Hope: The other Side of Adventure - ENGLISH FULL GAME Playthrough - All Endings 

It's so dark "don't worry, we won't charge you. We just wanted to see if you cared about the princess enough" *my g o d*

"The duke will not be able to use what is embetween my legs" God, I feel terrible for her. If this line means what I think it does, just having reason to even think that thought is terrible and probably traumatizing. The story is amazing, but this is so dark and I don't know how this vanished off the internet for so long.

The scary part is when the princess implies that her mother went through the same trauma as her.

I think in a way, the sudden tonal dissonance of the happy ending represents how her story/trauma instantly goes back to being unimportant when the prince rescues her. His adventure of rescuing her narratively needs to finish with a happy ending and a triumphant embrace and ultimately her trauma and abuse have no room in his story's happy ending

I don't know why I love this so much as an SA survivor. It feels strangely validating to have a focus on the princess's perspective in a story like this. Even the "happy" ending is bittersweet, that really was the perfect ending to it.

I think the “good” ending was rlly misunderstood when the game was around. I believe the ending acting like nothing happened is really a play on how most of these tropes go, the knight assuming that everything was fine.

I think the happy ending is actually really interesting- there's this incredible tonal dissonance- it feels both like a loving apology from the creators for what they put her through, and also in a way, the impact of knowing that even the happiest ending wouldn't suddenly make it all ok for her.

“The wedding dress veil has served me well” Literally sent chills down my spine

The way she backs up when the prince comes up the steps, not sure who won, that got me.

Something ive noticed is that her voice when shes crying sounds older than the voice she talks/thinks in. It's like in her mind she is still a child

I feel weirdly... Comfortable listening no this. Hearing the princess narrating what she've been through, what she has been almost through is like receiving a hug, someone telling me "It's okay what you've been through, you must continue... Live instead of surviving." Her voice, the tone... It's so beautiful and warming.

Honestly, a lot of people say the good ending is underwhelming but, I genuinely think it’s suppose to be from the view of the prince the last few seconds (especially with the pixel art) as in the transition to her into pixel art she looses the dirt from her feet, the grime on her skin and so on. I think this purposely was suppose to be the princes view of “oh she’s ok! Nothing really too bad happened to her!! Because I saved her!!” Meanwhile the princess is going to have to live with what happened in that tower mentally and maybe silently

The whole game is so dark and depressing, then the prince comes in and it’s all goofy. I kinda love it😭

the song sang at the end is in the same tune as the sad song sang by the woman throughout the game, further adding to the theory that the prince was all in Elisa's head.

I'd want a sequel where the princess is saved but she has to live knowing the horrible things happened to her. Though she's back to her blissful old life, everything is different due to that traumatic experience. For the rest of the game you have mostly pixle parts(because her life is "better" now) but it still has what's going on in her head. I just thought that would be interesting.

I feel bad whoever played this as a kid, must've been confusing and traumatizing...

idk why no one pointed it out, but the room turns smaller and more warped as time goes on.

We’re all here from Izzy’s video aren’t we?

It's amazing how so many kids downloaded this not realizing it's darker than they thought.

Omg izzyzzs video triggered memories I had completely forgotten about playing this. I remember at the time I was writing some pretty cringe worthy edgey teen poetry (probably best left forgotten) and in my head I would use the princess's voice. Thanks for posting this.

All I can say is damn. I am so glad I am discovering this now, and not 5 years ago. This would have totally broke my sensitive self back then. This game is beautifully haunting to say the least. I love how it shows the realistic reality of the princess. In other games, we usually play as the prince with all the adventure and glory to behold. But this is something amazingly odd. The art style of this game makes this 10x more creepy and I love that. I'm glad this masterpiece was found. There isn't many games like this.

1. Thanks so much for your contribution towards preserving this game! I’m so glad there’s footage available! 2. Holy shit the music when the dragon appears in the intro is an absolute BOP

Imagine an ending where he brain convinced her her prince saved her but you can see she’s hallucinating and it’s the duke ready to marry her

I really love this game, it really speaks to me as a CSA survivor stuck in an abusive household. Thank you for the playthrough

this deserves a sequel or a remake

Watching this has really got me thinking about how giving up can seem so simple, but that recovery never looks like recovery. When I was younger, I was abused pretty badly. I coped in a lot of similar ways to the princess. It wasn't good. In one ending, she gives up. It gets her out of the situation, but it also means she's dead. In the other, she's just immediately better? Which makes no sense until you realize it's from the dude's POV. To him, she did get better immediately because everything we've been hearing her say has been in her head. He can't see how dark it gets, he expecting his rescue to save her and while it did keep her alive, it was too late to truly get her back. She will never be the same, but he doesn't know that.

Thanks Izzy. Never heard of this one, so it was interesting learning about it.

I liked the sad ending personally...there's enough happy endings of princesses sitting around waiting to be saved by their prince. She rescued herself only way she could, with no fear, just bravery. obviously I'm not pro suicide but as this is a game, I felt the sad ending more realistic...

Holy. Fuck. When Izzyzz said this was dark I knew it would be kinda dark but WOW…

This game is so disturbing. Having control yet not being able to do anything with it is so eerily scary.

The freakin video game noises at the final boss destroyed me lmao

I think the ending would be better if the princess started crying and saying stuff such as “i was starting to lose my mind” or “I thought you’d never come” while the prince just held and comforted her, maybe even show the princess believing that her mind was playing tricks on her until the prince somehow managed to convince her he was real, and only after she started to feel better they would slowly make their way down the tower, the prince just carrying the princess, happy that he got to her but worried because of her condition. It would be good if they added some dialogue like the prince telling the princess to keep her eyes closed or something due to all the corpses left after he burst into the tower, or him asking her what they did to her, etc. Extra points if the prince actually has a brain and understand how awful it must’ve been for her. And then after the “going down the tower” sequence roll a image of them out of the tower, just looking at the sunset or smt, maybe a little dialogue from the princess here as well? (Maybe I could make a narrative version of this :^) But I think the ending was still ok, if I were playing from the prince’s perspective it would make total sense and i guess that was the whole point lol the devs clearly knew what they where doing

Jesus Christ thank god I wasn’t scarred by this as a kid

Honestly the good ending was a bit underwhelming honestly I did like the music tho. which makes me think the bad ending is actually the true ending which would make sense knowing the whole tone of the game.

I remember playing this game when I was around 7, I also remember being terrified after getting the bad ending.

Is it just me, or does the princess remind anyone else of Princess Peach? That’s even what I thought about throughout the story. Maybe this is the other side of what was happening in all the Mario games

I think the message might be about how much we tend to dwell on our own shortcomings, which is what most of the game is. Most if not all of the dialogue is the princess explaining how miserable she is, and her descend into madness. Every other part of the game, the happy parts specifically, or the ones told through the more enjoyable life of the knight, is in a pixel art style. Obviously this change of art style is a metaphor for the story becoming complex or in more literal words, three dimensional. OR it could be about how the perspective of women is not usually told in stories, and how much worse they are treated. idek

funny how the good ending is YEPEE YEY WE RESCUED THE GIRL and the bad ending is mortifying

The ending theme is very reminiscent to the ending theme, "Girl in the Tower" from King's Quest VI

Ngl, it’s kinda funny that you just hear video game noises as the knight beats the duke- that’s so dumb- pftt!

Never have words touched me like this before. This story is so good

oh my god i only found out about this recently but i’m obsessed with it- how dark and grim it is- the paying fakeout

Honestly I think this would have been a better game if you could do something other than sigh, like try to pick the lock during the voice over.

the way this game uses guilt tripping reminds me of a roblox game, i think it was flowers for the moon or something? basically, i've been seeing a part of the game on tiktok where a patient is laying, hopeless in a bed, saying "please don't leave me here". i think the princess displays something like that, but definitely way darker. you feel bad for her and want to keep her company for as long as possible, and check in on her everyday. you slowly watch her become more and more depressed, like a banana going bad. her life transforms into a gloomy, rotten atmosphere in seconds. wow. that would really make me want to stay.

The Knight got the minecraft walk tho.

There was a big emphasis in Izzy's video about the game charging people for continues. You mean to tell me it doesn't actually cost money? Lol

This is incredibly fucked up

So this is the second piece of horrifying lost media I've been searching for like 2 weeks

I like how they go back to being pixels after prince saves the princess. For me, this shows everything going back to being "simple" if you get what i mean

18:40 in this scene, you can see that she has many bruises or injuries. I think the duke abused her and hit her. In 19:24, she says, “Atleast they have covered the areas that the duke has darkened”, meaning that he has abused her. In 21:30 , there is a clear shot of more blood on her dress and her face.

I'm here from izzzyzzz's vid too (tho a few months late). I thought I'd enjoy this but actually I think I get why the reviews seemed to be so mixed. It's a good game for sure, I really love the sound and voice acting for the princess (princess' spoken dialogue is a lot less awkward sounding than the text which helps), but it also feels a little like it's commodifying the suffering of women, y'know? Like, it lowkey feels like the dev just made this bc "oooh edgy idea, critics are gonna love this", which leaves a bad taste in my mouth bc of how serious the topic of the game is and how much it mirrors actual women suffering irl. Also there's the fact that the entire thing is so frustrating and depressing to watch as a woman that even if it's a few minutes long it'd ruin my day, and I'd hate actually "playing" everyday for a week. (Endings were fine though, I think they achieved the goal of showing how ridiculous the prince's fun adventure actually is compared to the more psychologically horrifying princess' suffering.)

Why is the good ending so offputting?

My take: her father died and the duke took over the kingdome the prince.might be loyal to the father but was probably killed

heck, I didn't think it was THIS dark..

Well this is dark

The hands creepy me out

Okay, I have a theory. She was most likely kidnapped as a child, as i'm pretty sure on day 5 or 6 she says something around the words of "What if this was my life all along?". Again not sure if she did say something along the lines of that but if so she's slowly realizing the truth of her life. The duke kidnapped her at a young age ex. when she was born (Like Rapunzel) and was SA her and she began to refuse when she began getting her period causing her to get beat. Consider the fact to support this when she says "The duke will not be able to use what is in between my legs". Another thing that might be something for how she was kidnapped as a very young child is the voices in the background, singing. It could be her mother singing a lullaby. I'm done!

I feel bad for the princess like she had to go through all of that being kidnap, imprisoned and getting r**** I feel bad...no one should go through that..

Oddly enough, I really love this deep and depressing story. Really does give us a good insight to the other side of the whole damsel in destress trope. That paywall joke is just cruel though. I assume that's the main reason it got removed from app stores. That and the fact that the bad ending likely scared many people especially children.

Who's here from izzzyzz video?

*The defining silence after the princess takes her life* 8!

Eesh,my stomach doesnt like this,this is really sad and depressing..poor Elisa

Would have liked to see more mixed feelings in her monologue instead of just pure full blown depression, like hopeful in the first few days, her pride as a princess or as a woman, revenge thoughts towards the duke, or her attachments towards her family or the knight, worrying about their wellbeing. All and all feels super unreal to me

WHY DID I START CRYING WHEN THE BAD ENDING HAPPENED

Its werid i didnt come from izzyzzs i came from Laurenzside and she didnt even make a video about this i just remembered this when i was watching one of her cute looking games but actually scary series

The game as a whole seeks to conrast the bombast of a knight's adventure to the horrible reality of the captive princess, and the "good" end can be interpreted as the erasure of the princess's suffering for the sake of the knight's victory. However, I wish the good ending had explored this phenomenon from the princess's perspective. She might reflect on how the hero's arrival and their homecoming will be the glorious final scene of the tales told of her daring rescue, and no one will write about the long days she lay bedridden from the physical and mental trauma or the nights where dreams of her ordeal caused her to wake screaming and crying. Actually, what I really wish is that the knight could carry her home, stay by her side as she heals her wounds, and help her face her demons. But then, that really would be a fairy tale.

Holy moly the so called “happy ending” seems so, I don’t know how to say thins in words somewhat unfinished. Not in a literal since but I think you get what I mean

30:00 Princess: What's Going On??? Holy Shiz!-Super Mario Noises!

Some of the lines make me think she wasn’t just kidnapped…

this is a big "Oh Man" moment for sure.

I have never heard of this piece of lost media before this is quite interesting to me

Why did I play this as a child, I was only like 6 😭

I did not expect this game to have a sf2 reference

I don’t think she was actually SA’d, but I think she was planning to be though (By the duke) , because at 23:11, she starts off with “If I finally make a decision tonight” which means she killed hersef before it could happen but I could be wrong

Geez i really didnt think this would be that dark, but it really is-

WOAH! Thanks for the playthrough!

Came here after a video of Izzzyzzz, I’m really curious !

Someone should make a fan game like this like some kind of Uprgraded Remake.

Seems pretty interesting. I might get into this one day.

Who's here from the izzy girl's search for the game?? I wanted to know if the princess commited or not (havent watched vid yet btw)

Jeez. That was so sad

oh my god. this is horrifying.

BRO I ALMOST CRIED AT THE END ISTG IMAGINE THE RELEIF OF THIS GIRL

Hmm yes lore moment of hope: the other side of adventure

aw im so happy for her

6:01 is that a sonic reference? 💀

OMG THE HAPPY ENDING😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I Hope the princess doesn’t have to go through that again

i cant belive this was an unknown game

will this actually harm my device??

"Pay 1.99-" Me, with tears in my eyes: "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!"

Wow. What a game!

who came from izzyzz

So in the bad ending the princess commits suicide and in the good ending the knight saves the princess?

Who else came from Izzy's vid?

Who else thought the princess was princess peach from mario

I’m not crying you are

Hey I really need help. The apks aren't working and I've tried them all. I have an android A32.

Man this its really depressing

I THOUGHT THIS WAS A FEVER DREAM BUT I FINALLY FOUND IY

This is uhh really dark