Is this art? | Water Womb World 

Water Womb World is the 157th game the Grumps have beaten on the show, and the 1st Yames Game they've beaten out of the 2 they've played.

So nice of Cecil HH Mills to join us for this episode

"wasn't Gaspar the guy who wanted to marry Ariel?" Danny saying that is becoming more and more like Avi and that is his "Spoofy" or whatever

It’s wild how much Arin sounds like his Uncle occasionally.

I think the game is a comment on how someone's zealous obsessions can overtake them to the point that they have confirmation bias in everything they see and they eventually lose themselves to their obsession. The "angel" in the game I believe is a manifestation of the characters last shred of self/logic/common sense warning them that if they progress any further, their obsession will consume them whole and there's no turning back.

2:25 Game: grab nets Dan: *makes joke* Arin, not but ten seconds later: I forgot what I’m supposed to do already. That’s it. That’s the show.

thinking about skeletor being a barista kept cracking me up yesterday

This game is a metaphor for the experience of eating at Applebee's

This game was one big “reject man, return to sea” meme.

I love how Yames has such an iconic style that I can see a silly picture of Arin slapped onto a creature, from a game I've never seen, and be like, "Oh shit, we watching Yames games today? :D "

Can we all just agree that the best part of Ghoul Grumps is Dan going, "BLEEEEEH!" in the intro?

Today's message: (In a low pitch) Arin: "Merry Christmass Dan!" Dan: "Is Halloween Arin" (Noises of a bag being opened, laughs).

I love that despite his Disney film marathon from a while back, Dan calls Belle "Beauty" like a Grandpa.

“…I think I’m into dooods now” Dan’s comedic timing is second to none 😂

Gotta say, this Skeletor arc is top notch

Yessss, they’re playing *Water Womb World* This game developer is amazing More Yames games plsss

I really appreciate the editor jumping back to the relevant parts of the game footage during the post-ending discussion

I’m so happy that they’re cracking into another Yames title- it’s such a positively jarring experience to mix their comedy with the game’s vibe lol

It's maybe actually obvious, but i think the game is about the creator of life being not exactly that we humans imagine: some understandable and more or less comprehensible God, but rather something alien/eldritch, far beyond that we could understand, maybe something malice even, and the "fall from grace" is actually distancing from such monstrosity, not other way, and ascend to "God" means become part of this horror, and this is beginning of humanity, and end as well, there is no other way to go for us, we can only suffer in state of incomplete mortals as we are now, or return to our eldritch origin and be part of it. Quite existentially scary.

It is fucking surreal for game grumps to name a skull at the bottom of the ocean the same name as me. I know they don't know I exist, but it made my friends laugh at this episode super hard. It's fucking beautiful.

You know, I don't question what happened at the beginning. I question how Skeletor slowly transformed into Arin's uncle.

“~Oop, the fish is dead” killed me

Man, Arin does a pretty good impression of his Uncle.

Ghoul Guest Grumps is amazing this year: first Sean, now Arin's famous childrens book author uncle

This felt like a Junji Ito cosmic horror story. I like it.

I GASPED when I saw the thumbnail--this is my ALL TIME favorite Yames game, and it was the very first one I watched someone play, which got me into Yames's work. I literally got a shirt and sticker of the "angel" off of Yames's Secret Shirt Store (before it started going through this weird overhauk/update thing) So happy to have seen you guys finally play it!

Tutorial: "sift in 2 spots then use the net" Arin:" I just forgot what it said. Anyways lets just sift every square"

I hope they have a Halloween Power Hour!

As someone who loves Yames games, I'm glad they got to play through this little gem, it's the title that first got me interested in what they do. It makes me happy watching Danny get into it enough to look up fan theory stuff at the very end of the video, as much as Arin goofs a lot during horror themed games it's nice to see some genuine exploration of what they're wondering about while playing through these kinds of titles.

I'd like to imagine Arin kidnap that jellyfish with a net, while it monologues.

Not sure I have a super in-depth interpretation, but there's definitely some Lovecraft vibes with someone seeking knowledge and that knowledge corrupting them. Though unlike most Lovecraft inspired games this one has some far stranger entities than just big buff squid man. Visuals are 10/10 for sure. Great ending, too.

This is giving me Iron Lung vibes! Would be cool if they played that some day.

I always assumed it was both humanity's source and a trap. That humans originated here, living long happy lives, but enslaved to this coral creature, rendered unintelligent. Eventually some humans escaped and fled right out of the ocean to be as far from it as possible. Their history became myth over time, a tale of God, Eden, and Original Sin. But "God" is immortal and will gladly welcome back any humans who venture down there.

I'm really glad they talked about the game in the end and were interested in interpreting its story. Big fan of this games unique mythology.

Prometheus was pretty weird and fell short in a lot of ways, but I gotta say I think about it from time to time, and really that's all I can ask of a film, something that makes me think.

Can I just say thank you for posting everyday. You remind me of playing games with my friends before we all grew apart with our own families. Also thank you for the years of laughs look forward to the next decade!

"Wait is it a trap or is there something more weird going on?" The devoleper: ...Yes

My theory is that the main character is given a choice by the yellow angel: either continue to try to understand God, and in doing so shed your ability to think and reason to return to the "womb", which is the state of humanity before Adam tasted the fruit of the tree of knowledge and was "born" into the mortal world, or retain your humanity and leave. It's the Lovecraftian idea that trying to know or understand something that humanity was never meant to understand transforms you into something no longer really human, except instead of Cthulu, it's the Christian God.

Oh great deep sea horror. And I thought I'd get through this Ghoul Grumps with out getting seriously scared.

I wonder if the first guy, is implied to have become one of the creatures you see? So perhaps the skull is what is left from the person who died, and the diving gear is what is left behind because it was 'no longer needed' much like how our character 'no longer needs' the diving gear. The human mind is a curious thing. As the saying goes, sometimes ignorance is bliss. He went looking for something and may have found it, but he won't be able to remember he was looking for it. So perhaps he found it AND the trap is that once you find the thing, you no longer remember your humanity in the first place.

So Arin can say "infinitude" without breaking his stride but struggles with "eye"?! lol

The voice Arin used for the scientist is like if zefrank was a super villain. lol

12:52 - "Is this guy not getting enough air down in the submarine?" hard to say. You can't tell if he's not thinking straight because of oxygen deprivation or religious thinking, both have the same deleterious effects on rational thought.

I would love for the Grumps to play The Haunting ft. Polterguy on the Sega Genesis. It’s a quick play where you haunt items to scare a mean family out of their home and it lends itself to a lot of great content for them to riff on. Hopefully some day.

I really hope Skeletor makes an appearance in every game they play from here on out 😂

"Merry Christmas Dan." "It's Halloween Arin." In before the Telgram bots invade again.

Have you guys remembered to feed Grandpa?

Danny blurting out Satan rocks made think of him sat on a pile of black stones softly saying “Satan stones”.

Is the real horror hidden in the fact that we neither know the title by thumbnail, title or by actually naming it in the video?

I love that Danny had to explain the Nets joke hahah

I look forward to ghoul grumps every year! Love you guys!

I'm curious, is there a reason for not putting the game's name and link in the description? I know that you can see the title if you look at the tags, but in case RU-vid makes hashtags less visible to viewers in the future, I think it would be a good idea to put the name towards the top of the description. Plus, I think it's a nice courtesy to the creators to have the title & link more visible

I'm all in for Arin doing Skeletor impressions on all the games they play

It's ok Danny, Legend of the Sleeping Beast was my favourite Disney movie too

I'm so glad they're doing Yames' games, they are really something else

Arin: "What would you do..." -video ends- I really wonder what he was gonna ask

This game feels like you'd ask the writer what inspired it and they'd answer you with one word that feels so random like "Cheerios" but then it bothers you so much that you think of the connections it until it makes sense and can finally sleep at 3:16 am.

The red coral is the tree of life.

I love Dan's sports references. They seem so out of place but fit so nicely at the same time. 👍🏻

Personally, I feel like the main character found the "womb" but he had to forsake the "mistakes" of his predecessors, who ate the fruit of knowledge, which is what led to Adam and Eve gaining their sentience and thus expulsion from the Garden of Eden. So instead, his body and mind reverts back into a primordial form and joins others who came before him, forsaking his knowledge and entering the womb as a mindless "angel."

Oh, dude! I LOVE this game developer!!! These games are always so creative!

This felt like watching Midnight Mass (the Flanagan show) but in game form and with a scientist/researcher instead of a priest. The obsession with god, mistaking eldritch horrors for angels, thinking you're acting for the greater good and receiving cofirmation bias, it eating you up in the end etc etc.

gotta love arin wasting so much time sifting after he already got two things from sifting.

I’m so hyped for the ghoulie grumpies for this year🎃🎃🎃

Yay Jory!!! I was hoping we’d get another game soon! Cant wait to watch the grumps play it!!!

I learnt many things in this video. For example, that Arin can make a perfect impression of his uncle's voice and that he sounds just like an older and more serious Skeletor. I, however, didn't figure out what this game was about.

We all laugh but Dan probably just established the church of Tom’s goggles which will rise to power 1000 years from now.

“Now watch as these genius scientists research deep beneath the sea to find the very origins of humanity.” “I forgot what I’m supposed to be doing already.”

19:31 Beatific is not a made up word. It means to bring pleasure, and usually has holy connotations to it.

"Ironic that the baker himself is caked up." So many years have passed, yet the one thing we can always count on is Danny's inability to understand irony.

I see they are still on a Skeletor kick and I'm on board.

Arin: “What would you do-“ Video: Ends What would you do what?! I need to know!

It really is amazing how confidently Arin says incorrect facts. The first movie to come out on DVD was Twister in 1997. Waterworld (A great movie, by the way. Another fact Arin got wrong. lol) released in 1998.

It is painful to see them read the directions and then flat out forget them 5 seconds later.

Joking aside this is a pretty interesting concept. There's a few stories where humans try to find God or angels and when humans even catch a glimpse they are driven to madness because God and angels are always depicted as inconceivable to the human eye or brain.

I've always interpreted this game as the man actually finding "God", that pulsating red eye thing at the end, and becoming one of the angels after feeling God's presence and eating the coral. The squid messenger said he was walking a contrary path as man actually did fall from grace getting kicked out of the Garden of Eden, so the man found the truth and "decided" to return to God and undo what his ancestors like Adam the first man did to get kicked out

Nice of you guys to invite Skeletor back for another episode of Ghoul Grumps

"I'm looking pretty good" with the eye lol that was funny

I loved watching you play this, it made me think it would be so fun to watch you play Return of the Obra Dinn. Even if you don’t solve the whole puzzle just watching you experience the game would be great.

"Post-lapsarian," meaning after the Fall of Man. Damn, educational.

8:58: HEY MAN, like... don't kill this guy's high, he's totally on the next plain right now and you're bringing him down with a YOU CAUGHT ONE FISH? His bliss is LEADING HIM TO HIS DESTINY, OKAY????

A good first step to getting immersed in all the spooky stories in the games Yames makes is a good sense of scientific vocabulary so you can properly understand all the dialogue and lore, which for alot of people is a pain in the ass 'cause they're dumb, but when you really think about and understand all the text the reality of what's going on in these games really hits hard for a good unique scare that no other horror game has ever given

This makes me want them to play Iron Lung.

........ WELL, You know what IS art?? NSP having the first credit outro of Big Mouth S6! That's so fucking cool Dan!! Congrats!! ✨ Happy Ghoul grumps! 🎃

Everyone’s here saying Arin sounds like his uncle, but I spent this whole episode trying to remember an NPC from KOTOR the voice reminded me of before shouting “ZELKA FORN” to my empty living room around minute 12, looking the voice actor up to make this comment. It’s Daran Norris.

About to watch this but I'm already missing Skeletor working in coffee shop. :P

Arin was dangerously close to the Skeletor voice again and i think he knew it 😂😂

Why does this sound like something from HP Lovecraft?

Yames's games are such beautiful and bizarre experiences, they often leave you thinking more than often

The way Arin says Sift sounds exactly how Jerma says "s c o r n"

Just started watching the video so all I’m hoping for is to hear Skeletor again

You know, as someone who enjoys the lovecraftian horror genre, but doesn’t know a ton about it, I have to say, I would consider this solid, if it wasn’t short and sparse. I needed more research, more strange specimens, the “angel” needed to come later, and the researchers descent into madness needed to be stretched out some more. The pieces were all there for a solid eldritch horror game; it was just too short. I guess I don’t know much about Yames Games, is this a feature of his creations?

this is what goes through every dude's mind when they post a photo of themselves holding a fish on tinder

Considering the way angels are sometimes described in the Bible, I wouldn't be too surprised if some of them looked like squids w/ human faces.

*Reverse Message* Arin: "Merry Christmas, Dan!" Dan: "... It's Halloween, Arin. (Chuckles...)

Wow! The more I see of this game developer, the more I like! What a fascinating game. It is open to so much interpretation... I feel like the theory they read at the end is still only scratching the surface. More of these please! 💛

Based off of what happened to the main character, the story screams Lovecraft in some aspect. Not quite Cthulu, but definitely "Alien creature dominates weak minded mortal"-esque.

This went 0 to a 100 very quick. You find a fish and then one of these deep sea Magnapinna and it talks to him lol

Also, missed opportunity that Homebody isn't ready for Halloween.

So glad they finally played Sifting Simulator!