Rent A Creepy House People Watch You In The Bathroom - Stall / Birdwatcher / RENTAL

Welcome to the Hey I'm Awake Club, how Hey I'm Awake are ya? Video has 3 horror games, Stall: 0:00 / Birdwatcher: 4:35 / RENTAL: 8:39

So, fun fact, "Umi" is Japanese for "ocean" or "sea" (one of the two, don't recall which). So, Umi's father did, in fact, hear the ocean; he heard the ocean talking to him!

What's funny is that if you play Rental a second time, the ending is completely different. Your family hasn't even reached the house yet and your dad makes a comment about how the fog seems to be getting worse and that you may be lost.

Umi's eyes changed to that of the rental man, it's a body snatching ritual, the Rental Man locked Umi in the house.

So regarding Rental. I'm pretty sure the Rental Man was stuck in the house, and then fled the house by fooling Umi into doing that ritual, which allowed him to steal her body and leave the house. If you compare the face Umi makes at the end to the expression of the Rental Man, they're both exactly the same, which is why I think this happened.

the biggest horror sequence for the stall game would be a busy 3pm walmart bathroom where people keep peering into the crack of the stall making an uncomfortable length of eye contact while you are trying to officially pinch one off and wipe.

The chant the bunny says during the ritual “pirika pirilala poporina peperuto” is the magical chant from Ojamajo Doremi (old magical girl anime) that the girls use to cast magic. Manly’s pronunciation was really good for a first time reading :0

All three are fairly solid. I definitely liked Rental the most, it's not particularly scary but it's got a nice feel to it. Exploring an eerie place, bunny people, cool visual style. It works.

As someone with a fear of seeing a creepy face peek over or under a bathroom stall door, the first game is terrifying

In the birdwatching one, the location is called Mt. Pallas. That name is the most common epithet of the goddess Athena (written as Pallas Athena). She is very strongly associated with owls, they’re her main symbol throughout her mythology. So, that’s a roundabout hint from the developer to expect an owl.

Scariest part of the game is "press shift to run" because you know damn well your running away from something

Don't you love when Manly talks about his "advanced techniques" and then dies

Oh man I loved that rental man game. The aesthetic felt like a good harmony between both PS1 and N64 tech, had a little bit of that Animal Crossing vibe with the characters while also maintaining the spooky vibe of older horror games. I love that it just ended like an inattentive kid's daydream, leaving you to wonder if the house really was bad news or just Umi spacing out. I think a minor joke that might go over people's heads is that her name is Umi, the word for Ocean in Japanese, her dad mentioned the ocean and there were seagulls (jp: umineko) for ambience in the opening scene. The humor was quite good for a short game about a house that likely won't let you leave.

I gotta beware of Manly's uploads at 2AM more than any stalker at 2AM.

I really need to see more from the Rental devs. Really cute, and I honestly love how it wasn't a cute thing become gore thing kinda horror. I admit though, that some of this bias comes from the fact that I really like rabbits.

Because of Manly, every single trash can I see in real life gets me thinking: “empty, like my soul.”

00:00 Stall 04:34 Birdwatcher 08:39 Rental

17:17 that's literally doremi's spell from ojamajo doremi, holy crap Didn't expect to see my childhood here of all places

I especially liked Rental! The style of the characters reminds me a lot of Animal Crossing, whereas the camera angles as you explore the house kind of reminded me of certain parts in Majora's Mask, like your stolen room in the Inn.

I loved the last one, I'd love to see a longer kind of game in that style~