Walkthrough

Walkthrough is an option in Completing the Mission during the "Toppat 4 Life" pathway.

Henry can use this option while trying to use the Big Boy tank to stop General Hubert Galeforce from attacking the Toppat Launch Site. If chosen, Henry watches an online "Lets Play" video of Completing the Mission on NewTube, in hopes of finding out what to do with the tank.

Unfortunately the narrator of the video keeps repeatedly and randomly deviating from the main topic. Each time the video gets to "walkthrough", it starts over again.

This fail is unique in that it can go on forever, until a limitation in game. The fail is made up of several segments which have several animations and voice clips apiece, each chosen randomly on each loop. The fail will only end when the player tries to skip it (does not work until 15 seconds in), and the fail screen will show the total amount of time the player sat watching the sequence.

Fail Message
Wow... You spent a total of (time in seconds; minimum 15) watching that scene.

Fail Transcript

 * "Hey everyone, this is part 65 of my Henry Stickmin playthrough. Today I'm going to be doing the part with the tank... But uhh- before I get started... just wanna thank my sponsor-"
 * "Brings you up to three choices. Um. And when you select walkthrough, plays a video of this guy doing a walkthrough, he keeps saying like- What's up guys? Playin' Henry Stickmin today. Doin' a walkthrough-"
 * "Now you sh-Now you'll come up to a big tank, and if you choose walkthrough here, it makes-uhh this guy who's all- Hey guys, this is going to be a walkthrough of... Henry Stickmin... game-"
 * "Now you have three choices here. And if you pick walkthrough, it starts playing a video of this really boring guy who's all like- Hey everyo- What's up guys. Time for another walkthrough. This is part 65 of Henry Stickmin gaming-"
 * Alright now so now you're at the tank. And if you pick walkthrough, you get this big dumbo who's all- Uhh welcome back to part 65 of my Henry Stickmin playthrough walkthrough-
 * "We're in a tent now. And uh- I'm gonna pick walkthrough here. It pulls up this video of this super boring guy who just says- Hey everyone, I'm playing-uhh Henry Stickmin today... Gonna do a walkthrough here-"
 * "Sees the big tank. And you wanna choose walkthrough here, and it makes a guy come out and he keeps saying like- Hey everyone, I'm playing-uhh Henry Stickmin today... Gonna do a walkthrough here-"
 * "-Tank. And you get three options. You wanna pick walkthrough here. Uhh. It goes up to this video of a guy... who says- Hey guys... I'm back to the video again. I'm playing-uhh Henry Stickmin today-"
 * "Now when you get to this tank part, you wanna pick walkthrough. It'll play a video of a guy who... starts talking and he's like- Hey guys... I'm back to the video again. I'm playing-uhh Henry Stickmin today-"
 * "But uhh- before I get started... just wanna thank my sponsor- IF you like the video, just punch that- punch the like. Punch the subscribe. Uh, slap the support button-"
 * "Before I get started, make sure to like, comment, subscribe on my video-"
 * "Remember to ring the bell, remember to uh-um comment if you liked the video-"
 * "Remember to rate the video, like the video, and subscribe if you wanna see more videos similar to this one-"
 * "Don't forget to like, don't forget to comment, and um- to subscribe-"
 * "Make sure you leave a comment, it's very important. It helps me out um-"
 * "Make sure to follow me on Instagram, follow me on Twidder, and on Faz-"
 * "Um- Follow me on Instagram, follow me on Fazebook, follow me on uh- Pimbus-"
 * "I gotta Patreon account if you feel like supporting me some more-"
 * "Make sure to watch to the end of the video. I'm doing a special giveaway at the end-"
 * "This game doesn't really follow any logic at all, it's kinda annoying-"
 * "Then they got that red-haired girl from Fleeing the Complex. She comes in-"
 * "Then they bring in that guy with the helicopter headset. He comes in at this part-"
 * "This-heh-this part's actually a reference to uhh- an obscure-"
 * "This parts a huge spoiler so if you don't wanna see, you should probably close your eyes-"
 * "And... this parts kind of a big spoiler, so-"
 * "You might tempted to pick... the more logical choice here-"
 * "You expect this not to work, but you know how the game is-"
 * "I didn't expect that to show up in here, but I guess that... they can do anything-"
 * "I dunno how many more endings there are in this game, but... this is one of them-"
 * "This game has a lot of fails in it. I'm only like half way through-"
 * "Up to like 400,000 fails-"
 * "*burp* uh... Sorry about that-"

Trivia

 * This fail is a parody of the various "let's play" videos on YouTube.
 * Skipping the Walkthrough stage 15 seconds in will give you the Speedrun Strats medal.
 * If you were to spend a extraordinary amount of time, this can result in the Walkthrough final time being underflowed to - seconds, and still grant the medal.
 * According to PuffballsUnited on the developer commentary, his normal voice is used in the fail and isn't pitched.
 * This, along with CorrupTick and Tool Gun, are the only fails in The Henry Stickmin Collection that will not stop by itself and will require the player to do something in order for the fail to end, or they will last for eternity. Moreover, the other options involve clicking buttons, so this is an option of its own kind.
 * It's one of the only options in The Henry Stickmin Collection that breaks the fourth wall.
 * The NewTuber in the video was going to be a super hyper NewTuber but was changed at the last second.
 * NewTube is a reference to Newgrounds and YouTube. The play icon was replaced accordingly with the Newgrounds Tank.
 * A video was uploaded by PuffballsUnited, showing what would have happened in the alternate fail cutscene. The screen would start all blue with the words henry stickman tutorial on it, and then the narrator would start typing on notepad with some grammar errors, telling the audience about the tutorial he has prepared, while having the famous Windows XP Desktop Background and the song "Dreamscape" by 009 Sound System. At the end, Henry sighs like in a frustrated way. The video in the fail references the old YouTube tutorials where YouTubers use Notepad to chat or talk in their videos mostly because they don't want to do a voice reveal.
 * The narrator mentions Ellie and Charles.
 * Oddly enough, in the video you can see a Skip Intro button below the play button in the Completing the Mission section of the menu, which is not actually there in game.