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Playing this before and after covid gave it a whole new meaning.

You're so right about kaldwins bridge but I actually love the mission and straying off the path

I always loved the betrayal aspect since you thought you knew who was the enemy

Good vid man

Great video. Just to let you know the third timestamp for The Ugly isn’t working correctly. In the description it’s a . Instead of a : and it doesn’t work in the chapters feature either

Got to be honest, so many game reviewers think giving the player more options means it surpasses anything it copied from. Like no thats not it, if we are going by that logic then any 2d platformer that has more moves for the character means it beats out Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze. People don't seem to understand a intentional control scheme, having limitations, not understanding its not just old game design, Ghosts N Goblins Resurrection just came out a little awhile ago, theres a reason it has a deliberate stiff control scheme.

32:00 the sound is actually done by Cello. The composer and sound director worked together to use the insrtuments to make the sounds for the games. La Cuna stuff- I just want to say that there's a companion book which talks about the making of the games. But it also doubles as kind of encyclopedia. And has a lot on the island of La Cuna and the previous carrier too. And after the Basilius inscident The Order's presence on the island was removed, such as their link to the island and Justinian plague, and rumours were tranformed into the ideas of the cult of the holy child. So we can assume that Beatrice and Vaudin don't actually know. And the Order team at La Cuna and their knowledge and what they did there was just locked away there. Then the Macula stuff was hijacked by the Count to satisfy his wife out of selfish desire and delusion. Also from the book. The first carrier was not known. So there are others before Basilius, he was just the first "important" one. The Protector is an Order function, not really a Macula one. And not all carriers had a protector. I find the Count and Countess more interesting than Vitalis and Nicholas. I think Nicholas has a very cool vibe. But I think the Count is a very good hateable charactter because of how petty he was and how he basically ruined the protags chanced right at the very end. (NGL totally thought Amicia died when she got shot by the arrow since it was at the end of the game.) Keeping Hugo isolated either in a desirable place or not is just a preventative to delay the inveitable. Even if happy in the high mountains. They present the Macula as an inveitable that will always come back. Some have also seen it as an allegory for terminal illness for trying to keep a sick child alive at the cost of using up money and resource even if they are in pain, although blown up to a worldwide supernatrual scale as most pieces of media do. Which is kind of what Amicia is. She is selfish and hypocritical. Her loveand dismisal of Hugo is hurting him and by wider effect everyone affected by the macula. Even if Hugo is willing to die. And is you said it's not about is Amicia is wrong or right, but following her decisions. If there is another installment, I would love to see something exploring Aelia and Basilius.

If you lose during the gauntlet The boss battle restarts, but you dont have to redo the circuit fights you’ve already defeated, the crystal just sends you to the one you haven’t beaten yet

The "evil trump" jab brought me out of enjoyment of the video. Could you not bring a truly terrible person as an example? Not a regular american buisness man? I know they are aweful but not Hitler aweful, right?

Do you think there will be a third game for APT?

I really loved this game too - I liked what you said about recognising this should be the new standard and the old megamans should just be played for nostalgia.. Hard to swallow pill time lol. Great vid dude (also great thumbnail)

I'm the type to replay if the gameplay is snappy and well polished. I've dumped 70+ hours into this. Most of that extra time was from getting achievements and redoing boss fights in the kind-of-hidden Boss Rush room at HQ until I can beat each of them with no damage. This game reworked boss abilities to something that is - in my opinion - more interesting than the old rock-paper-scissors system. All Bursts (boss moves) you gain can stagger every boss. But they share a limited single energy source. And all of them reset the boss' internal trigger to 0. What this effectively does is encourage you to find ways to chain Bursts together (and maybe sneak a few punches in between before resetting s again) to steamroll bosses, comboing them like a fighting game. Yes, this does trivialize the bosses even further. But I think it's mostly a positive thing because it adds player expression in the way you fight. I've seen people share a lot of very creative combos in the GC Discord. I also think this is way more interesting than just "know the boss weakness and spam it", there is actually some execution involved. Also, just like the old Mega Man system, you won't know this unless you figure it out yourself or learn from an outside source. Anyway, I don't disagree on your take that the game can feel rather easy. But I think this is more a case of you being very used to 2d action platformers. The old Mega Man X games were also made in an era where games were significantly more difficult on average and had less margin for error.

Only thing I would say, is there’s a lot of hate around Piero but I really like him. I think he talks weirdly and acts weirdly because he’s supposed to be this introverted weirdo who doesn’t interact with people much. Hes a genius touched by the outsider, he doesn’t sleep because he spends his nights inventing and thinking about things. Of course he’s gonna be a bit of a creep. He’s not written to be a morally good guy, he’s a pervert, probably because he never interacted with women much, which makes his attempts at flirting with Callista really amusing because he has no clue what to say. Piero has the crime of being a creepy perv, but I find him remarkably human. Compared with Sokolov who is supposed to be a literal psychopath, he locks people in cages to experiment on them. He develops military technology and refuses help to work on the plague elixir because he wants the glory. There are rumours you can over hear of Sokolov constantly using prostitutes and being morally bankrupt. He is responsible for removing Piero from college because he grows so quickly it scares him. The series seems to forget this about Sokolov in the second game and death of the outsider. He is treated like a hero while Piero is forgotten, probably because Arkane thought he wasn’t as popular Despite the bad blood between the two, Sokolov and Piero develop each other when they are in contact. Sokolov regrets his actions and accepts help from Piero, they both go on to create the plague elixir collaboratively in the prologue. Also if you knock out the weepers, you get a note next to your bed from Piero that he’s going to use them as test subjects for a plague cure

Shoehorning in US politics only stands to weaken an otherwise great video

Whenever I recommend this gane to people, I describe it as a visual novel with light souls-like combat.

Is the Spymaster making an oblique reference to Half-Life when torturing Corvo in the prison? Him saying to Corvo that he was "in the wrong place at the right time" is very similar to the iconic G-Man quote "the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world". Just something that occurred to me while watching this video.

If you look in your room in the mission after you sleep dart the weepers in the basement, Piero leaves a note saying thank you, because he is now going to use them as test subjects. I don't really think that disputes what you said but I thought I'd mention it. They don't just get left down there or killed if you don't kill them.

Gravity Circuit 2 when?

Good takes! I'm glad word is still getting out about this game. It deserves to be played by a lot more people.

I cant get enough dishonored deepdives! Great video man!

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good points

1:00:45 - This summarizes my one complaint with Arkane games outside of Dishonored 2 & Prey. I *wish* Arx Fatalis built up a more interesting mystery, I wish Dark Messiah gave Sareth more of a struggle surrounding learning of his purpose as effectively a tool, his absent father, Isabel, and any questions of his birthright or family being worth unleashing hell. Could’ve partly fixed, or even outright redeemed HoMM5.

>using a controller opinion rejected

Strawberry is not a stone's throw from horseshoe overlook, it's literally in a whole different state. It's close in the game map, but that's because the distances are reduced to be feasible for a videogame. Strawberry is also a small town in the mountains. I do think its stupid that shooting it up has no consequences, but it's not remotely the same as starting shit in Valentine, which is actually close to their camp

I really like your analysis and complains. Regarding the mesmerize level, it is actually foretold if you read certain letter, it explains that you can break someone's mind... But I only connected the dots after mesmerizing her. I don't think it is a bad design choice, even if the level hating seems forced, but it goes in accord with the rest of the game theme of life being hard and unfair, you are very much literally stumbling in the dark, trying to do your best without knowing the full implications, and you have to deal with the consecuences even if you like it or not. This also applies for the leveling system, it is the numerical evidence of the hardship of being ethical in a corrupted world, every enemy has the power to end you in a couple hits, but you endure that, and learn to adapt, your reward is getting to see the people you help actually get better and regain hope for the future. That being said, I only approve of this because it is in harmony with the concept and universe of the game, I wouldn't accept these issues on a happier tone game

Is it perfect? No... but I'll be damned if Requiem isn't a kick in the guts. Charlotte McBurney was phenomenal as Amicia and carried the game just on her own.

While I find the combat to be terrible, I don't agree with copying TLOU. The developers of RDR2 are aiming for over the top action sequences where you jump on top of trains, gun down dozens of enemies, etc. How do you achieve that with the slow and grinding combat of TLOU? Furthermore, the encounter design between the two games is completely different. In TLOU you mostly fight in tight arenas where your approach is heavily constricted, against small groups with small distance between you and them. Meanwhile, with RDR being in an open world, you have far more approaches (even with the heavy scripting in the story missions), and you fight against larger groups in greater distances. Or you fight while riding in top speed. Finally, a pillar of TLOU combat is the resource scarcity, where you are always low in ammo and stuff to use, and you have to resort with less than ideal tactics. This just can't happen in an open world game where you can buy guns and ammo, or just grind for resources. I can't see how your last point would work to be honest. TLOU combat does not align with what RDR is going for.

bro threee hours????? why does this world need three hours of "good game is le good"?? its a videogame about a teleporitng assassin with a cool mask, no need to overanalyze it lol. i could probably beat it in this time.

9 months ago I commented on one of your videos asking if you had any plans for a Dishonored 2/DOTO critique. You told me you were planning on doing it in the upcoming fall. I've been waiting very patiently, but I cannot wait any longer. Could you provide me with an update on the situation? P.S. Have you ever played Hollow Knight? You might like it.

A not so fun fact (which has nothing to do with the game, but is about the Bubonic Plague as a disease, since you did bring up that there could have been an undocumented outbreak) Scientists have actually pretty recently (around 2011) found that there was an outbreak long before the Justinian Plague in what is now modern day Latvia IIRC. They ended up unearthing a few ancient corpses with bones that had the telltale scarring of plague victims. Now, if the devs knew about that or not, no idea, but it does give us a lot more info about the plague and how it evolved/ when it first appeared to jump to Humans. The worst bit, aside from the plague of course, being that as Humans came together in cities, it too became much more transmissable via fleas, not just rat bites

Thanks for the content, always a good watch!

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Where tf are all of the other comments and likes?

These are always a joy!

New Kaldini vid!! That’s my evening sorted!

Lets gooooooooo!!!!

God I wish my curse was consistency😂

Piero gives you a reward for giving him a live weeper/sleep darting them.

My 1 and only gripe with this game is that weepers count as kills for clean hands. Like come on, they are 1 foot in the grave already and undergoing extreme suffering. It doesn't really make a difference and killing them is really a kindness anyway

Just started Prey, which is tangentially related, and I can’t wait for your further critiques on Arkane’s endeavors! I hope the videos haven’t been scrapped :/

I agree to pretty much everything but Dishonored 1 was the most enjoyable stealth game I've played.

Keep it up man, I am loving your videos and binging it hahahaha, the production in this one is quite nice. You managed to pass the feeling of having the same quality in voice throughout the whole video. E.g. when you have a break and come back, but this time you are speaking far away from the mic, it is not apparent for you, but having this changes of voice is a bit immersion breaking. Here you were very immersive. Good choice on game futage as well. Great knowledge showed. Managed to keep the train of thought concise. Keep it up!

Started playing the game yesterday and fro first immpresion I realy like it. In the game you are a vampire, but also a doctor, detective, forensic. I dont know why but I was allways facinated by the Victorian era also the music theme is dark and sinister which I realy like. I play this game only at night because it gives a better feeling. So far I realy like it.

2:00:00 I actually strongly disagree with this for one specific reason and that's Samuel. He despises you in High Chaos and I don't believe that he would only give you half the poison.