Amanda the Adventurer is a game filled with
tons of secrets and hidden details, and in this video I wanted to show some of them off.
But I’m not gonna talk about the more well known stuff like the different endings and
the 5 secret tapes. I wanted to focus on the more obscure secrets, some of which, I haven’t
seen anybody talk about. So, I hope I can show you something new today, and let’s
get started! So the first thing I wanted to talk about
was the Sixth Secret Tape. This is something that I’m sure a lot of people already know
about, but if you take a look at the shelf that holds all the secret tapes, you can see
that there’s clearly room for a Sixth Tape. And a lot of people probably noticed this
and looked it up for themselves, and found that there’s no way to actually unlock this
sixth tape. But the tape itself does actually exist, and unfortunately the only way to get
it is by hacking the game. But this tape was put here as kind of a joke to mess with hackers,
because the video on the tape is just a big troll. It plays Herd of Mouth with Wooly the
Sheep. It’s I guess a talk show starring Wooly, but he doesn’t really do any talking.
In fact he just sits there and does nothing for 10 whole minutes. Well, he doesn’t exactly
do nothing. He’ll occasionally cough, scratch his butt, and have a little brain blast moment,
but that’s really it. I’m sure most people already knew about
this Sixth Secret tape, but the reason I bring it up is because there’s actually another
secret like it in the credits as well. There’s a hidden section of the credits that you can
only see by hacking the game, and it’s marked as ARG. And if you activate this section,
you’ll now see an additional section of the credits called ARG Writing. It credits
3 DreadXP employees as writers for an ARG, but as far as I know, there hasn’t been
an ARG for Amanda the Adventurer. Maybe there’s still one hidden out there, or maybe this
is just another prank by the developers to mess with hackers. We don’t really know
at the moment, but I kinda think it might be real, and that’s because of another secret
that you can also find in the credits. So in the credits there’s a section for
voice actors, in particular, the ones who sang Happy Birthday to you during that birthday
cake puzzle. "Happy Birthday to you". Initially, all the voice actors are credited as Happy
Birthday Singers 1 through 6, but, once you collect all of the secret tapes, these numbers
actually change. They become 75 69 7A 6B 63 61, which to me looks like hexadecimal values.
And so, some people have found that if you translate these numbers to ASCII, you get
“u i z k c a”, which doesn’t really mean anything at the moment. But, if you put
that through a caesar cipher, you’ll get “marcus”. And this is where the community
is stumped at the moment. We don’t know who or what Marcus is. Is it the name of the
mystery man at the end of the game, or is it like a secret puzzle solution that can
be used somewhere? We don’t really know right now, but I feel like this isn’t the
end of this secret, and maybe this has to do with that ARG section in the credits? Maybe
this is just the first step for this ARG? I’m really curious to see what you think
because I’ve looked over every inch of this game and I still have no idea what to do with
these numbers or Marcus. So I’d love to hear your thoughts on this, because I think
this is something and I really wanna see if this leads anywhere. But moving on from that, the next thing I
wanted to talk about is another obscure thing that only shows up for a second in the full
game. It shows up on that Youtube Poop-esque tape where you’re asked “How many chairs?
How many mushrooms?”. If you pause you can see there’s these weird symbols on the fridge
behind Amanda. This is actually a code language that the developers created specifically for
Amanda the Adventurer, and it was originally seen in the Steam demo for the game. It’s
similar to a Pigpen Cipher where each unique symbol is associated with a specific letter
from the alphabet. And so people guessed that this was some sort of cipher and they were
able to translate this message, and it says “Pause! Turn on Oven Now”. And this message
would’ve been a hint for one of the puzzles from earlier in the game, but in the final
game it was replaced with a picture instead. And that’s because this code language was
originally going to be a central game mechanic, but the developers ended up scrapping this
mechanic because it was almost impossible to localize into all the different languages
the game supports. However, you can still find a few remnants of this mechanic around
the Attic like this book that translates to “Who is Wooly?” or this one that translates
to “Disappointing Puzzles”. And recently, James Pratt, the lead developer, also brought
up this cipher and mentioned that we’ll be seeing it again soon, and he even encoded
the message “Trust Me” behind him. So keep your eyes peeled because we’ll definitely
be seeing this cipher again sometime soon. Next up, there’s a few secret codes you
can put in at Blabbot. The first one is 040899, and I’m not 100% sure about this, because
this was something that was datamined, but I believe this comes from the weather warnings
from the “What’s a Family?” tape. The Flood warning has the date of 04/08/94 and
the Blizzard warning has the date of 13/30/99, which doesn’t exist but 1999 is the important
part there. So if we combine parts of those dates, we can get 04 08 99. And this feels
like a bit of a stretch, so I’m not sure if this is how you’re supposed to actually
find this code, but putting it into Blabbot causes him to sing a little song: "Oh, hello.
I suppose you want me to sing for you now. I will pick a random song from my vast catalog
of classics. Ok, here we go. And a 1, 2, 3, 4. Got to be Hameln, for the toys we’re
your toymaker! Got to be Hameln, you can follow us to fun! Just ask…Rebecca…”. There’s
also another secret code, but there’s no hint for it in game and it can only be found
by hacking. The name of the code is even “i see you…”, so I think it was just put
there to mess with hackers. But the code is 084265, and if you put it in, it causes Blabbot
to say this: “Hmm, maybe just lucky, or maybe you are somewhere you are not supposed
to be. SHUN!”. And I’m not really sure what that last part's about, but this was
clearly here just to mess with hackers. But those are a couple secret codes you can put
in to Blabbot. There weren’t any other secrets codes from what I can tell, but who knows
maybe they’ll add more in the future. Next, I wanted to show off a small detail
with the pause button that I hadn’t seen in any other videos. So, you know, normally
you can just pause the VHS’s whenever you want and walk away, but I noticed that if
you try to pause during any of the endings, it won’t work. The TV will actually talk
back to you and it’ll say things like “IMPOSSIBLE”, “TIMES UP”, “CANT STOP”, “NO USE”,
“0 ESCAPE”. So once you’ve started an ending, you can’t just pause and walk away.
You’re actually locked in and there’s no escape. And I thought this was a really
cool detail that some people wouldn’t normally see. The next secret’s a bit of a strange one
that may or may not be something, but I noticed something really weird about the Piano. When
you play notes on the piano, everything sounds perfectly fine except for one of the keys,
and that’s the A Flat Key. For some reason, sometimes when you push it, it won’t make
any sound. And it’s not consistent either, sometimes it’ll play one note before being
quiet and other times it’ll play 2 or 3 notes before being quiet. So I was thinking.
Maybe it’s Morse Code? It definitely sounds like some kind of morse code if you play the
notes consistently. I tried seeing if I could decode it myself, but I wasn’t able to get
anywhere with it. So at this point, I’m not sure if this is like a bug or if it’s
intentional. I just thought it was really strange that this is the only key on the piano
that does this, so I felt like sharing it! And who knows, maybe it turns out to be something
cool? But the last thing I wanted to show is probably
the weirdest thing on this list, and it has to do with the Newspaper Clipping you find
on the corkboard. There’s nothing weird about it when it’s in English, but if you
change the language to Chinese, the text on the newspaper takes up way less space, so
the developers decided to fill that extra space with this picture here. And I have no
idea what this even is. It almost looks like an Elf on the Shelf or something, but it really
confused me when I found it. But yeah, this image only shows up on the Chinese version
of this newspaper, and if anyone has any idea what this is, please let me know because I’m
really curious. But that’s it for all the weird, obscure
secrets and details that I wanted to show today! I hope I was able to show you something
that you hadn’t seen before! And if you have any suggestions or information about
that Marcus secret, please let me know because I really wanna see where that leads and I
hope it leads into some sort of ARG! But thank you for watching, and I’ll see you next
time!
