The other girls call her "goth"... It's one way of killing people: stereotyping them, putting them in a box and throwing it away. But there's more to Ruby than meets the eye. A young lady by now, 15 years of age. Life has opened up to her as a rotting flower of corruption. She can see through it all but remains an enigma herself.
When asked about her leg brace, Ruby says she's in pain. But doesn't specify where it hurts.
Ruby does not long for death. She takes a perverse pleasure in observing the extreme decay of adult society. But what will happen when she ceases to be a witness and becomes a participant instead?
ok does any body else notice that she has 1 window in the whole "Normal" part of the house and then you open 1 door and there are like 50 of em!!!! and that house is HUGE i mean she has a whole factory in that place!!!!
this game is pretty neat because it represents life they tell you to stay on the path if you do you fail because u do what ur told but if you step off the path you are taking a risk to do something like patsybob says ruby represents peer pressure and the rest represent other risks that you take in life really cool game
@FREDLOVER9710 I think in each of the success endings the visit to grandma's house is not literal. The house is full of symbolism about what happened to them during their 'ravaging'.
Um... I've never played this game before. I thought it would be some sort of American McGee's Alce type of game... But I don't think I'll enjoy this one as much as Alice. It looks slow and... I don't know. Should I really buy it or not?
@xXSonicLoveXx it similar on the fact that it's also bash on a fairy tale but with darky mood. However it not an action game and it's more like pyschology game. However the game is REALLY slow and creepy but it's not as disturbing as American McGee's Alice.
the bug of 0/x at the end happens when you save and load the game. The display number is fine when you play all the game without loading. Srry bad enlgish
This game is just about growing up, there's no real death on it... To me it's like ONE girl's life, represented by all these girls. Which one is she at a certain age. The wolves mean what kind of trouble she might find in her life metaphoricly (and her life is "the path"). At the end of the path is an old woman (grandmother) which would also be her. But she can only find her there (she can only grow) if she doesnt get induced by the wolf.
I think no one of the girl really died. And only sick perverts could think that they was raped either.
I think Ruby was trying to look older then she really was. So she desperately made contact with "dirty" part of the world, which she is thinking as "mature." Like many girls try to act goth or emo while they are neither.
Ruby represents peer pressure, she smokes to fit in but she cant really fit in, her morbid ideas and leg brace make her different, shes beautiful but she is still an outcast, the toilets represent school toilets perhaps a recluse from peer pressure?, the cage again trapped, the bed with board in it represents being hit and the truama of the crash and losing herself physical and her personailty also having sex to fit in,the idea she cant be accepted for herself but be what others want her to be!
@hjenkinz Just because someone can successfully analyze the pieces of a mind boggling plot such as this one, doesn't mean they're any more of a recluse than yourself.
@patsybob No she's not trying to fit. She's different and she accepts it. "Cigarettes. I can't believe I have never smoked. They say it makes life shorter. I should" . She's just not full of life and energy like the others. She had car crash and maybe someone hurt her that's why she doesn't want to live. She sees chaos in shool and corruption 4:58 . She feels trapped and lonely. I think she had boyfriend that she loved him and trust him but he hurt her then left her.
@Kruukk Yes she is, why else would she hang around the park and engage with the sleeze ball who we assume has possible killed someone. Ruby is the most mature but she knows if she wants to be accepted she has to throw away her personality and be a popular girl that follows the trends of others. Its what they mean by she is pretty and she could have any boy she wants.
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I think this game is just a fucking ripoff that requires you to shell out 10 dollars to "think". I could run outside right now and look at different blades of grass to analyze the meaning of life for free.
my interpretation is that the wolf killed ruby and the body being dragged away was ruby's. the events taking place after watching her body being dragged away were precursers to the actual killing. the surreal journey through the house was her disembodied soul seeking some semblence of meaning for her previous existence only to find a spinning bed symbolizing a nightmare fully realized...that there was no meaning after all...kinda dark interpretation for one of the darkest games ive ever seen
Ruby and that guy are best friends. I think Ruby was told by her mother that she was perfect and Ruby let it go to her head. The guy also told her she was perfect, once again going to her head. When he offered her a cig she looked hesitant but toke it anyways. When she was high or something she got into a car accident. When she looked in to the mirrior she picked out her flaws (The pic with the chipped face) The playground is saying she wishes life was easier like when she was a child. Im donee~
@NocturneXofXShadows They can't be best friends... As you can see, the guy is the "Wolf", and at 00:11 he is dragging some child corpse rolled in a carpet! :-O
i think that she was itching for fun and adventure and to be cool and when she smoked that first cigarette she lost her innocence, and then she had sex with that goth douche and it just escalated to the worse with drugs, and when she comes home she understands how good she had it before when she was just living a quiet life with her sisters, even if it was boring it was still secure and safe
Ruby's house represents rebellion. You can see she wants to break free like with the birdcage. When she is with her metaphorical wolf, it is a sign of maturing from the kiddy stuff and the desire to be an adult, which also fits in with what she looks like in age. The metal piping most likely shows that ruby wants to age, and when she actually does, she'll realize that its not all that she wanted. In this sense, Ruby can be seen as the most childish of the girls, as the most naive.
Here is my take. Ruby is young possibly in high school , I don't think she broke her leg but possibly seriously injured it to the point that its difficult for her to walk. She has an attraction to dark things. Ruby's wolf is possibly a guy she was attracted to, and in order to impress him she took drugs or she was given drugs. Was possibly raped in her drugged state in the back sit of the car. Or both of died in a car wreck while high.
I'm surprised that no one has pointed out the bag (which I think looks like a body bag) that the guy drags around 0:12. Maybe its some type of foreshadowing that after he's done with Ruby, he'll dispose of her like he does with the bag? Anyone else have any thoughts on that?
@newmuntyy5 if it was a sleeping bag he wouldn't be dragging it on the ground... a sleeping bag is too light to do that, plus maybe I'm reading to into this but the shape of what he was dragging looked like a body
@newmuntyy5 How can you tell its hollow? If it was hollow I think it would be light enough for him to carry and not drag it across the ground. My theory that he is dragging a dead body and that the dead body is supposed to represent innocence, Ruby's innocence. The path she has chosen is leading her to a series of experiences that will cause self-inflicting harm on her. Not "suicide" per say but like the girl in the movie "Thirteen".
@newmuntyy5 Also I think that Ruby knows that the path she is taking will ultimately lead her to die at a young age because right before she meets up with her wolf she says the words "Though I doubt old age will happen to me"
I doubt it, man. Very little of this game is all that literal. The guy seems to represent self-destructive tendencies that Ruby indulges to feel accepted (despite her misanthropy), and the body bag is only literal in the sense that such behavior *can* lead to an early grave.
I think that Ruby was definately pressured by her peers into doing things she didn't really want to do. When her wolf hands her a cigarette she is reluctant but takes it anyway. Maybe she wants to impress him? It ends with her landing herself into all sorts of troubles and I think that Ruby is the only girl who ends up dead, after an accident. The bed at the end could mean that she had sex, too, at a young age.
@RisingEagle3 Um I think this is it... Wikipedia makes it sound as if you just walk up to stuff to interact. that superpositioning is an indicator that you can interact with it I think.
her arms are folded protectivley (if there is such a word) across her chest- perhaps another rape or something?? i heard a rumour or whatever that at the end where you see a car that the man drove her ehile drunk and they crashed...
@varkurds No, apparently there is actually something wrong with her leg but in her description it says that she can still run faster than any of her sisters...go figure :)
i quite like this game.. i love it... i wander how they get that good idea!!
The Characters are so good I like the moust Ruby.. but them all are cute..
That is not an horror game but it's quite dark story as characters, landscape as music or audio are distresing indeed.. yes i thing it's darck, gloomy atmosphere.. but i never saw before a game tale like that... at least interesting..
To feel pretty and needed she allows herself to give into sex.
Peer pressure.
The car accident is how she was injured.
All the metal objects are symbolic of being frozen. She feels trapped like she is stuck in a cage.
In the end when she is walking up to grandma's house she is wrapping her arms around her stomach. This is body language of feeling insecure. Plus her legs were sprawled out in different directions making it seem almost sexual.
I think Ruby saw herself as an outsider not because of her interests but because she saw herself as perfect. Despite her view of life and death she thinks she will be pretty forever. (I doubt old age will happen to me.) Treating men like vehicles she found this dangerous character and tried to 'take him for a ride' (motor noises in the house) though I don't think the 'crash' was a literal car crash, more of a violent end to her 'vehicle' that left her scarred and no longer perfect. (leg brace)
damn, i love the way the game just draws you in then takes you on a tour thru the creepiest house that cant be touched by horror films (i think its the fact that the house changes per character and exactly what you do) first time i played it i just ran straight to granny's house, was very normal, nothing moving no shadows or anything. went upstairs to the bedroom and layed next to granny. then she opened her eyes, and then i was creeped out. 2nd time thru i got this ending, but no extra rooms.
Its so wierd when you stop smoking then u end up lying infront of the house, shudden by something, its just so twisted, could mean many things, so wierd.
I think ruby is under peer pressure and that she feels mis-understood shes obessed with death which might be the death of her childhood as she is a teenager and is traumised by the car accident she was in, she might have lost someone important in the accident and wants to die to be with them, she cant express herself represtented by the bird-cage as she has to fit in with her peer group, the bed spinning with a block is perhaps that she will be hit and killed or being traumised of the accident!
i don't think it was ever rape, it was peer pressure and lieing about her age to me. with the nightclub like start and the what seems to me like back alleys and/or places that you shouldn't go. she feels like she's trapped possibly since it's enclosed most of the time, if you bring death into it then she might have been crushed in a car in the ending, like in a race of someone showing off. the bed symbolising final rest in life.
I dont typically agree with feeding into these rape theories, but I seriously considered it with Ruby's ending. At the end, where you see the bed spinning around the tiny 'merry-go-round-' type thing could symbolize her losing her innocense on that bed. It doesnt have to be rape, as it could also have been sex due to peer presure, or Ruby's need to feel youthful, but all in all, thats what I think.
That looks like one of the best endings in the game. One question, is the wolf real or is that guy a resemblance to it? Because I did see a wolf ghost with Robin, I think it was.
jesus how stupid are all of you? Its diff versions of Red expierencing the mistakes you make in life for going off the right path, this girl dated a douche bag, got in a car wreck and died
@arsonin arsonin symoblicly yes, in the game there sort of a family. it would take a book to fully explain the true depth of this game so ill just leave it at htat.
hmmm i think that shes afraid of growing old so shes seeking the thrills of life and trying to keep a young a free image. i think she dies in a car crash while driving all wildly. but i now agree with the @Linguisticz person tht all the girls r red (their names r different shades of red) and reds the grandma reliving her mistakes in memory. this mistake was wen she was 15 forgetting about her safety and trying to fit in and live out her life to the extreme trying to stay young.
I think Ruby got involved with a bad man who was a pimp and he sold her to a brothel (why the place is all red, red-light district?) and used her. The car and engine noises I think represent that she met that guy, feeling cool like "the bad girl, went on a joy ride with him and then he used her - probably raped her and forced her into prostitution- and got money out of her. The pipes I'm not too sure of but I think they show more of the brothel she was in.
The thing is that she went with this boy that in fact is hes BF and they went into a car accident thats why everithing is red Blood and pain then she recoverd in a very painfull way leaving back all she loved
@Jill4ChrisRedfeild What I heard was that Ruby was an outcast at school, her leg brace was because of a car crash, and that pretty much her obsession with death and maturity caused her to have to immature a bit. She is probably the most mature of all of the girls, yet she wanted to do anything to fit in with the crowd, which is why she took the smoke from the stranger who she clearly saw was suspicious, yet not caring because she welcomed death. In any case this might have ended with rape.
Ruby loss is her "goodness" in exchange for a life on the "bad" side. The blond man is a thug, and the cigarette he offer is the opportunity to delve in the seedy underground. She's hesitant at first (reeling away nervously) but takes it anyways. Her first puff she coughs but gets used to it slowly(transition to delinquency.) She gets to he grandma's house, and we see a fast moving rocking chair worn out and squeaking(worrying parents.) *CONtinued
@xosofine02 The house is turned to its side(in a new perspective of the same old things.) The surroundings are seedy, like a run-down neighborhood where crime would stereotypically take place-steaming car and pipes (where man does his 'work.') Ruby lost herself striving to integrate herself into this not-to-safe side of the world.
BTW i do see a lot of sexually imagery.1) 4:47 could be the squeaking of a mattress, CONTINED
2) The cage is her unlocking herself to her first love (the blond man?) and it crashing down after he destroys it by (imo) using her body and selling it(pimp) represented in 3)the steaming car, back of the car favor for money, Ruby even looks likes she's wandering the streets like a streetwalkers. 4) Most compellingly though, check out 5:43 she is passing by all these phallic pipes! Each of her clients(there are many.) She admires decaying(that 'bad girl image') but its not what she imagined
Well my interpretation of this game is that i dont think that the game designers intended tehre to be One meaning and this game can be interpreted as anything but i have read that the story little red riding hood was originally about sexual awakening which each girl has in one way or another whether the girl wanted to or she was raped, also the becoming of womanhood is thought as "the dark forest of womanhood" but thats just what i think =P
Wow this game is really really interesting, I like the creepy feel it gives you slightly overlayed with that fake since of cheerfulness. And the endings are just odd.
Maybe the entire game is a metiphore in itself. In the ending it showed a school and I think some sort of gym place. So it could be going over the things she experianced there. There's no real reason a playground would randomly be in a forest. So the game is possibly like a dream.... and boy what a screwed up dream that would be.
the most popular explination of the symbolisms seems to be rape and those who argue it claim they're being sexist because a girl and a man is automatically rape to them. but what else can you guess from a torn up room, a wounded girl, and a male who tempted her to sin? my opinion is that it is a "dangers of a young girl's mind" message. modern youth are inarguably more corrupt than they were before and this story's most obvious explination is that the girl feels broken, faulted, and decaying.
Ruby met him, he did 'this' and next she was slowly dying in his car (car crash). Slowly, cause she couldn't go out. IMO Ruby was a slave of the 'handsome' guy, and then of his car.
I think her story is 'easier' to interpret than other, but still hard. Her death was the worst, wasn't it?
I'd like to ask you, if someone writes the messages of the girls, when they discover some item....
Because I love one message of Ruby... I wrote it on paper, but I lost it... can anyone help me? There were something like this (but it is just ending, and maybe it is not right): Friends. And engines. Are they so different?
So if somebody know the message, can he send it to me?
(by message I mean the writings, which appear on the screen when you discover something)
I heared, that the story about Little Red Ridding Hood is metaphor for loss of virginity... For me, it is interesting to think about the game in this way...
I know its to be interpreted differently, but here's my go at it.
The girls aren't sisters, they're the same person. Each girls name is another way to say red (the name of the character in the original story). Red is the grandmother, reliving her life through the metaphorical forest. When she is lead astray from the path, it's places in here life that she messed up, and when she "dies" the memory ends and she returns to the house which is the inevitable place of her death. That's my 2 cents.
@GentleLily101 The color. Robins are red. Roses are red (and violets are PURPLE!!!!!!!), Ginger is red, Rubies are red, and Scarlet is another friggin' name for red. But Carmen? I'm lost.
@SSXtrikE Carmen in also the name of an old Opera where the main character is a femme fatal much like carmen and red is a color that that is considered symbolic of sex.
I think this is the only one that really implies something that's close to rape. The bodybag is just this guy's(captain of the football team kinda guy) latest score. She always acts like an outsider but when he shows interest in her, by offering her sigarettes(maybe metaphor for worse drugs) she's excited and becomes his slave, and fucks him because he wants it(hence the cage. although that could also be because he got her hooked on drugs) and then the clichéd car crash.that'smy opinionofcourse
Yeah, I was thinking that maybe the "rust" comment had to do with rape i.e. rough and bloody is better than normal sex, as she tries to convince herself things aren't as bad as they really are...
Also, the limp thing could be suggestive of rough sex, and she might run faster than the others because she's trying to run away either from him or with him.
I think the kids represent the usual person, grandma represents evil and the white/gray girl represents good. The gray girl kills grandma/the wolf at the end, thus allowing the girls to grow up.
Another possibility is that each girl represents one of the seven death sins. Barbed-wire girl = anger, logger-joe girl = lust, boat girl = acadia/sloth, gray girl = gluttony (eat the food herself), car-crash girl = luxury, And the two last i can´t remember. Anyone help me? Maybe rearrange titles?
The game glitched out when I found Ruby's wolf. I woke up outside the house and the game died. I didn't even get to see the ending. Is it different if you don't get any items and find the wolf or would I have gotten this ending regardless?
I had some endings that resulted in more then 0/3, also - but for these videos, I collected all of the items with all of them, saving after each one, then loaded them in sequence and completed them (to get the video all at once). I think this caused it.
A lot of trial and error with various settings; I don't recall what ultimately worked, but that's why the sound is so jacked up and tinny - when it finally worked, I took it, rather then playing through the damn game again trying to get better quality. :P
Does fraps not work with The Path, or not work period? If it's not working at all, check Fraps' technical support. It's probably a settings or drivers issue. If it's just with the path, I had the same issue and had to do some major trial and error - you'll probably have to do the same.
The other girls call her "goth"... It's one way of killing people: stereotyping them, putting them in a box and throwing it away. But there's more to Ruby than meets the eye. A young lady by now, 15 years of age. Life has opened up to her as a rotting flower of corruption. She can see through it all but remains an enigma herself.
LadyBern 5 days ago
@LadyBern
When asked about her leg brace, Ruby says she's in pain. But doesn't specify where it hurts.
Ruby does not long for death. She takes a perverse pleasure in observing the extreme decay of adult society. But what will happen when she ceases to be a witness and becomes a participant instead?
LadyBern 5 days ago
im getting the creep just loking at the video can`t wait to try the game
DEADSHADOW777 1 month ago
man!! O_O
just say no to drugs!
fareedbakhit 2 months ago
ruby is so cute
madaramebaku100 2 months ago
What happens if you stay on the path?
CODNitro9 2 months ago
@CODNitro9 you lose ...FAILED
muchamariam1 2 months ago
this game is just soooooooooooooo slow! :O
Nackols 3 months ago
This is by far the most pretentious thing I've ever seen, I feel like I'm in a college film class.
myDAnameistakenD8 3 months ago
ok does any body else notice that she has 1 window in the whole "Normal" part of the house and then you open 1 door and there are like 50 of em!!!! and that house is HUGE i mean she has a whole factory in that place!!!!
Crazymelon207 4 months ago
Noooooo! I liked her character model!!!! :(
poptart4259 4 months ago
creepy... O.O
codgirlmya115 4 months ago
Ruby: Granny, what large and crazy house you have!
Granny: SHUT UP! I KNOW IT IS!
gloompelt 4 months ago 2
what a twisted ending..
419chris419 5 months ago
is it just me or her right leg is all rusted...?
frostieschocopop 5 months ago
morel of the story kids: dont do drugs
extondude 5 months ago
these are the kind of games that u ask your self "if i had a gun will i shoot at teh computer or will i shoot my self?"
but u never got a gun to decide
BRENKER99 6 months ago
this game is pretty neat because it represents life they tell you to stay on the path if you do you fail because u do what ur told but if you step off the path you are taking a risk to do something like patsybob says ruby represents peer pressure and the rest represent other risks that you take in life really cool game
5MrPurple 6 months ago 2
who the hell leaves their grandmas so far away in a forest like that ;p
bulletbrides 6 months ago
Ok. I don't understand this. Are they zombies at the end? When there in the rain and in the grandmothers house?vc
FREDLOVER9710 6 months ago
@FREDLOVER9710 I think in each of the success endings the visit to grandma's house is not literal. The house is full of symbolism about what happened to them during their 'ravaging'.
xRAINxOFxBLOODx 6 months ago
O.O
eso dio miedo...........................The Phath,un juego de terror,muerte,miedo,melodia me gusta su melodia aunque me da miedo
sakura44487 6 months ago
i dont even get this game at all D:
GarrysSketch 6 months ago
Grandma's got a trippy house O.O
jonrskitlez 7 months ago 22
Oh hey Spike :D
BakaKoneko 8 months ago
@BakaKoneko hooray for badass vampires that make special appearances in video games!
callidad 8 months ago
Um... I've never played this game before. I thought it would be some sort of American McGee's Alce type of game... But I don't think I'll enjoy this one as much as Alice. It looks slow and... I don't know. Should I really buy it or not?
xXSonicLoveXx 8 months ago
@xXSonicLoveXx it similar on the fact that it's also bash on a fairy tale but with darky mood. However it not an action game and it's more like pyschology game. However the game is REALLY slow and creepy but it's not as disturbing as American McGee's Alice.
sacrosanctSUn 8 months ago
the bug of 0/x at the end happens when you save and load the game. The display number is fine when you play all the game without loading. Srry bad enlgish
KeLoman0 8 months ago
what kinda creepy, sadistic grandma has all this in her house?
jordierox2 8 months ago
ruby looks like a bratz doll and i know this because my sister had bratz dolls at one time
jordierox2 8 months ago 2
The blond guy was the wolf?
I think she got raped and died 'cause of that
LoReNzOthEcRaZy 9 months ago
met a guy...got raped... got killed with falling stuff... w..wait... the deaths are getting a little wierd now!
darkzeroandnel1 9 months ago
This game is just about growing up, there's no real death on it... To me it's like ONE girl's life, represented by all these girls. Which one is she at a certain age. The wolves mean what kind of trouble she might find in her life metaphoricly (and her life is "the path"). At the end of the path is an old woman (grandmother) which would also be her. But she can only find her there (she can only grow) if she doesnt get induced by the wolf.
xKAKTOx 9 months ago 4
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xKAKTOx 9 months ago
I lol'd at the wolves basketball gym.
XxXEmoReaperXxX 10 months ago
I think no one of the girl really died. And only sick perverts could think that they was raped either.
I think Ruby was trying to look older then she really was. So she desperately made contact with "dirty" part of the world, which she is thinking as "mature." Like many girls try to act goth or emo while they are neither.
KazeKoichi 10 months ago
Ruby represents peer pressure, she smokes to fit in but she cant really fit in, her morbid ideas and leg brace make her different, shes beautiful but she is still an outcast, the toilets represent school toilets perhaps a recluse from peer pressure?, the cage again trapped, the bed with board in it represents being hit and the truama of the crash and losing herself physical and her personailty also having sex to fit in,the idea she cant be accepted for herself but be what others want her to be!
patsybob 11 months ago 24
@patsybob get out more
hjenkinz 3 months ago
@hjenkinz Just because someone can successfully analyze the pieces of a mind boggling plot such as this one, doesn't mean they're any more of a recluse than yourself.
MythOfLight 2 weeks ago
@patsybob No she's not trying to fit. She's different and she accepts it. "Cigarettes. I can't believe I have never smoked. They say it makes life shorter. I should" . She's just not full of life and energy like the others. She had car crash and maybe someone hurt her that's why she doesn't want to live. She sees chaos in shool and corruption 4:58 . She feels trapped and lonely. I think she had boyfriend that she loved him and trust him but he hurt her then left her.
Sorry for mistakes.
Kruukk 2 months ago
@Kruukk Yes she is, why else would she hang around the park and engage with the sleeze ball who we assume has possible killed someone. Ruby is the most mature but she knows if she wants to be accepted she has to throw away her personality and be a popular girl that follows the trends of others. Its what they mean by she is pretty and she could have any boy she wants.
patsybob 2 months ago
@patsybob É TEM LOGICA O QUE VOCE FALOU É DE SE PENSAR UM JOGO BEM PSICOLOGICO QUE TRABALHA COM A MENTE E SEU SUBCOSIENTE
RAPHAEL1W1GONZALES 2 weeks ago
did she get raped and got killed?
TheSnowAngel04 11 months ago
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I think this game is just a fucking ripoff that requires you to shell out 10 dollars to "think". I could run outside right now and look at different blades of grass to analyze the meaning of life for free.
GoldenGazette 1 year ago
when you fail in this game it mean you safe.
Hajare97 1 year ago 2
@Hajare97 what do you mean?
lapas 11 months ago
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am i going to die seven days from now?
metalheadrebellion 1 year ago
Music bloody ruined it.
SilverRodent 1 year ago
Beautiful, I fapped.
PenisCupcake 1 year ago
@PenisCupcake lolwtf
CeCePeachie 11 months ago
my interpretation is that the wolf killed ruby and the body being dragged away was ruby's. the events taking place after watching her body being dragged away were precursers to the actual killing. the surreal journey through the house was her disembodied soul seeking some semblence of meaning for her previous existence only to find a spinning bed symbolizing a nightmare fully realized...that there was no meaning after all...kinda dark interpretation for one of the darkest games ive ever seen
kenocartel 1 year ago 3
So... I'm going to say.. She was raped..
TheRaggedyDoctor 1 year ago
As you can see, the "Wolf" at 00:11 is dragging some child corpse rolled in a carpet! :-O
I think that could be a metaphor for him killing her "child innocence".
esoares 1 year ago 4
@esoares Proably.
Well maybe they kill children together. =o
NocturneXofXShadows 1 year ago
@NocturneXofXShadows =OOO That would be utterly creep!
esoares 1 year ago
@esoares I know right!?
But its there life.
I just hope they don't kill my niece. :|
NocturneXofXShadows 1 year ago
The musiccccccc! :O Am I the only who gets the creeps of this?
toepywa 1 year ago 3
Dang that lighter was bright!
KleptoCosplayer 1 year ago
is this supose to be scary or something?
duivels22 1 year ago
Ruby and that guy are best friends. I think Ruby was told by her mother that she was perfect and Ruby let it go to her head. The guy also told her she was perfect, once again going to her head. When he offered her a cig she looked hesitant but toke it anyways. When she was high or something she got into a car accident. When she looked in to the mirrior she picked out her flaws (The pic with the chipped face) The playground is saying she wishes life was easier like when she was a child. Im donee~
NocturneXofXShadows 1 year ago
@NocturneXofXShadows They can't be best friends... As you can see, the guy is the "Wolf", and at 00:11 he is dragging some child corpse rolled in a carpet! :-O
esoares 1 year ago
For your interperation (sorry if its mispelled) I'll put the flashes in the vid
6:08
6:10
6:11
6:07
6:16
There you go! Make your guess since now you have your evidence. :)
NocturneXofXShadows 1 year ago
i think that she was itching for fun and adventure and to be cool and when she smoked that first cigarette she lost her innocence, and then she had sex with that goth douche and it just escalated to the worse with drugs, and when she comes home she understands how good she had it before when she was just living a quiet life with her sisters, even if it was boring it was still secure and safe
Rangel316 1 year ago 5
i can't find this game at ebay or amazon D:
MrFendkg287316 1 year ago
@MrFendkg287316 It's on Steam.
Joudas 1 year ago 7
@MrFendkg287316 is on steam :D
rozzg97 1 month ago
Is this supposed to be artistic!??!?Wtf?!?!?
AtomicDonut22 1 year ago
Ruby's house represents rebellion. You can see she wants to break free like with the birdcage. When she is with her metaphorical wolf, it is a sign of maturing from the kiddy stuff and the desire to be an adult, which also fits in with what she looks like in age. The metal piping most likely shows that ruby wants to age, and when she actually does, she'll realize that its not all that she wanted. In this sense, Ruby can be seen as the most childish of the girls, as the most naive.
DragonSongOnTheWind 1 year ago 6
looks like grand ma is in the crack game too
realxerife 1 year ago
Here is my take. Ruby is young possibly in high school , I don't think she broke her leg but possibly seriously injured it to the point that its difficult for her to walk. She has an attraction to dark things. Ruby's wolf is possibly a guy she was attracted to, and in order to impress him she took drugs or she was given drugs. Was possibly raped in her drugged state in the back sit of the car. Or both of died in a car wreck while high.
ChunLi3 1 year ago
My thoery of Ruby...
The hallway, it might mean that she had a hard time at school with her broken leg.
The gym, she might be left out of gym classes because of her leg, she feels like she is the odd one out.
The cage, she is treated like an animal, (maybe...)
The playground could be where Ruby and her boyfriend met, now it's where she met her wolf, Ruby wants to die and her wolf does that for her.
Her wolf is her boyfriend.
Ruby's story is about going to High School (i think)
sailordarkmoon999 1 year ago
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why is she walking that slow.did the wolf fuck the shit out of her or what.just bought the game.its fucking annoying and boring!!!!!!!!!!!!
fricksen20 1 year ago
the moral: DARE TO SAY NO TO DRUGS!!
wisdomwielder 1 year ago 2
I'm surprised that no one has pointed out the bag (which I think looks like a body bag) that the guy drags around 0:12. Maybe its some type of foreshadowing that after he's done with Ruby, he'll dispose of her like he does with the bag? Anyone else have any thoughts on that?
OMGawkwardTURTLE 1 year ago 38
@OMGawkwardTURTLE That's what I thought too! I also don't see all this crazy drug use that people keep referring to...what!?
PezPiece 1 year ago
@OMGawkwardTURTLE If you take a closer look, it's actually a sleeping bag... I think.
newmuntyy5 7 months ago
@newmuntyy5 if it was a sleeping bag he wouldn't be dragging it on the ground... a sleeping bag is too light to do that, plus maybe I'm reading to into this but the shape of what he was dragging looked like a body
rufflefluffer 7 months ago
@rufflefluffer I looked at it. It's hollow.
newmuntyy5 7 months ago
@newmuntyy5 How can you tell its hollow? If it was hollow I think it would be light enough for him to carry and not drag it across the ground. My theory that he is dragging a dead body and that the dead body is supposed to represent innocence, Ruby's innocence. The path she has chosen is leading her to a series of experiences that will cause self-inflicting harm on her. Not "suicide" per say but like the girl in the movie "Thirteen".
rufflefluffer 6 months ago
@newmuntyy5 Also I think that Ruby knows that the path she is taking will ultimately lead her to die at a young age because right before she meets up with her wolf she says the words "Though I doubt old age will happen to me"
rufflefluffer 6 months ago
@OMGawkwardTURTLE (late response)
I doubt it, man. Very little of this game is all that literal. The guy seems to represent self-destructive tendencies that Ruby indulges to feel accepted (despite her misanthropy), and the body bag is only literal in the sense that such behavior *can* lead to an early grave.
electricbayonet2 5 months ago
I think that Ruby was definately pressured by her peers into doing things she didn't really want to do. When her wolf hands her a cigarette she is reluctant but takes it anyway. Maybe she wants to impress him? It ends with her landing herself into all sorts of troubles and I think that Ruby is the only girl who ends up dead, after an accident. The bed at the end could mean that she had sex, too, at a young age.
Verakun 1 year ago
Her wolf is drugs! And she was in a car accident because she was high.
WynterZ 1 year ago
what's the meaning of this game?
RisingEagle3 1 year ago
@RisingEagle3 It can be interpreted differently, but the common interpretation is about life and how people stray form 'the path' and fail.
gearpunk 1 year ago
@gearpunk and how do you play it.. i mean.. its like sims or something?, i just dont get it.
RisingEagle3 1 year ago
@RisingEagle3 Yeah more or less. The Path is all about free will and the consequences of your choices.
gearpunk 1 year ago
@gearpunk i see... it looks pretty scary trough....
anyway, is there any gameplay video that shows an actual gameplay, an how you choose what to do and shit..?
RisingEagle3 1 year ago
@RisingEagle3 Um I think this is it... Wikipedia makes it sound as if you just walk up to stuff to interact. that superpositioning is an indicator that you can interact with it I think.
Pyretix 1 year ago
her arms are folded protectivley (if there is such a word) across her chest- perhaps another rape or something?? i heard a rumour or whatever that at the end where you see a car that the man drove her ehile drunk and they crashed...
littleflamestar 1 year ago
Did anyone notice that, I think, every girl's image of grandma's house ends with a bed?
Marcha103090 1 year ago
isnt the leg brace just a fashion statement
varkurds 1 year ago
@varkurds No, apparently there is actually something wrong with her leg but in her description it says that she can still run faster than any of her sisters...go figure :)
fallonhadley 1 year ago
i quite like this game.. i love it... i wander how they get that good idea!!
The Characters are so good I like the moust Ruby.. but them all are cute..
That is not an horror game but it's quite dark story as characters, landscape as music or audio are distresing indeed.. yes i thing it's darck, gloomy atmosphere.. but i never saw before a game tale like that... at least interesting..
Definitely there is none like this one.. ^^
its yet a successful
Equinox2290 1 year ago
To feel pretty and needed she allows herself to give into sex.
Peer pressure.
The car accident is how she was injured.
All the metal objects are symbolic of being frozen. She feels trapped like she is stuck in a cage.
In the end when she is walking up to grandma's house she is wrapping her arms around her stomach. This is body language of feeling insecure. Plus her legs were sprawled out in different directions making it seem almost sexual.
These are just my thoughts.
EnchantedMagickLove 1 year ago
she died when she gets knocked in the head? o-o
miyumii1200 1 year ago
personally, i dont think the game makes any sense :/
i guess it's because it didnt make any sense that i didnt find it scary either D:
why do they end up waking up next to grannys house?
TheHUNGRYalice 1 year ago
I think Ruby saw herself as an outsider not because of her interests but because she saw herself as perfect. Despite her view of life and death she thinks she will be pretty forever. (I doubt old age will happen to me.) Treating men like vehicles she found this dangerous character and tried to 'take him for a ride' (motor noises in the house) though I don't think the 'crash' was a literal car crash, more of a violent end to her 'vehicle' that left her scarred and no longer perfect. (leg brace)
xemerzis 1 year ago
@xemerzis I think you may have hit the nail on the head with that interpretation
WeaponXSigma 9 months ago
damn, i love the way the game just draws you in then takes you on a tour thru the creepiest house that cant be touched by horror films (i think its the fact that the house changes per character and exactly what you do) first time i played it i just ran straight to granny's house, was very normal, nothing moving no shadows or anything. went upstairs to the bedroom and layed next to granny. then she opened her eyes, and then i was creeped out. 2nd time thru i got this ending, but no extra rooms.
F34RT3HR34PP3R 1 year ago 3
Its so wierd when you stop smoking then u end up lying infront of the house, shudden by something, its just so twisted, could mean many things, so wierd.
Hudzun2k8 1 year ago
I think ruby is under peer pressure and that she feels mis-understood shes obessed with death which might be the death of her childhood as she is a teenager and is traumised by the car accident she was in, she might have lost someone important in the accident and wants to die to be with them, she cant express herself represtented by the bird-cage as she has to fit in with her peer group, the bed spinning with a block is perhaps that she will be hit and killed or being traumised of the accident!
patsybob 1 year ago
i don't think it was ever rape, it was peer pressure and lieing about her age to me. with the nightclub like start and the what seems to me like back alleys and/or places that you shouldn't go. she feels like she's trapped possibly since it's enclosed most of the time, if you bring death into it then she might have been crushed in a car in the ending, like in a race of someone showing off. the bed symbolising final rest in life.
kiriethecalamity 1 year ago
I dont typically agree with feeding into these rape theories, but I seriously considered it with Ruby's ending. At the end, where you see the bed spinning around the tiny 'merry-go-round-' type thing could symbolize her losing her innocense on that bed. It doesnt have to be rape, as it could also have been sex due to peer presure, or Ruby's need to feel youthful, but all in all, thats what I think.
boredtotears12 1 year ago
I think the Path is basicaly about you're fears. But who knows, it could be about anything.. DUN DUN.
Animeluv32 1 year ago
That looks like one of the best endings in the game. One question, is the wolf real or is that guy a resemblance to it? Because I did see a wolf ghost with Robin, I think it was.
crysiseternity 1 year ago
what did the guy do
lugia39 1 year ago
what the fuck is this shit?
1w2i3l4t 1 year ago
@1w2i3l4t The shit.
SSXtrikE 1 year ago
@1w2i3l4t The best kind of shit.
SSXtrikE 1 year ago
It's like a dream..
2befine 1 year ago
jesus how stupid are all of you? Its diff versions of Red expierencing the mistakes you make in life for going off the right path, this girl dated a douche bag, got in a car wreck and died
arsonin 1 year ago
@arsonin arsonin symoblicly yes, in the game there sort of a family. it would take a book to fully explain the true depth of this game so ill just leave it at htat.
1justbeatit 1 year ago
@1justbeatit
no, the grandmother is red, the girls are her memories.
there you go
arsonin 1 year ago 2
From 2:38 on, slowly skip ahead. She doesn't even walk.
Galdur21 1 year ago
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sailordarkmoon999 1 year ago
hmmm i think that shes afraid of growing old so shes seeking the thrills of life and trying to keep a young a free image. i think she dies in a car crash while driving all wildly. but i now agree with the @Linguisticz person tht all the girls r red (their names r different shades of red) and reds the grandma reliving her mistakes in memory. this mistake was wen she was 15 forgetting about her safety and trying to fit in and live out her life to the extreme trying to stay young.
K4Ti3adlezFTW 1 year ago
How does one find the patience to walk 1 hour to an house lol
ljoch88 2 years ago 30
I think Ruby got involved with a bad man who was a pimp and he sold her to a brothel (why the place is all red, red-light district?) and used her. The car and engine noises I think represent that she met that guy, feeling cool like "the bad girl, went on a joy ride with him and then he used her - probably raped her and forced her into prostitution- and got money out of her. The pipes I'm not too sure of but I think they show more of the brothel she was in.
Jill4ChrisRedfeild 2 years ago
The thing is that she went with this boy that in fact is hes BF and they went into a car accident thats why everithing is red Blood and pain then she recoverd in a very painfull way leaving back all she loved
partysoco 1 year ago
@Jill4ChrisRedfeild What I heard was that Ruby was an outcast at school, her leg brace was because of a car crash, and that pretty much her obsession with death and maturity caused her to have to immature a bit. She is probably the most mature of all of the girls, yet she wanted to do anything to fit in with the crowd, which is why she took the smoke from the stranger who she clearly saw was suspicious, yet not caring because she welcomed death. In any case this might have ended with rape.
GentleLily101 1 year ago
is this the latest version of the path that you are using in this video?
mamangakka 2 years ago
It was the latest as of when the video was recorded; that was about a week after release, though, so I suspect it's 1.0
Joudas 2 years ago
its a message to us.
its saying that we all walk this path, a way of life that is givin to us at birth.
to follow the path as it is laid out for us is wrong, it is merely a guidline for us to use.
to fully experience life, we must create our own path, we must walk into the darkness to understand the light.
there will be those who wish to lead us deeper into darkness(wolf) and those who wish to bring us onto the path(rabbit)
but we must chose our own route.
and we will find what we need.
zenfox3 2 years ago 7
I have an interpretation...
Ruby loss is her "goodness" in exchange for a life on the "bad" side. The blond man is a thug, and the cigarette he offer is the opportunity to delve in the seedy underground. She's hesitant at first (reeling away nervously) but takes it anyways. Her first puff she coughs but gets used to it slowly(transition to delinquency.) She gets to he grandma's house, and we see a fast moving rocking chair worn out and squeaking(worrying parents.) *CONtinued
xosofine02 2 years ago 6
@xosofine02 The house is turned to its side(in a new perspective of the same old things.) The surroundings are seedy, like a run-down neighborhood where crime would stereotypically take place-steaming car and pipes (where man does his 'work.') Ruby lost herself striving to integrate herself into this not-to-safe side of the world.
BTW i do see a lot of sexually imagery.1) 4:47 could be the squeaking of a mattress, CONTINED
xosofine02 2 years ago 6
2) The cage is her unlocking herself to her first love (the blond man?) and it crashing down after he destroys it by (imo) using her body and selling it(pimp) represented in 3)the steaming car, back of the car favor for money, Ruby even looks likes she's wandering the streets like a streetwalkers. 4) Most compellingly though, check out 5:43 she is passing by all these phallic pipes! Each of her clients(there are many.) She admires decaying(that 'bad girl image') but its not what she imagined
xosofine02 2 years ago 6
Well my interpretation of this game is that i dont think that the game designers intended tehre to be One meaning and this game can be interpreted as anything but i have read that the story little red riding hood was originally about sexual awakening which each girl has in one way or another whether the girl wanted to or she was raped, also the becoming of womanhood is thought as "the dark forest of womanhood" but thats just what i think =P
GamingGoddess660 2 years ago
Wow this game is really really interesting, I like the creepy feel it gives you slightly overlayed with that fake since of cheerfulness. And the endings are just odd.
Maybe the entire game is a metiphore in itself. In the ending it showed a school and I think some sort of gym place. So it could be going over the things she experianced there. There's no real reason a playground would randomly be in a forest. So the game is possibly like a dream.... and boy what a screwed up dream that would be.
Dreamcube017 2 years ago
the most popular explination of the symbolisms seems to be rape and those who argue it claim they're being sexist because a girl and a man is automatically rape to them. but what else can you guess from a torn up room, a wounded girl, and a male who tempted her to sin? my opinion is that it is a "dangers of a young girl's mind" message. modern youth are inarguably more corrupt than they were before and this story's most obvious explination is that the girl feels broken, faulted, and decaying.
BarelyPerfect 2 years ago
Colours in 4:20 look like 'disco colours'(?)
At a glance:
Ruby met him, he did 'this' and next she was slowly dying in his car (car crash). Slowly, cause she couldn't go out. IMO Ruby was a slave of the 'handsome' guy, and then of his car.
I think her story is 'easier' to interpret than other, but still hard. Her death was the worst, wasn't it?
(I can't speak english very well...)
Kselianna 2 years ago
im faded and some of this shit make real sense to me.
Pharoahs 2 years ago
Word up to that, man. I know exactly what you mean.
dtedizkiller1 2 years ago
I'd like to ask you, if someone writes the messages of the girls, when they discover some item....
Because I love one message of Ruby... I wrote it on paper, but I lost it... can anyone help me? There were something like this (but it is just ending, and maybe it is not right): Friends. And engines. Are they so different?
So if somebody know the message, can he send it to me?
(by message I mean the writings, which appear on the screen when you discover something)
Thanks :)
krestanol 2 years ago
@krestanol
Finaly I found it :D I had it as status on icq :D it is:
Engines. And friends.
Turn them on.
Turn them off.
Life. Death.
Are they so different?
Isn't it wonderful?
krestanol 2 years ago 2
@krestanol it was the same thing you said, but she said at the end 'turn them on. turn them off."
marinlabyrinth 1 year ago
I heared, that the story about Little Red Ridding Hood is metaphor for loss of virginity... For me, it is interesting to think about the game in this way...
krestanol 2 years ago 2
I know its to be interpreted differently, but here's my go at it.
The girls aren't sisters, they're the same person. Each girls name is another way to say red (the name of the character in the original story). Red is the grandmother, reliving her life through the metaphorical forest. When she is lead astray from the path, it's places in here life that she messed up, and when she "dies" the memory ends and she returns to the house which is the inevitable place of her death. That's my 2 cents.
Linguisticz 2 years ago 84
damn thats deep, bravo man bravo
ResidentEvilFan893 2 years ago
@Linguisticz How does Carmen have anything to do with Red?
SSXtrikE 1 year ago
@SSXtrikE Do you mean the color or little red riding hood?
GentleLily101 1 year ago
@GentleLily101 The color. Robins are red. Roses are red (and violets are PURPLE!!!!!!!), Ginger is red, Rubies are red, and Scarlet is another friggin' name for red. But Carmen? I'm lost.
SSXtrikE 1 year ago
@SSXtrikE Well i cant really say they meant this or not, but they might have based her name off of carmine, which is a deep red.
GentleLily101 1 year ago
@SSXtrikE Carmen in also the name of an old Opera where the main character is a femme fatal much like carmen and red is a color that that is considered symbolic of sex.
At least that's make take
HeartOfGabija 1 year ago
@Linguisticz I like that one, and even though this was posted 9 months ago, I would like to ask what your interpretation of the "girl in white" is.
MademoiselleTruand 1 year ago
@Linguisticz Sounds logical to me
-wait wut?-
Goma2 11 months ago
@Linguisticz all this time I thought red was the main protagonist on early pokemon games
AndyPertamax 11 months ago
@Linguisticz That probably the best interpretation I've heard so far.
RubyMuto 10 months ago
wtf happened to that house!
carver195 2 years ago 9
I think this is the only one that really implies something that's close to rape. The bodybag is just this guy's(captain of the football team kinda guy) latest score. She always acts like an outsider but when he shows interest in her, by offering her sigarettes(maybe metaphor for worse drugs) she's excited and becomes his slave, and fucks him because he wants it(hence the cage. although that could also be because he got her hooked on drugs) and then the clichéd car crash.that'smy opinionofcourse
choockchoocks 2 years ago 2
Yeah, I was thinking that maybe the "rust" comment had to do with rape i.e. rough and bloody is better than normal sex, as she tries to convince herself things aren't as bad as they really are...
iamthepeppernator 2 years ago
Also, the limp thing could be suggestive of rough sex, and she might run faster than the others because she's trying to run away either from him or with him.
iamthepeppernator 2 years ago 2
if you play this game while your stoned you probably fucking die
SABTERROR 2 years ago 64
@SABTERROR Only if you don't stay on the path. xP
TwilightVulpineTV 1 year ago
I think the kids represent the usual person, grandma represents evil and the white/gray girl represents good. The gray girl kills grandma/the wolf at the end, thus allowing the girls to grow up.
Another possibility is that each girl represents one of the seven death sins. Barbed-wire girl = anger, logger-joe girl = lust, boat girl = acadia/sloth, gray girl = gluttony (eat the food herself), car-crash girl = luxury, And the two last i can´t remember. Anyone help me? Maybe rearrange titles?
jaanni 2 years ago
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krestanol 2 years ago
I think Ruby is in the "date-then-break-up game". While driving her date crashes into her school and she dies... I think...
DarkRebecca 2 years ago
The game glitched out when I found Ruby's wolf. I woke up outside the house and the game died. I didn't even get to see the ending. Is it different if you don't get any items and find the wolf or would I have gotten this ending regardless?
NamelessLPs 2 years ago
If you don't unlock the rooms you just skip them in grandmas house and go strait to the end room.
DarkRebecca 2 years ago
Do all the six sisters die at the end when its a Success
MissCeraPink 2 years ago
Yes but they come back after the epilogue.
DarkRebecca 2 years ago 2
Creepiest...ending...of them all.
BronzeFlames78 2 years ago
wait, what the hell just happend
wizardbaker 2 years ago 2
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she probably got raped...
fiskefyren 2 years ago
I had some endings that resulted in more then 0/3, also - but for these videos, I collected all of the items with all of them, saving after each one, then loaded them in sequence and completed them (to get the video all at once). I think this caused it.
Joudas 2 years ago
what do u use to record the game?
LadyIceCr3am 2 years ago
Fraps!
Joudas 2 years ago
how did u managed to make it work, i cant record the path it fraps!! *-*
LadyIceCr3am 2 years ago
A lot of trial and error with various settings; I don't recall what ultimately worked, but that's why the sound is so jacked up and tinny - when it finally worked, I took it, rather then playing through the damn game again trying to get better quality. :P
Joudas 2 years ago
can u do me a favour? i really need the gameplay of the game.
could you send me? pleaseee *-*
LadyIceCr3am 2 years ago
Unfortunately I don't have any of the original videos, and I don't have the game installed anymore... what do you need it for?
Joudas 2 years ago
to make a music video! i really needed them *_* and i cant figure out how to record it on my pc, fraps just doesnt works
LadyIceCr3am 2 years ago
Does fraps not work with The Path, or not work period? If it's not working at all, check Fraps' technical support. It's probably a settings or drivers issue. If it's just with the path, I had the same issue and had to do some major trial and error - you'll probably have to do the same.
Joudas 2 years ago
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There are only two interpretations that make sense to me.
1. She was raped (body bag carried by the guy on the bench, cage represents no choice, bed for sex, how she walks, etc)
2. She died of drug overdose (she started smoking, she is in a cage because it took over her life, etc.)
Either way it's artsy bullshit. Here's hoping for loli rape...
NAYNAYxXxXxXx 2 years ago