Fears To Fathom: Woodbury Getaway

Hello everybody. My name is Markiplier and welcome back to Fears to Fathom. Will Bur get away? Have I played this? Much like many people asked if I played that one in the Firewatch tower. No, I have not. And I didn't play that one before. It just so happens there's a bunch of horror games that take place in a Firewatch tower. Just like there's a a house at winter. This one released last year, I think around September. The next one in the series is actually going to release pretty soon here. And I need to catch up to that so I can be topical in all the games that need to come out and I'm not going to constantly be playing catchup. But I don't care. This is what I'm doing. Playtime 2 hours. I could do that now that I don't have to run off to go edit a movie. I don't have to constantly be thinking about things like that. I could just keep playing. December 8th. No, that's a lie. Needed coffee to get done with the day. company Apache Synergy Velocity Grow. [groaning] Oh, aliens. Oh, wait. Oh, what? This makes me want to play like a typing of the dead. What? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Easy, easy, easy, easy. My accuracy is not as great as it should be. So, I'm getting it. I don't have my wrist rest, which Okay, voice. Oh, track here. Probable send. So, I don't need to press space. Space is actually what's tanking my accuracy here, which feels wrong to me. Is there a phrase? Oh, between her. I wish I had my wrist rest. Why is my wrist rest not here? Rise point season open. Why am I doing this? Wait, wait. Why am I doing this? I got to keep going. Why am I doing this? This doesn't make any sense. Shouldn't be doing this. Adequate those bank name problem. He pitch moment garden student head rope. I don't know about that one. Maybe this is all clues for the game. Oh, I made it. Okay. I don't know why I was doing that. Why? Why did I even do that? I don't know. Okay. Uh unable to execute uh poop. No, I'm not going to search for poop. I'm feeling unlucky. Uh aliens. Uh search. Damn it. There's probably like a password for this. Damn. Freak. No. No. All right. Get me out of here. All right. Let's get on with the actual game here. Like I said, I really needed a cup of coffee. That's not what you said. You said you needed a cup of coffee to carry on with the work. Okay. Actually, that is exactly what you said, but I took it differently. I took that like you were telling a story about how you did need to get a cup of I'm dumb. Okay. Just everyone bear with me here that I don't I don't know what I'm talking about most of the time. Couldn't leave just yet. I had to get coffee. All right. JMSs jam Christmas. See epsiliator's office Shepherd title group mar time consulting. Anybody got any coffee? Yum. Yum. Yum. Yum. Yum. Yum. Needed to prepare a cup of coffee. Hi. needed water. Why does it have to go completely black? Nice. I love my blood coffee. Yum. All right, one shot. Oh, lid. Well, you don't really need that, do you? Hey, he's got the elements for a great like coffee shop horror game already. That that worked great. Sip. Chug. Needed to use the restroom. Oh, well, good for you. Hey, what's up, man? What do you want, Sid? I'm trying to get this done. I was just checking if you need anything. Can't these clients ever make up their minds? I know. What keeps you here so late again? Just finalizing the report. So, can you come back later? Hey, listen. I'm trying to get this done now. Can you come back later? Fine. Anybody else here? Anybody else working? [snorts] Anybody else? Anybody else? I can bother. I was done with it. it. Like I give a What's over here? Huh. Beautiful. Okay. I'm a lady. That's one way to discover. Well, there I am. Well, that's not the toilet. I uh Look. Nope. There we go. Ow. I pulled something in my shoulder trying to pee. Oh god. Oh, this is a rough one, everybody. Holy I actually pulled my shoulder doing that. Man, I hate that we all have this horrible, intense, painful experience every time we have to go to the bathroom. Am I right, people? It's a common human experience. We all have to deal with it. If only the medical science was able TO FIX THAT. WHAT THE HI. The is wrong with you? Whoa, man. I'm sorry. I didn't know anyone is in here. Yo, it was going to be a heart attack. I'm so sorry. Shouldn't have knocked before I came in, but there isn't usually anyone in here this late. That's fine. You were just doing your job again. I'm sorry. I usually do knock, but I'm a little bit frustrated tonight. Must have slipped my n mind. What is he frustrated? Someone keeps throwing coffee cups on. Oops. Oh, well, yeah, that's me, actually. Did someone raise you in a barn? There's trash cans all over the office. Act like an adult and use them. I'm sorry. Don't want to be here all night picking up coffee cups. Have a good night. Why am I crouching? I think I just panic pressed that. It's It made the whole scene a little more intimidating when I was low. Uh, anyway, he, you know, he's right to call me out on that. I am I am in the wrong there. That is actually my bad. That is actually 100% my bad. Wow. All right, hold on. Yeah, you're right. There are trash cans everywhere. Okie dokie. Can I get another cup of coffee? Oh my god, I can. I'm gonna throw it on the ground. How dare he tell me who I am? I already made a cup of coffee. Well, not my problem. La. [music] Who's in here? Who's in here? Leave that open cuz I don't care. Who is ringing on my phone? Why do I have all these boxes next to me? I say with boxes all over the floor next to me. What? Go for Sydney Harper. Harp. It's Mike. Oh, Mike. You have a voice. I've been trying to call your cell for the last two hours. It just keeps going to voicemail. My battery dies at the worst times. Oh snap. I was starting to think maybe you were ignoring me. No, it even cut out a client earlier, I'm guessing. I'm just kidding. [laughter] Um uh anyway, uh what are you still doing at work? It's getting kind of late. Work has been overwhelming lately. That sounds rough. Good thing I called to cheer you up. Um about our trip, did you get a chance to book the rental house? just really wanted to see you and Nora. Uh, I was going to do it after. Don't worry, Harper. I don't want to stress you out. As long as you book it tonight, I think it'll be fine. Hey, I was thinking since we both live in the city, maybe I could pick you up and ride together. It'd be nice to catch up, you know, save on gas and relive the good old days. Just a little bit of Mike and Sydney time before Norah gets there. Just a little bit of Mike and Sydney time. Who are you, Mike? Who are you? Uh, I guess I'll let you get back to work then. Oh, uh, wait, one more thing. When you book the rental, please make sure to keep it under $100 a night. Dora and I were talking and she's been on a pretty tight budget. Things haven't been going very well for her. It'll be just like the old college days. You always had a knack for finding the best spots. I should really make the booking now, right? Of course. Sorry for yapping. I'm just excited, I guess. Uh, all right. Talk to you later, Harp. See you, Mike. I guess I'll do this. Booking. Uh. Uh. Booking. Oh, booking. Booking. I did not type that. Where am I going? Woodbor. That is expensive. Peaceful cabin area. Entire home flat. Private room in nature. L cozy lodge, private cabin in Woodbury, entire guest house, open villa. Well, that is pretty good. Can I read the re? Nope. Okay. Book. No reviews. No. All right. Book booking been confirmed. Hey. Hey. Hey, I'm assuming you get hundreds, if not thousands of stories sent daily, so I'll give you a basic rundown of something that happened to me. I'm sorry if some of it is written weird, but I was rushed. When I was in my early 20s, I worked at a big consulting firm in my city. Life at the firm was a constant juggle of deadlines, client meetings, and trying to prove my worth, which didn't leave much room for leisure, let alone a social life. The job paid well, sure, but at the expense of my mental peace. So, I'm Sydney Harper, and this story takes place during one of those days. One of my college friends, Mike, suggested that we take a weekend getaway to rural Vermont, which sounded like a perfect break from the cycle of work, and my other friend, Nora, was quick to jump on board as well. Plan was simple. We rent a cabin, close our shift early on Friday, leave, and be back on Monday. Mike came to pick me up. Two days later, what the Mike, is that you, Mike? Mike, man, Mike got some character assassination here. I'm not going to lie. Oh, wait. No. Sorry. I thought you were Mike. No, you're fine. Sorry. I I know that was probably probably really rude of me to to be I thought you were Mike. How do I How do I How do I answer? Oh, hey, my suitcase. Hey, how do how do I answer? I There was no way to answer. Mike. Sorry. I thought that was Mike. I think I was fine. I guess. Mike. Mike. Hello. Hug. That's still how you hug people. Why don't you hug me like you missed me? Why don't you [laughter] hug me like you miss? Uh, no thanks. You look good. Thanks for picking me up. Wouldn't have it any other way. It'll be nice to have company on the way. Uh-huh. You can destroy your stuff in the back. Get our way. Okay, we'll do. Damn it. Nice. That won't go anywhere. All right, then. Harper, you ready to hit the road? Uh, where's Nora? Well, she'll meet us there. The route through the city would have been a detour for her anyway. All right, then. Harp. 4:26 p.m. It's starting. It was starting to snow. That was actually a gift from my coworker. Ricky said she found it in a garage sale and it reminded him of me somehow. I can see a resemblance. Guess cowboy spirit, I guess. Uhhuh. Can't wait for this Woodbury getaway. I played a game like this once where this exact scenario was going on. Harp, isn't it weird? We used to dream about escaping our college and now here we are. Dream about escaping college. It's not like they hold you hostage there in you're paying to be there. You know that, right? You're you you pay to be in college. Okay. It's it pretty voluntary. Trying to escape from the life we wanted to live. Isn't that why you're in college? To to get to the experience to escape the the the life. Couldn't wait to funny how that works. Change is just hard. Oh, Rick. Speaking of jobs, how's your new job going? We're working on this project that uses machine learning to predict market trends. This is pretty cutting edge stuff. Uh, you know, I never understood what did consultants even do. We consult that. Oh. Oh my god. A bus. You remember school? You see that school bus? See what? There's a school bus back there by the old house. Maybe it's a project. You know, someone's idea of turning it into a tiny home on wheels or something. I've read people do that on the internet. Yeah, there wasn't really anything weird about that bus. I see buses parked outside houses all the time when I was growing up. That's fine. Totally normal. Yep. Whoa. Someone Oh, I thought that was tire tracks going off in the distance. Oh my god. Mike. Mike. We're fine. This was That was close. It came out of nowhere. Nope. It was exactly on the road. You know, I read on the internet that in Native American lore, seeing a deer cross your path is like getting a message from the universe. Uh-huh. Go on. Kind of message. What? What kind of message? Got some tunes on this thing. How far is it now? Should be about an hour and a half from here. You know, driving through the snow kind of feels like we're traveling through the intergalactic space. Uh-huh. Look at the way the snowflakes swirl around the headlights. It's like stars and galaxies rushing past us. Uh-huh. Yep. Kind of beautiful. Uhhuh. [snorts] Nerd. Loser. Man, I'm doing the character assassination here. Yo, Harp, check that out. What? Mo Pizza. Oh. Oh, God. All right. Thanks. Yeah. Blind everyone just get, you know, Harp, I got to tell you, these new GPS systems are something else. The pizzeria is exactly where it appeared on my GPS. Uh-huh. Like living in the future. I'm so hungry. I think I could eat a whole pizza myself. Me, too. All right. Operation pizza pit stop is a go. Prepare to land. Holy hell. I'm going to get out now. [screaming] Help me. [laughter] Help. Help. Help me. Help. Help me. [screaming] God. H. Thanks, Mike. Come on in, Harp. Help. Woodberry tonight. Residents are recommended to stay indoors and keep warm during this time. Let's check in with our field reporter. How's the weather out there, Phil? It's so cold out here. I I can't feel my hands. Okay. The studio should have really brought some snow gear instead of buying that new coffee machine. I'm sure you'll be fine. You can have some coffee when you get back to the studio. Jerry, you cannot be serious. You know, my doctor said not to drink any caffeine. Sounds like someone's having a bad day. Maybe you should cool off. You little Why can't you go out here and deal with the snow instead of me? I've been working here for 6 years, and I never get to report somewhere nice. Listen, Phil, I'm just clearly the better looking one. You can worry about where you'll report once you get that rhinoplasty. Rhinoplasty? Why would I need rhinoplasty? My face looks perfectly fine. You could also use some Botox while you're at it. Actually, maybe you should just work as a studio light engineer behind the camera. I think it would be better field of work for you. You only got your job because your sister works at the mixing board. You would have never been able to work here if it wasn't for her. I'd like to see you work the ENG sometime. How dare you? I'm a certified news anchor. Certified? Yeah, my ass. Okay. You didn't do How about I come by the studio and we settle this like men. Oh, yeah. Well, let's do it, punk. We'll be right back. You got it. You got it, guys. You got it, guys. You got it. Dr. Fizz, give me a energy bowl. Need a break? Is your 9 to5 stressing you out? Take a vacation with rent.com. We offer thousands of cabins readily available and access of a button. Enjoying undisturbed relaxation in our refurbished cabins. Now, not only are these cabins But they are also safe with each cabin having a designated caretaker to ensure that you're topnotch. We have many to choose from including pet friendly, alcohol friendly, familyized. How's your day going? I'm Sydney. Look, Sydney. We're just here to enjoy our pizza. I hope you enjoy your meal. Fine. You enjoy that, too. Hi. Bye. All right. Hi. How you doing, my friend? I'm pretty hungry. See, are you here for the pizza? No, just looking for a little help. Maybe I can help you. Maybe you can. But you go and get some pizza first and we'll catch up. All right. How's the pizza? Well, my dear, you absolutely can't go wrong with the pepperoni. Here mostly pies remind you of a story. What brings you to where do a cabin? What better you say? Beautiful place. due to gap there when I was a younger man. Something about being out in the wilderness. Nothing but the stars. I'm not going to talk to any of you. Give me my pizza. Can I have a pizza, please? Mo. Mo, please. Anybody? Hi. Uh, any recommendations? Get the cheese. Just the cheese. All right, I'll get the cheese. Just the cheese. I want the cheese. Just the cheese for me. Cheese. Cheese. Pay. I'm the earner. Order number 27. Grab a seat. Call you. Okay. I should have done that first cuz then I could have gone around the whole room and actually talked to people beforehand. Uh, and your face. It's great. There's nothing wrong with your face. [laughter] Hey, wait a minute. I don't like that. Interesting. That is a hy did get the cheese just like you asked. So anyway, long sniff. Uh-huh. Smells so good in here. [snorts] Smells suspicious. That would have been a head shot right there. Oh, right. I forgot I have a phone. Okay. Yeah, that's good. You guys are going to hate me. I swear I'll get on the road as soon as I can. But something last minute popped up. I'm not going to bore you with all of the details. The long and short of it is one of my clients needs a last minute change. Their payments are about the only thing keeping the lights on. I hate to leave so late, but I've got to keep them happy. I'll have this logo done before you know it and be on my way. Well, that's sad. Do we uh Why are you talking to the talking to the drink machine? See? Yeah, I just saw. It's a bummer. What can we do? Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about. What? What? What did you say? What? Huh? What's up? Okay. Yep. Finally. Yeah, I must have missed what you said. I was a big attendant. All right, please. Yes, thank you. Mine. Do we sit down or are we taking this on the road? All right, you folks are all set. Thank you. I got the cheese just like you asked, buddy. No, I'm consuming this pizza slaps. Can't believe Norah is missing out on this bombass pizza. I find it fascinating how much these games have eating being part of it. Just like this horrible eating sound in my ears. Hey there, my friends. Hello. I saw y'all pulling in the driving and it's just watching. All right, that's right. Mind if I hitch a ride? Where's your Where are you headed? Road takes me. Bit of an adventure just hiking trails. Let's see. What do you say? Care to give this free spirit a ride down to that snowy road? Sure. Hold on a second. Don't think we need to discuss this. Sure. Feel free to jump in. I'm not sure if we have extra space for another passenger. See, I'm sorry. I didn't think of that. Surely you can find just a little room for me. I can ride in the middle. Hell, I'll ride in the bed. Let's see. It's my friend's car. I'm sorry. Got to be me, lady. There's no space. Scared of me or something. Hey, I ate HIM. I SAID YES. YOU YOU. You you. Try me. I'll eat your eyes. You threatening us? I No, what I said was a threat. Yeah. Get me all wrong. Sorry. I'm just tired and all. Mhm. Yeah. I'll eat your eyes. Oh my goodness. Why? Why? Are you serious? How are you going to let a stranger ride with us in the middle of nowhere? He seem harmless. Billy never know these days. For all we know, it could have been another Ted Bundy. I'm not eating the rest of this. It's all around me. Anyway, replace every eating sound with something um that you use to cover up sounds in Hoon Pop. You actually eat the crust. [sighs] Whatever. I don't care ABOUT THIS. THIS IS [screaming] SO UNIMPORTANT. I want to be done with this. Gordon is as far as I go. Stop attacking. awful. awful. You can beat me, but you can never beat the taste of UFO burgers. I don't care. I don't care. Get me out of this pizzeria. I got the truck's keys. All right. Drive slow. yada yada. Okay. Go. who cares? Ew. Ew. Genuinely bothers me. Genuinely bothers me. There's no point to it. This is your host on WKWB, your hometown station, bringing you the best tunes to warm your hearts on this chilly night. As we embrace the first snowfall of the season, there's nothing like a perfect song to set the mood. So, here's a track that'll make you feel right at home. Is this the place? Looks like the place. It's one way to take the scenic route. I crashed Mike's truck. What do you mean? No, I didn't. I thought that was it. It looks just like the place. Isn't that the place? No, I drive in silence. I don't know if anybody knows this about me, but I do. I drive I drive actually in silence. It's one way to take the scenic route. Hold on. Hold on. Take Wait, hold on. Hold on. Stop going forward and I'll be able to get out of your way. Stop going forward and I'll get out of your way. Stop going forward and I'll get out of your way. All right, fine. Good thing Mike's taking that quite casually. Am I going the right way? I don't know. You said you had GPS. I told you driving in the snow was no joke. I don't know what you're said that there was GPS here. You even talked about that in the previous scene. You talked about it. Where's the GPS? How do I do the handbrake? How do I drift this thing? Am I going the right way? Are you going to say anything at all about the guidance? Is anybody going to help me guide? Just anybody? No. Woodbury. All right. All right. So, we made it to So, now what? Huh? I don't need to stop. I drove past our cabin at first. What do you mean you drove past our cabin at first? Where is it? This way. Wait, are you saying that it was on that road? Okay, hold on. There's no GPS. There's no GPS. I have a phone and there's no GPS. It doesn't make any sense. Is that it? Is this it? Is this the Is this the place? Feels like it might be the place. And this should be it. Okay. Thanks for letting me know beforehand. Thought you were just going to keep driving there. Well, you know, no one told me to stop. That's kind of the thing. No one told me to stop. Give me that. Quaint. Uhhuh. Okay. So, we got 5176. Nice. All right. I got house keys. Oh, hi. Tada. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Quaint. Wow. Hya. Wow. Wow. This is nice. This is very nice. Oh, man. 99. 99 a night. That's great. That's a great price. Ouija board. Smells so nice here. Need to hit the john. Take your time. Groceries way. Can I put these groceries away? I got a Ouija. And I got a Ouija board. We're going to Ouija it up. Trust me. Trust you. Me. Need some help in there. All right. I'm going to put the groceries. I'll leave that open. I like the cold air. Very brisk. Had to open the cooler first. Yeah, sure. All right, I'm going to leave this open and go check out upstairs. I had to pee. I have to [screaming] pee. Woo. Sorry about that. You okay? Long drive and all that pizza really did a number on me. [sighs] All the groceries are put away. All right. Hold on. I got to pee. Hang on. I got to pee. Hang on. I got to pee. I got to pee. I got to pee. I got to pee. Get out of the way. Oh. So, the smell alone told me the pizza had really done a number on uh Mike. Escape to text Rick. All right. We have checked in. All right. And I'm up. Who needs to wipe? Not I. It's the scariest handwashing I've ever heard. All right. What's this basement? Oh, Yeah. Get me down there. Now, this is what I'm talking about. Spooky. Oh, WAIT. WHAT? HUH? WHAT THE What the hell? What the hell? Oh, good one to check out. Sounds good to me. Let's see what this place has to offer after you. Yep. Jesus Christ. Don't do that. Spooky basement. You scared? I wonder what this guy doesn't want us to see. Probably his personal things, man. Probably nothing you need to worry about. Nice chair. Oh boy. There's definitely going to be a power outage here, I bet. I bet. Hey, did you see that? I got a Ouija board. Did you see the Ouija board? See the Ouija? Did you want a Ouija? Living room is bigger than my apartment. Well, yeah. It's a house. It's how it works. I'm leaving that open. No What [laughter] the You going to do anything about that? You going to jump to my defense? All right, I'll I'll you up. Hey, you're here. Who are you? Welcome to my home, sweet home. What a lovely young couple. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not a couple. Not a couple. Not at all. Not at all a couple. Not at all. Yeah. This, this, this. You think this, and me? This gross. Yeah. Offic sell it that hard. Just answering his question. He didn't ask a question. He made a statement. You never mind. Oopsy daisy. Silly me. Didn't mean to cause a stir with you two. We didn't expect anyone to be here. Oh. Um, I was out looking for my cat earlier and remembered the TV was been on the fritz here. Just thought I'd stop by. Try to get it working again since the last few folks left a bad word for it. You know, they say treat your guests like family. My family doesn't go without TV. Speaking of that, why are your eyes go in different directions? Now that you folks are here, let me show you around my sweet home. You'd be a bad owner if I didn't give you the grand tour. Uh-huh. Host was a middle-aged man with a nervous energy. Right from the start, his presence made us uncomfortable. Here's your shower. That thing will make you feel like you're bathing under a waterfall in the Amazon jungle. Uh-huh. Well, this sink doesn't work, unfortunately. I'll get it fixed for you. Okay. Uh-huh. Look, Harp, this room has a nice ass view. Yeah, I think that's nice, mister. Wait till I show you the deck. Follow me now, please. Uh-huh. Are you coming, miss? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Nice ass view there. Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry. Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry up. Wow. That is uh That is a backyard. That That is a backyard. What can I do you for? You seeing You seeing this, Mike? You seeing this? Holy smokes. This is incredible. Mhm. Glad you like it, Mr. This is one of my favorite spots. The view of the creek is beautiful. It's a great spot for fishing, too. All right, folks. Let's head back in before I catch it cold here again. I think these people need to get out more. This is the most mid view I've ever seen in my entire life. This This is legitimately the most mid view. Actually, it might be below mid if I actually had to be perfectly honest. Hi. Here's the storage room. If you need anything, tools, thanks. What did he say? What was the last thing? Hi. I don't know what the last thing he said. Something about mouthwash. Did he make a mouthwashing reference or something? That's fine. Yeah, we already know. See, I already stocked up. See the knob? Turn the knob for more cooling and down to cool it off. What? Keep it low. In the winter, the bill gets out of control. I better show you folks the water heater. Uh-huh. I already been here, man. Already been down here, man. Um, nothing to worry about down here. Just the water heater and some old storage stuff. If it ever stops working, just hit the button at the bottom. The pilot light will fire right back up and you'll be back in business. Okie dokie. Could you uh expedite this? Hey sir, what's the deal with that room over there? Nothing you two need to concern yourself with. I kind of use this basement as storage. Renters don't need the space. They really ought to keep upstairs. Okay. Well, I was just curious. Oh, Airbnb owners have a room where they don't want you to go. It's the most uncommon thing I've ever seen. But definitely this guy probably has many, many bodies stashed there for sure. 100%. There's going to be dead bodies everywhere. What are you doing? What are you What are you doing? What are you doing? What do you think you're doing? Huh? You Oh no. Oh no. Oh, did I stuck him? Did I get him stuck? I think I got him stuck. I think he might be stuck. Spooky ambiance. Oh Oh no, he's actually stuck, isn't he? Oh god damn it. Oh off. Oh no. Oh, there we go. Did I mention Well, no. I ought to keep this to myself. The fellow I bought this house from told me his mother died down here. Some guests have reported hearing voices at night. Said they could hear something shuffling around down here. Not to scare you folks, but if I were you, I wouldn't really step down here. The looks on your faces. Come on now. I'm just joking. Okay, good. Man, I thought I was stuck there. At this point, my creep meter was quietly pinging around six out of 10. All right, folks. Snow's starting to pick up. I'm going to hit the road. Got to find that damn cat. Uh-huh. You telling me there's a cat here, by the way. What's the name of the booking? It must be getting I must be getting old. It's Sydney. Ah, Sydney. That's right. Pretty name for a pretty girl. Did you hear that? Super weird. Very weird. See if there's anything good on the TV. I'm in a shower. Let me know if it feels like you're under a waterfall. What a weird guy. The taste of UFO burgers. Can't I take a shower here? I was keen on taking shower upstairs. Why? Why? Why was I Why was I keen on that? Up here where I'm completely alone and all these doors are going to be open. Yeah, this seems good. Hope no one's on the other side of this. I didn't lock it. Damn. Hello. What the hell? La pies. Hi. Check this out. Fishing rod in the shed. Going to catch dinner. That would have been a pretty epic addition to the trip. I don't know. It's cold out there. Come on, Arp. What would make this trip more epic than catching our own freaking dinner? I guess it could be fun. Hell yeah. Follow me. There's another rod in the shed. So, we can both give it a shot. I am literally naked from the shower. I just I have not put on anything besides this towel. And I don't even know if I put on the towel. All right. Whatever. Ah, Brisk. So, uh I'm guessing you don't know how to fish, do you? Oh, do you want to grab the other fishing rod? Yeah. Oh snap. I saw a killer recipe for baked carp. I'll need to catch three carp though. You up for the challenge? Yes. Well, first things first. We need a ripe bait for the carp. Check out this bait information poured. Whenever you're ready, grab the carp bait and let's head to the creek. We're going to catch some carp harp. Don't make rhymes with my name ever. Left mouth button to get close. Crankbait. Carp. Sweet corn or cheese? Cheese or sweet corn? Cheese. I have cheese. I have cheese. I'm going now. Are we going? Is this Are we Are we good? Whenever you're ready, grab the carpet and let's head to the creek. I am. I I did. Oh, I needed to actually grab it. Okay. [sighs] It's kind of nice here, I guess. Come on, Arp. It's this way. I am literally What? What do you What do you mean? What? What do you What? Anyway. Oh, gasoline. Good. That's good. Hope these carp are biting today. It's too far to cast. Ah, you're not going to tell me what button to press to get it, are you? Never mind. Wait. A D to move the slider. Okay. Well, this is horrible. All right. Bluegill throwback. Jeez. carp. I got a carp. They say whenever there's one carp, there's always more. Who Who says that? Where have you ever heard that? There's another carp. Just one more carp left. You've got this. It's all up to me, apparently. All right, we did it. You want to head back and throw these in the oven? Let's do it. Woo! Hurry up! Okay, we're fine. Everything's good. Everything's great. Everything's great. Everything is good. Hey, wait a minute. Our fridge. While I'm cleaning the fish, do you mind prepping the marinade? Sure. Bowl. Throw ginger paste, cooking oil. Oh god. All right. I don't know why this is opening. Uh, can I please get rid of this? I really want to get rid of this. There we go. What did you say? What was it? What was it? both for ginger paste cooking all Oh my god. Ah, thank goodness. Okay. Salt, black pepper, paprika. That's paprika. Italian seasoning. Ginger, garlic paste. Sure. Olive oil. olive oil, yogurt. That's frozen yogurt it said on there, but whatever. Uh, you want what? Okay. Throwing the fish in the marinade in the casserole while I chop these veggies. Had to add the fishes first. Where'd the fishes go? Where'd you put the fish? Oh, I see. I'm 30 minutes to 400. Okay, carp are going to taste amazing while we How about we play some board games? I saw some in the living room next to the living room. I guess we could grab whatever catches your eye. Can't wait to see you pick what you pick. I saw some in the room next to the living room. Oh, the room next to the living room. Oh, you talking to the room next to the living room? You talking to Ouija board? We're gonna Ouiji it up. We're gonna Ouija board. Oh snap. Is that a Ouija board? Molly once told me she contacted her dead grandma through one of these boards. I can't stand her spiritual Hey, remember how the dude was acting weird about the basement? What if we tried this down there? THAT'S THE BEST IDEA I'VE EVER HEARD. You've got a real brain on you, Mike. You may not be as stupid as I've always said you were. And also at you look and you look really stupid. Where are we doing this? On the ground. What are we doing? Watch out for spiders down here. Where are we doing this? Where are we doing it? Here on this tiny table. Perfect spot. You know what will make this even spookier? What now? Let's turn off all these lights and see if this thing really works. Even better than that last great idea you had. You might be a genius. You might be some kind of big smarty. Don't we need a candle? Oh my god. You know how this works, Harper? Yeah, I know how this works. All right, then you go first. Are there any spirits who want to talk to us? Oh, shouldn't I have my hand on this, too? Oh, you you couldn't animate it. What the hell? Oh my god. Oh, I am I am on it. Oh. Oh my god. No way. Are you moving it? That wasn't me. Okay, I got one, too. How's the afterlife treating you, buddy? Oh, G. goon. Goon. Goon. Did you live in this house? Are you friendly? Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh god. But it's really for goo. Goen. My turn. Come on, buddy. Give us a sign. Let us know you're here. Holy crap. What the hell? Mike, wait for me. I'm not usually one to believe in ghosts or spirits. What the Lights on. I'd be lying. Couldn't open the door. Oh my god. You all right? There's some freaky going on down there. Harp, that was weird. The weird part is that you ditched me. You mean weird how you left me? What the hell, Harp? I figured you would move your ass, too. Would have been nice if you had checked. You ever heard of fight or flight? Sydney, I'm sorry. Okay. what the ever. That was a fast 30 minutes. Oh, wait. No, it wasn't. Jesus Christ me. Your hands. Holy man. You all right? It's fine. Show's about to come on. You want to watch TV while we eat? Let's do it. You're not going to plate me? All right, fine. Jesus. Some service here. I'm going to sit. Okay. I'm just Yo, I'm here. Hit it, buddy. Asparagus chocolate cake with a spoonful of mayonnaise. This delicacy is very popular in Romania where mayonnaise flows down the rivers like a mayonnaise water park. So first we are going to prepare the asparagus. Season these with a lot of salt. Salt is good for the bones. After letting these simmer in the salt bath, we can start making the chocolates. Take a couple cocoa beans. Ah, yes. The cocoa beans need to be blended into the sauce with a little bit of vinegar. That was some damn good food. Twice as good since we caught it ourselves. It was good. Mayonnaise. Great team. Anyway, we need to check emails real quick. Thought we were taking a break from work. Oh my god. I can't even hear you, man. I can't hear you. This is going to taste like What? But here you are. Okay, don't worry. I'll clean it. Frick. I I did. Oh, now I see. Hope that was Mike. Look guys, I'm not trying to be silly about this. Michael J. Carter, I think there's someone under my bed right now. Can you come upstairs? Hm. [music] Walk slow. I'm running. Bam. What's up? What's up, man? Whoa. what? Gotcha. You're lucky I didn't break your nose. My good looks are half the charm. Harp, don't mess him up. I totally got you. It's not cool. Is this a joke? You want to go for the next round? Next round. How about a game of hide-and-seek? I'll get you back for this. Whatever you say, Sydney Herbert. All right, you're on. I'll count to 10. How old are we? I mean, I What the I decided to hide in the basement. Sure. I sure did. God, I sure did. The What did you What could play hide and seek? What do you mean? I'm going to hide in the basement for my hide and seek. Want to go hidey seeky in the basement. Why? Hide in the nook under the stair. I didn't even know that was there. I'm going to hide in the nook under the stairs. I decided to hide in the nook under [screaming] the HOPE HE DOESN'T FIND ME. HUH? AHA. GOD, that wasn't even a challenge. I figured you would be good at this ever since I never find you in the city. All right, my turn to hide now. You know what people do in their own time is totally fine. It's It is completely fine. I'm not going to judge them. You better close your eyes. Start counting. Oh, you know it. Close my eyes, I guess. One, Mississippi. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. I'm coming. [panting] probably wouldn't be in the shed. This door was closed. Aha, got you. Hang on, Arp. I think I heard something upstairs. Fool me once. Okay, I believe. No kidding, sweetie. I heard something. is sliding up there. You didn't hear it? No, I did not. Swear in my life, I heard something. I see this attic access door here. Hi. Couldn't reach it without a step stool. Good. Check it out. You're taller than me. Why don't you go? I think uh my shoulders are too broad. Where are you hiding these shoulders? Seriously, Sydney, I don't think I would fit through. Use that step stool behind you and climb up. What steps stool? You seeing a step? What steps stool? You got a step stool somewhere that I don't You seeing a step stool here? You got you step tool where? What step? Oh god. off. Well, this is a bad sign. Oh. Oh, it's a cat. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, there was a cat here. I remember. Hi, Katie. Everything has a logical explanation except for the thing that's right behind Looks like you aren't the only in the house. It was just a cat. Oh, that's a relief. I was worried there for a minute. I think she was hungry. Oh, yeah. Maybe we can give her one of the carp after I find you again. I don't want to. Why are we decided to hide in the tool shed in the backyard? Because of course I did set in the tool shed. He'll never see me here. I'm actually curious. All you all you adults out there of of any age, but let's say it's out of college. How many of you guys played uh play hide-and-seek just on the casual? Anybody? I truly I want to know. No one's going to mock you mercilessly in the comments. No one. I see something. This would be a terrible spot if I was playing for real because there would be footprints leading right to it. I mean, there would be already footprints kind of going back and forth, but the freshest ones would be the one going [music] inside when we did before. So, therefore, oh no. Aha, there you are. And it took me a while to figure out you left the house. Anything worth doing is like close those pretty eyes now. I'm getting tired. Look, I'll hide in the house. We're headed back anyway. You find me, we'll go to bed. I'm closing my eyes. I guess I'll stand in the cold. I'm coming. If I don't find a a giant bloody puddle of mic, I'm going to be pissed. He wouldn't think to that I would look in the basement again. He He's trying to trick me. All right, fine. Oh god. If I find him upstairs like sprawled out naked in a on a bed like he tries to make this his move going to be uh not great. Balcony. Balcony. Nah, I would have seen him. Wait, what if he's up in the attic? Would make sense. What? What's going on? What happened? What? What's happening here? What's What's the problem? Well, hey there. Why are you back in here again? I'm fixing the faucet. You got a problem with that? You should have told us. Mrs. my house. I don't need to check in with you every time I fix something. I've ne never seen anyone fix a faucet with a hammer before. You ever fixed many faucets yourself, young man? Didn't think so. So, I'd imagine you don't know what tools you'd need here. How long have you been here? Just got here a couple minutes ago. You heard anything before that? It must have been that old lady, remember? Look, we need to go to bed now. You asking me to leave, miss? No, Rick, she's being polite. We rented this house and would like to have it ourselves. I we really don't need to call want to law have to call law enforcement. Yeah. Mhm. Ain't no cops in Woodbury, son. You think they're going to arrest the homeowner for fixing the faucet? I was just doing some work. If you can't handle that, it's your problem, not mine. You know what? If you folks don't like me fixing the faucet, I'll leave you to it. Thanks. Don't call me if it starts leaking again. You got it. You lock the door. Where were you anyway? Where were you? Where were you? Probably in the attic. After locking the door, we debated what to do. We agreed that there was something off about Rick from the start. It seemed like he enjoyed making excuses to come over unannounced. In the end, we decided Rick was weird, but probably harmless. We attributed his behavior to an extreme lack of social awareness. Look, we already drove all the way out here. Let's just enjoy ourselves, Mike said. But by this time, I was feeling really tired. I decided to get some rest. 11:39 p.m. Is Nora going to show up? Nori. Who the are you still awake? Hard to asleep when someone's knocking. You mind if I come in? I'd like to talk about something. No. Okay. Storm's really starting to get bad. I can hardly see the truck in the driveway. Hate that Norah is out there all alone. Should be just fine, Sydney. Don't worry. I'm here to keep you safe. What? It's no problem at all. Guys are supposed to watch over the people they care about. What are you talking about? What a day, huh? This wasn't exactly how I thought our getaway was going to go, Sydney. It's been a strange one. Can you believe that guy? He just keeps wandering around the house like he owns the place. He does own the place. You know exactly what I meant, Sydney. He shouldn't just barge in the place whenever he wants. We rented the damn house. I mean, that guy's probably harmless, but I'm frustrated. You've also been a little difficult to deal with. You're right, Sydney. I'm really sorry. It'll help if we both get some sleep. What the Why don't you come sit by me, Sydney? Why don't I don't? What if I don't? Why don't I do not? Uh-huh. Harp, you know I've missed this us just talking. It's been too long. You know, you don't have to sleep alone tonight. Would you be doing this if Nora was here? You act like you don't remember our trip to Oregon, huh? I remember it being pretty awkward. Didn't start out awkward though, Mike. We had a lot to drink. They sure did. Things happened. I'm hoping maybe they can happen again. I guess I've been meaning to talk to you about that. Just let me worry about the details, Sydney. Like I don't think this is a good time. Guys, I think I'm about 70 miles away from Woodbury and my stinking tire just blew out. My brother said he checked him a few days ago, but well, you know how reliable Joseph is. Anyway, it's snowing and I'm on the side of the road on Highway 11 near Killington. There's a sign by the side of the road. It's hard to see. I think it says 10 long. I'm freaking the hell out. The snow is like half of a deep and I can't get the lug nuts off the tire. I hate to ask, but can you two come get me or help change the tire? I just want to get to the house, drink some wine on the couch, and drive. Did you say seven or 70? You're running, but I'm going to lose my mind if I have to sleep in my car tonight. Please come get me. I really wish there was some tech. You could send a text and then I could read it and then I could check back that same information. Put timing on. But I guess we can't leave Norah stranded. No, we can't. We better get ready. No, Sydney. You stay here and get some sleep. There's no sense in both of us freezing. Are you sure? Yeah, I'm sure. You're in pajamas. I'm still dressed. Just settle in and I'll go get Nora. That's really nice, Mike. I always like doing nice things for you, Sydney. Just be careful. Well, we'll finish talking about this later. You get some good rest and stay warm if you really feel like we have to lock. Oh, shock. Lock. Lock. Damn it. All right, fine. Couldn't have gone to bed without locking the front door. That's a good point. I was I was trying to lock my door, too. Hey, why don't you get some rest while I'm gone? Are you sure it's safe to drive in this weather? Don't worry, I've driven any worse. Besides, Nor is probably freaking out more than you right now. You're probably right. Look, make sure you take care of yourself. All right, lock all the doors. You are right. How about a hug? I mean, just in case you're asleep when I get back. I kind of need one right now. Not now, Mike. All right, fine. Give you There you go, buddy. Bye. Yeah. Wham wham. Boom. Yeah. All right. That's the friend handshake. All right. That is the handshake of friends right there. Drive safe, buddy. Pal can't see a thing. Locked. Lock. I I think I just have to cast the spell of lock on it. Back door locked. Lock. I've locked it. There's a There's a There was just a freaking glowing orb there. was keen on getting some sleep until Mike and Nora arrived. Yep, I am keen sleeping. [laughter] Told myself things would get better if I could just get some rest. Nora always knew how to cheer me up, and I needed it more than by the minute. With her arriving soon, I decided to rest in the meantime. [bell] Someone was at the front door. Who could it be at this hour? Oh, realizing that someone was outside this late at night was horrific. Hello. Do you have any idea what time it is? Look, friend, I know it ain't ideal banging on your door in the middle of the night, but I'm in a bad spot here. Scouting on a ride from some friends, but they're running behind and won't be here for another two hours. You're not coming in. End of story. You kidding me? You're going to let me freeze to death out here? I didn't make you go hiking in a snowstorm. Should have known you'd be as big a as you here as you were back in the pizza joint, huh? Think I didn't see you and your little boyfriend fishing in the creek earlier? Figured maybe you'd give me a chance this time, but looks like you're still unkind. Get out or I'll call the cops. Ain't no cops around here. Speaking of, I don't see your fella's truck here either. I'm dialing 911 right now. Fine. Suit yourself. I will suit myself. I'm shooting myself right now. I'm shooting all over myself. And I'm also getting a knife. Where's the freaking lights? There's a light switch. Is there a light switch around here somewhere? But let me tell you something. You'll get what's coming to you for leaving me out here. Karma is a my friend. You know what else is a A big old chef's knife. Big old chef knife. Yeah, the door seemed irrelevant compared to how tired I was. Yep. Absolutely. Couldn't keep my eyes open. I had to get some sleep. All right. Good night. [screaming and groaning] At this point, I had no choice but to call for help. What happened? What do you mean? What happened? I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing right now. What am I doing? Open door. Hi, Rick. What the hell's going on here? Rick, I'm glad I'm so glad you came. Oh, thank God you're here. Explain the situation. Yeah, I came as quickly as I could. I wouldn't worry about him anymore. Oh, why not? Still didn't feel safe opening the door. Okay. What? We By the way, where's your friend? The guy who was with you earlier, Mike, he went to pick up our other friend. H So, you're all alone here right now, huh? Yeah, but my friends will be back soon. Uhoh. Well, that was weird. [cough] [clears throat] By the way, I found your cat. Storms like this bring out all kinds of folks. Not all of them know when to stay away. Yeah, don't I know it. Oh, Rick Wilson. Wait a minute. Come back over. What do you I live in Burlington. Oh. Oh. Whoa. Everything okay, miss? Yeah. Awful late for texting, isn't it? Who are you? Who you talking to? It's my friends. They're over there. This would be a dumb thing to say. You are not Rick, are you? It's my friends. They're almost here. Is that so? Yeah. You can head back if you want. Yeah. Thanks for coming by, though. I'll be fine now. You can head back if you want. Sure about that? Yeah, I just overreacted. Maybe I should stick around. Make sure everything's really okay. See, you need to leave right now. What did you just say? Confront. This is my house. I'll leave when I want to. Let's see. You need to leave right now. I don't think so. If anyone's leaving this house, it will be one of us. Well, yeah, that's what I'm getting at. Hey. Hey. Whoa. Hey. Whoa. Where? What? Uh-oh. Well, THAT'S NOT GOOD. WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT. I didn't know that you were going to do that. I didn't know that you were going to just start whailing on me, you know. Didn't know you were going to start just slamming on my donk. I don't think so. If anyone's live in my house, it will be one of us. Don't worry about that, buddy. [sighs and gasps] Oops. Close. Oh, what the Wait, wait, wait. What the [screaming] Wait, wait. What the f? What? I thought he was gone. That's Oh, if I have to do that whole thing over. God, that. Ah, okay. Okay. So, I I had a suspicion that I needed to go up to the the roof, but whatever. Hi, kitty. How's it going? So, what am I doing up here? Okay. Clearly, it wants me to do something here. So, all right. Whatever. I can't run. How's it going? Hello. I told them everything that happened after Mike had left. Rick had called the cops. The storm had quieted down by the time they arrived, and of course, the man was nowhere to be seen. On our drive back, the whole night played over and over in my head. We think that the man we secretly saw lived in that cabin when it wasn't being used and planned on robbing us during our stay. But the cops seem to think it was more intent behind this man's actions aside from just robbing us. Rick asked me what the man looked like and after that he didn't ask any more questions. We think he knew more than he was letting on, but in the end he gave us a full refund. Oh, and there was a seller door that I completely forgot about. I'm guessing that's where that lock door came from and why that guy was able to unlock it. So, he must have been able to get in and out of the house that way. Now, I This is the fifth episode of this game series, right? And so, I am going to be less forgiving given that it's the fifth one on this in this episode series, right? Just like I gave a warning to Garden of Ban Ban to be like, you're on thin ice because you you at this point, you're gonna have to start innovating on some things. And I'm going to say the exact same thing for this one here, which is that it's not bad. And I like a lot of the things going on. And in the beginning, I really like the details of like throwing a coffee cup on the ground and then the janitor confronts you being like, "Hey, I don't want to be here." And that was that was fun. And and I even I even like the kind of similar recipes going on for these kind of things going into it and like the mechanics of like this the the hideand-seek is like whatever. I get that you might be trying to show that hey a you can hide in certain spots around the house. Whatever. I think it's pretty contrived but it's hey I I'm going to find out which one of you still plays hide-and-seek as an adult. Um which could be many of you. I you know I don't know but usually one-on-one hide-and-seek isn't really something that I could imagine doing. saw it coming a mile away. But but that aside, it's not about that. It's not about that. This game had an hour and 10 minutes of filler. And I'm not saying that all of that it didn't need some setting up of the story, but it's very clear that from the get-go, there's something about this developer and food. Like that's like a that's like a thing. I don't know what kind of thing it is, but there's something about food here that is unnecessary. Abs, not even like a ho people are going to find this uncomfortable. Just absolutely unnecessary. Absolutely doesn't add anything to the story. Completely could be removed. And it's not even like a, oh, it needs to be shorter kind of thing. It's like this story clearly didn't need that. It didn't need it. If an episode's shorter, it's going to be shorter. But it's like it felt like that because all the other ones had like an hour and a half to two hours of of content. Like with the the the the firewatch station, there was actually a lot happening and there was some reason to go out and explore the woods. The setting was bigger. It was just large enough to fill that space, right? And I could be forgiving. And I felt like that was interesting because you had a lot of stuff going on with the computer and the filling out of the data. And I'm fine with doing that kind of stuff because you don't know which pertinent to the plot, right? This one felt like a step backwards that tried to justify its length by putting things in there that didn't necessarily mean anything, right? The the entire relationship setup with this Mike character is difficult. And I know this is based on a true story. There's no way to confirm or deny what actually it is, but the relationship behind that and being in control of that. It just felt uncomfortable the entire time because the game is a horror story. So every situation where you've been in in the previous episode has set you up to have uncomfortable situations with the people that you're with, right? And so you have this one-on-one, it's like there's no real understanding of what the dynamic of that relationship is because from the very beginning and it was voiced in the office and not voiced later in there. So I couldn't glean any context of how the actor was portraying any of this information because it was there before and the only context that we got from it was that it was awkward. There was an awkward laugh literally written into the subtitles and delivered by the actor. That actor was not present for the rest of the entire game. I don't know why. I feel like if you're going to start it that way, you should probably deliver it that way. There was also a lack of polish that go and and here's what I mean by polish going into it. This is the fifth episode. I'm going to start expecting a lot more polish out of these things. If you have a shorter story, then it should be tighter and you should polish it a lot tighter, right? The driving. I hear the engine. I don't hear the road. I don't hear the other things that happen when you're driving. You don't need to have complexity, but I'm driving in a snowstorm. All I hear is the engine. You should hear the wheels going over the different types of things. This is what I mean. Like, this is fifth episode. The details that I'm expecting out of the fifth episode of this paid series of this paid series of games needs to have the detail that earns that fifth chapter in a paid series. Right? I'm not saying it needs to have AAA quality. That's never what I'm saying. But if you're going to have an episodic horror series, every one of them should be more detailed and more rich than the last, or at the very least as detailed and as rich as the last. However, this one, as I think everyone could say, given that the the the lookout one had a lot more cooking and a lot more eating, you know, but it was part of the daily ritual, the ritual of the daily experience of being in this lookout and doing all this fed into that, right? This one didn't because there was only one day and it feels like the story that was submitted is a lot shorter and didn't have a lot of substance and so when it's made into this thing and I get it is a difficulty of the developer pulling from real stories. They're not going to always be as grand. This is from a setting standpoint a kind of regression. So I think at this point you kind of got to start adding in your own creative input to make it into something. And this might seem like I'm being mean here, but once again, I must point out if there's a new developer and it's a new indie game, I have a personal philosophy that there shouldn't be too much criticism because it could be someone's first time doing this. This is not their first time doing it. This is far from their first time doing it. So, given that they have another one on the horizon that's coming up next in a month or two, and I will play it, but I'm going to review it. I am going to be a serious reviewer about it because there's just some things here that I think need to be addressed. And I get it. It's tough being a solo developer and there's this expectation that you always got to deliver on things. And I don't mean to say this like I don't think that there's progression here because I think there's a lot of fun things going on. But it is also the same mechanic. It's the same exact hide in a closet mechanic. The killer's going to get you if you speak. You know, it's a recipe now. And if I've played the last one, if someone's going into this who has played all these other ones, the mechanic is the same. But I I want to even say the save mechanic and the restarting mechanic for Iron Bark Lookout was better. It just feels like this is a step backwards. So the only reason I'm saying all this very specifically is it does feel like a step backwards. And I think it got off to the wrong foot because of the mischaracterization of that relationship. There is a way to present a relationship between these two characters without starting it off being awkward. Therefore, all of these set pieces that you have them together with have more meaning, right? The the the the chairs here and the fishing. Uh that could have had a lot more meaning if you had taken a different approach to the setting. Instead of it being like, you know, this awkward thing like, "Oh man, I can't wait to get to know each other in there." Maybe have the guy be more standoffish being like maybe it's weird from that perspective as opposed to being this way. And I know it came from a submitted story and that's that's it. But if you're a game developer, you're looking at this, you would either pick a story that could be more fleshed out or if you don't have an option, talk with the person that submitted and say like, since this is a work of fiction, since it's turning into a work of fiction and it's not going to be based on truly true events, cuz there needs to be some play in it, start to lean into it a little bit. Start to start to characterize a bit more. give there a reason, given that Mike is the only person that we're interacting with the entire game, the person that comes to our rescue, the person that leaves, the person that guys through the entire experience, goes to the pizza shop, all this stuff that that relationship needs to not be empty or feel empty. And if you're trying to put things into there, I'm not saying you wrote it empty. I'm not saying you implemented it empty. I'm saying that there needs to be a deeper level there for people to discover. And one option might be to have him be more standoffish and kind of be like, "Fuck, Norah is not going to be here and I'm stuck with you." It doesn't mean that the character has to be like yearning for it. Make if it's going to be awkward, make it awkward from both standpoints. Like it's kind of quiet. And then those moments where it's like maybe we could have little bits of that coming together and you get little catches of like oh there used to be something here between them but it was messy and now they're kind of apart and they're both standoffish and they're both like you know they have that moment of like a little glimmer of like oh you and I used to have a spark but it's like well also I remember that thing and I'm I'm not over that. It could be still Mike being like, "You didn't talk to me after what we what I thought we had, so I was left with bitter feelings." And so this this moment instead of it being like, you know, just patting the bed next to me like, "Hey, why don't you have a seat?" It's like, I get the instinct for that and being a horror game like, "Oh, let's make it uncomfortable for the main character." But it's like it never came across like that because the horror wasn't there. All was all there was there was the uncomfortability. And given that the the actual horror element of it, you know, didn't really land for me. It might have landed for other people, but it it did feel very Sammy to everything else. You had an opportunity here. I I think there was an opportunity here to do a little more with that and make it a little deeper and a little richer, you know. And I I could be fine with a game that is of smaller scope than the previous one. But if it's going to be a small scope, I'm going to, like I said, hit it harder on the the polish and the actual details of it and the innovation of the game design and the the kind of developing of of the different ways that people can get scared in this and the the setting things up instead of being, you know, here's this kind of scary guy. Here's another kind of scary guy. Here's this here's your companion. He's a kind of scary guy. If it's going to be a shorter story, it's got to be a better story, I think. Anyway, that's just my opinion. There was a lot in there. Elixian, edit that down, make it sound more comprehensive. I was just rambling off the top of my head. But again, it's the fifth one in the series. Sixth one's got to be an improvement or else I'm going to be extra reviewery about it. So, thank you everybody so much for watching. Let me know if you play hide-and-seek down in the comments below. And let me know what you thought of this game. Am I completely off base about it or do you think I have some points there at least? Thank you. And as always, I will see you in the next video. Bye-bye.