Cavalcade of Woes in the Obra Dinn - SovietWomble's Supercut

Soviet's journey through Obra Dinn. "Unless we get a DNA test, can we 100% conclude the person people are calling Captain is the Captain?" to "Let's throw darts at the Chinese and see what sticks."

"I thought it was a murder mystery where they killed each other over some sort of trinket." Well you're not wrong...

god i forget how cool the fuckin kraken reveal is

The Game: "Captain! Open The Door!" Soviet when guessing who the captain was: hmm... but we don't know that this guy was the captain.

See the shell sparkling off in the ocean the whole game is such a neat extra touch. The mermaid really kept its end of the deal

I will always love the first death in this game. Having the small cutscene followed by the gunshot and you facing the captain.

Game: explicitly refers to a character by name Womble: Well we can't be sure that's him, can we?

To be fair to the Captain, the events of the Bargain are sort of asynchronous with the other chapters. Specifically, the Captain's Steward dies sometime between Unholy Captives and the Doom, the Captain kills two mermaids during the Doom, and the 3rd Mate dies either during or just before the Escape. The implication is that, after seeing two mermaids executed, the last one called off the kraken, and the Captain then threw the shells he'd found overboard, ordered the surviving mermaid be freed, and organized for the remaining passengers and stewards to escape on the launch, further supported by the Captain repeatedly yelling at the Russian Topman to let them go and drawing his pistol.

Womble's accent and IRL knowledge combined with the descent at 19:40 merged to create a really great and immersive moment.

Said it before, will say it again, if there was a movie on the Obra Dinn, my boys Billy Hoscut and Henry Brennan are the dynamic duo. They always seem to be where the action is.

This is super interesting: - The solution to Beng's and Dahl's fates (being killed by shoving their arm in the magic chest goop) can be validly marked as either "Burned" or "Poisoned". In my playthrough, I went with poisoned on a suspicion that was later confirmed when Dahl called it "quicksilver" i.e. mercury, or something that looks like it. Since there's this ambiguity whether it was flames or magic poison, they left it open to interpretation, or just allowed both options so its not too unfair. - Abigail can be validly marked as either "Crushed by falling rigging" or "Clubbed by a Beast" since she was killed by the rigging, but the beast was wielding it as a huge club.

Fun fact: there's actually an achievement for reporting the captain's death as "suicide" and everyone else's death as "killed by the captain" (easiest method is say that he Axed them all, since no one on the ship died from being Axed, so you won't have any correct answers lock in). Obviously, doing this blocks you from the True Ending, but if you've already beaten the game once, it's relatively simple to quickly run through the game again and reactivate all the death scenes.

God, could you imagine a version of this game where you're in the middle of a death vision, and one of the sea-horrors turns their head to look STRAIGHT at you? Or something more subtle, like their eyes tracking you. They can't act against you, but they KNOW.

Knowing boat facts helps you immensely on this game... honestly its fun to watch Wombles surprise at the supernatural elements and the joy he gets when he deduces correctly

Also, I find it FASCINATING that the carpenter's are both from america at this time and the carpenter's mate is the white guy. That means he's working under (almost certainly) an escaped slave, on an english ship. There's definitely a really long and interesting story about those two that I'd love to learn but simply cannot because of course not.

I love the way this game makes you think! I had a similar 49:38 moment of "wait this is stupid, I've been overthinking this" when I realized that I'd misidentified Maba because I didn't think to use his tattoos as a clue. I was literally driving to work when I was the thought "maybe I have his identity wrong because I didn't think about who would have tattoos like his in the late 1700s" popped into my head fully formed lmao

39:56 It was at this point that I was finally aware that I clearly can't predict what will happen in this game.

Soviet's revelation at 1:35:55 is pure gold. Return of the Obra Dinn is so good.

The amount of people playing who just bruteforce quessed the Chinese is actually hilarious. I should know. I did so too.

Is it just confirmation bias because we're only seeing the deaths, or is Henry Evans a terrible doctor? Almost every scene he's in he's like "Ahh, he's gonna be fine" and then the patient IMMEDIATELY dies.