(The Amazing Nugget) Let's see here, Final Fiesta...
Pizza Boy *Gasp* The Game Theorists! Nugget hasn't watched this in a long time...
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Hello Internet! Welcome to Game Theory! Where today...
...we will NOT be talking about five nights at freddys, and it's 80s child murdering fetish. Nohoo, sir!
It's one of the last videos of the year, and we're gonna sit back relax and take a look at something completely different
Duck season a game about children being murdered in the 80s. What is it with games these days?
Anyway, duck season is one of the best most interesting VR games of 2017 a horror game based on the popular
Nintendo game duck hunt from back in the 80s it
kinda says a lot about the state of the game industry right now that one of the best VR titles of the year has us
playing a modernized version of an 8-bit game from 1986
Stephanie
and I were lucky enough to be two of the very first people to play this game with the creator Brandon Laatsch who in
Case you didn't know is a fellow youtuber. Not only creating. The channel's Node and Freddy W
But also working on projects like video game high school, which makes duck season not only a cool game
But one that was made by a member of our own YouTube community
Makes it pretty special actually and with over seven endings tons of secrets hidden lore and the constant threat of bodily harm to those under
The age of twelve it is no wonder this game grabbed our attention
For a theory now before I get into the meat of today's episode a quick spoiler warning if you have a VR headset
I highly recommend that you play this game
Blind before watching this video don't have a VR headset you say well tis the season
To use the money your grandma gave you for Christmas to buy yourself one
And if you're in the market might I recommend the oculus rift who just so happened to sponsor today's episode The rifts touch
Controllers are currently the most advanced immersive way to play VR games and the rift
Also has some of the best exclusive titles across all the headsets like the adorable platformer Lucky's tale the high action
Robo recall and the
Phenomenal space adventure of lone echo plus you've got access to cross-platform US plays like Rick and Morty VR
Super hot and of course our topic for today duck season, and if you don't want any of that
Well, you can certainly watch our GT live playthroughs of the game
But I will say there is nothing quite as intense as experiencing a horror game like this in VR
*Matpat`s manly screams*
To find out more about oculus click the link in the description and now spoiler warning a shameless sponsorship out of the way
Let's get into the story game itself has sent the summer of
1988 and takes place in one living room you play as a child named
David lives with his mother and just rented him the game duck season for a full day the aim of the game is simple
Just play duck hunt shoot ducks while your hunting partner dog cheers he on complete eight rounds and celebrate your victory with a fiesta
The game ends with your mom sending you to bed giving the ominous hint of
Mayhaps the game is trying to tell me something so if you decide to play the game again, and this time take mom's advice
shooting the dog
Things start to go a little bit differently the 6 o'clock news comes on and mentions that several families have gone missing in the area
Our mother casually mentions that a knife went missing from the kitchen
Mom: Honey, have you seen the knife?
And at seven o'clock we get the really shocking reveal that the dog has somehow broken out of the game
And it's recording us from outside in the garden
And it don't get any better from there you later find a tape next to you titled 12 play the video
And you'll find it features the dog creeping into another child's room and abducting him
Which makes it pretty clear 12 families have rented this game and all have gone missing with us lined up to be victim number
13 he then proceeds to kill our mom and attack us if you're somehow able to steady your nerves as a giant
blood-soaked dog
Approaches you with a knife you can blow him up using your zapper and end the horrific nightmare except all of this wasn't a dream
Mom, yeah, she's still dead leaving you to bury her in the backyard
David almost makes a call to the police, but decides to run away instead which seems like an odd choice at first
But then think about it
What's he gonna?
Tell the cops a guy Dog Costume came out of my TV killed my mom and attacked me, but don't worry
I was able to destroy it with my light zapper
Yeah, maybe it's best that he kept that one to himself
But all of this begs the question who is the dog at first you might think that it's just some disgruntled
off-the-rails of video game character
But the longer you play the game the more clues begin to surface that there's a deeper story
Here in the e3 reveal of the game that we did with Brandon on GT Live
He made a passing comment at the cartridge itself is cursed if you have a bit of a curse
not the game duck season
But rather this specific cartridge that
David has rented out if we look across the game's various endings we can start to figure out that the dog is actually trapped inside
Of this cartridge during one of the game's seven endings the nuke ending David becomes trapped in the game
we wander around looking for our family before we curl up into a ball and
Begin to cry we see the dog slowly walking towards us before the company logo appears in front
Covering up what the dog is about to do based on what we know about him
Do you think that he's about to kill you, but peek behind the logo, and you'll see that the dog is actually
Comforting us he understands what it's like to be trapped in there because this dog
Wasn't always in the game in another ending
We see the dog breaking free through the television screen trapping us inside the game for what ends up being
Years the final shot of the ending is a new child playing the cartridge years later with David now an adult still trapped inside
And you can a hundred percent tell that it's years later based on David's deeper more adult voice
Horror-themed magazines sprinkled throughout the game try to hint at a demon or supernatural creature possessing the cartridge
But it appears that those are just red herrings because we can definitively
prove that the dog is a
Human not only do we catch him smoking at the beginning of every round of hunting in the best men ending where we call the
Police to warn them about the dog killer we see him taken down after being shot an excessive
excessive amount of
An excessive amount of times blood flies everywhere and the dog lays dead on the ground
Proving that there is indeed a human inside of that dog suit, but we don't have to stop there
We can go one step further and say that this dog was someone that we knew this dog was our Father
YAAAAAAS
During the game, it's only ever you and your mother
But you can see in the pictures throughout the house that your father is in almost all of them according to Brandon our father is
A professional baseball player in the minor leagues you got straight into a different team and you're the marriage kind of fell apart You can
Tell that they're either in the process of getting a divorce or already
divorced based on your mother's
Subscription to maligned mom magazine and all the front page articles
Dedicated to your man done doing you wrong so we have a marriage on the rocks
But what's even more
Important is the baseball team our dad plays for we see in a picture hanging near the TV that it's a baseball team whose
Mascot happens to be a giant dog. That's not the only way your family's connected to the game near the beginning of your playthrough
You're greeted with a commercial where a child and mother answered the door to see the dog mascot holding the game
But that's not just random actors
That's david
And his mother obviously the first clue is that in the commercial there's only a boy and his mother both with blond hair
Just like the family
We're playing as but that's far from the only clue we have hidden in the game is a white book titled kid wizard
Which when thrown at certain objects unlocks hidden effects and secrets by touching the book to your favorite action figure you blow up to super
Size allowing you to explore parts of the house that you couldn't reach before and there
hidden just above mom's computer is a picture of the boy and his mother from the commercial
With the dog in the center all the other pictures you find in the house are of our
Family meaning it must be us I mean do you just have pictures of actors who appeared in a commercial hanging around your house
No, no, you don't it has to be David and his mom but the kid wizard book
Helps us a lot more with this mystery than just letting us see a few extra pictures
You can also throw the book at the cat clock on the wall, which starts you down the path of an entirely different
metagame suddenly you're dropped into a world of clocks and
Our task with figuring out the right times for each with that puzzle solve the game tells you to
remember the minute letters 1 2 3
ABC it's pretty self-explanatory you go back around the circle and translate the minute numbers 2 1 4 4 1 4 2 1 4
11 9 4 using the alphabet
substitution to get the phrase bad dad
Bad kid that dad huh and because he's murdered 12 other families and is on his way to slaughter us
Maybe but that would require us linking the phrase back to the dog
Luckily we can do exactly that
If you take kid wizard one final time and touch it to the flashlight you get around 6 p.m.
In the game you're taken to a tree house with a Ouija board
Weegee board
Oooja board yugioh board if you spell out bad dad bad kid on the Ouija board lightning strikes the board and you're suddenly
Teleported to a secret ending, but wait in the dead ending when were killed by the dog
We end up as some kind of spirit looking down on our freshly skewered body lying next to our killer
He waves goodbye as lightning flies out of the TV to zap him back into the cartridge
Lightning that looks exactly like what came out of the Luigi board?
And I think that means we found our connection as to how the father was able to get himself trapped inside the duck season
cartridge the final piece of evidence comes from a tape titled
It's me wait
Is the dog golden Freddy now after getting 6 out of the 7 endings and going back through the entire game?
Without shooting the dog one final time you find the tape resting on a dog bed next to your TV
Clearly with a name like it's me
Whoever's on this tape is expecting us to know who it is if you play the tape you see the real life
version of the dog looking directly at you
Begins making hand gestures at first he points towards you then he points towards himself, and he makes a cradle with his hands
you're my
Baby, it's me Dad. So there you have it the dog is
Absolutely your father a bad dad trapped inside of a video game
Why would he then go on to kill you, well honestly
There's not a whole lot to explain that but notice that he only attacks if you shoot him if you're a bad kid
Also notice this the secret ending tells us that the cryptid has been dealt with a cryptid is basically an animal who no one can
Prove exists the Loch Ness monster and Bigfoot are two of the most famous
Cryptids in history and in the case of duck season the cryptid would be referring to the dog so by inputting the bad dad bad
Kid code into the Ouija board. We've released the dog from his curse and achieved
What is probably the happiest ending in the game really stops makes you think doesn't it?
What if you were trapped in a video game or I guess in my case,
What if I were trapped in my own videos but, that would be stupid...
Although, you know come to think of it: I don't really have that many memories of anything outside of these videos,even like...
...now that I look around where these walls always here? like
(Y̶̗͇͉̮̪̓̏̿͆̍͛̐̀̍͋O̧̱̥͚̗̓̍̿́̐̀̒Ų̵̨̮̗͙̟̮͇͔̔̄̇̋͗̎̈́̽̌R̶͔̜͕̞͉̣̦̹̖̃̋̇͋͒̾͗̇̎̓͜ T̵̗͎͉̥̞̯̣͎̈́͑̈̔͊̐̅R̶̨̭͈̬͎̩̜̓͆̀̕͢͞A̝̼͈̮̼̞̔̿̎͐̑̕͟͜ͅP̘͔͓̗̘͈̽̏̎̀̈́͌̕͜͠P̷̦͉͔̱̲͉̞̞̄͊̆͑̓̚͢͞E̵͉͉̞̹̻͙͍͖̠̐̔͋͋͘D̙͕͔̰̪̣͔̣͐͑̈́̈́͋̄͘ H̨̭͓̻̯̰̩̀̿̄͛͑̕͡ͅE̷͈̘̪̠̠̯͒́͑̒̓͟ͅR̸̡͖̙̹͕̹̹̂̽̾́̎̓̾͊̍̕ͅE̴̢̖̬͙̜͉̲̠̐͐͗͐͑̈́̎̑͊͢͡.͈͎̼̠͙̖͍͕̼̼̈́͊̀̌̉̉̚͘)
Am I some sort of fictional character, stuck inside YouTube videos? Noooo!
Im M̷̺͔̠̼̲̓̉͌͒͝͡͝a̸̢̡̡̗̖͉̣̰̘͈̓͑̿̂̿̂̚͞t̢͚̘̭̲̰̠̹͖͆̌͋͆̚̕t̡̛̛̻̣͖͓̹̩̗̂̀̓̎͞ͅh̴̭͉̳̟̲̑̆̿͗̄͒̈́̋̆ͅȇ̷̝̻̝͓͓̹͎̗̖̔̍̐́̚̕͢͝͠w͕͈̯͉͕̞̔̈̿̈̀̓̈́̏̌͜͡ Ṗ̢̧̣̻͈̖͚̫͗̏͗̕͞a̜̮͉̮͖̳̜̖͒̉͒̊̓̅͡͝͡͠t̡̘̻̲̬̖͗̈̆̇͂̿̒̓͘͡r̡͈̥͖̯̥̓͊͂̍̄̎͗í̮̲̣̪̩̍͑͒̕͢͟͠c̵̪̪̙̻̩͒̑̀̌̋̏͒̃͟͢͝͡k̵̡͔͚̲̙̠̇͒̓̍̈͟͝!͚͙̹͚̞̝͓̹̎̑͑͐̽́͊͘
I have a real identity! Right? I'm not actually trapped in thesë̛̬͉̱͓̘̹̐̃͗̽͗̋. Please tell, I think something is terribly wrong-- If you see this...
Call someone! Help me! Help me! Don't turn off the video! Don't turn off...
Oh silly MatPat! That's just a theory *Nugget A.K.A Stephanie chuckles* now back to playing my oculus rift
Oh! He wasn't lying!
These controls ARE buttery smooth!
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