You can disable the generator in the airship first to gain morality points. The lever will give you the key without zapping the doggy! Just a heads up.
Especially because later on you have to wipe your hands of the blood. I thought it was meant to be symbolic of Gorrister forgiving himself for something he couldn't have known. Guess not >.
AM is actually hot to me. I have a thing for evil male robots and AIs, so him, evil Wheatley from Portal 2, Grid from DC Comics, and Swayzak from Toonami are who I consider "sexy."
Dude.. your initials.. they translate pretty well to this subject. "AM. A.M. Not just Ass Man.. but AM!" *cricket, cricket* ....well... I thought it was pretty cool... lol
IHNMaIMS SHORT STORY SPOILERS: Good point. Not just the only narrator but also the last human left... And in this ending of the game he also has to spend the next 300 years by himself, so it's also quite lucky (and poetic) he is a little narcissistic.
You can actually pinpoint that he sees the others condescendingly if you read carefully. He think he's the best and that he hasn't gone insane, he's paranoid of the others too.
Wasn't the 90's, it was the cold war, guess technology stop advancing to a certain point with AM total annihilation of humanity, again he fills with hate and only creative thing he down was finds outlets to build his hatred even more
We're also telling you this same sick fuck computer would make a man crawl through a sea of glass to reach a box of canned peaches, then not give him a can opener.
I’m very much in the same boat. I discovered the game through Super best friends play and shortly after found out my best friend had read the book, which introduced me to his world. To find out later he at least partly responsible for my favourite OS Star Trek episode and all the other pieces he influenced is crazy. He was a man myred in controversy, but still greatly endearing none the less.
This dude struts around with not one, but two women's bodies, like it's nothing.
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Here is a little fact about this game i found out today: In the German version of this game there is no doctor Nimdock (probably because his story deals with the topic of shoa and nimdock himself is a nazi doctor). As a result one of the columns is just empty as nimdock doesnt even exist. As you can see, in the end you need nimdock to solve the final puzzle. Guess what happens? Nothing! You cant finish the game like its supposed to in the german version. Thx to the internet i can watch the ending altough i cant play it myself. Well bad Luck i guess :/
Nothing has put a legit fear into me in my 42 years than this short story. No jump scares, no crazy psycho clowns, just 12 pages of nothing but inner terror.
OMG he does! Hahaha!! Wow... AM's godlike powers really did a number on him. There was no mention of a third arm growing in the book, neither was his moonwalking abilities. "This game is incredible" XD lol
Its interesting how different Harlan narrates AM in this than he does in the short story. Gives completely different feels which allows you to enjoy the game and the novella in different ways. I prefer the novella but i can still appreciate the game.
Despite that this game goes against the original intentions of the short story, I actually like the good ending. It shows that our main characters have a second chance at redemption and repent for their past actions and confront their demons from the past. Now let me reiterate. I know this game ending has an alternate ending that completely contradicts the bleak and pessimistic anti-war tones of the short story. However, with every grim and bleak story, we often think of "What if X happened?" or "What if Y happened?". Now I know that not every ending has to be "And they all happily ever after" and we need our fair share of bad endings. More examples like this would be Little Shop of Horrors and Infinity War, both are stories where their respective antagonists win. But maybe we would like to see what would happen if the protagonist wins. That is all I have to say.
Harlan originally intended for there to be NO good ending. However, he was convinced to add a good ending because it wouldn't be so much of a game otherwise.
Yeah, me too. I also like how everybody more or less still dies in the end, yet still released. It’s a sort of bittersweet ending, AM finally dies and humanity starts to come back, while the protagonists we spent the entire game knowing died.
I've yet to get through the whole game yet but im confused. Ellen was raped and suffered trama from her rape how is that a sin? Hasnt she been tortured enough simply from that?
@@unclepussyy I meant everyone EXCLUDING Ellen. Unlike everyone else, Ellen was a victim, and in the simulation, she fought back. However, the following characters have no innocence. Gorrister drove his own wife insane, Benny was arrogant and killed his entire squad for not meeting his standards, Nimdok sold his parents out to the Nazi Party and joined their ranks, and Ted was a con-artist!
It's a wonderfully interesting game, but terrible game design. It's the epitome of the older point and click adventure games that were fucking impossible to figure out without a detailed guide showing you every step of the way.
That's a hell of a cherry on top of AM's suffering: you make peace with yourself and find hope in being able to torture an entire colony of people only to kick and scream as a rich con man kills you and insures the thing you're jealous of will prosper and be happy in a little while.
Honestly, AM is by far one of the hugest heartless villains I never see in pop culture - and he's also not especially popular or recognized by the most. It's basically a sort of mix of Glados and Jigsaw, but with real monstrous and psychopathic traits.
@Aggressive Menace Remember, The new wave is sci-fi is more About the basis of what means to Be human, Ellison's writing reflects The greatness and hardship of Man [kind]
So Edna drove her own daughter to insanity, and Gorrister, who admittedly wasn't the best husband, took her to a place where he thought she could get help because he loved her, but was made to feel guilty for Edna's actions by Edna. Sounds about right. I feel sorry for Harry though. Poor man probably didn't know what he was getting into with Edna.
you didn’t need to kill the characters at the end but you did anyway for the sake of giving a conclusion for them to your viewers, that’s actually very commendable. I can’t imagine how long it must have taken for you to have this game on muscle memory the way you do
Haha Thank you! but it actually wasn't too bad. According to steam I only have 22 hours on record. A point and click adventure game is more down to memory than skill. I played it through a few times to get a feel and make notes. I had a second monitor open with word with bullet points of what to do next. Even then I made a few mis clicks here and there and as one of the commenters (A new age) pointed it, didn't even know you could not kill the doggos near the beginning >.
@@crukih7527 I saw the comment that said you didn't have to kill them. I was sat on my bed with my dog at the time and like any time in media where a doggo gets hurt or dies I had to give her big hug 😭
@@Mewithabeard I was very upset to find that out. I genuinely thought the game forced you to kill them and then wipe your hands after. I was tempted to remake the whole video for that, but never got round to it sadly. Hug your doggo, they are the bestest of friends!
@@crukih7527 It's still a great moment in the game given the depressing nature of the story, but damn did it hurt 😭 Don't worry, my dog gets plenty of hugs, they're the best 😁
You did a great job playing this game for recording, with your timing. It's like a movie or story. I know this game was a story first, but it was well done for a purpose of an engaging walkthrough.
@@crukih7527 did an amazing job making this point and click game feel like a movie. Big fan of the short story, this really adds a new dimension to the world. Thanks for putting this together
@@shelbyherring92 Holy shit, obviously this isn't a reference to the band, so I looked it up and after 25+ years I realised that "Judas Priest" is a saying and that's where the band's name came from. Now it makes sense!
Ellison could have done some amazing video games voices. It’s probably because he’s reading a story he wrote but AM is so well voiced and acted by him man
Same. I think for a lot of people when they imagine a misanthropic almighty computer that can bend reality to its will, they assume it'll have a very cold and terse voice a la Agent Smith from the Matrix. But I like that Ellison gave AM a voice that's more fun and expressive but also sleazy and sadistic, it makes him more memorable than the average sci-fi machine villain imo.
It's still amazing that this universe was created in the late 60'sand he had the foresight for computer horror, long before anybody else. Long before most even knew what a computer was.
Short horror stories about computers were pretty common in the 50s and 60s. They even date back to the early 1900s if you wanna count The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
@@junichiroyamashita AM was disappointed that the villagers didn't sacrifice some guy called Toto instead of the woman, but accepted it anyway. It's also a Wizard of Oz reference. One of the best lines of the game.
I've watched this playthrough more than once.. I've put it on in the background when I've slept (again, more than once lol). Like someone mentioned below, it's nice to have a playthrough without all the fumbling around one can do for hours in these point'n'click adventure games (Sierra games anyone???). Great upload! Thanks for the company Crukih! "It's a very fun game. Oh, it's a lovely game" ;)
That's the nicest comment I've ever recieved online.I always like having long videos on my other screen as background noise, so it's nice to see other people do the same. There's a lot of let's play's I tend to fall asleep to. Glad you find the psychological torture sotthing enough to drift off to ;)
This is one of the most interesting narritives I've seen in a while. I started watching this to give me ideas for a game I want to make, and it's done that in spades. Thanks alot!
@@gordonfreeman5872 nah I think that if they don't put too much detail into it, it might come out pretty good. But at the same time if it's under-detailed it might take out the horrifying part of the game
@@nbshftr The only sick thing about new REmakes is people who are sick of half-asses lazy cash-grabs. At least the second remake feels like a full good modern game. Key word 'modern'
They don’t make ‘em like this anymore..... I replayed all the late 90s games but I don’t know how to play the “talk to”/“look at” games like this one.. so watching your walkthrough made me feel like I’m close enough... I hope they remake this game like they did with the older games, just a tiny bit... ❤️
Kinda interesting to learn Harlan Ellison (author of the book) is the voice of AM in the game. [No spoilers] I watched this because I wanted to learn how they dealt with the end of the book, and while they did it as well as could be expected, it also sort of deprives the story of its most horrific moment. I also feel like the game doesn't _quite_ set up the plight of the humans as well as the book. I can see players who only played the game being confused why the humans are where they are, and why they long for death (in spite of their quips alluding to why, at various points through the game).
Always found it funny how AM tries to exaggerate its hate. Hilarious because hate, at least as I understand it, isn’t exactly measurable in figures anyway. It’s like a kid saying "I hate you times 1 billion" and the next kid is like "yea well I hate you times 2 billion" xD As if the normal measurement of hate is 1, imagine not having a can opener what’s that like a 15 lmao
Well it's not really exaggerate, AM *really hates* his creators and mankind in general for his bleak purpose. In fact, hate is only _filling_ the lack of word to describe how immensely, infinitely angered and misanthropic AM is. Also, AM being a machine, it's not surprising how it quantifies his anger in mathematical expressions, even if it doesn't make sense for us humans.
To add upon what you said about can openers, in the original short story, the group is walking through the hollowed interior of AM, on a quest to the arctic to reach canned foods AM promised them. When they finally get to the cans, they find that AM didn’t give them any can opener, and the cans won’t break open. Then Benny jumps on Gorrister and eats him, Ted kills Benny with an icicle, realizing death is an escape from AM, he kills the other three as well, then AM turns him into the blob
It was clearly not literal speech nor an attempt to actually quantify hate, rather AM was trying to convey how much he hated humans and how intense his hatred for them were.
"Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word hate was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles, it would not equal one one billionth of the hate i feel for humans at this micro instant. FOR. YOU. HATE. HATE. HATE. HATE. HATE. HATE." He said it better in the audiobook
Every time I saw character fight back in this story, especially Ellen, I felt so hopeful. It keep me going, it kept this game going. I wanted to finish it for them, I wanted to give them a happy end. And I did, to best the game would let me
Harlan Ellison's writing of not just the book of this game but the game itself has taught me so, so much about life and humanity. AM was created to assist in surviving a hopeless war, and yet the mistake humanity made was to allow him neural sentience and the ability to learn, and he finally realized the true nature of what it means to be human: that despite the desire to be good to each other and help one another, somehow the even stronger desire to give in to sin and become "evil" always lie dormant in the deepest, most unseen stretches of the human soul. Hunger is no longer simply a need for survival; it can become a gateway to gluttony, just as charity can be turned on its side and fleshed into greed. Love? What good is love when hate is so much easier to express, to display for no other reason than to be a catalyst for it's mere existence? Sure, humans can "learn to be good" but when it comes right down to the thick of it all, we still come from the dirt and ashes God shaped into what we call Earth, and from that same dirt we brought sin, and the desire to sin, with us... In every life, some rain must fall, this too shall pass, certainly... But how long must that rain fall before our own goodness passes? Forty days and nights? Seven years? Eternity? We can only hope somebody out there has the answer.
I only recently got into this game, & I’m already loving it. I also just finished the original book. And I gotta say, DAMN!!! I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream is pitch black. The story makes Cyberpunk 2077 & the anime series Edge Runners look like G rated Disney movies.
Gaucelm de Villaret it seemed rude not to. I used to try and ask permission but most of the accounts were inactive. I’m happy to take it down if you would prefer, it is your work after all :)
My favourite book of all time, now I study English literature and creative writing because of it! Edit: the book is so much bleaker than the game. Really worth the read. Its darker and somehow more disturbed than the game.
I’ve got a theory that this takes place after the book and AM was just pranking Ted into thinking he killed the other but they’re still ok (as in being tortured) There’s so many references to what happened to the book.
The short story disturbs me so much that it gives me chills whenever I imagine the landscape of it. Only living within the mercy of a crazy computer with death being the escape, and getting yourself modified for its amusement is so scary. Then again considering how people these days are so obsessed about pushing technology to its limits, I'm not gonna be surprised something like this would happen.
This is a beautiful game. Thank you for this playthrough. I much prefer the game to the short story, because it actually gives you the chance to redeem yourself and show the good in humanity. The short story, as great as it was, was very mean-spirited, hateful, and negative. I find a good balance between positivity and negativity is the best, which this game displays perfectly.
You could swap out the word "hate" for "ham" in AM's opening speech and it'll still make sense with Harlan Ellison's voice work. That man can chew scenery like no one's business.
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You can disable the generator in the airship first to gain morality points. The lever will give you the key without zapping the doggy! Just a heads up.
Dammit I did not know this. I'm just going to pin your comnment because I'm far too lazy to make another walkthrough ^.^
That's okay! Not many people find the fork before the generator. A lot of people think that you're railroaded into making the bad decision.
Especially because later on you have to wipe your hands of the blood. I thought it was meant to be symbolic of Gorrister forgiving himself for something he couldn't have known. Guess not >.
Crukih
That was because he understood that he wasnt responsible for what happened to his wife. Hence the wiping his hands on the tablecloth.
I'm sorry you had to zap the dog since you didn't know. Maybe you can consider a replay just to not zap it next time. Also good gameplay.
You can tell Harlan Ellison was having a blast playing his psychopathic supercomputer here. Rest In Peace, good sir.
that's actually how he intended AM to sound
What? He died? I just found out about his work and he's dead? What a cruel world. Rest in piece, AM
AM is actually hot to me. I have a thing for evil male robots and AIs, so him, evil Wheatley from Portal 2, Grid from DC Comics, and Swayzak from Toonami are who I consider "sexy."
@@unwelldanny7108 disgusting
@@unwelldanny7108 very cultured , respect .
"For a brief time I was here; and for a brief time I mattered." - Harlan Ellison, 1934-2018.
Rest in peace.
SonataFanatica so sad to hear of his passing. When I get more free time I’m going to need to delve more into his work to honour the man.
Rest In Peace Ellison
Yeah, I was here after That Creepy Reading brought me here. But now, Eliison died.
He dead huh? Welp... Thanks for the memories. Always look on the bright side of death. Right before you draw your very last breath
I agreed. He died before Robbie Rottens did.
Its so cool the author of the book did the voice of AM in the game. He really put a lot into those lines.
Dude.. your initials.. they translate pretty well to this subject.
"AM. A.M. Not just Ass Man.. but AM!"
*cricket, cricket* ....well... I thought it was pretty cool... lol
FireFlower22
Damnit, dont piss off AM! :D
I think he hammed it up bit.
It is really a first class acting,it really shows all the differents hues of his character
Wait he did every voice!!!???
You know the story's dark when dying is considered the good ending.
*gives heart to dog*
“I’ve got nothing more to say to you.”
Thanks to AM he didn't need it apparently. XD
the possibly unintentional comedy of gorrister saying "i'm taking you with me, edna" and then literally putting her in his inventory
Ellen is such a cheery girl, for someone who has been tortured for 109 years.
I wanna be her friend tbh
Shes got that sass after all those years! Shit I'd lose it after a day of being am's little toy lol
Did you read the book? It makes a bit more sense why she’s a bit more happy then the others
@@somekidlmao3508 how come?
@@somekidlmao3508 its actually implied she was raped by the narrator though, perhaps everyone but benny as he was gay
Its a really smart move writing wise to make Ted's fatal flaw being narcissism considering him being the only narrator in the book
IHNMaIMS SHORT STORY SPOILERS:
Good point. Not just the only narrator but also the last human left... And in this ending of the game he also has to spend the next 300 years by himself, so it's also quite lucky (and poetic) he is a little narcissistic.
You can actually pinpoint that he sees the others condescendingly if you read carefully. He think he's the best and that he hasn't gone insane, he's paranoid of the others too.
"That shock wasn't as strong as the last one." *dies*
“I’m no longer hungry, but I still feel empty”
McDonald’s be like
That’s why you should never eat m two or more meals in a row.
I always feel empty, except brief moments.
Nah Chinese food
@@sakariaskarlsson634 me too, emptyness is my permanent state.
Happy meals be like
*puts Edna in his pocket and talks like she isn’t around anymore*
Objectifying women is not very nice. But neither is she.
Rather have that than have her bitch
Yeah when you live long enough nearly 109 years then you can do really neat tricks.
Why don’t I put AM in a fucking pocket.
@@-kenik9629 The woman in this game literally becomes an object lol.
You’re telling me a god computer that will survive the heat death of the universe, still uses CD-ROMs
Suleiman The Magnificent AM does not have the capacity to be Creative, so he couldn't develop anything better than what was available at the time.
LOL welcome to the 90s!
Wasn't the 90's, it was the cold war, guess technology stop advancing to a certain point with AM total annihilation of humanity, again he fills with hate and only creative thing he down was finds outlets to build his hatred even more
Select WTF He’s pretty creative when it comes to torture
We're also telling you this same sick fuck computer would make a man crawl through a sea of glass to reach a box of canned peaches, then not give him a can opener.
I'm so sad that I've learned about this man so shortly after his death
I’m very much in the same boat. I discovered the game through Super best friends play and shortly after found out my best friend had read the book, which introduced me to his world. To find out later he at least partly responsible for my favourite OS Star Trek episode and all the other pieces he influenced is crazy. He was a man myred in controversy, but still greatly endearing none the less.
Same.
Nice to see you here creeps
I feel your pain brother. I only discovered this on Blameitonjorge 2 months ago and checked it out only last week.
Never thought i'd see you here, Creeps.
"Where is the mirror?"
"I won't tell you"
"Please?"
"No"
Please?"
"No"
"Please?"
"No"
Please?"
"Okay"
You could make a reference out of th- no. don't.
@@anrylstudios
Ah, a man of culture
"I'm taking you with me Edna". And then, he proceeds to put her in his pocket... Hilarious.
thank God for this video, i really wanted to see a walkthrough that wasn't 7 hours of the person fumbling through the game. thanks!
Glad you found it helpful ^.^
abby l it really plays as a work of art at this pace. Really engaging and horrific.
@@jankjason You could have not posted this comment and it would have made zero difference on anything.
Nimdoc: frees prisoner and gives him anesthetic right in front of guard.
Guard: does nothing.
"Eh, the shift ends in 5 minutes, not gonna get involved"
This dude struts around with not one, but two women's bodies, like it's nothing.
Here is a little fact about this game i found out today:
In the German version of this game there is no doctor Nimdock (probably because his story deals with the topic of shoa and nimdock himself is a nazi doctor). As a result one of the columns is just empty as nimdock doesnt even exist. As you can see, in the end you need nimdock to solve the final puzzle. Guess what happens? Nothing! You cant finish the game like its supposed to in the german version. Thx to the internet i can watch the ending altough i cant play it myself. Well bad Luck i guess :/
Cool-
Jerries just can't win.
But two other characters can guess the password to extend the bridge, how does that effect the ending?
ever heard of torrents?
The good guys wouldn't need to obsessively censor history js
Nothing has put a legit fear into me in my 42 years than this short story. No jump scares, no crazy psycho clowns, just 12 pages of nothing but inner terror.
Benny is too lazy to use his two empty hands at 1:09:10 that he literally just grows one out of his back. This game is incredible.
He also breaks his neck because he’s too lazy too move his body
OMG he does! Hahaha!! Wow... AM's godlike powers really did a number on him. There was no mention of a third arm growing in the book, neither was his moonwalking abilities.
"This game is incredible" XD lol
When does he break neck? I couldn't find it.
@@LandmasterT but he did have a third leg... so that's close enough I guess
Its a glitch you moron
Anyone want to see a version with the Scooby doo gang trapped with AM instead?
Definitely
Is modding a thing for old point and click adventures? Because if so, then get to modding, guys!
FRED!
What's new scooby doo? We're gonna torture you! We're gonna make you regret birth!
Childhood...improved??
2:04 GOOHRISTEERRR
2:51 BEEEEENNNYYYY
3:48 EELLLLEEENNN
4:50 TEEEEHHHDDD
5:22 NIIIMDOCK
"Ah, MaNnA fRoM hEaVeN."
Ahhh, life-giving water, NECTAR of the gods!
Why didn't he just use the ladder?
@@LucidRay because AM crippled his legs and he can't climb
"WhAt CaN i Do To PrOvE i Am A dIfFeRaNt MaN?!"
“HuRtS! hUrTs! HuRtS!”
Can we just talk about how good the voice acting is? Holy shit
ellen makes me cringe
AM is voiced by Harlan Ellison, the author of the short story
Gordon Freeman I like her voice
@@funnylittlecreature I guess it's about her mannerism
@@gordonfreeman5872 Really? Ellen's voice was actually my favorite woah
Bless, I wanted to see this game without someone talking through the dialogue
Its interesting how different Harlan narrates AM in this than he does in the short story. Gives completely different feels which allows you to enjoy the game and the novella in different ways. I prefer the novella but i can still appreciate the game.
Despite that this game goes against the original intentions of the short story, I actually like the good ending. It shows that our main characters have a second chance at redemption and repent for their past actions and confront their demons from the past. Now let me reiterate. I know this game ending has an alternate ending that completely contradicts the bleak and pessimistic anti-war tones of the short story. However, with every grim and bleak story, we often think of "What if X happened?" or "What if Y happened?". Now I know that not every ending has to be "And they all happily ever after" and we need our fair share of bad endings. More examples like this would be Little Shop of Horrors and Infinity War, both are stories where their respective antagonists win. But maybe we would like to see what would happen if the protagonist wins. That is all I have to say.
Harlan originally intended for there to be NO good ending. However, he was convinced to add a good ending because it wouldn't be so much of a game otherwise.
Yeah, me too. I also like how everybody more or less still dies in the end, yet still released. It’s a sort of bittersweet ending, AM finally dies and humanity starts to come back, while the protagonists we spent the entire game knowing died.
I've yet to get through the whole game yet but im confused. Ellen was raped and suffered trama from her rape how is that a sin? Hasnt she been tortured enough simply from that?
@@unclepussyy I meant everyone EXCLUDING Ellen. Unlike everyone else, Ellen was a victim, and in the simulation, she fought back. However, the following characters have no innocence. Gorrister drove his own wife insane, Benny was arrogant and killed his entire squad for not meeting his standards, Nimdok sold his parents out to the Nazi Party and joined their ranks, and Ted was a con-artist!
Don’t complete that superhero trash to this
In the short story, AM gives Nimdok his name because he likes weird sounds...
Nimdok should be glad AM didn’t call him “Dicknot” or “Taradiddle”...
Hyperion or a title like “the diddler”
I’d be proud to be known as the diddler
Dicknot is the best name ever given
Or Schneeplestein
🤣🤣🤣
This game is *sooo* underrated. This is definitely the best point and click game I’ve ever played
@@jankjason They said it was the best they ever played. It all falls down to personal taste.
machinarium
It's a wonderfully interesting game, but terrible game design. It's the epitome of the older point and click adventure games that were fucking impossible to figure out without a detailed guide showing you every step of the way.
@@TheInfamousBertman luckily, Ełlison himsełf wrote a detailed guide on the game, included with collector's edition
It reminds me the first fallouts but more dark
That's a hell of a cherry on top of AM's suffering: you make peace with yourself and find hope in being able to torture an entire colony of people only to kick and scream as a rich con man kills you and insures the thing you're jealous of will prosper and be happy in a little while.
ironic
You know, why didn't AM just let itself be destroyed? It's existence is torture as well.
@@Aivottaja i don´t think he can, he is restricted to his programs
"You'll never get laid with that line of stuff, Anubis"
One of my favorite lines of all time, Ellen’s a hero
The expanded backstory for each of the characters is fascinating. I especially like Gorrister's.
For somebody starved and tortured for 109 years, Ellen seems awfully sassy and cheerful
When it comes to finally drinking pure water for the first time in 109 years and given the (false) opportunity to kill AM, it makes sense.
4:49 TEEEEEEEEEED! took me by surprise lol
Honestly, AM is by far one of the hugest heartless villains I never see in pop culture - and he's also not especially popular or recognized by the most. It's basically a sort of mix of Glados and Jigsaw, but with real monstrous and psychopathic traits.
AM makes Skynet and HAL seem nice in comparison.
Heartless, Psychopathic, maybe... BUT NOT worth understanding, I understand AM and I can't help but sympathize with Him [sometimes]
@@harlleygurrola8394 Basically he's a choleric and sadistic AI with expertise in psychological torturing.
@Aggressive Menace Remember, The new wave is sci-fi is more About the basis of what means to Be human, Ellison's writing reflects The greatness and hardship of Man [kind]
AM makes GLaDOS seem kind and loving by comparison. I'd rather be one of GLaDOS' test subjects than ever be anywhere near AM.
Nimdok: *asks anything*
Everyone: *DiD yOu FoRgEt?*
Nimdok forgot about holocaust
He forgor 💀
So Edna drove her own daughter to insanity, and Gorrister, who admittedly wasn't the best husband, took her to a place where he thought she could get help because he loved her, but was made to feel guilty for Edna's actions by Edna. Sounds about right. I feel sorry for Harry though. Poor man probably didn't know what he was getting into with Edna.
That shock wasn't as strong as the last one
*still dies from it*
*Let's convince her with a*
*C o n t r o l l e d s h o c k*
*dies*
9:50 good to know that rats are scared of seizures
AHAHAHAahHAHAHAHHA xD
"Human, relinquish the totem of entropy. Do not and your ass is mine" best AM line imo
These people seem OK... I would have become absolutely mad in one day.
Take a shot every time Ellen says "yellow".
Brb headed to the er, alcohol poisoning lol
CandleWax
Nice icon
Hic hic hic dammit this will be a while! hic hic hic
I need... to face... the yellow!!!
CandleWax I just vomited out my liver
I love how angrily he says all of their names in the introduction. Especially “TEEEED” at 4:50
Ellen: Are you AM?
AM's Innocence: Yes, well actually, no
you didn’t need to kill the characters at the end but you did anyway for the sake of giving a conclusion for them to your viewers, that’s actually very commendable. I can’t imagine how long it must have taken for you to have this game on muscle memory the way you do
Haha Thank you! but it actually wasn't too bad. According to steam I only have 22 hours on record. A point and click adventure game is more down to memory than skill. I played it through a few times to get a feel and make notes. I had a second monitor open with word with bullet points of what to do next. Even then I made a few mis clicks here and there and as one of the commenters (A new age) pointed it, didn't even know you could not kill the doggos near the beginning >.
@@crukih7527 I saw the comment that said you didn't have to kill them. I was sat on my bed with my dog at the time and like any time in media where a doggo gets hurt or dies I had to give her big hug 😭
@@Mewithabeard I was very upset to find that out. I genuinely thought the game forced you to kill them and then wipe your hands after. I was tempted to remake the whole video for that, but never got round to it sadly. Hug your doggo, they are the bestest of friends!
@@crukih7527 It's still a great moment in the game given the depressing nature of the story, but damn did it hurt 😭 Don't worry, my dog gets plenty of hugs, they're the best 😁
Graves: you murdered me! I can never forgive you
Benny: here’s a bag lol
Graves: at last, I can finally rest in peace!
You did a great job playing this game for recording, with your timing. It's like a movie or story. I know this game was a story first, but it was well done for a purpose of an engaging walkthrough.
Thank you kind sir :)
Agreed, I'm glad to have found this!
@@crukih7527 No no, thank you good sir 😁
@@crukih7527 did an amazing job making this point and click game feel like a movie. Big fan of the short story, this really adds a new dimension to the world. Thanks for putting this together
I didn't realize it until now, but the cell that Ellen is trapped in is a yellow elevator. Knowing what I know now, that's insanely messed up of AM.
Nimdock is in a furnace like the holocaust victims
Benny is deformed to an ape and poked at through a cage with spikes like a POW
When i realized its an elevator i smirked.
nimdok is literally getting incinerated alive
@@karlhans6678 why?
@@karlhans6678 ofc u did. you want to be edgy so bad lol
1:03:33
"Hey you've killed me, and my comrades in cold blood over petty circumstances but hey thanks for the flowers so I guess we're cool now. "
20:37 You just.... inventory and entire person... like...
This game is metal af
58:56 Even namedrops Judas Priest in Benny's section
Indeed
Mental
@@shelbyherring92 Holy shit, obviously this isn't a reference to the band, so I looked it up and after 25+ years I realised that "Judas Priest" is a saying and that's where the band's name came from. Now it makes sense!
15:19 one of the most hilariously incoherent conversations in gaming right there.
"Like, zoinks! With the mother dead, how am I supposed to eat food now?"
Harlan Ellison voiced the madman he created to perfection.
Ellison could have done some amazing video games voices. It’s probably because he’s reading a story he wrote but AM is so well voiced and acted by him man
Same. I think for a lot of people when they imagine a misanthropic almighty computer that can bend reality to its will, they assume it'll have a very cold and terse voice a la Agent Smith from the Matrix. But I like that Ellison gave AM a voice that's more fun and expressive but also sleazy and sadistic, it makes him more memorable than the average sci-fi machine villain imo.
It's still amazing that this universe was created in the late 60'sand he had the foresight for computer horror, long before anybody else. Long before most even knew what a computer was.
Short horror stories about computers were pretty common in the 50s and 60s. They even date back to the early 1900s if you wanna count The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
This game is so unique, the art, the voice-overs, the puzzles... And I never heard of it till 5 years ago, but I only tried to play it this year 2020
2020 does seem like it was hand-picked by AM for people.
AM treats these guys like an Instagram artist treats their OCs
as an artist i can confirm
“Well, you didn’t bring me Toto but i’ll accept the chosen one” HAH
I don t get it
One of the best lines here
@@junichiroyamashita
I AM THE GREAT AND POWERFUL -OZ- AM!
@@junichiroyamashita AM was disappointed that the villagers didn't sacrifice some guy called Toto instead of the woman, but accepted it anyway. It's also a Wizard of Oz reference.
One of the best lines of the game.
@@sirdiesalot2975 i thought he was referencing something
I've watched this playthrough more than once.. I've put it on in the background when I've slept (again, more than once lol). Like someone mentioned below, it's nice to have a playthrough without all the fumbling around one can do for hours in these point'n'click adventure games (Sierra games anyone???).
Great upload! Thanks for the company Crukih!
"It's a very fun game. Oh, it's a lovely game" ;)
That's the nicest comment I've ever recieved online.I always like having long videos on my other screen as background noise, so it's nice to see other people do the same. There's a lot of let's play's I tend to fall asleep to. Glad you find the psychological torture sotthing enough to drift off to ;)
I do that too!
This is one of the most interesting narritives I've seen in a while. I started watching this to give me ideas for a game I want to make, and it's done that in spades. Thanks alot!
Take a look at 'gods will be watching' as well. There's a nice doomed vibe in both games
Have you made the game ?
The packing powers of a truck driver are never to be underestimate 20:32
Me and my friends will just go up to eachother and scream " G O R R I S T E R " just because we love this game
You have AWESOME friends! That's wholesome!
I like how when Ellen has the blindfold on she thinks that the Sphinx is gone but it's like right in front of her
I like how he complains about the gun being heavy but doesn't say anything about picking up 2 bodies
he says that it's heavier than he thought it would be, while with the bodies he could assume their weight more accurately
I’d love to see an HD remake of this game.
imagine how sick a resident evil remaster type remake of this would be
@@nbshftr the artstyle wouldn't nicely translate to 3d imo
@@gordonfreeman5872 nah I think that if they don't put too much detail into it, it might come out pretty good. But at the same time if it's under-detailed it might take out the horrifying part of the game
@@nbshftr
The only sick thing about new REmakes is people who are sick of half-asses lazy cash-grabs. At least the second remake feels like a full good modern game. Key word 'modern'
The early surreal cgi is part of the charm.
They don’t make ‘em like this anymore.....
I replayed all the late 90s games but I don’t know how to play the “talk to”/“look at” games like this one.. so watching your walkthrough made me feel like I’m close enough... I hope they remake this game like they did with the older games, just a tiny bit... ❤️
Beautiful 4k graphics, the pinnacle of television game perfection quite literally MANA FROM HEAVEN.
Kinda interesting to learn Harlan Ellison (author of the book) is the voice of AM in the game. [No spoilers] I watched this because I wanted to learn how they dealt with the end of the book, and while they did it as well as could be expected, it also sort of deprives the story of its most horrific moment.
I also feel like the game doesn't _quite_ set up the plight of the humans as well as the book. I can see players who only played the game being confused why the humans are where they are, and why they long for death (in spite of their quips alluding to why, at various points through the game).
I always get the chills when Ellen gets introducés, Just Remember the pain Ellen.... Scary
Does anyone else find that jackal REALLY menacing? So many brilliant things in this game but that dude in particular really gets to me.
Always found it funny how AM tries to exaggerate its hate.
Hilarious because hate, at least as I understand it, isn’t exactly measurable in figures anyway.
It’s like a kid saying "I hate you times 1 billion" and the next kid is like "yea well I hate you times 2 billion" xD
As if the normal measurement of hate is 1, imagine not having a can opener what’s that like a 15 lmao
Well it's not really exaggerate, AM *really hates* his creators and mankind in general for his bleak purpose. In fact, hate is only _filling_ the lack of word to describe how immensely, infinitely angered and misanthropic AM is.
Also, AM being a machine, it's not surprising how it quantifies his anger in mathematical expressions, even if it doesn't make sense for us humans.
To add upon what you said about can openers, in the original short story, the group is walking through the hollowed interior of AM, on a quest to the arctic to reach canned foods AM promised them. When they finally get to the cans, they find that AM didn’t give them any can opener, and the cans won’t break open. Then Benny jumps on Gorrister and eats him, Ted kills Benny with an icicle, realizing death is an escape from AM, he kills the other three as well, then AM turns him into the blob
It was clearly not literal speech nor an attempt to actually quantify hate, rather AM was trying to convey how much he hated humans and how intense his hatred for them were.
Wait why cant you calculate hate?
@@jorgec2233 the same way you can't calculate love or comfort or pain. They're emotions
I’ve been trying to watch this for five years of my life but I could never seem to finish it. Today I plan to watch it all.
For mobile users will edit others in later I wanna watch first
6:23 Gorrister
12:28 -
20:25 -
28:28 Ellen
52:50 Benny
1:09:48 Nimdok
1:28:52 Ted
"Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my
complex. If the word hate was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles, it would not equal one one billionth of the hate i feel for humans
at this micro instant. FOR. YOU. HATE. HATE. HATE. HATE. HATE. HATE." He said it better in the audiobook
wait that monologue was said better in the audiobook
how is that possible?
@@aguycalledjamal he said it like a robot
0:29 My absolute favorite quote.
Every time I saw character fight back in this story, especially Ellen, I felt so hopeful. It keep me going, it kept this game going. I wanted to finish it for them, I wanted to give them a happy end. And I did, to best the game would let me
The game seems a lot more cheery than the book.
Harlan Ellison's writing of not just the book of this game but the game itself has taught me so, so much about life and humanity.
AM was created to assist in surviving a hopeless war, and yet the mistake humanity made was to allow him neural sentience and the ability to learn, and he finally realized the true nature of what it means to be human: that despite the desire to be good to each other and help one another, somehow the even stronger desire to give in to sin and become "evil" always lie dormant in the deepest, most unseen stretches of the human soul. Hunger is no longer simply a need for survival; it can become a gateway to gluttony, just as charity can be turned on its side and fleshed into greed. Love? What good is love when hate is so much easier to express, to display for no other reason than to be a catalyst for it's mere existence? Sure, humans can "learn to be good" but when it comes right down to the thick of it all, we still come from the dirt and ashes God shaped into what we call Earth, and from that same dirt we brought sin, and the desire to sin, with us...
In every life, some rain must fall, this too shall pass, certainly... But how long must that rain fall before our own goodness passes? Forty days and nights? Seven years? Eternity? We can only hope somebody out there has the answer.
*A h, m a n n a f r o m h e a v a n.*
I only recently got into this game, & I’m already loving it. I also just finished the original book. And I gotta say, DAMN!!! I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream is pitch black. The story makes Cyberpunk 2077 & the anime series Edge Runners look like G rated Disney movies.
01:28:10 Kinda sadistic seeing someone die a rated R death and we get a rated G song with it
The voice acting in this game is excellent
58:38
"Well, you didn't bring me Toto"
Christian López “Judas Priest!!!” Lol
Five years after this playthrough and I can't wait to give this game a go soon
I just finnished this masterpiece. I have no words & I must praise :)
James Cameron: has fever dream comes up with skynet
Harlan Ellison: does acid creates a nightmare worse than hell it's self
i guess youre joking but IIRC Ellison was against drugs and alcohol but smoked his pipe
2:21:01 Pain: "my pain is FAR GREATER THAN YOURS!"
Shin Megami tensei is cool
I watched every second all the way through. Amazing and yet so… so… sad.
Nice to see my art pop up in unexpected places such as here! :) (thanks for crediting)
Gaucelm de Villaret it seemed rude not to. I used to try and ask permission but most of the accounts were inactive. I’m happy to take it down if you would prefer, it is your work after all :)
@@crukih7527 Oh, I like it here, don't worry! :)
Gaucelm de Villaret woah you made that! is there a link to an account that you have
@@woodenwind9456 There is a link in the hyperlink section of the description. Also here...He is a very talented artist :)
www.deviantart.com/gaucelm
My favourite book of all time, now I study English literature and creative writing because of it!
Edit: the book is so much bleaker than the game. Really worth the read. Its darker and somehow more disturbed than the game.
I’ve got a theory that this takes place after the book and AM was just pranking Ted into thinking he killed the other but they’re still ok (as in being tortured)
There’s so many references to what happened to the book.
The book has only 11 pages, correct ?
@@christianlacroix5430 Exactly, people keep talking of a novel but it is a short story of 11 pages
The short story disturbs me so much that it gives me chills whenever I imagine the landscape of it. Only living within the mercy of a crazy computer with death being the escape, and getting yourself modified for its amusement is so scary. Then again considering how people these days are so obsessed about pushing technology to its limits, I'm not gonna be surprised something like this would happen.
This is a beautiful game. Thank you for this playthrough. I much prefer the game to the short story, because it actually gives you the chance to redeem yourself and show the good in humanity. The short story, as great as it was, was very mean-spirited, hateful, and negative. I find a good balance between positivity and negativity is the best, which this game displays perfectly.
Okay so nobody is mentioning the fact that the dude may have used the charred remains of the boy's mom for the doll's head in 1:05:50?
In 109 years of torture that's probably one of the better things he had to do
love gorrister he sounds like a silent hill protagonist
i take it back ted sounds more like a silent hill protagonist
“TEEEEEEEEDDD” makes me giggle every time
This is a great movie.
You could swap out the word "hate" for "ham" in AM's opening speech and it'll still make sense with Harlan Ellison's voice work. That man can chew scenery like no one's business.
This game needs a remake
53:24 when you get new stairs
😂😂🤣
This was nice