Rapid Eyes: The Game You Can't Delete

A little atmospheric journey is in order tonight.

Rapid Eyes Official Playlist:

PROTOTYPES Kickstarter:

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[NightMind]

A little atmospheric journey is in order tonight.

Rapid Eyes Official Playlist:

PROTOTYPES Kickstarter:

[StaryExtra]

I like the idea that the Entity just looks at the "Spectators" and thought: "You know, I'm here to make this guy's life hell, but you people are sick monsters for enjoying his suffering. Mad respect, G. You do you, fellow monster."

[higanbana]

It was bone chilling to realize that all the warnings he's ignored so far....was unchanged behaviour. He ignored a very important warning (getting help for his dad) that he's since regretted and yet he's continued to blatantly ignore explicit warnings including the radio's.

[submariNervous]

It's such a tiny detail but I'm not kidding when I say that the thing that _instantly_ sold me on the main character was the little "thanks Windows, sure, I don't care" in the intro vid. The delivery is just that _perfect_ level of "annoyed at being interrupted mid-sentence" without going overboard (almost like a verbal eye-roll) that makes him feel more like a real person.

[Tee-ina-Skee-Mask]

It really bugged me that the player never finished a loop around the tower and always turned around to go back the same way. I thought at first it was hiding a door or something then as it progressed the real meaning became clear, his inability to finish things

[friendlyfrankenstein]

The fun of a Night Mind is sometimes Nick goes "Hey, go watch this first." and I go "Well alright" and wander off and then wind up wanting to give the project so much direct attention I only wind up coming BACK literal days later. Thank goodness he's patient.

[ficcyboi]

I wanted to comment on this.
When he falls into the water and lands on the boardwalk, “as above, so below” is rewritten to “as below, so above” which isn’t anything crazy, but a fun detail.

[ScareSans]

33:50 I love how this has become such a common thing in unfiction that some projects are starting to lampshade it. That's not sarcasm, I actually got a decent laugh out of this. The creator knows it's overused, and I almost think that's part of the reason they used it.

[captainsawbones]

poor man really just got fat-shamed by a note in a videogame clearly written by the spooky equivalent of a highschool bully

[AiLoveGaara]

The themes of guilt and self-hatred that come in turn with dropping a passion project in order to grieve are not lost on me. SO excited to see how this plays out!

[TheLightThatBurnsTheSky]

4:48 Another thing about opening on a fresh install of the OS is that it gives a sense of purpose for the screen recording. It creates an immediately relatable/understable back story without needing a bunch of exposition, allowing us to focus on the hook and narrative. It can be difficult to set up why the protagonist is documenting the opening chapters of events. Allowing there to be struggle and frustration offscreen before the recording begins makes it far more believable as to why the recording exists

[michaellee]

A small detail but one worth noticing is the purple fire at the beginning. It's comforting, warm, and keeps us and the player safe. It's mysterious but in a good way. Just like Radio. I don't know if others have noticed but I felt that was intentional. Also the play and quit options are Red and Green respectively. Red eyes want to play and be torment but Green wants to quit the torment or prevent it. I could be wrong 😅

[KumoKumori]

My theory is that its actually exploring different ways of dealing with trauma/grief:

Purple/radio represents the "correct" response people are meant to show to others and themselves. She's the embodiment of comfort, compassion, and pure optimism, "it's impossible to fail forever! Eventually you will succeed." However it's a view that's incredibly difficult to maintain; when you're feeling down the signal cuts out, go through a big enough shock and the radio is broken until you can work to repair it or find another. Looking at it as an external voice, they aren't *really* there with you, they're kind words from someone a world away; well meaning but not personal.

Red eyes represents a more instinctive and emotional pessimistic reaction. Something bad happened and there has to be someone to blame, to hate, including yourself; something to lash out at with all this anger regardless of whether they deserve it. "[...] now you're just here. alone." "I hate her so much. She thinks she can [...] make things happy. But this does not work." "When will you learn to just stop?" I see him as someone who went through too much and killed his own hope/optimism to cope, but now finds other people showing that optimism painful and views any attempt to help him as an attack. He's simultaneously deeply envious of people that succeed and disdainful of anyone that tries and fails.

The green voice represents repression/remembering what you've repressed. "Me existence [...] is wrong." "I disappear and reappear wherever [I am the] most useful." It calls to remind MC of the loss he went through and has clearly been trying to forget/move past as he blames himself. It's a replay of the same emotions he needed to process but couldn't, and is now hopefully more capable of confronting. That said, the amount of scientific references could instead mean that it represents trying to reason your way out of grief; look at every fact and somehow try to determine what went wrong and how to move forward without having to think about painful emotions.

[madweenerdog]

I have a very low tolerance for horror, I can't really watch anything too tense or gory, but I'm SO glad i watched the series before coming back to night mind. Rapid Eyes was right up my alley

[konodanshi]

Just got back from watching Rapid Eyes, I'm impatient to hear your thoughts on it. But I must say, it was really nice seeing their subscriber count go up by almost a full hundred every time the page refreshed to play the next video. This project deserves exposure.

[corvidalexander]

His sarcasm throughout his documentation was SO funny. Especially when the tower was weirdly falling with him. Genius storytelling. No true fear in the beginning, just annoyance

[High-Overlord-Pugula]

I can delete anything, you just got to be willing to break things to do so.

[origiginal]

I love the detail of him reading the pages under his breath because that's totally something I do playing games on my own. It's a subtle detail that helps sell the fact he's not some youtuber or let's player, but just a regular guy recording these videos because he wants to show other people this game.

[StarParticleShade]

2:35 -- What my overlord demands, I am happy to oblige!

I'll be back.

Also, I really appreciate that you always link to the original work, and don't just merely cover it. Most channels don't do that. They'll be like "yeah, check it out when you can" -- but you are always so respectful and I love that you support smaller creators so sincerely!

ETA: ...OMFG it's an EMDR RPG! Those notes are totally how I used to talk to myself. I have severe BPD, and that radio just keeps reminding my of my therapist.

EMDR is a rapid-eye movement therapy that gets your left and right brain to talk to each other. It's so helpful. I'm 36 years old now, and didn't actually start living until I was 32.

I am in love with this --ARG-- unfiction project for personal reasons. Even if I am wrong - it's hitting something deep within my soul.

[PaladinGear]

I love when larger creators help out talented but unrecognized channels, shows a level of humbleness and care that's very endearing.
Plus straight up; some of the best stuff out there, we never hear of until someone brings it into the light.
So for myself: thank you for showing this cool series and channel ^^
As for the creator, you've done something lovely for them and I'm sure they'll be very happy :3