Chi - Play With A Dog, Give Blood & Nothing Bad Happens, Don't Break The Rules... 

Welcome to the Comfy Times Club, how Comfy Times are ya?

"This is the only village left" "We just got a shipment of markers from the outside" Everything is definitely fine and nobody is lying.

Fun fact: the white room Chi was in was a form of psychological torture where the victim is deprived of of their identity and their senses are numbed, and is unable to recognize people they know. Not sure why her father did that when the results benefit the virus

I decided to suffer and translated all the binary dialogue since I was curious what the villagers were saying, so here they are with the timestamps; 1:04:59 "My mother found out the truth. We were all either born here, or had our memories tampered with and were "spirited away" from the real world. I miss her." 1:05:42 "Dying is scary, but heaven is nice. Part of me was sad to have my soul put back in this body." 1:05:52 "I wish I could have raised my children to adulthood." 1:06:03 "Chi took our souls and put them into these drawings of us. I think she was lonely." 1:06:21 "I never got to be a grandmother, or even get married. I wish I did have that opportunity. I loved the kids of this village like they were my own. This place was a tragedy." 1:07:30 "We don't need to eat we don't, but Chi ensures we only have delicious food to eat, like salmon, mochi, and red snapper." 1:07:51 "Nobody is mad at nobody anymore. Dying cleanses you of sin, cleanses you of illness and everything bad..." (this one was a bit broken when I translated it but I took a guess what it meant. I probably did it wrong but I am not bothered to do it again.) 1:08:10 "Being in this form, none of us feel the effects of the virus. Before, we thought the village was a paradise. Now it actually is." 1:08:47 "There's no fixing the past. I can only hope the future will be filled with more kindness." 1:08:57 "I think I would have been a bad mother. Still, I'm happy to be with my husband." 1:09:55 "Those who kill suffer, often in this life and may come to a terrible end. After this life the karma of their ruthless deeds will for long force them into states of woe. Should such destroyers of life be born in prosperous families with beauty and strength and other happy bodily attributes, still their karma will dog them to an early grave." 1:10:31 "When I was growing up, I wanted to be a mom more than anything. My mom wasn't kind, so I wanted to be better. I'm sorry that I ended up being an even worse parent than she was." 1:10:53 "I wasn't a good brother. If I had the opportunity to do it again, I would have played more with my sisters." 1:11:11 "I never wanted to partake in this suffering. I just wanted to go to Tokyo and make cute clothes. I'm sorry I failed all of you."

So are we just gonna ignore how the father can't see through the cage and HAD TO STEP INSIDE IT to see if she was around where the blood stain was? XD

Binary: Makoto: My mother found out the truth. We were all either born here, or had our memories tampered with and were "spirited away" from the real world. I miss her. Takuya: Dying is scary, but heaven is nice. Part of me was sad to have my soul put back in this body. Mayumi: I wish I could have raised my children to adulthood. Osamu: Chi took our souls and put them into these drawings of us. I think she was lonely. Shopkeeper Setsuko: I never got to be a grandmother, or even get married, I wish I did have that opportunity. I loved the kids of this village like they were my own. This place was a tragedy. Old Man Sakiyama: We don't need to eat we don't, but Chi ensures we only have delicious food to eat, like salmon, mochi, and red snapper. Old Lady Sakiyama: Nobody is mad each otNobody is mad each otNobody more. Dying cleans you of sin, cleanses you of illness, cleanses you of anything bad... Kumiko: Being in this form, none of us feel the effects of the virus. Before, we thought the village was a paradise. Now it actually is. Manabu: There's no fixing the past. I can only hope the future will be filled with more kindness. Youko: I think I would have been a bad mother. Still, I'm happy to be with my husband. Mitsuru: Those who kill suffer often in this life and may come to a terrible end. After this life the karma of their ruthless deeds will for long force them into states of woe. Should such a destroyers of life be born in prosperous families with beauty and strength and other happy bodily attributes, still their karma will dog them to an early grave. Mama: When I was growing up, I wanted to be a mom more than anything. My mom wasn't kind, so I wanted to be better. I'm sorry that I ended up being an even worse parent than she was. Kohaku: I wasn't a good brother. If I had the opportunity to do it again, I would have played more with my sisters. Akane: I never wanted to partake in this suffering. I just wanted to go to Tokyo and make cute clothes. I'm sorry I failed all of you.

Ngl the whole “everything belong to the MC family” is really have me very uncomfortable before any horror even started

1:06:21 The poor shopkeeper talks about how she never got to be a grandmother, mother, or even get married and that she wished she had that opportunity. She also talks about how she loved the kids of the village as if they were her own and called it a tragedy. T-T :'((((

i like how he literally said *good morning, disappointment* and predicting what chi would become in the future gameplay

I love how the crayon world doesnt have the blood tests

I was kinda hoping the reason the father didn’t want them going through the woods was because there was a highway like a couple meters away that would disprove the whole “everyone’s dead” thing

Binary: *People being distraught about dying and then being put in a drawing* Manly: Yes, I also like this anime!

It's sad when the light in her eyes disappears as she goes hopeless throughout the game. Even worse when she starts to live in her own fairytale where everyone is happy. What a tormented soul.

I went in here fully expecting this to be about the dog. I didn't expect quantum mechanics. And I definitely didn't expect Yoshi to be pregnant

"Good morning papa!" "Good morning disappointment." Ok that was just douchey XD

Chi: *Decides to not eat her dog* Virus: DISTGUSTANG

Plays as Chi and kills four people not minding it at all. Also: "I'm still hoping the dog is still alive somehow"

You know the story is going somewhere whenever Manly says "Bark"

Chi : "im to little" Virus : "Go aim for the nico nico KNEECAPS"

Once I saw the old guy call her “Chi-sama” it sounded like a cult

Not gonna lie, the mc being the oblivious child of a cult leader is actually kind of interesting.

It seems like no one else has talked about the white room yet, so I'll talk about it. It's interesting that once she arrives here is when the voice purposefully leaves, and I'm not sure if the dev noticed or not but this was such a great way to showcase her descend to insanity. The white room wouldn't only gain sensory deprivation but the neglect the only person Chi could have was a thoughtful touch to enhance a child's torture. The white room is the exact opposite of a child too, it's just one, plain single color with such mundane things to be in there, in which a child has to stay in for even just a week, it'll be such torture, as a child doesn't have the normal patience an adult would have, and adding the false hope the voice gave her added to it. Adding the desperation was a nice touch. This commentary also felt weird to type, since I'm talking about a child's torture. Thank you, game, that you made me appreciate how you tortured a fictional child.

My guess is that after you broke the rules, your father and mother tried to make it seem like you never existed. When everyone started asking questions they killed everyone.

Chi: "Sounds stupid" Osamu: "And that's why they all died." Me, who lives in America: 👁️👄👁️💧

Oh boy, this Resident Evil: Village update was unexpected!

Translation for Mitsuru at the end: "Those who kill suffer often in this life and may come to a terrible end. After this life the karma of their ruthless deeds will for long force them into states of woe. Should such destroyers of life be born in prosperous families with beauty and strength and other happy bodily attributes, still their karma will dog them to an early grave."

Imagine going through this just because your dog ran away. Bruh

15:27 "You stare through the gaps, much like you do everyday." Chi: *proceeds to stare aggressively*

I got a lil curious as to what the Makoto person was saying, so I put it into a binary conversion and got something like this: My mother found out the truth. We were all either born here, or had our memories tampered with and were "spirited away" from the real world. I miss her. Edit: Holy crap, thanks everyone for the likes.

It's all fun and games till the dog starts asking for blood sacrifices

"Before everyone in the outside world died" WELL IF THAT ISN'T A PRETTY HEAVY ANVIL TO DROP MR. NPC.

"I'm just gonna leave, see you later" *[Walks straight into the cage]* Ah yes, the Manly Badass Technique.

31:30 Ah, the White Room. It's supposedly a torture method that's supposed to mess with your senses to an obnoxious degree- everything within it is white from the floor, clothes, walls, etc. with the idea to it making you go insane.

Ngl the expressions in this are all hilarious LOL. Its like they took some expressions from Higurashi but exaggerate them to eleven

“Good morning, pa” “Good morning, disappointment.” Okay, but what if he actually said that.

"the whole room smells like bleach" omori whitespace gone wrong

WAIT WHAT OH MY GOSH THIS IS MY GAME!!! THANK YOU FOR PLAYING IT MANLY!!!! EDIT: SPOILERS!! Just to answer some stuff: 1) YES I plan on making more games!! A lot more games. It just will take time since it’s just me working on them. 2) There is only one ending. If you say no, you'll be forced to go into the woods anyway. 3) Manly missed some things!! The text in Chi’s house is mostly different afterwards, there’s some random events, some secret areas, and her father is out behind her house in the marker world since her perfect world won’t be complete without her papa, but she doesn’t totally forgive him. 4) Lastly, my sister is gonna do a let’s play of Chi that I plan on uploading. I’m just editing it now!! So, some of these things will be solved when she plays, if you wanna watch. EDIT2: holyheck300kpeopleknowaboutmygame Anyhow!! Another quick couple of answers! 1) The binary DOES translate into things! People have kindly translated it in the comments. 2) The face that appears at around 6:50 is a randomly occurring event, with 1/200 chance of happening. It's supposed to be a hint towards this town being "wrong," as in it's not real. The idea is that the the village "glitched" for a moment. There's a couple of other instances of the village "glitching."

Unit 731 is real, and if you want to search and learn more about it, you should prepare yourself because you will see many horrible things, and you might get angry about how members of the unit were allowed to go free and were granted immunity.

I remember 'The Great Howdy Plague'. I miss everyone.

All I've learned from this is that short people are scary because they aim for the knees

For people wondering what happens if you don't want to go after Mitsuru into the forest: - If you try to go anywhere else or interact with anything, you're reminded of your dog. - If you go to the entryway and the virus warns you about consequences and try not to go, you're told you have no choice.

Interesting little thing I like about the title screen, the kanji behind Chi is 血/chi . Meaning blood.

As the horror elements start to pick up, I can't stop thinking "Is this literally just Higurashi?" the whole time. Then they started doing the cross-eyed manical laughs.

I was gonna say something like "The illust work and portraits are not their strong suit." But ya know what, It adds to the unsettling nature of things. Looking at their art, it's weird how great, yet conventionally bad, it is. Like, it shares so many traits with that style everyone gets when they are just starting and try to draw "anime" especially in the anatomy, my god the anatomy is off. BUT IT'S STILL REALLY GOOD. Particularly their skill at coloring and composition I think. It's like they started where almost everyone else starts, and instead of turning a different direction like everyone, they said "No, THIS is my style" and good on them, they really made it work. It's like they combined anime with a porcelain doll and a Bratz doll.

Idk, to me the torture sections felt more like torture porn than anything. The shock value of the horror hinging almost solely on the blatant torture of a 6 yr old girl is less scary and more infuriating/depressing. The overly aggressive demon talking to her makes it even less engaging emotionally as there's nothing to do but sit through torture after torture while waiting out the clock. There's no proper build up and the quick time events make the scenes less impactful as you're more focused on hitting the right buttons. Sometimes less is more, and I think the torture scenes could've benefited from showing less but using sounds and narrative to build up tension.

Everybody gangsta until this face 👁👄👁 becomes your face.

Fun fact: The trigger for the face transition early in the video... when you hit the trigger to enter the room where Manly saw it you notice the change. If you're going to do this make the character face up or AFTER transitions. It makes it less obvious and in turn more shocking when you see it. To be fair though we have all likely made that mistake as we were learning this kind of thing.

MBH: "I'm not going in there, I am just going just leave....see you later. Oh damn, I just went into the cage..." F*@$ing PRICELESS! lol

Expected this to be a game about the dog manipulating Chi to do something she didn’t want, and then turning into the demon thing. Well I guess I wasn't completely off but I definitely did not expect the route it took, did enjoy it though.

god that realistic face scared the shit out of me, and it was random chance too i love it when people put realistic features on cartoony faces

Five minutes in, and this game is like audiovisual sandpaper

Starts as a cult plot then turns into torture porn then out of literally nowhere we have quantum physics AND magic with a bunch of random characters.. this is why writers have to restrain themselves E: and then it ends with a military experiment conspiracy or something cause there wasn't enough going on

"good morning, disappointment" I thought he was talking to me

You know, I expected dark but this just kept on going. That got so much worse than I was expecting. The opening had this strange feel to it, but I still wasn't prepared for the sheer misery Chi would go through. The last third of the game is more or less setting up a sequel if not a series outright, and I am curious what's really going on here.

And we wrap on a valuable lesson we should all know: DO NOT PLAY IN OLD SHEDS. Best case scenario, you step on a rusty nail and have an annoyed nurse scrape/mangle your foot. Worst case, you lose your eyes and probably have your soul crammed into a paper doll in another dimension. Seriously though, I'd really like to see more of this. So many questions and I really enjoyed the subversion of everything I expected.

“Your dad works at Nintendo?!” You mean your- *Uncle*

"I have Looney Tunes-ed myself" is a great expression. Also I was expecting _maybe_ dogs becoming monsters and a Cult, but not **this*???*

Some binary translations since I was interested in what they were saying in the last half hour: Makoto: "My mother found out the truth. We were all either born here, or had our memories tampered with and were "spirited away" from the real world. I miss her." Takuya: "Dying is scary, but heaven is nice. Part of me was sad to have my soul put back in this body." Mayumi: "I wish I could have raised my children to adulthood." Osamu: "Chi took our souls and put them into these drawings of us. I think she was lonely." Shopkeeper Setsuko: "I never got to be a grandmother, or even get married. I wish I did have that opportunity. I loved the kids of this village like they were my own. This place was a tragedy." Old Man Sakiyama: "We don't need to eat We don'k, but Chi ensures we only have delicious food to eat, like salmon, mochi, and red snapper" [typo in game text] Old Lady Sakiyama: "Nobody is mad each ot(her) Nobody (any)more. Dying cleanses you of sin, cleanses you of illness, cleanses you of anything bad" [typo in game text]] Kumiko: "Being in this form, none of us feel the effects of the virus. Before, we thought the village was a paradis(e)" Manabu: "There's no fixing the past. I can only hope the future will be filled with more kindness." Youko: "I think I would have been a bad mother. Still, I'm happy to be with my husband." Mitsuru: "Those who kill suffer often in this life and may come to a terrible end. After this life the karma of their ruthless deeds will for long force them into states of woe. Should such destroyers of life be born in prosperous families with beauty and strength and other happy bodily attributes, still their karma will dog them to an early grave" Mama: When I was growing up, I wanted to be a mom more than anything. My mom wasn't kind, so I wanted to be better. I'm sorry that I ended up being an even worse parent than she was. Kohaku: I wasn't a good brother. If I had the opportunity to do it again, I would have played more with my sisters. Akane: I never wanted to partake in this suffering. I just wanted to go to Tokyo and make cute clothes. I'm sorry I failed all of you. Edit: Not all translated by me, thanks to Tyler Kowaleski, Cytyzent, and Karmotrine for the rest. I tried to fix typos by adding stuff in parentheses, but otherwise directly translated

The shop keep got a shipment of markers from outside, yet everyone outside the village is dead? Yknow, I think maybe not everyone outside the village is dead. Just a theory, though.

Good ending: you didn’t go into the forest, papa saved your dog, and The shopkeeper didn’t get the sickness

"Good morning Disappointment- I mean Chi, please take a seat." It makes me laugh every time.

The story ended up being a lot more complicated than I expected... Whoever translates all that binary will be a hero Music is fantastic, especially in the late game where it's all dissonant

I was half expecting the village to be a mix between a cult and a human blood farm, that could have provided enough horror of its own; the bits where everyone was going "everything is yours anyway Chi! Take everything I have! Kill my family and eat my last bread crumbs, we live to serve!" and Chi was just like "nah but gimme markers" was REALLY unsettling in how banal all the little interactions were I kinda dig the premise I thought up, but I also like what the game turned out to be. It's unique, if a bit over the top at times (the expressions remind me of higurashi lol), and the dialogue sometimes sounds stilted (when the grandma started talking about the cat in the box I found it truly hilarious how she started dropping jargon randomly, but that's just my weird sense of humor) I really like the stretched faces, and the janky walking animation (one leg stays still, the other flexes), it's uncanny

This seems to had been a pretty well put together game. the end was disappointing, especially with how Chi was basically being taught to just kill everyone. i knew something was wrong when there seemingly wasn't any locations to acquire food, not even a riven that could theoretically have fish.

Wow that went from kinda wierd to hella disturbing real fast

I'm really curious what happens if you say you won't go into the forest, then go home

I thought the dog would be the evil thing.. like if you didn’t feed it blood it would turn slowly into something of a monster, or if you did it would turn into a monster while drinking the blood and then turn back to normal LOL.

i love how when he reads chi's dialogue he sounds so gentle, then mitsuru is just "B A R K"

i wanted to know what the family was saying bc i thought it was way more interesting than the towns people. I would say i wanted to know about the fathers input but I wouldn't want to manifest him either since he's the start of her trama. This game is will certain stay in my mind for a bit :0 Mama: "When I was growing up, I wanted to be a mom more than anything. My mom wasn't kind, so I wanted to be better. I'm sorry that I ended up being an even worse parent than she was." Kahaku: "I wasn't a good brother. If I had the opportunity to do it again, I would have played more with my sisters." Akane: "I never wanted to partake in this suffering. I just wanted to go to Tokyo and make cute clothes. I'm sorry I failed all of you."

This was a really interesting game, it went in a direction I really didn't expect. I agree that it would've been interesting to have more padding in the beginning and end, especially the end as I really liked the new characters that were introduced, but I didn't really feel we got enough of their backstory. Overall I really liked it, it was a fun, intriguing game and I felt like it was inspired by other stories but still brought something very fun and unique to the table.

I think this game could've used a few more editing passes through. It had a lot of really good moments, but so much of the dialogue just felt painfully cheesy. Some of it in a nostalgic way, some of it in a way that really detracted from the experience. *Especially* the documents at the end, they just didn't read like real official documents.

“Before everyone in the outside world died” Oh fun, a cult!

ち chi in japanese means blood, so i already think is not going to be a cute game lmao

I like your new dog, Manly. Surely nothing bad will happen.

Very clever, the way the game is self aware and making a story around how you play rpg maker games (detailed description about objects and multiple things like a third person narrator) is quite good and original on its own way.

for those that didn’t get the village name reference, this village is called “犬鳴”, one of the most famous urban legends in Japan, I believe it’s called “The Howling Village”, there’s a whole movie on it too!

This makes me think of those weird flash games you’d find in the early 2000s

12:03 World: “You’ve yee’d your last haw.”

gotta love the lil' secret at the end. For those who don't know, unit 731 was a military unit created in 1933 by the Imperial Japanese Army, it was a covert biological and chemical warfare R&D that undertook lethal human experimentation from 1937 to 1945 it is also responsible for the most notorious warcrime imperial japan made.

I refuse to believe howdy killed us off, I choose to believe m'lady killed us all off

while I haven't translated it fully, the red screen at 39:06 is talking about Unit 731. Unit 731 was a japanese testing facility during WW2. they test and produced biological weapons (like if you put the plague into a bomb, simplest example) and brutally tested on prisoners. prisoners consisted of captured soldiers and homeless people on the streets (if i'm correct). i haven't watched through the entire video yet but I wonder if that has to do with anything? edit, just finished video: oh. *that's why it was mentioned.* anywho, it's possible that the red screen are the documents in the credits but in binary form. i'll continue to translate and see if anything else pops up.

I thought this was a game about a dog 😭 I feel misled.. Fantastic game all around. It would be cool to see another. Possibly with more dog. Wonder what happens if you don't go into the forest 🤔

me: plays this game my fnf skills : Now this looks like a job for me-

if the [redacted] hadnt tortured her, the sickness wouldnt have gotten so bad inthe first place

Honestly the sad part is that the part that scared me the most was legit just the blood withdrawal scene

I don't know why, but I like this game, a bit SCP, a character that's stuck in a time loop where the world ends where everyone kills each other, and a some sort of a more magicy M.I.B.

“Hello disappointment- I mean chi” Father of the year reward

WHAT UP, I'M CHI, I'M 6 YEARS OLD AND I NEVER LEARNT HOW TO READ

spoilers under, this is a really cool game my first red alert (past all the obvious cultish things) was when the "narrator" text warned Chi not to go into the forest. my second was when she woke up in the cell. my third was the first torture, and at that point i expected the rest of the game to be that kind of "Break the Cutie" genre, and from then on i was just on a rollercoaster ride. the "virus" double-meaning only actually hit me after The Granny and the others started explaining _quantum mechanics_ and they walked into a crayon world... that Chi could _absolutely_ have made with MS Paint on the computer, given that she likes to draw (i think that's my favorite detail). I only wish I'd remembered what Unit 731 was when the documents came up, dear _god._ And it's the dev's first game? RAD. Definitely looking forward to anything they make in the future with active excitement.

Takuva (Purple haired child): "Dying is scary, but heaven is nice. Part of me was sad to have my soul put back in this body."

You can already tell something is up because you'll notice that almost NOBODY else in town has the shine in their eyes, just like how Chi loses her eye shine once she breaks

It really makes me happy to know that Manly is also a Higurashi fan.

If you can pet the dog then the game is automatically the greatest

My absolute favorite part of this is the game punishing you _twice_ for talking to the paper dog 🤣

56:40 Good to see her toe grew back.

This game was all over the place, and having walls of text to explain it all in the end felt like a copout. And yet I still don't get all that happened. Hopefully the devs will create more cohesive games in the future.

What if chi didnt follow the dog when it ran off to forest tho?

Small thing but I live when game narrators have their own slight personality like at 1:50

I just love how when the dog talks mbh just goes “ *b a r k* “

I love the fact that you give advice to these indie game devs, it's much appreciated coming from a consumer! I might make a good game thanks to that. Thanks! Also thanks to the devs of chi, they gave you a reason to talk about that stuff after all!