Discover a dark mystery only a medium can solve. Travel to an abandoned communist resort and use your unique psychic abilities to uncover its deeply disturbing secrets, solve dual-reality puzzles, survive encounters with sinister spirits, and explore two realities at the same time.
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Discover a dark mystery only a medium can solve. Explore the real world and the spirit world at the same time. Use your psychic abilities to solve puzzles spanning both worlds, uncover deeply disturbing secrets, and survive encounters with The Maw – an entity born from an unspeakable tragedy.
The Medium is a third-person psychological horror game that features an innovative dual-reality gameplay, unique art style inspired by painter Zdzisław Beksiński, and original soundtrack co-composed by Arkadiusz Reikowski and Akira Yamaoka.
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That's a really jerk move to sacrifice herself to end up leaving Lillian left behind with the maw for the only company for who knows how long. if it was me, I think I would have attempted taking out both of them so that the sisters could die together. I'm afraid one of them is going to be way more miserable and depressed after the other sister dies.
One too many loose threads for my taste, especially when it comes to Thomas role and whereabouts. My main takeaway is that since Marianne was seeing the future, that should mean she shot herself, cause the one she saw shooting Lily was Thomas. Great game and great playthrough!
WHAT?!?! I’ve LOVED watching this playthrough…. but that ending has killed me! I need answers!
Bruh that some BS. Why the cliffhanger 😤🤬
I really enjoyed this play through though a couple things would have improved it for me, if the game volume was turned up more and or your voice was softer. I often had to turn up the sound to hear the game better and then your voice would be blasting/intruding so much it ruined the mood of the game. maybe just me but you were obviously excited in your louder bits and that's normal … glad you enjoyed playing cos we enjoyed watching, hopefully there's a part 2 to this story
i LOVE that ending. i really don't think coming down on one side or the other of who was shot would have done anything but destroy the tension. great ending to a great game.
You could maybe check out "For the king" next. Think you might like it 🙂
She made tea for herself and Thomas. But spirits don't drink tea I suppose. She realized that just when she put the glasses on the table and that's why she pulled the second glass a bit back.
That secret service agency spoke in their files of the 'gemini' project, gemini means twins. So also twins as in splitting yourself!
The demon spirits of Henry and Richard remained in the spirit world. As will Maw remain if she would've shot Lily (and Marianne shooting herself wouldn't stop Maw too, he already mentioned earlier Thomas escaping him, guess any medium would suffice him). Maw already knew how to escape into the real world. Just as Thomas made it into the spirit world. That's what he did in his office in Niwa.
Remember Francis saying he set Lily free as he felt sorry for her.
And that part in the playground, Lily took of her mask. That was for me a sign that she is not a spirit of a dead person.
I think the by the actions of Richard Lily's spirit got devided into a good spirit and an evil spirit. And probably that's where the clue into ending Maw lies.
This is one of the best horror/occult games I've ever seen!!
You're freaking shitting me! There will be a 2nd one right? RIGHT?
22:50 'I hope they can… cyberpunk this'
A little optimistic lol, given CP hasn't improved beyond some bare bones bug fixes in the 2 months since release. No Mans Sky is a better example, as that game they actually went the distance and really revived that game.
Thomas was alone – is name of other game. Coincidence???
Holy hell! What an ending! Oddly, i was board in the beginning, but man this ramped up nicely. Entertaining stories. Beautiful look…Really, enjoyed it. 👍🥳
This game is so excellent and the music is absolutely perfect. Holy moly! Thanks for the awesome playthrough, always enjoy your commentary
MEDIUM 2 LETS GO!!!
I really hate this ending because it leaves with the assumption that Marianne kills herself, which is just completely ignorant. She is literally the only person, to our knowledge, who can kill it. Yes, Marianne is the only one powerful enough to be "it's meat suit", but her killing herself does nothing. It is still free to kill everyone and temporarily "wear" anyone.
I also understand killing Lilly, doesn't necessarily solve the problem, because the spirit can live without the material, however, as it was said, you couldn't kill or "send" the spirit, if the body is alive. Ultimately, it make a ton more sense to kill Lilly.
I honestly wish they would have let you make a choice and had a certain ending based on that.
Ok, I was typing that during the credits and you talking. Then the last scene popped up and I agree, that looks like the material world Thomas in the spirit world. It makes sense in an odd way, but it just confuses the whole ending even more because if Lilly is still alive, as most will believe, and Thomas was unable to kill her, then would he be able to mentally destroy her the same way he did Richard? I would assume not. My assumption is that maybe he intends to have the Maw "wear" him, but since he is in the spirit world, he could then have his spirit self, who isn't connected to him anymore, kill him as a spirit, thus killing the Maw. Highly doubt that is right, but that's my take.
At the end of the day, the developers did a great job creating this story and while I really dislike the ending, the story was great and theworld was very believable and engulfing. Definitely one of the best games from this year I would say.
this game is something fucking else
Thank you christopher, fantastic lp, as always. Like your thoughts at the end, more people should do this and dont give a stupid score on a metric. Bloober Team is a very small studio with no big money to polish like Sonys games to take forever to make , but bloober are masters of storytelling, environmental storytelling, yes there is a lot to read and exploring the world is key for their games, but this is my joy and motivitation and yours as well. I know you for years, long time subscriber, you set the vibe in every game you play. So for the technical side i dont know if they can optimize it more. Its a very demanding game rendering two worlds always in real time with ray tracing in 4k and the highest textures. It only came out for next gen consoles series x/s and high end pcs. To switch between worlds need a lot of power. This game melted a few pcs. Bloober team did the mocap by themself , it looks descent but no comparison to big budget productions. Pandemic didnt help too. But the world building and their ideas are absolutely incredible. I am looking forward to their next game. This is a real gem. I found 75 % of notes, fotos, audios, cards. The more you search the more you know about all characters and the story. But you did very well. Stay safe. One question: what about K, the mother? In the trailer for the game there were many scenes about her which didnt appear in the game. Only promo material or is there another memory to find? Almost nothing was revealed about the mother except the watch she gave thomas, the t+k on the tree and the three pictures in the house of thomas. Weird.
God I’m trying to avoid these. It’s killing me not to watch your play through. I loved watching Observer b4 I finally played it on Switch. I REALLY want to wait until this is on IOS game pass (hopefully they do it), or PS. May have to wait a LONG time.
I would love more stories set in this universe, this was such a good and interesting game. while the ending is a bit ambiguous for me I think it was great and wouldn't change it but there are so many questions about how this all works that I would love other games following other protags that explain it
If I knew that was how it was going to end, I wouldn't have wasted my time watching it. This really pisses me off.
Only way to get rid of the maw would be to kill Lily and send it away like she did with the childeater and the hound, so killing herself does not solve the problem of the maw still existing. Not sure how far away from Lily The Maw can get, but anyone who comes around Niwa, if it is bound to be near Lily would be fair game for posession. Thus all those dead animals eaten from the inside out.
OMG can we have a Thomas sequel, can we??? Because he's so cool. Overall, what an amazing game. I'm really impressed, though not brave enough to play it myself because I know I'll likely piss my pants the whole time lol but really good job, devs, good job.
Hmmmmmm hate the ending but the twists were satisfying
This was an absolutely great story! Loved watching it and thank you for playing it!
Yeah, it's pretty pretty good game but the optimization still needs more work. I've played the game a bit with GTX 1060 3GB and the performance was ok when it only render one world, but when it render 2 worlds at the same time, it drops to about 20 fps and it get worse when in a cutscene with both worlds showed.
Thanks Odd for this playthrough, I'm enjoying it and had a blast!
Great game, like you the open end of it kinda irks but I don't see a better way for it to end, as a side thought the gunshot could be like in the movie fight club where Brad pits character is shot in the end, Maryanne could have 'shot' her spiritual self killing that part of her and so being useless to the maw
Hm, given the teaser at the end, I think Marianne shot herself and the Maw is still out there somewhere for Thomas to hunt.
Maybe we'll get a Thomas game in the future
One of the best horror game stories I've seen in a long long time. Man I hope they make a sequel or DLC for this because I really want to know what happens next! I also hope they fix the frame issues so the game runs better. More people need to play and know about this game.
I haven't understood most of what's happening in this game. Will have to research from part one later.
Killing Lily:
As she said, the Maw is invincible as long as she is alive. With their 'host' dead, Sadness & The Maw become vulnerable (I assume because their anchor is gone) and can be spirited away.
Marianne killing herself:
The Maw cannot take her as a host, BUT: Who's to say that there isn't another host out there? It might just has to wait until someone else shows up or Lily leaves the resort.
Also: Not having a host didn't prevent the Maw from killing. It seems as if the Maw cannot venture too far from Lliy herself (because it was stuck as the Niwa Resort) but if it can make Lily move, it goes with her.
So Marianne killing herself doesn't actually achieve anything. The Maw still exists and the danger it represents persists.
One question though:
Who actually called Marianne in the beginning? Was it Thomas? He didn't actually have a reason to do this.
Two characters did have a reason/plan:
1. Lily: She wanted to die and needs her sister to kill her because she cannot (?) kill herself
2. The Maw: Because it needs her as a … 'vessel'