Welcome to the How Did We Get Here Club, how How Did We Get Here are ya? (Previous Lamu video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xLz7M2MWtnA.html )
What I am getting from this is that Lamu used to be a human child. His father, Dr. Bronze was a genetic scientist who wanted to combine human and animal genes for the sake of “curing” an illness. My theory is that perhaps Lamu, when he was still a human child, had some sort of terminal disease, possibly a severe metabolic disorder. His father went mad and conducted the gene-splicing experiment on his own son. Of course the experiment went terribly wrong, and the boy grew to resent his father and see him as a monster. He lost control due to having been been experimented on and ended up killing his own family.
The metabolic disorder theory makes sense, given that Lamu is always hungry. If the treatment not only turned him into a llama monster, but also supercharged his metabolism, that would explain why he needs to eat all the time. Though you'd expect him to just starve to death once he ate everything and everyone edible nearby.
Key thing to note is the third ending’s paper, specifically it’s publish date. In the previous two endings, I believe they were published in 2002, but this one regarding the Bronze family was published in 1977 on October 23rd*, which speaks of itself. What mindboggles me is that this happened **25** years ago, so this child has been in this mutated form for 25 painful years. That’s honestly heartbreaking to think about..
@@Pinakiprime910 dude i think getting eaten alive by a mutated llama is worse than being a llama-human mutant who has no idea what is going on. mutated llama actually seemed happy in the game.
@@schmidt188 oh so living in such an condition where you are having extreme paranoia episodes,violent episodes and probably constant pain throughout is somehow supposed to be good? It was never described as happy he seemed to be calling his father a monster why do you think he will do thay if he was happy with his body? And just so you know the narrator is prolly a voice in his head not the actual child who was experimented on his tale sounds more pitiful
The "turn around and see the monster" trick isn't anything new. ALTHOUGH the fact that it didn't have a sound bite to go with it genuinely made my skin crawl when we just lock eyes with Lamu
It hit me that they redefined the good ending to be the best ending because we put a poor little boy who was turned into a monster by his sick bastard of a father out of his misery by running him over while getting the fuck out of there.
Poor Little Boy? read the dates on the newspapers, This thing is at least 30 years old at this point. and It seems the father was trying to cure his son of an incurable illness. which considering that Lamu isnt dead means it kind of worked and he was cured, and considering he still had hands to write in the book with he wasnt a Llama monster yet when he murdered his parents. The "Sick Basterd of a father" was trying to cure his only son of an Illness with no known cure. the kid went insane and killed his parents. Both of them, despite only having a weak reason to kill his father. and then went on to kill and eat dozens of innocent people over the course of 25 years. Poor Little Boy Indeed.
@@candlestone5397 Considering the scribblings in the book, whatever his dad did to him was traumatic at best and started fucking him up well before he fully turned. No ordinary child starts writing madness mantra's about always being hungry and everything being fruits. Whatever his intentions were, the process itself must have been horrific, and the result is a constantly hungry mutant, who remains delusional for decades afterwards. Regardless, I would say that "sick bastard of a father" is accurate. Trying to save your son doesn't justify horrific, untested experiments of dubious effectiveness without any concern for what that son actually wants.
@@candlestone5397 it is clear that even though the boy has over 25 years, it still has the mentality of a child. It sees the world the way his favourite book used to tell him, he is delusional because of the trauma he went through, the experiments his father did to him, even if they were to save him, were inhuman (therefore that's why it isn't divulged, otherwise it would be said in the newspaper, right?). The way the narrator talks to Lamu, it is just like someone talking to a kid. I think it is very clear that it is an innocent kid whose SICK BASTARD OF A FATHER tortured in order to "cure" and therefore ended up traumatized, and because of said trauma, the remaining world view this kid has is the one of his favourite book. He is a delusional kid at brain, in the body of a carnivorous llama, living in a fantasy world. He is a poor boy.
@@candlestone5397 the father you sing such praises of was exposed as a fraud not long before the incident EXACTLY about his theories on human animal fusions. he most likely used his son as a test subject in his twisted experiment trying to prove to the world that he isnt a fraud and it backfired on him. so yes, poor little boy (who we can clearly see is locked in the mindset of a child) gets to live a life of torturous pain, constant hunger and slowly losing more and more of his cognitive abilities until all that remains is a deformed lama-esque creature with a voice in their head and auditory and visual halucinations of such degree that world outside of them barely registrers at all. because the father wanted the scientific community to accept him back
@@candlestone5397 Its pretty clear that whatever the dad did, Larry was very much traumatized and felt tortured from it - He scribbled a syringe being injected into himself on the magazine comic thing... "weak reason to kill his father" if you got practically tortured and treated like a lab rat, would you not kill your father?
Sad to think of how twisted this poor kid's mind might have been to convince himself that he did nothing wrong, even though he knows what he did to his family.
It seems he or maybe even someone else tried to brainwash him into making him think of it as fruit. I'm guessing that after the genetic engineering the boy needed to eat raw meat to survive for whatever reason, so the dad conditioned him to think of it as fruit. The boy grew to resent the father, killed them and ate them and ran into the woods.
Well, you’re right in one case since Lamu did behead plenty of people, but he was still a kid when his psycho dad got the bright idea of using him as a lab rat for his typical ‘cure mysterious illness’ medicine. That, and a child’s brain is very easy to manipulate, so Lamu pretty much went far beyond the point of no return after his transformation into a human-faced wooly camel. So in that case, Lamu’s dad is part of the problem.
@@crucifiedhughneutron7764 you do realize that for his dad to be able to test his procedure on larry, that he had to HAVE the Uncurable illness in the first place? so less of a Psycho Dad and more of a Father trying to save his kid, only for said child to murder his Father AND his mother. and he had to have done this before he became a Llama because he was still able to Write at this point, which means that if the Doctor was still alive he probably could have fixed his son when he started to change.
@@candlestone5397 said child who called his father a "monster". children don't start hating their parents unless they've put them through alot of pain and trauma. in this case, the father must've experimented on the child. as shown in the magazines, the child remembers his father injecting syringes in them. whatever the father's intentions were, it doesn't change the fact that he used his kid as a lab rat. and tortured them with it. so in conclusion, he is what his child viewed him as. a monster.
From what I'm gathering-- Larry is Lamu, that much is obvious. He was likely turned into a human/llama hybrid as a result of his father's (Dr. Bronze's) experiments. A potential reason for being part llama specifically, I think, has something to do with the book. A children's book about a llama that happens to be Larry's favorite. That implies that Larry is a child, which can be further supported by the Narrator making that comment about Lamu no longer being able to read. Larry was likely young enough to have just learned to read before he got tested on by his father. Additionally: the way the Narrator speaks to Lamu is the way an adult would speak to a child. The notes in the book aren't as well-worded as you'd expect from someone more grown up. The drawings look like something a child would draw for their parent to put on the fridge (though I'm older and still have questionable art skills). As for the notes written on the pages, I suspect Larry's transformation was gradual. Maybe Larry changed over time and thus was able to write in his favorite book before losing the ability to read. How else would he have written stuff down if he'd immediately transformed? A llama can't write very well, I'd imagine- even if Lamu does write with a pencil in his mouth. The hand(mouth?)writing would be messier.
The more interesting question to ask is *when* did Larry turn into eating living creatures (cannibalism sure, but he also ate the dog) and justifying them as fruits. Were his parents his first feast, or there were previous victims?
Hearing that the dev behind Lamu is likely to update or make another game about Lamu is great! I just hope they don't go overboard with Lamu, as the cutesy horror game market is somewhat over saturated.
it seriously surprised me and I was reminded yet again of my cowardice that's so bad I can't even play Roblox horror games. That I know the endings of.
I end up getting blackberries in my garden every year. It's awesome, we usually pick them and clean them. Very sweet and have put them on some pancakes. 10/10
I definitely didn't expect an update to this game, let alone that the dev has plans to do more with the story, but I did like what's been added. It'll certainly be hard to predict what comes next.
So the dad probably wanted to prove that he wasn't a fraud and that his theories had practical application, so he experimented on his son. Clearly, some stuff went wrong and the boy turned into a ravenous monster that hungered for raw flesh, possibly brain, but found it distasteful. Some trauma and a few decades later and a sweet little llama lives a happy life in the woods, playing with his fruity friends.
My best assumption about the first segment of the game is that it plays out in Lamu’s mind. According to what everyone’s saying, Lamu was a child turned Llama by his sicko of a dad, but Lamu is still a kid, so in his mind, it was all simple innocence, fun and games. In the end, Lamu didn’t really mean to cause the countless murders and beheadings, but it’s still his fault, alongside his dad.
Look at the dates in the newspapers, Lamu is at least 30 years old at this point. Its not innocence, its Lamu trying to pretend that nothing is wrong, and that he isnt eating people, after all They. Are. Fruit. ONLY. FRUIT
@@candlestone5397 Childhood trauma can mess you up for life. Especially when said childhood trauma also includes being turned into a mutant separated from society for a few decades. Over the decades Lamu most certainly hasn't developed mentally, and judging by the Lamu section, has more than likely regressed.
The way that the camera zoomed in on Lamu's face at the end makes me think that the player character didn't get killed, because he was in his end of the cave while the pc was at the entrance, and I doubt they would go back to Lamu just to be killed. Maybe Lamu realized that it was better for people to know the truth and let them leave alive, and the screaming was out of despair over his predicament.
wait.. manly has both cherries and blue berries in his yard? Thats' so wholesome, Just this man with a somewhat dull spooky narrator voice who only plays horror game, tending to vegetation in his free time ;-;
He's a Floridaman, my guess is volunteers for the blueberries. A cherry tree is probably intended, though. (In case "volunteers" isn't a common term where you're from--it refers to wild growth or spread of crop plants. Volunteer strawberries, for example, are strawberry plants that just pop up outside of your house thanks to bird droppings or the wind. Blueberries volunteer pretty readily in the South.)
ah, now i know, floridaman. Also, no volunteers isnt really a term where im from but still, spooky florida man with dull voice, tending to cherries in his free time is very wholesome
I love how versatile the indie horror game market is you either get something cool and interesting like this or cookie cutter asset flips and half the time there is no inbetween
@@JoanLamrack it is, because before there was just two endings : 1road kill : you found your 3 friends dead bodies and immediately enter the car and drive away but lamu kills you in front of the car 2 - full meal: the same thing as the first you find the 3 friends dead bodies but you still explore for a bit until you see a bit of red screen and when you go the car, the car is busted by lamu and lamu kills you
So the funny thing that I guess can explain this is on the theory of werewolf transformation (like full on wolf or anthromorph). It's said that you would only ever be able to do it one time in your life because the metabolism required for it is very high. If the amount of meat necessary is not reached to do said transformation and maintain it, you could die. I forgot what I was watching that explains this theory cause it was so many years ago but yeah feel free to look it up. Funny enough gargoyles the show had an episode where fox was a werewolf due to Odin's eye. She was always able to transform but as they were tracking her they knew she was dying. Every night she transformed she had to basically find big where house meat lockers to maintain her metabolism. Anyway that's just my theory on why Llamu is always hungry and eats "meat."
or simply the facts that Lamu is a mutated human, and as a human, is an Omnivore. as well as the fact that a park does not have enough edible plantlife to feed a creature that has the dietary needs of a human, is the size of a horse, and likely cannot digest grass and leaves. Which leaves a Half starved, Malnourished, Delusional, Cannibalistic, And Insane Llama-man Wandering the local park.
@@candlestone5397 oh yeah of course. I was just expressing the relation to such an experiment that scientists deduced in theory. Fact is though, we can all agree that his body is indeed of malnutrition due to various reasons. Hunger can make people go crazy and fall into delirium as we all know. Ontop of the sad mental and emotional trauma he's obviously suffering. (Aka "fruits"). He obviously doesn't view the world normally for a lot of reasons. Hunger seems to be the main reason though. 🤔 so yeah I look forward to the devs making more. It's a really interesting take on victims of a victim.
As a former child I can confirm I used to see people as fruits All jokes aside, I think it's him trying to stay blissfully ignorant and convince himself he's just eating fruits
I think the fruit's head just disappears but RU-vid is being kind of harsh with "body horror", maybe he just "anime" it to prevent the video to be +18 rated
I was wondering the same thing, but maybe he's just being cautious since there was a, uh, public incident of something similar recently, so I've heard. Could be that they'll try to hide it as a sensitive topic?
I am guessing that RU-vid became more strict 2 months ago, and they are still strict to this day If you go to the replies of the pinned comment of the previous video, you'll see Manly mention that a bunch of other content creators he knows had been having problems. RU-vid never made it clear what's causing these problems
"If only lamu could still read" Me: wait he could read at some point on his life? Was he human before or the result of some experiment that went horribly wrong?
This game’s art style and how it ties in with the lore reminds me of Lobotomy Corporation, they did a similar plot device with its cutesy art style. As the manager you see everything as cute to protect your sanity. All of your employees however see things as they are.
Aw, I kind of wanted Lamu to be a forest demon. Still, that was good presentation with the storybook. You know, Lamu didn't eat much of the -dog- banana. Does that mean he doesn't really like -dog- banana? And, I wonder if the "cherries" were actually some other little critters hiding in the bushes.
the myth, the legend, the llama, Lamu is back! Kidding aside, I'm not entirely too big on the concept of developing the backstory and expanding the lore of the game. I think it worked well as a story about some llama abomination with a messed up perspective of the world, somewhat of a campfire story. However, either way I'm interested to see how the game develops.
I've been a bit behind in my subscription feed so I haven't got around to watching his original video on this game. Well, I guess I know what I got to do! I swear Manly is one of the few channels that I just have to drop what I'm doing immediately to support.
I kinda hope that the devs take a break from Lamu. I love Lamu, but I don't want him to be oversaturated. I'd love to see the sort of horror universe they make.
I don't recall for sure if it was in the previous video, but was there some secret to the Main Menu screen? I think I see Lamu's face in the cave, and I am a little curious if it's possible to interact with.
bro you need to try out lakeview cabin, I'm 100% sure you'd like it! also, the dev of lakeview cabin made a game named hunsvotti, which you might also like (I actually didn't try it, but it's in 3D and the dev said it also has some dumb humor x) )
Maybe Dr. Bronze forged documents/data to get extra support or funding for his experiments when he first started, and used his son as his first real subject.
Cherries can grow on bushes, see the prunus subgenus sect. cicrocerasus. Some blueberry bushes look more like small trees than what is commonly associated with a bush. There are also a variety of species of trees that produce blueberry-like fruit and have blueberry included in their name but remain outside the vaccinium genus, see select elaeocarpus species.
I wonder if this is supposed to be a Lovecraftian type game, in the vein of Herbert West, and other mad scientists and doctors of the genre, and animal-human hybrids like Arthur Jermyn and the Deep Ones, as well as the story The Beast in the Cave. The paper is the Kulu Times, Kulu being another name for Cthulhu.
