🏚️ The Witch's House - No Save Run & True Ending

This is a no saves playthrough which unlocks a special dialogue with the cat near the end among other interesting things.

#STBiLL

[STBill]

🏚️ A young girl lost in the forest wanders into a mansion.

[firionkaiser]

Easily the worst friend in video game history

[SaintMavis]

The true ending always gets me poor Viola 😭

[TsukiKage]

I think it'd be a cool idea for a secret ending of years later with "Viola" all grown up and her dad on her death bed. Ellen tells Viola's father as he is slowly losing consciousness that he shot his own daughter and Viola's body has a shadow of the demon that made her a witch behind her, grinning sadistically as the game started all over again.

[yokoelf]

After seeing the true ending, suddenly all the deaths seems so satisfying.

[CompletelyNewguy]

Not only do I love the playthrough but I love how you just play along with the game. Like when you are being chased and you successfully escape you still keep running further away until you are sure you're safe like what a person would actually do.

[seicobass]

ok... is it me or does this guy act like he's never played this game before... seriously if the is the first time you played this AND your never saved AND you never died AND you got the full end... sir you deserve a metal.

[sagesaria]

I'm gonna go against the grain and say I hardly feel sorry for Ellen at all.  I can understand being sick and in pain and wanting a way out of that, sure, and I can even understand turning to a demon's help in desperation, especially since she's so young.  But look at how she talks about the switch.  Really look at it.  She is absolutely SADISTIC about what she did to Viola.  She doesn't even apologize for it.  She's doing it entirely for her own purposes and she doesn't care at all what Viola thinks about it.  In fact she literally said she wanted Viola to SUFFER.  That is pure bitterness and evil and even when we understand why that does not make anything she's doing justifiable.
That isn't to say that I hate Ellen of course.  She's one of my favorite villains ever.  But that's just the thing; even with understandable motives, she's still the villain.

[KawaiiKandi]

1:07:38 I've never noticed that before... so creepy. Also I liked how you looked back when they started chasing. This was one of the most terrifying moments in the game.

[TheScribeScribe]

I like that there's no happy ending for viola in this. The writer made what they wanted and I respect that. It also serves as a cautionary tale to not be too trusting, open or kind to strangers. Use your instincts.

[cierium]

1:28:32 Does anyone notice the save file in Ellen's room at this moment read 'MY Room' with Viola's face having a small smile there?

[DarkOrderSolDjango]

This game show that it's not about 3D awesome graphics, it's all about story, gameplay and atmosphere, that's what make a good game...

[BlazeXth]

53:54
"X THE FLOWERS AND YOU'LL DIE TOO"
When was this game made? Is that a reference to Ib?
Also, those yellow flowers talking with jealously/envy/whatever...

[PrismOpal]

Such an amazing yet truly heartbreaking game. The only thing I don't quite understand is the part when you're walking through the poison, and another "Viola" falls from the ceiling. I suppose it was just supposed to be something to startle you, but considering the real ending, I can't understand why the "witch" would show something like that.

[ggirl]

Ellen and Viola’s dad play “Never have I ever”

Dad: “This one’s for all the marbles! *clears throat* Ok, never have I ever...stolen my best friend’s body.”

Ellen: “YES! I WIN!”

Dad: “WTF”

[thebiss]

In the end, I cant help but pity Ellen. I feel terrible for what happened to Viola but Ellen might soon learn that Viola's father only loves 'Viola' and not Ellen...That could have been a more cool ending to see, that Ellen killed the one person that cared for her in hopes to gain the love she never got from her parents.

[oppositerabbit]

Someone call Onigawara to take care of this.

[STBill]

You miss the final talk with the cat and when you enter the witch's room the item descriptions and diary pages are different.

Other secrets shown in this playthrough are the mid game conversation with the cat and books that appear if you revisit an area.

So it is clarified why the witch keeps killing, how she got her powers, how the house came to be, why it tries to kill you but also gives you hints, what the cat really is and what it gets for helping you.

[Magike_Kenner]

"Keep to yourself, worry about yourself and wait for an opportunity to get ahead of anyone else.
The idea of friend no longer exists, only people you know and people you can use. These people are thrown away once they are no longer useful to you."


I deeply believe this videogame portrays almost perfectly this statement: Ellen took advantage of Viola's kindness and pity by means of her magic and took her body. Once she traded bodies with Viola, Ellen would not give the body back, hence "throwing away" Viola. And to top it all off, Ellen (using Viola's body) goes to the house again just to... see how much Viola is suffering? She will get away with it and will take pleasure in having deceived Viola, and seeing how she is killed by her own father.


All in all, considering Ellen's wretched intention and Viola's ordeal and final death, I think the black cat is the only token of hope and warmth in this game.

[cinnamonbunzever]

It doesn't have to neccesarily mean Viola died, it could be possible that the demon made a new contract with her