TOP?! | A Difficult Game About Climbing - Part 5 

0:13 “Matpat’s not here to protect you from me!” Dear god, the king of FNaF has been plotting the downfall FNaF’s greatest scribe and scholar!

Seeing Markiplier actually compliment the game design instead of cursing out everyone involved in it is great character development

To those that just so happen to be checking the comments right now, 14 hours ago, Mark tweeted "It is done." Very cryptic, most likely in regards to Iron Lung. Probably getting an update/apology video in the coming days explaining why hes been gone for a month.

It's been three weeks since my favorite youtuber went offline. Sometimes I swear I can still hear his voice

2:03 “I have this Unnatural ability to do something on the first try” *The wheel, Mark.*

Mark: "Everyone shut up" Me doing dishes: *turns off water* "Sorry"

ok to those who are wondering where mark is- it is likely he is finishing out iron lung. i’m sure somewhere he has posted something about it or plans to

guys, i'm having mark's content withdrawals

"Matpat is not here to protect you from me" Haven't had this much shade since the egg incident.

Getting over it was anger at the game. Now mark has finally evolved past outward rage bursts… into bottled internal frustration against himself. The lack of chair throwing is compensated by the fact that Marks blood veins could pop at any moment. It makes the rare anger moments more satisfying!

Oh Markimoo how I miss the sound of your voice. Every day without you is like a day without the sun. Your soothing words, once ever present, are now so distant Has the Iron Lung claimed you, has the ocean claimed yet another resident? Until you return I shall await you, my sunshine, my beautiful

We probably haven’t gotten any recent videos because the premiere for iron lung was shown. The movie is probably finished, and he showed it to his family and friends. That’s why he hasn’t made any more videos, he’s still busy. He’ll come back to yt videos probably in a few weeks.

"Matpat is not here to protect you from ME." Bros beef with matpat is wild 😭😭

28:24 "and then this, no problem" immediately falls. Great work mark

I just hope he is alive, I'm pretty sure he us still working in the Iron lung movie, but not hearing anything for over 3 weeks is worrying

3 weeks is quite a while when you're hungry for content from your favorite creator

"BECAUSE IM KING OF FIVENIGHTSATFREDDY'S"

18:00 this is actually a documented phenomenon. When you first start something, you have no expectations about how things should be done, so you just do your best and when you mess up, all you think is, "well of course; I only just started." But after you've been doing it for a while, your brain builds up all these expectations that end up actually making you worse. I've found that the best way to combat this is to just take a 5-10 min break when you start to notice the quality of attempts start to go down. When you come back from that break, you will be noticeably better because you've lost that "muscle memory fatigue"

Me: comes here to look at comments because Mark has been inactive for 3 weeks The comments: "Yo I saw your DING DONG filter on Tik Tok" What the actual fuck?

for the folks wondering where he is, he’s finishing up his movie iron lung - which by the way IS FINISHED HE ANNOUNCED TODAY ON TWITTER

Mark, the concept of beginners luck is very real, except it has nothing to do with luck. When you are doing something blind, you're relying on instinct. In those instances, you either just go with the flow, or choke due to panic of the unknown. When you return to a familiar experience, you're now trying to use past experience as well as react to it, so your brain is working on more things to process. You start hyper analyzing all your movements, the positions of things, try to recall what went wrong with the last attempt while focusing on the present, and psyche yourself out.

It's very poetic that Mark was able to grab the ledge at 28:16 so easily in this final Episode given he deemed it impossible in the first!

Anyone else missing Mark rn?

MARK WE NEED YOU 4 WEEK'S WITHOUT IS MAKING ME NERVOUS WE NEED MARK PLEASE UPDATE US

Mark there's actually a saying (although it's usually used in darksouls style games, but it can be applied to broader things) that your two best attempts at beating a boss will be your first and last attempts. This is because (Forgive me if I mess up parts) in your first attempt you're giving it you're best without any idea what you're facing and as such aren't usually as nervous, every attempt after that is learning and it's normal to do worse and and worse and then get a little better, then a little worse over and over until finally, on your last attempt you win. You seem to embody this concept on a subconscious level.

You know, this is a good game. It doesn't need to be endlessly frustrating and have the controls fighting you all the time. This just seems like a nice challenge.

Anyone who’s worried… I get it, this channel means a lot to a lot of people, me included. But a new distractible dropped yesterday, so I hope/think that means the dudes fine and that he’s probably just having a lil break from YT or building up another catalogue of videos for everyone or just working on finishing Iron Lung. Everyone chill, it’s what he’d want.

It's been a month... Markiplier must be struggling with Iron Lung...hope he doesn't vanish like Corry

mark is struggling ❤

Thought it was just me who was missing Mark 😭

Waiting for mark to post his next game is like dehydrated people waiting in line for a busted dripping water spout

mark’s commitment to the sick flip strategy has been the highlight of this series

You know what i appreciate about Lixian so much? He doesn't over-edit at all. The pacing of cuts fits Mark so perfectly and the emphasys of certain phrases and words with echoes or other effects are also chosen just enough to where it's neither too much, nor to little. Perfectly balanced, like all things should be. Love your content, keep it up❤ (and that's to both Lixian and Mark)

Congratulations on finishing Iron lung

Markiplier: I'm tired. Therefore I'm going to continually play the hardest and most tedious and time consuming game ever.

28:00 AHHHHHH YOU MADE IT!!! the clouds into the bonus credits level into the ladder back into the ocean was such a cute touch!!!

Mark, I know the feeling of the "Its not a bit" I OFTEN play a game or a boss fight, get near the end and die... try again and i barely get past 10%

Just wanted to say that your my favourite youtuber and i watch you everyday, your literally one of the reasons why i am so happy in life is because your videos are there to cheer me up if my day is gloomy

I miss mark sm. I hope he’s doing okay and is enjoying his spare time to rest ❤️

That phenomenon of your first attempt being the best and the reat of the video being you trying to achieve that again is a real thing. AstralSpiff talked about it in a Peaks of Yor stream - the first and last attempts will always be your best. That struggle point in the middle is when you are trying and experimenting with everything. Its the learning period where you constantly take in information, consciously and unconsciously Those super powerful attempts are your brain applying everything you've learned. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just gives more learning data at another point. The point being: this struggle is a normal thing and you are making progress even when it feels like crap

18:00 My theory about this "phenomenon" : At the beginning, you are fresh, focus and without any pent-up frustration. But the game is difficult and comes a moment (which happens to everyone) when you lose a bit of focus, you're getting more tense, less precise etc. And when that moment comes, you're entering a 'feedback loop' where this frustration feeds your lack of confidence and you start getting more and more frustrated towards the game and yourself, which in return makes you do more mistakes, and so on. Solution: you have to accept that there will always be a moment during the session where you'll get less good, and that is perfectly normal. I feel exactly the same when I play this type of game.

I hope you're okay Mark! Take your time making new videos, take breaks, and I hope the rest of your day goes well.

I love it when new episodes of "Korean Man Yells at Mountain" comes out.

"MatPat's not here to protect you" has such a rediculously threatening aura to it omg

MARK I SAW THE DRAKE SNAKE

Hey man, I think we are starting to get worried. Hope u are doing fine.

I saw a post somewhere explaining the "best try is the first try" phenomenon somewhere once. It really is just psychology. In the first try the focus is purely to see how far one can go and to do the best at every little step, with no pressure at all. But during subsequent tries we have the added pressure where we expect ourselves to do at least as good as the first try, or even better since we should have learnt something. This comparison that is often inflated by intense self-criticism means the middle tries when we are learning something new feel the most frustrated. It is eventually when one learns enough that a try with the added pressure goes as good as the first try will one progress past the first try.

Truly Mark's pattern of "Perfect first try and completely flubbing every following attempt" truly induces despair

Someone leaked your Multiplier..

GUYS THE TIKTOK FILTER IS NOT MARK. IT JUST HAS HIS FACE ON IT

"He's not here to protect you FROM ME." Love it

I literally check twice a day to see if he’s posted, Mark it’s been a month we miss you 💔💔💔

Why hasn't Mark/Lixian been putting the classic outro music, I miss it!!

13:11 what I would give to see mark absolutely blazing through the starting areas now after he had so much trouble with them initially. I think that would be a great video

Markiplier: I’m back! As soon as he’s done with this game: goes away for another two weeks*

I hope he's ok.

Mark it's been 3 weeks and were all worried about you, I hope you're okay from the bottom of my heart you have gotten me through my entire life practically even when I was being abused at my childhood home, if you're not okay, your fans are here for you just like you were here for us

in Getting over it, one of the first things Bennant tells you is “Starting over is harder than starting up” And he wasn’t wrong even watching this playthrough unfold it rung true. The old mark if it hadn’t been for his experience with rage games like Getting over it, probably would have taken significantly longer to finish this game. He even came to this game mentality prepared for what he was going to do.And yes he stilled struggled, but even he knew most of his mistakes was his own. And that’s development if I’ve ever seen one, congrats Mark

I love how much more this game seems to actully give the player control. I remember a video of Getting Over It, where the player got themselves up to a decent high point, then took thier hands off the keyboard and mouse, even pointing the face cam at the mouse and keyboard, and the player in game moves without *any* input, what so ever, that game is made to be unfair as hell, this one is just. so much better

The filter💀

When mark is going up the ladder towards the end. Just imagine "This content is not available in early access"

Mark doing it the hard way and trying to throw and grab the rock down below instead of the easy way of sliding down the ice and grabbing it is a metaphor for life

21:43 the long shadows on the arms are actually accurate. The dev made them longer to make the climbing mechanics work. He does a video where he shows what climbing looks from the side perspective and it’s wild! From rear perspective it looks totally normal. It’s only noticeable in some shadows.

Thank you Mark! No more suffering left! Perhaps to take your mind off of this, you could play the new "Sucker for Love: A Date to Die For"?

I just want mark to be happy, so if what he wants to take a break or not do this anymore at all. I think we all should do if that happens is to wave him goodbye and wish him good luck for all these years he has been there for us. Its our turn to be there for him. Its truly the least we could do for our markimoo♡ ALSO IF HES NOT QUITING AND IM TOTALY OVEREACTING A SMIDGE IM REALLY SORRY FOR STRESSING YOU OUT AS IF I KNOW SOMETHING EVEN THOUGH I KNOW EXACTLY AS MUCH AS EVERYONE ELSE... just want to be clear♡

Next: Video ends when Mark completes the game in one sitting.

"Matpat is not here to protect you from ME." An absolutely amazing way to start an episode NGL.

For the ones that r coming here bcuz of the tt filter thing, its deepfake, but its still really disgusting and disrespectful bcuz howd u feel if something like that happened to u. And ja bcuz he has an OF doesn't mean he wouldn't care, besides he doesn't show any stuff like that on his OF, he covers it up with a image

Y'all let the man work on his side projects or rest, he's been doing this for a decade, even if he enjoys it he gotta do sum else too

28:25 “And then this? No problem! Basically nothing to me😌✨” *immediately falls* “I give up! Alright! Byyee😃✌️”

Honestly, I feel like the difficulty of this game is just right. Like, it's challenging and difficult. But it feels fair, and it's not so difficult to the point where you don't feel like you want to complete it. There are a lot of nice breakpoints and the level design is very generous. Like the fact that you can't really backtrack during extremely hard sections or that there are even safety nets to save you from falling too far. But it's still difficult and feel very rewarding when you finally reach the top.

Mark.. its been almost a month.. i hope you are doing well, but also, please post. i am internally dying.

Mark! There's Sour Patch Oreos, now, and was wondering if you might review those in the future? Might be interesting for a video idea. Sour Patch Kids: The Sequel

damn, Mark actually survived this game without bursting a blood vessel or even breaking anything, he really has evolved since getting over it

Can we just appreciate for a moment that mark saw a skip he was so sure was possible but just couldnt figure out the trick to get that little bit of hight but now, he did it on pretty much the first try

I MISS YOU MARKIPLIER YOURE MY FAVORITE RU-vidR YOU PLAYED EVERY GAME IN THE WORLD PLEASE START UPLOADING SCARY GAMES OR IN REAL VIDEOS PLEASEEE

Bro hasn't seen the leaks yet

Hi there, psychology nerd here. I can explain two things that are going on here. 1) The reason Mark can do something first try but then screw it up later is because the first time you do something, you aren't thinking as hard about it. You have less information about exactly what goes into it and the exact nuances of trying to make it happen, and so the lack of information actually helps you get through it easier by not trying to cater to all the little details and instead just gunning it and doing what you know will work. That's why "beginners luck" is a thing. Less info, less to think about, more instinctive action. 2) The reason that the jump at the top of the climb feels harder, despite technically being easier, is because subconsciously it feels more consequential. Mark may fail the jump at the bottom of the iceberg over and over, but since it takes less than ten seconds to get back, it feels easier because there's less strain to succeed at it. when he climbs around and to the top though, he's now spent about 3 minutes climbing back up and the pressure to not choke makes the jump seem much harder than it really is. These two phenomena also explain why you could struggle with something endlessly the first time through, but then immediately breeze through it on subsequent tries. Whether its gaming, cooking, reading a book, hiking a trail, or any other number of things. Once you get past a difficult task once (i.e. beating Getting Over It), it becomes much less strenuous because the pressure of wanting to not fail is mostly gone. you're now doing it for fun instead of for achievement

in the words of AstralSpiff; "There's a strange concept that I first heard from the Dark-Souls community that's always stayed with me. "Your two best attempts against a boss will be your first try, and the one where you beat the boss." Meaning that after losing the first time you'll go on a streak of attempts where you do worse. Until eventually you win. Now, Immediately this makes no sense because you'd think that your first try would be the least successful, then it only goes uphill from there. But that isn't the case. Something about seeing it for the first time makes you go on this fairly good run, just not good enough. Then you settle into the learning phase, where performance gets a lot worse but you're actually figuring things out, not just winging it. Right away it can feel like you're getting worse but keep going and eventually, you surpass your first attempt with a full understanding of what's going on, and win." He's using Dark-Souls as an example, but when he said this he was also playing a climbing game "Peaks of Yore".

MARKIPLIR THERE IS A FILTER OF YOUR DINGLEING AND TONS OF PEOPLE SAW 😢

me still waiting for mark to upload a video

the matpat line was personal 💀💀

Him climbing “sideways” shouldnt have made me laugh as much as it did😭

3 weeks is crazy...

Dear diary it’s been 3 weeks sense marks last post I think the withdrawals are getting to severe I don’t know how long this war gonna last

27:41 When you think you’re at the top but truly you were at the bottom.

Drakes got some competition

he posts like twice a month now, I'm going through withdrawls

Mark seems to be going through some life things, or he just has something good planning out

mark why is your sword on TikTok

It’s funny how Mark is stressed and needs to take a break from overworking himself… and he goes to play this game. Totally not a masochist. Yep.

20:56 "I'm climbing sideways on the ice" only mark can break games

Are you going to confront the TikTok filter with you in it?

When we needed him the most, he disappeared as always😂

22:25 diD mARk jUs TAke hiS dICk oFf aND THrOw iT On tHE grOUNd?!?!?!

19:15 Mark accidentally stumbles upon the correct solution to the part he's struggling with (controlled sliding) and proceeds to ignore it. Never change, Mark.

Where are you :(

lol he suffered so hard he hasn't posted in 3 weeks I'm getting worried 😭

That phenomenon is totally relatable. It’s walking that tightrope between the steely grit of hyper focus and the slippery slope of concentration degradation.

20:47 blud broke the game 💀