TF2's Most Disturbing Horror Map EXPLAINED

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This TF2 Horror Map Explained video covers the Cryptoforest, home to a movie of a story turned to an ARG mystery that is revealed through the interview with its creator. With 4+ Videotapes hidden around the map to decrypt, an NPC to interrogate and multiple cryptids in unlockable locations to discover, venturing into the depths of the Darkwoods has never been more of an enticing opportunity. This video will cover the whole story, lore, secrets, origin of the entities, an interview with the creator of the game, an analysis of it all and what's to come next! Team Fortress 2 horror games are truly being taken to the next level!

CHAPTERS BELOW!

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Play the map here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2487430950

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https://steamcommunity.com/id/kloggnev/https://gamebanana.com/members/1444873

Massive special thanks to @UnicakeMaps for enduring an infinite amount of questions and being so invested in the video, @ShorK for making the incredible cinematics and helping out in a ton of other ways, Bebe for awesome creativity on the script intro, Slimy, @HeyGrouch, @tyrsfalltv, @ArJayTF2 editing feedback and much more! there’s definitely more people I’m forgetting oh no…

CHAPTERS:
0:00 This is not a normal TF2 Map
2:06 What is Cryptoforest? (Contents Page)
4:34 Guide Info
5:00 Night One - First Impressions of the Forest
9:30 Hearing a voice in the map
13:09 Unlocking ‘Safehouse’
15:09 First Visual Encounter
21:12 Green VHS Tape
22:57 Bad Ending
27:09 Blue VHS Tape
29:12 Red VHS Tape
30:27 Turning on the Light Tower
34:22 Entering the Powerplant
40:23 Sorrowful Spirit Location
42:11 Builds and Strategies
44:50 Secret Lakehouse Room
49:00 Secret Powerplant Room (+Lost Media)
52:38 Good Ending
55:51 Brown VHS Tape
58:00 Secret Ending
1:01:31 Epilogue?
1:05:00 Entering the Basement… (ARG?)
1:17:40 What is next?
1:20:30 Theories, More Cut Content, Secrets, Easter Eggs
1:24:40 Making The Monsters
1:30:45 Making Your Own Path
1:38:45 Will you?

Examples of perspectives of how different people even from the same / similar demographics have different takes on wendigo folklore and its uses:
https://spineonline.co/dark-history/2023/9/22/emilyann-s2trn
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/video-game-insensitive-dialogue-1.6104700
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianCountry/comments/1c84r3l/why_is_wndigo_reffered_to_as_a_slur/
https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/29945/
https://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/f724379d-203a-411b-9130-75110e80cc24/content
https://the-wendigo.jimdosite.com/context/
https://writingwithcolor.tumblr.com/search/wendigo
https://backstoryradio.org/blog/the-mythology-and-misrepresentation-of-the-windigo/

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♫Credits♫
music:
Free Ethereal music loop (no copyright)
RE7 OST - Saferoom Theme
ES _ A Foreboding Presence
SH2 OST - Legacy
CTI OST - Tower 10-19
TF2 OST - Saxxy Theme
Crypto Forest OST - Cryptoforest Intro
Ocarina of Time Inside the Deku Tree [Slowed + Reverb]
Crypto Forest OST - Saferoom Theme
RE3 OST - Saferoom Theme
FF7 OST -
RE7 OST - Welcome to the family
Crypto Forest OST - Trader’s Theme
Crypto Forest OST - Trader’s Reprise
ES_Monsters Are Real - Dream Cave
Hearthstone OST - Lowkey Tavern Music
Until Dawn [OST] #08: Icicle Elegy
Going Down
Yume Nikki OST: Snow World (Extended)
Portal 2 OST Volume 1 - 9999999
Yume Nikki OST - Barracks Settlement
RE2 OST - The Basement Of Police Station
ES_Did You See That - Ruiqi Zhao
Runescape OST - Arrival
RE7 OST - Menu Music
Crypto Forest OST - Mothman Ambience
Yume Nikki OST - E Man
Lost In Vivo OST - Therapy Session (ty thewhat again &4others)
3DS OST - AR Games Main Menu
CTI OST - Tower 30-39
CTI OST - Tower 1-9
SH2 OST - A world of madness
Crypto Forest OST - Flatwoods Monster Theme
Earthbound OST - Deeper Into Ness-Subconscious
Omori OST - 121 Undertow
Left 4 Dead 2 Soundtrack - 'Horde'
The Eternal War -Dreamcave
SH2 OST - Theme of Amy
RE2 OST - Saferoom Theme
SH2 OST - Ordinary Vanity
RE4 OST - Serenity
SH2 OST - Promise Reprise
Until Now - August Wilhelmsson
OMORI OST - 109 Aquifer
'Dystopia' by Neutrin05
3DS OST - Photo Select
3DS OST - First Time SetupCTI OST - Tower 20-29
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