HIKEBACK - Don't Pick Up This Hitchhiker If You Value Your Future or your life... ( ALL ENDINGS )

hey everyone this is manly badass zero and welcome to hike back a horror game where you pick up a hitchhiker and then bad things keep repeatedly happening to you let me tell you a story it was late that night i was driving through some backwoods to visit a friend then i spotted something on the side of the road that's when i first saw you sticking your thumb out looking for a left so i decided to stop and help you out the night was so dark that i could barely see your face but i managed to catch glimpse of you through my faded headlights your front was smeared of dirt and grime and your hair stuck out in every direction you asked me for a ride to the next town over and i said yes i watched you climb into the back seat we rode together in silence for miles there was no radio signal out here so music wasn't much of an option i could barely hear you breathing sometimes i forgot you were there at all i could feel myself throwing a nun off you're driving don't nod off the dust in the headlights swam on lazy streams and just as i start to drift away something pierced through my stomach your arms were on my waist from behind your seat your fingers clutching a bloody scalpel my throat closed up my mind went blank my sense is screaming i lost control of the wheel [Music] my head was pounding needles pricked across my skin cut with shattered bone and shrapnel every breath i took was harder than the last [Music] there was no one else in these woods there was no one around to help i was going to die here next to me i could see you coughing up blood your arms were embedded with broken glass i asked you why you did it there was no point after all now we were both going to die with no one around to find our bodies you gave me a right smile as my vision had figured the black you spoke with a voice like gravel and serrated teeth you told me that you couldn't help it it was in your nature and one nature also known as an extremely fast bad end just exist and you just die that's it nature's scary let me tell you a story great we're the cat on the box my name's not important never liked it much anyway it's manly badass hero by the way subscribe today i was driving the night to visit a friend on the other side of the mountains yeah it seems like it's pretty much the same dialogue i'll read it anyways assuming it's pretty short i never met them in person before but they needed my help that was all that mattered this place really was out of the middle of nowhere though not a sign of civilization to be seen i was missing off the radio when i saw you a scrawny thing in dirty clothes sticking your thumb out so why can't i no you can't even save the game i guess because it's so quick plus i don't have a choice here i decide to stop so i decide to stop i'm assuming you need to die more before i just you know like stop stopping stop it what the hell you know i felt bad for you maybe you really needed the help i don't think i could have lived with myself if i abandoned someone in a bad spot so i flashed my headlights and pulled over beside you as soon as i got out of the car i could tell i made the right call no well no we actually see your face this time not sure that's better or not you click shut the knees of your pants were all scuffed and your whole body was smudged with dirt you needed help badly hey you all right where are you headed you looked at me with a blank stare as if i was saying nothing but meaningless noise i signed and took a step forward you eyed me waringly look you need a ride right if i'm taking you somewhere then can you at least give me a direction you seem to consider this for a while you ran your fingernails up and down your arms as if you were scratching at something after a bit you finally looked me at me in the eyes you i'm not really comfortable that naming perspective it's making me a little weirded out [Music] is there a town nearby i could tell just by listening to you that you desperately need a drink unfortunately i didn't think the empty soda sitting in my cup holder would cut it nearby uh not for a while yet but there should be a gas station in the next exit about a 20 minute drive or so you chewed your lip in silence do you want me to take you there you nodded slowly please so i stepped back towards the car and opened the door to the backseat passenger side where did we take you in last time it's passenger side right back seat so i open the door the back seat they're safe and sorry you stared at me for only a moment before climbing inside hey what seatbelt and no response i turned around to my seat and pointed at the belt buckle put it on i'm not moving this car until you do you blinked at me slowly before pulling on the seat belt you examined it like it was a foreign object as you cross it over your waist and hooked it into the buckle with a sigh i turned back towards the wheel and started up the engine the radio still wasn't working it was really starting to piss me off i guess there wasn't much signal that far out and all the while you hardly made a sound it was like you weren't even there we drove for miles endless stretches of the same road the same trees the same dark expanse for all we knew we could have been driving in place things started getting blurry my eyelids were heavy from the wheat of all the hours in the road i didn't want to risk falling asleep with the wheel so i went ahead and down the last of my energy drink it was long since flat the sugar and gunk and artificial flavors all stuck to my teeth gross still nothing from the back seat i adjusted my rear view so i could get a look at what you were up to i could barely see a thing my throat closed up what i've been thinking letting you into my car i had no idea who you were what you wanted or what you were capable of for all i knew you could be hiding my body in a highway ditch somewhere by the morning yep you're just a total stranger how far were we to somewhere safe if something happened would anyone come to help and as these thoughts swarmed my head i heard you moving around in the back seat my chest felt tight as panic surge inside of me i swore that i could feel your breath in my neck were you about to kill me i had to do something now so i spoke up my mouth suddenly felt very dry with a deep breath i spoke what do you think you're doing and almost as soon as the words left my mouth ah your arms were after my chest from behind and something cold and sharp press against my neck i am merely taking precautionary measures [Music] i grabbed the steering wheel like it was my last chance blood roared in my head one flinch one speed bump that's all it would take for the stranger to slit my throat as i swallowed my skin sank a bit deeper into the blade how how so simple you could stop this car and kill me at any time or drop me off somewhere erotic captivity if you so wished you could even crash this car and watch me burn safe behind an airbag yeah now didn't seem like the best time to mention that i took the airbags out of this thing years ago but this way you cannot kill me without killing yourself and in turn i cannot kill you without killing myself either thus you're even does that make sense you waited for an answer you have a point or maybe a bit of a sharp wet i wrap my brain for any good answers and i came up empty i couldn't really argue with that now could i aside try not to think about how close i was to dying at any moment as i drove i admit it you do have a point there but uh what happens when we make it to the gas station hmm you know what keep you from killing me as soon as i stop the car you huffed i have no reason to all i need is the ride sure i guess but why should i believe that you weren't referring to kill me at all you would just have to trust me trust you huh well we're strangers yeah i don't know a thing about you trust me was a pretty big ask so can i really afford to do that if i stop this car i'd be throwing with the only leverage i have against you right now then with that same logic if i take away this blade i'll be making the same foolish mistake we sat there in silence i guess we're at stand still then are we your fingernails dug into my shoulder the scalpel nicking in my skin i suppose we are and four stand still this time let me tell you a story so now we have more options i'm going to skip through that initial opening dialogue it's kind of atmospheric to read every time but eventually i'll get tired of it i decide to stop rather go for the options oh wait there's something new here i can't was completely empty i made so sure i started something left when i drink it and i've forgotten somehow i tried to shake the weird sense of deja vu for my head and keep my eyes on the road so there is differences are these subtle ones still looking for my back seat i just in my rear view so i can look at what you're up to you can barely see a thing real close to up when i've been thinking you're just a total stranger before we start them are safe so nothing different was the drink thing because we drank it in the other route hit the brakes i couldn't take it anymore i need you out my car now without hesitation and warning i veered off towards the side of the road and hit the brakes except i didn't catch a tree in time my legs weren't moving my arms were neither my body didn't do anything i told it to like in a dream or a nightmare my head was pounding all i could do was breathe and that was getting harder by the second it hurt but eventually the pain all blended together like white noise dull comforting needles pricked across my skin a couple of shattered bone and shrapnel there was no one else in these woods there was no one around the help i was going to die here i had to turn my head to the side just enough to see you lying in a crumpled heap you were face down blood pulling out from under your head you weren't moving this was the end for both of us so i closed my eyes [Music] you were going to kill me anyway i just knew it somehow a random stream down the middle of nowhere all filthy acting weird asking for a ride of course you had to be a killer or some kind of bad person at least anyone else would have done the same this was the only way things could have ended i did what i had to do in self-defense yeah that was it self-defense my breath shook i did what i had to do right and two self-defense notice this does really make you think can in the box notice the the clock i think the clock is moving [Music] maybe based on the endings we unlock this time let me tell you a story so speak up route rather than the slam on the brakes i'm wondering if the stranger is also experiencing deja vu looping hence why they seem like they're not well traditional murderer they're kind of also paranoid let's skip ahead because they make well i'll just point out before as i'm skipping ahead here is that uh they make a mention like you could stop the cars this is about this so i'm wondering mechanically if the self-defense ending occurred earlier that doesn't make any sense at all i couldn't help it my temper flared like hell that makes sense the [ __ ] you even talking about why would i do something like that right after stopping to help you out i'd imagine risk getting killed myself i was just trying to show you a bit of kindness that's all i took a second to catch my breath i wasn't even sure where all that came from you were waiting patiently for me to finish after a few moments you spoke again kindness you say yeah heard of it you ever consider that maybe just maybe all i wanted was to be nice and a fat lot of good that did me now you're fretting to kill me for it i felt your fingers wrap against my shoulder in a steady rhythm you took a while to respond this time we are strangers are we not just as you had once told me strangers have absolutely no reason to trust each other such as why you led me to the seat rather than the one beside you you did not trust me enough to be close to you it was a wise decision i would have done the same and yet despite being told strangers you offered to drive me out of the forest now why might that be you had no way of knowing that i possessed a blade no indication i could possibly be a threat to you for all that you could tell i was completely utterly defenseless and even now i cannot help to kill you if i kill myself as well you lean forward your lips ghosted right against my ear from the very beginning i have been at your mercy now is this what you would call kindness i couldn't bring myself to speak you clicked your tongue well then if so then you're just as bad as i am aren't you oh no okay kinship and flurry going back in it hurts let me tell you a story for some reason i'm also thinking of uh it was on the ps3 it was l should i the opening about the whole like it had like a weird loop it wasn't like a hard loop mechanic but if you died it would kind of reverse back like prince of persia if i remember correctly i kept driving so i kept running on driving like hell i was falling for that i strange right in the middle bum [ __ ] nowhere asking for a lift are you kidding call me superstitious but that sounds like the beginning of a ghost story or a horror game i sure wasn't planning on dying anytime soon i still fold your eyes at me as i spit past you all the way down the road i never saw you again and five common sense nice ooh what you just never learned do you one more time let me tell you a story passenger side so open door to the passenger side you seemed harmless enough and there was no point in being rude you didn't move uh everything okay still nothing i figured you were just nervous i didn't blame you this was a pretty weird situation then knows you were mumbling something under your breath not the hey no worries it was too much okay if you want i can always call police station nearby and i no i refuse to so quick i have to take a second to even register it uh you sure [Music] must have struck a nerve without another word you brushed past me and slid inside i tried to give your shoulder reassuring pad as you got in as reassuring as i could manage anyway you almost hit your head on the roof when my hand made contact hey what seatbelt no response i glanced over my shoulder pointing the belt buckle same dialogue i caught you staring at me at the outer corner of my eye but as soon as i noticed you turned back towards the window i need something more substantial to keep me awake music would have been fine but the radio still refused to cooperate what to do oh right as i heard you shuffling around your seat i realized that some friendly conversation could definitely keep me up i hardly knew anything about you after all i'm just a tall stranger no harm in breaking the ice right so i glanced over towards you and spoke hey so what oh my god did you just murder me again i managed to see your scalpel seconds before it went straight from my eye dang it the next thing i knew we were both crashing through the windshield a tree or was it a boulder maybe i couldn't tell as soon as my vision went red the wheels slipped out of my fingers and we crashed straight into something my head was pounding the muck that was my left left of my eye leaked down my chin the only thing that kept me from passing out was the pain needles prickled across my skin cut with shattered bone and shrapnel every breath i took was harder than the last there was no one else in these woods there was no one around the help i was going to die here next to me i heard you yelp in pain through the blood i saw your leg twisted in ways it never should be this was the end for both of us but instead of screaming crying begging for my life all i could feel it was anger my mouth started moving before my thoughts could what the [ __ ] is wrong with you every word tasted like iron because of this because of you now we're both dead even with my side melting away i felt your eyes pouring into me is that is this what you wanted your head told to that i'm thinking there was no lulled yeah lulled to the side as you choked and gassed whipping their mouth on your arm the veins in your neck bones i could see it them clearly now i want to wrap my hands around your throat and squeeze more than i've won anything else in my entire life no then why i pounced on your response like a rabid animal i had to know i deserved to i heard your nails scrape across the gravel hair curtain in your face oh what you cleared your throat and tried again your voice was thick of blood whose fault is this answer me whose fault ye who is the flame for sending it the one to blame is me [Music] clardy struck me then almost as quickly as the anger had as ridiculous as it sounded as much as i really believed in myself me pardon you sounded just as surprised as i felt but the longer i found about the more it made sense if i hadn't stopped i hadn't picked you up or given you a left this wouldn't have happened just being squeezed out of my chest i couldn't tell if it was from the impact or something else how do you figure somehow it felt like you were speaking much clearer all of a sudden i didn't dwell on for too long i should have should have known better don't don't trust strangers and all that right i want to laugh but it hurt too much to even try so i should have known better someone like you how else could this have ended all that frustration all that blind anger desperation and bitterness that i had felt all i could feel now was regret regret that had to end this way i didn't realize how much time had passed until you spoke again it's not your fault what i creamed my neck as best as i could to catch a glimpse of you how the eye had left it looked like movement from where you'd been like you were standing up or something but that was impossible right you couldn't help it you spoke so softly as if you were trying to comfort me something pressed against my hair something warm like someone was petting my hand you sighed you just couldn't help it because it's your nature interesting the nature thing and sex bitterness they were at six o'clock not like that let me tell you a story my windshield got cracked somehow it was no big deal a car wasn't so much bigger days but one little crack wouldn't do any more harm even though i didn't remember having it that's new i was missing on the radio when i saw you this is old so i have another fury so i the other thing of course was i mentioned that the other person could be a looper also or they are the looper and we're not is that the reason they're kind of scuffed up is that they go through the accident survive it and then they loop back here and they're trying to prevent the accident but they've gone to the point where they're doing in like very desperate ways like with a scalpel and stuff it might have been just a normal accident before both of us i for some reason i remembered something something that hadn't happened yet or was it something that was never meant to happen at all my head spun the answer left my mouth wasn't the one either of us had been expecting we're both to blame i beg your pardon you sound so off guard like you've forgotten that you were supposed to be in pain like this was all just some big play and i said something that wasn't in the script i couldn't even remember why i had been angry in the first place i was the one who stopped i was the one who created this whole this whole situation and you you escalated things got us to this point even if i was the one that crashed the car even if you were the one that tried to kill me without both of our actions combined we wouldn't be here i couldn't tell how much sense all that actually made i was losing too much blood too quickly all i could feel was this overwhelming desire to rest rest until it all didn't hurt so much anymore my good eye closed while he ever flooded and stung i heard you moving i think moving like you were standing up but for some reason i didn't find that strange at all like i'd seen you do it before and that's when i heard you [Music] you were laughing laughing like you'd never done it before laughing in that way to sound more like an imitation rather than the real thing all along you wheeze the hiccup engulfed all along the plane was split how could i have missed it my head was spinning again it was getting hard to understand what you were saying much less what you meant by all of it all along we were beings of conflicting natures one of self-sabotage a one of self-preservation so naturally we clashed now we are here you sighed catching a breath your voice was still trembling from laughter how wonderful do you think it must be the be thoughtless bereft of consciousness and reason how wonderful to live one's life about conflict and thoughts without regret you choked funding for error were you laughing again i suppose that must truly be the nature of bad people yes not that they are completely devoid of good intentions and thoughts but that they have such thoughts and choose to ignore them anyway n7 thoughtless okay so yeah i think the passenger is the actual looper probably we're just along for the ride but something has been twisted because of [Music] that this time let me tell you a story [Music] you you obviously you stab me in the [ __ ] eye but possible i gotten too early i had to think it's gonna wheeze feeling my lungs thing what possible reason could you have had none i stuck in my tracks malfunctioned like a dead fish what there was no reason no reason at all because it was not a reasonable thing to do somehow it felt like you were speaking much clearer all of a sudden and i saw a movement in your direction were you standing up i did it because i am a bad person that's all there is to it i couldn't keep the eye and left open any longer even as my mind raced i felt someone knew right next to me a creeping heat that sent goosebumps running up my neck because for people like me i heard the smile on your voice it's in my nature so it's a variation of n1 it's gonna learn do you [Music] again again again and again and again as many times as it takes no matter how long no matter how far i mean how much i had to suffer how many times i've rolled back because i need to keep going because i need to keep running it because i need to escape this endless cycle there first okay can bend on left so we can go back to time now the only way from here was i feel like we are the the stranger the passenger now run forward my shoes were fitting at this point the soles couldn't take much more of the same rocks the same twigs the same scare of debris just never one of the things i had to let stick around each time as obnoxious as it was if i wasted my energy rolling back every single detail i'd be dead by now it just wasn't worth it if i wasted my energy rolling back every single detail i'd be dead by now it just wasn't worth it if i wasted my energy rolling back every single detail i'd be dead by now it just wasn't worth it so i sell for letting a few things slip through the cracks and i didn't have much stamina left as it was exhaustion weighted my every step leaving me lagging behind already two and a half seconds slower to this landmark i was running out time third bed second stop only one option run so i kept running it as long as i kept moving as long as i kept running i'd make it eventually right even if all i was doing was running in place my lungs burn i could not run her forever i knew that much i'm not stupid but i didn't have much of a choice anymore i got too far for her liking she'd pull the rain on my reins that dragged me all the way back kicking and screaming not this time this time this time i'd make it whatever this time would actually be my muscles scream my breath sharp stinging i put down my arm it kept me going distracted from the ink panes like an inch that way if you ignored it it would only get worse scratch it and you get relief if only for a little while next spin ape stump run it yeah that was it keep running keep running keep surviving make it across the road and no no no no no no no no no no no no not again none again [ __ ] how could i have been so stupid the road the road i had to wait for the car on the road yeah so yes we are playing now as the passenger so we're seeing so yeah it looks like they are the looper the driver is a victim part of the loop and we just got hit by the car because we ran into the road but what's the her who are we dealing what's what's causing us to loop there's a lot of mysteries here so this also makes sense why not mention about the perspective thing where it said you and then me it's instead of saying me and you and i'm like hmm i could almost hear his voice and muffled distant as he stumbled out of his car towards what was left in my body with the blood clunk of my ears his words were lost on me i felt his hands grip my shoulders trying to shake me awake not that it mattered what he said anyway there was no chance i'd sell for this ending even if my body was broken and bleeding i could just roll back and everything would sell into place again like it never happened at all same as it ever was so i willed myself to roll back why wasn't it working was i doing something wrong all i need to do is roll back all the way until that choice i made the one that got me killed again then i could do it right this time i could do better so i willed myself to roll back why wasn't working was doing something wrong almost there fervor fervor forever keep going keep going almost there fervor forever forever keep going keep going keep going almost there yeah here we go [Music] just like that i watched the world retweet back through time like a not coming undone and then he melted back into the safety of his car everything as it should be perfectly balanced what huh what what was that didn't happen last time right just a hitch maybe then if i oh i was back here i definitely hadn't been found not that quickly this was a different type of hitch then punishment for rolling back too much i suppose bargained too much of the past and eventually a pass comes to collect if i waited i'd eventually end up where i was supposed to be but that meant dealing with her even my own memories her presence put me on edge i sat on the edge of my own cot and her on the fooling chair across the room then this was one of our sessions together way back then or whenever [Music] again number eight i know you can do better this time training sessions that is my vision throbbed behind my skull my nostrils thick with a stench of copper my nose was bleeding again i decided not to deviate from the script i can't it hurts my voice was small so small so fragile and useless i sound like a child and i hated it i wanted to hear that weakness right out of my throat i know i know i know it hurts but you need to try again okay number eight just one more time and then you can rest as long as you'd like really my blood boiled do you promise i promise liar liar liar liar now one more time find out what's on the other side of this card and then roll back and tell me what it is before i show it to you do you understand so i guess hmm this looks like you were part of some weird facility experiment my nails dug into my arms as she smoked there was an eight or something on our uh jacket or something right yes ma'am hide the car would be passing by on the road any second now if i ran i'd get hit so i caught myself on a nearby tree and crouched down into the brush but i always came to the same inevitable conclusion i couldn't keep going like this my legs hurt my stomach grown my eyelids paid for rest i knew how this worked i'd seen the movies the movies i was allowed to watch in any case i grew up towards the side of the road and stuck my thumb out just like i remembered but in the movies someone always winds up dead by the end right i didn't know what the other choice i had my scalpel hung heavy against my thigh the one thing i've been able to take with me the one thing that kept me alive then the scalpel makes sense too because you know they're like a medical facility of some kind for x-men apparently or maybe that's where they're keeping our cure there had to be a better ending to this there had to be i wasn't going to give up no matter what it took so he flashed his headlights and pulled over right alongside me as soon as he came out of the car i knew something wasn't right he was too quick about too eager the door shut just a little too loudly i knew i knew i just knew he must have remembered he remembered and he was angry he was about to hurt me and kill me and something back and lead me to rotten and then he stepped forward close close too close he was too close close enough to grab close enough to choke close enough to kill close enough to hold and squeeze inside and whisper to tell me how much you didn't really mean it close enough to a stab did we just stab him early my scalpel sank into his side he gave so easily like dough parting around my finger but it wasn't enough he pinned me to the ground my scalpel was still stuck inside him but this time it hadn't been fatal he twisted my arm behind my back farther farther farver i heard something snap i screamed into the dirt tears blinding at the edge of my eyes as my arm wouldn't limp in his grasp it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts make it stop make it stop please make it stop hissing from my teeth i squeezed my eyes shut i had to go back i had to i couldn't lean in like this i knew it was scary i knew it would hurt the field break again but i didn't have a choice not anymore all it would take was a quick rewind i had to go back forever keep going i need to go back forever forever keep going if i keep going i can stop this before it happens just keep going even if it hurts even the pain feels absolutely unbearable i really like this touch by the way it took every ounce of me to stay focused as i live through the pain all over again shut it's a little fervent i'd be free now open me to the ground and again but why was i really running that low she warned me once said if i rolled back too much i'd tear myself apart but part of me hoped that was just another one of her lies in that case i knew i had to do whatever i could to find my better ending as quickly as possible no matter the cost i took a deep breath and waited for the memory to end no not this one anything with this one i was trying to hide underneath my cot but there was no point she saw everything i hugged my knees to my chest as the door burst open i heard her heels when she walked in two sets of boots found her security guards i tried to be quiet i tried to be still i tried to be invisible but didn't work of course i always went up right back here right back in this horrible limbo a cycle that never ends the guards pulled me out from under the cop by my ankles and slammed me against the wall my arms pinned i struggled i squirmed and bit and screamed and get nothing worked she stood between them her eyes pouring into mine [Music] i couldn't look away even if i tried you know why you're in trouble don't you number eight i bit my tongue to keep myself from answering impulse i think you do [Music] i heard that you tried to run away again last night number eight the boys told me that you were quite the troublemaker that you injured three of them when they brought you back home they say you even roped a civilian into your antics apparently you convinced some poor old woman to hide you from us is this all true number eight tasted copper again it's your fault oh you killed her she she was only trying to help and you killed her for it [Music] is that right yet you're perfectly aware of what we're capable of are you not you know how much we how much i care about you and you know how far we go to bring you back safely to us yet even so knowing all this you still put that woman in harm's way this woman you believe to be so innocent did you ever consider her safety number eight or were you content to use her for your own selfish ends stop it we didn't kill her number eight you did she cut my chin her father stroking my cheek you're not a good person number eight you never have been you're a weapon a tool a killer and nothing more don't forget it it's in your nature the woman you met knew that that's why we found chloroform in her coat pockets i didn't want to hear this anymore i am the only one who loves you for what you are number eight i don't want to be here anymore you know better now than to try and leave me again don't you no more no more no more no more no more don't you number eight no more breathe i was out back to before he left the car but that was fine i remember something something important i remember when i felt so wrong last time i focused trying to click my thoughts he was just you you came out of the car right on schedule something was still off that smile of yours usually was the first thing i saw the last two sometimes but this time it was nowhere to be found as much as it put me on edge seeing you without it somehow felt even worse hey you all right where you headed like clockwork the same words the same can dance the same ending can i do to make things differently and end differently this time i was resisting not only what fate had in store for me not only whatever your intentions were but in the end my very own nature what do you do when you're the one stacking the odds against yourself you step closer but i expect it this time not that it helps my throat closes up when you approach an involuntary response survival instincts look you need a ride right so round and round it goes if i'm taking you somewhere then you can at least give me a direction anywhere but here but no i couldn't say that i couldn't give too much away i picked up the bite marks my arm forcing myself to breathe again deep breaths focus do better this time i measure gaze and on and willed my voice to stay even stable stick to the script is there a town nearby and there was that smile almost as soon as the words left my mouth your expression shifted i could never get a read on you no matter how many times i've rolled back nearby hmm not for a while yet i don't think i tapped a finger on the inside of my palm trying to be patient next it was there should be a but there should be a gas station the next exit about 20 minute drive or so i suck my teeth into my lip only minor deviant says so far would it be enough do you want me to take you there nod i nodded the lump on my foot wouldn't go away no matter how hard i tried to swallow please you returned my nod ever so slightly but you were still smiling always with a smile on it did you even notice you were doing it before i could stop you your hand made contact with my shoulder it took any semblance of self-control i had that left they keep from pushing you away and taking out my scalpel you padded me twice and turned back towards the car i watch you closely making sure you open the right door [Music] back seat good my shoulders relaxed ever so slightly i didn't like it when you were too friendly too trusting made me nervous i'd already seen a lifetime's work for you but even so i couldn't risk trusting you back i had no idea who you really were after all you coming on the truth my scalpel felt cold pressing against my skin as i climbed inside see in the context of they're trying to escape security guards and whatever that's chasing them down and agents i could see why they would be more paranoid now that the ultimate person is picking up in the middle of nowhere this is just the facility coming and bringing me back basically you know what i mean the smell wasn't any better this time around like the bomb an old ash tray hey my brow furrowed what seatbelt oh right for some reason it slipped my mind every single time hard to think about road safety when i knew you could send me this car hurling in the next street at any moment no seat belt was going to help me there put on i'm not moving this car until you do whatever i crossed over my chest and tugged into the buckle about another word one time back when i still wasn't sure what it was i'd ask for you what seat belts were for you started asking me a whole lot of questions after that once i didn't like too much it didn't end well that was about the time i realized that you couldn't know the truth not even pieces of it people didn't take too well when they found ticking time bombs in their car eternity known to the edge of my mind a limbo of my own making miles past behind us the same road the same trees the same dark expanse my nails dug into my arms it was like torture waiting to see what this loop would have in store over here for me will we crash never friend made me would you try to turn me into the police what was it that i had to do to get the right ending this time how long would it take until i was free how many times would my nature get the better of me what was i doing wrong my eyes stung you moved you weren't supposed to do that you only shift in your seat like that when you were suspicious of me i glanced up and the drink was gone not right not right not right not right at all i'd left that hedge behind ages ago more trouble than it was worth so you were supposed to realize it was empty when you picked it up and take a step and then go back to driving like normal but your cup holder was empty in it wasn't right not right at all had you realized did i get something wrong did i make it too obvious and i left too many hitches behind did you remember everything were you just playing along so you get me back in your car and from the right moment to kill me or send me back to her how much longer how much longer until i died again how much longer until they colored me and locked me away for good how much longer until the windshield shattered into pieces across my chest how much longer until hey oh god you knew you knew you knew my scalpel was my hands already i do remember how it got there so i've been asked what's got you hitchhiking like this anyway what are you looking to find in town were you taunting me you had to know already you had to you waited for me for my answer what was i looking for a better ending [Music] i'm looking for a bear ending i knew there was one still out there for me i knew it all i had to do was find it earn it there was no way that everything i'd been through was for nothing a bear ending and into what this game everything that too i found the edge of my scalpel i don't think i catch your meaning you have no need to is none of your business i heard you snort it kind of is you're my car you know you're not planning on doing something dangerous are you the blade stung in my flesh and if i was i didn't wait for an answer this path was already a lost cause [Music] you must have figured it out already but i wouldn't be so careless the next time before you realize what i truly was before you lost control the wheel i drove my scalpel into the back of your seat and i prepared myself to start again and eight denial is this is this really the ending that i want okay we did roll back let's get a different ending a way out i'm looking for a way out when i tried to tell you a truth before your reaction had always been less than favorable but maybe if i approached things differently you'd understand this diamond a way out that sounds pretty serious are you on the run or something do you need to find someplace i can help you i did not think that a place capable of helping me exist the ones who are looking for me they can be very persistent you sailed scratching the back of your neck wow buddy that's pretty uh intense you sure you shouldn't try talking to the authorities or something absolutely not even then there are shelters and safe houses for people like you i think they'd help you out a lot more than i could no but you could get a proper pla no the car went silent it wasn't fair everything has just said just sin would be a perfectly reasonable suggestion and in every situation but they didn't apply to me they couldn't it just wasn't fair it wasn't for the my better ending that my real life remained forever outside my reach taunting me hung at the edge of a fishhawk it didn't take long until i heard you dialing something on your phone however spotty a signal may have been i knew it was too late hello this is the runway safe line i sighed you never listened and i couldn't have anyone else knowing about me so took your next words back before they even left your mouth and date anger is this is this really the ending that i want no it's not i first start i am looking for a fresh start it was difficult a part of me wanted to hope to hope that life could be different to hope that i could find something worth living for in the first place hey that's exciting not every day you get the chance to start from scratch any big plans for your grand debut what do you mean nothing particular just like new things you'd want to try new experiences that sort of thing you only live once and all that unless you're a time looper my chest hurt uh hey you good there buddy sorry i didn't mean to pry or anything i fought and fought and fought but in the end i couldn't come up with one single thing that i wanted to do with my life i had nobody waiting for me nothing to look forward to nowhere to go i was alone unwanted why was i here in the first place you're a weapon a tool or a killer was that really all i was good for something to be used for someone else's personal gain a mindless weapon buddy the scalpel's handle stood sweetly in between my fingers oh hey what you doing back there if death and violence were truly all i could have in this life then maybe just maybe i could take them down with me and eight bargaining is this just really the ending that i want no it's not a chance for revenge i am looking for payback against the ones who deserve it i didn't care what i said anymore i'd have to roll back again anyway there was no point i gripped my scalp on both of my hands and took a deep breath so then i was right about you huh what you leaned over in your seat swerve to the side i saw the tree i saw the steering wheel spin free from your grip i saw the branch heading straight for the window i seen it all so many times before i already knew how this ending went but even then knowing what i did i never seen that look on your face before even when you blame me for our deaths even in the moments before i'd killed you i'd never seen that pure unaltered hatred you had when you thought i would hurt someone else being looked at like that you made me feel so empty it stuck there my mind even as i watched the rest of time melt away in front of me end date depression is this is this really the ending that i want no it's not [Music] nothing nothing really nothing i hugged my knees to my chest trying to keep my voice even thank god you couldn't see my face from the front seat nothing at all i'm only passing through is that right i'm in the same boat actually good luck with the rest of your travels yeah hitchhiking ain't easy i will keep that in mind and you kept on driving without a care in the world i inhaled my breath shaking nothing that was all that was waiting for me at the end of this road wasn't it just nothing no matter how hard i tried through how many times i rolled back nothing i did would change my ending time is a circle and i was going to keep following this through the cycle for eternity there was nothing i could do nothing and eight acceptance [Music] i don't want to end like this where was i oh right i was driving from the mountains that night to visit someone on the other side a friend in line a couple months ago never saw in person though obviously that would win the surprise after all and tap my fingers against the steering wheel this area was definitely rustic small towns small people small problems made things easier i didn't bother messing with the radio any further and long since giving up the ghost i ran my thumb over the cross of my neck thinking planning and then i remembered something something important it was something that never happened before but it was a memory nonetheless funny how that works huh and that's when i saw you a scrawny thing and dirty clothes on the side of the road sticking your thumb out someone who needed help so why i kept driving no i just had to stop so i decided to stop i couldn't very well abandon you could i but that strange little memory tugged at my back in my hand selected the compromise i flashed my headlights and pulled over a little further down the road from you i went straight to the trunk as i got out and grabbed some essentials for my bag phone first aid that sort of thing even it was nothing i figured there was no harm in being prepared what's that saying again i stopped clock is right twice a day or something i close the trunk and start heading down in your direction i got the chance to look at the stars as i walked the sky was gorgeous at night no light pollution or big ugly buildings to muck things up i could see the stars the way the lord intended it helped me think i figured i could hang around this area for a while once i was done with my visit the air could do me some good when i got close enough i wave you down to get your attention you seem nervous i didn't blame you hands in my pockets i approached you with a smile on my face it just didn't feel right not to have one as soon as i saw you i knew i made the right decision you were a sorry sign like you've been wandering these woods for days alone frightening desperate poor thing you need help badly hey you all right where you headed no response it even looked me in the eyes like you knew something that i didn't i took a step forward you didn't even flinch take as long as you need okay no rush just tell me when you're ready now that got your attention you hide me warmly as if looking for something i wondered what you thought you would find you need to ride right just give me a direction and i could take you there still nothing you look like you were struggling with something only god knew what was going on that head of yours but i waited patiently as long as you needed it it's not like i was going much of anywhere you ran your fingernails up and down your arms as if you were scratching on something and then you finally met my gaze it's our town nearby your voice was parts from first you sound like you were two steps from passing out no wonder you need my help not for a while yet unfortunately i wasn't too keen on the idea of bringing someone who knew my face along with me during my visit besides it wasn't really a lie the lord would forgive me but there should be a gas station the next exit about a 20 minute drive or so i could take you there if you like another pass this thing was really getting to you life would be so much easier people just open with their problems easier to help that way but patience is a virtue i knew i'd learned the truth eventually i always did please so polite the way you spoke me is done like you were trying to impress somebody even though i knew you didn't have a lick of trust in me poor thing my car's over there you're good for a short walk i never nod not much hesitation this time were you already warming up to me how cute but not enough to walk ahead of me i figured so i took the lead as we made our way back i pressed a kiss to my cross when you weren't looking uh the stars were still so lovely tonight i almost got lost in them the steadiest sound of your footsteps alongside mine kept me on track i wonder if you realize how loudly you were leaving how long until you decide to make the first move how long until that distrust of yours got the better of you i was ready to let it happen i want you to have your moment patience as always we just made it to the car when you finally jumped me [Music] pinned up against the door to the driver's seat with your scalpel in my neck well they had been your plan anyway but i remembered something that never happened before and now my fingers closed around your trembling wrist as you strained trying so desperately to drive the blade into my flesh you were too exhausted to use your full strength so i watch you struggle in vain what do you think you're doing your teeth ground against each other so determined to see this through is that any way to repay a stranger's kindness i tied my grip my nails digging into bone and fragile skin you hissed face scrunched up in pain it was all the distraction i needed the sight of the car grown as i slammed your weight into it my hand was cotton fistfuls of your hair you hung limpy from my grasp like a doll the scalpel slipped out from your fingertips your eyes twitched from the side of your face and made an impact with a sigh i tossed you back into the ground you struggled to sin off i kicked the scalp under the car no time for silly things like that anymore ah you were still trying to fight teeth beard pulling yourself up to your knees we couldn't have that now could we so i pulled my gun out of my pocket it needed right out of your head you froze eyes wide as ever look at you in the headlights so we had a gun all along poor thing you really hadn't expected this at all had you that's enough sit down to my surprise you complied river quickly it's like all the fighting you just vanished all it took was a little tough love huh there you go feeling better now your eyes stayed locked on the end of the barrel care tell me why you decided to stab me in the back i kept my voice even gentle no sense of losing my temper or anything you swallowed it i could see your lip trembling you glanced down the ground beneath the car someone was getting ideas i flipped aside the gun with my other hand you're still on the trigger you jumped at the sound eyes up here buddy let's try again shall we why were you trying to kill me you inhaled sharply please ah so you finally found that voice of yours what was that i gestured heard the end of the gun your chest rose and fell shaking like a leaf please please don't kill me you sound like you were about to cry but that didn't exactly answer my question now did it one more time think carefully all right come on now answer the question patience is a virtue i had so little but left i can't exactly help those who refuse to be held can i you didn't hold back this time the words spilled out of you ugly and messy and everywhere like a man at a confessional i i don't know i was just scared and i scared i hummed so then you acted on instinct you nodded furiously i i could help it so i shh you went sound immediately just one more question for me one more now set you free your eyes wide enough one more okay think carefully i tilted my head beating your eyes are you a bad person you didn't respond you want to go free don't you answer me then are you a bad person you stammer uselessly i i don't know i understand what you're you're not sure you aren't are you [Music] you aren't are you your brow furrowed i smile it's all right i can tell bad people they'll just come pumping out the ground you see evil is made raised the world just pushes and pushes and pushes and sooner or later you start to push back seems reasonable doesn't it you didn't say a word but you didn't have to so how'd you get to this point and just how far did this world push you i gradually meet you at eye level watching those eyes of yours start to water you must have been through so much so much to think that this was your only option but it never ends does it matter how hard you try no matter how hard you push back you're always left with the pain and never ever leaves your tears turned all the way down to your chin an endless cycle exactly round and round it goes a life like that it's enough to break you you must be exhausted you nodded there was such relief in your face it's okay that's okay you don't have to go through all that anymore i forgive you the lord always forgives i wrapped an arm around your shoulder and you crumbled like a stack of cards you fell into me with your fists pulled up in my shirt went with tears and snot i held you as long as you needed kept you as close as i could deep breaths you can rest now you're free now i close my eyes smiling against your neck you'll never have to suffer again didn't even realize my gun was at your head until it was too late in nine my motives are complex [Music] what are you where was i all right this one i've been catfishing for about two months give or take a friend he didn't suspect a thing post the right pictures say the right lines and it's like watching mobs still flame look at this difference in dialogue here but whatever cozy lily evening had planned was the first thing from my mind i tapped my fingers against the steering wheel this area was definitely rustic small towns small people small problems it made things easier i didn't bother messing with the radio any further and long since giving up the ghost i'm wondering so was number eight right to not trust us because i feel like we're like a nod to the there was a game it never came out in the end but i remember it was the it was the the car game where you like get picked up by a priest and you had like not get killed i almost wonder if like this is like a nod to that it feels like that cliche right i ran my phone with across my neck thinking planning then i remembered something something important oh and my gun too of course god gave predators claws for defending themselves whiff then god gave humans a sense of justice and glock to see it through i slept in my coat pocket safe and sound even it was nothing i figured it was no harm in being prepared what's that saying again a stop clock is right twice a day or something as my pockets finger triggers i approached you i just didn't feel right not to have one with a smile on my face so from his perspective we yeah we look pretty creepy had to mention that pretty nasty looking shiner to show fort now where'd you get something like that from is that something new you didn't have like a an eye like that before that for when you get hit by the car alone friend desperate poor thing you need help badly you knew something i didn't took a step forward in a flinch take as long as you need okay no rush now that got your attention your eyes were merely what you thought you would find [Music] so now you know i have a gun now what do you do [Music] and a gun and scared you already shame on me eyes fill in my pocket for just a moment doubt [ __ ] from my hand but let go of that weakness when you naught it just looking back a few steps to give me a wide berth to the leaves we fall into the car and letting you trail behind me are you a bad person you didn't respond i think you are i think you are one quick shot to the five nothing serious manu just not to keep you from causing any more trouble you yelled like a dog and collapsed clutching your leg to your chest poor thing poor thing but it's all right i forgive you you know you sound like you're trying to say something the only the smallest whimper escaped your lips well maybe not at the moment but eventually i will by the time i join you all will be forgiven because he always forgives i bet on the gamer look at you now that you were more reasonable so sharp and scrawny it was a wonder that the wind didn't knock you over see god sent me to take care of people like you people who threaten the safety of his flock people who don't bring nothing good in this world and leave all sorts of nasty stuff behind i brush your hair off your eyes my fingers trailing across the bruise in your cheek you stare at me with such hatred on those eyes of yours people like me too give them a taste of their own medicine and whatnot karma maybe they caught you spit in my face i couldn't help but laugh i know i know this all doesn't make much sense to you right now does it usually i try not to mix work and personal business makes me simple that way but you before i saw you flagging me down i've been seeing things visions made me i saw your eyes whitening as i spoke things that hadn't happened yet things that weren't yet to be now i don't fancy myself a prophet or nothing but the lord's bending my ear who am i to ignore him and well buddy i rubbed my fist on a lock of your hair and pulled you up to look at me properly you've gone pale as a sheet i took the barrel into your chin and gave you a smile god wants you den ending 10 karma what are you where was i all right i was driving a friend but this is more new dialogue right because there was only so many creeps and widows that could find local dating sites fantastic came with a job less people like him in the world the better i tap my fingers against the steering wheel small town small people make things easier whoa what oh you were still standing you clutched your side where the blood hit pissing through your teeth your knees shook as you fought to stay upright blood soaking through your shirt you definitely weren't going anywhere anytime soon but didn't feel right to just leave you there besides i still had a job to do i'd received the vision i did for a reason down to the last detail you would drop me here too long already watch me suffer and squirm in any of your thumb but no longer no more of this things like you weren't meant to exist please stop you clawed at my leg as i pressed the end of the gun to your forehead you look like you're in so much pain so i granted you mercy so like is it the truth and we're seeing more of it about this character that's driving the car or is the timeline getting corrupted based on some of the alterations well end 11 break [Music] i can't let you near me where was i oh right i was running through mountains so on the other side a friend assuming i put my cards right he would expect a teenage girl from the suburbs on his doorstep sometime tomorrow night give me time i need to sign up let's go about the area places like these are just teaming with bogs that folks don't do much searching through if i made a clean i made it quick i have a day or two to sightsee before this bond is found and the jig is up it'd be nice to spend some time outside the house for once i miss stargazing you see how the dialogue changes now every time that's why i'm wondering i've forgotten something funny i shook the weird sense of deja vu for my head and kept my eyes on the road and that's when i saw you scrawny thing someone need my help are you all right wait before i could even blink you drove a scalpel straight through my stomach i filled my knees arms wrapped tight around my waist fighting to stop the bleeding you flipped the blood free from the blade is up towards me again but for some reason your hands were shaking you looked terrified don't your voice trembled eyes blown wide don't come near me again again i choked doing blood and power rise up in my throat my vision shook what what are you talking about i fell to the ground as a life dream for my body i never found out who you were or why you'd kill me you didn't even remember i i'm alive but i don't want to end like this and 12 obligation here we go let me tell you a story you need help badly this was the end for both of us you know why you're in trouble don't you number eight are you a bad person plus we're even does that make sense i insist no no no where was i and when was this the seventh loop the 18th the car crashed that much was obvious was this the one where i stabbed you first or the one where i tried to friend you i could remember or wait why couldn't i roll back past this point it wasn't working was i stuck again was this a memory it's a new kind of hitch or did i [Music] did i finally reached the end so then this was it my final loop the only ending i had left and i couldn't remember which one it was after all this time fate won out so my only option was to give up something was moving a sound off to my left oh it must have been you like i said you survived the impact this time were you still conscious then all i could do now was look ah i was alive just barely my breath was slow and even my cross tingled loosely from my neck even about looking up i already knew what had happened my car crashed we survived but not enough to save ourselves it was a miracle that we were still breathing at all and you you somehow somehow i knew you were connected to all this the memories of things that hadn't happened yet the weird sense of deja vu every time i looked you in the eyes the little coincidence and oddities that kept on piling up and how i knew we'd been through this before that we'd died before even though it seemed so impossible but we already had one miracle under our belt what was one more [Music] your eyes poured into mine red and bloodshot and weepy if this was how things were going to end anyway then i didn't have much else else to lose boy the sound was more of a croak than anything else like i hadn't had drinking wings i nudged your hand of my own trying to get your attention those eyes of yours i could never tell if you were actually looking at me or just straight through me for all i knew you kept the damn things open while you slept certainly wouldn't be the weirdest thing about you you blinked owlike malphong opening the way you do when you're off in your own little world i shift it in place flicking your wrist hey i have to point dexter you still with me now that got your attention you jolted as soon as my nail hit skin i never realized just how many scars you had in your hands alone for some of those bite marks i'm conscious i noticed not sure how long they have left though indeed he looked away never a good sign so i think i know the truth before i kick the bucket how how do you mean cut the crap you're not nearly as good as the liar as you think you are you huffed tell me what's really going on here the release i know to blame for it it's not that simple those things in life aren't tell me anyway you took your time rolling your lips between your teeth you are correct you deserve to know yet even so you swallowed for some reason looked real small in the sun even so could you could you do something for me in return i glanced up look a little nice touches see like the rollback reappears when we're on the other perspective because that's their power look of absolute bewilderment across your face i didn't blame you had already done so much and asked you never think of you as nothing short of selfish say at least i wouldn't forgive me either i mean it depends with a reason obviously that was already more than enough it is nothing major my gaze fell upon where your hand was touching mine callouses and rough skinhead underneath the worn lever glove the hand of a worker a little i knew about you even now i'm not the best at telling stories speaking in general is difficult but i do enjoy listening to them so once i'm finished can you tell me a story as well immature selfish stupid request i was everything i hated to be more with the world ending around me i want that indulgence sure to my surprise you answered on an ounce of hesitation like it was nothing but i'm warning you story telling exactly my forte either ain't too greedy to talk him too it gets the job done i couldn't resist the smell took in my lips it most certainly does [Music] i took a deep breath how much do you remember about tonight about me you clicked your tongue take a moment to respond let's see i remember you couldn't stop laughing even as you were dying actually i couldn't really tell if you were laughing or not in general i remember being you for the first time anything else well i remember trying to strike up a conversation one time but you wouldn't stand me right in the middle of it yep that's us this is some real creepy shite too and one other thing oh i remember you killing me as soon as i stepped down the car is that part stuck just like the blade i didn't mean anything at the time but when i now now know now you must have had a real good reason to be so scared didn't you i waited making sure you were finished before i spoke or procrastinate getting on with it more like everything that you've just told me did occur once in one timeline or another i remember everything every day every ending sometimes i've lost track of the details here and there but even as the world moves on without us i have kept you here looping again and again you sighed i figured something like that just like a genius to put two and two together how long has this been going on i am uncertain long enough that i cannot roll back any further days and download weeks perhaps at this point it's been more times you could possibly comprehend and i a some bubble in my throat before i can push it back down i squeeze my eyes shut i i can't keep going any longer my voice cracked and i couldn't bring myself to hold it all in as disgusting and shameful as useless that i felt i sobbed there into the dirt once reality came crashing down upon me all this all this time i tried to escape this stupid stupid cycle breaking out getting captured being punished trying to break out again over and over and over looking at my chest was acting like i'd never had before i sniffed whipping my nose on my sleeve i thought i really fought at this time would be for good that could escape and find some better ending but now now i'm just stuck in a whole other cycle and i've gone and roped you into a two depending on the the driver's character they're not exactly a good person and let loose i stopped trying to breathe properly again i felt revolting i i'm so sorry i'm so sorry you got straight into all this my fingers dug into the ground my nails scraping up all the dirt and loam and ash and filth they could find i wanted to scratch my arms instead so so badly but it hurt too much to move i could just sink my teeth in maybe i could dole the pain away just like usual and then i felt something your hand you were squeezing mine firm yet so gentle so i opened my eyes [Music] look let me tell you a story i said it so casually i had the finest possible idea what i was doing i didn't know i didn't care all i knew was that this was the end of everything and someone needed my help whatever pain you were going through however much you'd suffered i promised you a story with a happy ending and if god had abandoned me here then i sure as hell wasn't gonna do the same to you i took a deep breath and looked up at the stars this is a story about a scorpion the scorpion rides on the back over the water a scorpion with a big venomous stinger and scary looking claws one day the scorpion need to get across a wide open river but he couldn't swim obviously he wouldn't ask someone for help why do you need to get across the river who knows to get to the other side oh then who did the scorpion ask for help um turtle has a shell though how does appearance is a thing well i think isn't it the story is a turtle yeah i forget now it's one of those things where you were chosen of options and those options kind of poison the memory whenever turtle you have a turtle that was resting nearby on the riverbank isn't it supposed to be a frog no hey who's the one telling a story here you snorted carry on then so the scorpion asked the turtle for a ride across the river the turtle was a strong swimmer with a powerful shell to defend himself with so you can make it across no problem the turtle had nothing to fear so he told the scorpion to climb already on board the two sent off [Music] but a scorpion's nature is a sting that which it sees while they are swimming across the river the scorpion would have no choice but to attack its friend a scorpion stinger can't pierce the turtle's shell no matter in its nature the turtle wouldn't get hurt then when the turley would notice the scorpion had tried to kill him at all no nah we do busy swimming and the girl wouldn't even know he wouldn't even know that his own friend tried to kill him only the scorpion would remember he'd forever live with the sin of betrayal that only he knew i do not think i like that story very much it's the only one i got buddy you don't like it come with a bare ending it's not that simple no why not the future is what you make of it the nature of a scorpion cannot be denied no matter how many times he tries his feet has already been determined what like destiny or something no just stupidity and self-sabotage i squeezed your hand it doesn't have to be that way you know i have no say in the matter it's the very essence of an endless cycle my ending will always remain the same even if you escape it there's no escape i bought the same thing one time i thought that whenever i gave in through all those months of hard work into the gutter for the sake of never quick smoke there was no point in even trying that the more i struggled the hard it would get and and i was right go over this one first and i was right if your only instinct is self-sabotage if you keep telling yourself the only reason you're alive now is for the promise of some better ending out there then of course you're never gonna escape so you just stop caring what life ain't like the stories nothing goes the way it should and there's no need and tiny ending winning for you when everything all works out you just kind of keep going and going until you can anymore so don't buy into all that crap don't run yourself ragged looking for some higher purpose or whatever do what you think has purpose do what you want to do so you can live without any regrets but those endless cycles do what they will the only reason you feel stuck in them is because you keep telling yourself that you're stuck it's not just giving up if you don't even try at all maybe sure as hell beats hating on myself for trying and failing anywhere though how nihilistic well i suppose there is a certain comfort in that exactly if things don't have any meaning if you're always going to find yourself the same awful conclusion might as well have some fun along the way right that's how you escape these cycles you just stop caring i see i'm so tired [Music] i just want to rest for a while i hummed just as long as you need it all the time in the world don't we i got a snort of you of that one you call up against my arm still was the grave while i stood up at the sky for the trees [Music] it hurt to breathe i was about to let it all go when i thought you nudged my palm your voice no longer than a whisper may i request one last thing of you shoot even though after all this time i i don't believe i ever asked you for your name don't think you don't mean yours ever i i don't have one tell you what my thoughts slowed down to a crawl everything sounded it felt so far away i'll give it to you when you wake up okay buddy do you promise i promise i could feel you smiling against my skin as i drifted away completely liar in 13 tevford [Music] [Music] you now unlock the ending gallery there you can view all the endings that you've received along with the ones you've yet to receive should we select the option limit bonus for me maybe to visit it hopefully you enjoyed the strange little story known as psycpak the clock is stopped if you have to play for the game again you may come visit me here where all began i hope you find the better ending that you think okay here's the final choice branch and i was wrong and i was wrong the effort that comes with getting yourself out of something like that never really ends you don't just break out and you're home free you have to keep going as much as it sucks it's a commitment how much more committed do i have to be your voice was full of venom you have no idea how long i have been drawing it no idea how much my fingers crawled around yours as you took a shaky breath how much i've had to do to just get this far if the reason why i'm still here is only because i didn't try hard enough then then maybe i never actually had a chance in the first place maybe so what [Music] maybe you just don't have an in here to go at this alone no shaming it happens to the best of us that's why you gotta know when to cut your losses and ask someone for help you huffed you make it sound so easy i know i know what was it that you said earlier it's not that simple and you're right it isn't but if you've already tried everything and you're just about ready to give up anything what else do you have to lose nothing but the same cannot be said for the person helping me that's on them their life their choices i would still be responsible for the hardships they suffered what did i just say you went quiet again but i had enough of this anyway what are you come on you up in adam even as every part of my body screamed in protest i pulled myself up to my feet using one of my one of the trees nearby to keep my balance but didn't let go of your hand [Music] you're going to kill yourself if you're trying to move that much yeah you killed me plenty of times already i can handle it as i said that i plugged down a piece of shrapnel from my stomach and hissed as the pain hit me all over again case in point boy it's enough how you wise guy come on get moving excuse me slaying my hand down to your forearm you yelled as i pulled you up beside me i saw your leg was twisted bent and broken in all the wrong ways so i eased you onto my shoulder to help you stand you're coming with me buddy this better ending of yours that you want so bad wherever it is we're gonna find it you wobbled clinging to my arm for dear life this was ridiculous we could not make it a single step much less won't have to find health i'd rather forward past three you practically shrinked see look at that a step we'll be out here before you know it your nails dug into the fabric of my shirt why should we bother like run it groping for another branch to hold on to while i pull this forward [Music] it hurt to breathe listen i have no idea what kind of high power you ascribe to but god put me here for a reason and that reason is to rid the world of bad people and look after the good ones and how this ends where i get you somewhere safe or die or die trying i'm doing exactly what i set out to do we took the next few steps in silence as my boots slid across the dirt your bad foot dragging behind you you're insane nope just stupid now are you gonna help us walk or what i didn't expect you to respond wouldn't do much of anything really i was perfectly content to keep us going until i couldn't anymore but instead you reached out to touch my chest and ow it felt like i've been sucked in the gut something reverberated through me it took a second to shake off the impact what what the [ __ ] did you just do to me but you didn't answer but look down i saw you going completely limp boy boy you didn't move a muscle your head rolled to the side nosebleed streaming down across your lips and then i realized how much better i was feeling i looked down to my stomach where the glasses sliced me open from the crash it was like the wound was closing in on itself not healing per se but milling together as it had never been there at all like it was reversing itself or rolling back i kept moving ache like hell but as my strength came back to me i hoisted you up over my shoulder and carried you as far as i could it was like you weighed nothing at all i had no idea how long we've been stuck here i had no idea how much time we'd lost or how the world had changed since we're last a part of it but i knew one thing for certain that i was going to find us that better ending even if it killed me even if there was no point in trying even if neither of us really deserved it because god knows we needed in zero nurture [Music] thank you for playing it looks like n0 is the happiest ending it's the final one that you can really get but it looks like it's the only one where everyone lives so it's an interesting main cast because you've got the driver and the driver is essentially a serial killer but they're a very targeted one seems like they go after what they define as sinners so murderers etc etc they they're basically a very extreme vigilante kind of figure it looks like they're not really a good person but they have some kind of weird said moral and then we have our other pro tag who we play as quite a bit which is number eight number eight is some weird time traveling super weapon that some facility was making and it's like that they're not actually a bad person but they've looped so many times now and initially there's a bit of a you know abated switch where you you think maybe number eight is just a killer or something weird is going on but it turns out the number eight has at least enough reason to be suspicious of the driver and they've seen the drivers through nature enough times where like they know like i need to take them out first sometimes or maybe i can do this or this or this and it kind of goes on and on and on because where you start the game isn't where the game technically started chronologically that's just where you inserted yourself into the audience so it's a good loop story it's very wordy i'm not using that as a derogatory kind of word but more of like this is a very story story which on the surface you would not usually expect from slasher hika hitchhiker kind of thing that's kind of what i mean like there's a lot of narration there's a lot of inner thoughts and uh processing it's a good story i mean i'll give it that i feel like um i sh we should have seen a little bit more of the facility not in detail because it should be mysterious but just a few more flashbacks to that as we get a little more scale of the suffering number eight went through in some of the trauma because there's some cool stuff going on there in it we've only got about a couple scenes of good looks at it but it's an overall fairly solid use of the the groundhog day looping mechanic this is also part of the speed mortality jam i played about two of them if not three other games from this jam so like i said they all have either looping or mortality as their theme anyway yeah so thank you all for watching me play hike back i'll see you guys later and take it easy [Music]

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Views: 402,062

Rating: 4.962461 out of 5

Keywords: HIKEBACK, Let's play, Playthrough, Walkthrough, Horror Game, Indie Game, Gameplay, Video Game

Id: Rp8fVOhqzi8

Length: 117min 6sec (7026 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 09 2021