Horror Game Where This Mom Asks If You'll Be Her Kid hey - The Wailing of the Forest ALL 4 ENDINGS 

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Hey cool, soon as I heard her crying I knew this was a game about La Llorona, a cautionary tale about the spirit of a woman who drowned her children in a jealous rage and seeks new replacement kids (to drown). Parents sometimes tell their kids in Hispanic cultures not to go near rivers or La Llorona will get them... the real aim is just to keep kids away from the danger of drowning.

The fact that the dialogue has its own screen entirely adds on to the horror… because WHO KNOWS if the person you’re talking to is gonna move when it cuts back?

Alternative title: Politely kidnapping a child I found in the woods

The way she instantly stops crying and slowly looks at you when you first approached her was genuinely terrifying.

"When I said I want goth mommy I didn't mean it this way." "Beggars can't be choosers." "Touché."

Some would say this game is nonsense, but the way the mother talks reminds me of an abusive family member. When someone is manipulating a child, they will hurt them, and insist that they know best for the child. The child, not knowing better, will trust the relative. But as the child grows older, and the relative grows more confident in their abuse, the relationship becomes strained. That is when the abuser begs them to stay but the child knows better by now.

The ghost woman is actually pretty unsettling looking. I think the grainy filter over the whole think makes her even more unsettling. Another good example of how less is more when it comes to horror.

I think Manly missed the proper way of winning. Walk backwards looking up or down. One sign says "don't turn your back and don't stare at her too long" Another says "face the rain or soil"

"Wow, 1826 was kinda.. black and white." Dude, when I was little, I thought color was something somebody invented. Because all the photos were black and white, i thought the world was just monochrome back then; I was like "I wonder who decided to make trees green?" I even asked my grandma what it was like living without color in the world lol. I was the dumbest little shit.

OH FRICK I just realised the farmer was standing there repeating the same thing with an emphasis on midnight because, when we crossed the bridge, we were afflicted with the curse, and trapped his soul in the curse loop, too... that's why his body was on the ground... that's why we keep coming back after drowning, same as the woman. Poor guy

I think you were supposed to walk backwards while looking up or down, that way you don't turn your back to her and you 'face the rain or face the soil'.

15:51 "You could have stayed by my side." Me, "You could've not drowned me repeatedly, but here we are."

The moment I heard "she drowned her children" I knew this was a game about La Llarona, so cool to see her have a game!

I feel stupid that this ghost model genuinely makes me uncomfortable out of every horror game. I can’t explain it but she looks so uncanny.

That was an excellent horror. Yeah, there's no final death, but that added to the creepiness, especially since it implied she'd follow you throughout Time itself. It played with meta subtly and even at its base, its aesthetic, voice-acting, sound direction... it was a "cozy" yet haunting horror.

"Face the rain or face the soil", "Don't stare for too long, don't turn your back to her", while Manly completely rejects the idea of doing so. That felt... so weird. The game even starts you facing downwards at the midnight part. And when he faced far enough upwards she stopped in her track.

Ahh yes becoming the child of the woman who totally won’t drown you as she did her own seems like a wonderful idea

I've always wanted to write a story/game where the secret ending is the protagonist offers to visit the spirit and they become friends, healing each other's trauma in the process 😭

Ah! Nice to see La Llorona get a game! La Llorona is a Mexican folklore story about a woman who drowned her children in a river. There's different variations of it, but they all have the same points that she drowned her children, and now wanders around rivers looking for them. You can hear her crying out 'Ay mis hijos! (My children!)

"Be my child" "I can just make you a new one"

The lore of this creature and it's name varies form place to place, for example, my grandpa told me about "la silampa", and indigenous beautiful young lady that was seduced by a Spanish inquisitor in the 16th century. He told her he was the son of the king and he needed to return to Spain, but he was gonna come back and when he did, he was gonna marry her, but before going, he needed a proof of her love, so he got her pregnant. Since she was pregnant and not married, it was A big deal, so she drowned the kids in a desperated attempt to "keep her innocence". He never returned and the lady started crying for her children forever. My gf grandparents told her another type of origin since they are from a different province from the one i was born. They tell the tale of "La llorona" a woman wo had 2 children, but was busy partying and whoring arrond. One night, her husband left and told her to take care of the children because he was "going for milk", he was sick of her and was trying to taught her a lesson. Nevertheless, she was holding until she couldn't and at midnight she stopped taking care of her children and went partying "for just some minutes", when she remembered her children at 4 AM, it was a little too late, they were both dead. She started crying, forever, then, she carried the children to a nearby river, she drowned them, and kept on crying forever It wold be interesting to her the other types of origins she has, because she indeed has a lot, but almost all of those stories have the same ending.

If I couldn't find my "child" I'd feel dorcelessness too

"dont stare at her for too long" "Don't turn your back to her" Crab walk while not maintaining direct eye contact, ez

This seems so interesting, honestly. I love the way it looks and the subtitles are the ones they used when they didn’t have audio in movies/shows! Just a neat lil feature.

I can't get enough of these kinds of spooky faces, something about how they boil down human features to their most simple aspects strikes a primal fear into my heart. also im begging for the part where you tell her the kid is further down to be a refence to bongcheon-dong ghost, i havent seen that mentioned in ages its a classic

"Where is he?" "Further down" Wait this feels familiar. "IT'S NOT HEEEEERREEEEEE" *PTSD BongCheon-Dong Flashbacks*

when talking to her, I was waiting for her face to be real close to the screen after one of those text boxes.

Bros voice is majestic

Literally every horror game that takes place in a forest : “Oh, My main way back home is blocked. I should cross this obviously dangerous and creepy forest instead! I’m sure nothing bad will happen…”

Manly did this on hard mode, dang! I'm pretty sure the sign the dead dude was holding meant that you should look straight up or down while running away lmao

it’s always a good night when manly uploads

Damn, I didn't realize it was la llorona until they mentioned it at the end, such a good approach. It's always nice to see games inspired by folklore and mythos!

Ahh yes, nothing like a spooky game to help me fall asleep. Thanks Manly!

Nice to see a game based on my country, it is based on the tale of La Llorona, one that is common in a lot of countries of Latam but each country have their own take of the tale, for example in my country there is a ton of rivers and coasts, so naturally some farming areas are around those and this tale was build around that. From what I remember for example she was a working woman in the field that had a child she couldn't take care, kept it hidden until drowning it in the middle of a night, time passed and she had other child she could take care, but she heard the screams of the other children, went looking for it with the second child and I think it ended with both drowning and she now hunting those farming areas near rivers or coasts in look of the first children while taking whoever she founds into the water with her as the role of the second child.

I can't take this seriously because the girl reminds me of Joan of Arc in Clone High and i keep expecting the pupils to widen while she shows the palms of her hands

I mean...The title says it all, who wouldn't want to be her kid, it's not like something bad is bound to happen :D

the artstyle for this looks very nice if im being honest

The tale of La LLorona is older than slenderman. Also one of the tell tale signs is that she has backwards facing feet.

This is not the type of weird woman of the forest that i want to take me away

My grandparents and great grandparents are very familiar with the llorona. My great grand father had to convince my grand father not to investigate her wailing, Probably saved his life. Gand dad told me that he knew something was wrong because of how incredibly loud her wailing was. He said it was so loud that he thought it was coming from right outside the front door. But of course, He took a look outside and there no one there. Which of course means it was coming from really far away.

I saw the close up when she gets you and my instinctual response was just "Ok you Mandela Catalogue looking ass" 😭

the thumbnail alone freaked me the hell out

the mom is the first thing that scared me since my birthday holy crap, keep making videos like these, they are amazing, i may not understand your language of the gods in the title sometimes, but i understand most of it, and that is fine, i love your videos, and goodbye if you are reading this!!!!!!!!

My guy helps me sleep every night. Much respect.

"please be my child..." Lady I'm a grown ass adult

God I want a mommy gf in my life so bad: The mommy in question:

Gurl, when I said I wanted a mommy in my life, I did NOT mean it like that...

Wow, folklore game and it reminds me of an old movie. I guess the water is deadly as you die the moment you get in it. Anyway, love your gameplays Mr. Manly. Have you played House of Hell? I would be great to hear how you would read and play it.

watching manly in bed at half past four am is so cool

“Further away.” “I.. trust you…” *takes like only 5 small steps* “IT’S NOT HEEEEERE!”

yeah, I remember back in the early 80's when the colorization towers first got around to this pretty rural areas. suddenly our black and white cows, started showing up in brown as well. then, in 89 the high resolution towers went up, and that film grain and haze went away. kids these days don't know what it was like.

Just watched two of your videos today and was about to go to sleep when I saw this, I’d don’t think I’ll be able to sleep for a while now

I'd love to imagine that you're doomed to be cursed because you have the soul of her child and that's why she believes you're her child and why she's so adamant that you need to be her kid.

Why does this monster remind me of the one from that short “I heard it too”?

Your voice is so calming that it’s addicting… love the vid

I remember playing this game in beta like a year ago and there was not much to it,there was only 1 ending where you go to her and she say "where is my child" and i say i dont know then she chase you down and kill you and there was nothing after that it was just a continious loop of me going to her and dying and nothing added after death,I am so much glad they added these things and watching you play the game this really must helped the devs out

BRUH THE WAILING IS ACTUALLY FREAKING ME OUT

Ending 4 "The Survivor" is kinda a good cliffhanger especially considering what kind of creature is the protag refering to.

Big thanks for playing this! Really looked up to your reaction on the game

Wow! This is the first time I've ever seen Costa Rica used in any video game before! That's so cool! I also didn't know we had our version of La llorona, also cool! Another great video :)

I really like the silent film style of this game it added to the atmosphere

Hear me out

Off topic, I love your voice. Its genuinely so calming 😭

16:49 this moment becomes more funny when a) he says run for your life and b) as a child you're really just walking to the bridge, can't really run full speed.

Sometimes I wonder what ghost like these would do if one started putting the moves on them. Like would their programming just crack or would they just not even acknowledge what just happened. How can La Llorona ever view me as a child again after I just promised enjoy her fully like a Five Course Meal.

she got that creepy analog horror face

the way he said stay back was the most emotional tone I've ever heard from manly /lh

When I was still in secondary school: I bought a collection of books from scholastic one of the book is a collection of ghost stories and one of those story is about La Llorona. Man I know I was a teenager at the time but that story scares me the most because it similar to a ghost that is known in South East Asia known as The Pontianak. I also remembered there was a video on RU-vid about the La Llorona but I forgot the name and couldn't find it anymore, where there are special rules in Mexico where it involved La Llorona.

Alright someone’s gotta take one for the team

I love this game it has so much meaning ot it and it's so sad and beautiful. 10/10 game 🥰🥰

I really liked this one! Loved that there was an ending for waiting for the farmer

Cheers! Pleasure to be here and see a Manly upload 23s after it came out

I like the style! but the static is a bit overwhelming for me

There's a mommy joke in there somewhere

"Drowning child simulator"

I like how it approached La Llorona as an actual character and considering the lore from the actual real life tale

Just saw dawko and 8bitryan play this i me and them bith were terrified

Jesus this game is creepy af lol

their design for La Llorona is pretty spooky

As a costarricense, stuff like this happens everyday

kind of reminds me of la lorona

This looks inspired by the Bongcheon-Dong ghost

Good, a different kind of "retro horror game" style 😁 I liked it, the static was a cool way of making it look different to other games, and since it was the memory of someone, it felt kinda right 😅

the second i heard the "she drowned her off-springs", it directly made me yell from inside "ITS BASED OFF LA LLORONA!". its one of my favorite tales, so i was happy of the referencing the story has. lllllllla llllorona :3!!!! i am not going in depth with the story and telling it, so either go read it in the comment section or go get the entire story from some spooky site.

Estuvo interesante, entendí mejor el inglés de este juego

Holy heck I was waiting for this

The fact i worked on a game for 5 years, with the objective of you playing it, yet you did not even care a single second about it, is very depressing ngl, even more when i see you play some good but such "simple" game.. anyway. Great videos like always

Goodness, i almost goosebumps that thumbnail and my mom almost woke up 😭😭

2:47 manly literally jumpscared me just by breathing in the mic

4:37 bro thinks he is in mandela catalogue

Ngl this horror game genuinely got under my skin.

Bro will play ANY horror game, even the ones not known to man.

it's a simple interesting game about the costa rican mythology, that we share with most of latam actually

The "further away" route is really similar to the Bongcheon-Dong Ghost comic

So cool! I've never have seen a horror game set on my own country, and never one about a tale of here! That woman is 'La Llorona' Its so cool to see a horror game set and based on my culture!

Love your videos man

12:52 never to part look up in the sky (look up in the sky) see the stars (see the stars) i'll hold you tight (i'll hold you tight)

You should play this game called “Otome Legends” it’s about a girl who gets recommended an otome game by her best friend and then strange things happen around here leading to less than fortunate events… The game is like 1-2 hours long and has a similar vibe to like doki-doki in a sense.

Unsettling monster but it really annoyed me how Manly refused to run the correct way (facing up or down and not away from her). That’s the only bad thing I have to say about this, the rest is great.