So, the girl that we're playing as obviously is dead. This is corroborated by the newspaper that is hanging outside of the house, and the diary which doesn't have any entries after July 12th, the 13th is when she was murdered. The TV shows a report of a redheaded man who is probably the boy that we keep seeing entering our home. He is the one who killed us, the diary entry raises the probability that he was originally intending to kill her than to burglarize the home. He was casing the house to see if it would be suitable as a target, however, a burglar would be deterred if they saw that someone was always at home, he was looking for a vulnerable victim. A little girl all alone made for the perfect victim for him. The 'brother' wasn't actually his brother, and the reason that the name of the dog kept changing was because the little girl never actually met with her and learned his name. Because she had ran into the man looking for something, the association became that he was looking for her killer. This little girl is a restless spirit who, I assume, is trying to get her killer to commit suicide. Perhaps forcing him to continually relive his crime, being placed in the shoes of the little girl this time instead of being in the shoes of the killer. Being forced to experience that fear, that pain, that final moment before death. This would explain why in the third playthrough we see her corpse rather than the boy's. I assume she is doing this so then she can finally be at peace thanks to a deal that she had made. It could be that the deal was so then she could get revenge on her killer before moving on. She might have decided that this would be the one time that she actually tried to ease the loneliness that she experienced, her mother always leaving her all alone, presumably no father in the picture since we never even get a hint of a father being present. That trust, that desire for human contact, ultimately got her killed, and that betrayal left her with nothing but a desire to get revenge. Perhaps this is all occurring when he sleeps, why he 'feels weird', and why he's depicted as a child rather than a man, to make him feel all the more helpless to protect himself, to make him more trusting only to have that trust completely taken advantage of, to keep driving him closer and closer to the brink until he finally slips that noose around his neck and takes his own life.
I can't help but feel that every character is the girl, all versions of herself existing within. The same time loop. The voice, the person she made a deal with, is death, and is trying to get her to accept her own passing so that she can move on
mmarage Funny how everyone keep saying that the murderer is the red haired boy. What if she is grudging on a different person who just happens to have red hair? What if her house has already been sold to someone else and the boy is actually home alone just like her? What if the boy and the burglar are completely unrelated, not even with same hair color and she is just grudging on him for being a stranger in her eyes? In fact even the onii-chan is suspicious. Why does he knew of the red boy so much? For what reason? What if he is the murderer and disguised as the red boy to frame him?
I'd think the 'brother' is actually the police, and his role in this nightmare is to catch him before the inevitable ending. Which explains why he always too late to get the red haired boy/criminal before the demise. Also the government bodies in China are nicknamed "big brother" by their people, so it kinda fits the mood.
I love how Manly's first question upon inviting the boy into the house is "are we going to eat you?" It's a great time to be alive and play video games.
I think what happened is that the girl was left home alone, and despite being told not to go outside, she opens the door and invites in a stranger to play, just wanting someone to spend time with her. This ends up being the burglar who goes in, notes how large the house is (and probably how much money they seem to have,) and as the girl goes to give him the cake, he makes up his mind and kills her. Being a young child, she doesn't understand why the red-haired guy would do this or why the guy was probably acting strange, not understanding how differently other people think, and he becomes a child like her in an attempt to make him make sense. She tells the boy to go into the rope loop (noose) as a way to get back at him for what he did, but the burglar escapes each time because he's still loose in real life. Unable to accept failure of this revenge, she tries and tries again and again to bring karma to someone that's gotten away, whose motivations just didn't make any sense when all she wanted was someone to play with. The older brother probably represents someone like a cop or other older authority figure who finds the girl's body after she's killed, trying to stop the murderer, but ultimately failing because they were too slow/came too late. That's my thoughts on it anyway;;
For me it looks like it's a "reenactment" with the roles reversed. The girl wrote in her diary that she walks outside. Also, newspaper doesn't say that the girl lived in that house. Neither anything, except the scene with mom leaving, says that it's your house or room. And even that scene along with the diary could be here only for the sake of telling parts of the story and enabling some of shenanigans. So maybe she walked outside HER house, trying to find that girl with the dog or her house, got lost (or found the house for real) and stumbled upon the house, where that burglar was doing his stuff. And then he's like "Oh, come in, here's the cake, etc". She takes her time, while sees that girl with a dog outside and tries to invite her but the man is like "No-no-no, we can't do that, we can't play with her" to prevent unnesessary people coming inside. At some point he tries to suffocate, hand over to his "friends" or even rape the girl in the backyard to get things done quietly (some things in that scene suggest that the burglar could be not alone). Yet she runs away and locks herself in the room. At the same time her brother/police guy (she hears his voice from the backyard) shows up. And MAYBE unlike what is shown, he was either suspecting something or knew exactly that this girl is here, the burglar is like "Oh, it's MY house, I've let her in, she's maybe upstairs" etc. And then it is kinda difficult to describe what happens. Either the burglar WAS alone and managed to shoot only the girl before leaving, or he was not alone, tried to lead the other guy to his "friends" so they deal with him but one of them started shooting, I don't know. The game has some problems with translation and some loop shenanigans. But I believe we play some karma loop where roles are weirdly reversed so that the burglar get's to relieve that experience as a victim, while the girl's spirit seeks revenge. However in the end we see that this dark feeling hurts her too and she seeks for help also. So that words "bring me that part of yours" could be addressed to BOTH the burglar and the girl. For burglar - to understand and feel what he has done. For the girl - get free from her sorrow, dark feelings and seek for revenge. Well, that's only my take on it thogh. And my crappy Eglish surely doesn't help to fully express, what I mean. So I'm sorry if it all looks confusing
My thoughts on the brother is that he is suppose to be the mom. the killer is in her shoes so someone close to him will find his dead body. Most likely the mom was just in time to see her daughters body from the baloney and the killer got time to run since mom was in shock like the brother was.
Okay, basing off my knowledge of Chinese folklore, my understanding of the story is like this: 1) The girl was killed and was sent to Hell. 2) However, the girl made a deal with a denizen of Hell and agreed to find a replacement (替身), so that she'll be freed from her torment. 3) The game ensues. I'm not entirely sure why there are two versions of the girl, but my guess is that one is the body - revived temporarily so she can commit her nasty deed - and the other is the ghost of the girl. 4) The boy is somehow lured to the house. The girl invites the boy inside, and the ghost kills him. The deed is done, and the girl is set free from her torment. The boy takes her place. 5) The boy's brother is invited to the house for one reason: after the boy is killed, he takes the girl's place in Hell. To be freed from torment, the boy is asked to accept a deal wherein he kills his brother and takes his place. 6) The cycle of death continues. 7) This is extra, but the mother might be dead too. That's why she didn't have a face and appear everywhere on the black part of the screen later on. How and why exactly is unclear, however. If you're wondering why the girl is cruel enough to accept a deal like this, one, it's Hell, and two, in Chinese folklore ghosts normally don't retain their reason. They're just vengeful things who hate all living things. P.S. The replacement plan failed though. The boy didn't hang himself and they had to kill him.
So i get you somewhat but it's almost certain that she is going after the little boy because he is either her perception of the killer or the killers son. I feel like her vengeance is justified in either case. The brother though, that is more confusing, someone here had a theory that he was actually a police officer looking for the killer and the girl just interprets him as the brother.
Hmmm... From what I understood the different versions of the girl are just parallel versions of what appears to be a sort of time loop where a new one appears for every possible action she takes. You could be talking about something different however.
@@maddythetrashcan1075 In Chinese folklore, almost all mortals go to Hell (temporarily) to enter the cycle of reincarnation so they may be reborn as mortals again. Generally, only the wicked stays there to suffer their punishment until their sins have been sufficiently cleansed (in some cases, never). In this girl's case, let's just say that she hadn't gone through the normal procedure and was doomed to be stuck in limbo of torment until she found a replacement. On a side note, that is not to say that there are no gods or deities. In fact, there is at least one deity for each day on the calendar, totalling up to 365 deities or more. However, very few people ever achieved such great things that they transcended mortality and became deities. Still way more than the deities from other religions though, I think.
_Truly - the cake was a lie_ I felt bad for the little girl saying the couch was cold & then the diary saying as she laid on that couch, she was cold & alone waiting for her mother to come home. And she never could play with that little blonde girl & her puppy. I think the boy with red hair is the man as a child. So the head honcho of the afterlife who brought her back wants the man's death preferably by suicide, to prevent the girl's own death by his hand after he grows up. When she cannot convince him to do this, she winds up killing him as he killed her. I think - it's up for interpretation. It's a weird little game.
+NaturalFlirtGamer She hit a small target moving across and away at running-for-life speed with a pistol using the small hands of a child? And without a miss? I say, good shot! I don't think it's anywhere _near_ the first time through. How much practice does it take to land that shot? She's been in this loop long enough to be a marksman!
+Thelothuo Actually the boy might have just been clipped & jumped or fell off the balcony, running to get away. Just like she did. So it may have been an unlikely shot, but it was good for the story purpose... all it takes is one 'lucky' shot, repeated throughout time. But you know, there are many sadly accurate shots little children have taken in real life, killing usually siblings by accident.
+NaturalFlirtGamer Ah, I figured the bleeding indicated a solid hit, just with an underpowered cartridge. But yes, this stuff _does_ happen by accident, despite it being so easy to prevent! That gun should not have been stored loaded in an _unlocked_ cabinet, especially so close to the floor in a house with a child in it!
+Thelothuo You're absolutely right. Whether you grow up respecting guns to hunt or defend livestock from wild animals or grow up playing with them as water pistols - everyone fears a gun in the wrong hands.
A girl, tragically killed by a burglar, makes a deal with a crow god to get revenge. This leads to some sort of time loop where she simultaneously trying to play with the blonde girl but failing, helping the brother look for the red haired boy, and getting the gun to kill him herself. Given that the final corpse we see is the red haired boy, I believe the theory that this is all to guilt the burglar into suicide is correct, as that final death is him being made equal to the girl he died. Mind you, this game is surreal enough that I could be way off. I enjoyed this odd little game either way.
I do remember something about crows. It is said that if crows gather around in a group whether or not it be a huge one or not, then that means that something or someone is about to die at that place.
@@mars1100 well it's just based off the fact that we see crows where people died in movies(i think because of their diet? I dunno i always felt like it was a common fact to me)
finally figured out clap the head is a badly translated version of mom giving you a headpat before leaving the house. and yeah, pretty sure the girl died during the burglary and made a deal with demon/devil/spirits to find a soul to replace her place in death i think. especially the backyard scene where she beckoned the boy/guy towards her to "join us over there" heavily resembles how certain vengeful spirits behave in stories
Did kevin get a cute haircut and dress? He dyed his hair too. I guess it's a second version??? Hmm is it blue ray? Ohhhh I know. it's by Stephen King, of course! That makes better sense now
The red haired child definitely represents the burglar to the capacity that her vengeance is carried out on him in a manner representing her own death. I don't know if there is any connection between the child and burglar aside from the red hair. Could just be a case of 'Red hair.. you automatically must be the one that killed me!' I'm curious about the cake though. Why cake? Did the burglar promise her cake before he chased her and shot her? I feel like there was opportunity for a lot more DDLC late game shenanigans that could have prolonged the game and given the player more to think about. It is rather short and to the point though, and that's not necessarily a bad thing as long as you are able to follow the dialogue. The translation is very clunky though.
_Dislike the morning alarm clock_ It's difficult to wrap my head around this. I kinda liked it tho. I had an idea of what the story of this is which was explained by manly. The events were on repeat til all the possibilities meshed together. But the ending is also the same. And I guess the only way to break the loop is for the red haired person to take their own life since they were responsible for the death of the main character as part of some agreement for revenge or something else entirely. The loop keeps on going and the red haired person usually ends up killed like how the girl was murdered. The game does suffer some issues with translation and it really makes me wish that I could help out with games like these. It does add a bit if charm to it in its own way though. Anyway I loved that SpongeBob joke manly through in. It really tickled me lol.
How come I'm not bored listening to Manly saying *wow* over and over. Any theory about the dog? It seems to notice the loop, since it "barks disgustingly" in the second loop. Anyway, this game gives me chill for such a simple concept. Good game, for what it is
Legit, I didn't read the description when I got it from steam, I really did thought it was a happy wholesome little game. when I read the newspaper I thought this was strange, but when I heard the gunshot, I closed the game for a bit and checked the description of the game. I really did not expect this.
The characters are all dead, they're stuck in the little girl's lapse; like people are saying the red haired boy is the murder and she saw him as a kid prolly because he's young and the other kid is a intervening force to keep her from killing him. The mom's are the "dark things" watching, I feel like the mom knew about what was going on hence why she leaves and doesn't come back ( the girl talks about her mom staying gone ). She was put on the couch after death alone and cold that's why it's mentioned in the diary and the end she says "Mom save me." Because that's the last thing she ever said before dying. The tree is probably a symbolism of herself promising to get even with the murderer and getting vengeance for the wrong doing, that weird ghost thing only reincarnated her in the end.
I mostly agree with Manly’s assumption on the story. My only addition is I don’t think it’s just revenge. It seems like her main goal is to get the redhead to hang themselves. The raven saying he can’t give it to her until the last moment. So I assume it’s a matter of if she could have gotten the burglar to feel guilty and kill himself in the backyard, her life would be spared. At least in the sense of eternal torment. But that’s just an assumption. Neat little game either way. I enjoy these ones a lot.
Probably not to save herself from eternal torment per say. More like the deal is to get him to commit suicide and feel guilty for what he did. Shes inching him towards the noose, even if it takes all eternity.
MC's Thoughts: Hey little boy, wanna come in my house? I have cake inside~ If you come, we can play "games" together like Final Destination: Rope Loop Edition. Personally, if I were a little kid asked to come into the house of someone I don't know, I would hightail it in the opposite direction & scream "stranger danger" over & over.
The [paid, but cheap] "sequel" (more of an updated version) was recently released, and it seems to have some additional content after the white forest scene
Are you Are you Coming to the tree They’ve strung up a man They say murdered three Strange things did happen here no stranger would it be If we met at midnight Here in the hanging tree
so funny story, I had just finished the first "ending" when my dad decided to THROW ONE OF MY SHOES AT MY CLOSED BEDROOM DOOR! I broke my chair, my headset, and my mouse as I flung myself across the room lmfao
God, I keep forgetting how much I love your voice. It's so nice to listen to. I should watch you more often, I don't know why I never remember that you exist.
@@shipwreckdreams RU-vid is such a mess that it legitimately makes me irritated sometimes, but at least it gives a platform to people who wouldn't have one otherwise, I guess. Really though, people _really_ need to fix this hellsite. It's frightening what people can get away with here.
Wait a minute... Manly never did let that girl in. What would have happened, before and after the number sequence..? I REALLY hope Manly can cover that, and either it leads to a dead end or some story reveal.
Ohmygosh, I browsed Steam and came across this game today… This game is amazing, the storyline. The mild jumpscares, the graphics, art and different settings. The creepy vibes. I really enjoyed playing it!
21:08🎵I am human being capable of doing terrible things..... 🎵I AM A HUMAN BEING CAPABLE OF DOING TERRIBLE THINGS.....🎵🎵🎵 🎵🎵24:10 Run! DERNERNERNERNERNERNER!
Hearing that interlude of cheerful music suddenly chime in, regardless of the circumstances which preceded it, was thoroughly entertaining and made me smile each time it happened. As for my attempted assessment and personal interpretation of the story, I agree that the young girl evidently made a deal with the crow in order to be liberated from some sort of purgatory and, consequently, she continues to relive her own murder. Their agreement might pertain to the attempts of the girl to persuade the boy to “join us” in exchange for her freedom. It does seem there were a few stipulations imposed by this crow, whose dialogue appears to be represented by the authoritative text bookended by asterisks. For instance, since she was admonished for speaking to the girl in yellow and inviting her inside, I’d suppose that the crow is forcing her to adhere to the exact events which preceded her murder. Perhaps the girl unknowingly assented to enduring this repetitious cycle of experiencing her own murder and can only achieve true freedom if the boy successfully sacrifices himself to the crows? I’m honestly not quite sure, as multiple interpretations are indubitably possible. I did find it a little clever that the crow, as your method of saving and returning to the game, was also the means through which the girl was “saved” and “returned” to the day she died.
No, the man was never shown in the game because you play him when you grab the gun. That’s why his brother and you try to search for the small boy and you grabbed the key. The man grabbed the gun after the key is taken. It’s confusing but it makes sense when the game put everything together on the last ending, but you shoot him when both of them were searching for him in the room. That’s why when the big brother and her go into the room, eventually you hear a gun shot.
Get dropped into a way too saccharine situation with a weirdly upbeat soundtrack. It took about 10 seconds for me to feel a vague Doki Doki vibe. Yeah uh, wasn't _that_ far off I guess. Just... pink-haired girl?
What a unique way to portray this story; haven't seen it quite like this with children and the "role reversal" thing of victim and murderer. Thanks for sharing this with us, Manly. Keep up the fun and unique games. God bless yours and you! :)
Untranslated orange text: 制作阿正不经 Zhìzuò ā zhèng bù jīng 制作软件RPGVXAce Zhìzuò ruǎnjiàn 图片素材为原创禁止二次使用 Túpiàn sùcái wèi yuánchuàng jìnzhǐ èr cì shǐyòng 感谢你的游玩 Gǎnxiè nǐ de yóuwán The first line is a bit confusing, to me, literally "Produced without stop." Could be "Still in production." As for the rest: "Made in RPG VX Ace software, all assets are original so please do not reuse, thank you for playing!" So, no juicy lore bits.
Okay during the first few minutes did anyone suddenly remember the rpg he played called Box. I just got the same creepy feeling from this like I did in that game and I love it.
Adding to the theory other people have mentioned: I wonder, "be one of us, so that you can play with me". What if she even feels lonely in the afterlife? Not only moght she want revenge on her killer, but maybe she simply wants someone that joins her there in the afterlife to finally end the loneliness. And maybe even for the killer to release what he did, and what instead could have been. (in the eyes of a innocent child only wanting someone to play with her, the killer, in her eyes, could've instead accompany her and play with her.)
i think i understand the plot of this game so spoilers ahead i have some theories: 1-the girl thought the red haired kid was a killer so she killed him with...a gun because....her dad is from mafia... 2-the red haired killer that she thought was a kid killed her and then she made a deal with a weird entity and learned time reversing. 3-she used uno reverse card the prey became the hunter all thanks to the "deal". 4-the game dev was drunk when he made this game's plot.
*sees copy of girl walk towards door while talking to red head boy* "king crimson has been activated" Me:KING CRIMSON MOMON KUN (I think it was this line)
who can’t help but see the girl as claire from witch’s heart, and her desire to play with the blonde girl from her diary gives me the idea of claire writing how much she loves playing with patricia. so do the loops.
I just realized that at 16:46 (third run i believe) the mom's face is blank, when in the other runs it isn't. Nothing scary, but i think it's to tell the player a small sign that something is different in this run
What I think happened: the red haired burgler killed the girl, so the girl's ghost killed a redhead boy in revenge. The boy did nothing wrong, he just happened to be walking by the house and the angry ghost mistook him for the killer. The loop is just happening again and again because the little girl ghost is trapped there, and now the redhaired boy too, that's why he 'joined' them.
I get the feeling this is some sort of dreamscape where the little girl switches roles with the burglar, who is either being haunted in his dreams, or has also died and this is limbo. Either way, I assume that the girl is trying to recollect how she ended up getting killed, and tries to make the burglar go through the same horror until he accepts his own death by suicide (Which would support the dream idea), or until she "gets" him as part of a deal with some sort of afterlife creatures, symbolized by crows. But it seems like she keeps failing, since she always ends up shooting him, or the idea turns back into her death, whereas the deal seems to be about making the burglar commit suicide. And that's why that secret ending has the crow reaper(?) visiting the restless spirit of the girl, and him responding to her pained begging with sending her back to the loop instead. The deal holds her trapped, and until she delivers the burglar to the tree, she can't rest. Even if her "revenge" is more suffering for her than her target.
Spoiler warning! I played the full version of this recently and I love it so here is an explanation! So the protagonist is dead and to return back to life she has to kill the boy in a specific way, the tree and the noose in the back yard. If you differ from this you are pretty much forced to kill the boy in the way you died. Shot twice by a burglar and then jumping off a balcony. One you kill him with the noose there is a knock at the door and you see the burglar, he explains the rest. He killed you so he could be brought back to life and then you killed someone else for the same reason, it's a never ending cycle of bloodlust and pain for a malicious being (the one who is instructing you throughout the game). But he wants to stop it and I you're going to end this you need to prevent the boy from killing someone. The girl with the dog from the beginning
Not sure who the blue hair kid was. An accomplice, or his actual brother trying to stop him, maybe just a device to move the plot forward? I guess a part of the deal was to see her killer die, but it doesn't break the loop to kill him herself since she's no longer alive. She needs to convince him to do it himself but it doesn't work out for understandable reasons in the backyard.
Just play with the girl and the dog because that will soothe her soul...? Basically maybe the red head is the man turned into her form because she wants him to feel the terror that she had felt....I mean the only thing that dosen’t make sense is the brother.... I think she might be coaxing him with the same words he said to her to help her be at peace with herself... Plus it’s possible the clap to the head was purposeful maybe her mother was slapping her for this, turning herself to an evil soul for revenge makes her upset and she is trying to stop you but gentlely
I think the deal isn't for revenge. The spirit in the secret says that he can save her, but she can only bring 'that one thing'. We see that the boy is her, that all versions of her exist at once(perhapes all parts of herself that are vying against one another). The boy is the Verizon of her that refuses to accept that she is dead, the version of her who is aware of her own suffering but does not accept and must let go of. Thdeal is that she let's go of her desire to get revenge and accept her death. The only part of her that can be free is that part of her which is still innocent, the part of her without hate and ugliness and death. The part that ironically takes the form of her killer as she destroys it again and again. The part that refuses to give in and accept what happened to her
There was an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where two ghosts kept re-enacting their death(boy shot girl then themselves) and it wasn't until The vampire was replaying the girl's role and everything changed, since bullets wouldn't kill him, and then the souls settled. Kinda reminds me of that.
I sporadically notice a common theme in Internet horror of crow gods trying to get guilty people to kill themselves, and being pitiless observers to the suffering of humans. They are often right, but never kind.
There is something you may have missed, there is a picture on the right side of the desk in the kitchen, it's a weird picture of a woman with a cassette or something above her head. It changes nothing from the story, but I don't know if it has a deeper meaning or not, does someone know if it can have any connection with the story?
