Let's Sperg Let's get into a state of flow with .flow (ScreenShot LP) - Darker and Edgier Yume nikki.

[ChucklesTheJester]

.Flow Is a Yume Nikki fan game. Right from the title music you can tell it going for a darker feeling. While I did watch some of a Let's play many many years ago right after the Yume Nikki one. I can't remember a damn thing about this game. So in other words, This will be completely blind LP so make sure you spoiler tag things not yet seen. We will be playing on the latest version 0.194 .

Oh also No idea why, but unlike Yume Nikki I have to click outside the game window to take a gif/screenshot with the programs I use so It's a tad bit more janky for me.

Episode 1: Deja Vu, I've been in this place before.

Spoiler

The image on the right looks like something you see in a Newgrounds flash game in the mid 2000s.

Listen to that music, Where yume nikki had a more calming feel to it, this has depressing slow vibe. I still think Snow world from YN has a better lonely vibe sound then the title here.

Getting flash backs to the static maze already.

We play as Sabitsuki Get used to a lot of Yume nikki fan games names sounding a lot alike. Even the room looks depressing compared to YN.

In .flow we have some new menus on the menu screen. Let's look at all menus.

As per normal we start with instructions as a effect. Let's see if the controls are any diffrent.

Could one say this is a flow chart. Ohhh that was bad.

No dedicated wake up button here. And the effects button is moved.

Under Special menu we can well wake up.

Under Me menu, we can check out Sabitsuki and see what she has on.

I wonder if we can at some point pick up items to change how we look. Ones that are not effects.

It's the same animation as in YN.

Let's check out our console and see what game is on it.

The console looks like a orange Super nintendo, and the name might be a nod to Japanses name of the nintendo systems. Famicom(family computer).

Heck yeah I love these minigames.

Listen to that music.

Goal is simple paw at fishs and sea horses. There is no winning, and there a delay to the attack so you can't spamming it.

And that music is just balling.

On the title by putting in a Modified version of the Konnami code. < < > > ^ v ^ v. You will unlock.

Little too fast for my taste.

Sleeping in the bed is to save your game.

We are still a shut in.

And outside our room on the balcony makes YN one look warm and welcoming in comparison.

With everything in our room looked at it's time we jack in.

Dream world version makes the real world version look warm and cozy.

Thats distressing music.

I wonder if the TV has a event like in YN.

Nothing this time no matter how many time I turn it off and back on.

We can sit at the desk, and lay in the bed but nothing happens. Well Time to open the door and see what the .flow nexus looks like.

Huh Lack of doors here.

We came in looking downward might as well go that way first.

We'll explore this world Next update.

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

Episode 2: Wonderful a underwater location.

Spoiler: I had a weird dream.

On the day I took the screencaps/gifs I had a prety weird dream. I can't Remember too much from it, but what I do remember is this.

I was in some kind of room maze situation, and there was a countdown timer that was purple with a red eye. There was blured face people I had to hit and kill them with a Iron pipe and they would drop white orbs that would add time to the clock. There was also silhouettes of animnals with red eyes around the rooms. Trying to get a good look at them, and they would just vanish. It was always a feeling of dread everywhere.

I can't remember many of the rooms, the one I do remember was a fancy looking room with two staircases, on opposite walls leading towards each other as they went up.

If I have any more weird dream on the days I get screenshots I'll share them.

Spoiler: Main Update

Isn't these the white lillies? Does that mean this place will be full of ghosts?

According to the song, I am spot on.

I think this is a good time to show that these flowers act like they blow in the wind.

It's like a gentle breeze keeps blowing on them. That or they all have earpods in and listen to a groovy song.

Those shameless masses are not interactable with.

Look a gate, if YN taught us anything it's that gates like these lead to new places. Let's a go.

Oh it's a really dark room.

Sadly the screen cap program I use seems to make the picture darker then it is in game.

It ruins pictures like these where they something dark, but still see able in game, but not in screenshot.
What should be here is blueish puddles like tiles that when you walk on kind of sound like you are suddenly LSD the dream emluator.

Oh wow a real underwater level. This is something I wanted to see in YU, nice to see this game has one.

I want to be frank with you all, I have a fear of deep water I can't see the bottom of. It stems from when I was playing Rachet and clank 2 as a child, and got traumatized by the goldfish shark creates that sollow you whole.

This is what I would expect a moody underwater soundtrack to sound like.

Mumbo must have used his magic to make the water breathable. Guh-huh!

We can go up, to the right, or

Down. The more down we go, the darker the screen gets. Let's go down.

This has to my favoite place so far.

Lot of weird little spikes around.

We find a house underwater?

Woah thats a weird looking piano. Look like a halloween themed piano.

That person is doing something with it.

Our first effect is a diving helmet. Didn't know what I expected from a underwater world.

Pressing the action button makes it blow a few bubbles out.

Check out the coral. Cool.

Does anyone know what these things are? I think they are wooden spikes.

Let me tell you they littered all over this place.

This reminds me of that formation in the wasteland. I couldn't find anything else in this looping area.

So let's go up now.

It's like a sand castle.

A really big one.

Hahaha Portholes. Seeing portholes inside a underbuilding always cracks me up how silly they look. I don't think we are even tall enough to look out of them.

There are quite a lot of rooms here, nothing much of note in them, and I swear some of them loop back making it kind of like a maze.

Scribbles on the wall here.

Okay the portholes are just getting ridiculous.

Havn't we been in this one before?

Wait is that Uboa? Neat.

Looks like someone tried getting rid of that eye art.

We have a shadow on the wall. Going in that last door.

To a super dark room.

At first I thought I couldn't go anywhere. That light is a hint that I am faceing a wall and need to go right.

There a few of hard to see dark NPCS here. They don't seem to do anything when I interact with them.

I'll take this dark maze with the lights over the static maze from YN anyday.

It takes a while but we do find the end.

Oh no those holes in the wall, they remind me of the sewer pictures.

I like the art a bit more then YU ones.

First one reminds me of Fallout NV old world blues.
Second one looks like the Deviant Smile.

Is that rust or blood on the floor? What the hell happen here.

First time I saw this one I thought it was a old man lizard, not too sure now. You can also see a rare apprence of the mouse pointer.

Living art.

Look at it move looks like it's flapping tiny wings.

I guess I found the exit. Let's check the rest of the room out first.

Sorry what?

Oh Smaller door, must be some small room.

Looks like a massive room of flesh.

Hold on this room seems way bigger then I thought. I am going to take a quick peek in the larger door in the art gallery first.

So we can go to a flesh room, or industial hell. Flesh room it is.

Look seems to be people locked away.

There something about this track that unnerves me. Can't quite put my finger on it, but I really don't like exploreing this place.

They don't look too upset.

What do you think the crimes they commited was? What ever it was must have been worse then stealing forty cakes, because that is just terrble.

You do see the same ones a lot here. Maybe they in for clone crimes.

Little on the nose game eh?

Well I guess we better let them eat cake then.

Had a feeling this game would try to animate the the guillotine because of it's more darker tone.

Oh shit we legit died.

I don't mind this music much.

I took off the diver effect because I wanted to see if we lost our head. Sadly no.

Thats a nice little touch having a hand reaching out of the blood. Sadly it's static.

But the pools of blood have a slight animation to them. I hate to admit this, but at first I thought they was just redwalls, it took me a few minutes before I noticed it was pools of blood.

We find a nice little fire. For hell this place could use more fire.

I think think thats the gif being janky why it looks more red.

By going this little out route.

We find a whole island of flames.

While walking back left I did notice this little guy. Enjoying his stay in hell.

It's kind of like his head is on fire. Interacting with him take us to.

A pier with stairs. Aw look he fishing. If I could kill him I would for old times sake with the fisherman in YN.

We find a door, let's keep going up.

I think this place really shows how much darker the screenshots make this game look. I wish I knew why Lightshot (The program I use for screenshots) Does this.

Wait hold on I thought the underwater world looped? Am I really so stupid as to miss this? Looks like the stairs decend into the abyss; I LOVE IT.

Yeah looks like i've been here. Let's go back down into the door.

The piano gives a small calming feeling.

Some kind of table down here.

I'M THE MECHANICAL MAN.

Going to try to not get too wild posting Music not from .flow. But CnC song is too good not to embed the video.

It gives us what looks like scrapped together junkyard robotic limbs. Also puts some weird metal on our head.
It has no action when you press the button so it's purely cosmetic.

I think this is a good end point for this update. Anything imporant I miss, or want to give me a hint towards it? Feel free to.

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

Episode 3 : Tieing up some loose ends underwater.

Spoiler

Let's start this off with something odd. Entering the flow world now has two stars on the screen.

While looking for the underwater pass door, I saw these weird tooth like NPCs. They do nothing when interacting with them.

Let's see what the route I didn't go has in store for us.

I can't wait to see what new stuff we find this way.

Ton of fish swim by every so often, It's pretty neat.

These pillars look like stone unlike the spiky stuff from the other underwater locations.

Look; look another one of those red headed guys.
Underwater settlement BGM
I think this has to be my new favorite track. That guitar is very soothing.
Oh This track I couldn't find on youtube. It's called "down" in the Music folder for the game.

And that one is playing music. I guess he playing the BGM.

Look at him go, Johnny B good at it. I think I'll nickname him johnny.

We can make our way in here.

The doors a bit weird, Despite looking like it's on a angle, you need to go right into it.

Oh empty, disappointing.

Not only is there a second johnny, but it looks like a third one could be setting up.

Oh a third johnny and some clothes.

Interacting with these equips them onto you.

It doesn't show up in the Me Menu. Reality can often be disappointing.

I like this white one more,so I'll keep it on for now.

Aside from that the only thing of note here is this little Tile set bug. Maybe one day the creator will fix that square missing from that rock.

Hey Remember how I went for the Flesh jail place rather then this door. It's time to find out whats up with this path.

This looks like a industrial hellscape. I find this more spooky then the place called Hell in this game.

That NPC I found exploreing this maze Looks very unfriendly.

Woah they way faster then the lunatic bird humans. I wonder what the name of these guys are.

Down the stairs

Oh more stairs. I am starting to notice a theme of stairs.

As with before, we will go back and keep exploreing the maze first. We have to interact with that orange thing to be sent back to the stairs.
It takes me a while of dodgeing the chasers to find anything of note.

It's that girl from underwater house. At first I thought in interacting with her did nothing.

Look at her float

Then I went downwards and yeah, I didn't show it this is not the path we took to get to her.

No chasers to be seen here.

At the end of it is another orange teleporter.

Oh this looks like cool. The eye moves.

Going up we see this orb.

This is the same door from before we looped back to it. Going down the same result. I try for a few more loops to see if it changes. No dice.
I head back to the maze, look around and go back to the plant place.

Groovy.

Plethora of plants on these islands. touching the white lilly teleport us.

Thats the main gimmick here.

Find the other white lilley.

Teleport to the next island.

Repeat

Repeat

Repeat.

Untill we end up here.

Some kind of overgrown cave.

It's a stright line, and we being watched.

Does this remind you of anything?

Yup just like in YN.

I think, Doesn't look any diffrent,let's see if we can teleport back. With the outside white lilley

This is new. Music is the same as the normal ghost garden.

Some kind of overgrown house.

Even stranger plants here.

Looks like they are flexing.

We can see where we need to go. Got to find how to get to the next door under us.

With how over grown this place is, how long do you think it's been abandoned?

Do houses ever get this bad before they collapse?

We are here.

A pool, and a little girl sleeping in the plants. She must be the cause of this overgrowth. Nothing we can do here, I try both of our effects,and even try the interact key and nothing. Back outside the building we go.

There this formation of ghost tooths. It's like a platoon of them standing in formation.

This white lilley doesn't do anything. I wonder if they are keeping watch over it.

Oh hey, isn't that a corpse flower.

Whats weird about this guy is he has a shadow under him.

A ghost, and look above her: they are like royal guards watching over her.

I guess I am

Going ghost!

Despite how it looks nothing to interact with here. I think this is a good stopping point.


I think it's safe to say we explored a lot of the bottom path. For next update should we Go Left, up, or right in the nexus? I would love to see which path you want me to pick.

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

Episode 4: Red eye(s), Groovey world, and and sewers.

Spoiler

I wonder what going to show up once we find all the effects. Will it turn into a connect the dots puzzle, or just be a full picture.

Nexus also looks diffrent today. This white on black, hurts my eyes if I stare at it too long.

As no one posted in the days between the last update, I'll just pick and go up.

Oh dark blood the second we step into this place. This ought be good.

The background is this giant red eye that jusy floats around. Uncareing, and just stareing.

Kind of makesme wonder, is the blood on the mouths from them eatting something, or could they have been coughing up blood.

It's a bit hard to see but there is a eye in the weird stump things. At first I thought maybe that eye on the ground was from one of them, but looking at the screenshot I can see they have eyes.

Thats a Deviant smile if I ever seen one.

And thats what I expect a lolcow would want. Be the center of attention.

There is a ton of feet here but no hands. Hate to think this might imply a foot fetish.

This eye looks diffrent then the rest.

Eye Like.

Eye Can see cleaning now. We should have used clear eyes, it's good for dry red eyes. Er, well in this case eye.

Also found this horrfiying open mouth. You know me I see a giant mouth I jump in.

Holy hell I think this was a bad idea.

Um, is this a event or something.

Moving up we get caught and kicked by outside to this.

If this is lore related thing, maybe she got jumped once. I know what that feels like.

More of these things stareing at us.

Oh Hey It's jazz hands minus the eyes from YN. And if it's at all like YN that means we should walk between them.

Woah, It's like face plaza but now with arms, and eggs.

Also a chaser here. This might be tricky if it wasn't for.

Ghost effect. I am happy I found this early. I would have liked a weapon more, but I'll take what I can get.

Nothing happens if we pass between those arms.

More towards the upper portion are these cat/dog footprints. Stepping on them teleports us to a familiar place feeling place.

People who read LP, or played/seen YN will get the footprintpath vibes from this place.

I'm still trying to figure out what those sqaures are. At first I thought maybe it was a abstract house or something,but the way the red tentacle is drawn. It makes me think it's some kind of vat, or box.

More footprints. Let's head up first.

What ever is growing is seems to be spreading from under the ground.

And touching this thing makes the mass start wiggleing. Hehehe I enjoy that they did this.

Wow look at all those foot prints.

These footprints all look more human, expect the ones going up. Let's go down.

Hehehe making it wiggle never gets old for me.

Let's see where the cat/dog prints take us.

Oh. Thats where the red stuff is coming from. It eats us.

I didn't know this at first so I had to come back after I was done to take this gif of it.

What in the world.

The Music fills you with a sense of wonder as you watch all this fly by.

Despite how it looks, it's not blocking us from going through.

Not only does this place look awesome the music here has a nice trick.

Starts off with just one instrument.

But as you open doors and go to the next area.

It will add another one.

This place is superful colorful and I love it.

I not sure what the heck is moving to the right of us. Maybe water or something.

The first door I make it to is this one, so let's open it.

And lastly by going in that door this room adds.

Our last one making it a fun to listen to tune.

Woah.

This place jsut gets better all the time.

They are like little signs how cute.

This room loops a bit from what I can tell.

I went around 4 times in a loop so let's head back.

Wait hold on, this isn't right. This door wasn't here before nor was those things.

How in the hell did we get bamboozled like this.

I think that is meant to be water, I think.

Look at this little cute guy.

When you interact with him he laughs.

Those signs are animated.

I think this is what I like most about this LP showing off little things.

Purple ones are just reskinned blue ones. We keep going right. I didn't notice you could go up betwen those two blue ones at the time. My Bad.

At the end of the road we forced to go in this Back alley. I think that what this is meant to be.

Oh look a manhole.

Thats right another sewer level. This time we going to be knee deep in the muck.

Huh thats a weird door looks like a face with the two lights as eyes.

I enjoy looking at the water fall.

Thats a banger.

I could keep going right, but whats up?

A bar? In the sewers? I don't expect they get many customers here.

Nothing happen when I tried to interact with the guy sitting, but I can sit myself.

I can also.

SPIIIIIIIIIIN. Just using the arrow keys let's you do that. let's keep going right now.

And back to the sewers we go.

So this is where up here was. Neat.

On the other hand if we went right.

Hey look another teleporter thing. But there a NPC there.

Ohhh.

This guy takes forever to damn move. I cut out a lot of the waiting.

If we keep heading right there another one. If there was a way to wave I would.

If I didn't take this path we might have looked to see what was up that ladder. Maybe next time.

Maybe It's just me but.

They look like little mouths. Not sure that was intended but thats how I see them. Mouths that open in close.

It's like a Fatberg. I really don't want to know what the hell that is. Let's check out the big pipe.

Those looks like water drains.

It even has a splash animation when you interact with it.

If we keep following this path.

This place looks like the Docks, but I wouldn't go swimming in that brown shit water.

This place like the Docks is maze like.

Some weird stuff in the water, but most of this place is walking and seeing the same lights over and over.

But I did find this fetus reject. It has a face that looks like it's suffering.

Other thing of Note I found was this light.

Look at that void. Thank god for the railing.

Hmm up, or down. I Choose up.

Train tracks?

I hope we don't get run over.

Abstract artists eat your heart out.

New friends.

Interacting with them as it seems so far does nothing. But look at the little girl hiding behind the boy.
I'll end the update here it's getting pretty long.

So what do you guys/gals think of .flow so far?

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

Episode 5 Exploreing the Rave Maze.

Spoiler

The update today will be short and sweet. We didn't explore much of this maze; so let's fix that.
This is the door I didn't enter in the first room.

Not too many land marks to make a mentle map for this place.

The few there is start to blend together after a while.

Let's See whats behind this door.

More water and doors.

This room reminds me of the monty hall problem. Of couse we get no prizes opening doors.
Even if the door we choose goes nowhere, we can back track and find out where that last door takes us.

Nice little island in the middle of the water.

This cliff is just as hard to see in game, as this screenshot.

We can stand here and hold right to look, but nothing happens. I wonder if this game has a flying effect. If it does we should come back here and try it.

Let's find out if door three door has anything good behind it.

Just more confuseing maze action.

Even when I do find a new door, I swear It feels like I've already been in it.

It's a-Mazeing I some how ignored this whole place and got out with no problem the first time.

What do you guys think the meaning behind this rainbow maze is anyway?

Could it be some insight into a pychodelic drug trip she had or something.

Maybe It's metaphor for Childhood memories. You can barely make sense, or recall much of them, and it's feels like trying to piece together a colorful mess.

Wait have we been here?

I swear we have been here before.

Wait a second.

Damn it The start of the maze. I've been turned around and bamboozled.

Hold on I'm going to check all my screenshots and see if I can find a door Not in any of them.

It took a while but I did find one. I would hate to know how long this would take if I wasn't screenshotting all the doors.

Oh yeah baby, this is new.

So do any of you like rainbow maze? I find it a nice breath of fresh air.

A cat, Are we getting a cat effect? Maybe we can get that janky slide anmation on NPCs then.

And some nice butterflies.

Come along with me, and the butterflies, and the bees.

Hah we are getting the cat effect.

Oh, we turn into a litteral cat. Does this make us a furry now? I'll end the update on this horrifying new info.

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

Episode 6: Funky Town

Spoiler

With our 5th effect, it is starting to look like the little dipper.

Today we are going to see where this path takes us. Let's hope we can keep up the trend of finding effects.

Woah look at those monsters.

Music makes it sounds like I should be on alert.

Spoiler: A minor amount of flashing

They not chaseing us or anything, but they also don't look friendly. I am going to avoid them for now.

Wait did I miss a door in the rainbow maze. Just means I have to go recheck all the doors for the next update.

Reminds me of slime monsters you might see in Japanses RPGs in a undead theme level, or horror games.

This one; look at that mouth. Such weird out of place monsters for the theme.

Maybe all these guys on the roof are stuck up there, avoiding the monsters down here.

What ever that thing is looks like a alien device.

Reminds me of artifacts from SS13, any of you ever play that game? Always be careful around robotic orgin artifacts. One too many times have I gotten borged that way.

Might as well explore the only building we can enter. Judgeing by the signs it's a brothel. That or this is a weird place to have a tunnel of love.

A maid and more of the monsters.

Oh, Ohhhhh. This name says it all.

Going left we find a hallway with a hotel rooms we can enter.

Let's hope we don't interrupt any full on love making. Unless you into that type of thing between monsters and maids.

Just a maid, not interactable.

Oh I think we interrupted them. Yeah Okay I think I am getting a idea what the black monsters are now. They the type of people that vist these places often.

This is a diffrent room, but looks the same as the first.

Oh shit did we stumble onto a murder.

Still more things we get no interactions out of.

We can't get past this guy. I have a want of a weapon. So I don't have to let all these NPC's block my way.

If we went right from the main room we find the bathrooms.

We can enter the womens room. Those stalls are really high. You could fit a giraffe in there.

We can open and use the first stall, Flushing sound included.

The other door doesn't open and we just knock on it.

We can use the mirrow.

Sadly none of the effects will change the reflection. It would be cool if they did. I can understand why the creator didn't.

We just get a sound if we try to enter the mens rest room. And thats it's for the hotel let's see if I missed anything outside.

I just wanted to ask what the heck is this purple thing on the ground. Is it a paper/garbage?

The only thing of note I could find is this. We can go between these and get to.

A whilted flower, interacting with it as you might expect does nothing. Maybe we need a unfound effect or something, or maybe it's one of those RNG type of situations.

We are going to end, the update here with a gif of the colors of this room. I like the way it looks.