Name: Lets Play Ultima Underworld 04: Meeting a Friendly Face @Kikoskia
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Lets Play Ultima Underworld 04: Meeting a Friendly Face

Kikoskia 2024-10-17 | Lets Play Ultima Underworld 04: Meeting a Friendly Face

Lets Play The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark #12: There Goes the Sun

Kikoskia 2024-06-23 | So, the sun has gone out. Fun fact: Did you know that if the sun disappeared the skies wouldn't go dark until roughly eight minutes and twenty seconds after the fact?

This is a disaster of utterly catrasrophic proportions that will in short order wipe out almost all life on the surface of the planet. Not all life will perish - the deeper parts of the seas and oceans will remain somewhat warm for many hundreds of thousands of years, allowing organisms that don't require sunlight to keep living - but humanity is almost certainly doomed as we don't have a contingency fo rthe sun turning off.

Let's just hope that the sun is still the same mass, else the wider solar system is also in serous trouble. Let's also hope that McQueen and Dooley can solve this incrediably quickly.

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Lets Play The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark #11: This Case is Quite the Dooley [Strobe]

Kikoskia 2024-06-23 | This video contains scenes that may not be suitable for people who suffer from epilepsy. Please keep this in mind if you intend to watch the video.

You'd think after the last holiday McQueen and Dooley went on that they'd be wary of flying over to Ireland, but this is a special event. Dooley is attending his coming of age ceremony at the ancestral home that I'm sure will have absolutely nothing supernatural and peculiar going on-

You're not buying it, are you? Yeah, me neither.

Ireland has a bevy of myth and legends. Some of them will have something do to with the darkside dimension, but not this one. This case is something very different and I'm not going to spoil it here.

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Lets Play The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark #10: Appreciation is Important

Kikoskia 2024-06-23 | All around you, people are doing countless things that make your life a little bit easier which are above and beyond what they're supposed to. It's important to express your gratitude to those people so that they know what they do is appreciated. You may not always rememberer to do so every time, but that's a part of being human and we all have off days.

There are those that, when shown such special kindness and consideration, begin to take it for granted. A few go further still and start demanding that which they have no right to. This never ends well, so don't do it.

Never underestimate the power of a few words of thanks.

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Lets Play Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines #06: Bail-ing on the Main Quest [Strobe Warning]

Kikoskia 2024-06-22 | This video contains scenes that may not be suitable for people who suffer from epilepsy. Please keep this in mind if you intend to watch the video.

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Bloodlines does a fantastic job of showing you what quests are part of the main storyline. It's also great at warning you of points of no return, allowing you the opportunity to finish any side quests or optional content you want to before moving on. This clear signposting helps you get the most of the game, presuming that you want to go and seek things off the beaten path.

One such thing is the Bail Bonds office located in Santa Monica. It's the start of a small series of quests that are a great source of early money and experience, though it's not without risk. If you're wondering what can possibly be risking about working with a bail bonds office, remember the warnings Smiling Jack gave you in the tutorial.

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Lets Play Legend of Grimrock 2 #45: That Which Floats

Kikoskia 2024-06-21 | There are quite a few more things alive in this pyramid than there should be, though that's not atypical for a fantasy setting. Mummies rising from their sarcophagi are pretty common in worlds of magic and there are usually swarms of beetles and other vermin that are ready to assail you the moment you open the wrong door. Snakes are often smaller than the ones we're coming across, but there are worse things yet.

It turns out not all the members of this ancient people are truly gone. A handful yet remain in some capacity and they do not take kindly to us pillaging the resting place of their fellows. They are different in that they can float and possess ranged attacks, but they aren't too difficult when faced alone. The key word there, however, is alone; you know there's going to be a time when we're surrounded by them and they can get their petrifying gaze off.

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Lets Play Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines #05: Checking into the Clinic [Strobe Warning]

Kikoskia 2024-06-20 | This video contains scenes that may not be suitable for people who suffer from epilepsy. Please keep this in mind if you intend to watch the video.

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Like many locations in Santa Monica, the clinic is somewhere you can go long before any quest directs you to it. It's far from the best establishment, but most of the staff there are doing what they can to tend to the people that call this area home. There's quite a few things to do, both selfless and selfish depending on how you're feeling. It's quite simple for someone with our talents at persusion to get to the back areas typically reserved for staff, though talking will only get us so far.

As we've not speny any skill points, we're neither an accomplishment lockpicker nor great at hacking computers. This means that when words fail, we're going to have to rely on filching unattended keys or using things like vents to get to where we'd like to. Fortunately for us, Bloodlines often gives you many different ways to solve a problem so every player has a chance at completing the many sidequests each hub areas has to offer.

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Lets Play Legend of Grimrock 2 #44: Plundering Past Perspectives

Kikoskia 2024-06-19 | So far the party have only been able to glean tiny fragments of the island's history from the writings of others unfortunate enough to have found themselves there. They too knew little of the place, but even scraps of knowledge are better than none. The pyramid, however, is a tomb of treasures that will laden our party with items and glimmers of what life was like long ago.

Surprising no-one, the Island Master - or one of the masters that came before the current one - is front and centre, prompting a myriad of questions. Were they at one point benevolant? If so, what turned them away from that path? How many other civilisations have risen and fallen under their watchful eye? The only person who could answer any of this isn't likely to tell us the truth, but we're at least one step closer to figuring things out... maybe.

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Lets Play Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines #04: Welcome to Santa Monica [Strobe Warning]

Kikoskia 2024-06-18 | This video contains scenes that may not be suitable for people who suffer from epilepsy. Please keep this in mind if you intend to watch the video.

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Santa Monica may be down on its luck these days, but the nights are full of both life and unlife. The person we're meant to be meeting, Mercurio, lives in the next building over in a pretty fancy apartment, but he's not doing too well right now. Fortunately for us, there's no urgency in going to check up on him, so we'll instead take the time to get to know the area.

Certain places are inaccessible to us right now, but you are free to move between the various hub areas as you progress in the story, allowing the various quests to send you to and fro about the city. This helps to make the place feel more like a real place people live in rather than set dressing for the events of the main narrative.

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Lets Play Legend of Grimrock 2 #43: Of Course There are Snakes

Kikoskia 2024-06-17 | When I think of pyramids in RPGs, two immediately spring to mind. The first of these is the Tomb of VARN in M&M6, a spaceship used by the Ancients to transport people safely from the Kreegans to Enroth. It contains some pretty difficult enemies and has to be visited for the main plot to find a key item for the Oracle.

The second is the pyramid level in Waxworks which, in my opinion, is pain personified. It's full of instant death traps that are incrediably difficult to spot unless you've moving at a crawl, timed puzzles, panes of glass that require specific tuning forks to break and I haven't even mentioned the enemies that try to slay you. The whole thing drags on for far, far too long, making what would otherwise have been an interesting excursion into a slog that can make you sick of the whole game before you're halfway done.

The rest of Waxworks is much better, if gruesome. If you're curious, my favourite levels are Victorian London and the Mine.

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Lets Play The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark #09: *Drowns in Tea and Sandwiches*

Kikoskia 2024-06-16 | I bet Kav read the title of this video and immediately clicked it.

If you ever find yourself having to serve me drinks and sandwiches - chances of this are incrediably low - here's some suggestions for what you could serve. For sandwiches, you can't go wrong with chicken and cottage cheese. If we're going a little fancier, prawn mayonnaise or salmon are fine choices. Ham and cheese is something I love but can only have sparingly at the moment due to having to avoid red meats and cheddar cheese. Loading a sandwich with vegetables is a great way to have me fussily picking at it at best or refusing it at worst.

As for drinks, fruit squash - otherwise known as cordial - is a very safe bet. Sugar-free fizzy drinks are something I enjoy in moderation. I won't drink tea of coffee in any fashion, nor do I enjoy alcohol.

Was any of this information at all pertinent to the video in question? Nope, but now you know, and knowing is half the buttle.

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Lets Play The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark #08: Stop this Silliness

Kikoskia 2024-06-16 | Before we can get to the bottom of why everyone in the retirement home is acting so strange, we need to calm things down just enough that Nanny Dooley will let us into her room. She's bound to be the key to solving everything because talking to her is locked behind achieving a bunch of minor objectives, such are puzzles in this genre of game.

The stakes are pretty low here, but there's no way of knowing whether they're stay that way. Who knows, the whole of Twin Lakes might start acting like this, not that a sizable chunk of the populace would notice or care. It would mean more paperwork for McQueen and Dooley to do as people jaywalk and stuff recycling bins with polystyrene, so let's get a handle on this while we still can, eh?

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Lets Play The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark #07: Trouble Sure Likes to Follow us

Kikoskia 2024-06-16 | McQueen and Dooley can't seem to go one week without something going wrong, can they? Maybe it's the fact that they can better spot when supernatural stuff is going on about Twin Lakes or perhaps it's they're just incrediably unlucky. The truth is more likely that they're point and click adventure game protagonists which makes them magnets for puzzle-worthy goings on.

I wonder if McQueen considers this to be a Darkside thing or something that can occur anywhere in the world ragardless of which dimension you're from. I imagine he's been tempted to look in to something that'll remove him from the role of protagonist, but doing that would mean we'd have to play the entire game as Dooley alone and let me tell you, that would be both the best and worst experience.

Dooley out of ten, would and would not recommend.

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Lets Play Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines #03: Fangs for the Tutorial, Jack

Kikoskia 2024-06-15 | This video, as well as all the others in this series, may contain mature themes and coarse language. Viewer discretion is advised.

The tutorial for this game is pretty comprehensive and with good reason. Smiling Jack wants you to have the best chance at making it out there in the wider vampiric world, though there's one thing he can never count on: the game being the game. For all of the good that the fan patch does, it's still a Troika game and that means things going wrong in the strangest of ways. Expect graphical glitches, physics going wrong, events not triggering properly and the game just crashing from time to time. This is why you must save early, save often, in different slots and whatever you do, don't copy that floppy.

Once the tutorial is done, we will be let out into the first true hub of the game, Santa Monica. Never again will we have someone looking out for us like Smiling Jack is, so enjoy this brief glimmer of safety and security while it's there.

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Lets Play Legend of Grimrock 2 #42: Entering the Pyramid of Umas

Kikoskia 2024-06-14 | Are you really an RPG series if you don't have to explore a pyramid at least once? It's right up there with sewer levels as a staple area to explore and with good reason. They're often stacked to the gills with traps, undead guardians and far too many snakes for anyone's liking, all of which make them very dangerous places to explore.

This island is no exception to the tropes, but it's not quick to throw them at you right away. No, Grimrock 2 builds the suspense by having the pyramid be eerily quiet for quite a while. This is likely because you're able to get here at a much earlier level than I have and so the developers made sure that you weren't immediately overwhelmed upon stepping foot into the ancient tomb.

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Lets Play Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines #02: Learning the Ropes, Smiling Jack Style

Kikoskia 2024-06-13 | This video, as well as all the others in this series, may contain mature themes and coarse language. Viewer discretion is advised.

It's safe to say that Helen hasn't had the best of nights.

Sired by a vampire without her consent, she was spared the fate of the one that gave her unlife only thanks to the protests of the injustice of our situation. The prince's mercy was not a selfless act, however; If we are to live to see the next night, we'll have to make ourselves useful to him in Santa Monica.

We know absolutely nothing about what we are, what we can do and what we shouldn't do. Luckily for us, there's someone about willing to teach us what we need to do know about our unlife, our vampiric powers and all the terrible responsibilities that come with them... if we want to hear about it. The tutorial is wholly optional but why wouldn't you want to listen to Smiling Jack?

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Lets Play Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines #01: Introduction and Character Creation

Kikoskia 2024-06-13 | This video, as well as all the others in this series, may contain mature themes and coarse language. Viewer discretion is advised.

The world of Vampire is a world of many different layers, each one as deep and complex as you wish to discover. Everyone has their own schemes, plans and ambitions that will pull you this way and that until you're torn apart. The only way to survive is to be equipped with the tools to endure the machinations of those around you. Play your cards right and you yourself might thrive.

Character generation has a lot of flexibility that's only somewhat constrained by the vampire clan you choose to be a part of. The one thing that is pretty immutable are the diciplines that you have access to; outside of exceptional situations, vampires can only use the powers of their bloodline.

As for which clan I'm going to play? I often make characters that are very combat-orientated, so let's pivot as far from that as possible and see how smarts and knowing what words to say can get us, shall we?

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Lets Play Legend of Grimrock 2 #41: A-Chee-vement Unlocked: Flight

Kikoskia 2024-06-12 | Magic is able to accomplish many wondrous things in the world of the setting. You can conjure forth fire, lightning and ice with a willful thought, become invisible or even dispel elemental beings. It can also be used for teleportation and bridges made up entirely or arcane energy, both of which must be far more daunting to use than the party make them out to be.

As someone who is afraid of heights where I know I can fall, walking on a bridge made entirely of sparkling magic that you can see through would be quite terrifying for me. You want to bet I'd run over it as fast as I could to make sure it didn't vanish beneath me. This presumes that you can see all of it; it'd have to be an emergency for me to want to take the leap of faith that is running into nothingness expecting a magical surface to take my weight and carry me forward to safety.

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Lets Bumble About More in Peglin #17: Rocking the Big Numbers

Kikoskia 2024-06-11 | We left the castle in a pretty strong position, but the caves beneath it are another matter entirely. Full of hard-hitting and tricky encounters, the final stretch between us and the ultimate boss of the run is nothing to take lightly.

Fortunately for us, we have attained the power of squirrels to further bolster our silly levels of damage further still. Our only concern is that we fun out of charges on that relix before we reach the final boss, something that's mostly out of our hands. That being said, I think our chances of completing this run are quite high.

Whether I did win is something only I know until this video goes public for obvious reasons, but I'm not saying whether I do here. No, you'll have to watch it if you want to know.

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Lets Play Legend of Grimrock 2 #40: Youre Never Safe

Kikoskia 2024-06-10 | No matter how strong you are, how well-prepared your group is or how well you know the area, you're never going to be able to be ready for everything. You don't know everything and those that do are lying to you and themselves. Overconfidence is foolish at the best of times and doubly so for adventurers like our group.

The party have been through a lot and fought many tricky battles, ingraining presumptions into them of how certain things are. Those expectations can and will be used against them so long as they - minus Ivrekk - cling to the false notion that the Island Master is fair and reasonable. The challenges they face are stacked against them by design and it's not going to get any easier if they think they're besting the master of this place.

The Island Master hasn't even BEGUN to take this seriously. We'll know when they do.

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Lets Play The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark #06: Dooley the Impossible

Kikoskia 2024-06-09 | Despite everything, McQueen and Raxa have managed to communicate with Dooley. They know he's safe but apart from that, they hare only a scant few clues. It's up to them to make sense of it all and pinpoint exactly where Dooley is so they may pull him back into the Brightside using magic.

Will this have any unforseen consequences that will bite McQueen in the butt in the future? Absolutely not. He's a trained professional and would never improvise a makeshift incantation that he barely understands then forget about it the moment it's been cast.

If you didn't know, the last paragraph contained no small amount of sarcasm.

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Lets Play The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark #05: Tell me about Loom™!

Kikoskia 2024-06-09 | You mean the latest masterpiece of fantasy storytelling from Lucasfilm's™ Brian Moriarty™?

Why, it's an extraordinary adventure with an interface of magic, stunning, high-resolution, 3D landscapes, sophisticated score and musical effects. Not to mention-

...I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me just then, but I think it's gone.

Not all point and click adventures contain minigame puzzles, but those that do have them typically fall into three categories. First there are the fun and refreshing ones that provide a brief break from general gameplay while remaining firmly tied to the narrative at hand. The other kind are long, tedious trial-by-error slogs that often game over you should you fail. The third are somewhere in the middle.

As a general rule of thumb, I like minigame puzzles to be brief, spaced out and not-to-difficult, but to each their own.

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Lets Play The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark #04: A Nutty Turn of Egg-vents

Kikoskia 2024-06-09 | It's not everyday that you encounter a hyper-intelligent squirrel... in most place of the world, at least. In Twin Lakes, it barely passes as a segment on morning television and yet somehow, most people haven't realised that the place is teeming with supernatural creatures and phenomenon.

I originally thought that the squirrel was never going to be important again in the story, but the developers of the game are incrediably adept at surprising me. Just what the squirrel's role in our quest to rescue Dooley will be, well, you'll have to watch the video and find out.

See what I did there, folks? Not a bad attempt at piquing interest, if I do say so myself.

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Lets Bumble About More in Peglin #16: Never Underestimate Durable

Kikoskia 2024-06-08 | The difference between a bag full of random orbs and a pouch laden with great power is synergy. Orbs and relics that compliment one another are far stronger than a grabbag of this and that, saving you money that'd otherwise be spent healing damage. That said, you only have so much control over what things you can acquire; the game can and often will shut down an attempt to build a specific way, so be prepared to adapt your plan as best you can.

Of all the relics I've played with recently, one that I've found is exceptionally powerful makes all the pegs on the board durable. Every hit of a peg is more damage and another step closer to triggering the ability of a relic or a specific orb. Slime-creating orbs especially love this, as do ones that provide you with stat buffs based on the number of pegs hit, but most of all it gives you the opportunity to inflict more damage.

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Lets Play Legend of Grimrock 2 #39: The Lexiconary

Kikoskia 2024-06-07 | You ever get the feeling in the back of your head that you promised you'd do something, only to get totally distracted by something else? You never intended not to return to the original idea, but one thing led to another and before you knew it, you were far down a completely different tangent of thought and activity?

Guess who forgot about the Lexiconary?

I probably should have headed here before the sewers beneath Stormbreach and the hamlet itself, but better late than never, eh? I don't anticipate that the enemies will be especially difficult, but there's a fair few puzzles that are bound to stump me for one reason or another. The solutions to them won't elude for forever, though.

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Lets Bumble About More in Peglin #15: Yo Gobbo, I Heard you like Rocks...

Kikoskia 2024-06-06 | Aren't rocks amazing? They have so many uses.

You can get SWOLE throwing them in the desert of a forest. You can fling them at enemies by hand, in a sling or using a strange dwarven contraption. You can weigh down pressure plates to solve puzzles but most importantly, you can hoard them in your backpack until it's full to bursting.

You can even make a pretty penny selling them, but watch out for the ones with rust spots. A shrewd blacksmith will spot it in an instant and give you a pittance for them.

In this game, pebbals are exceptionally mundane but have prety decent damage capabilities. With the right relics and supporting orbs, however, they can quickly turn into a devastating powerhouse provided you have enough of them.

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Lets Play Legend of Grimrock 2 #38: Problems Mushrooming Out of Control

Kikoskia 2024-06-05 | We've almost done everything we can do on the surface of the bog, but there's more going on here beneath the peaty ground. Mushrooms and other fungi have taken hold of the dank caverns and they're far from content to stay in one place; like many of the things on this island, these myconids have mutated into humanoid-like creatures that will not take kindly to our intrusion.

Intrude we must, however, for there's a power gem within their territory that the party need. Luckily for us, all the enemies in this area are quite a bit lower level than the party at this point, with only weak melee attacks and mild poison to throw at us. So long as we keep our cool and focus on the most important threats, we shouldn't have any real difficulties.

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Lets Play Quest for Glory II VGA #62: The Ending that Never Was

Kikoskia 2024-06-04 | In this final video, we will explore a few of the paths not taken during the let's play. While some of them can be accomplished using my previous saves, a few from the start of the game will require us to use a new hero with a very different skillset than what Derek possess.

This is by no means an exhaustive list of the many game overs that can be seen by a magic user or a thief; some of them would require a huge time investment. If you want to see them, I wholeheartedly encourage you to download the game and give it a try with those classes.

Finally, we'll show off the ultimate reward of being kind, just and honourable: paladinhood. All that stood between Derek and attaining that title was slaying Khaveen in cold blood, avoiding the most difficult battle in the game and buying us more precious time to stop Ad Avis. This video will show you that combat as well as how the ending plays out differently.

There will be no paladinhood for Derek, however. Not yet, anyway.

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Lets Play Legend of Grimrock 2 #37: Try not to get Bogged Down with Puzzles

Kikoskia 2024-06-03 | One feature that the game has which I've not used anywhere near enough is the ability to freelook about the world. Not only does this allow you to take in the landscape, it also affords you a fresh perspective on whatever situation you're in. You might spot an item you overlooked or a concealed secret that would otherwise elude you.

Though the hunger system in the game tries to impress upon you urgency in your exploration, you aren't really under pressure. Not only does the game have oodles of food lying around for you to find, there are numerous sources of infiniately spawning enemies which provide food. It's incrediably difficult to put yourself in an unwinnable situation, so take some time to smell the roses.

Don't do that in the bog, however. There are no roses here, only stink and giant frogs.

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Lets Play The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark #03: Nothing Odd Here, No Sir

Kikoskia 2024-06-02 | Twin Lakes is a strange city, a place where the veil seperating the Brightside and Darkside is thin. It's far from the strangest place, but it's just odd enough for it to be a problem that needed a dedicated branch in the police force. Without McQueen and Dooley keeping things relatively ordinary, more things that should not be here are, blending into society and enacting their schemes both beneign and malicious.

McQueen would love to solve all these things, but he lacks the authority he once did. This means he has to fall back on more traditional police powers and the knowledge that everyone wants something doing. He also has to rely on my ability to solve puzzles which can be spotty at the best of times.

Sorry, McQueen. I'm trying to best here.

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Lets Play The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark #02: A Lead is a Lead

Kikoskia 2024-06-02 | What are the odds that McQueen's final pitiful plea for help would lead him to meeting the one person in Twin Lakes that can help him and Raxa find Dooley? Considering that this is the very beginning of the game, it was pretty likely, but nothing is ever straightforward. I don't need to be a pyschic to know that many inventory object puzzles lay in our future.

The sequel continues with what the first did so well, intermixing humour with eldritch abominations. The only thing that's missing right now is the dash of Dooley that completes the concoction, but that's currently being replaced by Raxa who adds their own unique twist to the buddy cop dynamic. I hope her involvement in the game doesn't cease when Dooley returns.

There's no if on Dooley returning, by the way. The world needs Dooley as much as I need rocks and blue potions.

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Lets Play The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark #01:The Search for Dooley

Kikoskia 2024-06-02 | McQueen has had a year of worry and stress, but that pales in comparison to whatever horrors his best friend and colleague Dooley has been enduring in the Darkside Dimension. His disappearance was sudden and all avenues of returning him to our world has failed, forcing McQueen to pursue desperate measures.

That's right, he's appealing to help on a talk show.

Despite no longer being a member of the Darkside department - it was shut down when Dooley went missing - and being on an extended leave from his job, McQueen still has allies in his search. He also has his intuition, quick wits and mastery of point and click game mechanics which will surely serve him well in this case which joins the first game to this, its sequel.

Buckle up, folks, it's going to get very silly very quickly and I couldn't be more excited.

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Lets Play Quest for Glory II VGA #61: Fulfilling the Prophecy

Kikoskia 2024-06-01 | Ad Avis has the Statue of Iblis. With it, he intends to free the most powerful and evil of all the djinni, a being whose only focus is inflicting misery and death on everyone in the world. We have only a brief window of opportunity to disrupt the ritual, but what hope do we have? We have a djinni on our side, sure, but even our boosted strength and melee skill will pale against the awesome magical might of Ad Avis... or will it?

It's time to do what we do best: be the mightest of heros by showing Ad Avis the true power of swole.

Quest for Glory 2 is a pretty awesome game, though not without flaw. The remake did a wonderful job of bringing the story to the VGA era; if you'd of shown me gameplay and told me that Sierra made it, I'd of believed you. The setting is rich in detail, the graphics wonderful and the music top notch. The gameplay was very similar to the first in the series while having its own twists that made it unique.

The time system in it was both a blessing and curse; for someone playing for the first time without guidance, the abundance of days is great to give them the opportunity to figure things out. For someone like me, however, it meant I could quickly grind out all my experience at the start, leaving me little to do once it's all said and done. The game could have done with a lot more side content that would fill in the empty periods, especially later for those on top of dealing with the elementals.

With that said, it's still a great point and click adventure game and one I suggest you play. The thief and magic user have very different methods of solving problems which provide great replayability.

So, what's next? There's one more video of this game to go which will show off a few of the many, many game overs I've missed. After that we'll take a week break with some Peglin due to my parents coming over to help with stuff around the house. Once the Peglin run is over, we'll be doing the game voted for by the community, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines. It's going to be an experience unlike any other, that's for sure.

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Lets Play Legend of Grimrock 2 #36: First the Essence, then the Bog

Kikoskia 2024-05-31 | The crystal mines are one of the harder areas in the game and my, did I learn that the hard way. We were ultimately able to prevail but not without struggle and Ivrekk being poisoned so many times that the fates clearly have it out for him. Most worrying, however, was Chee succumbing to the trap that the party stumbled into. Even though their experience of death was fleeting, it's something which has shaken their resolve. Let's just hope Eyes has what it takes to help them through it.

With our inventory sorted, it's time to to back to the shrine in Stormbreach to make the second of the essences we require to escape the island. Once that's done, it's off to Keelbreach Bog, a place I'll likely call Keelreach incorrectly the entire time we're there. It's also a location we were meant to visit far earlier as you'll see shortly upon our arrival there.

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Lets Play Quest for Glory II VGA #60: He Who Waits Behind

Kikoskia 2024-05-30 | It has been many centuries since anyone has entered into the Forbidden City. We do so at the behest of our bestest buddy in the whole world Ad Avis so we can get the Statue of Iblis. This item will restore the former emir and save everything or so we're told and why wouldn't we trust our buddy? Between us and the statue lie many trials, each corresponding to a certain element. One of them is even the namesake of the game, full of fiery doom of the deadly variety, but it's nothing a hero can't handle.

Yes, the sudden and inevitable betrayal in incoming. Yes, Ad Avis is going to think he's won. Fortunately for us, he's terrible at interpreting ancient prophecies which means we've a faint change of stopping the end of everything, but to do this we're going to need some otherworldly help.

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Lets Play Legend of Grimrock 2 #35: One Wrong Step...

Kikoskia 2024-05-29 | The life of an adventurer is one fraught with peril. Battling bad guys and monsters is in itself exceptionally risky, but there's also exploring long-forgotten and dangerous locations far from the populated areas. Add to that dealing with powerful artefacts brimming with magic, ancient curses and those things that exist beyond the thin veil of reality and you've got a profession that many wish they could do but few can actually make work.

The saddest part is is that most of the time it won't be something epic that finally ends your tale. Most do not fall duelling a warlord or holding the walls against a tide of monsters. Most venture out into the world and are never heard from again, quickly forgotten in favour of remembering those who suceeded. All they did was have a single moment of poor judgement, take one wrong step...

Life is a beautiful, fragile thing. Cherish and nurture it, both yours and that of others. Once it's gone, it's gone.

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Lets Play Quest for Glory II VGA #59: Finally, a Friendly Face [Strobe Warning]

Kikoskia 2024-05-28 | This video contains scenes that may not be suitable for people who suffer from epilepsy. Please keep this in mind if you intend to watch the video.

Derek and Sharaf have managed to esacpe from prison thanks to the many secret tunnels that were built into the palace for some reason. The resistance is planning on launching an attack tomorrow night, but the chances that we'll evade notice until that time are incrediably slim. Khaveen will order every guard to search high and low for us and we know of no place we can hide, but there's still one person we can turn to, our bestest buddy in the whole wide world: Ad Avis.

You may have read that last sentence wondering what on earth I'm talking about considering all we know about the former vizier, but magic has a way of clouding judgement and making people very, very susceptible to believe lies. Such is the method Ad Avis gained his power which he intends to use to bring about an ancient prophecy which will be bad news for not just the region, but the rest of the world too. What's worse, we'll be helping him to do it.

Derek really needs to up his will save for the next adventure, presuming he survives to see it.

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Lets Play Legend of Grimrock 2 #34: Ivrekk has been Poisoned!

Kikoskia 2024-05-27 | Poison is a mechanic that varies wildly from game to game. On one end you have a minor debuff that fades away on its own, something so fleeting it's rarely noticed. Then you have a stat debuff that progessively gets worse as time goes on like in World of Xeen. On the other end of the scale there's the original Baldur's Gate trilogy where your health starts rapidly disappearing to small ticks of damage that interrupt spellcasting.

Grimrock has poison be DoT - damage over time - that, while small, is significant enough that you'll want to take care of it as soon as combat is over. Poison resistance can go some way towards avoiding the affliction and I imagine it has an impact on how long it lasts, but I can't be sure. What I can be sure about is that Ivrekk is going to get poisoned a lot more before we're done with the crystal mines, which is ironic considering his high innate poison resistance.

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Lets Play Unpacking #08: The End of the Start of their Lives

Kikoskia 2024-05-26 | We're incrediably close to the end of the game and that's a bittersweet momoent for me. On the one hand, there's nothing beyond this level. On the other hand, the story of these two characters is far from over. They have the rest of their lives together, happy and content in their new home taking care of their child. I have no doubt that theirs is a happy future that will hopefully have no more house moves in it.

No-one likes house moves.

Well, what can I say? Unpacking brought me to tears and that's the sign of a great game. The narrative was brilliantly done and the gameplay was exceptionally well executed. The music is fantastic - I listen to a lot of it in my spare time - and the graphical style is right up my alley. The game doesn't is short and sweet; it set out to achieve a goal and it did so wonderfully. It's a fantastic game and it's just... wonderful. Truly wonderful.

So, what's next? I think it's time to return to a genre of game I like a lot, point and click adventures. As luck would have it, I have the perfect on in mind, a continuation of a story which is equal parts silly and sillier.

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Lets Play Unpacking #07: So. Much. Stuff...

Kikoskia 2024-05-26 | That these two have so many things is wholly understandable. While some of it new for the move, a lot of it are the many, many things that they've accumilated throughout their entire lives. Whether they're kitchen utensils, towels or the masses of clothes that you buy one item at a time, it's always surprising how much stuff that you have.

Moving it all from one place and the other was a problem back when we only had three rooms to deal with and now we have two floors to fill with stuff. It's already taken a long time and yet on comparison to a real move, this is positively speedy.

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Lets Play Quest for Glory II VGA #58: Its Tough Being a Hero

Kikoskia 2024-05-25 | We all knew that Derek wasn't going to have an easy time in Raseir but oh boy, things are so much worse than the rumours. What few people that live in the city do so in misery and under the tyrannical eye of Ad Avis, the former vizier who knew we were coming. If there is a resistance they won't want to connect with us, a well-known hero that's already made a huge scene.

What hope is there for us to achieve anything but getting thrown in prison?

Even small acts of kindness can have an impact, one far larger than you first think. Compassion brings with it hope and hope is a fire that burns brightly and is difficult to exstinguish. It is this hope that Derek seeks to bring to Raseir, to galvanise the populace in standing up to those in power that seek to crush them and it begins with doing what we do best: being a hero.

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Lets Play Legend of Grimrock 2 #33: Puzzles, Projectiles and Poison

Kikoskia 2024-05-24 | The crystal mines are, in many ways, a dungeon like all the others in the series. Within are puzzles, secrets and no small amount of loot left by the former inhabitants of Stormbreach as well as former adventurers that have perished here. What is also here, however, are spiders and the strange floaty things that can fire sight-obscuring projectiles at us, neither of which are fun to deal with.

The floaty things try their best to stay as far away from us as possible, for they know they're not that capable up close. The spiders, on the other hand, have their poison, an ailment which we've not had to deal with too often up till now. This will change as we descend deeper still into this place and oh boy, do those spiders not like one member of the party in particular.

I'll let you guess who that is.

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Lets Play Quest for Glory II VGA #57: SAURUS COMBAT WOOOOO

Kikoskia 2024-05-23 | The tour of Raseir took far less time than that of Shapeir due to how much of it is barred to us by order of Khaveen. What is there was barely worth exploring, with the palace being the only location outside the gate plaza that has any notable significance. The fountain, broken and dry as it is, is a sad reflection of how decayed and desolate this husk of a city is, but it could always get so, so much worse.

It's already pretty late in the day, but there's still a little bit of time where we can do what we wish. With no activities in the city aside from waiting around, we'll instead head into the desert to show off something that is unique to this area: saurus combat. This saurus is trained for battle and it makes besting even terrorsaurus relatively trivial. This serves as your final opporunity to get some money, not that you have any real need for much of it at this point.

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Lets Play Legend of Grimrock 2 #32: Descending to the Deeper Levels

Kikoskia 2024-05-22 | With the surprise ratlings in Stormbreach mostly taken care of, the party are ready to descend back into the crystal mines and see just what awfulness lies in wait for them. The answer to that is likely 'huge horders of spiders' that seem to have taken a liking to poisoning Ivrekk over Onara. Perhaps it's all the armour that she's covered in which makes it harder for them to inject their venom.

While being able to move about and dodge attacks is very important to survival in games like this, sometimes you're not given the ability to do so. The next best thing you can do is miminise the amount of angles your foes can strike you from. One is best but two is manageable provided you have healing to hand.

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Lets Play Quest for Glory II VGA #56: Onward to Raseir

Kikoskia 2024-05-21 | It's been a very, very busy two weeks for Derek, give or take a couple of days. Not only has he saved Shapeir from four dangerous elementals, he's learned much about its twin city that is currently suffering under the rule of the old Emir's brother... or so most people think. The truth is that Ad Avis, the advisor of the old sultan, is the one pulling the strings there and it's clear he won't be content with ruling just one city.

It's up to us to stop his schemes and that means joining the caravan headed to the beleaguered city, a journey that I'm sure will be absolutely safe and won't have us fighting for our lives against a horde of bandits. I'm also fairly certain that no matter how bad I think Raseir will be, it's going to be much, much worse.

Raseir badly needs a hero. Good thing we're on hand, eh?

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Lets Play Legend of Grimrock 2 #31: Just When you Think its Safe...

Kikoskia 2024-05-20 | We've already had once instance of an area repopulating with new enemies, something that I was not prepared for. Whether it was triggered by the number of steps we've taken or through reaching a certain milestone in exploration, I can't say, but it means that you can never be complacent when backtracking through older areas.

It's not something that I imagine will occur very often. After all, it'd be very mean for the developers to spring a horder of older enemies and a previous boss on you when you're trying to backtrack to the Hub to drop off all your excess inventory. They wouldn't do that, right?

...Right?

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Lets Play Unpacking #06: Rediscovering Happiness

Kikoskia 2024-05-19 | Love is a stange little thing, isn't it?

It appears so fragile, like the slightest knock will shatter it into a million pieces, but that's not the case. The bond of love can, if the cirumstances are right, forge itself into an unbreakable chain that binds people together forever. Every love is different, as unique as the people experiencing it and it takes many forms. Whether it's familial, platonic, romantic or the countless other types I can't begin to describe - I'm no expert - it leads our lives in most unusual places.

When I was first attending university, I thought I had everything in my life all worked out. I'l get a degree, land a career that I'd stay in the rest of the my life, settle down and have children. Never did I know that utterly failing university would bring me to where I am now, to the happiness I feel. My mistakes brought me to my job creating content and writing books, to the house I life in, to my partner whom I couldn't see myself without. All of this grew from the see of self-inflicted calamity.

Love may be strange, but life is stranger still.

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Lets Play Unpacking #05: When is a Move not a Move?

Kikoskia 2024-05-19 | It took a lot of work, but our protagonist has managed to put her life on a new track, a better track. She has a place all to herself, one that finally allows her a dedicated space for her to pursue her art. The place needs work as all places do, but she's begun to heal from her past and flourish.

Life has a funny way of throwing curveballs at you when you least expect it but not all of them are bad. Some are an opportunity that you can sieze upon if you're determined and lucky enough, but others ensnare you without you even realising it and change you forever.

Is this change for the better or the worse? This time, all signs point to the former.

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Lets Play Unpacking #04: We Live, we Love, we Ache, we Learn

Kikoskia 2024-05-19 | Hindsight is a tricky thing. A bad decision seems obvious after the fact, but we can only see that because we know how the events played out. What can start off as good can change, often so slowly that we don't realise until someone else points out what's different. Sometimes you're just unlucky, but what is life without risk?

For our protagonist, things have not gone at all as they had hoped. Their life has collapsed but they had a safety net that caught them as it all tumbled down. One love may have died but others endure, grow stronger as we pick ourselves up and sort through the rubble to salvage what we can and build a better tomorrow. Bit by bit and day by day things will get better, for tomorrow is a new day.

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Lets Play Quest for Glory II VGA #55: The Final Day Draws to a Close

Kikoskia 2024-05-18 | Little remains of our final day in Shapeir, so let's make the most of it by accidentally stumbing across each and every easter egg hidden in the desert while trying to get more coin. Even if the game robs me of all our cash once it's no longer useful - something I don't put past Sierra to have done back when they first made this - the little bits of silly uncovered along the way makes it worth it regardless.

One final thing we do need to do before we turn in for the night is to attend Omar's poetry reading. Not only will it be about is in a totally not subtle way, but he's likely to have a reward to give us on behalf of the ruler of the city.

Now that I think of it, we've never seen Omar and the Sultan in the same room. I wonder...

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