At Dead of Night - The Story Explained
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- čas přidán 7. 05. 2024
- This video contains full spoilers for the story of At Dead of Night and it’s ending.
At Dead of Night is a terrifying point and click horror adventure game in which a young woman called Maya and her friends are at the mercy of dangerous psychopath - Jimmy Hall. Throughout the story of At Dead of Night, Maya must use a spirit reciever box to contact Jimmy's past victims and speak with their ghosts. Uncovering the dark history of Sea View Hotel in the process. In this video we take a look at the story of At Dead of Night and explain it from beginning to end. Looking at all ghostly encounters to discover Jimmy Hall / Hugo Punch's dark past. This is At Dead of Night Explained.
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It's kinda annoying how the mother just doesn't even listen to any of them and in the end she got herself killed as well
IKR LIKE SHE EVEN GOT A PSYCHIATRIST TO HELP JIMMY DUDE YOU GOT HELP FOR HIM LISTEN!!
@@whatuser9802 She a Karen
@@crimsonshadows6328 not much of a karen. Just a paranoid mother who trust her child more.
She can't help it. And even if she knew about Jimmy's behavior and all she'd still protect his son no matter what cause she love his son so deeply. Not to mention after her husband "situation" towards Jimmy.
I mean come on.... If you were in Rose's shoes would you be willing to hand over your child to the police, even after knowing about the killing he did?
@@nazogirl1127 true though
I feel so bad for doctor Bose, he killed himself because he thought he lost the one thing he loved most.
but why kill himself inside the hotel where he was arrested?
_what was he originally planning to do?_
@@driftingdruid I think it was an explicit message to Rose.
@@driftingdruid he was bailed and then went back to get the wire, and when that didn't work he used a rope
Dr bose kind and peaceful man
"Thought he lost it?" He did lose it.
Finally! A horror game where there are NICE ghosts who AREN’T trying to kill you!
I know right!
Yeah just because you are dead it doesnt make you infinitely angry and it doesnt make you commit a genocide
Yay!
@@ferbyys9626 In the traditional sense, only vengeful ghosts filled with hatred dwell amongst the living, while the rest has moved on. It would make sense that you would encounter only angry spirits.
@@johnnychan04 True it seems like vengeful spirits are the only type that really exist since all other forms of souls or spirits pass on so of course that would leave all the spirits who cant or refuse which leaves you with the angry ones
I really love how realistic this game is, not just from the animation, but also from how the characters act. I know most of us are mad for Rose for not understanding Jimmy's problem, her actions are actually realistic. From when Jimmy was abused for 2 years since he was born, Rose felt really guilty since she wasn't doing anything about it. Its only natural for Rose for siding with him because of her guilt. Some games would make Rose move on from what happened.
The game isn’t animated- those are actual people.
True. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if this was inspired from a real life story. A woman talking about how she and her friends got trapped in a hotel with a serial killer and the woman had to free them somehow. Although the ghost part might sound fake and unbelievable but who knows🤷🏻♂️
@@maybemikki2715 That’s even cooler! A full motion video game that’s an actual video game!
I agree
Its not an animation lol its actual people acting
This game's whole story wouldn't have happened if she took Jimmy's actions seriously.
Welp
@Andreea - Bianca Munteanu Awesome job Rose indeed.
I can't believe how you all forget that Rose was the one who CALLED Doctor Bose to treat Jimmy.
Oh you think it's all her fault? Hear me out.
Rose is a traumatized mother who saw her husband beating her own child almost to death, and her only option to save Jimmy was to kill her husband. Of course she isn't good at making the right decisions, she's also mentally damaged by all that had happened!
It's strange that Rose didn't believe Doctor Bose? Remember that Jimmy is Rose her everything. She would move mountains for her son. No wonder she chose his side when Jimmy told her Doctor Bose was inappropriate with him. She literally couldn't handel the thought that she put Jimmy in danger again, just like with his father. I agree she might had to listen to Harvey more, but her unstable mental state explains for me why she didn't.
Good game, but it handeled Rose's character extremely bad in my opinion. Now it looks like she's the one and only reason everything went wrong with Jimmy.
Jimmy's FATHER is the reason everything went wrong with Jimmy! He is Jimmy's killer-side and beated him because of his mental insanity. Rose is Jimmy's very loving mother who saved her child from his father, but as a result of the murder, ended up mentally unstable and incapable of making the right choices for her and her son.
Blaming something like this in one person, is ridiculously simplistic. So what? The dad abuses and beats him (and also possibly possess him) and we're going to blame the mum? Well done.
@@lfamvs5520 so what the other's said still stand. She should've never been with the hugo dude and stayed far far far away from him. I do feel bad for jimmy because overall he was a complete victim until his dark side began to do things. But it was rose's job regardless no matter how much she wanted to do "everything" for him, it was her job to keep it under control because that is her son. case closed
Props to Jimmy/ Hugo's actor! Really scared the life out of me!!!
I gotta find out more about Huld Martha
Ye know his actor did a great job although the problem is I seem struggle to say his last name lol
@@snowelfswordsofwinter3328 either you're dyslexic or you're batman facing off superman xD
@@krayse vhat?
@@snowelfswordsofwinter3328 there's a scene in Batman v Superman where Batman is so close to killing Superman but Superman utters "save Martha" (Supermans stepmom "Martha"). Batman hears this and says "Why did you say that name!" (Martha was also the name of batman's mom)
The female protagonist literally has the courage to learn about all the place's backstory instead of just escaping lmao
Even if she didnt have the courage to learn, she would still have to save her friends
@@ash1775 Honestly, I'd be more help outside of the Hotel, run to the nearest town, and get the police. I'd smash a window on the ground floor because for some reason, Jimmy doesn't go down there, go out the window and book it, yelling FLOOOOOOOCK YOU BYTCH!
She couldn't leave, because it was locked
@@crynosinso8324 Its way harder to smash windows on a floor with no windows. Plus on the higher floors she'd most likely kill herself from the fall.
@@MidnightPhantomwindows could’ve been broken
in the menu of the game, there's a section called 'Jimmy & DID' (Dissociative identity disorder) the developers wanted to make clear that Jimmy does NOT have DID.
Wiki fandom: "The developer has stressed that Jimmy does not have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder. The note about Jimmy and DID can be read on the game's main menu."
So he's possessed by his abusive dad then?
@@ladylunaginaofgames40 potentially, hopefully there will be a follow up game and it will explain more
@@alice_mation there will, if you look at markipliers last video of this game, in the comment section you can see that the the developer of this game said he’s been working on a sequel for 4 years now
Well that's good to hear, because that would only instill negative stereotypes about mental illnesses that media tends to do perpetuate already!
Oh thank goodness. I'm getting tired of DID being an easy trope to fall back on. It demonizes mental illness, specifically DID which is already heavily stigmatized. Good on the developer for not using that trope.
So it’s live action and digital at the same time, woah.
Yup, it's called FMV
@@yuri-xx6uh pretty cool stuff.
Ik its cool
Wait how old are you? Cause you're making me feel super old man.
@@BooksInTheVoid Well let’s say, not that old yet.
the saddest ghost deaths for me were amy and Dr. Bose
I totally agree
Dr. Bose's death got me distracted for the rest of the game
Bose never deserved this
@@Tower_Swagman We all agree every way. No one did, not even Jimmy. He regrets everything he's done, now it's all coming back to haunt him.
@@Tower_Swagman At least they named speakers after him, after he died. Bose Speakers!
Has anyone ever wondered why Jimmy could know your location when you use the mirror? Hugo's spirit tells Jimmy where you are. Because the mirror is connected to spirits (just like the spirit box). It's kind of like how your parents can track your phone.
Wait, the scrying mirror informs Jimmy of your location??
@@TheLalacream probably why you can see him when you use it
@@Harlz_2007 I always thought that it was telling you of his current status. Like if he's on the same floor, near your area, is aware or not aware of your presence on a floor, etc
@@TheLalacream Me too! Didn't know the mirror went both ways
And why does he keep that spirit receiver if he is just going to be reminded of his past misdeeds?
Rose is literally EVERY nightmare kid’s mother, kid could be skinning a dog in the middle of a street and they’d still be like “oh he’s just an eccentric soul 🥰”
Just like in any horror movie, there's always that one overprotective parent defending their child until they realize they were wrong all along and that it was too late
she abused him as a child, she took his side because of her guilt
@@Thediscombobulatedtippytipsonwhat exactly do you mean by Rose abusing Jimmy? Cuz the abuse was from Hugo.
sorry, I just realized my mistake, What I meant to say was, she traumatized Jimmy when she killed Hugo, and she feels terrible for it, or I might be thinking of hugo @@reptilerandykrusha6426
@reptilerandykrusha6426 she abused him by neglecting to do anything to help him away from a situation that couldve killed him. her bystanding was abuse
Amy’s story makes me feel genuinely sad :(
Same...
Doctor Bose's story made me more sad.
@@churchgirlsarv7294 agreed
literally idk why her ending made me the saddest it literally hurt 🥺
REEEE
So not many have pointed this out yet, but back in the medieval age there was a popular type of slapstick puppet show called a "Punch and Judy" about a man (Punch) acting abusively toward his wife (Judy) and others. his catchphrase was "that's the way you do it". So Hugo is a pretty clear reference to this, even repeating the catchphrase at the start.
Edit: turns out still a thing in UK. I did not know this/am not English lol
That and the game might also be a reference to "The Shinning", pretty cool
:0 SMART
I used to watch Punch and Judy constantly as a kid
too right, there are many references to Punch in the game, from paintings and posters of the titular character to more subtle hints, an abusive husband acting out against his wife and baby, bats and clubs as a weapon, a doctor being one of the characters only to fall prey who was a character in the original puppet show, a hanging where in the puppet show punch tricks the hangman sent to hang punch for his crimes into hanging himself and in the game he fools others to think the doctor was abusing him making him take his own life, even his alter ego Hugo Punch is a nod to that, Hugo for his father and Punch being the main character of Punch and Judy, a man with a large head using bats and sticks and clubs to hit others which is a common weapon of choice for Mr. Punch to bash the other puppets but unlike the puppets who are made of wood Hugo's victims are actual real people
Oh yeah I knew that, in fact I should know cuz I’m from that era 😂
This game is put together so well. The atmosphere leaves you with a constant feeling of dread, but at the same time you have a "villain" that feels so real and relatable. A real masterpiece!
This game IS a masterpiece! The use of actual actors really sells the horror, and it helps that they got REALLY GOOD actors to portray these characters so it doesn’t feel hokey or campy
Over two years and no sequel. Baggy Cat promised one is in the works but who knows at this point. If there is one, I hope it's not too different from the first in terms of game mechanics and atmosphere. I'd love to have another much larger hotel to sneak around in. Maybe even have two or more badies to watch out for at the same time.
Jimmy: ''Hurts someone''
The victim: ''retaliates''
Jimmy: You got a death wish huh?!
Hugo: *hurts someone*
that person: *confronts Jimmy or Rose*
Jimmy: "what did I do?!?"
Rose: “it was only a joke!”
His wig cap is the scariest part😭
it makes my scalp itch seeing it
I mean I have that same thought but Idk why it makes him scary
@@yanixanlozoya6807 it was a joke his wig cap was really bad 😆🤣
@@MoonlightsBlossom Oh I thought just that too😂
The way it has to hold all of Jimmy’s hair under it makes him look like he has a Pennywise forehead. And since he has the hair on the sides, that’s extra scary.
I thought since ghosts exist in this game, I figured maybe his father’s soul possessed him
And I think it's a demon
That's what I thought happened to
@@soulbound2 That would fit with the comment about it burning through the Hall family line.
EDIT: i know now this is not the case, guys. I saw the game as a let's play and the meaning of the menu point "jimmy & DID" got a bit mistaken by me xD
Nevertheless, I love the idea of it
Jimmy has DID and his father did not possess him but traumatized him in a strong way. He developed other alters, one of them being Hugo Punch, someone who is very much like his abuser. This can actually happen
@@steampunckairship exsactly!
So I thought this game was perfectly done! The duality of Jimmy & Hugo, the effects of abuse and trauma on people, as well as the broader philosophical ideas of nature versus nurture or the morality of murder in desperate circumstances all culminate in such a rich, well written story. One of the best video game stories I’ve seen in a while!
I couldn't agree more! Right down to the acting and voice acting. One of the most brilliant and beautiful games I've seen and played in a long time
lots of evidence suggesting nurture over nature, and agree with the rest of what you said
I actually have a theory about how Jimmy likes being on the second floor. I think it's because of the fact that his mother died there. When Rose killed Hugo, his spirit was angry at her but he couldn't really do anything to her other than physiologically torture her through her son. But whenever Jimmy was actually in control, he and Rose were quite close to the point he didn't want to hurt her by hurting others and tried to drown himself. So when she killed herself, her spirit would always go back to that one spot on the second floor. Whenever Hugo takes control, it is possible he does it to torture his ex-wife even more from beyond the grave by making her watch him control her son.
Please write back if you think it is possible.
That is a wonderful theory!
Very great point! I think they're definitely connected!
As an aside, going off the info on Jimmy's birth certificate suggests this all takes place in (or near to) the town of Scarborough in North Yorkshire, which is actually a nice seaside town...though if there is an actual Seaview Hotel there I'll be keeping well away.
Plus that final scene in the ending is super depressing: Maya and her friends got away, but poor Jimmy is sobbing for it all to end, only for Hugo to laugh at him and make it clear that he's the one in charge.
I know. Poor guy.
is Hugo a pure evil
Yeah I really felt bad for Jimmy. He never wanted any of this.
Maybe if they poor guy gets arrested, he'll finally get a proper diagnosis and mental treatment
@CruzZ He's literally trapped in his OWN BODY with AN ABUSIVE REFLECTION OF HIS HORRIBLE FATHER CONTROLLING HIM. WHY shouldn't I feel sorry for him?????
I feel really bad fore Bose, his passion for his work and the end of his career because of one of his patients. All he wanted to do was help, your can hear the care in his voice when we first see him, but when hes trying to enject Jimmy with the medication, you can hear him really stressing.
not professional of him to chase a patient around the hotel with a syringe, but yeah he was frustrated
@@driftingdruid yeah thinking someone who's a professal psychologist/psychiatrist, he should've known how to handle the situations better. I do understand how it must be so shattering for him that he took his own life :(
@@driftingdruid Yeah, but it could've been because Jimmy was dangerous and Rose refused to put him in an asylum. It wasn't a part of the story, but it could easily have been cannon because we saw how Rose refused to listen to anyone about how bad Jimmy was.
@@danegonzales5651 And Jimmy and his mom accused of him being sexually assaulted and harrased her son.
@Kotoko Utsugi's headband Jimmy's violence does not excuse Dr. Bose breaking ethical protocol surrounding the psychiatry profession, especially when the result is more traumatizing than helpful concerning a child learning to take medicine via syringe
this isn't black-and-white here, Dr. Bose made a couple mistakes while handling this difficult situation. he's not entirely innocent, but neither is he a criminal. Dr. Bose needed to call for back-up from colleagues and authorities, and maybe even a lawyer, not handling the difficult situation himself, via continued arguing with Rose, and certainly not by chasing a boy around with a syringe
Rose is like that anti-vax mother who says her child is completely fine while the child is developing all kinds of illnesses in the background
JAHAHAHAHAHSHAHSHSHSHSHSHSHS
And blame all the crap to videogames, don't forget that good sir.
@@professionalballssquisher2977 You should stop wasting your life on the computer 12 year old
@@justice8718 Wow, someone's been drinking the Flavoraid...
I could explain to you how the COVID-19 delta variant is hitting the hardest in areas with *low vaccination rates* and how the J&J vaccine was pulled almost immediately after finding an *actual* problem with it causing blood clots in *rare cases* (and even then, there's no telling what other variables were at play with the individuals who this affected)...but chances are you're not going to listen simply because I'm not part of your conspiracy theory facebook group, so why waste the energy?
@@justice8718 don’t you love how covid vaxxers are a cult?
But heyyy at least they got their free donut!
Rose witnessing her husband abusing her son for over 2 years: 👩🦯
Also Rose when being told by Dr Bose and Harvey that Jimmy's trauma made him a violent psychopath who constantly lies and hurts people: 👩🦯
And she just killed herself when she finally acknowledged how much she had fucked up raising Jimmy 🤦♀️
woman moment
@@datboin8669misogynist moment
@@datboin8669No, that’s a ignorant mom moment. Stop being sexist and assuming all women do that 💀
@@TheDominatorOfLifenah all moms do that
@@TheDominatorOfLifefacts
Ngl it's kind of the Mother's fault if she would have listen to literally almost everyone in the hotel literally all of it would have been avoided
Let's take it one step further: If she hadn't tried to fix a terrible marriage by having a baby.
I think it has to do with the mom’s guilt about how Jimmy’s dad treated him? So she just excuses all of his behaviors instead of listening to what the hotel guests/Doctor were saying
@@natkatmac sadly it is a very common belief
she caused the doctors death as well
Also if she had just hurt his father rather than kill him. That wouldn't have planted that seed in him. He also wouldn't grow to have spd
I feel like there should be an alternate ending for Jimmy, he didn’t deserve that ending.
I know right, I feel so bad for him. He didn't want to be a killer, it was because of childhood trauma. F in the chat for dear jimmy 😭
Same.
wherestheexorcistwhenyouneedthem
@The Administrator 831 no
F
That part when Hugo is beating little Jimmy (mind he was like 2 years old) made me literally sick, I ended up crying my as* off after watching this because I know someone who went through the same stuff and its making me sad and angry in the same time...this type of men who is abusing children and women is the worst!
since he was born to two years old, and yea, it's horrible
when it showed that scene of rose killing hugo i was like "wtf took you soo long?" hugo deserved way worse imo
*these types of men and women who abuse children are the worst.
@@SilverSkyCloud I am in full support of Rose killing Hugo. I don't think people like that ever stop that kind of stuff.
The twist of Hugo is that his family (The Halls) is cursed to be possessed by a violent spirit. At the ending, he explained that there will always be a "flame" within the Hall family (that flame being the urge to violence). Also Rose herself stated that Hugo wasn't abusive in the first half of their relationship (up to the point where they got married and when Rose birthed Jimmy), and that it only started later on. Hugo was probably like Jimmy, a good man, but the curse upon his family is just too much.
Can we also appreciate Maya? She literally went around playing hide and seek with a murderer and managed to figure out the story of 3 mysterious deaths, and saved all her friends. Like how is she so talented?
This is how to make you feel sorry for a villain
I know right
by making them actually be possessed by an evil spirit??? yeah I guess that's a lazy but effective way to make you feel bad.
@@bungiecrimes7247 he wasn't possessed, he was genuinely mentally ill. Like hugo became another person in his brain, like an alter ego
@@bungiecrimes7247 The reason why he is possessed makes a lot of sense. I don’t understand how that’s lazy? Even if he wasn’t possessed, we would still feel bad for all the constant abuse he went through as a kid. The writing in this game was not even close to lazy.
@@bungiecrimes7247 i don't think it was completely possessed moreover a real depiction of asplit personality disorder...but idk
Come to think of it mental illness in the horror genre is pretty significant causing people to become insane and unhinged and make them become serial killers.
it's also an unfortunate stigmatization against people with mental illness; it's statistically more likely for them to be victims of violence rather than to cause it
@@kaelang12 well good thing it wasent mental illness it was a demon
@@soulbound2 first time i heard someone call an abusive parent that jkfyuuht
Mental illness is a scary thing. I have a lot of mental issues myself, and sometimes I wonder what I could do. You just can't get rid of it.
@@staysilent4392 that's true it just stays there the only thing that can help is lots of treatment and maybe get a therapist.
Imagine if there is a secret ending where you can snap Jimmy out of his trauma and take back control
bro... i'd be clicking on that in a heartbeat
I definitely would want that!
If only it were that easy in the real world
Snap him out of his trauma? …sure. That’s exactly how that works.
Or when Jimmy killed Hugo even though that means he needs to kill himself for good. Or escaping together with Jimmy because the hotel has consume him since he was a kid.
opk, i CANNOT be the only one who played the entire game while wondering WHERE THE FUDGE WHERE AMYS PARENTS?? she was the daughter of a HOTEL GUEST so wtf where they?
Yeah, it makes no sense. I think they'd've stepped in after the hand burning incident, no?
MST3K answer: it's a game. Adding Amy's parents to the mix would have probably added another thread to the plot, making the story longer, not to mention they would have to probably pay two more actors, plus film extra scenes/dialogues for the characters that would interact with them (Rose, for example), and it's not relevant to the main story, so there would be no space in the budget for them.
Amy was threatened by Jimmy not to tell anyone what was happening, so maybe they had no clue, even after post-hand-burnt
Well, she died right after she burned her hand. Jimmy and Amy are the only ones who knew about her injury, and he wanted to keep it a secret from the adults. He gave her alcohol to numb the pain, and we all know how that turned out. Now that she is dead, Jimmy would have kept quiet about the incident; the parents might have assumed she had burned her hand while she was intoxicated.
From my point of view, i think her parents are still alive, not ghost. Their daughter died in the hotel, they probably wont be getting near that hotel again...
It seems like you forgot to read the 'Jimmy and DID' commentary added to the menu after beating the game. In it the developer addresses the harmful dual personality stereotype people seem to recognise in the whole Jimmy vs. Hugo Punch storyline. He actually explains that Hugo is more like a seemingly heredatery darkness that has grown within Jimmy after witnessing the abuse by and murder of his father. (The qoute at the end of the game does make a lot more sense when you view it like that. If you read the wikipedia page of the guy who said it, you'll understand the connection for sure.)
Plus you should check out the previouse game from the developer. It explains the little black mirror and could give you new insights into the whole 'The fire has been burning down the Halls for generations.' line... (It's a detective game, so it's not really content material, but it does look like the two games take place in the same universe.)
What's the previous game called?
@@Mooshrambo 'Contradiction' It's a life action detective style game.
I have DID and that was my first thought because we are constantly used as sociopathic horror tropes.
Thank God... at least the game developer gets it.
not hereditary, imprinted during infancy
glad you're spreading the word to combat the stereotype
It seems bill nye didn’t take his show cancelation really well
pfffft guess not
Lol
I lol'd
Wait did the show actually get taken down or am I a dumbass?
@@maxy6749 it a joke btw, bill nye and jimmy look alike
I always thought of this game of a Jekyll & Hyde kind of aspect because in Jekyll and Hyde, Jekyll tried to be in control and be the good doctor he was but Hyde on the other hand wanted murder and death and from this I think Jimmy was trying to do the same thing as Jekyll trying to be a good man but seeing his mother killing his father before his very eyes. Started a change reaction and making him vulnerable to hugo and his cruelty.
Excatly
I actually thought of The Shining because it not only takes place in a hotel, but it seems to imply there's a supernatural entity there that possesses someone and drives them to hurt people.
Rose is 100% responsible for Hugo/Jimmy, she both defended him, saved his life, and also was the original creation of the alternate personality Hugo.
There is no alter ego. The creators said that themselves.
@@vinnyl264 Oh, I was positive that Hugo was an alternate personality of some kind.
Could you provide where the creator said that? I'm struggling to find it.
@@SkyEcho751 there’s a part in the game menu that explicitly says that Jimmy does not have DID, but that the supposed alternate personality is actually the spirit of Hugo and that the game is, in fact, not portraying someone with Dissociative Identity Disorder
theres no hugo alter. Hugo is a ghost and is possessing his son
Damn, Jimmy's past was so messed up, I hope in the near future that there's DLC so we can learn more about Jimmy's past and more, maybe even a way to save him perhaps? What do you think?
Now that is a great idea
@@snowelfswordsofwinter3328 not great.
*Brilliant!*
@@FrannyMichelle-xl9mq aye
Bruh I need that! I legit am praying for a sequel.
@@quierrahmarshall5407 aye
And so ends the story of Jimmy Hall The Hotel Guy.
At Dead of Night was a really interesting story, I'd be cool if they do a sequel to it somehow.
don’t quote me on this but i thought i heard the creators were making a sequel???? not sure though
Yeah, the loose end that is Jimmy still has more to go, the game ended with the real Jimmy in tears, so I feel like there should be some way to help Jimmy and get rid of Hugo. Or I might be remembering things wrong.
@Psyche i see what yo did there.............................................
@@auraemerald8434 I think an interesting sequel would be one where you play as Jimmy trying to survive Hugo Punch just as Maya did, but it’s not really happening, just a representation of Jimmy trying to get away from Hugo (obviously, cuz Jimmy and Hugo aren’t different people, at least not mentally)
Not a sequel but they have another game with very similar mechanics and some of the same actors (maya's actress is a suspect in it) called contradiction
Can we just appreciate that they put real life actors just to make a game? CAN WE APPRECIATE HOW REALISTIC EVERYTHING IS??????
14:00 theres a psychological explanation for Jimmy/Hugo but also a possible supernatural one as well. when Maya confronts Hugo in the basement Hugo says "she thought she got rid of him but she didnt get it maya! you see hugo was just one of us! just another log on the fire! he burned out! BUT THE FIRES BEEN BURNING DOWN THE HALLS FOR CENTURIES! clearing the way! lighting the darkness! laying waste to the old and the poor and the weak!"
until i heard this i thought it was purely psychological but what if the Halls were cursed with an evil entity even a demon that gets passed down causes mayhem over generations
This would be an amazing horror film with the same actors it would be amazing. I would go and see that.
This game is actually inspired by a Movie called "At dead of night" made around 1970
I know! It would be very interesting to tell a story with this type of setting, but I think it would fit better if Maya's character was a medium and that's why she's the only one who can recieve help from the ghosts to escape and reveal everything, that would make her character more unique, I don't know if that's more realistic than a Spirit's box tho.
Now that I think about it, she kinda reminds me of Maya Fey from Ace Attorney, who also talks to ghosts.
It wouldn't lol it would be hide and seek and boring with few jump scares
I would cry tbh- I got crazy anxiety from just watching someone play this game, idek how I’d survive a 2hr movie about it 💀🤚
Ah his sit back and relax is so calming Now time to sit hack and relax
By hack you meant back
Sit back qnd relax or Sprint fast and hit people with an axe in the back
One does not simply hack a sit
Yup
What?
I cannot express how impressed i am with the acting of the guy playing jimmy/hugo. He needs more work.
I thought Jimmy might have been possessed by his dad, since he died in the hotel but Maya did not encounter him.
okay but if he's inside jimmy how would maya encounter him?
@@epkurnissheoway That's the thing Maya encountered Jimmy's mum but not his dad.
Hugo died, but he possessed Jimmy. You can't contact a spirit when it is inside a vessel. The other ghosts can be contacted because they didn't possess anyone. They are just lurking around the hotel, especially on the spot where they died.
Also would explain why he has the scrying mirror and the thing you use to communicate with ghosts. Maybe he was trying to reach out to his father?
Maya can encounter hugo hall(jimmy father)if jimmy got posses by his father
If hugo hall posses jimmy the hugo hall would be inside jimmy' body/soul and he can control jimmy body and rose also said to maya that jimmy is not control anymore so maybe hugo hall posses jimmy
There's still something that's been bugging my mind, that final scene at the end of the game, a lit up candle while someone is breathing and suddenly the candle is blown out, I wonder if there's some meaning to it or if I'm just thinking too much.
My guess would be it represents the darkness of night. As the wick goes down, you progress through the night. Blowing it out representing morning coming.
I think it means Jimmy died or something idk
@@MrGrizz-wd4tp I mean like, Jimmy is gone now. Hugo completely removed Jimmy from his head or whatever.
@@butternubs6043 Or Jimmy finally managed to kill himself?
I think, Jimmy ended his life. The candle represents a fragile life.
It's crazy to imagine Jimmy was fighting off Hugo at such an early age, I mean damn, poor kid
I doubt he was fighting tbh. Wasn’t he just two?
Yeah but Hugo started taking effect even while Jimmy was growing up. For example, Amy referenced to Jimmy as a boy, so Jimmy had Hugo in him as he grew, from younger to where he is now.
Poor jimmy
When you go to the storage room, there is a symbol that looks like an N in the wall. That is the Symbol of Society Against Evil from Escape the Night. I think Hugo Hall must have had contact with them, explaining why he has this ghost talk box thing on the hotel and the scrying mirror. Also maybe that's why he is a great magician.
I never actually thought of that, he was such a good magician because he was using genuine magic
Fun Fact: If you look at rose gonna kill Jimmy's Dad, You will see the bat swing, if u compare it to jimmys swing, they hold it on the same way.
That makes everything so much worse
The real antagonist of the story is Jimmy's parents.
only one of them, pretty sure Rose could have been abused too
And is split personality
@@driftingdruid Being abused does not mean she shouldn't take responsibility for her son. Stop infantilizing victims.
Or lack of lol
@@tooth656 same can be said about jimmy
Kinda feel bad for jimmy at the end. He’s a victim of his own mind.
Poor jimmy
Imprisoned by his own mind. What a cruel fate.
@@iustinprisacaru225 yeah
He’s the victim of a demon
Sorry but no no psychos deserve that and that's what Jimmy is
I genuinely feel bad for Dr. Bose. He lost everything to jimmy.
Haven't played the game, watched Markiplier play it, but man, I can't wait to see what else this game studio puts out! This game has such an atmosphere about it that made me jump far more than any other horror game I've played/watched. Love it.
Here’s JIMMY!
YAH! *BONK*
XD
He is here, to only bonk people.
@Gemmell-Braisher Callan hi
amy will get worried if he come's a burns her ghost teddy
It was confirmed by the developers that jimmy doesnt have DID. The device used to talk to the ghosts was originally from jimmy. There were ghosts inside jimmys head that even maya could see and talk too. For outsiders it would probably be a mental ilness because of the trauma jimmy suffered. But jimmy was fighting ghosts.
As someone who has DID they use this exact scene setting and character archetype constantly to stigmatise us further. It wasn’t clear they weren’t using that trope as I know from experience alters in my system see themselves in the mirror when out. That’s a part of DID for some systems so it is still a not great stigma. They could have made it clearer it was inherited behaviour and not shown him with implied DID. Also because of his history of childhood trauma in reality he had a chance of developing DID and the devs know that. They did their research.
@@TheIndigoSystem the game pretty much directly tells you by the end that Jimmy's father was possessed by a ghost or a demon and that when Rose killed him, the ghost moved onto a new host.
@@lunammoon8503 Yeah, a whole bunch of nonsense from that person about implication and stigma when it's just a literary conceit and the game is explicit in paranormality. That person missed that key part of the game as much as this video's author.
@@skarloeythomas5172 i mean, the person is correct and saying that if one didn't know better, Jimmy's story DOES line up with stereotypical depictions of DID.
That's why the devs specifically put a note in the main menu telling you that that’s not it. If you don't read the menu, or are basing your knowledge of the game from tbis video, then the confusion is understandable
@@lunammoon8503 No, not just a note in the menu. Rose's story reasonably suggests Jimmy is host to Hugo, the ghost. If the game were absent ghosts as a fundamental facet of the narrative, then surmise about mental disorders would be acceptable, and it's often a thing consumers of horror fall back to, but some consumers of this game simply sidestepped the obvious conclusion in the narrative to walk the beaten track. It's simply unnecessary.
I feel terrible for those who died because of Jimmy/Hugo but I also feel sad for Jimmy. He was just an abused boy who never got the full treatment he needed because his mother refused to accept the truth and her own actions trying to protect him lead to his trauma, and thus his alter taking control. Ultimate the true villain was the Father, Hugo Hall that caused that this to happen to begin with. A great example of why taking mental health seriously is so important.
Jimmy isn’t a bad man, he is a good man but he is trying to push himself away from Hugo Punch however he can’t because of the events that encouraged him. So hopefully in the sequel, we can get Maya and her friends to help Jimmy escape Hugo Punch once and for all.
Why is his voice so calming when's talking about horror stories.
Edit: wow almost 1k likes, I think this is the most attention I've gotten on a comment.
He likes horror.
I mean yeah but his voice is so CALM i can't tell if it's scary or if it's a bedtime story
@@alexormoonkat7864 Maybe he's used to it.
@@eggmannega6895 I'm not complaining though cause it's awesome.
He’s setting the mood. Nothing is creepier than someone calm while talking about horror
At Dead of Night has now become my favourite horror game.
Outlast and little nightmares ftw
@@aisjjdnxj-mq1kk that games are perfect, but this is masterpiece
Same
In my opinion, Hugo (Jimmy’s farther) possessed Jimmy after he died. That is probably why jimmy has a split personality and he was the first person to die and the hotel and he wasn’t around the hotel when Mya was in the hotel talking to the other spirits. And I think that Hugo wanted revenge against Jimmy’s Mom (Rose).
makes sense
Pov: you got recommended this after watching marks series
I actually got this from 8 Bit Ryan who completed the game
How did you know?!
How did u know?
Not recommended it, found it while looking for story after watching GT Live.
god damn how did ya know?
I feel so bad for Jimmy. I would have loved to see an ending where he overcomes Hugo and gets to live his life recovering.
By this point he's too far gone to recover unfortunately, he can't fight the evil personality when it takes over, he quite literally becomes a spectator and is trapped in his body :(
@@theshermantanker7043 That’s so devastating :( poor him.
i 'm pretty sure DID is involved, no? it's unfortunately rlly hard to get over, so i don 't think it could have happened :(
Even if that were possible, Maya and her friends escaped from the hotel so it is very possible they called the police and had Jimmy arrested.
@@robloxfriends6279 But since he has a mental disability, won’t he be brought to a mental institute instead?
Is it me or is this game kind of more like a horror movie than an actual horror game.
I know right?
It's the graphics probably. So beautiful.
And the voice acting. Awesome.
yea, it's more of a movie, might've been a game if it had multiple endings, but all that you find out doesn't matter towards the story, you still have to save friends & get out
@@driftingdruid Not necessarily . You don't need multiple endings to be a game
@@testacals does feel like it's missing payer-character impact on the story, like the spirits told us in the beginning "make him realize what he did," but we do none of that... so what was the point of uncovering the history if we just need to save our friends & gtfo anyway?
There's a line when the player talks with Jimmy at Hugo's grave in the basement that states how "the fire within him has been burning down the Halls for centuries". I could only guess that it suggests sociopathic behavior and mental illness follow the Hall genetic line. Either that or it's an allusion to something deeper since the story incorporates other supernatural themes.
usually irl games like this suck but this is an excellent game with crazy good acting and characters! i feel so bad for doctor Bose because he seemed genuinly nice and didnt deserve to die
I’ve always wanted to hear the story behind IT
I predicted it
What does pennywise have to do with anything?
@@cheesyisaac7020 I’m talking about jimmy
@@dragon1x067 I know I was joking because you said it.I know the joke was not funny......
@@cheesyisaac7020 it was funny when you mentioned it but someone called dragon1x0 ruined it
I like this and all but jimmy tried killing himself by drowning not cutting his wrist in the shower, also you’re cutting the story short
Yeah he left out the fact that dr Bose only used the diazepam because Jimmy filled his sandwich with broken glass
@@geopowell5399 and the fact that the doctor didn't realize the fact Jimmy was showing early signs of DiD
@@redhood7650 it's not D.I.D theres a whole disclaimer in the game about that
@@geopowell5399 I have DID and it is used as a horror trope constantly. If it does have that disclaimer I’d be happy but what does it say? I’ve not played it myself just watched someone else play it
@@TheIndigoSystem it basically just says that Jimmy's struggle isnt meant to represent d.i.d and it isnt meant to mock anyone with d.i.d it says that the game is actually meant to represent Jimmy's struggle between two moral paths
Something you didn't mention was that, in the credits, Harvey's last name is listed as "Hall". Meaning that either there was a huge coincidence in last names or he is in fact related to Hugo and therefore to Rose and Jimmy.
What? Really?
Isn't he Jimmy's stepdad? I'm pretty sure someone says so in the game but I might be remembering it wrong lol
Maybe he's Rose's brother? Or some other close relative.
Sorry I'm writing so late but I just discovered the game. I read somewhere that the developers said they actually aren't related and the devs just made a mistake
I always thought that Harvey married Rose after her husband's mysterious dissapearance, because:
1) If he was Rose's relative, he would have "Dolores" surname since it's a maiden name of Rose in the birth certificate, but he's "Hall", not "Dolores";
2) If Harvey was Hugo's relative, he wouldn't look too White and British, since Hugo Hall is an Indian, as it's stated in the birth certificate, and I don't think that Hugo's Indian relatives would be too bothered to go with him in the UK, especially after his dissapearance from the public (Maybe, Hugo could be born in India and then migrate with his parents in the UK, but let's be honest, how big was the chance for Hugo Hall, an Indian, to have 100% White European relative in North Yorkshire?);
3) It's very common thing for a married couple to share the same business, as Harvey and Rose did;
4) Harvey could take his wife's surname after a marriage;
5) Harvey always talked with Jimmy like he's his wife's child (I know that cause I was growing up with abusive stepfather).
In the game it says he doesn’t have a split personality disorder. It’s supposed to be his father’s spirit hunting him so basically that’s Jimmy’s performance character he played as appearance with his father’s personality of cruelty.
Not gonna lie, Dr. Bose is my favorite character in the game.
Ikr
I really liked his voice
@@karthikss1654 British accent is my favourite.
@@trollege9618 same, my sister? She hated the bri'ish accent so....
@@marclucky5210 u should talk to her in bri ish
@@marclucky5210 The brit will make her angery
Part of me thinks that there may be some supernatural elements in the story with the great Hugo's performance being rather mystical and unlike the typical "pull a rabbit out of a hat" routine. Not to mention how odd it is that Hugo's tomb has a medieval theme (which matches the medieval weapons display).
Im pretty sure Hugo is a demon that haunts the Hall bloodline.
You don't even need to wonder, he literally left behind to his son:
-A box for talking to ghosts
-A compass that can track ghosts
-A magical mirror that is quite literally a periscope into the other world that the ghosts inhabit
As for the tomb though it wasn't medieval on purpose, Rosemary just buried him in any way she could
I really like the writing in this game a lot, it makes each character seem so lifelike. And it shows that there are multiple reasons for why one person's life can go so wrong. And let's face it, the actor for Jimmy is absolutely amazing.
It seems really strange that since Jimmy knows that people still might have questions for him, he still keeps all these mementos to his murderous childhood just lying around the hotel
BTW, Emily wants to play has a sequel. Maybe take a look at that while ya gotta chance. It'd be great to hear ya go over the evil dolls again. Plus the new ones.
what is it called
@@RandomCatWithStick
Emily wants to play Too.
Not like 2 like a typical sequel, Too. Like Emily wants to play also.
@@gilbertotabares8196 thanks
Why does Jimmy’s head remind me of a coconut 🤣
Idk
'Bird's nest with an egg in it'
- 8bitryan 2021
You could cook an egg on that forhead
Because Hugo got that Yee Yee A$$ Haircut 😂
Ink
I feel so bad for all the characters in this game.
The graphics are so realistic! It looks like a playable movie! Love how the cutscenes look too!
Real life does have the best graphics
@@pug8714 good point lol. Guess my brother couldn’t tell that the cutscenes are live action
So my brother and I were discussing the end and these are the thoughts we came up with. I would love to hear other people's opinions 😁
So Jimmy/Hugo seems to have zeroed in on Maya specifically, which, in the ending is made clear but doesn't really make sense. He only has ever met her/spoken with her the one time at the front desk when she checked in. So, we wondered how on earth he could develop such as obsession so quickly. My answer? He didn't. He was waiting for her.
Hear me out. We know Jimmy doesn't like technology, but what about Hugo? He seems to be the type of personality that would use anything to get what he wants. That being said, Maya was in town for a music festival. Something that big would probably have been all over social media. Facebook at least (not sure about other platforms tbh) has the RVSP button that allows people to say whether or not they are going to an event. Those pages are not private so in theory anyone could poke about online and see a potential list of people (or victims) that would be in the area.
Now, I'm not saying Hugo/Jimmy could 100% predict that anyone, including Maya, would end up at the hotel. She did say they were gonna camp outside. But if he knew the weather well enough and had the only hotel in town, he could in theory reasonably predict who may have shown up at his hotel that night and been prepared in case a particular person (or persons) ended up there.
If that is the case, I'm guessing Maya is just like any other young person on social media and isn't too private about herself or her life. If she were targeted, Hugo/Jimmy could have leaner about her online and become obsessed.
This theory doesn't really take the Hall curse into account but I couldn't really see how that fit in.
Anyway, sorry for the super long ramble. Here's a potato for your trouble. 🥔
I'd love to hear other people's theories!!!
For me, i think Hugo/jimmy isn't waiting for a specific person. That doesn't make sense since Jimmy just meet Maya. Hugo is actually waiting for anyone who can out-witted him which happen to be Maya. Someone who can defeated him with his own game.
or Hugo is actually waiting for someone who have a special ability to talk to ghost since that seem to be the only way to uncover his dark secret lol idk
btw sorry for the late reply, i know it's 6 month ago but this game is still making me puzzle a few thing😅
@@lailaisaidit2223 I like your thinking 😁 Like I said, he could have been waiting for any number of people, but that fits with what you say. I love the discussion!
this some game theory shit
I hope there would be a dlc that we can help real Jimmy.
Actually i think that very possible. The ending really hinted at a sequel.
hope so, finding out all that history and not doing anything with it towards helping Jimmy feels like a HUGO waste!
My interpretation of the story involving Jimmy and Hugo, is that Hugo (Jimmy's dad) took over Jimmy's body and that caused Jimmy to do all the horrible things. My evidence for this is in the ending scene between Jimmy and Hugo as the scene fades and a light shows on Hugo's face, it makes out a skull shape. While I like the dual personality I think the father possessing son idea is a bit cooler and maybe more creepy
I feel most sorry for Jimmy.. Imagine having to live (all alone) in a huge old hotel haunted by the people you murdered against your will because you're possessed by an evil, which completely controls your whole life and forces you to do things you don't want to
Poor jimmy didn't get a good ending ;-; he really needs a hug
I think the next game is where Jimmy tries to escape Hugo Punch in his mind
nah, that's the separately-sold DLC :P
I’m glad Maya and her friends made it out but holy moley that final scene poor Jimmy ☹️
Doctor Bose’s story made me want to cry, he didn’t deserve it :(
I been waiting for this cuz I didn’t understand not one thing in this game.
Same
How though? It was pretty straightforward
@@solidale4691 I had only watched little bit of gameplay at the time and I understood just a little bit at the time of writing that comment, and I had only understood the basic stuff.But now I’m all caught up.
@@itskorey577 Oh I see
I think it’s a great idea to bring back these realistic type of game styles with modern technology
Im surprised nobody mentioned how amazing the acting is for the characters. Especially Jimmy. Executed that role wonderfully
Jimmy is legit just Kevin from home alone and Rose is the mother that doesn’t believe 👩🏾🦯
bro you can't just say that and be right
This game is just so beautiful. Usually if a game wanted to mix live action with gameplay, it would janky unless it was a cutscene. Yet this game seems mix those two things remarkably well. A great game truly
Though I feel neutral on the game, thank you for creating the video. I compliment how concise the story is, following the setting of having to avoid being attacked by Jimmy/Hugo. I would have loved an epilogue that Maya and her friends contacted the police to retrieve Jimmy. To add, Jimmy was trying to drown himself, you see with the scrying mirror a tub with bubbles when you search for clues in Rose's story.
the thing is that one of my main OCs named Jimmy was inspired by this game! I ended up changing it too much but in the beginning, this was my first idea for Jimmy! you can sometimes see the similarity in my OC with the mom not caring and pushing the kid away, to being beat at a SUPER young age.
Since the devs have said that Jimmy 100% does NOT have DID, I think it's more plausible that either Jimmy is haunted by his dead, abusive father's spirit, and Hugo is forcing Jimmy to commit these acts... OR, like stated in the final part of the video, Hugo's abuse towards Jimmy and his murder (which happened right in front of Jimmy) made Jimmy believe that it's okay to abuse and kill people. He continues to abuse and kill people throughout his life because he's never been punished for any of it, solidifying his belief that it's okay. But, in the back of his mind, there's a subconscious voice telling him that what he's doing *isn't* okay, and that he needs to stop. A voice that gets pushed away by Jimmy as he gives in to the temptation to commit his crimes.
I love playing this kind of games that make the character look realistic
I've played erika before and I kind of enjoy the game but this game is scary and actually u get to control ur character
poor man jimmy. hopefully the devs will make a sequel!
I love that Hugo Punch is inspired by Punch and Judy, a popular puppet show in the UK I used to watch growing up. Punch’s catchphrase was, of course, “That’s the way to do it!”
I think this is so cool of the creators.
I’m just surprised that Rose can run holding that bat with high heels on.
Mother love
You should see what else an angry woman in heels can do😬
I need to mention this, This channel really makes me happy and i feel so good watching it, I think you should never stop Super horror bro. Thank you :)
Wait i thought he was gonna drown himself in the bathroom or something? How did you know he was cutting his wrists, as far as i know it wasn't hinted like that?
Drowning is harder to go out in than cutting ya wrists
@@shadowpeople2645 but there was implied evidence of it,which is dripping water.Perhaps he tried to make sure he couldn't go back up when he drowns himself.
Rose admitted he tried drowning himself and along the evidence with the water, it very clearly he tried to drown himself
tw self harm
maybe it was both? He cut his wrists in the bath because warm water makes the blood flow faster?
I means he didn't mention the fact that the game itself stated that jimmy did not have D.I.D in the menu
This is one of the most amazing horror games I’ve seen in years. It’s simple, yet unique. It’s thrilling and engaging. It doesn’t rely on overdone tropes and utilizes a unique style and format to deliver an amazing experience throughout the entire game.
I felt so bad for Jimmy since the beginning of the game:( he sounded so happy and excited talking about his comedic act, doing the little arm joke, being so enthusiastic about that... idk, he looked so nice and I felt bad when Maya said no. Of course Jimmy is bad and all of that but idk, that’s Hugo’s fault, not Jimmy, Jimmy really seemed calm and in control before Maya turned him down, he seemed charismatic and nice
That's what psychopathic, sociopathic, narcissistic, etc. People want you to think. The look in his eyes is quite concerning too, seriously think about it. He is genuinely ill.
To be honest i probably would have watched his comedy gig , i love the Joker and what Jimmy describes as Hugo Punch sounds a little like the Clown Prince Of Crime . Maybe he wouldn't be hunting me if i had the option to go to his show 😅
Idk man, someone telling me his comedy act is being a sociopathic comic would give me the image that he'd shoot me or maim me while being in the show because it's "the joke".