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Create free accounthi everybody today we're gonna play unsaved chapter 2 again by Sylvester Hanson you might remember him I did a little livestream with him some time ago we had a little chat about Skype and who they were gonna play his little game and say why is it chapter 2 and not chapter 1 I don't know I I'd also don't really feel like editing this video too much firstly because I'm lazy asleep and I want to live swim later and secondly I think it would destroy a lot of the atmosphere let's just enjoy the atmosphere of this game and yes we'll talk about the game design hopefully is quite a bit I want to analyze this maybe we can give service to some feedback first impression is really good looks pretty solid let's see what this is all about let's just enjoy this let's just take the solid let's go [Applause] [Music]
okay seems like we're on car accident or something like that wha that first image right here already looks super awesome with the Chet oh wow really cool atmosphere oh my god also look at this ice that's super creepy and I oh my god I love the look of this you see to interact okay seeing these lockers makes me feel strange now I'm so bad at reading why do I need to do this in the wake of an accident the brain creates coping mechanisms ways of shielding the psyche from the terrible things that any one person is experiencing very little is known about these mechanisms as the person usually don't won't survive the accident but they are believed to be very immersive okay I mean they're pretty much already tells us what's going on I mean we had a car accident and this is basically the coping
mechanism so we're not in in the real world right now we're basically in the head of the main character it's pretty obvious pretty in your face you ask me all the Lightning's along with us that's nice these lockers from school why am I here so in terms of storytelling I think this is pretty cool but it was really easy to figure out I would have liked to wander around a little more and think a little more about what's going on now I already feel like I know the solution though that was a little too easy these are all locked okay am i at school can we do something here and what's gonna happen next use I to open inventory oh I have inventory okay the phenomenon of sleepwalking is a condition where the sufferer will wander off while conscious sometimes the sleeper will wake up in places well known to them I'm sure of what happened and where they are okay well that's cool I like that now I'm all
right now I'm not that sure anymore what happened because now I have a different explanation so both of those books basically give me a different explanation of what's going on I mean this one is probably more likely because we heard a car crash and a car accident in the beginning but it could also just be the case that we're sleepwalking or that we walked here and just woke up here so that's another possible explanation that's actually pretty cool let's just try all of these lockers maybe one of them will open Oh Danielle's Locker is here who's Daniel here's the biology room can't go in there wait now I have a key okay I really like the atmosphere Sylvester has a great job looks pretty damn good how can I use the key the keys as office I unlocked it okay that's
that's nice then you can go in now I also really like this 2.50 look that's really strong actually it looks and feels a lot better than the chain broke I always hated this place this has a lot of potential there Lester keep going hope you finished this game oh my god why can I go into the wall here another explanation maybe no one was born homosexual whether these urges are placed by the devil or by his peers no man is born homosexual shaky Pines we take in the lamb that have scrambled to these urges and steer them back to the path of to God is this are we actually at shaky Pines Daniel I said you're often awaiting punishment okay the vessel really likes doing environmental storytelling I think that's really cool I can really imagine no a weird angry secretary sitting at this desk okay little disappointed that
here's exactly the same desk with exactly the same [ __ ] I think there should be a different desk no if that's the office of the principal or something like that there should be a cooler looking desk what can I do here how does this work think I need to find a code right okay where do we get the code for the computer yeah that's the principal's office as I thought I think the principal should have a cooler desk that's not acceptable as a principals desk but where could we find the code for the principal's computer let's leave I wanted one of these lockers so that I could be close to Danielle who's Daniel I really like the storytelling of this game I'm really intrigued even though I kind of think I know what's going on I still don't know everything there are more questions let's go into the other direction then use the office now I can enter the library why can I not go
further in that direction I would really like to do that Oh another key how convenient locker whose Locker and why is the key lying there that supports my theory even further that we're not in the reality but in his head because that obviously makes it easier to explain all these weird things there are keys lying around everywhere yeah can't really read that YouTube's algorithm will pick up on that let's take the batteries this is the Bible I wish I could just paint over it this guy doesn't leave seem to like the Bible okay this once again about shaky Pines conversion Center homosexuality is the work of the devil it is just one of the many ways that he twists the minds of the young and perverts deep psyche of the old however the devil can be exercised at shaky points we provide a variety of
exorcisms to help your loved ones deny Satan himself in some extreme cases where the devil has been allowed to fester up on the soul of a man for especially long we find that electroshock therapy works the short rosettes resistant and completely moves the homosexual urges from a man mmm-hmm why are these books lying around everywhere what's going on here another coat why can't we go into the ladies room oh wait I have the key for a locker now okay that's creepy and cool that didn't
sound like opening a locker can I open the locker please yes okay I put the key into the locker but the locker didn't open something else happened was I able to go in here before hmm this doesn't make a lot of sense but I as I said that's probably because we're not in the real world I was never any good at biology paint okay I bet we can paint the Bible with that look at all of this stuff what even is this I know we're not let's play Channel okay but that changed now now we're let's play Channel I think this needs a battery oh yeah we have some here's the code that's cool if you
or someone you love are struggling with unusual urges then please allow us to help call us at xxx 3 why is that written into a book I was here no more than two days ago how is it all so different oh there's an owl can we remember this cross a dead fish cross ice catfish cross ice go fish cross I scale fish oh this is creepy this is super cool but also super creepy note from that my son's been acting different lately he is more aware seems happier I think he might have found a girlfriend I remember my first love damn she was pretty is there anything as sweet as young love who's dead the dead of this character
there are still so many questions no son of mine I never actually came out to that I guess were travels okay so we're homosexual and seems like our dad didn't like it so what happened next not a girlfriend not a girlfriend at all I caught the two of them in the backyard the other day they were sitting close and cuddling this is just wrong I have been taking that kid to church for years he should know better no child of mine is going to be a Gotham fudge packer I didn't raise no [ __ ] this is not okay not okay at all we need to nip this in the bud before it gets any worse I can't handle this alone luckily there are places like shaky Pines that deal with this things like this so hmm so maybe we are cheeky Pines then maybe maybe our dad sent us to shaky pants okay now it's all gone again no now I
have to remember the code again I totally forgot the code cross-ice called fish cross ice cow first cross ice girl fish cross ice girl fish [Music] oops I thought it was skull fish okay now we have got another code X X 4x mmm in one of the books earlier we saw another part of that code I think was that in the biology room oh my god this is so creepy why do we have to look so cute is it really who wrote that note from Danielle oh I think Daniel was our boyfriend then why do you have to look so cute it is really hard to concentrate in class when you look so damn amazing sometimes I found out while staring at you and think about what it would be like to just leave this place together and never look
back seriously you could make an effort to be less dreamy just my desk this Daniels desk okay I see I don't know about you but I don't really feel safe here I was in gym the other day and some of the guys cornered me in the locker room they kept calling me [ __ ] and telling me how they were gonna get me I managed to escape before anything serious happened but I'm scared note from Danielle was that I feel like an atmospheres rising at school the air feels electric like the last 10 minutes before a thunderstorm let's have another look can we find that book again coach and that xxx three Caesar we have the last two numbers the
last two numbers are four three now we can go into the library and mess with a Bible hand because we still have to paint I really like the difficulty curve of this game well the difficulty in general I think it's not too hard it's not too easy I feel challenged but I always know what to do so good job Sylvester you know that well done I need to go into the library where's the library this is the Bible I wish I could just bend over so see if you create puzzles and adventures leaving little hints like that is really helpful I hope this actually works otherwise I look a little stupid oh oh it doesn't work all right that's right what happened where did the paint go okay but it worked nice so I guess when we leave the room we'll see some oh okay - hmm hmm now we know three numbers we can guess the last number was a two two four three it was
three no no no I have no time for more story I need to remember the code home no longer felt safe not after dad found out so yeah unfortunately we seem to have a little stupid crazy dad the pastor at church went off today about the sin of same-sex attraction which is a crock of [ __ ] if you asked me if I was made in God's image then he too must have felt this way at some point at the end of the day all I know is I have never felt about anyone the way I felt about Daniel I don't think I can face much more of this I don't know why people had Danielle and me so much but they really do dad and I had a blow-up about it the other day he wants me to go to a camp where they D gay people Danny has become the one good thing in my life I don't know if I could go on if it weren't for him he's always so happy
so bright and spirit of everything he continues to smile even when people scream at him at school or punch him against the lockers I love him so much yeah that I mean that sounds a little extreme but I guess there are those extreme cases and it's most certainly not a nice thing to go through so we had not see now I completely forgot the numbers again was for three and what was the first one need to look it up again two four three now we just click through them ha got it pull puzzle I like it now can we go in there yes I remember everything I had a [ __ ] here every single day absolutely horrifying oh my god this looks so ugly yeah what do you remember can the speech
bubble please go away I want to read this some environmental storytelling here I sit here and contemplate should I [ __ ] or should it or should I masturbate Oh what an amazing question really really good question for a year two five one six eight three nine Janie is sexy okay maybe just some random stuff here on the on the doors for a year two five one six eight three okay it's the same door I thought this had some sort of meaning oh the text on the speech bottle change she was taking me to shake hands yes I already know he took us to shake he Pines because of what happened to Daniel actually it would be good if the speech bubble flashed or got highlighted if text change because actually I it's really hard to notice what happened to
Daniel did they hurt him I couldn't stand it anymore so I grabbed the wheel what the hell is this long bathroom this is the lair of the school is just a bunch of tunnels and steer us into coming traffic Oh No so we cost the car accident on purpose and steered us into coming traffic so Daniel was in the car as well you got into the car unsere into the coming traffic ok ok that seems to be Daniel hi Daniel or is it us Oh God Daniel yeah it's Daniel I thought the end oh ok
well it's only Chapter two hmmm I'm really intrigued to play the other chapters I think it's a really interesting story I got kinda intrigued I want to know what else is going on I'm pretty horrible at telling stories and video games so this was probably a pretty cool learning experience for me I think I would have liked the story to be a puzzle or some sort of challenge as well so I have to think about it I have to figure it out and this this story was really easy to figure out I wish it would have been a little harder to figure out that's my only criticism about it other than that pretty much perfect storytelling what code sylvester have done better about the storytelling is there anything we could improve about the storytelling very curious to hear your opinion interesting interesting topic definitely just now if you're on homosexual I want you know I'm on your side it's it's okay to be gay luckily it becomes more and more accepted but we're definitely still not there there are still a lot of people who think this way and think homosexuality is something bad
unfortunately when we get there I hope we'll get there someday okay so yeah thanks for watching have an amazing day make the world your playground see you in the next one peace
The indie horror game Unsafe (Chapter 2) serves as a case study in atmospheric environmental storytelling and puzzle-based narrative progression. Developed by Sylvester Hansen, the game utilizes a 2.5D perspective to immerse players in a surreal, psychological landscape that mirrors the protagonist’s trauma following a car accident. The narrative explores themes of identity, religious intolerance, and the struggle of a young homosexual character facing conversion therapy at a facility known as Shaky Pines.
The game’s design relies heavily on environmental cues—such as scattered notes, locker interactions, and symbolic imagery—to piece together a fragmented backstory. Players navigate a distorted version of a school environment, which functions as a manifestation of the protagonist’s psyche. Key gameplay mechanics involve inventory management and code-based puzzles, which are integrated into the narrative to reveal plot points, such as the protagonist’s relationship with a character named Daniel and the eventual realization that the car accident was a deliberate act of desperation.
The analysis highlights that while the game excels in creating a compelling, eerie atmosphere and effective environmental storytelling, the narrative clarity is occasionally too high, making the central plot twists predictable for the player. The difficulty curve is described as well-balanced, providing enough challenge to remain engaging without becoming frustrating. Ultimately, the game is noted for its potential to tackle sensitive social issues through a horror lens, though suggestions for improvement include increasing the complexity of the narrative puzzles and enhancing the visibility of dynamic text updates within the game’s interface. The experience underscores the effectiveness of using interactive environments to convey heavy, character-driven themes in the indie horror genre.
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