Who's Lila? | The Best Mystery You Can't Solve

Who's Lila is an indie mystery masterpiece. Please play it if you can help it.

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VOICEOVER CAST
LeezeThings (Tanya)

Randora (Ellie)

Aubrey (Martha)

Frogy (Lila)

Mrow (Detective Fisher)

Meekonovaa (T-Gotchi)

Oddio Curtiss (Strupnev and The Emperor)

People with no links but I still want to credit as thanks:
Retro Junkie (Ryibkin), Tobias Coolantingsburg (Lawrence), Griffin (Officer Hutchins), SooP_YuM (Detective Yu), Noko (Waitress), The Shiggler (Matt).

[garageheathen]

Great video and AMAZING voice acting! Thanks so much for making this!

[interdimensionalcommunicat]

Nobody really talks about this, but one of my favourite parts of this game is that you can find out the whole "Good Cop/Bad Cop" routine is just an act if you pay attention. If Will confesses to the murder, the Bad Cop stops being intimidating and instead becomes compassionate. But likewise, if you keep a neutral expression through the entire interrogation, Will stops talking entirely and the Good Cop eventually becomes so frustrated with the complete lack of response that he starts trying to intimidate you. Its just a small amount of depth for what ultimately amount to side characters, but I enjoyed it.

[carpiioo.]

hiring a British voice actor for Lila was genius. Really communicates her inhumanity, and alien-ness.

[Novanoir]

kinda chilling to think that, upon being reminded of lila by tanya, will is screaming "I DON'T REMEMBER" as a desperate attempt to forget again. he's already remembered, he can't take it back now, and him in a panicked voice saying that is like a frenzied attempt to convince himself he hasn't.

[sugarpe]

I feel like the answer to the question of "Who's Lila?" is a very simple, if meta one. She is a being who was created by a certain game developer for the sole purpose of spreading the mystery of who she is to as many people as possible while also entertaining them.

After all, if the mystery of who Lila is doesn’t entertain you, your attention will be paid elsewhere and she won’t exist anymore. Without an audience to desire the answer to the question, there is no question, and therefore, no Lila.

[shiffpup]

So, basically, the devs gaslight us into furthering Lila's existence. Now that they've shared the idea of Lila to the world, Lila will never die.

[TheXell]

"Everytime you think about Lila, you sustain her."
NOT TODAY!
*aggressively downs anmestics*

[frogwaii]

thank u for letting me voice lila!! im so happy i could be apart of this video :3

[narwhallord]

So people talk a lot about first person and third person, but everyone forgets about SECOND person. Mostly because second person is incredibly difficult to really do properly or to understand, but holy shit. This is it. This is a second person POV game. This story isn't just you play through the game from the eyes of the character or looking above the characters, not in a traditional sense. You are literally a part of the story, and YOU are the one having to answer everything. I never thought I would see a second person game but holy shit.

[metaphobic]

So BASICALLY: Lila is THE GAME. Which we've all collectively just lost.

[lozthusk]

1:41:28 Someone else brought this up but“I wear no mask. No mask? No Mask!” Is a line from the collection of stories called The King in Yellow.
Elaborating further: In the book, The King in Yellow is a play. And the “No mask” line is one of the few lines that we actually get to see of the play itself.
In the book, people become obsessed and forever changed by the nature of the play—a cognitohazard of sorts. I think this pairs well with the idea of Lila being an idea that needs to be known in order to have power. The effects of the play only were realized when people read it.

[mizukidatesbiggestfan]

the voice actress for tanya KILLED IT; whenever i read that "who's lila" i read it in her voice tilt and accent. actual perfection

[outlier]

I want to point out when Lila whispers in Yu's ear, he is still sort of low poly like all the other models in the game, but Lila is a full ass person. I don't even think it's a 3d model

[rokikubo]

Lila is like the most truest form of a cognitohazard to me. Wonderful video, you did an awesome job showcasing such an incredible piece of art.

[onyxiris]

As a long-time solipsist, Lila's dialogue explaining the Prince is what finally brought me out of that belief system. As long as I can recall I simply haven't been able to conceptualize billions of people living with the same infinitely complex soup of emotions and memory that I have, but Lila's explanation of the innate narcissism of solipsism for some reason was able to finally get me to come to terms with that. I just think it's incredible that a psychological horror was able to get me to do what nothing else has.

[saveshark]

1899 also refers to a set of coordinates to go to in the corrupted file (notice it gives you x y in the top left). If you go to -18 -99 there are portraits of the some of the game characters floating in the air. Nice vid, glad the game is finally getting the recognition!

[Jasmixd]

Lila is a cleverly disguised invitation to thought about thought.

[leezethings]

Thank you so much for letting me voice Tanya!! I need to pick up the game for myself now

[sketch-eee]

So Lila is inside my head according to the ending? Well rip to her, she gonna get annoyed by all the random ocs I have collected and that dinky kirby song 24/7.

[colt]

Lila is probably the one of the best portrayals of an eldritch entity I've seen in a game. Her entire nature is ultimately unknowable, and as the player who just spent days trying to figure her out, that is a maddening realization. You work to understand something you were never meant to, and it drives you insane. You try to fight something that can't be understood, and it ruins you. You finally grasp understanding only to realize that you've barely even scratched the surface of an entity that can't even be defined by human measurements, and you fall to despair.

As much as you may want to unravel every mystery, you are ultimately lost in the maelstrom that pursuit causes. You're finally given the answer, and the only thing left to do is accept that there simply is no solving a mystery made to be unsolvable, because it's unsolvable nature is the answer to the mystery you seek to solve.

Thus, we loop. Endlessly, until the end of days.
Or, until Lila decides to finally let us forget her entirely.
But honestly, do the insane ever truly forget?