If only it was a rugged bat rather than a pristine blade... // Chatless version: th-cam.com/video/R5Te-kdhnRM/w-d-xo.html Please consider buying the game if you enjoyed the playthrough: store.steampowered.com/app/1989270/Slay_the_Princess
one of my favorite jokes in this game is how the narrator *always* says that it would be doing the princess a favor because of how rough the staircase is. so good
The game got an update recently and it added a Chapter 3 where the cabin is so nice that he gives up halfway through saying that line because he knows it’s not believable lol
Honestly the "good" ending of slaying the princess then yourself in chapter one actually has a surprising amount of weight behind it if it's your first run, because even you, the player, aren't aware of the looping mechanic yet. It really reads as a route that's just going to end because you did something wrong.
Something I hadn’t really considered before but realized watching this is the Princess becomes more self aware in some paths and knows the cold is her greater self and some she doesn’t. Of note, in the wholesome endings where she’s happy at the prospect of being the princess and you leave the cabin with her she doesn’t understand what’s going on. This mirrors the ending where you both choose to leave the cabin together as people and not as gods. I think that’s really sweet.
I’ve been trying to re-find this playthrough for ages. I just vividly remembered someone saying “What? Nooo” right before the princess says “What? Nooo” and that I laughed about it for two minutes straight awesome video my dude~
I think the comparison with the Stanley Parable is only a surface level thing. Sure they have the same concept of being able to defy the narrator and they’re trying to railway you into doing what they want but the way both of them feels completely different to me. Stanley’s narrator is for a commentary on a railway narrative in a medium that can let you make your own decisions while STP’s narrator is seemingly the theme of wanting to keep things the same for the sake of having things being done the way they should be done and to defy change. One is commentary, one is a narrative device. But what do I know? I can barely parse my own thoughts on the game and its narrative themes
Great edit as always, really appreciate you doing these! For this game though, I wish chat would have been moved since it covers the princess' dialogue quite often. Maybe it could have been in the bottom left corner instead or just a little smaller/less opaque?
Opacity doesn't work too well with blending chat and the background without sacrificing a lot of readability. I thought about rewriting her dialogue but because they are all voiced and I planned to do a chatless render, keeping chat at eye-level avoids the time sink.
Thank you so much for telling what references there are, like I wouldn't get the Alan Wake 1 Stream 2 ref at 1:37:45. As an occasional VOD binger, helps a lot.
I wonder if he'd count it as an anime game, since it's just the art style that's anime Also, has class of 09 gameplay been popping up a lot in everyone else's youtube feeds all of a sudden?
Ohhh I really want to watch the stream, but for the first time in a Joseph Anderson video I haven’t played the game he’s playing/discussing and actually want to play it. It’s reminds me of the Stanley Parable but in a visual novel format, it’s got to be great.
Shoutout to ''Monstergelo'' in chat at 6:52 for being unabashedly unafraid to say what he really thinks, regardless of how much everyone else in chat did not need or want to hear it.
This shit was great. The voice in your head is the only thing keeping me entertained while the princess gives me the story to keep me intrigued. The drawings really set the mood too
I had fallen asleep in front of my pc only to wake up to this in the middle of the playthrough. Honestly this was such a pleasant thing to wake up to! I love the dialogues both within and outside of the game. Also BLESS THE SMiTTEN FOR TRUE LOVE SHALL NEVER YIELD. Mmmm Yes, cause what is life without love? And why feel passion without death? And in an ever lasting cycle ignorance is bliss! But not all bliss is ignorance.
Joe asking what views the protagonist *does* hold at the end of the game is like... not even defendable this time, "My Weeb, *you're* the one that chose the views."
2:24:21 Player: “If I destroy her how is that existence any better than death? Or even different from death at all? Honestly it feels worse” Narrator: “When I broke the cycle, I made sure the tear was rough. You carry a part of what should be her, and she carries a part of what should be you. Things won’t be as they are now, but they won’t be nothing, either. Besides… anything is better than oblivion. In the end, nobody wants to leave”
Man, at first I thought that the Paranoid was going to be my favourite, but I must admit that the Invested caught me by surprise :) Great video, can't wait to watch your next instalment after I replace the phone that disappeared from the embrace of multiple hands
>looking for a new psychological horror indie game >ask the game developer if their game is a new perspective on modes of being or the egg again >they dont understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is new and what is the egg >they laugh and say “it’s a good game sir” >buy a copy >its the egg
it took me a second to realize you're probably referencing Andy Weir's short story. for some reason i thought you were making a joke about psychological horror indie games all secretly being about coming out as trans. which, in my defense, is a funnier thing for someone to believe
Since the game can't have a lot of character development or consequential choices in Social Links because they are optional, he made fun of how in many of the social links, characters ended up in the same exact place they were at the beginning but now "for the right reasons".
imagine working hard developing your game, all the writing, concept art, how much it all costs, just for someone to describe it as a discount stanley parable...
@@sendnoodless The joke is that the person who says "we have _such and such_ at home", is unaware, ignorant, of the differences between what "we have at home" and what is being presented (asked for) at the moment. In other words: It reminds of Stanley Parable, it even shares some critical characteristics, but it is not equivalent. It doesn't have to do with a "discount".
There's a ton of edits in this video, and multiple "together" overlays, possibly every time it is said in the game Also the word "collapse" is highlighted in red every time, thats not from the game either lol
Okay, yeah, I'm at the start of Wraith, and I've read enough SCP foundation back in the day to know exactly what the protagonist is dealing with now. (Spoilers Below) Edit: I was exactly right, though I use a different terminology for this kind of being than the game. Damsel and Razor were the paths I liked the most. They played out in the ways that made the most sense to me. The Nightmare path seemed to retread a lot of the self-sacrifice themes in Razor, although it wasn't half as melodramatic so by some that's better. I was a Classics kid. A super-being having his heart sucked out through a straw every hour until the end of the universe so that humans might a future is the kind of thing I'm into. Even the flirting scratched an itch I got from martial arts (boxing and reenactment marching). Life is significantly better with some consensual suffering in it than in total comfort. Razor just heightened that to its most absurdly overwhelming form. Wraith could have lead into Razor, establishing themes before heightening them to crescendo, but that wasn't the order we followed under Joe. The alternate witch path Joe took at the end is so much better than the first route he took.
The raven is the people of the universe the gods are leaving, right? Silly thing, thinking putting the gods through lives of pain would change them, the gods were in every moment and just kept on going.
THEORY If we as the player is in control to explore all possibilities, maybe the narrator wants us to be in a world where we just don’t die. But like ever. 😅
It’s kind of wild how the princess VA is constantly praised by people but the hero voice, the voice of ALL the male voices seems not to get brought up anywhere close to as much for being so incredible with his range I guess waifus stay winning
Do we live in alternative realities or something? The male VA gets praised all the time, even got nominated for his performance. I only ever saw anyone praising the Princess' VA twice: one of them was in this video (the streamer saying "they both did a really good job") and the other was a random comment where the person explicitly stated that they wrote it, because only the male VA was getting praised and nobody was talking about the female VA's work. Even the reviewer at the end of the video applauses how good the male VA is and says they dislike the female VA's performance. Not trying to say one person did a good job and the other bad, because I love the work of both voice actors in this game, but wanted to point out that the male VA gets praised a lot more and it's wild to claim it's the opposite
Sorry for the late comment, but there's a lot of routes and endings this video (and the stream) hasn't covered, so you can still play the game if you want to (and also that's what I did). Even the routes shown in this video can have different voices and thus different choices and interactions
Well most people miss this one line that makes the narrator’s motivations sound more reasonable: Player: “If I destroy her how is that existence any better than death? Or even different from death at all? Honestly it feels worse” Narrator: “When I broke the cycle, I made sure the tear was rough. You carry a part of what should be her, and she carries a part of what should be you. Things won’t be as they are now, but they won’t be nothing, either. Besides… anything is better than oblivion. In the end, nobody wants to leave”
Rip missed the ending that lets you smooch the princess. Spoilers: Its Act 2 Witch into Act 3 Thorn. You betray her, then she betrays you, then both of you learn to trust each other and smooch. Edit: Saw the bonus at the end. Noice.
If only it was a rugged bat rather than a pristine blade... // Chatless version: th-cam.com/video/R5Te-kdhnRM/w-d-xo.html
Please consider buying the game if you enjoyed the playthrough: store.steampowered.com/app/1989270/Slay_the_Princess
I felt a great disturbance in the Waifurce, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out "would" and were suddenly silenced
Deserved tbh
It was the knives wasn't it. It was the thousands of knives.
Would 🗣️🗣️🗣️
one of my favorite jokes in this game is how the narrator *always* says that it would be doing the princess a favor because of how rough the staircase is. so good
The game got an update recently and it added a Chapter 3 where the cabin is so nice that he gives up halfway through saying that line because he knows it’s not believable lol
The "Would?" polls added a lot, thanks for including them in your edit!!
I totally don't understand those.
@@LiliumAtratumwould smash or no
@@LiliumAtratum it's about if chat would sleep with that version of the princess
The dialouge editing in this video is great. It wasn't until an hour in that i noticed you edited some lines down for brevity. Awesome work.
Ah yes, dialouge.
Pronounced "dee-ah-loo-zh", I guess.
@@Spellweaver5 woah we got the serial dick hopper over here
@@Spellweaver5 ??? what
@isaiahblake8723 what got you so confused, young one?
"I love the kind of woman who will actually just kill me"
"Voice of the Invested" got me good ngl
Honestly the "good" ending of slaying the princess then yourself in chapter one actually has a surprising amount of weight behind it if it's your first run, because even you, the player, aren't aware of the looping mechanic yet. It really reads as a route that's just going to end because you did something wrong.
Unless of course you've already met Shifty then she yeets you back to the cabin without the option to stay happy, forcing you to get to the Spectre.
Thanks for these supercuts. I never have times to catch the streams/watch the actual vods so these videos are amazing
Bought the game and had amazing 8 hours.
Something I hadn’t really considered before but realized watching this is the Princess becomes more self aware in some paths and knows the cold is her greater self and some she doesn’t. Of note, in the wholesome endings where she’s happy at the prospect of being the princess and you leave the cabin with her she doesn’t understand what’s going on.
This mirrors the ending where you both choose to leave the cabin together as people and not as gods. I think that’s really sweet.
thank you for editing this!!! very glad joe gave it a shot, slay the princess surprised me so much and is probably my favorite game from this year
Went in expecting memes, but came out with a genuinely interesting story
this is really well edited! the amount of audio editing is rly impressive and i do not envy all that work to keep the pace up, good job!
"Voice of the Invested" had me cackling
I’ve been trying to re-find this playthrough for ages. I just vividly remembered someone saying “What? Nooo” right before the princess says “What? Nooo” and that I laughed about it for two minutes straight
awesome video my dude~
2:09:52 Holding the Poll in her hand got me. Nicely done!
The Witcher 2 analysis in the middle junpscared me so hard
same
Oh my god, I am wheezing at the Voice of the Invested, great job!
I think the comparison with the Stanley Parable is only a surface level thing. Sure they have the same concept of being able to defy the narrator and they’re trying to railway you into doing what they want but the way both of them feels completely different to me. Stanley’s narrator is for a commentary on a railway narrative in a medium that can let you make your own decisions while STP’s narrator is seemingly the theme of wanting to keep things the same for the sake of having things being done the way they should be done and to defy change. One is commentary, one is a narrative device.
But what do I know? I can barely parse my own thoughts on the game and its narrative themes
I kept reading STP not as Slay the Princess, but just a weird acronym for Stanley Parable.
@@boiyado6717 S. Tanley Parable
Stanley Parable is a comedy, Slay the Princess is a love story
These are the devs that are making Scarlet Hollow, which is easily my favourite visual novel game by a mile. They make amazing stuff.
Added that to my wishlist after playing this. Also binged The Magnus Archives after the amazing work Jonathan Sims did with all the different voices.
14:20 the one chatter saying "damn that's hot" gets it
This was a great stream, game was quite interesting actually
I usually prefer the 'slow burn' style of the full vods but these edited videos with chat are very nice, thank you.
2:09:51 great -vegetables- edit
insane number of people in chat saying "wtf jonny sims jumpscare"
The Magnus Archives was/is a spooky... podcast .... narrated by him.
@Alex.R.L yes I'm aware I've listened to it a number of times
Only 10 minutes in so far and I am _loving_ Disco Elysium 2.
2:50:14
"Poppies!"
"Opium POG"
the duality of chat
Great edit as always, really appreciate you doing these! For this game though, I wish chat would have been moved since it covers the princess' dialogue quite often. Maybe it could have been in the bottom left corner instead or just a little smaller/less opaque?
Opacity doesn't work too well with blending chat and the background without sacrificing a lot of readability. I thought about rewriting her dialogue but because they are all voiced and I planned to do a chatless render, keeping chat at eye-level avoids the time sink.
Thank you so much for telling what references there are, like I wouldn't get the Alan Wake 1 Stream 2 ref at 1:37:45. As an occasional VOD binger, helps a lot.
Getting deconstructed damsel as the first vessel is so on-brand 😂
Edit: does he aware that there are other final endings?
just in time for his return on monday ❤ thanks dude
OH SHIT it's vallhalla time babyyyyy
Joe should play class of 09
ABSOLUTELY!!!! it would either be a hit or a miss with him
Ooooo,, it would make an interesting stream that’s for sure
jesus christ that would be a fever dream
I wonder if he'd count it as an anime game, since it's just the art style that's anime
Also, has class of 09 gameplay been popping up a lot in everyone else's youtube feeds all of a sudden?
@@chandra_creatorno, but the night is still young
Fantastic compilations, thank you so much.
Ohhh I really want to watch the stream, but for the first time in a Joseph Anderson video I haven’t played the game he’s playing/discussing and actually want to play it. It’s reminds me of the Stanley Parable but in a visual novel format, it’s got to be great.
If you haven't yet, there's been a Pristine Cut update
58:03 "...a bat and a knife together" Yeah Joe, it's called a sword.
Shoutout to ''Monstergelo'' in chat at 6:52 for being unabashedly unafraid to say what he really thinks, regardless of how much everyone else in chat did not need or want to hear it.
1:56:00
Ok i said would to the other ones as a joke but unironically would this time
2:13:30 ok her too
Avarisi is the match that would have saved the little matchstick girl. We are eating good!
Thumbnail fits in perfectly with the TH-cam UI, good job!
This shit was great. The voice in your head is the only thing keeping me entertained while the princess gives me the story to keep me intrigued. The drawings really set the mood too
The thorn was my favorite, but I didn't even get the smitten so I did get the kiss scene lol
this is such an interesting exploration of the jungian idea of the collective unconscious and archetypes
Huh, I never thought about it like that!
Voice of the Invested, lmao
Thorns ending made me tear up, I hate how weak I am to romance
I finished this game about a month ago and enjoyed it. However, watching Joe's Stream vod...it seems like I missed all of the wildest chapters.
There's more to explore
The chat log being over the princess's dialogue was a bit of a pain.
Was thinking the same, but I'm not really sure what else you'd do. There's nowhere it would have fit without covering something else.
@@Tufhhuyy DVD logo style bouncing around the screen, clearly
thought about the poll "Would???" around 1:10:00 and pondered for a second. Made me flinch.
Thank you, avarisi!
I had fallen asleep in front of my pc only to wake up to this in the middle of the playthrough.
Honestly this was such a pleasant thing to wake up to!
I love the dialogues both within and outside of the game.
Also BLESS THE SMiTTEN FOR TRUE LOVE SHALL NEVER YIELD. Mmmm Yes, cause what is life without love? And why feel passion without death?
And in an ever lasting cycle ignorance is bliss! But not all bliss is ignorance.
I was so happy people referenced Hyperion at 1:10:26
Joe asking what views the protagonist *does* hold at the end of the game is like... not even defendable this time, "My Weeb, *you're* the one that chose the views."
Jonathan Sims!??? What are you doing in my adventure horror game??
processing my thoughts how its done in this game, fits well
48:12 im so glad im not the only one who hear this and immediately thought of evrart lol
2:40:07 the crow is a former person who didnt want the world to end so he split the cycle into pieces and pitted you against your other half
This game reminds me of fear and hunger. With the cosmology. It's sort of like if funger did a philosopy degree
I like the furry princess and the normal princess :3
2:24:21
Player: “If I destroy her how is that existence any better than death? Or even different from death at all? Honestly it feels worse”
Narrator: “When I broke the cycle, I made sure the tear was rough. You carry a part of what should be her, and she carries a part of what should be you. Things won’t be as they are now, but they won’t be nothing, either.
Besides… anything is better than oblivion. In the end, nobody wants to leave”
the epitome of going against the DM in rpgs
Man, you did a great job of cutting down the voice lines but keeping them intact
Wait. Did you highlight collapse every time it popped up?
and laughed every time i heard it
Man, at first I thought that the Paranoid was going to be my favourite, but I must admit that the Invested caught me by surprise :)
Great video, can't wait to watch your next instalment after I replace the phone that disappeared from the embrace of multiple hands
1:10:46 YES
>looking for a new psychological horror indie game
>ask the game developer if their game is a new perspective on modes of being or the egg again
>they dont understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is new and what is the egg
>they laugh and say “it’s a good game sir”
>buy a copy
>its the egg
I do really like that it explores the idea that art only exists within the interaction of the viewer though.
Do you have that illustrated diagram on hand?
if anyone in the future would be kind enough to drop that diagram I'd love that too
it took me a second to realize you're probably referencing Andy Weir's short story. for some reason i thought you were making a joke about psychological horror indie games all secretly being about coming out as trans. which, in my defense, is a funnier thing for someone to believe
@@ebucario that really is funny lol
2:30:57 Allright, this is my favorite moment! 2:35:57 This bit is also very good
The character you play as is hotter than the princess let’s be real
LQ got dad bod yee.
I've never seen the credits of this game before.
Turns out this is actually: "NoSleep Podcast: the Video Game"
18:07 The princess collapsed!
God I wish he’d stream more of this, especially with the new update that adds some incredible new routes
1:44:20 Can someone explain to me this reference I watched his p4 playthrough but I can't remember where this came from
Since the game can't have a lot of character development or consequential choices in Social Links because they are optional, he made fun of how in many of the social links, characters ended up in the same exact place they were at the beginning but now "for the right reasons".
@@deleteTF sweet thanks
Voice of the Invested is probably my favorite bit
"we have a stanley parable at home"
imagine working hard developing your game, all the writing, concept art, how much it all costs, just for someone to describe it as a discount stanley parable...
@@sendnoodless The joke is that the person who says "we have _such and such_ at home", is unaware, ignorant, of the differences between what "we have at home" and what is being presented (asked for) at the moment. In other words: It reminds of Stanley Parable, it even shares some critical characteristics, but it is not equivalent. It doesn't have to do with a "discount".
14:02 "I _know_ we could force our way out together. _Together_ "
the second together is from a whispering male voice.
Are you joking or you didn't notice it was joe?
@@meialua5178 i can not tell if it it was joan or the game
There's a ton of edits in this video, and multiple "together" overlays, possibly every time it is said in the game
Also the word "collapse" is highlighted in red every time, thats not from the game either lol
He didn't jump up a wall this time
Loved the expression in the mirror edit
52:00
Is the full VOD available anywhere?
we have completely and utterly corrupted Joseph, he is a weeb now.
loved the voice of invested bit
51:58 Best moment of the stream.
He missed the mark with the ending a bit, but everything else was great. Thanks for the supercut!
18:07 I CANT ESCAPE IT
Wow this game is amazing, thanks so much for posting the cut, very grateful
2:57:52 YEEEEEEEEAH! BEST GAME!
Okay, yeah, I'm at the start of Wraith, and I've read enough SCP foundation back in the day to know exactly what the protagonist is dealing with now.
(Spoilers Below)
Edit: I was exactly right, though I use a different terminology for this kind of being than the game.
Damsel and Razor were the paths I liked the most. They played out in the ways that made the most sense to me. The Nightmare path seemed to retread a lot of the self-sacrifice themes in Razor, although it wasn't half as melodramatic so by some that's better. I was a Classics kid. A super-being having his heart sucked out through a straw every hour until the end of the universe so that humans might a future is the kind of thing I'm into. Even the flirting scratched an itch I got from martial arts (boxing and reenactment marching). Life is significantly better with some consensual suffering in it than in total comfort. Razor just heightened that to its most absurdly overwhelming form.
Wraith could have lead into Razor, establishing themes before heightening them to crescendo, but that wasn't the order we followed under Joe.
The alternate witch path Joe took at the end is so much better than the first route he took.
Would 100% rate 🗣️🔥🔥🔥
WOULD
The raven is the people of the universe the gods are leaving, right?
Silly thing, thinking putting the gods through lives of pain would change them, the gods were in every moment and just kept on going.
🫀🫁 (liver) 🧠
58:05 58:15 hot
THEORY
If we as the player is in control to explore all possibilities, maybe the narrator wants us to be in a world where we just don’t die. But like ever. 😅
He wants you to stay there forever believing she's dead so she is dead
It’s kind of wild how the princess VA is constantly praised by people but the hero voice, the voice of ALL the male voices seems not to get brought up anywhere close to as much for being so incredible with his range
I guess waifus stay winning
Do we live in alternative realities or something? The male VA gets praised all the time, even got nominated for his performance. I only ever saw anyone praising the Princess' VA twice: one of them was in this video (the streamer saying "they both did a really good job") and the other was a random comment where the person explicitly stated that they wrote it, because only the male VA was getting praised and nobody was talking about the female VA's work. Even the reviewer at the end of the video applauses how good the male VA is and says they dislike the female VA's performance.
Not trying to say one person did a good job and the other bad, because I love the work of both voice actors in this game, but wanted to point out that the male VA gets praised a lot more and it's wild to claim it's the opposite
@@AlteAvi Don't mind this guy, he's *the voice of the contrarian*
Disco elysium also has *The look* feature
Wait, Jonathan Sims is the narrator? Holy Shit
Only two voices actors it seems. Pretty amazing
Shame i didnt experience this myself
Sorry for the late comment, but there's a lot of routes and endings this video (and the stream) hasn't covered, so you can still play the game if you want to (and also that's what I did). Even the routes shown in this video can have different voices and thus different choices and interactions
ghost princess very cute
Is it weird that I honestly agree with what the Narrator was saying in the final conversation with his echo?
Well most people miss this one line that makes the narrator’s motivations sound more reasonable:
Player: “If I destroy her how is that existence any better than death? Or even different from death at all? Honestly it feels worse”
Narrator: “When I broke the cycle, I made sure the tear was rough. You carry a part of what should be her, and she carries a part of what should be you. Things won’t be as they are now, but they won’t be nothing, either.
Besides… anything is better than oblivion. In the end, nobody wants to leave”
It's a philosophical perspective and he refuses to explain a lot of finer details of his plan so no of course some people will agree
Would.
Rip missed the ending that lets you smooch the princess.
Spoilers:
Its Act 2 Witch into Act 3 Thorn. You betray her, then she betrays you, then both of you learn to trust each other and smooch.
Edit: Saw the bonus at the end. Noice.
Wouldn’t.