Come cry with me :D Let's Play "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream"

TRIGGER WARNING: I don't know why or what to expect, but it sounds like something akin to unimaginable eternal torture and probably rape and almost certainly murders of some description are going to ensue. I'll probably update this as I find out what's so scary about this game. After I stop crying. Yep.

SO! I finished my Phantasmagoria 1 and Phantasmagoria 2 playthroughs, and I have yet to satiate my hunger for horror games from the 90s. The boyfriend suggested that I play this game:

Unlike every other game that I've done a Let's Play for thus far, I have never played this game. Hell, I've never even HEARD of this game! The only thing I know about this game is that it is from the 90s, I have to run it via ScummVM, and (according to BF) it will undoubtedly make me cry and I should not by ANY MEANS play it at nearly 3 AM on a Thursday. So! Let's get started!


The plot is given to us with lovely and ominous voiceovers, but it's accompanied by something that I've really missed in the games I've played lately - SUBTITLES! It seems, my dear friends, that the main antagonist of this game is a very disgruntled computer.




Yeah, I'd probably be a bit miffed... but THIS PISSED? Seems to be a bit overdoing it...


Has there EVER been an AI that HASN'T gone evil in a video game?


Closer to 109 seconds for me the observer, but go on, tell us about these poor 5 saps who we can choose to be.

Hooboy, this game.

I read an LP of this a while back. Needless to say, it gave me chills. Looking forward to seeing your blind reaction to the game.

I am a little scared. Tried going through an LP of this once before and couldn't do it. HIGH HOPES. <3

OH! I just remembered the ONE other thing that BF told me about this game. There is only ONE good ending - just one. And I WILL need a walkthrough to get it. SO! We're going to do 2 runs of this game - if I can handle it. First one will be WITHOUT a playthrough - just to see what we get. Then, we'll get the walkthrough and then make the good ending happen :3


Gorrister. Not the name I've had chosen for my child, but go on...


:c


Wait... We're in the belly... Of the computer?


Benny. A nice normal name for a nice normal... Orc-looking... thing...


o.o That's not... Very nice...


No, but I have a feeling you're going to tell us...


Um....? >.>;;;


Ah, yes the token woman and the token African American. 2 birds with 1 politically-correct stone.


And you still managed to sneak sexism in there... Cool.


Ew....


I hope that's not foreshadowing... Has anyone else noticed that I ALWAYS play games with rape in them? FML.


Yep.


Well they know now, jackass...


Well at least you haven't ratted me out on ALL my dirty secrets... Yet...


Another weird looking guy with another weird sounding name...


Yep. More weird names.


Well, that's nice at least... I guess..?


Many Most ALL of those things sound... Just awful...



AHA! Our first choice!

So, kids, who shall we be? I'm actually probably going to head to bed soon, so I won't be playing this game at almost 3am on a Thursday. Probably more like 3pm, so I'll say voting ends in roughly 12 hours. Have fun ^-^

Oooh... this game.

Fun fact: I Have no Mouth, And I Must Scream is an adaptation of the short story by the same name, written by Harlan Ellison.

Not only did Ellison write the storyline for this adaptation, that's Ellison himself as the voice of AM.

EDIT: Go with Gorrister first.

Oh my God. This game. This story.

I WANNA BE THE SASSY BLACK LADY.
Because i am a sassy black lady.
Let me have my self-insert.

Let me lighten the mood:

Harlan Ellison was in an episode of Scooby Doo.

Oh dear god what they said, be prepared for your soul to be crushed.

Also that opening monologue is bloody famous for good reason. Ellison is a hell of an AM.

No. No, you don't. You really don't want to be anybody in this story. You want to be miles away from this story. RUN WHILE YOU CAN.

I agree! Sassy Black Lady Mode GO!

Wow, the game even scored a Godwin's Law moment there during the character intros. Thank you, game, I wanted to have nightmares about the shit Mengele did again.

Imma vote for Gorrister, though really I'm good with any character that isn't Nimdok because I do not trust this game to not keep going There with the references.

Let's get Ellen over with.

We have to do them all, IIRC. I cannot WAIT until we get to the Good End.

...oooh, this game. I've heard /things/ about this.

I'm eagerly anticipating more of the game. Good luck.

I'm scared.

I'm not sure weather to be excited that there seems to be so much more interest in this LP than my last couple, or terrified because of the things you guys are insinuating D:

Here's the voting so far, befoer I go to bed FOR REAL THIS TIME (Ohi, 4am! I didn't see you there!)

Gorrister: 2
Ellen - aka sassy black lady: 3

I'll check again if I have time before work to give everyone a tally update, then I'll hop right in at work tomorrow. BF says I should only play about an hour at a time to avoid maximum mind-bending soul crush. I'll try.

I am totally not slipping votes into the Sassy Black Lady voting box, what.
Nooo. Nooooo.

Sassy black lady!
Can you get the good ending no matter which character you play?

This game.

And blind, even. Well, Sassy Black Lady gets my vote.

Fuck yes, this game. I seriously cannot imagine playing this game blind without having any knowledge of it or the short story (which I'm pretty sure is worse in terms of gore and rape), so you are a braver person than I. You might also want to put some sort of content or trigger warning in the first post, because this game.

I'm voting for Ted, because Ted is the best.

It took me reading through SBL's little thing twice carefully before my excitement slowly
slowly
slowly
turned into horror.

Well, I've cracked my neck and I've got my "i can do this" pants on. Keeping my vote just the way it is.
Though I also suggest putting a warning at the start of this LP. If others say there's rape and gore, I'll assume there is. TRIGGER THIS SUCKER. C:

Mul, you really don't want to be a self insert in this game. Actually, no one should want to.

Unless they are into the potential of an eternity of every type of torture imaginable, which is what dear AM is implying. That woud take a special kind of masochism, really.

Yeeeeeeeeeah, I just read a bunch of spoilerific stuff. Trigger warnings would be appropriate.

Now that I have spoiled a bunch of stuff for myself I will chime in. This game.

can she be my self-outsert

EDIT: so i spoiled SBL's route for myself and
now i can see why don't want to be her and
DEEP BREATHING

I read the plot again.
I CAN'T.

Yeah.. some warnings in the first post would definitely be appropriate here. And, uh, Good Luck.

I have never heard anything about this game before now, I'll be screaming with you JudokaLilly :)

Oh dear, I've heard about this game (and the short story that it was based off). :'D I think I'll be doing plenty of crying. At least the video game is slightly more optimistic than the short story? ... Slightly.

(Still, think I'd agree that warnings would probably be a good idea, yeah).

THIS GAME.
Heard a lot about it way before I even heard about VN's, played it last year :33 That was fun.

Bad things are coming, no matter who we choose. Let's go ahead and get Ellen's story out of the way.

Hate.

The intro, by the way. People who haven't heard it before might wanna take a peek to hear the voicing. Ellison really voices the hell out of AM.

Oh wow, I've never played this game before but I loved the short story. Harlan Ellison~ ♥

But yeah, you don't want to be any of these characters. If AM ever asks you to play a game, you should probably just hara-kiri Mortal Kombat style immediately.

Oh. God. This game.

Too scared to actually play it, but I've done enough reading and such to know it's gonna creep the hell outta me.

too excited.

I haven't played this game, but I've read a walkthrough of it and yeah... Good luck?

For the curious: Josef Mengele (warning for discussion of the Holocaust, human experimentation, and other disturbing subjects).

OK! Here's the tally so far:

Ted: 1
Gorrister: 2
Ellen - aka sassy black lady: 6

And I added at trigger warning, though I wasn't really sure what to put cuz... Yeah >.>;;

ETA: This isn't the final tally - you can still vote :3 I'm heading off to work now, so it'll still be an hour or so before I can actually jump into the terror ^_^

I vote for Ellen.

Another interesting fact: Nimdok's story was cut from the German version because it's about the Holocaust. This rendered the game unwinnable, as you needed all characters to finish the game and they forgot to adjust that.

Just posting this now. Motivation for all. And a little happiness. We gonna need a lotta happiness.

although it seems kinda weird to post it for this games...since they all seemed to be doomed for eternity. but whatever.

I read the short story and now I'm scared of what this game may entail.