Shipwrecked 64: The Best ARG You Never Played 

If You Were Looking To Use Ko-Fi its currently not working. Super Chats are though I think I misspoke somewhere in the video but the cancer patient is Mark's Wife

One thing I love about the Starlings is that ingame, they look like they're constantly trying to render at a higher polygon count than the N64 could have handled. They constantly shift between high and low detail models across their form.

just casually drop that brandon was some kind of undead in a suit without any explanation is just wild

I love how as the game progresses, Buckys head lowers further and further with every bit of information you find. It’s carefully done in a way that he goes from the joyful character you play at the start, to a creation caught in something horrible. He truly only wanted to go on an adventure, to find his friends and play the game they where made for. And at the end it feels like he just gave up on ever having a happy ending. How could he after what he found out? After realising everything his creators done in his name. It’s horrible. Yet in a sadistic way, I adore how his body language portrays the mental decline he’s going through, when his words truly weren’t enough. When he realised that he couldn’t stop the player’s curiosity. He could only go along for the ride.

The best and most painful part about Shipwrecked is that no one's at fault except the corporate entity that is Broadside. Brandon was an addict who tragically died and was used as a biological experiment by Broadside. Mark was a grieving husband who was manipulated and turned into more of a monster than even the Starlings, again, by Broadside. And Connor was an innocent, caring man exposed to unspeakable man-made horrors, driven to the brink of insanity, and pushed over the edge of a spiteful death by Broadside. Mark wasn't evil for trying to save Harley, and Connor wasn't evil for putting the truth in Shipwrecked, even with the jabs at Harley. In a way, the Starlings are a microcosm for everyone under Broadside's command in this story - puppets on strings, people driven to maim and hurt one another by their corporate overlords. Lives sacrificed for no reason. People's worst moments used against them for profits and further expansion. This ain't a rat race, it's a beaver race.

Having to look up One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish just to solve the ARG was funny

Fun fact: You can find one of Stumbler's arms in Layer 2

"Bucky I know you're trying to solve an arg and all but real quick let me redirect your attention to hit book one fish two fish red fish blue fish by Dr Seuss it's very important Bucky"

I'm the voice actor for our favourite little tragic scumbag, Mark Mullins, and I really want you to know how much I love this video. Apart from the usual lore explanations and theorycrafting I find on videos about Shipwrecked, I just adore how you highlight everything more than just the story alone. Thank you for not writing it off as another "mascot horror" and expressing your adoration for what the game was able to capture for you. Especially your ending note, that was really sweet man. You just made me really proud and surprised, honestly, about Shipwrecked, Broadside Beach - all of it. I found this project about 2 years ago and was blown away at how this wasn't like anything I've ever seen before (literally the first thing Squeaks showed me was the clip of Bucky slamming someone's head at a wall lol. I was hooked). To me, through this video, you've shown just what Squeaks, the programmers, the artists, and the actors were all able to achieve; the impact of the art I was able to be a part of didn't fully process until I sat my ass down and watched your wonderful video. Thank you for this. Thank you so much.

2:22 "In response he gave me an early copy-*WHAT!?"* I found that way funnier than I probably should have.

I liked how the character designs in the commercial threaded the needle where they were creepy but not in a way that seemed unbelievable for children's mascots to look.

I do think the false letterboxing/ pseudo 4:3 aspect ratio is smart. I can imagine how a blind playthrough must have felt when suddenly the unused blackspace becomes an enemy peering at you from the side; I don't think I've seen a game do that before.

the genuine cheerfulness of stumbler is such a good contrast. i can easily see a different dev taking his character in a completely different direction

This game hides a full-on Shakespearean tragedy behind the scenes: life and death of Bucky’s creator that is similar in many ways to Walt Disney, the many victims of the Broadside Beach resort and the following massacre and abandonment of it, Mark trying to keep the company afloat, while dealing with the grief of his wife’s terminal illness and subsequent death, not to mention that he is the cause of everything that has happened, including Connor’s life ending decision I find it all very sad and poetic There is also one sad fact about Stumbler, if you conflate him with Mark’s deceased wife, Harley He sent Mark a video trying to cheer him up, when Mark was grieving, if I remember correctly I found it to be very bittersweet Like, yeah, Mark was a major driving force behind all the tragedies, and he was an ass But still, I wouldn’t wish his wife to die because of it, and from how he sounded on the tape, he loved her very much Just sad all around

THIS is WHY you NEVER turn mascot costumes into LIVING BEINGS

Stumbler is so adorable i hope nothing bad happens to him (i am only around halfway through the video rn)

dam , stumbler is chill asf he helps us beat layer 4 and compliments us for looking great

26:05 I’m pretty sure Squeaks said in the discord that Brandon became a starling long before the murders. If I remember right he killed the voice actors because they wore the mascot suits at one point and he thought they were impersonating his friends. Awesome research btw! I’ve been looking for a video documenting the lore.

56:00 There's something about the comidic time of You saying "welcome back to jail!" And the character just hitting something, like he's saying "FU-"

When I saw something lurking in the letterboxing in the intro, I thought it was edited in. When I realized it *wasn't* edited in, my jaw dropped in awe and terror. I've seen games use resolution tricks to their advantage, I've seen games where you have to actively mess with the resolution to do things, I've seen games that act outside of the game window or that use a separate window for certain things. I've never seen a game do THAT, I've never seen a game use the conceit of letterboxes on the sides of the screen and allow a horrible creature to peer at you through them. Just seeing that twisted mascot moving in the margin - hells, seeing ANYTHING moving in the margin - is enough to make my skin crawl. And that's BEFORE the sheer contrast of visual styles between that and the normal graphics! It *almost* makes me wish I played this myself instead of watching a video, but I would've gotten frustrated or way too terrified or pissed off at the jumpscares (I don't do well with jumpscares), so ultimately I'm glad videos like this exist. It makes it possible for someone like me, who is neither an ARG-solver nor particularly courageous, to enjoy this sort of content without having a heart attack or getting angry.

1:34 got an ad right about here so it went “why am I even here talking to you? It’s- RAID SHADOW LEGENDS”

Shipwrecked 64 was one of the most fun and terrifying experiences I had ever played. The puzzles were fun, the characters are memberable, and the borderline story of the game changes everything upside down. I will always remember this game as one of my favorites of all time. And thank you pappo for letting me help in this video. It was fun!

“The code is 1997” “The year it all went wrong” 45:26

There’s something so sad but terrifying about this, it’s different then any other horror indie game because the lore and what happened has nothing to do with the game. The game isn’t haunted or affected the characters in anyway (the opposite can be said), you can’t changed anything by getting a good ending. You’re stuck watching lives crumble and become ruined. You couldn’t save or help anyone, Brandon killed those people, Connor and mark hated each other, Broadside drove Connor to his death, Connor created all these hidden snip bits of what was going on but it happened. It’s tragic but poetic in a sense, and Squeaks D’corgeh is brilliant

Ngl stumbler is my favorite character. He just wants to help you out! I want someone to make a little drawing where he has prosthetic arm

1:18 "im not a slop channel" *pulls up theft king* Istg i started choking on my water from laughing lmao

Stumbler and Chief are real ones for giving you a whole guide for the game with excellent art Makes more sense later when I see more of the game tho

Here’s my five I can name off the top of my head. Shipwrecked 64, Don’t Feed the Muse, Inscryption, Coronation Day, and ESPECIALLY Gilbert Garfield. You NEED to see Gilbert Garfield. It is by far the most original, well-written, well-crafted ARG I have EVER seen.

I really like how the Starling chase song is "Duck & Cover" slowed. Its really catchy while simultaneously creeping the shit out of me!

So I'm not good with horror. I totally lock up and shut down if I'm watching anything scary. I've never beaten a single night in a FNaF game, that's how bad I am with horror. There was no way I could ever play this myself. All that being said, I can appreciate and respect horror for what it allows. I don't think this story could ever work in any other genre. And what a wonderful story it is. A story of resentment, mistakes, and mourning. Kudos to the developers, and kudos to you pappo for putting this all together so that even this wimp can experience this in some way.

Shipwrecked 64.... It isn't your average horror game. It isn't your average AR Game It is however, a game that was built around false hope, tragedy, and deception. But worst of all, a case of human desperation That, and how one man's own grief and heartache singlehandedly caused the downfall of a team's collective dreams.

Connors insensitivity on marks wife situation took me off guard. I get that marks a shitty guy but damn Connor tossing THAT at mark mid fight to try and make himself seem better really sells it on how far gone he was. And how far gone mark was..they are both victims..Connor wasn’t a bad man just pushed to the brink due to broadside doing what they did, experimenting on Brandon who was a addict, resurrecting him, his killing of the other cast members, mark being forced into situations which he didn’t make the best choices but wanted to care about his wife. All while broadside got off Scott free. I feel like broadside was experimenting on mark too, they pushed him to make ungreat choices to fuck him over. I think they picked him on purpose to see how far someone like him would go and it shows. I feel like mark was also a good man. He loved his wife, most likely he cared about his employees,up until the starlings and other things happened then broadside started using him as a scapegoat for their project someone they could blame. Him being forced to do choices he most likely didn’t want to, paired with them most likely making him do those things so the employees blamed him and not the company. My idea of the whole story goes like this, I’m gonna keep it short and simple mind you it’s just a theory and my understanding of it. The main director who was beloved died. As they where looking for a way to bring him back to one up Disney ether mark was hired during or after the search. Mark did his job amazingly so he must of been able to climb the ranks. Then the island was found. Brandon dies then used the flesh to experiment on him bringing him back. They continue to use Brandon in parks everything is fine for a bit, broadside gives Brandon the goal of killing three people who turn into the rest of the starlings. Connor starts loosing his shit, the starlings start to cause problems and broadside starts to make mark do things to slowly slander and shift the blame off of themselves. More incidents with Connor blaming mark more and antagonizing him resulting in stumbler being made as a jab at marks wife. More slander, more fights, more incidents starlings becoming more aggressive due to brain rotting, Brandon being the example, game put on shelves but with an immediate recall. After this marks calls quits on the project angering Connor who results in insulting him and his current situation. Connor’s insanity due to witnessing events unfold is at its peek causing him to finish the game to reveal the island, its secrets and what went on..revealing the creator becoming a starling in game. Before ending his life, mark and his wife’s fate is unknown to me but I assume both are dead. The island is a bonded leavening the starlings to roam with them and their minds rotting away more. With broadside getting off Scott free. The story in my mind is about a company who used its power to experiment on people and to manipulate it was never about a video game. It was about bringing the head honcho back the game was just a front for funding said research. Using a sole man as a scape goat.

J.D shows up once, gives you a mission to save the island, never shows up again. absolute unit.

Pyrocynical’s finest prodigy

I’m so glad someone made a deep dive except for theft king, it was so annoying knowing the crybaby grifter was the only dude to have a video on it

42:39 My heart definitely dropped here when I recognized this video from my history class, didn't expect anything we learned in history to actually be helpful later in life

Vita carnis, vintage 8, rapid eyes, the sun vanished, Gemini home entertainment, 5 ARGS and analog horrors that are wildly different

you HAVE to play David Mullins games, it's not the same per se but they're the closest. And also their args fucking slap

Thank god someone else did a video thought I’d have to watch theft king for a minute

The voice acting for the no arm rabbit was really great I was very immersed.

Thanks for the pause. I went and bought the game and gathered two freinds. Myself and two freinds worked together with no outside help to get to layer four. A band nerd, a guy in the airforce, and a programmer made a perfect team. My coder freind even had a decoding program that perfectly decoded beaver scratch. I will pause at layer 4 and we will get back too it. Thanks for showing us this masterpiece that has really brought us together.

i love Stumbler O'Hare. His emails helped so much in my playthrough!

56:00 “Welcome back to jail.” **S M A C K** Idk why but this made me lose my mind

When the "Rex signed a contract" part hit i realised immediately that HE IS WALT FUCKIN DISNEY SHIP WRECKED 64 IS 5 NIGHTS AT TREASURE NIGHT BUT GOOD

honestly, herring all of this it reminds me of a finish crow 64/ Catastrophe crow

I've gotta say, Squeaks really surprised me by deciding to make Connor even more of an unsympathetic jerk than he already was in the demo (it seems to me that Connor had Liz create Stumbler *before* The Conversation). With that in mind, it really makes one wonder: did the "Starlings" ever exist at all? Or did Connor just invent them as part of his cancellation-induced mental breakdown and vendetta against Mark? I mean, which is more likely: that this story with no other supernatural elements also includes living mascot suits and a secret underground flesh cavern and that somehow the only guy who was able to discover this was a game dev--and that that game dev would, rather than going to the media or police, stuff those secrets in a game and then commit suicide--or that Connor was, in a word, nuts?

Man i dont lnow how i feel about the starlings. I mean a voice actor snapping and killing his coworkers is fine as a plot element, especially with the reveal at the end that the game is one part whistleblower report one part suicide note, but like. The costumes are alive and ressurect the dead? Where the hell did that come from? It feels like it comes from an entirely different project.

Voice acting at 1:08:55 is top-notch. Very impressive throughout the entirety of the video, but this part clearly stands out. Well done.

55:12 They brought a new friend: Brandon And at exact moment my computer gave a bios, and when I understood that it was not a joke in a video... Scary

To attack From the aspect ratio black bars, thats the most genius and horrifying thing ive heard

Would love to see more long form content like this. This was an enjoyable way to start my day.

I think you hit all the marks on the story and it makes perfect sense. Mark, who became desperate to gain money for his sick wife, especially after Broadside Beach closed down due to the Brandon Lester murders, ends up doing layoffs and budget cuts which affected Cogwear who was making a game for Broadside at the time. I think Connor was a jerk since the start especially since Stumbler and Chief Wolf have been around since before the big argument (Mark complains about non-Broadside characters in the game before the big argument). So he was literally voicing his grievances about his boss through a literal stand-in for his boss' sick wife, an actual a-hole. Eventually their studio gets closed down and Connor turns the game into a last hurrah by filling it with damning evidence against Broadside Animations. The only plot hole here is how did Connor get access to footage of the Brandon Lester murders since Broadside Beach where the murders happened was closed down and the starlings were left to roam it as it was too expensive to destroy them. Additionally the husks are also an enigma, Broadside Beach did have multiple generations of experiments before they deemed starlings to be successful (if you call living corpses forced to wear a mascot suit to hide their rotting bodies a success).

Is that the official VA for Stumbler reading the Helping Nub site? That's awesome that we can actually hear the little guy read what he wrote.

This was a good documentary. Whenever I see people giving their thoughts on this game they always never tried to translate the BeaverScratch language and leave the language to us, but when you cover this game, I am happy that you covered the language. Thank you and have a nice day 👍

I watch long form horror content while I’m practicing the piano and I’ve been loving this video. Just went to refill my water on my break and noticed how new and under viewed this video is. Absolutely amazing stuff I really hope the algorithm blessed others as it did me. Keep up the stellar work!

I think my favorite part of this game are the jumpscares. I have no idea how they did it, but the way the image just meeeeelllllttttssss sends me. How Olivia’s drowns in raising water, Alex appears inside Blot, it’s so impressive.

this was such a good video. At first I thought it was just gonna be another "the mascot costumes are alive" type thing but this game really surprised me

FINALLY SOMEONE ANALYZES THIS GAME!! i saw manlybadasshero's playthrough of this the moment he released the video. Ever since then his video on this game has been one of my most favourite videos on his channel. I've watched it 8 times i think, i always felt like he didn't see everything and this game is really mysterious with an interesting story so im so glad to see you covering it! :D Sorry for the long comment 💀 Epic edit: wow this thumbnail art is really good you fr need more compliments on your thumbnails

The "Thank you Mark" at the end is fucked up wow

the starlings jumpscaring you when they see you seems like it'd get old *fast*

i am prone to seizures and panic attacks when it comes to horror content. its my favorite genre though so i want to consume it. videos like this really help so much since i cant physically play it right now!!! i love this longform content

Is Stumbler’s tape a reference to Pokemon Abridged? There’s an episode where nurse joy watches a video of her past self and says something pretty similar, along with the “you look great today” thing at the end. Unless that was a reference to something else too.

"I won't know what the truth is unless it's thrown at me like shit from a monkey" 1. That made me laugh way harder than it probably should have. 2. Relatable

It’s the Un-unholy fusion of Catastrophe Crow, BATIM and Man in the Suit. And it’s pretty epic

40:26 the letters hold hands with their friend on the side and switch places! Its like they're dancing. I found it quite cute to think it like that.

I sitted, for an hour and a half, wondering how this game was that immersive, I usually expected for something similiar to the "cool happy game to ruthless and violent game" but it was just the emotion of a man who took his life, I needed to write this because I was impressed, but also impressed by how pappo describes AND interpresents it, I admit i couldn't survive layer 3 without a guide, but the way this video represents the game, just takes everything about it, except you actually doing the puzzles, and show it like a movie, and I say thank you, because I needed a story-telling like this for a lot of time.

There are additional details after failing the 1997 mini games multiple times. After Giovanni is gone, ovens can randomnly appear in the other minigames. Likewise after Olive, an eyeless Olive will follow you. And after Walter, the lights can occasionally flicker out akin to his minigame. While less creepy, after failing Wulf’s task multiple times you can meet him in a new area where he eventually gifts the night vision that you can use in other minigames- which is really helpful for Stumbler’s as you can see where the ink is. I don’t recall what happens with failing Stumbler’s minigame but I think it’s mostly normal Edit: The secret room you found the last time you failed Giovanni’s minigame (when the ovens immediately burn) depicts a scene similar to how his VA died but with Giovanni in his place. Additiinally, you can see a large face watching you in Walter’s minigame when the lights go out

26:10 I have two theories as to why Brandon is killing the voice actors. Number 1, He sees them as a threat. Brandon doesn’t want them becoming more popular than him, better than him. The fact that there’s statues of him every time another voice actor is killed seems to help support this even further. The statues also appear to be gold. Brandon wants to remain the golden star of the cast. He is seemingly the main character/face of the franchise, after all. Number 2, He wants the gang all together. Brandon is killing the voice actors so that all of them are made into starlings. Maybe it’s so he isn’t alone in this fate of being some immortal mascot, or just because he wants everyone on equal footing. The reasoning could maybe even tie back into my first theory! Who knows, haha. Not even halfway into the video as of writing this, but I’m super invested! Can’t wait to see the rest of it. Awesome work, my mans.

Is anyone else questioning what happened to the starlings? Why did brandon kill them, What happened to them after they turned, Are they still out there?

I met the Dev of this game on a random discord VC in the beak's server and dude was amazing he showed his character models and answered questions like the long neck peacock was put inside a deep fat fryer and also one of the models can breakdance!

probably one of the coolest shipwrecked videos I’ve seen. I’ve been into broadside beach since around its inception and it’s so neat to see an analysis like this !!

"im not a slop channel" *shows theft king* respect

ARGs are meant to be playable!! Or at least interactable. They're called Alternate Reality GAMES for a reason!! Some people call random horror stuff "ARG"s when it's usually just a horror series. ARGs have interaction! Like playable games, or being able to directly alter the course of the plot as players. Just a little comment I had to make after hearing "it's playable". Watching the rest of the video rn

Shipwrecked 64 is my Roman Empire. This honestly might be on the same level as fnaf for me.

51:54 I love this project, but I think there's a lesson here they could've taken from PT. It had it's own jump-scares, sure, but they were few and far between, and if memory serves(not like I can boot it up to refresh my memory lol), they were pretty easy to avoid. Point being, Kojima also wanted it to be a community effort that would take most people a long time to figure, and knew how miserable it'd be if the ghost lady chased you down to scream in your face every 20 seconds *while* you're trying to solve puzzles. Most of the game had a subtle horror underlying it while occasionally throwing you into a moment of terror. The red hallway, getting locked in the bathroom, the ghost lady slowly walking towards you. The starlings in shipwrecked would have been way more impactful if they were used in a similar way.

I lik how when the starlings show up, much lik the burt the turtle song that plays when the starlings appear, you have to “duck and cover” (aka hide in a barrel) also the audio tape about the sun being a carrot, is from the national film board of canada film “frank the wrabbit,”

I noticed that in layer 2 in Walter s section I saw the husk watching us that is cool 😎

Finally someone explaining the lore, thank you so much for taking the time to doing this.

This game finds every way to terrify me, the characters appearing in the borders is genuinely horrifying and makes you feel on edge even when you are safe from the starlings.

In my perspective, i think that the true ending tells us that the bucky we play as is supposed to be Connor in some kinda purgatory before or after his death, watching what his game has become. Im probably wrong and glossing over some stuff, but again, just my perspective :)

Aww man I forget where I could have seen it before but the distorted closeup on the creature realising you're there before it starts chasing you is cool as hell.

Those semi-realistic glitchy n64 models of the starlings are surprisingly effective...what a cool project!!

I love how the restored version feels like, well a restored version. A lot of stuff like this claims it’s “restored” when it reality it’s more like a “emulation” if u will. It actually feels like a team of people did there best to stitch together a game that was left in pieces, and it’s very well done.

Did bro rlly think i was going to play this horrifying yet amazing ARG masterpiece? Im too scared pappo :(

This actually reminds me of Catastrophe Crow. A few similarities are: - a custom alphabet and cipher (Crow language and Beaverscratch) - mentions of a dying family member or loved one (the creator of CC's daughter and Mark's wife) -maps made of flesh.

No living virus. No world ending threat. No creepy clones. Just people, who are broken, with a little bit of power.

OH THANK GOD ITS NOT A POSSESSION STORY AGAIN AND ACTUALLY A CLEVER MASCOT SYSTEM

1:23:58 this part startled me lmao, was not expecting him to say that and despite how fucked up it was I almost laughed

I do love the implication that, disregarding the need to make a convincing enough first impression so people will actually buy and play through the game, Connor couldn't help but game-ify his exposé in ways like the puzzle elements and actual tough threats to handle. On the one hand, that could absolutely be a way to keep people engaged because "why else would these dangers be here if not to guard something" but I do like to think it was a little bit of the game developer in him going "Okay I have to at least *try* to make this a *game."*

i sincerely hope that this video blows up because more eyes need to be on this arg and this video is probably one of the better deep dives into it that i've seen. i haven't finished the video yet but i already really like ur editing style and sense of humor, i'm surprised u only have 6k subs

One thing I am still unclear on is : Who is small Bucky? The Husk says what he can show us will help us understand why we are what we are. Is he referring to the game itself or specifically small Bucky? I'm assuming small Bucky and Brandon are separate entities here and little Bucky sure is opinionated to be just a program.

I love how REAL this is. The focus of the game isn’t the starlings, it’s of Conner’s pride and hatred, of Mark’s sorrow, of corporate greed (not the main focus but still); it’s not a supernatural story, it’s a story of REAL people facing real problems and how these people aren’t perfect. It doesn’t praise Conner for showing us the game, it chides him for what he did. It doesn’t try to make us feel horrible for Mark, it shows us how poorly he is reacting. It doesn’t try to humanize the monsters, it simply shows their pasts and why they’re like this. It’s not a story about horrifying monsters, it’s a story about how humans can do _far_ worse than any monster. And honestly? That realistic look at people? At how horrible we can be? That’s more horrifying than any monster.

I dont know if its mentioned anywhere but after getting the "secret" in the second failure attempt in Giovani's game, you can drop out of the map for a scene similar to the third fail Olivia scene. Just something ive found but never heard mentioned since it doesn't follow the order of everything else

I remember watching Pastra play this. Didn't know it got a glow up! Great video!

Love the voice used for Stumbler O'Hare, he's so cute!

1:15 the fact i clicked off theft king's video on this ARG to this one because he is a slop channel and then this joke plays is golden

Very nice arg and game. One of the first thing to genuinely disturb/scare me in a while. Now I’m desensitized and can enjoy the scares in peace and appreciate them

Thank you for covering more than just the game- I've only seen people delve into the game so far

What an absolute home run of a video that youtube decided to randomly show me. Excited to see what comes from this channel in the future.

We stan Stumbler in this house The only universal good in this game, even if their origins leave much to be desired