and he passes out. It’s also why it’s so dificult to reach them, as it’s so much more difficult to face such a dark past, and moreso to take back the things that scarred the most. In the end, his sins weighed heavy, and weither intentional or not, he payed the price of his past.
Spoiler warning for anyone who wants an thorough explanation of the true ending and what it entails, he did not give up, instead... : ,,, ,,, ,,, ,,, ,,, ,,, UGLY is about the father... Throughout the entire play through you were viewing the father's memories... All his regrets, all of his sins, eventually becoming too much to bare... His own staff that were still alive even plotting to kill him after discovering the properties of the mirror, by setting up a noose in the place he'd least expect... The same noose that was tied to ALL his sins and past mistakes and regrets... He wanted to escape, but you know what they say about evil people: They get an evil ending... Even if he tried to apologize to everyone he wronged, it wouldn't of made a difference in the end: His fate was damned by the people who condemned his past actions who used to be truly loyal. "The world is run by evil people; fearful of upheaval"
I saw the ending that reveals the past of the protagoniste and his relation with every bosses. We already see that he's the representation of very rich people who are doing whatever they want with everyone as we can see in the main room (there are some tortured people used as bouncing balls (I forgot the name, but this is something that you have on your desk that plays with the percution effect)). After the fire incident that he provoked himself after seeing his ugly reflection, he got hospitalized and recover from the burned injuries. Sadly for him, his actions cost his appearance and so, he decided to lock himself in his destroyed castle, break every mirrors, vandalise his self portraits with pink paint and drink a lot (he doesn't want to see his face, doesn't want to think about it, doesn't want the others to see him, he just want to forget his condition). When we start playing him, he surely blacked out after overdrinking and lost all of his memories. After he regains them, he realised how cruel and egocentric he was and decide to put an end of his life.
@@eliottdeletraz97 I don’t think he was trying to end his life, you see when you play the game and you see him climb up near the noose, the other side shows him actually climbing near the window leading to the beautiful outside world, but in order to get himself to hang on the noose, he needed to jump over the boxed and be beside the window and switch and go through it, but switching would make it so his real self would actually fall onto the noose, breaking the platform below and killing him
This is everyone's good ending but the prince's father who never deserved one and yet he still makes it clear that he is a thing who is not worthy of mercy or sympathy the only legacy he has left is the memory of how abhorrent he was in life and will still be despised in death.
I think it was hinted at that you were the King in hiding because you wake up every time on the mattress surrounded by empty wine bottles...he passes out after drinking too much
I don't have any links, but the name of the song is "There Was A Man" by Jan Fité and Carles Yagüez. I can't find the lyrics of the song, but it is on spotify.
from the brooch colors, and flashbacks i think, the maid in the middle with the blue brooch and blue bow is the younger maid who befriended the son, and the maid in green with the green brooch was close with the mother and son (and was maybe the one responsible for attempting to poison the player/father/king)
The pianist is his son, the one's on top of the piano is his wife and dog, the one's beside the son are the maids that poisoned him, the floating ghosts are all his babies that he killed for being ugly anc the others are his staff members
At the end, the man playing the piano is the son, the one you thought you were playing the whole time. The mask was seared onto his face, a final determination by his father that the mask was worth more than what was beneath it.
He survived. You did not.
Fickle grace, but a fair end.
i assumed he survived somehow. just didnt know how
What a bastard. Even as he ended his life presumably from guilt, he still makes it's all about him with the musical sequence.
Uh- he was singing abt how he was awful and only cared abt himself.
@@PerpetualIyTired And in the end, even though the funeral of spite was made probably by his brain, it was still all about him.
@@Croissantcreep that makes no sense
@@PerpetualIyTired the subject of importance was still him, negative or not
@@CroissantcreepA narcissist to the end.
Something that a few of the comments have seemed to miss. The man playing the piano is indeed the prince/king/main character's abused son. However, if you look closer, the woman in green was the young maid who was kind to the son. The younger woman standing in between the piano man and the woman-in-green wears the same broach/necklace as the woman-in-green but has the same facial features as the piano man. She is their daughter and the granddaughter of the now dead prince. So it seems like the son at least got a happily ever after.
I never noticed the details about the two ladies but it makes sense now, it makes the ending even better.
I think that’s the young maid from the reflections
I thought the young maid was locked away to die.
@@nooneinparticular5256 Maybe, I might have not seen that reflection
@@PerpetualIyTired I could be wrong, too, and maybe she escaped?
I think that the father singing during the true ending is him coming to terms that he doesn't deserve a second chance, and his death is a more befitting end for the vain egotistical father
For some reason, the final song is seriously pulling my heartstrings and I can't help but feel for that king. He's evil, alright. But I can't help but feel sorry for this pathetic man.
You must have a good heart to be capable of feeling pity for monsters like him. But the message is pretty clear; his only worth is to burn in heck. The man killed his own wife, ended the lives of many innocents, and mutilated his son for selfish petty reasons. His suffering and death were products of his own choices. You can feel pity if you want, it’s perfectly valid for someone this pathetic. But regardless it’s a good day on earth when sins catch up to sinners, and the victims survive and prevail.
It’s really cool how the whole time the game makes you feel sorry for the protagonist, thinking he’s the son, only to find out that your playing as the father. Then I immediately think “oh wow. Man I really got what I deserved then huh 😭”
That’s good writing
@@smileguyanimations8776 Actually, I was sorry for the protagonist being a horrible person who completely got what he deserved. Why the writers make it look like you feel pity for that asshole?
The end was the only half decent thing he ever did and even that makes us feel dissatisfied sure he's in Hell but that's a better place than Jail which he would have been sent to for his crimes.
So it goes (and please correct me if wrong):
1. The Camera which took unrealistic pictures of the prince for vanity.
2. The (cat of nine tails?) whip.
3. The wine goblet
4. Either a mirror or cult icon thing
5. The collar of his wife's puppy he was jealous of.
6. A ..16:11 not sure.... Edit: the young maid's apron
7. A gag Edit: Possible eye patch?
8. A butterfly costume
9. A mask (forced son to wear)
10. His wife's necklace.
11. A baby rattle?
12. The noose.
7 is definitely the mother's eyepatch.
The Father's drunken wrath cost the Mother an eye, which you can see in one of the memories earlier in the game. That's probably Mother's eyepatch.
11. is a baby rattle because of... you know... all these dead kids are his...
What does gag mean?
@@jianalexander1359 it's something that goes in a person's mouth to keep them from talking.
I’ll wager that these items you collect are core pieces of his past, very dark and painful things he locked away deep below to forget them. After his first journey, his memories have reopened those dark corners, and left him with no choice to get them once again.
Him collapsing from collecting them could be that the trama behind them is so intense, it’s too muchto handle and he passes out.
It’s also why it’s so dificult to reach them, as it’s so much more difficult to face such a dark past, and moreso to take back the things that scarred the most.
In the end, his sins weighed heavy, and weither intentional or not, he payed the price of his past.
Spoiler warning for anyone who wants an thorough explanation of the true ending and what it entails, he did not give up, instead... :
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UGLY is about the father... Throughout the entire play through you were viewing the father's memories... All his regrets, all of his sins, eventually becoming too much to bare... His own staff that were still alive even plotting to kill him after discovering the properties of the mirror, by setting up a noose in the place he'd least expect... The same noose that was tied to ALL his sins and past mistakes and regrets... He wanted to escape, but you know what they say about evil people: They get an evil ending... Even if he tried to apologize to everyone he wronged, it wouldn't of made a difference in the end: His fate was damned by the people who condemned his past actions who used to be truly loyal.
"The world is run by evil people; fearful of upheaval"
Who were the three adult ghosts to the right?
@@Epicboiguy.likely the staff
I saw the ending that reveals the past of the protagoniste and his relation with every bosses.
We already see that he's the representation of very rich people who are doing whatever they want with everyone as we can see in the main room (there are some tortured people used as bouncing balls (I forgot the name, but this is something that you have on your desk that plays with the percution effect)). After the fire incident that he provoked himself after seeing his ugly reflection, he got hospitalized and recover from the burned injuries. Sadly for him, his actions cost his appearance and so, he decided to lock himself in his destroyed castle, break every mirrors, vandalise his self portraits with pink paint and drink a lot (he doesn't want to see his face, doesn't want to think about it, doesn't want the others to see him, he just want to forget his condition).
When we start playing him, he surely blacked out after overdrinking and lost all of his memories. After he regains them, he realised how cruel and egocentric he was and decide to put an end of his life.
@@eliottdeletraz97 I don’t think he was trying to end his life, you see when you play the game and you see him climb up near the noose, the other side shows him actually climbing near the window leading to the beautiful outside world, but in order to get himself to hang on the noose, he needed to jump over the boxed and be beside the window and switch and go through it, but switching would make it so his real self would actually fall onto the noose, breaking the platform below and killing him
@@eliottdeletraz97 TL ; DR You got everything right, and you have your own interpretation at the end, more power to you.
Damn, this song is catchy! 😂
This is everyone's good ending but the prince's father who never deserved one and yet he still makes it clear that he is a thing who is not worthy of mercy or sympathy the only legacy he has left is the memory of how abhorrent he was in life and will still be despised in death.
I think it was hinted at that you were the King in hiding because you wake up every time on the mattress surrounded by empty wine bottles...he passes out after drinking too much
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I am desperate to find the ost of the ending, anybody got any links?
I don't have any links, but the name of the song is "There Was A Man" by Jan Fité and Carles Yagüez. I can't find the lyrics of the song, but it is on spotify.
I should also note that the song is sung solo, unlike the song in the end that was sung with several people
How many endings are there? And what do you have to do to get the ‘true’ ending?
There are two ending as far as I found, One is simple and for another you need to complete secret rooms after beating the game one time.
What happens if you do the secret rooms the first time?
@@letters5187 The secret rooms don't exist until after you get the normal ending.
12:25 doesnt't work for me for some reason...
for me it appeared in a different place, I don't know if they patched it maybe?
@@javiergimenez40 on which place?
@@MarkusKnoebel the middle of the room
I don't get it, from my understanding by the end of it he's face returned to normal(miraculously) or just an illusion because he is already dead
The game never actually happened, he was in his head the whole time, reflecting on his life.
this entire adventure was all a nightmare... and there is only one way out...
That video game is taken from an Spanish animated horror film called “Unicorn War”
Really?
I looked up. It has nothing to do with this game
@@djmewtwo6981 Seriously, it looks a lot like Happy Tree Friend, it's an animated movie with horror and gore and bloody
47:00 For Some Reason I Think The Son While Undead Is Basically Greed From Issac, I Don’t Know Why…
If you're talking about the person with blonde hair, that isn't the son but the father. We were playing the father the whole game
Wait did the young maid and the son get together and have a daughter
from the brooch colors, and flashbacks i think, the maid in the middle with the blue brooch and blue bow is the younger maid who befriended the son, and the maid in green with the green brooch was close with the mother and son (and was maybe the one responsible for attempting to poison the player/father/king)
5:38 hardest part of the game
Who are the people who sings?
The pianist is his son, the one's on top of the piano is his wife and dog, the one's beside the son are the maids that poisoned him, the floating ghosts are all his babies that he killed for being ugly anc the others are his staff members
I counted 21 babies
@@trashlanternfish3607yikes
@@trashlanternfish3607 Holy shoot-
WHAT THE FU-
The thumbnail seems very spoilery. Not great when you're playing the game and have this video in your recommandations :/
Indie game devs when I show them emotions other than depression
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