Let's Play "The Path" Pt. 4 (Ginger Ending)

[maricklee]

what the crap, you left off playing with that other girl and then you up load this after jumping ahead aways, thats dumb....

[stfuajpg]

@maricklee Yeah that was an error on my part when I was uploading the videos. There's a 2-3 minute video I uploaded after this one that covers the missing parts.

[AWOOGO]

i have no idea what happened wit hthis "wolf" like robin was mauled and another killed (possible rape casue of groans in house) by woodcutter but wtf was this D=

[lemonandlimewithsalt]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *takes a breather* HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Elley82]

3:37 WTF=(((((((((((((((

[KigurumixBearable]

Thats not silent hill thats the freaking grudge! DX

[joemercer1]

think Ginger is confused and depressed about growing up as others have stated, menstruating could be certainly be a theme. I think Ginger put her confidence in an older girl who seemed to be her friend (a wolf) but ends up hurting her really badly in some way. Maybe killing her, but since everything else is a metaphor, maybe cyber-bullying or something of the like would a realistic explanation.

[joemercer1]

Also when I beat this game, I was able to open one room (there are three that can be opened) in the open room, the first person viewpoint in grandma’s house becomes very low, and Ginger seems to be crawling like a baby through the room.

[joemercer1]

I did some searching on dream interpretations for this, some of the more interesting things I found is that scarecrows symbolize depression, feathers can symbolize confusion, and “If (the) barbed wire catches you then this is associated with a female influence who is dominant” (auntyflo. Com)

[bleachfan43]

ok yea i bet that that tale of tales people got there inspiration off silent hill lmao very freaky

[FTDWOYH]

@NoctureXofXShadows you might get your answer if you pause the video at 3:36 :)

[NocturneXofXShadows]

I think the little girl didn't want ginger to grow up/mature into an adult. Since everything is tied down....

It sounds werid and I can't explain it but I think thats why Ginger died? Or maybe it was because the little girlwas a stranger?

It just seems like the little girl Ginger played with set it up and maybe pushed Ginger ( SPOILER I GUESS: Cause you never see the wolf in the succesful ending, they are always behind you.) into the barbed wire so they could play forever? Just a gut feeling.

[Lucitity]

Since this game is based on Red Riding Hood, I think "The Path" is an allegory for growing up. Your failings, weaknesses, or traumatic experiences, represented by the wolf, shape you and mature you into an adult. If you run straight to "grandmother's house" and never stray from the path, you never have those rites of passage that mature you, and hence you fail. Their "deaths" at the end represent the deaths of their childhoods. My take anyway.

[neoxalucard]

@Lucitity Actually Michaël Samyn and Auriea Harvey (the developers) said that "...the actual story emerges from playing, partially in the game, partially in the player’s mind.", they didn't specifically write a story, they want you to draw you're own conclusion.

But they also said "...your story ultimately needs to end with the death of the protagonist. Because that's how the fairy tale goes.".

So if its about anything it's about death.

[Verakun]

I agree with Traenan. Ginger's wolf was a girl in a red dress because when she starts her periods she knows that she is becoming a woman and it is one of the things she fears, being a tomboy, and she doesn't want to grow into a woman.

[miyumii1200]

whe do they just disapear when it ends?

[MrGuardian563]

@miyumii1200 maybe they died... *wink wink*

[mcrgabby]

can you get different endings with each character? Like can Ginger have multiple endings?

[prachofqa]

I hate that slowly walking to the house. Run, run, run!

[ketzerlino]

Wow. What a great ending for ginger.

[SuperKrasher]

-dies- too scary

[90sComputerGames]

Running through life without looking down-- you're bound to get snagged by some kind of trouble if you aren't careful. The feathers really add to Ginger's carefree, light-headed feel.

Love the "Final Room" near the end. A feather may fall lightly, but it eventually hits the ground. Not bad.

[SamaelSnakebites]

It appears that the girl in the red dress wrapped barbed wire around Ginger's neck. (You have to pause the video on certain flashes.)

[CBGB42]

I am... absolutely confused as to what that meant.

I mean, if we're to believe Freud here, everything is eventually about sex, which is why most of the wolves in the game are male, so there is implied rape and all sorts of things in this game.

It's... bizarre.

Obviously, the fact that the wolf was a girl is significant, but I don't know what it means.

[Traenan]

Each girl has a stereo type, Ginger mimicks a tomboyish girl.

[THEORY]

The girl in red mimicks coming of age, how? Blood is red, and barbed wire causes loss of blood by bleeding, put two and two together and you have menstruation. The wolf is a girl because Ginger fears becoming a 'woman'.

[CBGB42]

@Traenan Yeah, but she's a young girl.

[Traenan]

Exactly, her wolf is 'growing up'. Also, According to the game, Ginger is 13 years old, right about the time for that to start, no?

[TheSquidGuy]

@Traenan Yeah I think this is the most likely.

[Goldenwolf546]

@Traenan I really dont get tat please explain in a simpler way.

[lostserenity0]

Oh, so THAT'S what it would look like if Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother lived in Silent Hill.

[lasarousi]

@lostserenity0 nice thought... very nice! never thought of this before actually this would make more sense if it was located in silent HILL

[AlexBaby1234Sims]

@lostserenity0 

She does.

[vile0vixen]

Tbh, I really think that each traumatic experience, or 'death', that the girls go through just symbolise different things in life that make you grow up. The creators of this game just decided to focus more on the loss of innocence side to growing up and so the game has a very scary and negative atmosphere.

I think Ginger's Wolf could be about a sexual experience with another girl, and because of her childish nature she's confused and doesn't want to grow up and face it.

[theifie]

Barbed Wire usely means that you are constricted within boundaries or trapped , without freedom.

This is showing Ginger pushed into them, looking like she was trying to push past the "boundaries." If going with the "Growing up Theory", she tried to break free of thr boundaries and made mistakes. She got hurt trying to go past them. Going with the "Death Theory", she was free and she was killed. That's as far as I can go with the "Death Theory" just with the barbed wire.

[theifie]

Also the floating or falling feathers usually mean a lighthearted feel for life, or an enjoyment for the life she was living. Alternatively, they may represent confusion, hastiness, and lost of dignity.

Possibly saying that Ginger rushed into the world to fast and she was pained.

Either way, she tried to express her "freedom" by going and trying out the world's paths and was maimed.

Nice Let's Play, Stfuajpg!

[stevieno2]

I'm way too much of a wuss to play this game... I'm so glad you did it for people like me

[TheCandie87]

Everything about this game is so much more symbolic than literal, I love it. The barbed wire, the mattresses, the girl in red... it's symbolic to some kind of inner trauma for Ginger. What that is, is more obvious as one studies it. <3 It's the same way for all the characters.

[Azurerosa]

What was up with the rocking chair? Was that a game error or is it supposed to jump around the room like that?

[TheCandie87]

It's actually an effect. x3 It's suppose to do that.

[Azurerosa]

I thought so but it looked glitchy.

[Nightman221k]

This game makes me think of a college project with the easy controls and the way it focuses much more on psychology and story than anything like action.

[TheOneAndOnlyLaurenP]

oh god help me D:

that's fucked up in every concievable way. i still don't know what this games purpose is, or what it's really about, but i swear it's the lovechild of satan and stalin.

[Shintaka9009]

Well, wow.

Uh.

Some of the images that flashed there were.

Uh.

Wow.

This game's awesome.

[BlackCatsCrossing13]

3:38, if you pause at the right time, you see what happened....

[alexis2442]

parece q the path es una cagada no entiendo ningun final

XD

[Tristen778]

I think that these ay be nightmares each one of the girls meet thier "wolves" enter a fucked up version of Grandma's House and apparently die but they probobly had nightmares then return to the room after the Girl In White's section the this game's finale

[dahalochick]

This game is very open-ended and interpretive. I love watching clips of it and trying to think of what each little piece of the story means.

[TheOneTrueCorry]

ofcourse, everyone loves psychological mindfuckery >.> i know i do

[MCRisforlife96]

i do too. it's because of games like this that i want to study psychology

[garblehose]

I went through that last scene pressing pause / play constantly to see what those tiny snippets were. From what I could tell, it looked like the girl in the red dress tied ginger up with the barbed wire then wrapped it around her neck and cut her throat

[DanielCriticalMX]

It also looks like the girl in red is taking a mask off her face in one of the snippets

[Feniks501]

So they all die in the end.

[Tristen778]

Not exactly the Girl In white is in  the last part and after that they reenter the room

[secondhandsmoke10]

hahaha what if brad from 4playerpodcast played this game (^^P)??

[TehHunger]

He'd just go through the game gibbering all the time, and screaming occasionally.

[OokamiAzura]

Still, I'd be VERY interested in seeing him play this game. It's not really a "jump out and scare you" horror game, it's really one that makes you THINK something's gonna jump out at you. Brad would be on the edge of his seat the whole time =D

[Santaslave666]

What a mindfuck.. damn, looks pretty awesome

[thedragonb0y]

Just get the Demo. You pretty much have the whole "game" right there.

[scotty92994]

i could swear that you were playing Silent Hill when you entered that house.

[Chazzburger3]

This game is worse than Silent Hill

In silent Hill, you got attacked

In the path, you don't, and you always feel as though it's just around the corner something will jump out and scare you...

[scotty92994]

well, the path is more of a well, how do i put it? like a weird psychological horror thing or something (i dont even get it really). it is a good game though, but only if you're into stuff like symbolism.

[Chazzburger3]

Oh yeah, i love the game, i would recomend it to my friends, but they wouldn't be interested.

Their loss i suppose

[elliottmck]

maybe she farted and now has no freinds and is now sad

[LadyIceCr3am]

LFMAOO!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nicoles567]

ROFLMFAO!!! thanks for making my day XDDDDD

[GentleLily101]

@elliottmck i dont know why you got seven thumbs up for the dumb comment...

[elliottmck]

@GentleLily101

That was actually my brother and how am i meant no ask them

[Deelenzero]

Quick addition: If you go around and collect more items you'll take a different path - showing different things with a lot of symbolism behind them. Which is why I like to think of most of the "little red's" deaths as symbolic rather then actual -

****Spoilers****

excluding the youngest ones ending of course which appears as both symbolic and actual due to her "final room" you unlock from the items you gather.

[Deelenzero]

If it wasn't for the flash of Ginger's neck being gashed open on barbed wire I would've said that her death was more symbolic (which I can go into a rant about but wont) then actual - buuut nope looks like she died.

She was probably playing with her new "friend" she met and got caught on the barbed wire or something happened while she was climbing the fence and it ended up with her raking her neck on the wires. Or maybe the chick in red did it - who's to truly say besides the creators.

[GrimaceGrunson]

"That's....that's fucked."

Excellent summary mate! ;)

[zxcviilll]

wait... so if you stay safe and go straight to poor grandmas house you fail, but if you break the rules and play with this demon girl and die in grammas house, you win? i need an aspirin...

[MadeinHell2]

Art dude... art...

Nobody but it's creator understands it :)

[scotty92994]

and a psychopath :D...like me

[horsecrazy342178]

yep thats the awsomeness of doing art... Nobody but you understand it :)

[MadeinHell2]

@horsecrazy342178

The problem appears when even you don't really understand it. But you act like you do.

[lasarousi]

@MadeinHell2 perhaps not even the creator understands it

[Skm194]

Poor Ginger! I feel so bad for her. =/

[rodroy1]

umm ive not got a strong idea on this one, maby she had an accident with barbed wire when playing with her frend, or it could be what you said that she died from being strangled with it.

[avatarappa]

lol? what the heck happened to Ginger... that was weird, I totally want this game now! I can't wait for your next video, I'll be waiting!