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.

@Villain_in_Glasses

Жыл бұрын

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.

@Glinkis

Жыл бұрын

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!

@ViewfromtheVoid

Жыл бұрын

Dont worry dude

@thegnjoy

Жыл бұрын

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.

@buttertool6211

Жыл бұрын

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!

@dunemessiah4058

Жыл бұрын

Are you sure? I've thought it depends of what grafic style you have chosen

@mibadada

Жыл бұрын

@@dunemessiah4058 nope! I had the same style as mapo at the start and got the feminine voice

@thegnjoy

Жыл бұрын

Ohhh that's why I was a bit confused. My character was a woman and that's how I'd remembered the story haha. That's cool!

@lordperkele3778

Жыл бұрын

I was sure it depended on how many times you had started the game or something

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.

@isak2209

7 ай бұрын

I regret to admit I did the same thing except even worse, as the helmsman was like the 10th last person I identified. yikes.

@diegokevin3824

2 ай бұрын

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.

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.

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.

@DrKunze

Жыл бұрын

Take a look at "Return of the Obra Dinn - Schematic Timelapse" on KZread.

@dragonchaser583

Жыл бұрын

Never could get into outer woods, found it to be boring and confusing. But disco Elysium is probably my fav RPG game ever

@jessewest5456

9 ай бұрын

@@dragonchaser583 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

Oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my god

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.

@lamparez

Жыл бұрын

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

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.)

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.

@Kronos_88

Жыл бұрын

I've played the game 3 times, watched like 4 playthroughs, and I always just thought it was random. God damn.

"I'm doing a 3D computer game." "WOW! Cool! I would like to try it. I hope my graphics card can handle it." "Your what card?"

Oh man just 30 minutes in and I think I'm gonna have to hold off on watching and give this a go. The atmosphere and level of detail is just insane!

@octochan

Жыл бұрын

This is deffo one of those games you shouldn't spoil if you have any intention of playing it

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.

Damn this game is a lot cooler than I was expecting

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

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but then he didn't know where Morocco was I was like Mapooo!! lol

@sharondornhoff7563

7 ай бұрын

@@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.

You might also like The Case of the Golden Idol for its detective point and click goodness ❤

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.

One of my favorite games of all time. The ambience, the story, the concept, the game mechanics, the music. It's all great.

29:37 I'm really digging this. Almost makes me want to stop the playthrough, buy this game, play it, then come back to this video.

@kemmons18

Жыл бұрын

This is one of those games you can only experience once. Definitely play it first and it makes it more fun to watch Mapo try to figure it out too.

@mibadada

Жыл бұрын

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)

@ViewfromtheVoid

Жыл бұрын

you should

@Kochen51

Жыл бұрын

You should

Awesome pick! You’re quickly becoming my favourite KZread channel.

"Papers Please came across my desk" *KACHUNK* APPROVED

Don’t second guess yourself! Theres a reason we wanted to see you play this 😊 it’s okay if the game trips you up here and there

59:52 "Well I mean, here's the thing" *guesses the exact specific chain of events that occurred*

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

After seeing how much Mapo enjoyed Outer Wilds, I just knew he would eventually find his way to this. Enjoy my friend. This one is special.

Omg I did not expect you will play it this soon. I'm excited.

No way! My favorite detective game I'm so excited!

"watch this guy be henry evans" yes the guy being shot :P silly mapo Good luck! this one gets tough if going for the 100%

Another great game, looking forward the playthrough.

"Y'arrr be smooth sailing on the surface of my brain" 😂

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

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!

I'll be back at a later date after I first play this for myself

I finished this game in two days when I played it. I loved it so much I wish it was longer

I think this will be one of his best playthroughs.

One of the games one can never replay and is forever cursed to seek out others’ play throughs

1:44:37 Amazing game thus far! I hope you can piece it all together!

It's definitely a hard game and very niche. I don't know if you caught it maybe I missed it, but you actually work in insurance claims

Ooooo finally Mapo tackles Obra Dinn!!! So excited

Yas, hoped for this since papers please was covered.

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!

You can do the old sea-man’s accent so well Mapo!

15:19 Odd game mechanics. Interesting!

Mapo dropping another great series, while I need to get things done...

Ohhhhh I've been hoping for this!!

This is going to be a great playthrough.

There was a person inside the explosion, if you zoom in it would highlight him

Very excited for this one!

Ive just found your channel - digging ALL your stuff. Easy damn sub!

Hyped for this, such an amazing game.

Great choice, such a fantastic game.

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!

ARRGH mateyyy good to see you play this

this is a art worth admiring

44:20 that sheer dumb luck gives me shivers.

@darnok6407

Ай бұрын

It's ok. 1:06:08 makes up for that. Obra Dinn giveth and Obra Dinn taketh away lol Edit: And 1:11:25

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.

@beefarren

Жыл бұрын

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.

@Prototype-357

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

I should play Heaven's Vault again, I was really only there for puzzling out the language the first time and I didn't really pick up on the lore

@beefarren

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Flo-rj8tz

Жыл бұрын

@@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

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!

*speaks in Pentiment* Go-od bless you Mapo for this playthrough =)

Oh shit!! Im so excited!

Oh cool was hoping you'd play this one.

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

The mad lad did it

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

Жыл бұрын

Just finished playing it blind and came here to watch the playthrough... what shoes?

@Potatezone

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@nathancollins1715

Жыл бұрын

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!

@JR-pf9in

6 ай бұрын

​@@nathancollins1715 lol I did the exact same thing, glad it wasn't just me

So excited!!!

It's a fun game a lot of learning and remembering putting information together for sure 🧐

Wow damn you actually play it

YASSSSSS SO EXCITED!!!!

The book and a watch might not be heavy, but try climbing a ladder with a wooden suitcase in one hand.

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)

Oh Mapo, your fucking face when you found Spratt 😂

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 game is so unique, never seen anything like it 😮

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!

@Brutishandshort

8 ай бұрын

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 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.

So, what was your dog barking about!!?

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

This game is phenomenal. I've never been so immediately enraptured by a game, it's so unique and fun to unravel. Enjoy it!

I hope this means Case of the Golden Idol is imminent as well 🙏

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

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.

What a great game... At this rate you should look into La Mulana

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

Man, the death rate on this ship is quite something.

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. ❤

Lez Goooo

YES YES YES YES

Go back to the explosion memory and zoom in on the explosion itself. You'll find something Interesting

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 🤓

Hah the sepia opening.

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

@Mapocolops

Жыл бұрын

I’ve played the TR reboot trilogy in the past before KZread :)

Lol pooping sounds 😆

Heck yes.

1:42:00 had me cracking up 😂😂😂

I've watched like 20 letsplays by now and NOBODY looks at the deck plans. Why? >:(

@saotiago

8 ай бұрын

I was so happy to see him use it because it really helps you figure out the timeline XD

@JaneXemylixa

8 ай бұрын

@@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

>litterally sees him getting shot by the woman on the boat "Clearly the captain shot him"

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!

@Redingold

Жыл бұрын

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.

@Painocus

Жыл бұрын

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.

@Kochen51

Жыл бұрын

​@@Painocus I agree

LCD I found much easier to look at 😄

Boat: Please.

This is already so fun! Gimme all the indie mystery games yum yum. You picked it up immediately that you only have a moment to look around and then you have to wait for it to open the book. A weird bit of timing that seems to confuse people. Also poor E.S.. Squeezed out like a tube of toothpaste.

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

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.