Basilisk 2000 Deep Dive | Story Analysis + Exploration 

This is actually a interesting idea. A rom of a unfinished game and using save states to see the game and having the dev logs to see and how they were fighting. Good video man.

the eyeball ending of the rom is one of the few representations ive ever seen of how helpless anyone would be against a mythical beast that can kill just by looking at you. i suppose the red sword is meant to be the precursor to the sepent tooth sword. is the knight you meet at the end supposed to be someone else, or the player characters reflection? is the demo scene presaging david turning on his coworkers? perhaps david believed he was protecting the world from exposure to a cursed game

The guy without the shirt who says his shirt was stolen is a Morrowind reference

Something I found interesting is the parallels between the ending cutscene of Basilisk 2000 and Clive's story about the “wicked king of rats” in Lunacid- which itself is a reference to Sotiris, a major enemy from one of Kira's other games, Lost in Vivo. The cutscene states that “…the true cure [for the famine] lay guarded behind a tyrant's walls.” And the king of Mycenae Castle (with a Dark of 100%) appears to have been slain by his own knights, although he may not be the same king. Clive's story about the “wicked king of rats” (Sotiris) says that “…long ago during the first age of magic a witch king ruled in a starving kingdom,” and that he “…withheld the castle's bountiful provisions and let his kingdom wither.” His knights eventually betrayed him for his cruelty, and threw him into the Great Well Lunacid takes place in after cutting off an arm and gouging out his eyes. It probably isn't a coincidence, but I'm also not sure if it's supposed to be the same story. One of Clive's other stories is a more direct reference to the Basilisk games, though it's interesting to note he can't remember much of it. The world of Basilisk is also implied to have once existed in Lunacid's setting, based on the description of a weapon taken directly from Basilisk 2000. Another interesting thing about Basilisk is that there is no apparent lore for Bayagototh, a character Kira has been hiding information about in their games since Lost in Vivo. There is almost certainly some connection between Basilisk and the rest of Kira's games, but it’s not quite clear what it is at the moment.

6:12 I was curious about the text on the bottom of the disc, so on a lark I threw it in a caesar cipher solver and ended up with "SECRETS WITHIN / NOT HERE" Good one lol

I just learned about these games a few days ago, completed them, and was hoping someone had done a lore analysis but hardly any commentary about this game online. Great video! Hoping this game kicks off at some point and receives more exposure, great concept for a horror title with a wonderful execution.

Great deep dive here, Basilisk is a very unique and cool project and it was cool seeing all of this lore that might be difficult for a more casual fan to see in its entirety. Gotta say though I think it's just a *little* weird to create one of the programmer characters as apparently based off a real person Kira didn't get along with... and have them be the victim of a workplace shooting and even imply they kind of deserved it.

thank you for covering all the lore bits, love kiras stuff and loved your lunacid lore video too!!!!

Thanks for the vid man! I'm happy to see someone's make a deep review of that game

I feel like Cursed Knight Suscarius and his serpent men underlings in lunacid are also somewhat of a reference, as they all are stated to be under the curse of the serpent and, much like the cursed people in Basilisk 2000, have serpentine heads

This was so detailed, entertaining and concise. Good job!

Already seen Sagan Hawkes' video, wanting to see another viewpoint on this whole thing

I just finished these and have been obsessed. Didn't know about the alpha .smc converting to a .jpg yet -- that's a cool detail. I will say: I don't think the usage of the word "transients" is a literal reference to homeless people. I think it's referring to the developers brought in to work on the games (maybe specifically the Basilisk games, or maybe any of the games that might have been being made in that building during that time). I like the interpretation of the metaphor of the Basilisk being creative pursuit, the desire for perfection, entropy -- that it's chewing up and spitting out anyone who works on it. Figuratively and literally grafting parts of them to itself.

Greg’s darkness is high because that’s Akuma Kira’s real name

Solid video my dude... definitely got a sub from me. Looking forward to going thru your other videos. Keep it up broski.

This was awesome dude, great work.

Perhaps the basilisk in the basement was just a nightmare and the shooter was obsessed with the actual Basilisk game?

In Kira’s later game Lunacid the basilisk returns to give you a magic spell that kiIIs yourself after you stare at a corpse in a hidden room of one of the levels

I like to headcanon that the reason the serpent monsters only have 80% darkness is that while they are naturally evil, they do have the capacity for good.

On the red portion of the .smc file if you go to the top left, the text there is also ciphered latin it says "PDOHGLFWXV DE LQLWLR" which is MALEDICTUS AB INITIO which means CURSED FROM THE BEGINNING

kinda reminds a little of the "current" game lunacid. (edit->)well should have watched till the end. he mentioned lunacid. xD

Hey Doctor Dirck great video. Did you like that game Snafu, or not to much?

17:55 I think you're kinda missing the forest for the trees - it is a weapon, with 200 ATK. :)

Where do you find the command to switch day/night? Or do you just wait?