This is by far my most involved animation yet, I’m so happy to see everyone enjoying. Big thanks to Trent for making it with me and keeping me company over discord over long hours of animating. I’m realizing now that people might see this before the first two, so here’s the whole series in one convenient playlist - ru-vid.com/group/PLKtIcOP0WvJB29YkQlSKhxwsab4JlysSj
"Marshal is Evil now. He has a gun!" and "Marshal has no moral compass, he is a rat." are both funny lines, but the 2 of them together just don't add up.
well shit so this means Marshall even in the first video wanted to do all of this aniway, but he was killed before he could accomplish it, meaning that the player acting like a jerk, which he was because he was a convict, actually stopped his plans and. SO that's how time travel fiction works.
although the tax payers money is supposed to be used to do infrastructure, security and education, i am ok with you use a bit to give yourself a present every so often. Just dont make that a habit.
The odd sweetheart deal to a family member, the odd line of coke, the hooker once in a while. Just spread those out over your reign so not too many people notice.
That moment you realize that Jacob didn't break out of his prison cell, but actually Marshall freed him. That is why he immediately sees Marshall when he leaves the cell.
Makes total sense, marshall released most dangerous criminals, he killed marshall and the old man's son, then a dog and then a farmer, in the first playthrough they were indeed a dangerous criminal
Imagine sitting down for the first time, then boom! Everyone you love has been kidnapped because you chose to relax for 5 seconds with this arbitrary in-game function
If you don't care about graphics like at all NovelAI is kinda like that since you can do literally anything you want you'll probably have to make your own consequences though since there's no random dice rolls like AIdungeon used to have though if you want actual visuals you'll probably will have to wait until they implement the AI generated image system.
"I wasnt even that corrupt" The fact the king openly admits he was a little corrupt actually makes me trust him more as a character. He knows he is not above human nature but he still strives to be the best king he can. Powerful stuff.
@@siliconpeasants1023 If you're not corrupt, you will be replaced by someone who is. Power structures are often dominated by the people who cheated but weren't caught, claiming victory over those who were caught and those who didn't cheat at all.
I love how that statement combined with the fact he has no health bar implies he is not an enemy to itself, just to everyone else. It is the manifestation of perfect, longlasting evil.
As someone who owns pet rats they definetly have a moral compass " I can only try to bite his eyelids off is he doesnt back off his face 5 seconds after I approach". Also, legitimatly shaken down by Marshall betrayal
He leveled up his sword to 199, but never got any other weapon, at least not one he preferred, maybe this one has an exceptionally high leveling ceiling
with the way level scaling works he was probably fine taking out marshal with a few useful perks and a good supply of healing pots, but impressive nonetheless
"A health bar does not show who's an enemy to you, it show's who's an enemy to themselves." That line has some real "Christopher Walken telling Adam Sandler he's an angel of death" vibes to it.
Watching the video as the line is said. Then the guy looks up, as you look up. Only realizing because you looked at the video, as the health bar disappears.
I just realized the zoom out of the sunset at the end is brilliant, if you look above the player he has no healthbar anymore meaning he found peace within himself
There’s something really human about the giant offering water, then realizing he wants to wait a minute just to watch the sunset, and then the PC saying “that’s fine by me” Love it
Honestly it reminded me of The Witcher 2 and how things completely unrelated to your choices would change drastically depending on what you did. Like actual, major plot events that happen without the main character or anyone they’ve talked to can play out entirely different depending on a few choices. Felt like it was parodying that tbh
"The health bar does not show who is an enemy to you; It shows who is an enemy to themselves." As a gamer and psychology major, this line is just pure gold.
@@Brandon-ml2zw Don't even compare that crap to veganism. They're out there trying to talk about weaponinzing ticks as a big gotcha to meat eaters, and trying to justify all kinds of hatred and bio-terrorism out there.
I mean some are worse than others. There’s killing and then there’s evil. Like for example there’s enslavement, double tapping bodies, rape, etc. Awe, true to Caesar
I like how by the time the adventurer gets to town, Marshall has sacked it and they've had time to make wanted posters of him while the town was being sacked, Me put them up in the sacked town and
@@Yatagurusu true! they have some very strange priorities. Maybe in the connected Joel Haver Cinematic Universe, we will some day get an episode about the guy who put up the posters :D
@@Yatagurusu it's a videogame, clearly Marshall could fast travel to the village since he'd been there before. And the posters materialised as soon as Marshall was seen committing a crime
Holy shit, he almost cried when he was told that marshall was now evil, I legitimately felt bad for him, great character progression, that was really cathartic
What do you think he did? Like did he embezzle a little tax money for wine and whores. Did he give his nephew a job he wasn't qualified for. Dismiss public office holders he didn't like.
@@Vulkanprimarch Wait, didn't our future president do all those things? Umm... I guess that corruption was fake corruption or something! Must've been the wind!
Okay -- life sharing time here. I know it's silly to put such a life reference for a video that's meant to be for fun, but this video is truly something I used to use as inspiration. About the time this video came out (and a few months prior), I was dealing with mistakes that were haunting me, and overcoming parts of me that I knew I needed to let go (I was engaged at the time, so letting go of lust was a big goal of mine). I was sick of failing, and "doing everything wrong". I worked hard to overcome that part of me, for myself, and my soon to be marriage. There came a time where I did. I came to this video regularly. Again, silly, I know. But it helped remind me what I was fighting for. I'm married now, to a very kind hearted woman. I come back to this video from time to time, remembering the challenges I had to overcome. All in all to say this -- if someone here did the same as me, or felt the same, don't give up. The door awaiting on the other end is very much worth it.
You let go of your lust because you were going to get married? how does that work? why? if you mean that you shouldnt look at other women anymore thats wrong too, theres nothing wrong with that either, or do you mean let go of it because you know the stereotype that once you get married good bye sex? if its lust for other women you just focus it on your woman but you never let go of it, thats just wrong
@@CojanDaniel haha no man. My wife and I happily have plenty of fun in bed :). I meant more of pornography and lusting after other women just because of looks. I have friends that are females, but there's a strong boundary in that. I know other guys are able to be close with other women without any concern of feeling anything more than friendship. But I don't want to go back to what I used to struggle with. Pornography/cheating/etc will most definitely destroy a marriage, and I wouldn't want my wife think I value any other woman over her. She's more than enough for me. Of course there's struggles, but even in those I choose to follow her and not another woman, because that's what I signed up for in marrying her, and I wouldn't want it any other way. God blessed me incredibly, and I'm happy to be where I'm at!
*I love the character’s development.* The protagonist is now actually more accepting of monsters, as long as they don’t try to kill him. He even made a friend at the end who’s willing to give him water.
After the two previous videos, the last “Adventure awaits… huzzah!” was so forcefully executed and so absurdly unexpected, I didn’t know whether my chest would burst from glorious exultation or laughter. Thanks for the experience!
@@tonitruivena8554 Literally the point of the game is that each conflict can be resolved nonviolently and the monsters you fight are either fighting in self-defense, are very confused, or can hurt you by just being what they are. The only characters you cannot kill explicitly lack health bars, a health bar is a liability in that game.
@@tonitruivena8554 In a way it does, the monsters that you have to fight don't really want to fight you, they're just making bad decisions or happen to be at the wrong place and at the wrong time.
Top tier story telling. Despite how impulsive and ignorant he was in the first two episodes, it shows that at heart, the adventurer is a genuinely good man trying to be a hero.
@@Finalstar78 He hated them... They were animals and he slaughtered them like animals... He actually managed to use that to flirt with a spacial senator, tho.
Twice in a row I accidentally started a war because of my actions. This is with two separate characters mind you the original died because an assassination attempt on a king...
@@gabethebabe3337 Completely unrelated but you reminded me of the time I was on a school trip on the bus and we stopped to buy stuff. I had no money so I asked my friend if he could share his candy with me and he agreed (it was this sort of jelly beans that for some reason everyone in my school was into). After we got back on the bus, we started chatting and listening to music. I ended up grabbing one of the beans, and tried to throw it at my friend, who was sitting right next to me, but I missed (I literally don't know how) and it hit someone on the other side of the bus. I leaned down and held my hands over my mouth because I knew my loud ass laugh would let them know it was me. Miraculously, my friend didn't out me (kind of friendship where we just mess with each other constantly). In the end, the person on the receiving end of my throw assumed it was one of his friends, and he threw one of his own beans at his friend. His friend also happened to have the jelly beans, so he grabbed one and threw one back at him. Whole situation derailed, everyone with the beans started raining multicolored hell on the bus floor and all I can say is me and my friend were being thrown beans and I was actually eating them happily while he was just losing his shit at the chaos we had created. I'm pretty sure this all happened on the way back actually, not at the start of the trip, since I remember we got back to school and the actual Principal got in the bus and started lecturing everyone about how we shouldn't be so irresponsible and whatever. I remember I quickly got up before that however, and I told him me and my friend hadn't bought any and we didn't have anything to do with it. I remember believing that was true until we got off the bus and my friend told me that I'd just lied to the Principal. Man that was an awesome day and I've relived it many times since, I used to be a real chaotic mess lol.
@@SanAntonioJoker I'm thinking more than 1 and a half hour and less than 2 and a half. It didn't last too long, I think. The stop we made to buy stuff was pretty far into the way back and the whole bean war started not too long after, though honestly can't place this in time. It could've lasted 10 minutes at the least and at most about 30.
"This isn't a story about despair. Rather, it's a story about a man who, despite failing time and time again, refuses to give up and in doing so, realizes that adventure isn't about fame and riches, but about growth, doing what is right, and murdering pistol-wielding rats."
I'm like the giant. 😞 I've tried to implement a lot of social habits in myself that help express how I'm actually feeling to avoid the issue, I can sometimes tell when someone isn't sure how I feel. I think I've made good progress over the years.
Same here, everytime a friend or my bother call me, im happy inside, but i cant express it, and they always ask if they are bothering me, or if im in bad mood, and hang up few moments later 😵
After watching this video repeatedly, I've finally made the connection that Marshall went to the prison to release the Kingdom's worst criminals, including the player.
Same here, that old man is way too wise. Even when the rat died in the first run he mostly was sad about Marshal's cuteness rather than his personality. That is a precious detail that shows that NPC in the game are indeed self-conscious
I like how we're told that Marshall went to free the worst criminals in the Kingdom from Prison and the MC's opening lines are "NO PRISON CAN HOLD ME." He was the bad guy all along.
@@TheLegalCustodian Oh fuck you caught me! ... But.. eh, I'm undead. If I had value then why am I not just alive alive or dead dead rather than in-between?
This isn't just the best animation I've seen on RU-vid (from an independent creator) in a long time, It's also awesomely well written. Great Job balancing humor and drama while being relatable. Subscriber earned.
"Too long have I suffered this indignity ... I am no one's pet! I am not cute, dammit! I'm a rat! A wild, dirty, diseased rat! And a rat should be FREEEEE!" "Marshal? Town's this way lil' buddy"
Effective use of throwback lines: ✔️ Correct use of dramatization: ✔️ Effect use of anticlimax jokes: ✔️ Effective use of re-introduction: ✔️ Effective deviation of plot: ✔️ You my friend get an A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ for you media studies final assignment well done have this star
