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Happy Halloween Month!
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00:00 and welcome to another video don't forget to Like comment subscribe and
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00:17 going to go ahead and go right into the catacombs this is going to be the
00:23 catacomb episode and yeah it took us a while to get here that's because we were
00:28 visiting Barovia and all sorts of good stuff so I hope you're enjoying these
00:33 videos I hope you have fun and take care let's get on and get going
00:40 [Music]
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01:11 I you are free now I will join my family those joyful spirits taken from me so
01:20 many ages past for your troubles I give you a key with it you may open a door
01:28 within my house and there find my greatest work of all wonderfully cut it
01:35 is worth more coin than you have ever seen may hell guide you and farewell
01:43 well that's a bugged quest
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05:16 - Oh yeah, I don't know if you noticed,
05:25 but my main character, because she's possessed,
05:27 she's not being allowed to fight.
05:29 That's why that stupid frigging ghost
05:34 is a real pain in the butt.
05:36 The only thing I don't, there are only a couple things
05:39 I don't like about this game, that's one of them.
05:41 You trigger the possession at the wrong point,
05:43 you're kinda screwed.
05:45 (ghostly growling)
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09:04 You know what, I think I'm going to
09:07 pause the recording and jump cut
09:09 because this dungeon crawl
09:11 is incredibly boring.
09:13 I, you basically get the idea.
09:16 Um, it's a square dungeon.
09:20 You got flesh golems,
09:22 well the walls of flesh I should say,
09:25 not really flesh golems.
09:27 We've already got rid of like some sort
09:30 of flesh golem before.
09:32 And um, there are secret passages
09:35 and basically you find them by
09:38 clearing out the whole dungeon
09:42 and if it's not a perfect square
09:44 you go to a point where there's an indentation
09:46 and you look for a secret button
09:49 or a hidden passage, right?
09:52 That's concealed with an illusionary wall.
09:55 Um, so I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to
09:58 pause it and clear this dungeon out.
10:02 There's no need to watch me kill enemies.
10:06 Uh, as soon as I get the floor plan done
10:10 I'll go ahead and show you.
10:12 If I get to a boss fight I'll go ahead and unpause it.
10:15 So, jump cut.
10:17 Jump cut.
10:19 So, uh, yeah.
10:21 I died and uh,
10:23 the catacombs suck.
10:25 They suck that bad.
10:27 So I'm just going to go ahead and clear all the way through
10:29 and then show you what the map looks like.
10:31 Jump cut.
10:33 Okay, I just had to show you guys
10:35 some of this uh,
10:37 how this game bugs out sometimes.
10:40 Um, it's just kind of funny
10:44 when you're looking at it at an angle
10:46 you can get it to uh,
10:48 show you some pretty funky uh, things.
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11:21 Jump cut.
11:24 Okay, so this area has a ton of scrolls in them.
11:28 And uh, I'll try and mark them down.
11:31 But I just wanted to show you.
11:33 Uh, I keep dying.
11:35 [Laughs]
11:36 I'm up to uh, six deaths already.
11:39 So, yeah.
11:41 Uh, difficult dungeon.
11:43 That's why I'm doing jump cuts right now.
11:47 Jump cut.
11:48 Alright, so uh,
11:50 I just got the Silvermoon key
11:52 by using the uh,
11:55 thief, my, my
11:58 Black Beauty here.
12:00 She has uh,
12:02 lockpicks.
12:03 So I picked up the lockpicks, I clicked on that.
12:06 And she picked the lock.
12:07 Um, so I'm doing this out of order.
12:09 [Laughs]
12:10 But I don't care, that's why I liked her.
12:13 Uh, you know, using lockpicks is the way to go.
12:16 So uh,
12:17 [Mimics lockpick]
12:19 Pause.
12:20 And jump cut.
12:22 This is what it looks like when they detect a false wall.
12:26 One of these walls seems, well, unusual.
12:29 Perhaps a closer examination is in order.
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13:04 And here's the key that I did not need.
13:08 [Laughs]
13:09 Because I have my uh,
13:11 my uh, lockpicker with me.
13:14 Alright, jump cutting now.
13:18 Alright, so jump cut.
13:21 Uh, paladin symbol is in the middle of this entire uh, dungeon.
13:26 As you can see I skipped some parts.
13:29 I'm gonna go ahead and revisit them on my way out.
13:33 Uh, since they are on the way out.
13:35 Uh, the uh, dungeon exit is right there I think.
13:38 Oh look, I forgot to get something down there.
13:42 Uh, okay so uh, paladin symbol is right there in the middle.
13:47 And as you can see you can get some scrolls for mages and what not.
13:52 I say save it until you get the mage that is really smart.
13:56 I think it is that mage that's in the woods.
13:59 I have to double check his intelligence.
14:01 Um, uh, you can do this out of order if you have a thief.
14:06 Or you know, someone who can lockpick.
14:09 Uh, that's why I always use the bard, that multi-class bard gal.
14:14 Uh, she kicks ass.
14:16 So uh, yeah.
14:18 And uh, let me go ahead and show you what that looks like.
14:21 That's what it looks like when you come on in.
14:23 And of course you have the moon, keys, and everything looking, I mean all over the place.
14:30 Uh, so if you don't have a thief you've got quite an adventure on your hand.
14:36 Hands, and uh, but if you do have a thief you can just do whatever you want whenever you want.
14:43 You have to save and rest a lot.
14:46 It's really boring.
14:49 I died what, six or seven times.
14:52 Uh, it's just not, I don't care for this particular dungeon crawl.
14:59 Um, even Strahd's castle is frustrating.
15:07 Uh, so I, you know, some, it's not as bad as the one pyramid in Mummy's Curse.
15:22 Uh, but I've enjoyed, I've seriously enjoyed dungeon hack dungeon crawls a lot more because you have way more variety.
15:32 Uh, of course all of them are much better than Eye of Beholder.
15:37 Uh, Eye of Beholder, of the Beholder was like the first real attempt at a first person Dungeons and Dragons game.
15:48 You gotta keep in mind like, uh, people were hoping for something like Doom at some point.
15:56 Because Doom was originally supposed to be a role playing game.
16:01 And then it turned into a definitive FPS game.
16:06 Although, all of the mechanics in Doom are role playing gaming mechanics, believe it or not.
16:17 Uh, I mean they even rolled, uh, dice to determine the random number generation for the damage tables and the hit tables in the video game.
16:31 So it's a role playing game that you're actually playing, believe it or not.
16:36 Like an action style role playing game.
16:38 Of course, you know, you call it first person shooter because it's primarily a first person shooter.
16:43 But it's based off of role playing gaming rules, which I always found, I mean I say always, but I only just found that out a year and a half ago or so.
16:53 Uh, but uh, that's what is so fun about it.
16:58 So anyway, you know, people were always hoping for like a first person hack and slash game.
17:05 This was the closest we got until we got Heretic.
17:09 And Heretic was okay.
17:13 It used the, either the Doom engine or the build engine, I can't remember which engine.
17:20 But it's not, I mean, this is still a lot more fun.
17:25 Heretic was like the worst possible way you could have a fantasy FPS game.
17:32 Uh, so, I mean, I don't know, I don't know how to gauge these dungeon crawls, but this particular dungeon is not very fun.
17:43 The Iblis dungeon is not fun either.
17:47 Uh, very much those Bone Golems are terrible and there's a lot of teleports and a lot of false walls.
17:55 Uh, to a point where I can't, there's one section where if you don't get it done right you can never open it up.
18:05 And it's just frustrating, it's just frustrating.
18:09 Anyway, so I'm gonna jump cut again as I finish these uh, these guys I think.
18:16 Or, I don't know, I guess maybe I can go ahead and finish this up.
18:20 I mean I only have a couple places to go through.
18:25 So yeah, I'll go ahead and play and finish this up.
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19:13 If you notice on the map here, uh, it was blocked off.
19:19 And it was blocked off, you're like, well how am I gonna get in there?
19:23 Well you kill the living wall.
19:25 When you kill the living wall, it opens up.
19:29 And if you also notice I'm saving all of these healing potions.
19:34 That's because the final battle with Strahd Von Zarovich.
19:39 I still call him Strahd, I mean a lot of people call him Strahd.
19:45 I guess his name is Strahd though, but um.
19:49 Yeah, it's um.
19:52 The uh, I don't know.
19:58 You gotta save a lot of your potions up.
20:00 Unlike so many other role playing games where you like save and stockpile and be a pack rat.
20:07 And then you wind up beating the boss.
20:09 You're like, oh well I guess I didn't need these potions after all.
20:12 No, you need these potions to fight him.
20:15 You also need them for the cemetery.
20:17 And yeah, you can save anywhere and back up anywhere.
20:21 But uh, truth of the matter is, it's um.
20:26 It's a really painful ordeal.
20:34 I mean, Strahd's a domain lord.
20:38 And he should be painful.
20:41 And you have to be, you know, you're just really lucky when you beat him.
20:50 His entire dungeon has fireballs everywhere.
20:54 And you just wind up getting your ass kicked.
20:58 So handedly.
21:00 I'm just dumping all my fireballs, dumping all of the healing potions in the final battle when I first beat him.
21:07 It took me about an hour.
21:10 And it's a very quick fight.
21:12 So imagine how many times I, uh.
21:15 Imagine how many times I uh.
21:18 I had to save and reload.
21:21 Right?
21:23 Alright, so um.
21:25 I'm gonna leave those for after I deal with the Paladin.
21:29 Alright, gonna go and say hi to the Paladin.
21:33 And then I'm gonna go ahead and end this video.
21:36 Uh, I've been.
21:40 Oh, what was he saying?
21:43 Barovia died a long time ago.
21:45 That much is certain.
21:46 If a few simple fools.
21:48 If the few simple fools who remain think of themselves as inhabiting a living village.
21:52 Then much the worse for them.
21:54 They have my pity.
21:56 Perhaps my prayers.
21:57 They still have good use for both.
22:00 In the long nights ahead.
22:02 They shall have good use for both.
22:03 Yeah, okay.
22:04 Uh, anyway.
22:10 I can't even remember what I was saying.
22:12 Oh yeah, I've spent an hour on that dungeon crawl.
22:16 Uh, it was.
22:19 I just, all you have are.
22:21 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
22:22 All you have are were-rats.
22:25 Literally, just were-rats and living walls.
22:29 Uh.
22:32 You know, uh.
22:34 Most of the dungeons are better in the second one.
22:38 I like the open world.
22:41 Uh, areas more.
22:43 In this game.
22:47 But, um.
22:49 Yeah, that's, that's the whole gist of it.
22:52 Now let's see what he has to say.
22:59 The symbol.
23:02 I thank you for returning it to me.
23:06 Now it is my task to open my heart.
23:10 To return to the ways of faith and spirit before the final hour comes.
23:16 And darkness with it.
23:19 But first, allow me to open for you a chamber whose well-concealed bounty will become your full reward.
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24:43 Such a shrewdly crafted blade. Ah, 'tis an honor for anyone to hold this piece of cunning art.
24:51 A paladin's sword, if I ever saw one.
24:53 So, uh, yeah, this is like, uh, the badass sword until you get the sun sword.
24:58 Uh, so, yeah, I'm gonna give it to my girl.
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27:06 Alright, alright, alright. So, uh, 27 minutes.
27:11 I think that this is the end of the video. Uh, yeah, I'm trying to keep all my videos
27:16 around 30 minutes, uh, for my YouTube site. I figure 30 minutes is a good little watch.
27:23 And, uh, I hope you enjoy the music. I hope you enjoy the atmosphere, the ambiance, and, uh,
27:31 I love this game! It's a fun game! Um, but yeah, you don't need to watch me
27:40 drag on through all the levels. I'll show you enough of the levels, and then, uh, I'll just, uh,
27:46 you know, pause it and wait 'til I get through the end. This isn't like Dungeon Hack, where you can have, like,
27:52 10 different enemies. Uh, this first, uh, game only had, like, two or three enemies per level, and
28:00 boy, just some of 'em are real slog. That one was just not that fun. Uh, I enjoyed the church.
28:07 The church one is pretty fun. Uh, the Iblis caverns are not fun at all. Uh, the graveyard is incredibly
28:17 tedious if you can't kill your enemies before they try to attack you. And that's because if they hit you
28:23 once, they'll drain your levels. Let's see how much life, uh, experience my guys all have.
28:29 Oh, he leveled up! He did level up! Uh, my Paladin, she must have leveled up too at some point. Mage is
28:37 almost gonna level up. And, uh, so let's see if my, uh, priest got any new spells. So let's see here.
28:45 Memorize. Uh, the mages didn't get any new spells. That's okay. And, uh, pray. And Mr. Tubbs. Mr.
29:03 Tubba-Tubbs. Um, got five there, five there, three there. Oh, look! Uh, neutralize poison, finally.
29:21 Uh, cure serious wounds. I will always have at least one neutralized poison memorized. And, uh,
29:30 usually I don't like using that scroll, but that, him being poison was really pissing me off. Uh,
29:36 yeah, I mean, in this game, loading and reloading is usually the order of the day. And the thing is,
29:44 this game knows that you can save and reload, so it makes it extra hard. So saving and reloading is
29:52 not that huge of a benefit. It's like they took that into account when adjusting for the difficulty.
29:59 Um, thank you for listening to me ramble on. Like, comment, share, subscribe, and click the little
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30:15 Tell me in the comments below. Thank you very much. Love y'all. Take care. Bye.
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