Hello Internet! Welcome to Game Theory! Taste the rainbow. Theorize the rainbow. And welcome
to our first ever Roblox theory. It's hard to believe, but yeah, this is the first time
that we've covered anything from the platform. For all the Olds that are out there watching,
I'm assuming they hear Roblox and immediately think of the kiddy version of Minecraft,
right? Like Minecraft. But everything looks like Kirkland branded Lego characters. Gotta admit,
that's what I thought at first, but it couldn't be further from the truth.
Roblox provides a very easy to use toolset to create your own games
and then also provides you the storefront to sell those games. Kind of like Mario Maker,
except for, you know, you're not given Nintendo free labor. And I got to say,
the games that some people have created inside this thing are incredible.
You've got literally every genre out there from Theme Park Tycoon to pet simulator because the
list of games is nearly infinite. Everyone's favorite list is going to look completely
unique. Case in point. lately, over on GTLive, I've been catching up on some
of the Internet's favorite creepy games like Doors, but also the absolute smash hit from
the last two years. Piggy. But for our inaugural episode,
we're going to be covering a Roblox craze that's a bit more recent. The
Co-op Survival Horror Title Rainbow Friends in Rainbow Friends. You and your buddies are
sitting on a bus heading on a class trip to an amusement park called Oddworld.
But wait, something evil is afoot as a mysterious shadow. Hand reaches out and
switches the directions on the sign, sending the bus down a dirt road towards some sort
of biohazard. The bus crashes for unknown reasons. Our unconscious body is kidnaped.
And we wake up in some sort of strange facility. gotta admit, this game packs more action in the
first minute than most doing the first hour. A shadowy voice over the loudspeaker tells us
that his blocks have fallen over, that he needs help collecting them, and thus the games begin.
Enter the Rainbow Friends, a colorful collection of monsters, each with their own personality. Blue
will chase you if he sees you. Green is blind, but has himself a much greater reach. Orange
will quickly run a set path throughout the facility and purple is the Onceler.
How bad can I possibly be? I'm thinking more Dr. Seuss source material and less
tumblr sexy man. Just saying it's a pair of gloves that sticks out of vents. In the end,
it's revealed that our mysterious captor is none other than the final rainbow friend.
Fred. Hey, it's me, Fred. Wow. That's a blast from the past like that. I'm making Fred references.
But if you're playing Rainbow Friends, something tells me you might not know who that is. Anyway,
it's the final rainbow fried Red, who looks like an octopus squeezed into a business suit.
If we have any hope of escaping Red's dark experiments, we'll have to work together with
our friends to find all the requisite blocks, food pouches, fuzes and batteries that he demands. Or,
you know, you could just be like me and totally luck out, practically
beaten the entire thing solo on my first playthrough can two presumably experience the
robots players and a complete noob who's way too old for this survive the game? What are you doing,
man? Don't. Don't follow me. Stop following me. Oh, no. Oh, Coco, Coco Noo! Nooooooo.
It's like when the arch nemesis of a game dies.
Oh, my god it's just you. It's just me!.
Unreal UNREAL. I kept. I tried to be calm. Oh, it's not calm. At
the end of five nights. Why does the number seem familiar? The
whole thing wraps up with a giant blue monster chasing you through the vents.
Why does that also sound familiar? But, while this game at first glance might
seem like just a co-op survival collectathon It is so much more. There's mysterious rooms
and pictures that we find throughout the map that all point us towards a much bigger story,
the story of a franchise that's trying desperately to cling to its popularity.
No, not not FNAF I'm talking about the lure of rainbow friends. So snuggle up with your
nearest cardboard box theorists, because today we're finding the lore hidden inside
these factory walls. But before we explore the lore of this mysterious old facility,
let me first recommend that you check out a different sort of lore the YouTube series
Home Lore, which you can binge right now over on the Rocket Learn YouTube
channel or sponsor for today's episode. Home Lore is exactly what it sounds like
on the tin. The LORE of various historical homes found throughout the United States.
And at this point, I expect you're asking how can a house have lore? To which I say, Have you never
seen a horror movie before? Home Lore is a lot of fun, touring beautiful real life locations while
covering the legendary and sometimes twisted stories that went down within their walls.
Take, for instance, this episode on the Lambermont in Texas, a beautiful
castle with a haunted past. Allegedly, it took years for the bloodstains in here to
fade away. But don't worry. They're not all dark and scary. There's this house
that looks like the architect played what remains of Edith Finch a few too many times.
See the resemblance? I also love their tour of a castle in Nashville,
which today is used as a recording studio. It started as a gangster gambling house full
of hidden secret passageways, false doors and hidden symbols in the stone walkway.
Basically, the series is like those Architectural Digest videos where they
do YouTube or home tours. Except these ones are exciting because the stories
are actually interesting, as opposed to a bunch of rich kids talking about
how they overpaid a designer to make their oversized house look quirky.
So once you're done with today's episode about the hidden dark lore of a mysterious amusement park,
click on over to Home Lore to learn the hidden dark lore of these mysterious old
homes. Link is in the top of the description and
thanks again to the Rocket Learn YouTube channel for their support.
Now then, let's talk about some spooky home lore of our own,
shall we? Right from the get go, this game is hinting at tons of background lore. Obviously,
there's the opening cut scene, we're in a school bus and we get sent down the spoooooky path.
Look, it's not Shakespeare, but it'll do. When you wake up,
you find yourself immediately greeted by a giant cut out of the company's blue mascot,
along with a sign that reads Riverride through Hemlock Woods. Based on the log flume, boats
that are floating in the water and the floor markers telling you where to stand while you
wait for the next boat. This isn't just any random facility. It's an amusement park,
though not a very well thought out amusement park, considering that there are five spaces
marked out here, but only two rows per log. Those numbers are not adding up.
I did the math myself. The fact that it's a small amusement park also explains why we're
running through everything from a forest and a farm to a castle and a mine within a matter
of a few rooms going deeper into the facility, we see that this place also acts as a museum.
Turns out these rainbow friends aren't just mascots for a small kid's amusement park.
They're actually television stars. One of the podiums shows us sketchbooks used to draw the
characters for a cartoon known as a Rainbow Fun Time Friends with the podium next to it,
holding the original voice recorder that was used to bring them to life.
In one of the hallways. There's also a picture of Blue standing next to a child
that's titled Blue's *First* Friend 1991. But apparently Blue wouldn't be making friends for
all that long. In March of that very same year, the facility apparently shut down.
We know this based on a handful of computer screens that were left on
in another room. They show that the last login date from user O_Davis happened on March 6th,
1991, that O_Davis is most likely Oswald Dee Davis, founder of Rainbow Friends,
whose portrait that we see in another hallway.
The fact that there's such a short period between the amusement park opening and the
last login date tells us that things went downhill pretty quickly. My guess is that the friends were
never just people in suits. They were actual jumbo sized monsters thought to be friendly.
But maybe not. They're animalistic, mindless, hungry, which results in us being their next
meal. And if you take a look down the hall from the tape recorder and sketchbook,
we see the writing on the wall next to a Doctor Who looking machine
we see the words, “this is where they were actually made”. Given the machine is the
size of a human, I think we've all seen enough indie horror games to know where
this one's going. These rainbow friends are real living creatures made from real living people.
On night three we even see Red trying to bring something to life. After collecting
all 14 fuses we see electricity fill a small box that contains parts. Parts that,
if you look closely, resemble the parts of a Roblox player.
Red was the one using this machine to bring the Rainbow friends to life,
and I suspect they know who Red actually is. By the way, speaking of red. Did you know that It's
one of my favorite colors? It’s true. I like red Jackets red logos and of course, Big Red Buttons.
I like them so much, in fact, that I left one under this video specifically
for you. Can't miss. It has the words subscribe written on it,
you know. Come to think of it, the only color I like more than red? Gray.
Because when you click that big red subscribe button, it turns gray. Don't imagine we'll be
seeing a gray rainbow friend anytime soon. So why don't you click that subscribe button and show a
little love to the underappreciated color gray? Please love me, click the button I'm so lonely.
While you're down there let me know what your favorite weird color is. Could it be
urple? flan? goose turd green? which is in fact a real color It’s hex code is actually #4EA809
Sorry. How did I get on all this again? Oh, yeah. We were talking about Red's
secret identity. Red is very different to the other rainbow friends that we've met
thus far. He's not just another mindless creature hungrily roaming the halls.
He's the mastermind behind the games. He is the literal squid of these squid
games with his big old bug eyes popping out of the top of his head. And you see,
it's his weird design that I think gives us the biggest clue as to what his true identity is.
The head, of course, reveals him to be the red rainbow friend, but it's the
rest of the outfit that I'm interested in. He's wearing a lab coat, which, you know,
makes sense. He's the one running the facility, but underneath that, he's wearing a gray suit.
Say what you will about his ethics, this man's got style. And it's that
style that gives away his identity. Based on the pictures that we see hanging on the
walls throughout the facility, we know that the story involves two key human characters.
The first is Oswald D. Davis, the founder that I previously mentioned. The second
is someone that we haven't talked about yet: Trenton. No job title, no last name,
just Trenton. Now, if you compare both these characters to our buddy Red,
you're going to see that there are practically zero similarities.
Oswald and Trenton are human. Red looks like he's a stress toy that's being permanently
squeezed to death. No match. Oswald wears a flannel shirt, Trenton wears a leather
jacket and low cut T-shirt. Red is in that business suit with the lab coat.
Again, no match. Neither of these guys really fit the bill then, right? Well,
not quite. You see, one of them is hiding a secret. There's a glass terrarium in between
the two portraits. And while there is nothing really of any note inside,
if you look at Trenton's portrait through that glass, it reveals something new a man in
a gray suit with a black tie and black waistcoat. I got to say,
in all my years of theorizing, this is a first actually one of the coolest,
most creative and most subtle ways of hiding a clue like this.
So well done, Rainbow Friends, really smart stuff. But more importantly,
this one gives us our match. Trenton is Red. Which leaves us with one final question. If
Red was indeed one turning people into the Rainbow Friends, why would he choose to transform himself?
He knows the others became monsters, there's no guarantee that he wouldn't just turn into
a monster himself. So why take the risk? Unless he didn't do it to himself? Someone
else pulled the lever on him. Remember that computer that I mentioned earlier?
The last user to be logged in was Oswald D. Davis, and we can see that he ran a command
within the system. I suspect that command started the transformation sequence. He
turned Trenton into Red because he figured out what Trenton was doing.
Trenton was clearly hiding things from Oswald. The portrait in the hallway is a direct nod to that,
with his true intentions being hidden from view. I don't think Oswald was
aware of the experiments to begin with. He saw the results with these real life
rainbow friends and he thought that they were really wonderful, adding them to the
new amusement park that he built on the success of the TV series. However,
at some point he found out what Trenton was really doing. It was then that he trapped Trenton inside
the machine and activated the program, turning him into a monster just like the rest of them.
Oswald then manages to escape and shut the facility down,
going on to create a real successful theme park named after him Odd World,
the theme park that we're meant to be going to at the start of the game.
I mean, just look at the name: Oswald D.Davis, O D D. This is his park. But despite Oswald's escape,
Trenton wasn't done. Let me draw your attention to some more writing on the wall. This time,
written in red, we see a message that says, “You only slowed me down”.
The fact that it's written in red implies that it's Red's writing on the wall. And
given what we've already just talked about, I have a feeling he's actually referencing
his transformation. While Oswald shut the place down and turned Trenton into a monster.
He wasn't finished with his experiments. Oswald just managed to slow down Trenton,
but it didn't stop him. Which is why he then traps us inside the facility. His
work must go on. And that, my friends, is the story of Rainbow Friends Chapter One.
We may have escaped the facility, but Red is still around, and I imagine he still wants revenge on
the man who betrayed him. I suspect in chapter two, we're going to end up in the middle of an age
old rivalry between two former business partners, one who just wanted to make a theme park for kids,
and the other who wanted to take things to the next level by any means necessary. If I
were to predict, I suspect next time we're going to be at Odd World, considering it's
the next closest location and would make a great setting for a co-op collectathon.
And given the use of yellow and pink throughout chapter one's facilities like
we were not done meeting all the friends from this particular rainbow. In fact,
you can technically find them within the existing game files. Yellow is an evil duck,
Pink is a googly eyed alien. Not sure they're going to be keeping them that way. But regardless,
I am very excited to see where this story's headed. See you when chapter
two releases. But hey! if you're looking for something to watch in the meantime,
one final reminder to check out that YouTube series Home Lore
brought to you by our sponsor for today's episode, The Rocket Learn YouTube Channel.
I know I've already mentioned their episodes on the Haunted House, The Gangster Castle,
the Edith Finch home. But I want to call out one final one. Kӧrner's Folly. A home
in North Carolina that at one point in time was considered to be the strangest home in the world.
It’s pretty wild. If you check it out, just make sure that you visit
the witch's corner first. But to know what exactly that is and why,
you got to check out the video. See, even homes have lore these days for us to solve.
It’s almost like I need to launch this other channel one day soon. Anyway,
link is in the top line of description if you want to check it out. And as always,
my rainbow friends, I'm going to see you all next week.
But hey! That’s just a theory. A Game Theory! Thanks for watching.