: Welcome to the second, and probably last side update of the YIIK LP. Today, we’re going to talk about the third ending to YIIK. For the record, I did not find the video this update talks about by myself: GrandmaParty actually alerted me to its existence in time for me to include it.
: When YIIK first released, the Allansons teased the playerbase by insisting that there were three endings to the game, and that the third ending was incredibly well-hidden and would take forever to find, ala Payday 2’s true ending.
: What they didn’t plan on was people decompiling the game and sourcediving it. To absolutely no one’s surprise, they didn’t find a single piece of code to back that up. There was NOTHING in YIIK’s source code that looked anything like it could be a third ending.
: The clue the Allansons dropped was that the trading sequence was the key to the third ending. I believe that initially, you were supposed to take the cassette tape and use it to go back into the factory, which would allow you to open that box with the combination lock near where Sammy was.
: However, like I said, the third ending simply doesn’t exist in the game’s code. I’m also pretty sure (though I have not confirmed this) that the broken puzzle (as seen in the first side update) in the factory was broken as a result of them trying to put the third ending into the game.
: You’re probably asking why I’m posting screenshots of a Youtube video. Allow me to explain. On August 19th, a Youtube account by the name of “Mastershielder73 Robles” posted a video claiming to be the third ending to YIIK. The account is (apparently) a Spanish-language LPer.. who does not talk or comment on their videos. I will post a link to the video at the end of this update - but only watch it AFTER I start Ending B, because it contains spoilers for the very beginning of Ending B.
: Now, there’s a couple of dead giveaways that this account belongs to the developers. First off, the fact that the account pops into existence SOLELY to post the YIIK video, with no prior videos showing off an LP. Second, I’m told that the Spanish description is very obviously a machine translation, though I don’t speak enough Spanish to confirm this myself. There’s also the question of why a supposed Spanish-language LPer (who presumably has an audience of Spanish speakers) would LP a game that is entirely in English.
: In case you’re wondering, by the way, the description Google Translates perfectly into “There is a special message from developer that appears before the third final begins. I removed it as requested by the developer.”
: That’s obvious bullshit for several reasons, but let’s keep going with this. Third, there are assets in the video that don’t exist in the released version of the game.
: See those sneakers? I’m 99% sure those don’t exist anywhere in YIIK, or they’re unused assets.
: Another clue is the save file menu at the start of the video. There is a New Game Plus mode in the actual game, but.. unless this person Cheat Engined the HELL out of the game there’s no way they hit Level 70 in 3 hours. For reference, I did every possible battle and all the sidequests in the save I used for this LP, and Alex ran out of EXP at level 62.
: There’s also the part where they’ve.. played over 180 hours of YIIK. For the record, I finished the game in just over 14 hours.
: As for what happens: basically, Alex goes into that big tower in the water you can see on the world map, and then winds up in Essentia’s mind dungeon again. He then goes through a crappy puzzle area reminiscent of the factory and winds up in an alternate version of Frankton where he fights Essentia and some guy. Then they reveal that the game retcons itself ala Sonic 2006.
: One thing that the Allansons might claim is that this is a mod - but if that’s true, how is it that someone managed to PERFECTLY copy their writing style down to there being way too much fucking text?
: There’s also no voiceacting at all in this video, which means that this ending was made after the initial release. This might point toward a modder, but remember that the Allansons probably no longer have the money to call the VAs back and even if they wanted to, Chris Niosi is a no-go for obvious reasons.
: By the way, there’s one other thing that I think proves this is developer-made. You don’t see them use the LP Toss - not in the handful of enemy encounters before the boss fight, nor in the boss fight itself. I find it really hard to believe that you could play YIIK for 180 hours and not know about how broken LP Toss is.. unless you’re the developer and you either fixed it or wanted to make your game look good so you avoided doing 5-digit damage and instakilling the boss.
: Personally, I’d like to think that the devs have seen this LP (it’s entirely possible) and this is an attempt to goad me into playing New Game Plus in an attempt to find this stupid ending. Nope, not doing it, fuck you Allanson.
: Anyway, the video’s here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDf5gfDpSn4