Pony Island's Unfound Secret
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- HEAVY SPOILERS FOR PONY ISLAND! Today we're breaking down Pony Island's Unfound Secret. It was Daniel Mullins' first secret hunt that took place back in early 2016, but I hadn't seen any videos covering it in full detail. I don't think I can call it an ARG, since there's not any solutions that take place outside of the game except for that one bit. Anyways, I hope you enjoy a nice look back at the mystery around Pony Island's Unfound Secret!
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Some Links you might be interested in:
Daniel Mullins' Talk on this Secret: • Video
Unfound Secret Thread: steamcommunity.com/app/405640...
@Maka Johnson 's Pony Island Story Explained: • Pony Island Story Expl...
My Other Video Covering Pony Island's Secret Ending: • Getting all the Ticket...
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:53 Daniel Ignites the Secret Hunt
2:07 Barteh's Evidence
4:44 hisfatherpureevil and abeeperperhaps
6:17 Daniel Pulls a Sneaky
6:58 abeeper 1132%
8:15 You have Chosen the Wrong Gate
10:32 Side Secret about Editing Registries
14:35 Figuring out this Gate Thing
17:34 What lies at the end?
18:35 Revisiting that Weird String and Outro
#PonyIsland #Secret #DanielMullinsGames - Hry
Dan is such a chad that he created an entirely new secret so people won’t be disappointed by their secret hunting
it's like the last secret of Shadow of the Colossus
@@3thanguy7 The 17th Colossus we never got?
And now is delivering on the "fake" teaser of said secret. Dude plays 5D chess.
Bruh everyone was just overthinking it and then this guy said "why dont you just open the gate lmao" and solved everything.
Honstly the most simple solution is the best
Can't help but wonder if that's Mullins' alt to steer people the right way. lol
To me, the Panda Circus screen reads more like a joke teaser then an actual one, kinda like the taunt at the end of Hotline Miami 2 where if you sit long enough after the credits, you'll get transported to the menu screen for Hotline Miami 3, with everything being a barren wasteland, which is kinda of a jab at people who want sequels even when there's nothing to make a sequel about.
Same here, except this is like a world where this sorta inclination is rewarded and your future is to play Lucifer's meaningless sequels.
For sure, I think it's just a silly joke. Idk if we'll ever see a sequel to Pony Island at this point. He even joked about it again in The Hex with "Pony Island 2: Andy Serkis"
@@Flemmonade yeah, I wasn't trying to ummactually, just sharing some thoughts
There's actually a second reason they added that screen- apparently a fan made a joke to them that the second game should have been called Hotline Miami 3 because it was the 'wrong number', so it was also a cute nod to that joke.
That ending was so stupidly fitting
The whole game was senseless violence by unimportant people for evil reasons, and the reward for going trough all of that is literally rendering everything that happened meaningless
It's a proportional response to the senseless violence and the only thing that grants some sort of comfort is that all of the terrible circumstances are definitively over
Imo it's more akin to these 1 in 100000 old NES/SNES cartridges that had games pretending to be sequels that were actually romhacks/reskins, like these weird Mario clones.
18:06 "The sequel that never came out"
Well, that sentence is no longer true, the game was just announced days ago.
Pony island 2: Panda circus.
Otherwise known as: that time Daniel Mullins attempted to match the pace of internet puzzle solvers, only to realize that they feast on new content at the speed of starving piranhas
he revisits this theme on Inscryption where we would skip am entire segment of the ARG bc we couldn't solve a part that had no clues 🤷♂️
But you can't count a solution if you can't show why it works.
it STUMPed us for a bit
what i learned from this:
- even the oldest games can have unfound secrets still to this day
- the most clever puzzles can come from smashing your keyboard
lol, a game from 2016 equals to "the oldest games"?
This wasn't an unfound secret though. All the details to find this ending were known shortly after it released in 2016.
czcams.com/video/QjtO5DOhUug/video.html
To think you have found all the secrets in a Daniel Mullin's game. But then again, it's a Daniel Mullin's game. Amazing work!
Daniel Mullins’ games always have such clever ways of blurring the line between the game world and the real world.
18:11 this aged like milk
It only took 8 years
@@mlgcactus1035don’t forget he dropped off inscryption too
For real
@@OG_stevedidWHATThe Hex aswell
The way Daniel Mullins make a spoiler of his own game that has to be in 2025, and no one didn't even think about it.
Yeah, I had to find what the fuzz was about panda circus, after seeing some comments about it, while being unaware of the arg thing.
Honestly, this guy plays for long term stuff. His ARG is madness and I love it. Makes it feel like a sort of time traveling stuff
Oh hey! I remember deep diving into all this; a friend of mine just started Pony Island and came across your video, and reached out to me "was that you?"
Thanks for putting together this video collecting the whole journey!
I was actually said friend lol; happened to notice immy’s pfp in the vid and was like “yooooo wtfff”; good times 😅
Damn baphomet wasn’t lying that pony island really can 2
How neat to have Daniel to confirm any theories you have.
Daniel Mullens is just a better version of Scott Cauthon.
@@thermophile1695 I wouldn't put it that way, but I do agree that Daniel is a whole lot more interactive with the fans with theories and secret hunting.
Scott only confirms theories or teases how close people are to the truth every now and then, he doesn't actively update the games or add in and edit things in his games to follow the fans.
And now, 7 years later, we're finally getting pony island 2: Panda circus...
And here we are. Mullins played the long game.
Can't believe Pony Island 2: Panda Circus is actually happening now. I'm glad I watched this video back when I did, because thanks to it, I was able to lose my shit and laugh so hard when it was actually announced.
The end result wasn't actually the most interesting. The hopeless soul betrayal is cool and makes sense.
I was really surprised that there's hardly any videos covering that hopeless soul part. It's a tiny detail but it's super important considering Satan's relevance to the other games in the Mullinsverse
@@Flemmonade The connection of pony island and the hex wasn't clear for me until i saw this. The most important detail.
Flem,
Just completed this game and stumbled upon the Steam thread by pure chance. I knew there must be something more. I was reading through it and hoped there was a video out there (almost 20 pages of content in that thing).
You did it. 4 days ago!
Subscribed. Great job, looking forward to more great content!
Not only the year 2023 was hinted in the game , they literally just outright told the title "panda circus" within the secrets
Thats crazy it was all planned for this long
Where was 2023 hinted?
@@mistylandschaft in pony island 1 when Asmodeus asks you 3 question, one answer is simply just "2023"
Good luck with the Hex one! I tried to recreate it myself since I loved that game, but a lot of the steps outside of the final one are very unclear and hard to replicate. There's a lot of things in the main thread that say "just do this" and you do it and it just doesn't work (for example, the step with duplicating the bottle didn't work in various tests I tried). I would love it if all the concrete info was in one place.
I actually ran into that bottle issue the other day. Apparently it hasn’t worked since April 2019. I got the bottle duplication to work properly after reverting to an old version, so hopefully the rest of the steps work fine too
@@Flemmonade While you're messing with the Hex, do you think you can you figure out what the deal with Entervale is? Typing it in Secrets of Legendaria does something, but its unclear what the point of it is exactly. It lets you get out of bounds in a few ways, but it doesn't seem to solve any puzzles. That, and the phrase "entervale" isn't anywhere in game as far as I can tell, even though Endervale is.
@@TheFuzzyOcelot I’ve considered making a video on the Hex’s secrets too, since a ton of the secrets like the Entervale one aren’t really well documented. As for why people knew to put in Entervale, it was super hidden, and appears on the corrupted attack you get from copying Missingno’s attack with a Mimic Charm. The description’s in binary, but it just says Entervale over and over. So I guess that was the clue for it. I’m not sure if it’s mentioned elsewhere in the game
Honestly watching the trailer for panda circus makes this retroactively cooler in my opinion.
I was heavily involved in the original thread, that's me at 9:07, lol
And when dan shows the email in his video- czcams.com/video/01ynsvpjies/video.html
that was me also, but youtube keeps removing the comment if it has an imgur link in it for some reason.
I had a TON of fun participating and advancing this ARG and loved that he was slamming in new things as fast as we could dig them up, and really, really wish I hadn't missed the ARGs for the hex and Inscryption. I'm really hoping to play along for the next one :)
Very excited to see the breakdown on The Hex!
18:20 “Never came out”
Took a while, but we finally got an announcement at The Game Awards 2023
Looks like Pony island 2 Panda Circus is getting made oh boy
Very interesting! It's nice to see the whole process of how it was found, I didn't know a lot of the stuff you've mentioned.
Looking forward to the Hex one
PANDA CIRCUS IS REAL WHAT
Oh man I just finished all Daniel's games with The Hex as my last one relly enjoyed his style and I'm glad you're covering Pony Island now! Now I'm excited for you to cover The Hex
I love his style too, but the Inscryption ARG & his secrets seem to have extremely lackluster endings. It's like he begins a rabbit hole & instead of leaving something valuable at the end, he just ends it when he can't think of anything more to put there. It's a bit disappointing considering the puzzles & universe are both so interesting.
Can't believe that Panda Circus is actually going to happen.
Oh my goodness, this popped up in my feed literally just as I was thinking - I want a video game video that will blow my mind. Perfect timing ^_^
Me during my playtrough: "cool puzzle game"
Me after looking up game info online: "holy sh*t what else did i miss"
flem, im not sure youle vere read this, but if you do, i wanna tell you something,
i am a BIG lore person when it somes to games, and pony iland, the hex, inscryptsion, its all been real interesting to me, around 1-2 years ago, i wondered around youtube looking for a video on all the secrets or a lore explanatsion, nothing, ive looked in other places, nothing, and even when reading those stream treads i got pretty confused,
so what i want to tell you, is that i thank you, thank you for youre great resent videos who have the explanatsions i was so long looking for, thank you for being the guy that puts the time intro all this, thank you flem, the day i saw that inscryptsion ARG video i chud do nothing but smile that i finaly chud get awnsers, and i know its repetitive, but i mean it, thank you
Thanks I’m glad I could help! That’s a lot of the reason I made these videos. I love lore and secrets like this, but for some reason there’s no videos about them. And the videos that do exist only show the ending. I think the journey’s a lot more interesting than the destination
And then the beeper lead us to the wacky and fun Inscryption Arg! Woohoo! Seriously it's crazy how far Daniel plans ahead with his games. Some of the clues for the Arg dated all the way back to the Early-Mid 2010s. Man was playing the long game!
Hello, happy to see you're back doing the content! Cant wait for the Hex ARG video, I really enjoyed the game and very interested to dive back into it's secret and atmosphere :)
18:05 oh what‘s this, the secret that never came out…yet! Bartholomeus was right, he showed us the future!
Really looking forward to Pony Island 2 - Panda Circus!
All this time later, and we finally have a trailer for Pony Island 2 Panda Circus.
I love your video style. Especially when you make it seem like you're doing it for the first time, like when you say "maybe we can ask hopeless soul about it?" It just adds to the mystery of the video and it's a completely different approach than I've ever seen. Well done!
This is the first video I’ve found of yours and I really enjoy how you talk to your audience. It’s like we are finding this all out with you and not just you reciting information to us. Count me a new subscriber :D
YOU TELL ME HE ANNOUNCED PANDA CIRCUS YEARS AGO?
18:24 it’s nice to now know this secret teaser for a possible sequel is now more then a potential sequel, can’t wait for pony island 2 to come out in 2025 (or 2026 I don’t remember)
THE PANDA CIRCUS!!!!!!!!!!!
THE PANDA CIRCUS IS REAAAAAAL!!!!!
wow this is my favorite kind of channel, and with full captions. what an underrated gem
18:07 it's real now
This is so funny to watch after yesterday's announcement lol
thank you for putting captions in this video, i have a hard time processing words and it was a lot easier to follow with the captions ^_^ really cool video!
I love videos like this
ones that not only explain the secret, but also HOW they were found
Thank you for making these videos! There's so little documentation on the secrets and ARG components
I love this type of video, can't wait to see your next one!
just found your channel, excited to see more arg stuff!
Really enjoyable video. Folks like you that work on revealing secrets are still needed in games such as Noita!
Been waiting for this!!!
Thanks for making this! Lots of stuff I haven't seen in other videos.
I stumbled across this video on my recommended - I'm very glad i clicked on it. Not only does it summarize the information succinctly and make it engaging, the full captions (!!!) and chapters make this more accessible and easy to watch through (particularly the captions)! Wonderfully made, i've subscribed so as not to miss any future uploads! :D
Jesse Cox was fucking right and he didn't even mess with the Regedit!
Great analysis video! Thanks for uploading!
All his games still have replay value. I especially love the moments where the Steam Friends List goes into play.
I remember playing it with a steam emulator (cuz eff running Steam just to play a game) and the game, i kid you not, used the custom friends system from the emulator
It just blew my mind because while the emulator has online functionality, you can find 10 ppl tops on popular game (and since the game has no friend addition system, all of them are considered friends as far as the game is concerend), so getting a message in a game like this was terryfying at best since it was with the name of a complete stranger
@vacuum sealed garfield how is his account is active? I thought youtube was really strict about that.
@@bananafone1414 I was surprised as well. Lucky dude.
@@rompevuevitos222 what is wrong with running steam?
@@mattpatt4976
-If steam crashes or closes for any reason, the game closes too.
-If there's an update queued, you cannot play the game.
-Steam has a small but still noticeable impact on performance.
-Steam's overlay can mess with games (and yes it can be disabled, but it's just another issue for the pile)
-You can't take your games with you between PCs, unless you log in on those PCs (and Steam does not support multiple users logged from the same client so if that other PC already has an account logged in, you have to log off)
-If steam is not running, you have to wait until it finishes booting up (which at least now it doesn't bug at random when doing so) before you can play anything.
-In offline mode, Steam tends to forget your account, blocking you out of your games until you regain internet and log back in.
-Steam's input system is system wide and can cause controllers to produce keyboard inputs in other games and apps even if they aren't from Steam (which wouldn't be that bad if it wasn't so buggy or required big picture to even configure)
-If the game uses steam's servers and the client looses it's connection for any reason (specially during maintenance days) the connection is interrupted and often requires reconnecting to the game in question.
-The workshop system is inconsistent at best, most of the time doesn't work without internet (deletes the mods already installed, which can screw up saves in modded games) AND to download the mods locally (without relying on the workshop doing so) you need to download SteamCMD separately and look up it's documentation for the commands, THEN look up the mod id and run the command. Instead of just offering a download button in the workshop page.
Now compare this to GOG, which has 0 DRM of any kind. You buy a game and you can use it whenever at any time, no third party software required.
Waaaaaait, if there is such well hidden secret on this game, then there must be a secret like this in Inscryption, great video btw! I thought there was no other secrets on this game this really surprised me XD
you talk about being sorry for being late. but im happy you did this so late. now it has a nostalgic ting to it. and im all about going back to pony island!
Thanks for the video. Love these deep dives!
I HAVENT THOUGHT OF THIS GAME IN SO LONG! thank you sm
You should definitely do a video all about the Hex! I can’t find any good videos about it outside your stream you posted on your other channel
The best part of this is the announcement of Pony Island 2: Panda Circus in 2023
They reversed the audio
"Let me through, for fuck's sake"
Which people thought said "A beeper perhaps"
...How can such a clear message be misheard that badly? Doesnt sound anything like "a beeper perhaps". Which doesnt make sense anyway. Every word is very distinct, at least on the first part for "let me through". The second part could be a place name admittedly.
But it was kind of the dev to use the false answer and make it into a correct one.
i'm 3 seconds in and i KNOW this is top quality. as always :)
See, I appreciate the technical explanation at 10:26. That's the kind of thorough detail that I yearn for.
Can't believe it really was 2016 when I watched Pewdiepie play this game. Really great game and story. Thanks for covering this.
And finally, it has come full circle. Nice reveal at the Game Awards.
Great vid. I love how many secrets Dan puts into his games and how clever they are! Was just wondering, where did people come up with the idea to enter 'iamerror' into the chat? Is that a techy known phrase or is it a phrase that's hinted at earlier in the game?
I bet he's going to use that weird string as some kind of cipher someday.
Just finished the hex so im pumped for the hex video :)
12:45 reminds me of an old rumor that in either Shin Megami Tensei 1 or 2 there was apparently a rare chance upon booting the game you’d be greeted the entire screen covered with “すぐにけせ” (translates to “turn off now”) in red text
Makes me wonder if it was an inspiration for this secret at all
Ahhh this is the closure I needed. Looking forward to the Hex!
...So, it happened. Pony Island 2: Panda Circus is happening.
It's been a long time since I thought of Pony Island. This was a fun video to stumble upon.
This was great I love watching it I can't wait for the hex video
Your content may be entertaining and impressive, but your methods of advertising your second channel are the real treat.
inb4 Panda Circus ends up being a stealth sequel to Inscryption, with Luke in the purgatorial arcade in place of Theodore.
Daniel Mullins: Here is a joke sequel.
Entire fandom: You fool.
Wonder how Daniel will tie Pony Island 2 into the lore.
well i guess he is making panda circus after all. great video as always, flem!
How did Dan slam his head against the keyboard SO HARD, that the resulting gibberish was the same as the ID of the Panda Circus thingy?
I assume you did a joke, but either way, the content was added on a later patch update back in the day.
So, he added those new pony assets, smashed the keyboard while naming those assets, and changed the iamerror response to give you the name of those assets.
So, if you had typed that name on an unity asset extractor tool, you would had get the raw files of those panda assets.
panda circus 2 is now a real thing
Please do videos on The Hex. Mainly because of how confusing it is and I really really wanna know all of its secrets
wake up babe, new flemmonade video
Now we know pony island 2: panda circus is actually coming out
The twitch plug was awesome 😎👍
ITS FINALLY ANNOUNCED! LETS GOOOO
No idea what this is but im in it for flemmonade!
Lmao, panda circus is now a real game
the sequel has been announced for pony island and it’s actually call pony island 2: panda circus
my favorite part of the game was when you get a steam message from the game as a distraction
So yeah about the Panda Circus thing...
I'm pretty sure I saw that cutscene before...I guess I just must've watched a random video of it without any context about all the things leading to it or anything
Cool channel! Awesome
What a fun mystery that ended up amounting to nothing more than a joke
Thanks a lot Mullens I regret ever buying your game every single second of my life.
Youre not being serious, right?
@@moronicalmeister i'm mostly joking
@@flaco3462 fantastic, I wasn't looking forward to shaming someone with a kirby pfp.
@@moronicalmeister lol
"The sequel that never came out" oh boy
I actually accidentally brute forced it. After I played hex and inscription, I revisited PI and on nearly every screen I moved the mouse to find hidden links. I accidentally opened the gate, and I previously found the David thing, so I was aware of reference to the gate. Neat, I didn't realize there was more to it lol
His father, pure evil.
Community: A beeper, perhaps?
THE PONY ISLAND 2!
THE PONY ISLAND 2 IS REAL!
Holy hell panda circus is real
I think I read somewhere that the protagonist died at the unopen gate