How To Beat Every DEATH GAME In “As The Gods Will”

You have never seen anything like this. Trapped  in giant cube and forced to compete to the death   in twisted children’s games, this movie  has zero chill. Putting your strength,   intelligence, and sanity to the test  with a trick around every corner,  

What do you do? This one will have your reasoning  with utter madness. As I’m going to break down the   mistakes made, what you should do and how to  beat the twisted games in “As the Gods Will.”   It’s a normal school day until the teacher’s head  explodes into bloody marbles and a Japanese Daruma  

Doll pops out of his stump, telling the class he  wants to play a game. Daruma dolls are a common   symbol for good luck in Japan but it’s safe to say  this one isn’t the lucky kind. This Daruma doll  

Here starts the game and turns around as these two  kids run for the exit and their heads explode into   marbles too. This particular death game is way  too bloody for YouTube. So every time you see   these here, someone’s head had just exploded and  you’ll have to use a little bit of imagination.  

The doll tells them the rules of the game. This  is Red light, Green light, the nightmare version.   Usually this is just a children’s game where you  have to sneak up on the leader in the front and  

Tag them before they turn around and see you. But  in this version, they have to push the button in   the back of the doll without being seen before  time runs out and he’d be turns around and sees  

You’re moving, your head will explode. Okay, this  is insane. But if you’re only thinking about why   this is happening you’re going to lose the game.  We need to be thinking about how to keep our heads  

And beat this thing before the time runs out. If  we’re free to move around when he’s not looking,   we need to maximize this time to gather  information and develop a team strategy as much  

As possible. This hero tries to rush forward to  push the button but does it make it in time as the   Daruma doll turns his head and catches him moving.  Being a hero won’t work here. But if we move as a  

Group and each take one step at a time in unison,  our chances of survival increase. Some people will   mess up, but with each step we’ll get closer to  achieving the goal. Next we can block his sight.  

Once we’re all closer, I toss my jacket over its  head aiming to cover the doll’s eyes just as it   turns around. You would then have a better chance  of touching the button without getting killed.   In a situation like this every piece of  information is useful for survival and we need  

To think about what this doll limitations are. He  has no neck, so even if he can turn himself around   he doesn’t appear to have the physical ability  to look downwards beyond his peripheral vision.   So if it’s me, I’d consider crawling on the  floor and sneaking up to him from below the desk.  

If I could hide below his eye level until he turns  around again, I could quickly reach the button   without getting caught. Now I wouldn’t actually do  this myself because it’s way too risky but I would   advertise it to my schoolmates as a strategy  and encourage others to test the idea. There’s  

Only two people left standing with 35 seconds  remaining, but the kid’s friend has an idea.   He tells Shun here to use him as a springboard  to vault over all these dead bodies. And with   less than 10 seconds left the kid rushes forward.  He jumps off his friends back and makes it to the  

Daruma doll pressing the button with one second  remaining what a badass way to win the game.   But there’s no time to celebrate because this  kid’s head explodes and we learn a simple fact.   In this case, there can only be one winner. The  Daruma doll explains the student who presses the  

Button is the only one gets to live and then warns  him that he’s a mouse and that the cat is coming.   This means that there are more horrifying games  we have to go through and we can’t relax now.  

Considering all these dead students saved my life  by making enough mistakes for me to learn from   I’m looking for other students from the other  classes to try banding together. The more bodies   that are between me and the next death game the  lower the probability that I’m dying right away  

And I can figure out how to keep myself alive.  That’s when the kid’s childhood friend Ichika   opens the door. He finds out that she was in a  Daruma doll game of her own and she one just like  

Him. He uses his momentary freedom to call the  police but finds out he’s not in a service area.   Okay, this is the time to find a way out and  to plan ahead. I would take this opportunity  

To explore all escape options. Even if we find  out there’s no way to escape and we could focus   on being the gapes. It’s clear that other  games are coming as the Daruma doll said. So   I’m gonna take my time carefully investigating  my surroundings and gathering useful resources  

For whatever might come next. Things to throw like  pencil cases, rulers, scissors or even textbooks.   They continue running until they reach the  gymnasium where they see a bunch of other students   wearing mice costumes. The door suddenly shuts  itself behind them and now they’re locked in.  

This is their next game. And as the writing of the  floor explains the objective is to put a bell on a   cat. The class president orders them to put on the  mice costumes but they don’t and this hesitation  

Will pay off later. The floor opens up and a giant  Maneki Neko statue rises up. This is yet another   symbol of good luck in Japan that’s going to  bring these students the exact opposite. The goal,   to put the giant bell in the cat’s basket collar  without getting eaten. Okay. Whoever designed  

These challenges are complete psychopaths. We’re  told to get into a mouse costume and personally I   would wish to put one on because I’d be scared  of punishment for not following the rules but   immediately it eats a mouse but those still in  their school uniforms are left alone. So there’s  

More to this than it seems. As long as there are  mice of chase it’s blind to the students who were   still wearing uniforms. If the mice costumes are  optional then this must considered a variable  

In our strategy to defeat it. So I would take off  my mouse costume immediately and take a step back   to safely assess the pieces of the game. This  collar is about 20 feet high double the height   of a regular basketball hoop. Unless you’re  dude perfect and nearly impossible shots the  

Likelihood of a regular student getting the shot  off is extremely low. And it would take too many   attempts to even consider as a viable option. And  with the cat running us over and swiping at us,   it’s too dangerous to make multiple attempts  to throw the bell in its face. It also has a  

String along its back that could be grabbed if we  ran up it. My solution is to climb it for a dunk   or layup. Whenever it eats a mouse it pauses and  that’s our best chance of this. You could wrap the  

Bell on your shirt and tie behind your back like  a slang then when a classmate gets eaten climb   up the cat with the bell in the sling and work  your way around the collar to go in for the dunk.  

One of the students is the basketball team’s  M.V.P and has the girl passed the bell over to   him. The student makes the free-throw but the bell  is caught by the cat who throws it right back at  

The basketball player. They just lost their M.V.P.  and now it can use its hands. Things just got way   worse. They realize the cat is only eating mice  and they finally take off their mouse costumes  

Putting an end to the most dangerous costly event  ever. But with no more mice to eat it starts going   for humans. Now this is where we need to get a  little creative with our teamwork. If there’s too  

Many mice, more people will be eaten. And if the  cat has only one mouse to chase then you’re stuck   in a mouse costume with the undivided attention of  a giant cat. I would make everyone wear only the  

Mouse legs and fold the top of the costume down.  That way everyone could rotate where the mouse   costume depending on where the cat is in the room.  And when it needs to be distracted somewhere else   by simply throwing on the top of the costume like  a jacket we can effectively appear and disappear  

To the cat as needed work together to get the  bell in the basket and avoid getting eaten. Shun   here takes one for the team and puts on a mouse  costume. And after getting seriously cat handled  

He realizes he can hear it complain about it’s  itchy back. He finds out so long as he’s wearing   this hood he can understand what it’s saying. I  didn’t expect this but we can’t be too surprised.   A cat that likes mice of course likes to be  scratched. It probably also likes catnip, tearing  

Couch sofas and licks itself inappropriately in  front of guests. We need to think of this thing,   not just as a monster but with everything we know  about cat behavior. They also love chasing lights   and lasers and if anyone of them had a laser  pointer they could distract the cat away from  

The mice. Now that’s obviously a joke but if  you’re not doing everything you can to use what   you know against this thing to keep yourself alive  then you’re already loosing the game. He climbs up   the cat and begins to scratch its back With the  help of the other students they all work together  

Until it finally goes to sleep. Shun here is about  to put an end to this game but one of the students   questions if there could only be one winner like  the first game. This is a valid point but there’s  

Enough objective logic here to infer the answer.  In the children’s game, Red light, Green light   there can only be one winner. Whoever reaches  the end first and everyone else is eliminated   from the game. Basketball however is a team sport  and when one person scores the team benefits. This  

Is enough to convince me to surrender the shot as  someone with more skill. If someone was insistent   on shooting and skilled enough to take the shot  I’d put my ego aside and let them have the bell.   We don’t have time to argue. And it’s important  to get the job done quickly without interference.  

Their argument for shooting privileges wakes  up the cat who rips two students apart.   They don’t have time to put it back to sleep but  Shun has another idea. Grabbing the ripped the   basketball and some spare mice costumes he and his  friend disguise the bell as a basketball. Since  

He knows the cat relies on seeing something before  it acts, they can confuse the cat and maybe get at   least one shot up before time runs out. In a high  pressure situation this is really good thinking.   He’s been paying attention to the cat’s behavior  knows its weakness and is perfectly exploiting it,  

But he made one mistake. If I had seen this room  before I would have used it more strategically   throughout the game. We could run inside for  cover as a mouse and come out safely as a student.  

There also might’ve been more basketballs in there  to shoot and distract the cat with. The girl takes   a shot but the cat smacks it away giving the boy  the chance to shoot the belt but it bounces right  

Off the rim and there’s no enough time to try  again. Right at the last second this student   jumps over the cat’s head and slams it into the  hoop, game over. But the killing continues as   the hero of the hour starts killing the other  students believing they don’t deserve to live  

Because they are brainless losers. Okay, this  guy is a psychopath, but he’s also not wrong.   Unfortunately, I’m not trusting him in a game  because he is blinded by fanaticism instead of   survival and the greater good. Killing them off  serves us no purpose. The more expendable people  

That are in the games the more we can benefit from  their deaths. Every game will require a certain   amount of mistakes to learn how to play them  and these kinds of people are perfect for that.  

Let them make the mistakes and we study the games  response and then use that information to beat it.   Then the cat blows sleeping gas at them knocking  them out. When Shun here wakes up, he finds   himself in a room with an old classmate and  some strangers. All four students have survived  

Two games, the Daruma and the cat game. This guy  activates a device and the group finds out they’re   trapped in a giant floating cube with no way for  anyone to break in and save them. The government   and military are powerless. Someone knocks on the  door and these four Kokeshi dolls enter the room.  

They’re here to play Kagome Kagome a game where  the player wears a blindfold while the Kokeshi   dolls sing as they circle around him and he must  guess who’s behind him when the music stops.   This guy guesses incorrectly and gets a laser to  the head as the dolls take control of his body  

And start bashing his head against the floor. Then  this girl goes after him but she can’t figure out   who it is either and gets ripped in half from  the legs up. Okay? This one is tricky because   the premise leads you to assume it’s a game of  chance like Russian roulette for children. So  

The strategy here is to eliminate as much chance  out of the equation as possible. And we do this   by gathering as much information as we can from  every sense of perception we have available to us   and then using them to cheat the game. We  can tried to observe their starting order  

Before putting the blindfold on. If we can confirm  they form a circle in a specific gender pattern,   our chances already improve. Next, we use our ears  to track them by distinguishing the male voices  

From the female voices. If we know the pattern and  locate a male’s voice as it circle it tells us the   gender that is behind us when the music stops. Now  all that’s left is to determine which member of  

The gender it is. And now comes the cheating part  of the strategy. Before I put the blindfold on   I would assign a number of taps per each doll.  One tap for this one and four taps for this one.  

When the doll stops singing the other student  in the room can tap the number for the doll   and hopefully not get ripped apart from where  the sun don’t shine. When it Shun’s turn to play  

He can’t figure out who’s behind him. They hear  a doll tell him he’s out of time and another doll   repeats it but this was all a part of his plan.  Realizing who just spoke he deduces correctly  

Which one is behind him. He tricked this doll by  playing a recording of one of them saying you’re   out of time, baiting her into speaking and  revealing the order of their positions around  

Him. All the dolls explode to dust and one of them  drops the key they need to move to the next stage.   The two survivors walk out of the room and see  this guy come running at them asking to hold  

Their hand. Behind them another doll is chasing  them and they all grab hands just in time. The   monster doll inspects them but leaves when it sees  they’re all linked together. Ichika comes running   around the corner and Shun manages to save her  from the handholding monster just in time. They  

Meet some other students as well. and discover  that to beat this game they need seven students to   turn seven keys at the exact same. They don’t have  enough of either until that killer student from  

The cat game appears and has brought exactly what  they need with an extra person to spare and to no   one’s surprise, he eliminates him without remorse.  Once again, foolish. I would use this extra kid   as a lookout for the handholding doll because we  will need to stop holding hands in order to turn  

The keys and if the handholding doll catches us  unlinked we might not be able to turn the keys in   time. Everything is a resource here and this guy  is wasting them. I would confront him that this  

Is a poor strategy and that we can let the game  kill him later but he did just save our lives for   the second time. So I’m not gonna hold it against  him too much. They all turn keys at the same time  

Beating this game with 12 seconds left on the  clock. Meanwhile, the cube is live streaming their   victory as everyone gathers in Shibuya Square to  watch and cheer for them. The group go through and   find themselves in a hot spring except everything  is frozen over. As soon as I see this environment  

I’m staying against the walls. This looks like  a lake that’s frozen over and I’m not leaving   myself vulnerable to any traps without reason. I’m  getting a headstart on the game and encouraging   the others to do the same. Suddenly a giant polar  bear comes surfing in and tells them that in this  

Game, everyone will be asked a question that they  need to answer truthfully, if they don’t they must   choose someone to be killed. Okay? This sounds  too easy to be true and I’m not relaxing here.   The real game is something hidden beneath the  surface and we have to find out what’s the trick.  

There’s no incentive for anyone to lie but  surely they will let us all pass through.   I’m starting this one off by choosing not to trust  a single word this polar bear says expecting traps   or double meaning, insinuation or metaphor. We  can’t think literally. Even when we’re trapped  

In a giant cube and talking to a giant polar bear  the first question asked is what is your favorite   food? Which they all answer easily. But the bear  suddenly freaks out because someone told a lie   and threatens to kill them if they don’t identify  the liar in two minutes. The players decide that  

This guy must be it because his favorite food is  parsley and the bear crushes him to death. Now I’m   a classic over analyzer so this one would honestly  scare the living out of me. The answer to this   question is deceptively complicated because it’s  based on a general opinion and not objectively  

True. If I’ve had different favorite foods  throughout the years or a favorite in each food   category and if I change my mind after trying new  dishes how could I have one true answer to this   question? So therefore how could the polar bear  know the truth is if I myself do not. And this  

Revelation is how we beat the game. If I don’t  know the truth then neither does the polar bear.   And none of us have any reason to lie. So when  the polar bear says, he knows someone is lying  

That statement itself is a lie and I would accuse  him as the secret liar to beat the game. The bear   tells them there’s an imposter in the group.  who’s intentionally lying to get them killed.   This student realizes that everyone goes to the  same school except for this girl. So she must be  

The imposter and the polar bear stomps her flat.  Now that’s what I call a high school crush. But   as the kid looks at the bear’s paw he sees a black  patch of skin and realizes that this is a Japanese  

Demon bear as the snow melts off revealing his  true identity underneath. The group has taken   to their new arena where these matryoshka dolls  appear announcing this will be the final game,   kick the can. The rules are simple. Whoever is  it must take the can and place it in this circle.  

Then try to catch the others by looking at their  face, call out their name and step on the can.   Those captured can be freed if another player  kicks the can but the kicker must sacrifice his  

Life because the can will explode. The game ends  if the players avoid being captured or the one who   is it wins by capturing at least three players  by the time the sun sets. Then they draw sticks   to decide their roles and the psychotic student  is it. Everyone runs before the student kicks one  

Of the dolls into the air knocking the can to the  ground and places it at the designated spot. Okay,   hold on a second. Didn’t they say that can would  explode if it was kicked? This might mean it’s not  

Triggered by impact and could be one of the games’  tricks if we need to kick the can to save someone   later. But more importantly if I was it, I need to  manage my time wisely because finding people will  

Be very time-consuming and I need to know how much  time I have. The setting sun is too abstract and I   need to convert that into minutes. The best way  to do this is to hold your fingers horizontally  

Against the sky in between the horizon and the  sun. Each finger that fits in between the sun   and the earth is approximately 15 minutes. The  two boys try to hide as far away as possible but   the psycho student finds them first and beats them  into submission. That’s two down, two to go. Now,  

Finding people who have already hidden will waste  a lot of time. And by retrieving the can first   you’re giving everyone too much time. If it were  me, I would skip the can and quietly follow them   to their hiding spots first Once someone’s find  a good hiding spot it’s unlikely they would move  

From it and if I know where they’re hiding I can  go retrieve the can and come back to their hiding   spot to catch them. I would also prioritize who I  should put in prison. The best person to follow is  

Shun because he’s gonna hide with the girl in that  way, I am more likely to catch two people at once.   Shun has proven himself to think quickly on his  feet and be heroic while the other two are more  

Cowardly. So if Shun here is locked up first  it’s very unlikely anybody will be coming to   save them. And as long as I get three captured,  I win the game. There’s only two players left.  

The psycho kid spots them and runs up the stairs.  Shun escapes as the girl goes off the block the   entrance but he breaks through and captures her.  Shun here is stuck trying to figure out what to  

Do as he’s going to lose if he doesn’t free the  prisoners. Now, Shun’s team did not strategize   as well but honestly, they have the best chance of  surviving from the start. He has to see your face   and call your name to capture you. By limiting  either these two as a possibility, you can  

Work the game to your advantage. So I would have  covered my face of my jacket so he can’t legally   capture me as a prisoner. I would tell everyone to  do this, No matter how much you’re punched, kicked  

Or beaten if you don’t treat your face it will  become impossible for him to win. Then there’s   no need for anyone to kick the can and sacrifice  themselves because no prisoners will be taken.   This is the best possible outcome. If someone does  get caught we can remove another win condition  

From him. When he’s out funding people to capture  I would stay by to move the can and hide it.   Even if he sees your face and says your name  you’re on officially captured until he steps   on the can. If they had thought about this from  the beginning they wouldn’t be this hopeless  

Situation. But then Shun here sees this old  of arbor nearby and he gets a clever idea.   He leaves his hiding place dressed in rusty armor  that could give you tetanus just by looking at it.   This is clever. One of the rules of being captured  requires clear eye contact between a player and  

The person who was it. The helmet not only makes  it harder but the entire armor set might protect   him from the explosion if he kicks the can.  He’s covered two weaknesses. that gives him the  

Advantage he needs to beat this game. But it’s too  hard to move and there’s no way he can fight the   student. He backs away to the edge and gets caught  but this was a part of his plan. He chains the  

Psycho and throws himself off the wall dragging  the other boy along with him. As the student is   busy trying to pull the armor up he’s escaped and  climbed back over runs where the can. He kicks   it but it doesn’t explode. His team wins and the  dolls reveal that they lied about the explosion.  

Now that it’s all over all of the players are  given popsicles as a reward but the girl finishes   her ice cream and realized that these popsicle  sticks declare who gets to die and this was a   secret final test. They only get the pass if luck  is on their side. The unlucky players evaporate  

Into magic powder and the two winners are  transported to the top of the white cube as people   below celebrate their survival. But what do you  think? How would you beat ‘As the Gods Will’? Let   me know with a comment down below. Thank you so  much for watching. Leave a like and subscribe and  

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