Hello everyone! I genuinely do hope you enjoy this playthrough and have fun watching along. Feel free to sit back and let this one play out, as I've already finished the game in it's entirety, as it's not too long. I'll be honest, this might be the playthrough I am actually the most self conscious about on my channel haha! It's a hard game, made harder by being on camera feeling the pressure and voicing my thoughts. I'm sure there will be plenty of frustrating moments, like damn... how that Captain definitely shot that guy huh? Definitely not the woman with the gun, shooting him point blank... (Don't worry, we'll get there.) Every mistake is clearly a well thought out, perfectly intricate detective method you're just not used to seeing yet...it'll all tie together fantastically.
Game is great, commentary is great. Don't worry, this game is designed to trip you up and keep you guessing. Figuring it out is the point, but figuring out how you figured it out is the fun.
Don't worry about it. Everyone that plays this draws conclusions that seem wild in hindsight, and it's all part of the game design. It's also what makes the game fun!
Having finished watching your playthrough, you did pretty well! Was a fun ride-along watching you figure out where you went wrong and what you missed. If every nerd on here giving you heck had to show their playthrough to thousands of people too they'd shut up real fast.
Don't worry about it being too hard, I brute forced a couple of things too and I felt really dumb sometimes, God knows I walked around the ship for hours looking for just one answer
As a bit of trivia, the couple of voice lines your character gets at the beginning can be a masculine or feminine voice, and which one you get is random!
Spoiler about one of my biggest realizations in the game. It has to do with the helmsman. Early on I scrolled over him in the book and he was already clear even though I had barely any information at that point. So I was like "How in the fuck would I identify who this is." a a minute or two of thinking while staring at him with narrowed eyes I was like. "Wait a second. He... He's at the wheel of the ship.... He. Are you kidding me? He's the helmsman?". At that point my brain expanded. I started identifying people by their location in memories on the ship, by their outfits, tattoos,, what they had in their rooms or by their hammocks, by their positions in the paintings and who in them they were hanging out with, anything. As an example "The Russians seem to hang around each other a lot so maybe they're hanging out together in the top painting too?". And so on. It was an amazing moment.
No one notices that when you first get the book, even if you dont see any memories, the helmsman is always unblurred. Same with the Henry Evans part, somepeople do like this playthrough and inmediately connect the preface and crew list, some other people get stuck until the end not knowing where the survivors went.
The pandemic lockdowns found me binging disco elysium, outer wilds and obra dinn, all games where you're some sort of investigator trying to figure things out, Scratched an inch that hasn't been scratched in years, made me feel extra smart. Obra Dinn stands out due to it being a solo dev, just imagine Lucas Pope building the ship piece by piece like it's a model kit, sorting out the plot, setting up the scenes, designing 50+ distinct character models... It seeps love, which is such a rare thing in games nowadays.
@@renegade198 I highly recommend looking up the polygon guide for outer wilds. It tells you the best order to get all the translations in the way that makes the most sense without spoiling any of the experience. I spent 2 days wandering around aimlessly in that game and just about gave up on it before I found that guide and it turned out to be one of the very best solo gaming experiences of my life
It's always interesting to see what parts of the game various people gravitate to when they play. For example, I'm semi-bad at accents, but when people mention "my Frenchman" or "you bloody Dane" my ear perks up and I'm skimming the list of crew and passengers. The game does, unfortunately, require some outside knowledge (mainly of cultures/accents/languages) to solve with minimal guesswork, but I'm interested in seeing how the four vids in this playlist pan out for you. EDIT: Nearly forgot to mention: I loved the look of childlike wonder that blossomed on your face when you saw the tentacles. I tend to go with a "holy crap...", wide-eyed look and several minutes just slowly spinning in place to try to take in the scope of the scene. (Thankfully, like a good movie or book, you can enjoy this on replay. Especially if you give it some time to fade a bit in your memory.)
35:18 Here, the game will also accept: Clubbed by beast and crushed by beast. There are multiple cases in the game where more than one interpretation of the cause of death is valid.
One thing I really love about playthroughs like these is that it's the closest you can get to experience them again through new eyes. It's the reason I even subscribed to you, because of the Outer Wilds videos.
Same here. Played this game because outer wilds, followed Mapo on his excellent OW playthrough, stuck with Mapo because FUN, played Inscryptio because of Mapo Now I'm glad to re-experience this game with this guy
Neat detail: the watch hands correspond to the page in the book when looking at a corpse. The hour hand points to the chapter, and the minute hand points to the part within the chapter e.g. when looking at the corpse for chapter 10 part 3, the watch hands point to 10:15, and if you were looking at the corpse for, say, chapter 6 part 2, they'd point to 6:10.
Mapo I don't know how far in advance you record these, and you might have realized this by now, but the "Unknown passenger" orr "Unknown Seaman" doesn't mean that there are unknown passengers or seamen on the ship. It's to be used when you've uncovered someone's role on the ship but don't know exactly who from that role it is.
Nice catch with Henry Evans escaping to Morocco, most people forget that he signed the book and asked you to deliver it to Morocco by that point, and therefore that he must be alive in Morocco.
@@danigar There is another way to reason out that puzzle even without the Morocco reference, at least once you have a clear idea of who the people involved are: - - - - - - - - None of the people who make it onto the last lifeboat can actually be expected to know how to navigate. There's a young steward, two civilian women, and the surgeon, but no trained sailors or ship's officers. So the odds of them making it to any of the islands without veering off course is minimal: only sailing due East until they hit Africa will ensure they won't miss their target entirely.
At 40:43 it starts the scene looking at a silhouette of the dude that died and mapo just can’t figure out where the body is. Granted it is hard to see if you’re not standing directly in front of it. Also at 1:06:10 he’s looking at the person who shot the guy and turns around and is like it must be this other guy who hasn’t fired yet.
I'm looking forward to you playing it because I couldn't. Sadly, the movement and the style made me sick. But it's apparently amazing game, so I hope you have fun!
Absolutely do it, it's 8-12 hours of game, and it is so much more fun to figure things out and have moments of discovery yourself (Or, if you do keep watching along, try and figure things out before he does! That would also be a fun way to experience the story I think)
I'm super excited for this one! I can't wait to see all of the strange directions your logic goes to finding the truth! Spoilers below! People who have played/seen this before are going to agree with me: fuck those shoes.
@@nathancollins1715 The chinamen have very few clues to determine their identities, you basically have to see who they are based on their hammock numbers and their unique shoes.
Heh, I think I just guessed on them. I knew all their fates so I would wait until I had 2 other fates I knew were right and then cycled through the options until it got confirmed. Did that for the Indians and some of the other seamen, too. Never would have guessed about their shoes!
I love and also hate how difficult Paul Moss is for content creators. They literally call out the name. Cue frantically scrolling through the names, overreading Paul and thinking it's someone else
I really agree with what you said at the start about indies being refreshing in the AAA landscape. A few years ago I was feeling sort of bored with gaming, nothing really interested me, then I started playing indies and it rekindled my love of games. AAA games can be fun but unfortunately are getting kind of same-y, and as someone who doesn't like shooters or multiplayer, the current mainstream trends weren't appealing to me. But these days I'm mostly playing indie titles (including Obra Dinn!) and having more fun gaming than ever!
Thanks for playing this - I had no idea it existed before seeing it suggested to you. And I still probably wouldn't have played it myself so this is really cool to watch. I need to get into the indie scene more often!
You're on a roll picking some of my favourite games to play through lately man! Found your channel recently from you Disco Elysium playthrough. Since i found it Inscription, Papers Please, Fallout 1, and this are all a kind of surprising picks to see on youtube that are high on my list of games. Not sure if you or your audience have great taste but keep it up my dude!
I'm excited for both your successes and your mistakes! This game is very good and lots of fun to watch someone getting surprised and their moments of discovery
WOOOOOO IT'S HERE!!! Right, so... I love this game lol So I can't wait to see someone play it for the first time, seeing how the player puts all the pieces together is so awesome it's just ahhh!! Oh and I can't spoil anything so it's even better, I really hope you enjoyed this game Mapo
Really excited for this playthrough, always a joy to see people puzzle their way through this game :D I've got another "cool looking indie game" for your list if you're interested: "Heaven's Vault" has you explore a nebula as an archeologist, uncovering forgotten sites and deciphering a lost language word by word. Has a great sense of mystery as it unfolds and when the whole language puzzle at its center starts to click it makes you feel really clever.
Seconding the recommendation for Heaven's Vault! It's a beautiful game with a really cool core mechanic and it doesn't get nearly enough attention from the letsplay community.
Thirding the recommendation (is that even a thing?? well it is now). The lost language that you're deciphering is ridiculously well detailed, the lore and history of this world is a joy to uncover, I love the art direction from the hand drawn artstyle of the characters to the design of the 3d geometry. And one small thing that I really like is that your dialogue is mostly choices and the game never does the Telltale thing of (character will remember that) after you picked a choice, so you're forced to make choices without knowing which ones will have consequences in the future, some would say this make the decision making process too difficult but i love that level of uncertainty that it brings.
@@octochan I've been meaning to play it again myself - apparently if you play on the same account the in-game dictionary remembers the words you learned in previous playthroughs, so you get more and more of the language the more you play. By the end of my first playthrough I could almost read the language without the help of the in-game dictionary, but it's been a couple of years so I'd have to relearn it lol.
@@beefarren yep, the replayability is great, in addition to keeping your dictionary NG+ also replaces most of the inscriptions with more complex version to keep it fresh
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, LETS GOO. No need to be self concious, its a hardd game, but youre doing great. Just enjoy it at your pace, being confused and having no clue of what is happening and struggeling to solve some cases is part of it. Some of the cases you find will probably take you until the very end to solve, and thats fine. btw there was another name you seemed to miss at around 56:30 ish, just after pete's mother
I'm beyond excited for this game. Don't worry about struggling; god knows I did too. I gave up the first time I played this game and I could only beat it the second time I played when I had my girlfriend playing with me and helping me see things. Good luck!
I played alongside my neurosurgeon husband and we had plenty of doofy moments. It’s easy to get frustrated when you’ve already beaten the game but it’s a tough one!
I love how you were fighting with the game in windowed mode. Once I unlocked all the parts, I kept the game in windowed mode so I can build and maintain spreadsheets full of notes and theories. It'll be interesting to find out if you will include note taking and spreadsheet building in the videos because that is the main appeal. Seeing another person's thoughts and how differently clues are found and put together.
This is a game I really wish I could play for the first time again. I completed it over a weekend with a friend, its sooo satisfying when everything finally clicks into place. ❤
Flint lock pistols fire a metal ball worse than a modern day bullet if unreliable due to gun powder plus the reload times ☠️ By the way the ship has a helm or they call it the wheel to steer 🤓
I'm excited! I think this game has some of the coolest realizations of like, figuring out what's going on, and how everything comes together as you progress. (you don't need to feel subconscious about it, figuring it out and going back to realize what you missed is part of the charm of this game)
This game is GOATED! I'm a big time fan of "point and click" and investigative videogames and this is the ONLY GAME were I felt like I was actually solving a mystery. Easy top ten of all time for me
I just finiahed playing the game earlier today and wanted to see how someone else played it. We thought so similar about things haha, I guess most people in similar ways while playing. I found it funny that you found out who Henry Evans was earlier than me and i was impressed that you managed to figure out he was in Morocco...but then didnt know where morcco is 😅 such an anticlimax.
The developer had to use some clever tactics to get the graphics to display just right. Maybe forcing it into a window messes something up. Just a thought. I'm not sure if what we are seeing on this recording is exactly what you're seeing on your monitor.
FYI, click on the anchor in the start screen to check out the other flavours of antique monitors, and the look sensitivity options. Edit: oh, he found those settings
I personally quit the game out of frustration once I got to the point that I had seen most of the memories (everything except the Bargain chapter) but had only locked in like 16 people, as I simply didn't feel like going through all of the memories again to get the rest right. Still, I love seeing people play this game and respect the hell out it, even if it's not really one that's made for me.
@@saotiago Yeah but... also just knowing where you are?? Bc ppl go to the bosun quarters and are all like "what's this hanging thing on the side? well I guess we'll never know" when they can just press Tab
Pro tip for anyone interested in this game: if you have a guess for a specific person’s identity, make sure to actually write it in, even if you’re not 100% sure it’s right. The game will still validate your answer even if it’s just a guess, and writing your guesses in the book is the best way to test your hypotheses. Like the game says, sometimes you’ll have to make assumptions based on incomplete info, so don’t be afraid to throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. Very excited for this playthrough!
I sometimes see Let's Players refuse to enter any information until they're 100% sure, they won't make any guesses at all. It's sorta understandable, because guessing kinda feels like cheating the system, but there's definitely a middle ground between never guessing, ever, even when you're 99% sure of something, and blindly going through every possibility until the game tells you you're right.
I'd recommend against doing this. I've seen so many people throw in loose guesses, then disregard more concrete info they get later because it contradicts what they have filled in, then eventually start removing/changing names they were sure of and correct about before, because they are no longer sure what they were actually certain about and what was just a random guess. And also getting things correct this way, without fully knowing why it is correct, making it harder to put togheter more pieces later that builds on that understanding, and since they have already "solved" that death they are less likely look into it or think about it again.
I’ve been watching your Chanel for a while now, please please do a walkthrough of the tomb raider (2013) trilogy, incredible story and voice acting and I think you’ll truly enjoy it
Interested to see you play this. Now this is a game I actually didn’t like but I’m definitely in the minority. Will be cool to see it from your perspective
Nothing infuriates me more than Obra Dinn let's plays, 90% of the players just sprint through at the beginning without understanding much and then have to do all the homework at the end when it becomes a huge task and they finally understand the game. I'm starting to think the game is at fault at this point and its purposefully meager tutorial, even though I adore it
Nothing to be angry about. There's multiple ways to play! There's no reason a player couldn't watch all the memories without guessing a single fate. That's FINE! There's no single correct way to play this game.
@@SarahMaeBea I'll agree partially, yes and no, the game doesn't force you to input names or fates and doesn't block you at any point, but it is somewhat expected of you to be meticulous in your investigation. When it clicks how much you have to be observant, it's an amazing feeling, but I wonder and somewhat infuriates me why it is so common for the "click" to usually happen very late
@@Kochen51 That's just how puzzle games work. Especially ones with this much deep detailed information. It's unreasonable to expect a person playing this for the first time to stop and notice every single clue. Impossible. The game doesn't want that. It's designed for you to revisit memories multiple times. I think you have this expectation only because you've played it or watched it so you see the clues as you're watching. There's just no way to get everything in one go and it's unreasonable to expect that from a youtube playthrough. I don't think it's a failing in the game. Being confused is part of the core design.
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