The Night is Grey: A Stunning Hand-Animated Slow-Burn Horror Game with a Tender Story that Hits Hard
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- The Night is Grey - A Stunning Hand-Animated Slow-Burn Horror Adventure with a Tender Story that Hits Hard
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00:00 Chapter 1
35:11 Chapter 2
01:11:53 Chapter 3
01:36:56 The Wolf Inquisition
01:51:17 Chapter 4
02:45:17 Chapter 5
03:21:45 The Final Chapter
03:43:08 The End - Hry
I covered an early demo build of The Night is Grey a couple of years ago, but the full game has just been released. It's a tender and touching horror story that's more about becoming invested with the characters than scares and monsters (though there are some very cool freaky monster moments). The ending is especially well done. Hope you like it! :)
I remember this! I'm glad it's out and done, looking forward to the whole game
YOOO I REMEBER THIS GAME!!
So happy for the full release!
I thought the beginning looked familiar
Thanks for another great video!
Hand animated is southpark(old), old Disney cartoons. This is all drawn and coloured in digital software. Not a single bit of this is done by hand it's done digitially.
I don't think this is a time loop at all, maybe the game really ended after he delivered Hannah to her grandparents house and him walking away was actually triggering a flashback of how it all started.
I remember seeing you play this game years back and being so fascinated by the demo's ending with the arm coming out of a wolf's mouth.
I thought that was a reference to red riding hood where the grandma was eaten and she gets torn out of the wolf by the woodsman.
god it’s been that long?
I kinda expected that the story was more centered around that, I guess it still kinda is just in a completely different way.
Me 2
I always theorized that it could be the either the parent being the wolf in a grotesque body-horror styled wolf creature, cause think about it, sometimes wolves represent predators, and sometimes we can be predators to. Mentally or Physically, or possibly even both!
So chapter 5 and 6 explains why he was there in the first place and why he had to take Hanna to her grandparents. Otto was right, hi IS a creep,
It ended where it began, and it began where it ended. But does it ever truly end? What a story.
Does it ever truly begin?
But hey, it's a theory
@@Baxtone-jj7jp a game theory
@@ArtArchibald Thanks for watching.
I hate this kind of endings. There must be some "and so he found his new family" type of ending. Or maybe ways to accomplish this ending, instead of murdering innocent person :|
You know a game is good when not only ABG covers the game demo, but then the entire game after full release.
(There should be a whole category of games that gets played fully in this channel. Call it ABG's Full House, and it would be sort of a high honor to have your game there)
Bobbert's Full House
nah
Tbh ABG did cover the game demo of the Bramble: The Mountain King, then did a full play through
2:31:32 Spoilers
So we know Graham gets a headache, then comes to when he hears Hannah's whistle. It stops suddenly when Graham gets close to the tower.
Given what we learn what happened to Ava...did Hannah *really* go back to the mine on her own? She goes very quiet after Graham gets her out of there. She doesn't even look at him...
I think Graham “chase” her there, I think the Wolves are just him under hallucination. Probaly that is why she is so quiet after woken up, she knew
@@tranduong4139 wait soo...
...unconciously, graham abducted the kid into the mine so the kid blew the whistle because either panicking or try to wake him up. Thats why her behaviour changes when graham sober himself up?
@@cheapgaming3252 well all of the above are just ours interpretation, but one thing for sure…the white cloth Graham uses and to wipe the kid tear was torn from her mom dress in the final chapter, which is eerily and horifying if she had known.
@@tranduong4139Jesus. No wonder Otto hates him.
I also think he murdered otto when he had the boat headache and the ranger when he had the park headache
If you check Documents from Extras after finishing the game you know that Graham *knew what he did*.
Oh damn, thanks for the heads up. I've just checked and it's pretty damning. What a great little detail.
Man can’t find it anywhere, what’s that text like?
@@Itz_just_VICTOR Full of guilt.
@@nikkoho6476 Damn...
Spoiler it simply says I'm sorry
I kinda predicted that the quotes were from Grahams own mom, because of some foreshadowing mentioning that his mom put a literal cigar in his face.
As well as that the girl (Hannah) wasn’t scared of the dark in the mine, but graham was (which a quote mentioned being put in a dark room)
I’m surprised that he tolerated the mine’s darkness quite well despite his past. I guess everyone copes differently 👍
Spoilers!!
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This is a sad, miserable tale of abuse. It makes you go in circles. It makes you wonder if you're everything they said were. You see their examples every step you take. And then, just when you hope you can prove them wrong, one bad move and for a moment, you "prove them right" and its all downhill.
Maybe Graham helping the little girl was his redemption? Maybe the loop actually ends with her, and instead he goes off to be swallowed away by his own darkness.
For everyone who has ever suffered, sin or without, I wish you seek help someway, somehow.
Yeah, technically the end of chapter 4 would be the end of the story, so it's possible Graham has redeemed himself a little. He would obviously still have plenty of issues to work through though (and his wolves are still there).
@@AlphaBetaGamer Beware the bad puppies.
watched this twice and still trying to piece together the story.
I think it's an awful commentary on the cycle of abuse. This sort of messaging is really common in media and the message is ultimately just telling abuse survivors that they're inescapably destined to turn into the monsters their abusers always blamed them for being, into the same monsters their abusers were.
@@GolemCC I agree, for the most part. Not everyone that was abused will end up a monster, but there are still some that do. We try to think it’s easier to generalize and lump everyone together, but it’s not fair.
Even though this message wasn’t the best told, he still redeemed himself in the end, and it took a lot for him to fight it. I still say that’s him ending the cycle.
Report: the CEO was not at fault, because he was old and died himself. Surely the Agustin guy who tried to warn people and avoid any more deaths must be to blame for all of this!
Died "tragically by his own hands" and the report stated Austin should have stepped up when things started getting sour. It's also an inspector from the company, trying to pin the blame on someone in order to shift negative light on the company.
Chapter 2 feels like the one that reveals the most about what Graham's past is like when given context of chapters 5 & 6.
I knew something was off when he ripped off the cloth from the pole and cleaned his glasses with it after he said he was going to look for her mother. It made no sense why he didnt question why the cloth was there in the first place.
The poor child, her whole existence is a result of trauma, her upbringing paranoid, her life moving forward will be filled with whys. Her saviours motives are questionable and she will never have closure. At the core no matter what her family loves her. The flip side to the coin I guess.
FINALLY THE GAME IS OUT! I swear i saw this game demo'd a dozen times over the last year or 2 and nearly kept forgetting about it every time!
That one spot Otto is hammering all those nails in is going to be super sturdy. Makes me feel safe when all the other stepping ledges fall off under my feet and I break all my limbs.
Was the "you little brat" part in the intro in the demo? Because it drives home the abuse and neglect some people refused to see in the mother's behaviour.
Yeah, I don't think it was, but I can't remember. Graham does come across as quite abrasive and short-tempered at times (for obvious reasons).
@AlphaBetaGamer I checked. The intro text was there in the same form. I forgot, because it didn't make sense back then.
Also, you played the demo 2 years ago.
ABG, your videos were one of the few things that kept me going when life was hard on me. Thank you and keep up the good work. Here's to 2024!
I think this game has been a wild ride. I’m not gonna lie, I really liked this game, it was very detailed in its story. I even relate to Graham’s own angst and crippling low self esteem, despite him not being a great person.
I remembered the demo of this game, I'm glad you're covering the whole thing as well !
Yeah, I loved the demo. Really been looking forward to this one! :)
Oh my god, this is incredibly beautiful. I love seeing humanities creativity in so many countless ways
the hand painted backgrounds are legit so good
The animation and features in the game made me think of Fran Bow. It was amazing watching you play this, thank you and keep up the good work
God I miss 2D animated point and click games. I'll check this one out for that reason alone
1:36:40 I hope Grahms doesn't run into the people playing contrabass in the mines. These people don't seem normal.
ive been so excited for this since you first played it!
Feels really bad for the back story of the little girl. And sadly for the mother, which still happening around the world somewhere…
And about the story, was it already ended after he took her to the grandparents?
I know why that girl not talk because she see a cam video what happened in ranger place she see her mother got kill by same man graham
I know that end is girl mother. graham stalking her and accidentally killed her
This isn't just begging, it's _SCREAMING_ for a professional voice-over. It's like like watching Avengers:Endgame in old-timey black and white with comedic subtitles.
3:54:17 That... that looked so weird. Is it just me? It's like he kinda eased her down into a fatal faceplant. I guess she must've landed on a rock or something.
Mind you, I'd prefer that over a disturbingly realistic depiction of an assault and murder. It was just such an abrupt spurt of blood. That aside, this game absolutely hooked me. I'm not kidding, I NEEDED to see the rest of it to the point I didn't even sleep yet. It's 11:03 AM, have not slept yet. (Which I hope explains some of my incoherence. Annnd off I go to try to get SOME of my bed back from my cats.)
I hadn't noticed the blood and thought he kinda strangled her or something. She could of landed on a rock though. It makes the death seem a little more accidental. Glad you liked the game. It's one of my favorite narrative experiences in a game for a long time.
Here's a little extra bit of info about the game: After you finish it one of the extras allows you to see all of the documents you found throughout the game. It also shows you the message that Graham wrote with the crayon and left behind in Ava's house. It simply says "I'm sorry".
Now get some sleep! :)
I think it’s meant to be ambiguous. I like to think it was an accident, but… it’s ultimately up to interpretation.
@@AlphaBetaGamer OMGG that's actually such a good plot confirmation i love that
I swear, we need a playlist of all the full games that were once demos, that Alpha Beta Gamer has played fully!, but also i want to make clear i loved the game, we need more indie point-and-click games.
Man I remember the very small demo video, honestly surprised that wad years ago now. Still I'm glad the game is completed and seems just as charming as it was then.
Yes! 🥳
I've been looking forward to this one ever since the demo.
I legit thought this game was about mutant monsters and that the world is slowly collapsing, i have no goddamn idea why i thought that but the reveal that the hand-wolf was a hallucination made me realise i was wrong lmao
dude thankyou so much for your channel
What a fantastic ride of a game. It's tough to pull off a slow building, character oriented horror story, but the writing and art direction really pulled through.
As far as the story is concerned, this was my understanding:
Our protagonist Graham is a poor vagrant who has suffered from an abusive childhood. He is a highly impulsive and socially anxious individual, who at some point developed a para social obsession with Ava (Hannah's mother). It's possible he is the son of the Pelletier family, as he seems to struggle with a similar condition to the late Mr. Pelletier, whereby his thoughts are rambling and incoherent. This isn't clear, as Graham mentions his father died in another mine, and that he also has a brother, but the narrative Graham dictates to the player is polluted by a need to dissociate from past events and is thus unreliable. It's worth noting that during chapters 5 and 6, he repeats to himself that "...he's an adult now..." and "...She'll understand...", which could allude to the idea he was indeed the previous assailant of Ava all those years ago, hence his obsession with her now.
I believe the wolves are a manifestation of Graham's fractured psyche - The wolves themselves representing him, with the corpses that burst out of them symbolizing the suppressed guilt he feels over killing Ava. On some levels he appears conscious of this, such as when he expresses confusion over the wolf actively hunting Hannah, because he knows they shouldn't be capable of harming anything outside his own mind. I got the impression he might have a kind of 'werewolf syndrome', where he flips into a primal state of mind as a result of stress or some other accompanying factor. He seems to get frequent, piercing headaches, and the world around him often changes in odd ways after these migraines subside. The fact Hannah became so quiet after she was rescued from the mines could imply Graham himself put her there in one of his rages, only to later play the hero against the evils in his mind.
I do think the majority of events from chapters 1-4 were real, and were basically a warped attempt by Graham to absolve himself of his previous wrongdoings.
Anyway, hope that wasn't too rambly. I'd be curious to hear what others think, to see if I'm barking up the wrong tree or not 👍.
Thank you for summarizing the game. It was confusing for me. I kinda lost the plot towards the end.
This game demo few years back then is one of my reason i keep watching your channel
so the story ended in chapter 4 but chapter 5&6 explains things?
the chronological order is 5,6,1,2,3,4 ?
nice
You play sooooo many beautiful interesting games!
I started crying. I wanted a happy ending so badly.
Same here. The impact of this story, i wanted the good ending where the child meet her mother at last. But in other hand, this ending also gives us some insight of reality.
Tooked a while, this one will definitely be a hell of a game
Finally, I've waited since the demo.
I would never get these games and play them, but watching them like movies on your channel is really satisfying.
Sorry, game devs...
This is why story based games try to block streamers from playing them beyond a certain point or chapter.
For example persona did that.
Whoah! I never would have guessed that's how it ended. Brings it full circle.
spoilers/speculation
He ended up murdering Hannah's mom and I think it did a lot of damage to his psyche which was already damaged from his childhood with his mother. What I'm getting here is that graham has a switch where he becomes a like a wolf, a psychopathic murderer.
I’m not defending him but he didn’t mean to kill her. Still a horrible person
I think after her murder he decided to block it out
i also think he murdered otto and the park ranger after having those headache episodes
Im sorry but why are you calling wolves psychopathic murderers, they gotta eat
I feel like he's blaming the wolves when he kills people, as when the child was about to die via the wolf. I feel bad for graham, though. The abuse from his mother and father caused him to be psychotic.
2:38:00 - I had NO idea how this dot puzzle worked. you went so fast. glad you knew what to do lol.
Its been years since you play the demo holy shet that was really A LLOOOONG TIME
It’s been so many years I totally forgot about this
Idk why but the end of it fading out into "I'm not a monster" made me tear up-
Otherwise, if you look at the pole when he sees the mother (or at least when he kills her) the cloth is there. I feel like instead of being a loop it's just showing how it started, and the reason mother hasn't came back and he has to bring her to her grandma is him.
Ty
This game is great but I didn't really understand the ending.
I get that Graham accidentally killed Ava and the final was pretty much the pre-beginning of the story but... did he stalk Ava (I think the photo in the ship was with that woman)?
What promise did he give himself to meet Ava (if not for Hannah)?
What did he do to her father?
Was he acting like that towards Ava because he was lonely and wanted to date her but his ruined childhood made him so socially crippled.
What "she would understand?"
And... has Hannah figured out where is her mom and who Graham is?
There are a lot of small details that could foreshadow the ending scene, but I kinda couldn't notice all of them.
Forgive the massive reply, but here we go:
Graham was a stalker that is very mentally unwell. He was taking photos of Ava in secret (she didn't know who he was, but he knew who she was and maybe more about her than she would like for someone she never met). He killed Ava accidentally in an attempt to take control of her, but felt nothing for it besides guilt as if he just.. "made a mistake". Since he grabbed for her throat, its possible he would have intentionally killed her had the accident not happened. Helping Hannah was just him feeling bad for her because he killed her mother and she would have starved there alone without her. He took the left-behind scrap of her clothes and used it to clean his glasses and the girl's face with it, then even gave it to her as a "comfort" token. It was to likely hide the evidence. Which means Graham is much smarter than people think he is. They called him slow but throughout the game he was extremely clever.
He hid the truth the whole time. The child had no idea that that man killed her mother, but she picked up on how evil he was when they first met. That something was off with him. It may have happened during his 'episodes' of headaches that she saw him being freaky in the woods as she went searching for her mom. The old man knew that Graham was a creep and he was right the whole time to be defensive towards Graham. It possible her mother also picked up on something not being right or safe in the town because of Graham's stalking behaviors. Like she was trying to be safe from someone and to protect her daughter. She might not know who he was, but stalkers will occasionally let themselves be shown as present in more subtle ways to show their obsession with the person they want. Perhaps he had done that. Perhaps the old man caught onto that too.
Graham was likely involved with the mines, and that part I'm not 100% sure what happened. He may have been part of the family man overseeing the mines. I have a hunch he might be the Pelletier boy everyone hates and blames, but he grew up and changed his name. "I'm better. I'm grown up. I'm a man now. She'll understand." He could have changed his identity to find her again.
Or...this is a hunch but he also -might-, take this with the tiniest grain of salt, have more than one personality because of what the game reveals is severe child abuse. Multiple Personality Disorder is often the result of severe trauma at an early age as the body's way of coping with unbearable experiences. So he 'blacks out' sometimes for minutes to hours. Maybe Graham is the other personality. He has wolves following him, one that reflected the woman he killed, and two others. This might imply the he had killed two other people before. I'm not 100% sure there. When he picked up Augstin's card, he said how the guy looked like he'd been through a lot, and he, himself was one to talk. He spoke the name in quotes "Augstin", as if that wasn't really that guys name. He seemed to know Ava and wanted to get some sort of forgiveness from her for something in addition to hitting on her which would make sense if he was the Pelletier boy.
It's possible the girl realized that Graham was a monster after all. While she was at the Ranger's station, and he was looking for a way out, he blacked out. The ranger he was talking to had disappeared before, but the keys remained. We could hear Ava whistling for help, but when Graham would come into view of the tower, she got really quiet. I'm wondering if she witnessed Graham doing something terrible from the watch tower, and realized it was him who did it when he got closer. That might explain why she ran to find her toy instead of staying and trusting him. She didnt feel safe anymore. That might also explain why she stopped talking to him. She went from extremely excited and mischievous to shut-down. A trip through the cave as a child who isn't afraid of the dark would not have shut her down like that.
That's what I got from all that.
@@fluffytroll5060 Great insights! Here's a little extra bit of info about the game: After you finish it one of the extras allows you to see all of the documents you found throughout the game. It also shows you the message that Graham wrote with the red crayon and left behind in Ava's house near the start. It simply says "I'm sorry".
I still think about this game even a day after finishing it
SPOILER?
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Ok, the ending lost me. Is that a loop of eternal punishment or was the ending simply an achronological intro?
Did he unalive and forgot he did?
He must've lived on that boat before A. moved to the house that was built as a bribe for what Pelletier jr did to her.
Also is Pelletier Jr. Agustus or was Agustus just a rando miner?
Spoiler
I don't think it's an actual loop. I think the end of chapter 4 is the chronological end of the story. Chapter 5 & 6 take place before the events of the start of the game (but you don't learn that until the reveal). Initially you think that chapters 5 and 6 are about Graham trying to find the mother because he promised the girl he would, but in reality he's been obsessed with the mother for some time.
In A WAY that was a loop. He was attracted to the very type of woman that made his life a living hell. It's like she represented an unresolved problem (metaphorised by the wolf turning into a similar woman)
Yeah, I'm still intrigued about who the wolf was turning into. I'm guessing it was his mother, but it could also be the girl's mother. I've like that the game doesn't spell it out for you though.
Oh, the concept artbook actually says who it is.
Spoiler
It's his mother!
@@AlphaBetaGamer And now it all makes perfect sense, rewatched it the 3rd time for the hidden details and it all came together. The apple doesnt fall too far from the tree.
6:59 Hey, Mr Postman, is there a letter, a letter for me? 🎵 (Probably from child protective services tho)
Finally, a game about Billy Mays!
OMG😂
So cool
4 hours..
I'll remember this, i must pack all the popcorn.
That ending was unexpected, the game gets you hooked on for the whole time
amazing
The Night is Grey... and full of Terrors!
Omg now its full release gameplay ncc. Took many months to wait
Ohh great it finally comes :)
Goddamnit yet another the monster was all in the head kind of plot. I really wanted it to have mutated hand wolves and other similar beasts.
Silent Hill 2 worship strikes again
Here for comments.
At this point.. ppl like you are bringing me eye candies everyday...
51:48 it totally does. The cave has treasure and the prospector's son fell for some local booty
Music is atmospheric.
Finally the game out!!!❤
man, that's deep
This desperately needed vocce for us driving-listeners, chore-doers who cant LOOK at the video
I'll play the game and come back here
7:46 i love this already!😂❤
The game is finally out❤
I was thinking about this game a few weeks ago and didnt manage to remember its name!
So chapter 4 is the ending and 5+6 is a prequel, or is this a personal limbo type of situation?
Most of the names are palindromes, spelled the same forwards and backwards.
I swear you could unlock the doors in the house in the demo.
2:00 I'm already alarmed, "Girl, Careful! recoil will punch your eye if you shoot me that way!" "you have your eye too close to the sight"
My understanding was that Graham targets people in the hope he can break the cycle of abuse for victims. There is something in the story and that scene in the ship that indicates he knew the character of Ava and the extensive signs of neglect and abuse at Hannah's house
1:29:29 - schrodinger's july 11st. simultaneously comes before and after august 10th.
*july 11th
The game is finally out!
Now I wished for another game to become a full game. It is called Winterwined.
I knew Otto was onto something
I'm gonna need alot of explanation for my simple mind to understand the story completely. I'm not sure if it's true or not but Graham might just be the kid mentioned in those journals, which means he could be Hannah's unknown father and he came back to the village to try and reconsile with Ava but with one fatal slip took her life and began his entire journey.
Graham is definitely not Hannah’s father. They say the Pelletiers son had r*ped Ava and as a result Hannah was born. The journals in the lighthouse and the mine say it- if u put it all together. Also it seems as though Graham had been traveling for a while (from his journals) and ended up in that village, if he was the Pelletiers son he wouldve been there from the start I assume
How rich of George Lucas who tried to walk towards the gun pointed at him despite the warnings and then towards hungry wolves to warn the kid about dying from touching an electrified gate.
Congrats on getting noticed by Nogla and Terroriser
So the game is finally here.
Saw the demo, didn’t know there was a full release, but no commentary?
I forgot about this
Ava was not like the little girl he encounter as she show she didn't like him and did not want to love him has she was treatening him its sad because he could have a better end, but it end up with him finding a child in a cabin well atleast maybe he found someone who might trust him
What exactly was that wolf meant to be puking up/turning into?
Graham's mom
The comment on duct tape being the most useful thing in the universe seems to be commenting on Marvel's Rocket Raccoon and his use of it in the Guardians of the Galaxy cartoon. Quote, "Duct tape is the stuff that binds the universe together.".
Walt disney old cartoon vibes
>me trying to finish watching this video for the past 2 weeks
I finished it in one day 😂
The dominoes ad lies to you. No emergency pizza
3:27:22 does the kid look like dr Ellie Bouchard the Gatekeeper to you, too?
So Graham is stuck in some kind of eternal circle
It can't be, not like this. We couldn't have gone Oroboros.
"When is love wrong?"
"When it comes from you?"
Oh. Oh dear. Oh no. Oh I think I know where that's going.
Oh no I was right. But I feel like i must have overlooked a few things, here and there, that pointed to it earlier.
I remember this one!
1:41:32-1:42:03
Of all the WTFs I've seen in my life, this was one of the weirdest.
Same
Does #mattwalsh know he’s in a video game? 😂