A Cursed Animal Crossing Horror Game & One With A Digital Waifu - Harvest Festival 64 / Enupishi 

Welcome to the I'm Not Harvesting Club, how I'm Not Harvesting are ya?

The first game reminded me of this fucked up thing you could do in Harvest Moon DS. If you manage to cultivate a level 100 toadstool and bring it to the Harvest Festival to add it to the communal meal, you basically poison the whole town and get a game over. Your character eats it, falls, and then the screen turns white and you get end credits with happy music. It's really surreal.

The first time the cat faced the camera was absolutely perfect, just before Manly walked behind the tree. It was a level of coincidence you'd normally need a lot of scripting or luck for.

8:05 in case anyone's curious since Manly kinda skipped over that, amanita muscaria is the scientific name of a poisonous mushroom

Nothing is as relaxing and satisfying as doing mundane tasks anyone else could've done and feel like you're contributing to society...

He somehow missed the guy that "moved away" who was face down in the water.

05:36: There's a body swimming in the water (in the upper right corner). If I had to guess, I'd say that this was the previous owner of our character's house who "just moved out".

For once, the red-with-white-spots mushroom was picked for a reason! Amanita muscaria, also called fly agaric. Like most things in nature, it's obviously colored because it's poisonous. Luckily, it's not nearly poisonous enough to be deadly to humans in small doses, but it's enough to make you sick. It packs some psychoactive compounds too, because the best time to start tripping is when your entire body feels bad. Of course, it's probably a different story if someone ate 10 fly agaric that are larger than their arm...

I like that Harvest Festival 64 has their speaking voice meow at the end of their speech. It’s such a cute little detail!

Manly saying “Kyaa~” in the most monotone voice was definitely the best part of the video in my opinion 😂

3:08 Welcome to Animal Crossing. A game where a person standing next to an orange tree will ask you if you could bring them an orange.

I was wondering why the second game was called "Enupishi" because it had to have a meaning, and it suddenly hit me! It sounds like NPC! (But with a japanese "accent".)

I'm sorry but when the cats started floating away, I just had to laugh, couldn't take it seriously after that.

That creepy face your character made at 9:40 really unsettled me more than anything else.

You know what, I actually love the voice clips for the cats in the first game. They’re so cute. Also, as a mushroom buff, the Latin phrase the first cat chanted is the name of a mushroom that CAN make you trip balls but usually just kills you painfully.

Don't you just love it when the adorable cat village overdoses on psychedelic mushrooms and performs countless ritual sacrifices?

When the game mentioned pumpkins, my mind went immediately thought of that one game with a dead kid wearing a pumpkin head-

I really like when games acknowledge that flat sprites were still used in the 64 days. Makes it more authentic. Kudos to the creator, they're very RU-vid thinking about the little details.

As if animal crossing's mountain of debt isn't horror enough

Casually ignores a purple cat "swimming" on the left side of the beach

When Manly said '1 wooden plank HA HA HA' like the Vampire from seasam street i was hoping he would keep going. I was sad that he didn't.

The word "enupishi" is a japanese pronunciation of "NPC", and the girls' name, Jiko, can be either translated as "myself", or as "accident" (mainly used to refer to road accidents)

Harvest Festival 64 But the 64 isn’t referring to the system *but the body count*

6:01 "Don't you cat face me." Idk why, but that made me crack up 😆

Cat: * starts making a scary face and staring at him * Manly: I will now drown you

On the second game, it almost feels like there's a potential on the 'enter a name' to enter the 'deadg4rl' name that gets given to you. Or 'Jiko'. But it doesn't appear to change anything. Since it's a 'player name' input, I figure it might allow you to bring Jiko back over, or download her over. Though given the ending... maybe that happened anyways? Kind of weird how deleting a character apparently deletes the 'memory' of them. That, and the "We made the NPCs so realistic you can't distinguish them from real people. Wait, you fell in love with one? Well, gotta ban you, and fix the NPC, because that's glitches!" Well, unless the 'neural network' that Jiko actually is, is separate from whatever the NPC system is. And I get the feeling that the 'CATGOD' character might be an AI as well. After all, 'convert the world to something readable by a user' has implications, with it apparently being fine for 'CATGOD'. And although that might be explainable with 'staff get a different interface', it doesn't make sense to be able to convert it into a user viable space in that case. At a guess, at least some of the glitch-y stuff is due to it literally not being meant for the VR headset/displayed on screen. Given the physical sensations, I'd guess it's the former, more than the later, despite the final segment implying that it's on a monitor setup. Some other horrifying implications, outside of the dreamlike qualities of the aesthetic. And how even skipping the stop there probably wouldn't have stopped them from getting caught. Though how that works on logging out I'm not sure... the Jiko makes about not wanting to be left again, not sure if that's what the 'logging off' is, or if they managed to reunite on a different server. Though again, the memories deleted from the server... Which I guess might have been 'sentimental items'? Mementos, rather than the actual memories. Which was more what CATGOD did at the end.

The way your cat stares at you with a cold dead face in the end gives off a “YOU DID THIS” vibe. Pretty unnerving.

Ok I'll admit, the main character's face going scary and staring into the camera got me...

Harvest Festival 64 wasn't too bad, simple but knew what it wanted to do and got it done. On the flip side, Enupishi was just gorgeous. A familiar story effectively told with a style you can get lost in.

Dude that Animal Crossing game was really good. Especially after only 72 hours!

It's so funny cus most creepy pastas I see don't compare to the actual real horrifying experiences I have with game corruption as a kid

I went back three times on Enupishi trying to find the animal they almost hit during the introduction scene...anyway, it's neat to see an MMO horror game. That's not a common setting.

"Why are you all cats?" As if you wouldn't want to be a cat if asked lol

The stare at 9:41 on the player character. Slow down the footage and you'll see it

The commitment to the "Let's-a-go" painting jump made me belly laugh.

The noises the animals make 💀

Love being early to watch manly play bootleg animal crossing

I love how manly doesn’t even notice the dead body floating in the water in the background at 5:36 😂 he’s too occupied swimming 🏊‍♂️

This is a certain [[HORROR]] moment

Gotta admire how he truly stands true to his name, he really is a Manly Man, respects to the Chad

"I am real." "The time and memories we had were real to me." Basically.

thank you so much for playing Enupishi!!! ｍ（｡≧ _ ≦｡）ｍ

.Hack is a name I haven't heard in years.

.hack was such a major part of my childhood, I remember all the DVD's we had at home! I thought it was a really niche show, so it's cool to see people know about it!

ok are we just gonna completly ignore the drowned body @5:36? Ok fine, is ok, just a bit concerned is all

the characters face change almost ten minutes in made me jump harder than any scare has in months

I never hear anyone talk about .Hack// anymore. Didn't really watch the anime, but I enjoyed the games.

Ooh! I just had an idea for a harvest themed horror game. So it'll be a Stardew valley type farming game, you'll play as a farmer planting and growing crops for a measly amount of money, just barely enough to get by, but then one night a loud crash wakes your character up! A meteorite crashed on the outskirts of your farm, and it seems to be bleeding green goo. The next morning your crops are grown and better than ever. When you sell them they go for way more money. You buy more crops, are able to fully upgrade your farm faster and even get some cosmetic items. The crops keep growing, and growing until they get out of control. The crops have taken over your farm, and the town. There is no one left. The crops took them.

An early watch and Manly be roasting and being the sass he is.

I love the aesthetic of Enupishi. The cat voices are too cute!

Kid: mom I want animal crossing Mom: we have animal crossing at home *Animal crossing at home be like:*

Manly really does upload at any time of the day XD

"Those 🍄 aren't really edible." Now Manly, don't you know? *Everything* is edible... *once.*

The sanest Animal Crossing fangame xD

Gonna be real with you, I actually didn’t hear about Dot Hack until Krimson Rogue read Ready Player Two, which he said was a parody of SAO which itself was a parody of DH. I then looked it up and…yeah, last I checked, it was so much better.

My church actually had an even at one point called harvest festival, there were games and shows and rides. Man those were the good old days...

you're a comfort channel of mine, because no matter how scared i get at the first watch of your videos i can always go back and watch them over and over without ever getting bored, and there's like, no other channels that i can do that with.

Something about Harvest Festival 64 sticks with me. So unnerving and brutal, yet so great at emulating the feel of a real game. Awesome.

Saw someone else play this and instantly hoped that you would since I knew you'd comb every inch of it looking for potential secrets 😁

.hack was my shit. I still love it and revisit it every few years just because it has such an immense multimedia universe. But no, it’s not really culturally relevant anymore from what I can tell. At least no one seems to know what it is when I reference the series. ….Manly don’t remind me of how old I am, please.

This was a great video and Dot Hack was amazing! Its still my most favorite video game series

Always good to be awake for an upload

I remember .hack! In fact, I still have some manga for the series sitting on my bookshelf. Unfortunately, though, I fear it's probably faded into obscurity by now...

First story one of the cats has a fate from mythology (don't know if that's the right word- it's a fairytale). About the wolf who ate the kids (young goats not human children). The mother goat found out and while the wolf slept she cut open his stomach and rescued her children. In order that the wolf didn't notice something had happened she filled his stomach with stones so he'd feel full still when he woke up. Then when the wolf went to the water to drink the weight of the rocks dragged him down and he drowned. I was not expecting to see this story alluded to here. I wonder why the creator chose it? Are the other deaths also references that I am not aware of?

I don’t know why but I always like the animal crossing horror games like the one you played with collecting the souls lol

LOVE MANLY SM...bro he's fr my favourite letsplayer im so thankful he posts regularly its so nice

"Who wants mushrooms" after waking up from a coma

Man... That last game was really sad... I came here to be spooked not depressed :(

Also I love and miss the .hack series - especially SIGN. Such good memories of staying up late to watch 😭

u can screenshot any part of the second game and it would make a great album cover

I've started replaying the dot hack games today. It really is a blast from the past.

17:25 That's the manliest "kyaa~" I have ever heard LMAO

It’s like Animal Crossing except for the fact that everyone’s a cat.

Your upload schedule is insane, remember to take breaks :)

I loved .hack, but all the attempts to make an actual world like the one in the anime/manga crashed and burned.

If people know about Lain, Boogie Pop Phantom, Gate Keepers 21 or Ergo Proxy, then they def know about .hack //sign. I used to love watching it as a kid and didn't realize just how much of Tsukasa's story + themes were similar to my own. 10/10 recommend people dive into some early - mid 00's anime~ Would also recommend Betterman (1999), s-CRY-ed (2001), Infinite Ryvius (2003), Big O - Big O II (1999 - 2003), Silent Mobius (1991) and Armitage III: Poly Matrix (1995). There are more but these are the ones I can remember off top, I included the year since some of these might have gotten recent reboots. Happy hunting.

Didn't think I would get a reminder to finish .hack from Manly

I always think of the line "Welcome to The World" anytime .hack is brought up.

11:30 Harvest Festival would've been much better if the ending was actually centered around the nature of the festival. This was just some tropes slapped together.

what do you mean by this manly 2:25 😧😳

17:23 *I really felt that one, Manly*

enupishi definitely has a second ending. I think it depends on what you type into the black box before you start he data deletion process.

I don't know why but watching someone play horror games is actually entertaining, you actually make your videos entertaining and fun! keep up the good work Manly!!

Man, Enupishi wasn't even a horror game (i now wish it was), just depressing as fuck. I loved the aesthetic of it, tho. That early 2000s vaporwave Japanese thing going on is cool.

I think we all knew where this was going almost immediately, but I think collecting the shiny stones is where they tipped their hand. Everyone knows you need nice smooth stones for the lottery... (I'm only a few seconds past that point in the video, so I'm still open to having it turn out to be an adorable anticlimax.)

enupishi is the japanese phonetic transcription of NPC :)

I love the voices

“Oh hello!” *and I am inside you*

Is it just me, or did Manly seem kinda distracted in this video?

9:40 can't believe manly missed that lol

Animal crossing creepypasta games have been born

God, mentioning .Hack nearly knocked me out with the force of my nostalgia

No matter where you go, everyone's connected.

I recall .hack. I still enjoy the series, more so the games than anything else.

.Hack will always be better than SAO in my eyes.

Got legit goosebumps when cat got creepy face and looked silently at camera.

The second game makes me miss Haseo and Tsukasa. .hack walked to SAO could run and poop everywhere

ah, good old white-spotted red mushrooms. as someone in the comments has mentioned that those (Amanita muscaria) are poisonous. remember to not eat things that are bright and suspicious in nature also, for the shiny-rock cat, it's death reminds me of the wolf and the seven lambs story, though it only takes 5 shiny stones and the reference to the story is just the part where the wolf's belly was filled with rocks and it drowns. but hey, maybe i was overthinking this

the second game is so beautiful, it reminded me of the show serial experiments lain with the aesthetics!

I too also softy sway my head side to side with glee while watching a manly bad ass hero video