Ahhhh... the 8 button. Glad they brought it back in the 8th instalment of The Stanley Parable. Also know as The Stanley Parable 8: Now With Added Water.
The Narrator talking about things we hadn't experienced in the demo gave me chills. It's like these memories you wish you had, or memories you did experience and you desperately want back or wish you could remember and recognize, but you just _can't_ remember no matter how hard you try. It's honestly really gut-wrenching.
When I played the demo myself I was not expecting as amazing an experience as I got, especially the beautiful monologue at the ending. The gameplay portion of the demo is thoughtful, contradictory, and confusing, and the monologue is a bit of that too. But mostly, it's a Narrator who realizes that he'd rather have a friend than a story, who realizes that he and the player are trapped in roles they can't deviate from, in a loop they can't escape. The way Kevan Brighting's voice cracks and says "we were free" always makes me emotional. The Narrator might have his flaws, but he's very lonely deep down, and I think he deserves a hug.
From all that i gathered of monologue from the narrator, plus of course, the Stanley Figurines ending, i can safely say that the Narrator is someone who has many problems with letting the past or someone go, he's just too lonely.
Thinking about how in the original mod and in several trailers for the 2013 game The Narrator was this cold and menacing character and then you get to the demo, 2013 game, and Ultra Deluxe and he’s just a smug goofball
@@Emperor_Mateus_of_Palamecia Although the only one smug superior being I know is the Narrator... Any recommendations of other games with smug superior beings?
@@Emperor_Mateus_of_Palamecia I saw the Portal thing in the games ending and I indeed thought it was cool (I had an idea to take the radio everywhere for the music+portals are cool) so I've been trying to pirate it for a while now (parents won't let me pay for games) I will try again tomorrow and if I can't do it I'm gonna watch a playthrough. Now hearing it has a smug superior being too made me sad because I probably wouldn't be able to experience it for myself. So the only way I can experience this game for myself is to either somehow find a way to pirate it (very unlikely), beg for money (not cool), wait for it for my birthday (rather have something else) or wait years before I will have a job (I will probably forget about the game) and so yeah ima sad
the ending always makes me tear up. setting a scene we never get to see, and ultimately the elevator leads out of door 427 and back into the office. such a beautiful demo and a beautiful game.
9:08 Funny story. I actually got motion sickness from playing The Stanley Parable for the first time, and I actually vomited, so that one is not a joke.
I never thought about that. Buttons are a symbol of choice. They are the way a person controls a machine. And yet, the machine can control the person with such buttons, as they demonstrate in the game. They force you to push certain buttons in order to move forward. Which is a perfect symbol of the way the game works. It gives you the illusion of choice. What you choose determines the ending, but "The end is not the end." Regardless of what you do, the buttons you press, the result is the same. You finish, and then you end up right back where you started.
There is a secret in the emotion booths. Behind the booths if you walk towards the vent there is a booth labled secret and when you step inside music plays and there are disco lights.
20:21 - That part felt like the Narrator was about to kiss me, seriously: I could almost feel his breath, the tension as his lips would get closer and closer to mine as he spoke... That was intense.
now that i think about it, i think they just merged the demo with the main game for the ultra deluxe while changing the story and context of the demo up a bit
the ultra deluxe version has a ton of content that has nothing to do with the main game or the demo. In fact, can you name a single joke from the demo that is also in the ultra deluxe version?
@NinjaBluefyre tbh I don't understand your logic here. Yeah, the Jim Button and the Compliment Button are both buttons, but they are completely different jokes. And the emotion booth is just a one-time gag about emotions, but the bucket changes the entire game by giving a new ending to an old path if you are holding it, which is a good chunk of ultra deluxe's content.
For some reason, I couldn't control the camera in my demo. I was always facing backwards. I thought that's what it was supposed to be. Did anyone else get that?
Now we have the terrable and underwhelming "ultra deluxe". (Available on all consoles and PC) with all that was add was some dialogue and a jumping circle.
i actually feel like this is real ending of stanly preable case in all game there is no way to see something have meaning. but in demo there is something different...
dude when playing the demo the joke at 4:10 caught me so off guard i could not stop laughing i think that was when i had definitively decided that i would 100% be getting the main game
"Being spiderman loss of all bodily control regaining bodily control bodily control being the same. Unable to see the colors blue, orange, and red" ORANGE??? spiderman???
I'm very very very late with this, but some people might not be able to look around in the demo. Exit full screen and entered full screen again. You should able to now.
The demo explains both nothing and everything about the full game.
very gud demo, it has the narrator and us
Isn’t that the purpose of a demo
@@alexcorrie4534 Not like this.
This demo stands so well on its own that I sometimes come back to it just to take it in.
it explains literally everything...everything the game is made of
Narrator: "Did you that 94% of the players that have pushed that exact same button are sexual predators?
Player: *violently nods*
Pervert
Narrator: "...pervert..."
Are you a sexual predator if you want a stranger to molest you instead of the other way round?
ayo
Indeed ayo
Ahhhh... the 8 button.
Glad they brought it back in the 8th instalment of The Stanley Parable.
Also know as The Stanley Parable 8: Now With Added Water.
I thought it was "The Stanley Parable 8: The Revenge of the Pencil"
@@SrJeff-bx9ej I thought it was "The Stanley Parable 8: Its either me or the cheese"
I thought it was "The Stanley Parable 8: Whacky Tuesday"
I thought it was "The Stanley Parable 8: Stanley Versus Apple"
The Stanley Parable 8: Infinite Boyfriends
The Narrator talking about things we hadn't experienced in the demo gave me chills. It's like these memories you wish you had, or memories you did experience and you desperately want back or wish you could remember and recognize, but you just _can't_ remember no matter how hard you try. It's honestly really gut-wrenching.
I love how this is its own unique thing seperated from the main game lol
My goodness! I’ve never met someone who can consume uranium in a single sitting as you can! Just look at you go!
*(nods aggressively)*
94% of people who push this button are sexual predators (nods head less aggressively but non the less aggressively)
Nods in autism
Narrator: Tf?
Of course, just not add a timestamp and confuse 400+ people
@@Void_error404LMAO THANKS
20:09 this very last bit of dialogue twists my heart - his voice becomes so, so very soft. we rarely get to hear him sound this small
When I played the demo myself I was not expecting as amazing an experience as I got, especially the beautiful monologue at the ending. The gameplay portion of the demo is thoughtful, contradictory, and confusing, and the monologue is a bit of that too. But mostly, it's a Narrator who realizes that he'd rather have a friend than a story, who realizes that he and the player are trapped in roles they can't deviate from, in a loop they can't escape. The way Kevan Brighting's voice cracks and says "we were free" always makes me emotional. The Narrator might have his flaws, but he's very lonely deep down, and I think he deserves a hug.
From all that i gathered of monologue from the narrator, plus of course, the Stanley Figurines ending, i can safely say that the Narrator is someone who has many problems with letting the past or someone go, he's just too lonely.
that. that is true. and hes scared to let go of the player or let them ever leave after he realized how scary being alone is
To be fair, he is the concept of divorce
bro like me fr fr
@@Spooki-Vixlmao I always forget that😭
@@XCloak_PersonX It’s such a silly little fun fact lmao
This really parallels the Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe "New New Content"
The end of this demo parallels the Stanley Figurines ending
you mean FIGLETS
*U N F U N N Y ?*
Fr fr
It’s amazing how much the ultra deluxe edition mirrors the old school demo
Thinking about how in the original mod and in several trailers for the 2013 game The Narrator was this cold and menacing character and then you get to the demo, 2013 game, and Ultra Deluxe and he’s just a smug goofball
I love smug superior beings!
@@AIIuminium me too
@@Emperor_Mateus_of_Palamecia Although the only one smug superior being I know is the Narrator... Any recommendations of other games with smug superior beings?
@@AIIuminium I’m not sure if this counts but GLaDOS from the Portal games is a pretty smug powerful entity
@@Emperor_Mateus_of_Palamecia I saw the Portal thing in the games ending and I indeed thought it was cool (I had an idea to take the radio everywhere for the music+portals are cool) so I've been trying to pirate it for a while now (parents won't let me pay for games) I will try again tomorrow and if I can't do it I'm gonna watch a playthrough. Now hearing it has a smug superior being too made me sad because I probably wouldn't be able to experience it for myself. So the only way I can experience this game for myself is to either somehow find a way to pirate it (very unlikely), beg for money (not cool), wait for it for my birthday (rather have something else) or wait years before I will have a job (I will probably forget about the game) and so yeah ima sad
the ending always makes me tear up. setting a scene we never get to see, and ultimately the elevator leads out of door 427 and back into the office. such a beautiful demo and a beautiful game.
i love how at 7:15 they just zoom in on the word obama
9:47 For you people that liked that dancing part
Wow even in the demo they were able to make you feel kinda sad for the narrator.
So… did you get around to playing Ultra Deluxe?
:’)
12:28 it cracks me up so much how you look back for one last press of the 8 button before running off
how can such an unhinged, chaotic game also give me the strongest and strangest existential vertigo of my life? what an experience.
Probably the most perfect demo ever created.
9:08 Funny story. I actually got motion sickness from playing The Stanley Parable for the first time, and I actually vomited, so that one is not a joke.
I need to hug the narrator...
Narrator: Go ahead. :)
we all need to give him a huge hug, our man is hella depressed 😭
18:42 his little giggle oh my god…
real
Simp 😩
S I M P
"(No commentary)" Oh thank god.
What about the narrator?
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SephirothRyu the narrator is part of the game, So it doesnt count as commentary.
“Did you know that 94% of all people who select that button are sexual predators”
(Nods aggressively)
…uhh, should we be worried about you?
No you shouldn't lol
Narrator says that no matter what button you choose
that's the joke
*nods aggressively*
I never thought about that. Buttons are a symbol of choice. They are the way a person controls a machine. And yet, the machine can control the person with such buttons, as they demonstrate in the game. They force you to push certain buttons in order to move forward. Which is a perfect symbol of the way the game works. It gives you the illusion of choice. What you choose determines the ending, but "The end is not the end." Regardless of what you do, the buttons you press, the result is the same. You finish, and then you end up right back where you started.
Raphael agrees!
you're right
That's the whole point of the game, I love it so much
There is a secret in the emotion booths. Behind the booths if you walk towards the vent there is a booth labled secret and when you step inside music plays and there are disco lights.
The 8 button game is easily the best invention that exists
the way he says pervert is actually really satisfying to me idk why
Thank God I'm not alone on that
Should I be worried?
I’m concerned
I laughed do hard when i heard it
so true lol
Fun fact: this demo was distributed to streamers with each copy personalised for each streamer to say their name.
You are the best teacher Narrator! You are the man! We all love you Narrator!
at the beginning before you meet narrator you could hear humming from the narrator in the hallway
7:14 The embodiment of courage.
7:52 The embodiment of despair.
The beginning of this demo is one of the biggest trolls in video game history
15:42 Thank you so much for being our voice Davey Wreden.
Narrator best boy
*the plot twist at the end tho*
What plot twist?
@@thebloocat at the end near the end
theory: you are stanley in the demonstration and you dont realise that your in the stanley parable
20:21 - That part felt like the Narrator was about to kiss me, seriously: I could almost feel his breath, the tension as his lips would get closer and closer to mine as he spoke... That was intense.
Bro💀
Edit: I love that your username explain everything
Imagine simping a disembodied voice
Are you ok
@@maveballs3539 Funny that you ask, because I have COVID, soooo no. I was okay when I posted my first comment, but not anymore.
this got me giggling ngl
11:46 if you reach the Stanley parable 8 in the Stanley parable ultra deluxe and play the game, you will end in this room.
Damn
15:39
A: I don’t get it what is this game
B: I AM ON FIRE SOMEONE PLEASE CALL FOR HELP
now that i think about it, i think they just merged the demo with the main game for the ultra deluxe while changing the story and context of the demo up a bit
the ultra deluxe version has a ton of content that has nothing to do with the main game or the demo. In fact, can you name a single joke from the demo that is also in the ultra deluxe version?
@@Chillerll the 8 button.
@@muzas15 also the end being much closer than expected
@@Chillerll the compliment button became the Jim button, the emotion booths became the bucket.
@NinjaBluefyre tbh I don't understand your logic here. Yeah, the Jim Button and the Compliment Button are both buttons, but they are completely different jokes. And the emotion booth is just a one-time gag about emotions, but the bucket changes the entire game by giving a new ending to an old path if you are holding it, which is a good chunk of ultra deluxe's content.
I'm surprised nobody has done memes with the dance perimeter
True
That music in the beginning is actually in the files for the final game too, but it is never heard
Sad
Now it is used in ultra deluxe
*D E M O N S T A T I O N*
1:35 It's nice to see Half-Life Uplink Demo getting a Shoutout.
I love the fact you kept nodding. XD
You did'nt stay in the "8" room long enough to hear al the speech of the narrator... (yes I did)
BTW the dance music at 9:47 is "Trance D Base Dance" by Frank Nora
Thank you!
The Narrator feels so happy. So whimsical and happy. And all of it is gone in the main game.
What happened to him?
He found out everyone simps for his voice
@@RedRosemary I- yeah that sounds about right.
@@RedRosemary Narrator: I know my voice is majestic and all but I think simping for my voice is a little too far don't you think dear viewer?
@@lucynorris2255 "come come, daddy needs a third swimming pool"
@@No.1RatedSalesman “youre still a pervert”
That’s where the 8888 achievement came from
I love how much personality i can see just by your playthrough of this game
Love how the title says "Demonstation"
When I enjoyed a demo more than 90% of the games I've played
For some reason, I couldn't control the camera in my demo. I was always facing backwards. I thought that's what it was supposed to be. Did anyone else get that?
Dillon McManus Meee, did you find out how to do it?
I got that too and that is why I’m here looking at playthrough
No I didn't get that, I could move around
14:30 - 14:37 Me studying for the finals
glad the 8 game is in the deluxe
I love nodding and shaking my head when the game lets me I'm glad I'm not the only one
Now we have the terrable and underwhelming "ultra deluxe". (Available on all consoles and PC) with all that was add was some dialogue and a jumping circle.
I'm not even sure if you're serious or not. Which might be the point of the comment in the first place.
Oh, I get it now. Just you wait for The Stanley Parable 2.
@@BanWiz also who's this British guy mocking me for everything I do?
@@jwalster9412 idk man, I just wish we had a skip button or something to get to the interesting bits
@@BanWiz I heard about one.
This is the best demo
Denominated: demonstrative demonstration of Stanley Parable and the narrator.
the broom closet, man, the broom closet...
"Pervert"... hahahahhaha 🤣
4:11 bro no way they actually did that i shouldn't have play the actual game
i actually feel like this is real ending of stanly preable case in all game there is no way to see something have meaning. but in demo there is something different...
What happens if you remain motionless for 20 min.?
It continues after 5 minutes or so
"...Pervert."
Also, i LOVE the dance xDDDD
8:24 huh... what's that red label above a door on the top left?
Out of order.
aw, they missed an opportunity with the 8 room for the narrator to tell you to shut up if you press it too much
Somebody assumed that the 8 button is where it ended
I love this game but I find it ironic that the actual gameplay time is only slightly longer than this demo. Ha, ha!
What happens when you do the recorded dance?
Every time the narrator speaks. It's like I'm in love. I'm in love.
dude when playing the demo the joke at 4:10 caught me so off guard i could not stop laughing
i think that was when i had definitively decided that i would 100% be getting the main game
best gameplay video ever
"Being spiderman loss of all bodily control regaining bodily control bodily control being the same.
Unable to see the colors blue, orange, and red"
ORANGE??? spiderman???
Don't worry, the top left screen of side effects describes smash bandicoot
Side effects: becoming the sun
Its true dont play the game or else youll become super hot 💔💔
@@pIayer_gasa4 yes!!
@@pIayer_gasa4 Must be nice.
We didn’t go in the disco booth
10:18 OMG IT'S A DEMON STATION 😱😱😱 SCARED
i wish they kept some of the dialogue here in the full game i want that part at 18:40
This is the only stanley parable i played
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I'm very very very late with this, but some people might not be able to look around in the demo. Exit full screen and entered full screen again. You should able to now.
That under the breathe pervert was personal 😭
4:10 wth- that was so random lol
Eight.
Eight.
Eight.
I'm guessing y'all replying to this 6 year old comment because of coming deluxe release :v
@@Akendolfr that and the fact the game was free on epic games a while ago which introduced me to this gem
@@trainsandstuff1021 I did not know this :o
Ultra deluxe demo when?
*e i g h t*
It’s been 10 years since 2013
I miss the 8 button
It's now back.
after all this time, i still think the demo of The Stanley Parable is more brilliant then the main game.
Zeke Vesva May you please elaborate on that? I'm interested
@@thatamericannarrator8247 I can
Emanon Go on
@@thatamericannarrator8247 bruh
Daniel Ferreira What?
This reminds me of the exhibition area in Ultra Deluxe
*EIGHT EIGHT EIGHT*
12:11 did it I don't remember
Funny , I can't stop laughing
I'd buy the 8 game.
nostalgia.
Bruh.... that is exactly how my run went wtf? It is like the game... knows
17:11 "HELLOOO?!?!?!"
tally hall mentioned
@@bloxsyoutubepageNuh uh
7:20 Interesting... -_-
8:00 Also saw the words "Wikipedia" on the other one.
This is so interesting to watch after spending hundreds of hours on the main game