There's one more thing you missed that suggests what Hopeless Soul's true identity is. If you go into the game files and change a 0 in a certain file to 1 or 2 then you'll get one more ending.
Hah you just reminded me I stopped playing that game because it freaked me out. It was at the point where it tells you to exit so the buddy can update the game and when typing the exit command it interrupts you to say something. Something about how the game actively stopped me from quitting, even to say something so inconsequential, just unnerved me enough that I put off playing it until I just forgot about it. I'll pick it back up now and stop being a wimp
7:07 I don't think this is the knight who killed him. Not only does the man on the horse look white ((his killer was a man from the middle-east)), but he appears dressed in armor typical of European warriors. Perhaps this was his commanding officer, or a friend that looked down at him as he died? He doesn't look middle-eastern at all, and if you look at depictions of the crusaders enemies - the warriors of Saladin - they look very different, from the skin tone to the armor they wear and the style of facial hair. Food for thought.
I wish to point out something… You are a Crusader, who died around 1250 (Seventh Crusade, 1248-52 Egypt) You were trying to take back Jerusalem (First Crusade, 1096-99, Jerusalem) You were killed by Abu Al-Kindi. He fought for his people. (Scholar, Philosopher, Musician. Died 873)
@@palecaptainwolfkayls8499 that's a fair point you brought up. He's a scholar, so he wouldn't look like a warrior of Saladin. That's a good observation. However, the man on the steed still appears of European descent and appears to be donned in European-like armor. I could be wrong - perhaps he managed to kill a crusader and don their armor + steal one of their horses? It seems out of the skill range of an philosopher and teacher though, as he was probably a citizen helping the military in a desperate last attempt to keep back the crusaders. Regardless, thanks for bringing that up
@@mackedee9065 I’m meaning to also imply, backed by the Save Data easter eggs, Theodore the Crusader may not be real. Part of the elaborate ploy to free…someone.
Could he have been killed by another crusader. Crusader infighting was common. But since he was killed by one of the defenders, it could have been a mercy kill by a passing crusader? Dying on the battlefield and someone just made it quicker?
Bro i just discovered your channel, and honestly seeing a big channel not only highlighting, but also explaining, this indie game, is awesome. This was my first 100% completed game. God it was hard without using any guides but it was so worth it. And you'll get this I bet, but after getting 100%, I immediately uninstalled the game, and as much as I loved it, I don't think I'll ever install it again.
It would be so cool if you could cover far: lone sails. The second game is making but I want to know what you guys think about the lore like where is everyone? Who is the character and why is there so many crashed and dead ships.
*makes a video purporting to explain the secret story* *completely and totally misses the actual secret story* Dan Mullins is awesome Short version is this, borne out by The Hex and Inscryption: Hopeless Soul and Lucifer are in fact the same person. Lucifer starts out imprisoned in the game by his mysterious father (all we ever hear is that his father is "pure evil," which is interesting in its own right, especially if his father is the biblical God), and the entire experience is him tricking us, the player, into letting him out into the real world. Clues in Pony Island itself include Hopeless Soul's 4th wall breaks, the strange fact that he seems to have more control over the game code than Lucifer, Azazel telling us our prophet is false followed by Hopeless Soul calling him mad and briefly but unmistakably slipping into Lucifer's voice before resetting the chatlog, but biggest of all is if you edit a certain registry file and get a very revealing hidden scene.
@@justracoon2529 No evidence of Theodore being based on someone real. There was at least one person named Abu al Kindi, but the dates on his life don't match up with Theodore's story.
This is biased journalism at its worst. U never mentioned how Mr. Louie Fer is just an indie dev that's just people to play his game he spent so much time on. U also didn't mention how everytime u reach the goal. The pony ties and breaks his neck or mention the first guardian of the core file b4 he was replaced.
What happens when you put "Guar" when Asmodeus asks you to say his name? I remember that in the All Tickets video you meet Guar.EXE, a former Core File, who tells you to say his name to Asmodeus. So... what happens when you do?
Superhorrobro in Henry`s last voice recorded in Bendy and the ink machine he says some thigs after "lind i miss u" what does he mean whit these Word and Who is lind If shes not Henrys wife. and there was only 2 artist 2 enginers 1 voice actor and 1 musik direktor acording to the voice mails but is there any more?
What's wild to me is how there were hidden items in this game that wouldn't be used until things needed to be unlocked in Inscryption, years later. It makes me wonder, what kind of things are buried in Pony Island and Inscryption for the next Daniel Mullins game?
Don't dig too deep into that one. For the Inscyption ARG, Daniel's previous games, such as Sacrifices Must Be Made, were updated with the things needed to crack the code.
Don't forget "The Hex"! There's lots of things in that game that ties in to Pony Island and Inscryption (although more for the latter than the former).
Scene Selection 0:00 - Intro 0:18 - The protagonist & the player 0:49 - What is Pony Island? 4:43 - Who is the protagonist? 7:11 - Escaping the digital prison 11:25 - The secret ending 13:52 - Farewell, Hopeless Soul 15:19 - Outro
Maybe hoppeless soul was the developer of pony island and maybe he make a deal with the devil (¿to finish the game?), but the devil had other plans so the devil took over pony island to make it a form of torture for other souls.
Difficult to make a deal with yourself. _Citation:_ Maka Johnson and other RU-vidrs show themselves changing something within the Save File DATA (“Do NOT change to 1”), triggering a devilish secret
He was slain by Abu Al-Kindi. If that sounds suspicious to you, it should, when you died (1250) to a Scholar and Philosopher who died roughly hundreds of years (873) before the First Crusade (1096-99)…
@@TheUltimegaMan Still, it’s kinda weird that the game demon indirectly says that the First and Seventh Crusade occurs at the same time Couple that with conflicts between there being a copyright of “666” on the Arcade Machine with a 199X Copyright for Systemtech It’s probably safe to assume that Al-Kindi is the one that Natas googled
Something to add, a recent discovery of secret cutscenes through file editing show that Lucifer “speaks in many voices”, and when he tells you this fact he speaks in lost souls voice, it’s possible the entire game is a ploy by him to escape the game
Theodore was a crusader knight. Just a high-ranking soldier. Mike was talking of Hopeless Soul, the mysterious figure that helps Theodore. But he's wrong about his identity, there's an answer to that buried deep within the game (SPOILER: He's another identity of Lucifer tricking the player into releasing him).
That's because creatively horror as a genre requires, not limited to, but requires the least amount of effort. The narrative doesn't even have to make sense. And as far as external research and fact checking horror relies on fear, fear requires ignorance. So you can flub quite a bit in horror and get away with it if you can unnerve your audience.
During one of the secrets it turns out that Lucifer can mimic other voices like hopelesssoul which means when hopelesssoul is asking you to release his soul you are pretty much releasing the devil into the world
The story with the protagonist's past is very similar to a dream I had. It's coincidence, though, because I have only heard of this game and that it's a glitchy meta-game. That and my dream was around 2002 and has stuck with me ever since. (Edit: Actually my namesake is from this dream.)
You were tricked. Hopeless soul was the real Satan. If you do some save file modifications, you can unlock interactions between various characters and the player.
@@jardex2275 Certain parts are a bit horror, maybe enough? Even the nonc-creepy parts like super weasel still is creepy at certain points. Also the game goes into your steam friends that's pretty spooky.
These are the kind of puzzles I like, never got stuck there (except shortly with Azazel, until I realized I don't have to wait till the end of his turn if I'm moving an element)
As a Daniel Mullins game surely this game has a arg connected to it right? I don't know my first contact with Daniel Mullins games was from inscription oh yeah speaking of ARG do the hex next and cover it's ARG also I don't know if pony island has a Arg or not but from what I've heard the hex does have a Arg just cover the story already uncovered years ago from diligent gamers and make it into a short yet satisfying video recapping the game and the ARG No seriously does pony island have an ARG like the other games or is it just that a game with a 4th wall breaking Lucifer fighting good ending story game about ponies? Edit:I didn't realize how many times I mistook ARG and RNG that took a while
RNG? I think you meant ARG. And yes, it did. Originally it had a few secrets, but Daniel went back to add more after players on the Steam forums started digging too deep for a reward that he didn't think would be satisfying. It wasn't as extensive and the ones in the Hex or Inscryption, but it was there.
I said before that I think Hopeless Soul is Jesus, and that’s why he’s able to hold Lucifer at bay at one point. I actually think Pony Island itself was created specifically as a trap for him, with the other souls such as the player being either being bycatch or bait that was intentionally woven into the code to draw Hopeless Soul in. This is why the other souls can be freed but Hopeless Soul can only be freed by destroying the program, Hopeless Soul is either ensnared because the trap was made specifically for him or is unwilling to leave knowing that the trap still exists and might ensnare others. The latter possibly would explain why he had apparently hacked Pony Island to make it unplayable at the start, if the game can’t be played it wouldn’t be possible for unwary souls such as yourself to become trapped by it. I’m actually unsure whether the player is the knight or simply a programmer living in modern times who tried to restore an old Pony Island arcade game and was logging in via the knight’s profile within the game. Regardless by playing you free the knight’s soul.
But that can't be, unless the knight was transported back to when Jesus had just died on the cross. I think it's an angel, who was sent to free the captured souls.
@@saphiriathebluedragonknight375 Well, except that Jesus is supposed to be immortal so him coming to the rescue of captive souls in the present isn’t out of character. The knight’s soul could have been in hell or purgatory during the intervening time due to his actions during the crusades. Anyway is it any weirder than a crusades era dead guy ending up in an 80s arcade cabinet?
random thing as someone who never played but the mental image of the devil himself sitting infront of a computer (probably old as heck) and trying to program a game is gold pure gold
I kind of remembered that lucifer is a fallen angel with asmodeus being the king the lust... I just find it weird that he looks very different from what i imagined
0:00 Intro 0:18 Protagonist & The Player👤 0:50 What is Pony Island?🎮🦄 4:44 Who is The Protagonist?🔎 7:12 Escaping The Digital Prison🔥 11:26 Secret Ending🎫 13:53 Farewell Hopeless Soul👻 15:19 Outro
hopeless soul might be Lionel, a character that has died in the hex (another game made by daniel) it seems like the games are connected, Lionel does harbour the skills that would be required to hack.
I want you to play OneShot, explain it’s story, and find every secret that you can. It’s very meta. On Steam. Best experienced in Windowed Mode. It had a 98% when Markiplier played it.*
Kind of surprised the conclusion to Hopeless Soul just petered off to 'maybe he was a hacker or something'. I thought it was fairly clear he's actually Lucifer.
Imagine dying in a crusade and you wake up to a place tgat you can only guess is the future and box like things that can change their appearance on the screen like how a witch could. You would freak out so bad.
I really enjoy all the story explained videos you make cause their so informative and accurate to the story of the games so I was curious would you ever consider doing a story explained video on cooking companions???
okay at the start of the video the "i am error" character i saw that in the game of Binding of Isaac and its so rare to find the glitched room and find "I am Error"
I think i just saw a video about “Pony Islands lost secret after 6 years” or something where the dev back in like 2020 actually went back and added a new final Easter egg to live up to the hype that he made on the steam forums or something
It’s impressive that you’re character was born centuries before the first computer was even built and was still able to hack through the game woth ease, much less even know how to operate the system in the first place. Much much less that he could read english.
I remember watching this 2yrs ago and i forgot the name of the game so i couldnt find the video and i just saw a comment about the Devil from it and im so happy i found it again :D
There are some older/slightly older games I'd like you to play and make story explained videos of, there's Yomawari: Night Alone and it's sequel, Yomawari: Midnight Shadows, the Danganronpa games, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Gregory Horror Show: Soul Colletor, American Mcgee's Alice, Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge, and I challenge you and a friend of yours to play It Takes Two. 👉👈That is, *if* you want to play those games.👉👈
It's worth noting, you can actually ask three questions during a single playthrough, you just need to access the one who answers your questions in three separate sections. Early on in a warped Pony Island credits section after you find the password in the Advanced Options, then on the adventure map in the Cave of Truth, and I'm pretty sure the third is where the distorted flower is during the second "Puzzle Break", if you send a butterfly off screen to the right from there to get your third question.
@@saphiriathebluedragonknight375 But in the course of Inscryption, you're PLAYING as Luke, and you DO have to hack Inscryption to get the full story. So there's definitely a argument for Luke, too.
Well Theo, it wasn't completely your fault. After all if you didn't reclaim the holy land somebody else would've. Besides, if Limbo looks like an ancient arcade I'd say you got off pretty easy.
The sheer incompetence of lucifer, his goofiness and seemingly earnesty in making his game, as well as designing an “uber satan mech”, making his desktop full of pentagrams. makes me think its some sort of lesser demon like an imp. The other demon ais and baphomet seem much more “mature” than him.
