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No you were right. That type of singing is called kulning. It’s a type of singing that travels great distances and people used it mostly to call cows and sheep home.
I'm sure someone has already pointed this out, but the ''shapeshifter'' aka the beautiful woman who lured the men into the forest is called Skogsrå in swedish. In swedish mythology she's the protector of the forest but you don't wanna piss her off, haha. She's known for the hole in her back. She's one of my favorite mythical beings in our folklore. Anyway, absolutely loved watching this. You have a new follower!
That helps to explain why Tuva asked what he had done after he killed her as if he did something wrong, from our perspective she was evil but from the forests perspective I imagine the humans were harming it.
Skogsrå was a fascinating character and I wondered why I'd never heard of her before. I think Näcken was my favorite antagonist, though. I'm a sucker for a tragic story.
figurines: pinecone dolls 5:516:037:12 female figurine 7:50 gnome figurine 17:59 troll figurine 56:55 stone giant figurine 1:07:20 figurine with a rake 2:49:06 king figurine 3:12:09 3:38:32 figurines on a shelve in the siblings' room nature: giant mushrooms 14:0220:0735:521:00:46 River 14:3825:2326:48, going down the river 1:21:29, The water looks amazing and realistic. many flowers 17:3421:3825:4328:051:03:06 1:24:28 giant lily pads 23:111:13:59 Brambles 1:25:32 1:28:57 2:00:03 2:48:16 3:04:16 3:15:18 They have pretty flowers tho. big flower blooms 3:33:14 Story book 2:081:19:13 2:08:10 3:07:28, witch book 1:46:28, diary 2:38:45 The covers of the books and art are beautiful. nice little tinket box 3:333:10:54 7:32 Creature on roof to the left moved away. Thanks for mentioning it. light stone 9:25 10:51 Maybe that singing is kulning. Thanks for mentioning it. carvings on doors 18:4421:113:18:13 gnome hide and seek game 19:42 herding 22:05 26:51 circle of rocks with sparkles in it in the back gnome pig plush 32:36 43:00 Can be ran over with the cart. You failed there but I got to learn that you can be ran over by the cart. slide 1:08:19 cave wall drawings 1:11:56 giant king Nils statue 1:30:20 1:33:01 wicker duck 1:43:09 1:43:21 door on fire but doesn't burn cauldron 1:43:34 Olle holding a baby 2:05:35 Lillemor illusion 2:10:50 2:13:32 sword of light 2:13:41 2:21:55 the light of the stone was going out sign: Nilshult 2:22:21 looks like a town model 2:34:58 eclipse 2:49:29 kaleidoscope 2:50:31 row boat 2:51:43 good king Nils paintings 3:06:15 3:10:24 3:10:29 Olle put on a prince's outfit 3:11:16 end cutscene 3:35:23 3:37:03 Morph was so happy and relieved to see the stone giant Lamas. playing as Lillemor 3:38:03 3:38:40 picture in the siblings' room about Morph: 1:38 Morph played with army men at his grandma's house. 13:19 Morph likes having siblings. It's refreshing that these siblings are depicted nice to each other. 1:16:18 Morph played the violin at around 8 yrs old.
39 minutes in. Your voice is so mellow and soothing it really takes the edge off watching gameplay of a game like this. And I love your comments, wit, and humor. Much less stressful than some other Tubers. 🥰
It blows my mind how you're able to remain so calm and soothing through this. Even when you're scared its not like other people where they're screaming oblivion into your headset. I just saw you did a Amanda the Adventurer video and I'm SO bummed I watched a playthrough the other day right before you posted it... but who am I kidding I'm gonna watch it anyway lol.
Don't know if anyone has commented on it, but those aren't pumpkins, they are hjortron. A delicious berry which are pretty hard to find but very delicious! Went picking with my grandpa once, in sweden we make jam out of them, heat the jam up and eat it with vanilla icecream 🥰 Love your voice btw, very calming 😊
as a Norwegian who grew up with a lot of these fairytale monsters and stories, I'm so excited for what this game has to offer. (I'm writing this before watching the video, duh)
Swedish translation of the game. At 1:03:10 the beautiful song played, is named “Den blomstertid nu kommer”, it´s a summer psalm and it is very well known to every Swede, as it usually plays at every end of school year before summer break. Although it’s more of a “normal” song today, than a religious one. For me, this song just makes me warm and only reminds me of the excitement of summer, to play outdoors and basically live in a similar nature as to the game, except for all the fables. But I did hear of them as a child from my parents. At 2:23:56 the text on the wall says “Straffet väntar hädaren och prygel dårens rygg”, which in direct translation would be, 'Punishment awaits the hypocrite and flogging of the fool's back'. It derives from what is called in Swedish as ”Ordspråksboken", (Eng: the book of proverbs), it is an old testament book of 'wisdom literature' and consists of six smaller collections, containing wise sayings and 'rules of life' that show how to righteous life. I´m not sure of the context in this game but considering she´s in a chair with some crank into the back, I assume she´s the hypocrite. At 2:44:50 I think it´s actually an Easter egg, referring to a famous Swedish humor group called Grotesco, who made a sketch called “1 kilo mjöl”, (Eng: 1 kilo of flour). If you look at the set up, it does remind of an old styled grocery store, as in the sketch. I put the link here if anyone is interested: czcams.com/video/AQIxZMUWUpU/video.html Fun fact, the same group made a satire of Russian stereotypes in 2009, which put Sweden in the hot chair but really, I loved it! czcams.com/video/e1ozCWyUlCg/video.html
I really shouldn't have tried to watch this at work. The part where he acts like a tour guide on a fieldtrip through the beartraps had me rolling! My coworkers came to check on me. 🤣
In the segment where you walked through the burning forest with the murdered witches you can see the old lady with the rake at one point walking in the woods and it got me so anxious when you didn’t see it 😂😂 I was like huuuuuh Morph? Morph?! Don’t leave me alone with this information 😬
The pinecone characters are something we used to make back in time instead of dolls, I remember my grandmas mother telling me how to make them when I was younger, on our island we own in Sweden.
That nymph thing you fought in those 3 stages was not the witch or baby killer. She was the one who led all the men to there doom from the town or village or whatever that you later visited. She’s kinda like a siren but like a land one lol. Also the old lady you face later with the rake caused the plague that turned everyone that was left in the village into basically zombies.
@@MadMorph you don’t ever encounter her apart from when you were trying to follow her and save the baby and failed. Whatever she was trying to do she succeeded and I guess did her last sacrifice and killed herself too. She was trying to make sacrifices to like become some kinda demon like thing but we never see what happened with that. Because yea the water nymph thing was not the witch. And I don’t believe the old lady with the rake was either. They were separate beings and threats that had terrorized a town for ages
No your referring to the creature that was in the water playing the violin and I’m not talking about him. As I mentioned in my comment I’m referring to the creature he faces that has 3 phases. The female seductive nymph like thing that Ole encounters and stabs in the back where her heart was with Courage that turned into a holy blessed looking sword. That creature was the one that led men from the village to there doom posing as a beautiful woman to lure them into the forest where she killed then gruesomely to get there hearts and gain more power from them. The witch that killed the baby is never shown again. She was a normal human like being apart from her dark magic after she sacrificed the baby she killed herself it seems. She was meaning to transform herself into some powerful being but I don’t think it worked lol. Because she was not the female nymph thing he fought. She had existed well before anything the witch ever did. So either that random encounter could be like a tease to maybe a threat for the next game or it was just some random crazy witch you encountered who believed she would gain power and a new body by sacrificing babes to some unknown entity but nothing comes of it.
@@shannonmichael4773 Uh...you do fight the witch, the one with the skull mask on their face...thats the witch, their name quite literally translates to "Swamp Witch"
I wad wondering when that song would make an appearance, honestly. Always one of my favorite classical songs, even as a kid listening to midi files of it randomly online haha.
Also moved me to tears when you walk through the trail of “witches” murdered out of fear. You were right - It did really happen historically, Morph. Different context and in several countries of course but it did.
Truly an amazing game and gameplay. I loved each part of it. Never in my life have I thought that with my adhd attention span I could sit for 3 straight hours watching someone play. Yet here I am, finished the whole video almost without skipping (almost) , but it truly was an incredible experience. The narrators voices and yours were like that of a sirens luring singing. No exaggeration in the reactions, just a soothing guiding sound. I was hypnotized by the beauty of both the graphics and storytelling. The ending brought a tear in my eye. Man how I love folklore. The simple yet complex story told by generations. Could say you successfully hypnotized me to subscribe !!!❤ love and support for now one of my favorite creators
I'm a couple of months late, but I wanted to say your voice is surprisingly peaceful for a horror game playthrough and I'm here for it. Also, wanted to explain some of the inspiration behind some of the things in this game: The Light Stone: it is literally the Spark of Courage. Olle loses it when he loses his sister, but after having survived his first night in Bramble, he gains a little bit of confidence. Aristotle's virtues and vices say that excess courage is rashness, which Olle exhibits when he fights the Skogra, stabbing her relentlessly with little thought to the consequences. He falls back to cowardice and has to regain his confidence when he fights Pesta. Nacken: based off of a nixie, or water spirit, specifically the Nokk from Nordic folklore, who plays songs on an enchanted violin to lure women and children to drown in the lakes. Not all were malevolent, as some stories just had them play music for others for entertainment. Tuva: based off of Helge Kjellen's fairytale Skutt the Moose and Princess Tuvstarr. Also based off of John Bauer's painting Princess Tuvstarr gazing down into the dark waters of the forest tarn. Only in image and name. Karrhaxen: the midwife in the swamp, themed after a Slavic house spirit called Kikimora. Kikimora were spirits created from tragic deaths (women and children only). Not all were evil and were actually known to help in the household, but the ones that originated from the swamps were evil. These kikimora were women who killed themselves, women who succumbed to the influence of demons, children who died unbaptized, and stillborn babies came back as kikimora. Specifically, the women would return with animal like features, like goat horns and glowing eyes while the children returned as black spirits. Skogsra: based off the Scandinavian forest spirit, hulder. Specifically called the Skogsra. They are described to be beautiful women with the tail of some animal, usually a cow, and a hollowed out tree like back. Draugr: nordic zombies. That's it. Pesta: the plague hag, brought about as a personification of the Black Death. When in town, if she brought her rake, some would survive, passing through the teeth of the rake. If she brought her broom, all would die. King Nils: loosely based off of Dovregubben, the troll king in the Norwegian play Per Gynt, from which the song In the Hall of the Mountain King originated from, specifically during the scene in which Peer Gynt flees Dovregubben and his trolls.
Thanks for the kind words! I love looking at the inspirations behind fictional things and Nordic fairytales are some of my favorites! Any chance to do obsessive research, I will take it.
personally love the violin guy segment and the final boss.. great use of the music and timing the boss fight and attack to the song. can say it isn't easy thing to do.. but the devs did it masterful here. always find it fun when game devs use the actual in game music as well as the spund effects to ad layers to attacks. combat is largely a dance and has a tempo, so devs making use of that always makes me happy.
I was wondering why the song at 1:03:10 sounded so familiar! As a Finnish person recognized the melody as "Suvivirsi", but with a little googling I'm not at all surprised that it's Swedish in origin, goes by the name "Den blomstertid nu kommer". Both versions sing about summer coming, and it's usually sung at the end of school year to celebrate the coming summer holidays! The Swedish name translates to 'Now the time of blossoming arrives', while the Finnish name roughly means 'Summer hymn' or 'song of summer', 'Suvi' being a synonym for 'Kesä', meaning summer.
This really is the essence of Sweden. The song "den blomstertid nu kommer" always brings a tear to my eye. Reminds me of all the summer term/semester ending ceremonies where we sing that one.
Mythology and Fiction Explained does an amazing video on Scandinavian folklore, which explains a fair few of the creatures in the game, well worth a watch 😊 great video as usual mm 😁
I will have to check out your sleepy time bits. I love your kind and genuine reactions playing anything. I have qyite severe PTSD. You helped me sleep during a 3 day windstorm that set me off hard even though I knew there was nothing to it. You single-handedly saved me from a manic episode. Gotta catch up now on all the bits I peacefully slept through My champion 💜
Ladies and gentlemen, we found it. The best boss music. For real though, this game had me speachless! It was gorgeous, it was symbolic, it was an ode to norse mythology and a beautiful expirience that had me clutching my heart.
I lost my 26-year-old brother about a month ago, unexpectedly... We were always close, much like the siblings here. As a sister, this was both beautiful and difficult to watch, thank you for sharing it ❤️
I am so so sorry Alida. There is nothing to be said that will make that okay- it is senseless to lose someone like that, at 26. I hope you are doing better each day. I hope your memories are remaining strong. I don’t know you, but I am sending you love.
I loved this game. Most of the pictures reminded me of an artist - especially the scene with Tuva (blonde girl sitting at a lake) and after looking it up, I remembered correctly. It was John Bauer, a Swedish artist. They took many of his pictures for the ones on the wall in the children's room and in the library. Also the whole mood and colouring of the game reminded me heavily of his wonderful drawings. Do look him up if you want to check out his awesome world.
Only child but married into a family where I now have three brother-in-laws and it's the best. It's such a nice feeling to go from feeling alone to feeling like someone has your back. Amazing playthrough, as always!
Yesssssss! Perfect timing. I was about to go to bed in a fairytale mood after watching "Come Away", and was intending to look for a fairytale on Down To Sleep, but this will do nicely 🤭
Not sure I love the Skogsrå in this. She simply the guardian of the forest and the animals. Treat her right and her domain right and you might get rewarded with luck in hunting, foraging or forestry. She might take you as a lover and if you are unfaithful she can cause bad luck for hunters, foresters and wanderers. Then again, we might view this from the perspective of a frightened child who, like you Mr Morph, though her to be a witch 😉 I do love our folklore though, and I thoroughly enjoyed this video. If you want more Sweden then Unraveled is you next game 😃
Maybe her turning evil is part of the corruption because she is closely related to nature and was affected by the kings doings at least, that is how I saw it. Just like the flower who was meant to do good was used for evil in the end.
Great video aside, this was so fun for me. I'm from Norway and my name is Ole, and my grandma was actually nicknamed Lillemor, to the point where people often didn't know her given name.
To the question with siblings: i have an older sister who is sadly moving away at the end of next month. We "fight" and argue a lot as most siblings do but in the end we both know we'll have each others backs. Also this looks amazing! I never got to watch thr Demo but now seeing the full game makes me Very excited
i just wanted to say that your voice is very soothing and helped me get through my work day between it and my love of folklore . i appreciate you muchly and I hope you have many happy returns
The painting on the wall is from a real life artist from Sweden (Jönköping) john Bauer and he painted allot of trolls, and he died with his family in the water outside of Jönköping (his home town in Sweden)
I clicked on this because i was interested in this game but the only deciding factor in me watching all the way through was how much i enjoyed this channel's voice and im SO pleasantly satisfied. Strapped in and ready to go.
I've been excited to watch you play this since the demo! Love the folklore and art style in this game 😍 Somehow it kind of makes me feel nostalgic. Maybe because I read so many nordic children's stories as a kid.
I have 4 little brothers I'm the oldest and only girl, this game is absolutely beautiful and the creatures in this game are awesome I got to read about these monsters, I love your voice you need to narrate stories 😊
Ahhh the chapter with the zombies gave me a nervous breakdown! Such a good game. im swedish and recognised a lot of the characters and the tales. Also it said 1 KG flour. Well played.
10 min in and this game is SO beautiful. The voice acting. The character movements. The music. The vibes. Idk how it’s goin to go midway, but so far I am in love.
Props to the sound design and scoring team. Not easy to create actual fear and suspense without/with the use of sound (and without relying on constant jump scares at that). Amazing work, this is a gorgeous game.
Thanks for your walktrough, really nice to watch. I like that you're so calm. The artwork you see and comment on in the kids room and the library are from a swedish artist named John Bauer, I love his work. Also the segment with the blond girl Tuva is inspired from one of his works - Tuvstarr. You should really look it up! :) My favourite thing from the game though were all the white flowers. They're called vitsippor (wood anemone) and they are one of the biggest signs of spring here in Sweden fore they grow everywhere here right now, and it's truly beautiful. (I'm a bit bummed out that they mixed them with hjortron (cloudberries) that typically grow in the autumn. ;) But fun either way!)
I have a younger brother so I'm the older sister 😊 I just started watching the playthrough, but I can relate to the dynamic already. I've always felt protective of my little brother no matter our increasing age. Excited to see where this goes! Edit: What an amazing game! The cinematography, the scares, the ambiance in combination with the music and story 👌✨️ just so good! Thanks for taking us along Morph!
Thank you, great gameplay, but in general gotta laugh that the trolls, having tonns of meat from giant pigs and deer falling into traps, resort to chasing down a bony tiny boy, essentially an insect lol in reality they would be like, bet, tiny human, respect and good luck, want some pork?
This game is amazing. i am not good at games that are intense and more of a cozy gamer. i really enjoy lets plays like this and watch it like a movie. i can experience those masterpieces too somehow. :)
Loved the playthrough. As always, Morph, I'm delighted you continue introducing me to new and unusual (especially foreign) experiences! Little Nightmares games are in a category all their own to me, but it was just as good story wise, and more stunning visually, in some ways. And so accomplished! Doing it all in one seamless, deathless playthrough. ;) I was saddened, greatly, by the death of the shapeshifter. Tuva also seemed to indicate that this was a SAD THING, that, perhaps, shouldn't have been done? There weren't any real repercussions (other than regret) for doing so... still. Sadness. Perhaps because the shapeshifter (aesthetically) was presented more as a nature being (branches growing from head, greenish skin). Like... the land just beyond where she was killed (and turned or was covered in moss?) was blackened, scorched -- a wasteland. The opposite ambiance to the area leading up to the confrontation with the shapeshifter. *sighs* Maybe it's just me. I think (and have pondered the same in the past)... that maybe that's a common motif for Scandinavian folklore to be emotionally/morally ambivalent about their "monsters", or myths. I felt the same way watching the Witcher 3 promo advert about Geralt killing the vampire in the barn ( czcams.com/video/jRqz14Vgs08/video.html ). Felt an amount of sorrow for the vampire's death. I think mostly because of the way it was framed. Thanks again for a marvelous, flawless, thoroughly enchanting journey, through a magical game I wouldn't even have known existed were it not for yourself.
The story book said the shapeshifter killed men and hung them on trees and used their beating hearts. 2:11:34 When Olle fought her, there were beating hearts on the trees. She attacked Olle. She's evil, and Olle needed to defend himself. Why are you sympathetic for evil villains? Is it just because you like the way she looks?
@@user-gu9yq5sj7c *scratches head* I'm pretty sure the fight between poor Olle and the shapeshifter was -unavoidable- . That being, there would be no way to progress in the game without the confrontation, and death, of the shapeshifter. So, mechanically, the game agrees (on many levels) that this was a creature to be vanquished. Also, in the very next part of my statement, I say I felt sorry for the vampire, and speculate it was because of the way the cinematic framed the encounter with Geralt. The character's femininity, voice or level of modesty had literally nothing to do with my reaction. Which was, in this instance, sadness, moreso that the confrontation was unavoidable. If something attacks you, unprovoked, you defend yourself. I was trying to find meaning in Tuva's comment, "Olle, what have you done?" Olle himself seemed to feel a measure of regret for the death. Or perhaps his regret was related to his own brutal response? Evil is a perspective. I'm a writer. We spread our empathy around.
Actually, in actual swedish folklore, the Skogsrå (which means forest guardian) is someone who does lure away men but also is connected to nature and if treated well (or if a man discovers the hole in her back before it´s too late) she let´s them go and may even bring good fortune! Their reason behind killing the men before is a part of their nature and the men may have also started disrupting the peace in the forest which caused them to hunt the men.
@@snybies Thank you so much for explaining! I really appreciate (in this case, you sharing the name of the creature in question so I could continue to satisfy my curiosity) learning new things -- especially myths, legends and folklore from different cultures. The Skogsrå is fascinating.
This was amazing! I love seeing parts of my culture being portrayed in games I really appreciate that they didn't tone down the fear and dark side of those stories The little gnomes/nisse and the hjortron/cloudberry children were so cute I was really hoping that the Näcken would have come out of the water with a Näckros/Water Lily on his head Kinda disappointed that the Huldra/Skogsrået didn't have a foxtail, but she was wonderful none the less
@@Fivreld Yeah in Sweden they are as well, but they also have horse tails and fox tails Personally I'm more familiar with seeing them with a fox tail 😊
@@shootingstarmolly oOoOoO how cool !! i just double checked some Norwegian sources, and apparently they can also be depicted with a horse tail here. but it doesn't mention a fox tail, so i guess that's mainly a Swedish folk belief. do you also have that hulder/huldra can have a hollow back?? i've kind of heard of that one, but i'm more familiar with the belief that they'll have a back that looks like a rotten tree stump haha
@@Fivreld True! Skogsrå is the Swedish counterpart of the Huldra They have similar hollow backs as well, with mushrooms and/or flowers growing out of it Basically the same as the Huldra, the only real difference is the fox tail I think the cow tails and the horse tails look really good to💖 It's interesting how countries so close together can still interpret similar myths so differently For an example: Näcken plays the violin, harp, accordion or a flute depending on where you are from
This was amazing. Extremely spooky but I really enjoyed the play through you did. Thank you for this game. Also good job on no deaths. Zero death morph can be your nickname.
I LOVED this playthrough. I saw the demo playthrough on YT and was wsiting for the full one. The artstyle and Nordic folklore was awesome. Some of the bad characters put me in mind of the Krampus folklore. Thank you for putting up this video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Hoping the studio does more like this. The Finnish Kalevela would be a great source for another game
I'm gonna leave it on in the other room with the sound off so you get a long view off the start though❤ i did hear the first couple minutes. Can't wait.
I just found out about this game like a minute ago and I absolutely loooove all of it! I love the atmosphere and I mean I am Swedish so I’m a bit proud and so excited so see something that I can recognise from my childhood ( mostly about the mythology ). Seeing Swedish names like Lillemor was very cool because I’m not used to see that in English speaking games and whatnot. Anyway I’m really looking forward to see where this will go ✨
There were comments that said Lillemor means little mom in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. And that Olle is a danish name. I like the visuals, music, culture, puzzles, story, embroidery on their clothes, and carvings. I'm glad the siblings survived. The ending with Lillemor in her room was kinda anticlimatic. But I'm glad Olle learned to be brave. Aw, you don't get to take justice on the witch who killed the babies? You said the shapeshifter might be the witch, but what evidence is there to that? Sometimes you thought this game could just be in their heads or that they're dead. But I don't want it to be "just a dream." I think it was real. I appreciate that you try to be brave and not scream when you play horror games. 56:47 Thanks for commenting and clicking on what's in the game. Like the mouse. Cause it was too dark it's hard for me to see. Thanks for trying to explode and pick up the figurines.
I’m the oldest at 26. I am “Big sister” to a 24 year old brother and 14 year old sister. I picked on my brother constantly growing up and we argued all the time since we were only 2 years apart but now i literally adore him lol. I would throw hands for my little bro. Love having siblings. Being an only-child would have been so lonely since I never had a lot of friends growing up
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That church in the beginning almost almost looks like the one in the movie Midsommar
No you were right. That type of singing is called kulning. It’s a type of singing that travels great distances and people used it mostly to call cows and sheep home.
in a fairytale perspective, it’s like when peter pan calls out to the lost boys which is ironic bc neverland has sirens
I'm sure someone has already pointed this out, but the ''shapeshifter'' aka the beautiful woman who lured the men into the forest is called Skogsrå in swedish. In swedish mythology she's the protector of the forest but you don't wanna piss her off, haha. She's known for the hole in her back. She's one of my favorite mythical beings in our folklore. Anyway, absolutely loved watching this. You have a new follower!
That helps to explain why Tuva asked what he had done after he killed her as if he did something wrong, from our perspective she was evil but from the forests perspective I imagine the humans were harming it.
Skogsrå was a fascinating character and I wondered why I'd never heard of her before. I think Näcken was my favorite antagonist, though. I'm a sucker for a tragic story.
Thats so cool! I love greek mythology I am definitely going to look into swedish mythology
Skogsrå is such a cool name, in Norwegian I think we call it huldra
Olle literally went from being scared of bedtime stories to killing terrifying monsters to get to his sister.
What a chad
“If i can’t stay out past curfew neither will she”
“If i can’t stay out past curfew neither will she”
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the gnomes walking into the bear traps had me giggle but when they perished being stomped on in the house i stopped smiling real fast 😢😪💘
Right?!?!? The stomping was so aggressive and poor Ollie crying 😢. But it was really funny before that tho
@LTH the spectrum of emotions this video brought out of me 😅 i need meditation haha! x
I wasn't the only one nearly tearing up on the hedgehog swimming sequence was I? Absolutely beautiful. This isn't a game. It's a work of art.
boss fights:
troll butcher 39:28
woman hanging on logs 1:54:48
shapeshifter 2:11:34
the void and the old woman with a rake 2:52:42
king Nils 3:22:46
music:
singing 10:10 1:03:08 2:19:36
violin music 1:08:04 1:12:32
creatures:
gnome 16:37 17:57 19:24 21:19 21:49 31:26 32:36 43:56 44:37 1:04:08 1:06:34 1:07:53
baby like creature 21:49 1:06:55
fairies 26:21 27:06
troll 27:10 35:22 46:21 51:52 1:01:00 3:15:30
mole like creature 33:41 34:16
53:34 Pinecone creatures dancing in a circle. 59:06 pinecone creatures
Stone giant Lamas. I like his glowing eyes. 59:45 1:06:08 1:30:24 1:34:22 1:34:38 3:37:03
Nacken 1:12:54 1:13:49 1:21:20 1:22:53
1:26:29 Tuva gave the light stone a power boost.
bright light foe 1:30:40 3:15:55
shadow figures 1:39:13 2:03:58
Lvktgubbe the librarian 2:06:47 2:08:01 2:10:43
old woman with a rake 2:52:25
animals:
hedgehog 17:47 19:12 19:48 1:04:06, swimming hedgehog 1:04:25
giant frog 23:32 1:04:59
frog king rescued Olle 29:51
mouse 56:47
deer 1:03:26
moose 1:28:35
places:
gnome houses 17:47
cave 1:08:37 1:18:39
swarmp 1:38:08
library 2:07:48 3:07:07
village 2:30:03
church and mural 2:45:45
tower 2:48:31
figurines:
pinecone dolls 5:51 6:03 7:12
female figurine 7:50
gnome figurine 17:59
troll figurine 56:55
stone giant figurine 1:07:20
figurine with a rake 2:49:06
king figurine 3:12:09
3:38:32 figurines on a shelve in the siblings' room
nature:
giant mushrooms 14:02 20:07 35:52 1:00:46
River 14:38 25:23 26:48, going down the river 1:21:29, The water looks amazing and realistic.
many flowers 17:34 21:38 25:43 28:05 1:03:06 1:24:28
giant lily pads 23:11 1:13:59
Brambles 1:25:32 1:28:57 2:00:03 2:48:16 3:04:16 3:15:18 They have pretty flowers tho.
big flower blooms 3:33:14
Story book 2:08 1:19:13 2:08:10 3:07:28, witch book 1:46:28,
diary 2:38:45
The covers of the books and art are beautiful.
nice little tinket box 3:33 3:10:54
7:32 Creature on roof to the left moved away. Thanks for mentioning it.
light stone 9:25
10:51 Maybe that singing is kulning. Thanks for mentioning it.
carvings on doors 18:44 21:11 3:18:13
gnome hide and seek game 19:42
herding 22:05
26:51 circle of rocks with sparkles in it in the back
gnome pig plush 32:36
43:00 Can be ran over with the cart. You failed there but I got to learn that you can be ran over by the cart.
slide 1:08:19
cave wall drawings 1:11:56
giant king Nils statue 1:30:20 1:33:01
wicker duck 1:43:09
1:43:21 door on fire but doesn't burn
cauldron 1:43:34
Olle holding a baby 2:05:35
Lillemor illusion 2:10:50 2:13:32
sword of light 2:13:41
2:21:55 the light of the stone was going out
sign: Nilshult 2:22:21
looks like a town model 2:34:58
eclipse 2:49:29
kaleidoscope 2:50:31
row boat 2:51:43
good king Nils paintings 3:06:15 3:10:24 3:10:29
Olle put on a prince's outfit 3:11:16
end cutscene 3:35:23
3:37:03 Morph was so happy and relieved to see the stone giant Lamas.
playing as Lillemor 3:38:03
3:38:40 picture in the siblings' room
about Morph:
1:38 Morph played with army men at his grandma's house.
13:19 Morph likes having siblings. It's refreshing that these siblings are depicted nice to each other.
1:16:18 Morph played the violin at around 8 yrs old.
we never fought a scarecrow in the game
Tf
@@xxmension04xx47 they're prob talking about the midwife
Dude, what is it that you do for a living? Or you out of school?
man i was boutta do this you beat me to it lol
Being norwegian, hearing you say "a lady with a rake doesn't sound too scary right" , had that nervous laughter 😅😂
I had the same reaction but as an American.
@@porcelainpup Same!
39 minutes in. Your voice is so mellow and soothing it really takes the edge off watching gameplay of a game like this. And I love your comments, wit, and humor. Much less stressful than some other Tubers. 🥰
Right omg
So I've been stuck in the final witch fight for months. I keep rewatching Morph and he just breezes through like it's nothing. Very frustrating.
It blows my mind how you're able to remain so calm and soothing through this. Even when you're scared its not like other people where they're screaming oblivion into your headset. I just saw you did a Amanda the Adventurer video and I'm SO bummed I watched a playthrough the other day right before you posted it... but who am I kidding I'm gonna watch it anyway lol.
Don't know if anyone has commented on it, but those aren't pumpkins, they are hjortron. A delicious berry which are pretty hard to find but very delicious!
Went picking with my grandpa once, in sweden we make jam out of them, heat the jam up and eat it with vanilla icecream 🥰
Love your voice btw, very calming 😊
ahh i thougth they looked kind of like berries !! sound delicious
I definitely need to visit sweden
Wow, leave it to morph to not die even once in the whole playthrough! Amazing
as a Norwegian who grew up with a lot of these fairytale monsters and stories, I'm so excited for what this game has to offer. (I'm writing this before watching the video, duh)
Har dere troll som de här? Eg har hørt at de norske troll er mere som hvis de var af stein på en måte!
How you feeling afterwards??
@@loucooper6753probably traumatized :)
Swedish translation of the game.
At 1:03:10 the beautiful song played, is named “Den blomstertid nu kommer”, it´s a summer psalm and it is very well known to every Swede, as it usually plays at every end of school year before summer break. Although it’s more of a “normal” song today, than a religious one.
For me, this song just makes me warm and only reminds me of the excitement of summer, to play outdoors and basically live in a similar nature as to the game, except for all the fables. But I did hear of them as a child from my parents.
At 2:23:56 the text on the wall says “Straffet väntar hädaren och prygel dårens rygg”, which in direct translation would be, 'Punishment awaits the hypocrite and flogging of the fool's back'.
It derives from what is called in Swedish as ”Ordspråksboken", (Eng: the book of proverbs), it is an old testament book of 'wisdom literature' and consists of six smaller collections, containing wise sayings and 'rules of life' that show how to righteous life.
I´m not sure of the context in this game but considering she´s in a chair with some crank into the back, I assume she´s the hypocrite.
At 2:44:50 I think it´s actually an Easter egg, referring to a famous Swedish humor group called Grotesco, who made a sketch called “1 kilo mjöl”, (Eng: 1 kilo of flour). If you look at the set up, it does remind of an old styled grocery store, as in the sketch.
I put the link here if anyone is interested: czcams.com/video/AQIxZMUWUpU/video.html
Fun fact, the same group made a satire of Russian stereotypes in 2009, which put Sweden in the hot chair but really, I loved it!
czcams.com/video/e1ozCWyUlCg/video.html
I think you are right about the flour
thank you for the translation !! this is very thoughtful and helps me have a deeper understanding of the game !!
I really shouldn't have tried to watch this at work. The part where he acts like a tour guide on a fieldtrip through the beartraps had me rolling! My coworkers came to check on me. 🤣
Yes! And when one of them gets in a trap and he turns around like ‘what did I just say’
Especially since you’re being paid to work, not watch videos 😉
When he said "this boy is made of cereals" 😂😂
@@bish_puddin be concerned about yourself. Let the man enjoy. He's being paid for his skills.
@@swarnimabisht5167 😂 perfect sarcastic reply to my sarcastic comment
In the segment where you walked through the burning forest with the murdered witches you can see the old lady with the rake at one point walking in the woods and it got me so anxious when you didn’t see it 😂😂 I was like huuuuuh Morph? Morph?! Don’t leave me alone with this information 😬
Olle must have the most best relationship with his sister for him to go all through that to find her.
The pinecone characters are something we used to make back in time instead of dolls, I remember my grandmas mother telling me how to make them when I was younger, on our island we own in Sweden.
I honestly enjoyed watching the whole walkthrough of the game, reminds me so much of my childhood and stories I were told
I was reminded so much of Fran Bow with the little pinecones :)
That nymph thing you fought in those 3 stages was not the witch or baby killer. She was the one who led all the men to there doom from the town or village or whatever that you later visited. She’s kinda like a siren but like a land one lol. Also the old lady you face later with the rake caused the plague that turned everyone that was left in the village into basically zombies.
Oh. So where is the witch!?!?!?
@@MadMorph you don’t ever encounter her apart from when you were trying to follow her and save the baby and failed. Whatever she was trying to do she succeeded and I guess did her last sacrifice and killed herself too. She was trying to make sacrifices to like become some kinda demon like thing but we never see what happened with that. Because yea the water nymph thing was not the witch. And I don’t believe the old lady with the rake was either. They were separate beings and threats that had terrorized a town for ages
No your referring to the creature that was in the water playing the violin and I’m not talking about him. As I mentioned in my comment I’m referring to the creature he faces that has 3 phases. The female seductive nymph like thing that Ole encounters and stabs in the back where her heart was with Courage that turned into a holy blessed looking sword. That creature was the one that led men from the village to there doom posing as a beautiful woman to lure them into the forest where she killed then gruesomely to get there hearts and gain more power from them. The witch that killed the baby is never shown again. She was a normal human like being apart from her dark magic after she sacrificed the baby she killed herself it seems. She was meaning to transform herself into some powerful being but I don’t think it worked lol. Because she was not the female nymph thing he fought. She had existed well before anything the witch ever did. So either that random encounter could be like a tease to maybe a threat for the next game or it was just some random crazy witch you encountered who believed she would gain power and a new body by sacrificing babes to some unknown entity but nothing comes of it.
AKA Hulder/Huldra ?!
@@shannonmichael4773 Uh...you do fight the witch, the one with the skull mask on their face...thats the witch, their name quite literally translates to "Swamp Witch"
Oh dang, that Hall of the Mountain king song playing during the King's battle? Amazing~ gave me chills and a big grin. They killed it!
I wad wondering when that song would make an appearance, honestly. Always one of my favorite classical songs, even as a kid listening to midi files of it randomly online haha.
It was amazing
Also moved me to tears when you walk through the trail of “witches” murdered out of fear. You were right - It did really happen historically, Morph. Different context and in several countries of course but it did.
So happy to finally get to see you play this one! No one else could really do it justice -- and all that without dying once? Amazing!
I liked Superhorrorbro's playthrough. CJUgames and Raptor played Bramble too.
did you actually watch the video? he dies a number of times. still fun tho for sure
@@inkETC it’s a joke..
@@Jaywin228 funny joke
Truly an amazing game and gameplay. I loved each part of it. Never in my life have I thought that with my adhd attention span I could sit for 3 straight hours watching someone play. Yet here I am, finished the whole video almost without skipping (almost) , but it truly was an incredible experience. The narrators voices and yours were like that of a sirens luring singing. No exaggeration in the reactions, just a soothing guiding sound. I was hypnotized by the beauty of both the graphics and storytelling. The ending brought a tear in my eye. Man how I love folklore. The simple yet complex story told by generations. Could say you successfully hypnotized me to subscribe !!!❤ love and support for now one of my favorite creators
I'm a couple of months late, but I wanted to say your voice is surprisingly peaceful for a horror game playthrough and I'm here for it. Also, wanted to explain some of the inspiration behind some of the things in this game:
The Light Stone: it is literally the Spark of Courage. Olle loses it when he loses his sister, but after having survived his first night in Bramble, he gains a little bit of confidence. Aristotle's virtues and vices say that excess courage is rashness, which Olle exhibits when he fights the Skogra, stabbing her relentlessly with little thought to the consequences. He falls back to cowardice and has to regain his confidence when he fights Pesta.
Nacken: based off of a nixie, or water spirit, specifically the Nokk from Nordic folklore, who plays songs on an enchanted violin to lure women and children to drown in the lakes. Not all were malevolent, as some stories just had them play music for others for entertainment.
Tuva: based off of Helge Kjellen's fairytale Skutt the Moose and Princess Tuvstarr. Also based off of John Bauer's painting Princess Tuvstarr gazing down into the dark waters of the forest tarn. Only in image and name.
Karrhaxen: the midwife in the swamp, themed after a Slavic house spirit called Kikimora. Kikimora were spirits created from tragic deaths (women and children only). Not all were evil and were actually known to help in the household, but the ones that originated from the swamps were evil. These kikimora were women who killed themselves, women who succumbed to the influence of demons, children who died unbaptized, and stillborn babies came back as kikimora. Specifically, the women would return with animal like features, like goat horns and glowing eyes while the children returned as black spirits.
Skogsra: based off the Scandinavian forest spirit, hulder. Specifically called the Skogsra. They are described to be beautiful women with the tail of some animal, usually a cow, and a hollowed out tree like back.
Draugr: nordic zombies. That's it.
Pesta: the plague hag, brought about as a personification of the Black Death. When in town, if she brought her rake, some would survive, passing through the teeth of the rake. If she brought her broom, all would die.
King Nils: loosely based off of Dovregubben, the troll king in the Norwegian play Per Gynt, from which the song In the Hall of the Mountain King originated from, specifically during the scene in which Peer Gynt flees Dovregubben and his trolls.
Thank you, this is so interesting to read😄
Thanks for the kind words! I love looking at the inspirations behind fictional things and Nordic fairytales are some of my favorites! Any chance to do obsessive research, I will take it.
personally love the violin guy segment and the final boss.. great use of the music and timing the boss fight and attack to the song. can say it isn't easy thing to do.. but the devs did it masterful here.
always find it fun when game devs use the actual in game music as well as the spund effects to ad layers to attacks.
combat is largely a dance and has a tempo, so devs making use of that always makes me happy.
I was wondering why the song at 1:03:10 sounded so familiar! As a Finnish person recognized the melody as "Suvivirsi", but with a little googling I'm not at all surprised that it's Swedish in origin, goes by the name "Den blomstertid nu kommer". Both versions sing about summer coming, and it's usually sung at the end of school year to celebrate the coming summer holidays!
The Swedish name translates to 'Now the time of blossoming arrives', while the Finnish name roughly means 'Summer hymn' or 'song of summer', 'Suvi' being a synonym for 'Kesä', meaning summer.
You're right. Is this made by Swedish developers?
@@joakimberg7897 Yes, it's made by Dimfrost Studio, which is a Swedish company.
Thanks for your wonderful information.
@@KahviNauta okay thanks
This really is the essence of Sweden. The song "den blomstertid nu kommer" always brings a tear to my eye. Reminds me of all the summer term/semester ending ceremonies where we sing that one.
Mythology and Fiction Explained does an amazing video on Scandinavian folklore, which explains a fair few of the creatures in the game, well worth a watch 😊 great video as usual mm 😁
I will have to check out your sleepy time bits. I love your kind and genuine reactions playing anything. I have qyite severe PTSD. You helped me sleep during a 3 day windstorm that set me off hard even though I knew there was nothing to it. You single-handedly saved me from a manic episode. Gotta catch up now on all the bits I peacefully slept through
My champion 💜
Ladies and gentlemen, we found it. The best boss music.
For real though, this game had me speachless! It was gorgeous, it was symbolic, it was an ode to norse mythology and a beautiful expirience that had me clutching my heart.
Wow! I can't believe you did all of the bits with all of the spikes and traps without dying once! Amazing! That's my CZcamsr! ❤😂
Music had no right being that good on the boss fight. What a fantastic game. Great commentary as well!
I lost my 26-year-old brother about a month ago, unexpectedly... We were always close, much like the siblings here. As a sister, this was both beautiful and difficult to watch, thank you for sharing it ❤️
I am so so sorry Alida. There is nothing to be said that will make that okay- it is senseless to lose someone like that, at 26.
I hope you are doing better each day. I hope your memories are remaining strong. I don’t know you, but I am sending you love.
@@Misspip1993 What a kind soul you are
I loved this game. Most of the pictures reminded me of an artist - especially the scene with Tuva (blonde girl sitting at a lake) and after looking it up, I remembered correctly. It was John Bauer, a Swedish artist. They took many of his pictures for the ones on the wall in the children's room and in the library. Also the whole mood and colouring of the game reminded me heavily of his wonderful drawings. Do look him up if you want to check out his awesome world.
Only child but married into a family where I now have three brother-in-laws and it's the best. It's such a nice feeling to go from feeling alone to feeling like someone has your back.
Amazing playthrough, as always!
Yesssssss! Perfect timing. I was about to go to bed in a fairytale mood after watching "Come Away", and was intending to look for a fairytale on Down To Sleep, but this will do nicely 🤭
I loved watching you play this when it was in its demo stage! So glad you are playing it!
I really like that you don't Cut the Videos and just show a few Highlights! It's just so nice watching you play through these games :D
THIS WAS GOOOOOOD MAY WE HAVE SOME MOR PLEASE?! More gameplays like this especially 2-3+ hrs with these kind of graphics and story telling
I can't believe you did that whole bit without dying by the traps or spikes one time! What a guy! 😂
Never realised nil’s attacks struck with the sound of the music. This game is a masterpiece.
Not sure I love the Skogsrå in this. She simply the guardian of the forest and the animals. Treat her right and her domain right and you might get rewarded with luck in hunting, foraging or forestry. She might take you as a lover and if you are unfaithful she can cause bad luck for hunters, foresters and wanderers.
Then again, we might view this from the perspective of a frightened child who, like you Mr Morph, though her to be a witch 😉
I do love our folklore though, and I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
If you want more Sweden then Unraveled is you next game 😃
Maybe her turning evil is part of the corruption because she is closely related to nature and was affected by the kings doings at least, that is how I saw it. Just like the flower who was meant to do good was used for evil in the end.
Can’t believe I watched this whole thing. Not saying I regret it, I’ve just never watched someone play a video game before. It was so entertaining!
Great video aside, this was so fun for me. I'm from Norway and my name is Ole, and my grandma was actually nicknamed Lillemor, to the point where people often didn't know her given name.
absolute banger of an indie game. BANGER final boss fight. I'm gonna rewatch that part several times i know it.
To the question with siblings: i have an older sister who is sadly moving away at the end of next month. We "fight" and argue a lot as most siblings do but in the end we both know we'll have each others backs.
Also this looks amazing! I never got to watch thr Demo but now seeing the full game makes me Very excited
i just wanted to say that your voice is very soothing and helped me get through my work day between it and my love of folklore . i appreciate you muchly and I hope you have many happy returns
The painting on the wall is from a real life artist from Sweden (Jönköping) john Bauer and he painted allot of trolls, and he died with his family in the water outside of Jönköping (his home town in Sweden)
I clicked on this because i was interested in this game but the only deciding factor in me watching all the way through was how much i enjoyed this channel's voice and im SO pleasantly satisfied. Strapped in and ready to go.
I don't comment unless I'm impacted by the content but you have the perfect calm and playful manner for gameplay. Thank you for existing!!❤
This was incredible! Great music, GORGEOUS graphics, compelling story. I loved it. Thank you for playing it!
I love how your voice is very soothing and story teller ish! Goes well with the game.
I would have lost all my money on a bet trying to guess what would come from the demo. Wow - well done Morph zero deaths brilliant
I've been excited to watch you play this since the demo! Love the folklore and art style in this game 😍 Somehow it kind of makes me feel nostalgic. Maybe because I read so many nordic children's stories as a kid.
I have 4 little brothers I'm the oldest and only girl, this game is absolutely beautiful and the creatures in this game are awesome I got to read about these monsters, I love your voice you need to narrate stories 😊
He does. You can look up "Down to sleep" here on CZcams.
Ahhh the chapter with the zombies gave me a nervous breakdown! Such a good game. im swedish and recognised a lot of the characters and the tales. Also it said 1 KG flour. Well played.
10 min in and this game is SO beautiful. The voice acting. The character movements. The music. The vibes. Idk how it’s goin to go midway, but so far I am in love.
"This boy's made of cereal" lmao
2:31:16 lady with the rake in the background, she wasn’t there when you went in the house before 😨
Great spot omg
Props to the sound design and scoring team. Not easy to create actual fear and suspense without/with the use of sound (and without relying on constant jump scares at that). Amazing work, this is a gorgeous game.
Your voice is so relaxed, feels like an ASMR actually
Great gameplay man!
Thank you!
I just got here and WOW... YOUR VOICE IS JUST MAGNIFICAT
Thanks for your walktrough, really nice to watch. I like that you're so calm. The artwork you see and comment on in the kids room and the library are from a swedish artist named John Bauer, I love his work. Also the segment with the blond girl Tuva is inspired from one of his works - Tuvstarr. You should really look it up! :) My favourite thing from the game though were all the white flowers. They're called vitsippor (wood anemone) and they are one of the biggest signs of spring here in Sweden fore they grow everywhere here right now, and it's truly beautiful. (I'm a bit bummed out that they mixed them with hjortron (cloudberries) that typically grow in the autumn. ;) But fun either way!)
Love that one of the pincone faints when you land of the kingcone😂
I'm new here, but after that impressive no-death playthrough I think I'll stay ❤
Fun fact. Lillemor is directly translated to little-mother
I have a younger brother so I'm the older sister 😊 I just started watching the playthrough, but I can relate to the dynamic already. I've always felt protective of my little brother no matter our increasing age. Excited to see where this goes!
Edit: What an amazing game! The cinematography, the scares, the ambiance in combination with the music and story 👌✨️ just so good! Thanks for taking us along Morph!
42:45 Gnome rescue/field trip 😂😭💀 I really watched all 3+ hrs of this and enjoyed every second lol awesome
i love how the whole time hes fighting skogsra ( aka the on land siren) morph is flirting
Thank you, great gameplay, but in general gotta laugh that the trolls, having tonns of meat from giant pigs and deer falling into traps, resort to chasing down a bony tiny boy, essentially an insect lol in reality they would be like, bet, tiny human, respect and good luck, want some pork?
Beautful world. I loved everything about the demo. Who better than you for this game playthrough? Yess, thanks 💖
To have all the magical whimsy and wholesomeness in the intro just to be juxtaposed with...that is so jarring lol
The hunched figure walking in the tree line at 2:20:25
nice spot!
I'm so excited for this LONG one!! I'm debating stopping everything and watching it right now, or saving it for the weekend. thanks so much!! 😁
This game is amazing. i am not good at games that are intense and more of a cozy gamer. i really enjoy lets plays like this and watch it like a movie. i can experience those masterpieces too somehow. :)
Loved the playthrough. As always, Morph, I'm delighted you continue introducing me to new and unusual (especially foreign) experiences! Little Nightmares games are in a category all their own to me, but it was just as good story wise, and more stunning visually, in some ways. And so accomplished! Doing it all in one seamless, deathless playthrough. ;)
I was saddened, greatly, by the death of the shapeshifter. Tuva also seemed to indicate that this was a SAD THING, that, perhaps, shouldn't have been done? There weren't any real repercussions (other than regret) for doing so... still. Sadness. Perhaps because the shapeshifter (aesthetically) was presented more as a nature being (branches growing from head, greenish skin). Like... the land just beyond where she was killed (and turned or was covered in moss?) was blackened, scorched -- a wasteland. The opposite ambiance to the area leading up to the confrontation with the shapeshifter. *sighs* Maybe it's just me.
I think (and have pondered the same in the past)... that maybe that's a common motif for Scandinavian folklore to be emotionally/morally ambivalent about their "monsters", or myths. I felt the same way watching the Witcher 3 promo advert about Geralt killing the vampire in the barn ( czcams.com/video/jRqz14Vgs08/video.html ). Felt an amount of sorrow for the vampire's death. I think mostly because of the way it was framed.
Thanks again for a marvelous, flawless, thoroughly enchanting journey, through a magical game I wouldn't even have known existed were it not for yourself.
The story book said the shapeshifter killed men and hung them on trees and used their beating hearts.
2:11:34 When Olle fought her, there were beating hearts on the trees. She attacked Olle. She's evil, and Olle needed to defend himself. Why are you sympathetic for evil villains? Is it just because you like the way she looks?
@@user-gu9yq5sj7c *scratches head* I'm pretty sure the fight between poor Olle and the shapeshifter was -unavoidable- . That being, there would be no way to progress in the game without the confrontation, and death, of the shapeshifter. So, mechanically, the game agrees (on many levels) that this was a creature to be vanquished. Also, in the very next part of my statement, I say I felt sorry for the vampire, and speculate it was because of the way the cinematic framed the encounter with Geralt.
The character's femininity, voice or level of modesty had literally nothing to do with my reaction. Which was, in this instance, sadness, moreso that the confrontation was unavoidable. If something attacks you, unprovoked, you defend yourself.
I was trying to find meaning in Tuva's comment, "Olle, what have you done?" Olle himself seemed to feel a measure of regret for the death. Or perhaps his regret was related to his own brutal response?
Evil is a perspective.
I'm a writer. We spread our empathy around.
Actually, in actual swedish folklore, the Skogsrå (which means forest guardian) is someone who does lure away men but also is connected to nature and if treated well (or if a man discovers the hole in her back before it´s too late) she let´s them go and may even bring good fortune! Their reason behind killing the men before is a part of their nature and the men may have also started disrupting the peace in the forest which caused them to hunt the men.
@@snybies Thank you so much for explaining! I really appreciate (in this case, you sharing the name of the creature in question so I could continue to satisfy my curiosity) learning new things -- especially myths, legends and folklore from different cultures. The Skogsrå is fascinating.
@@TheGizmoWolf It's my pleasure! If you have any questions about any other begin in the game or just general scandic folklore then feel free to ask.
crying laughing at the poor little gnomes running into the bear traps 🤣
This was amazing! I love seeing parts of my culture being portrayed in games
I really appreciate that they didn't tone down the fear and dark side of those stories
The little gnomes/nisse and the hjortron/cloudberry children were so cute
I was really hoping that the Näcken would have come out of the water with a Näckros/Water Lily on his head
Kinda disappointed that the Huldra/Skogsrået didn't have a foxtail, but she was wonderful none the less
a fox tail?? interesting, in Norway they're usually depicted with a cow tail
@@Fivreld
Yeah in Sweden they are as well, but they also have horse tails and fox tails
Personally I'm more familiar with seeing them with a fox tail 😊
@@shootingstarmolly oOoOoO how cool !! i just double checked some Norwegian sources, and apparently they can also be depicted with a horse tail here. but it doesn't mention a fox tail, so i guess that's mainly a Swedish folk belief. do you also have that hulder/huldra can have a hollow back?? i've kind of heard of that one, but i'm more familiar with the belief that they'll have a back that looks like a rotten tree stump haha
@@Fivreld True! Skogsrå is the Swedish counterpart of the Huldra
They have similar hollow backs as well, with mushrooms and/or flowers growing out of it
Basically the same as the Huldra, the only real difference is the fox tail
I think the cow tails and the horse tails look really good to💖
It's interesting how countries so close together can still interpret similar myths so differently
For an example: Näcken plays the violin, harp, accordion or a flute depending on where you are from
In my part of Sweden with stories from either from Norrland or Skåne, grandma depicted her as having a hollow back, no tail. And very beautiful.
I love your channel, and this game was so perfect to have as background noise. Thank you for always being great
This game is one of my all time favorites. I love that you played it too. 😊
I've been looking forward to watch you play Bramble ever since you played the demo! The game is beautiful and your commentary made it even better. :')
This was amazing. Extremely spooky but I really enjoyed the play through you did. Thank you for this game. Also good job on no deaths. Zero death morph can be your nickname.
I swear, indie games are where it's at now.
The monster at 33:43 gives me huge Groke vibes from the Moomins! Which is also a Swedish series!
Moomin is finnish though
@@petrar3640 you’re right! My mistake. The author speaks Swedish, but is Finnish!
@@petrar3640 Finland Swedish. Tove Jansson was a Swedish speaking Finn. Born in Storfurstendömet finland when it was "ruled under tsar russia".
its so lovely to be swedish right now, i can understand every phrase
I LOVED this playthrough. I saw the demo playthrough on YT and was wsiting for the full one.
The artstyle and Nordic folklore was awesome. Some of the bad characters put me in mind of the Krampus folklore.
Thank you for putting up this video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Hoping the studio does more like this.
The Finnish Kalevela would be a great source for another game
The pumpkins are cloudberries
Cloudberry head, doesn't have the same ring to it
@@MadMorph yes I agree and i also prefer your pumpkinheads. My brother calls them dingleberries 😑
I'm gonna leave it on in the other room with the sound off so you get a long view off the start though❤ i did hear the first couple minutes. Can't wait.
i havent watched the whole video but i love the commentary so far lol !! ur voice is so soft and rlly fits the vibe of the game
Your commentary 😍 i could listen to that voice all night lol
AND YOU CAN!! With my Podcast "DOWN TO SLEEP" where I read books to help you sleep!
On CZcams and wherever you get podcasts.
Started watching someone play this and wasn’t interested. You turned it into an enthralling play through 🖤 thank you
The number of surprise traps and deaths was cracking me up, I feel so bad about it but I was rollin' 😂😂🤣🤣
Zero death run? Das my CZcamsr 🥰 GGs
I didn’t expect this game to be as graphic as it is 😅
the head count is diminishing.... never laughed to hard lol love ur stuff morph!
Morph you should definitely do more story game walkthroughs omg 😭😭😭
AHHHH I really wanna watch, but I can't, cause I'm waiting to play it myself! I will watch the video when I'm done myself, can't wait!
Me too! I went from insane excitement to being like noooooooo 😢
I just found out about this game like a minute ago and I absolutely loooove all of it! I love the atmosphere and I mean I am Swedish so I’m a bit proud and so excited so see something that I can recognise from my childhood ( mostly about the mythology ). Seeing Swedish names like Lillemor was very cool because I’m not used to see that in English speaking games and whatnot. Anyway I’m really looking forward to see where this will go ✨
There were comments that said Lillemor means little mom in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. And that Olle is a danish name.
I like the visuals, music, culture, puzzles, story, embroidery on their clothes, and carvings.
I'm glad the siblings survived. The ending with Lillemor in her room was kinda anticlimatic. But I'm glad Olle learned to be brave.
Aw, you don't get to take justice on the witch who killed the babies? You said the shapeshifter might be the witch, but what evidence is there to that?
Sometimes you thought this game could just be in their heads or that they're dead. But I don't want it to be "just a dream." I think it was real.
I appreciate that you try to be brave and not scream when you play horror games. 56:47 Thanks for commenting and clicking on what's in the game. Like the mouse. Cause it was too dark it's hard for me to see. Thanks for trying to explode and pick up the figurines.
I’m the oldest at 26. I am “Big sister” to a 24 year old brother and 14 year old sister. I picked on my brother constantly growing up and we argued all the time since we were only 2 years apart but now i literally adore him lol. I would throw hands for my little bro. Love having siblings. Being an only-child would have been so lonely since I never had a lot of friends growing up