You know, I actually already Play matchless Kung Fu. The translation can be kinda jank, but it's pretty cool over all. And the recent changes means that an old master can defeat a young prodigy, if built right (where as previously, having the right bloodline made you almost untouchable.) Mind you, Karma's still make a pretty big difference. My only real complaint is that, once you get to a certain level of power, it's hard to find peers to test yourself against who won't just Axe you if you lose a spar. THe master of the Sword school in particular is rather merciless. Here is hoping they work Gu into something worth using, as well as the poison based martial art. (not that poison isn't useful- as a status effect tied to a weapon- but the Martial art dedicated to it is *terrible*.)
Wanting to protect your sister from marrying a creepy dude with an even creepier mom is a noble motive. It's a shame that it was his secondary motivating factor, with the primary being in his pants.
@@TheCrimsonRevenger Honestly it would've been more honest and on-brand if they just went full edge and left is as a "going full Targaryen" thing. It would narratively fit the game. The intro cinematic starts with pregnant women and babies being sacrificed in a demonic ritual, there's a brothel operated by a necromancer (yes, that implication is exactly what you think), the first boss of the game is a cannibal madman using blood magic derived from corpses he devours in front of Cairon and Calandra etc. etc. So I don't get why they even bothered to go with the "not actually blood-related"-cop out. 🤣
What baffles me about this game is that the romance goes full steam ahead when your characters believe they are related, and then when they're told 'no you're not actually related' it's treated as an afterthought. Like, the core of the romance is that these two characters want to have sex as siblings, no matter what anyone says, and then it's like 'oh wait no they're not actually related.' But they THOUGHT THEY WERE. FOR YEARS. Absolutely baffling.
the only way they could have made this better (worse, but funnier) would have been if them NOT being actually related was a deal-breaker. If they're gonna go all in, might as well go with inverting the trope where suddenly screwing one's sibling is ok because surprise someone's adopted! and take refuge in audacity
so there's an ending where the main character was a villain the whole time, who pretended not to know anything about the evil scheme, and betrays his sister after having pretended to be in love with her for years? 10/10 GOTY
@@HauklingurI love how you commented that like it’s a gotcha but it’s legit rare to come up with RPGs with actual incest as a plot point; so honestly you just exposed yourself more than anything. Like at best, it’s all German games like Ring: Legend of the Nibelungen which is based on the Wagner opera and the legend the opera is based on that involves a pair of siblings having a son to avenge their clan.
Oh my god, Calandra's voice actor is Alix. (Quite a few characters in Dragon Age Origins, default female Inquisitor voice in Inquisition, Traynor is Mass Effect 3) I'm sorry for her
I took note of him too and had to look up who else they got, 4 people from Vermintide it seems. The sister is Alix Wilton Regan, Kerillian. Bardin, Saltzpyre and Olesya are there as well.
'you and calandra are not siblings' 'you came into the world as part of a ritual in which azaril summoned a powerful demon' so... they were born from the same ritual... started by the same person... which would make them siblings still.... okay
It's made by Germans, they ignore your petty moral qualms. They have a party in government (the Greens) who once lobbied hard to legalise animal love (until the yanks bought the party, now they support turning off nuclear power plants so they can burn more coal, the leader waxes nostalgic about her Nazi grandfather and wants to start a war with Russia). This sibling thing is pocket change to them.
@@tatfly5779 Because as low-budget and incompetent as this game is, the writers and developers were indeed trying to make a gritty dark fantasy. They weren't a bunch of politburo propagandists.
@@koshetz Veilguard is 2020s American leftist politics, pushed into a game where we would all love nothing more than to get away from 2020s American leftist BS. Make Dragon Age Great Again!!!
That Falk guy trying to NTR cairon is voiced by Andrew Wincott, also known as the voice for Raphael in Baldur's Gate 3. How did this game get so many great actors?
I think it's similar to how Highlander 2 had Sean Connery in it. Sometimes, you need money more than you need to have any respect for the script you're reading.
wait a minute...killing others to increase ones power until the last one is left as the most powerful one?...being drawn to others with same power. by the quickening! THIS IS HIGHLANDER!
@@SimonBuchanNzone movie a few years later (and not since then) isn't exactly a trope😂 there's Highlander and then Highlander in the future starring Jet Li
@@whitehuayra you sent me to tv tropes to check and I didn't come out for a day! 😄 You're right there's not too many that have *all* the features of "there's a fixed group of people that share a specific power and when one kills another the killer gets the targets strength and they are destined to end up with one", even The One didn't quite fit that as all the Jet Li's got stronger, not just the killer. But there's a lot of people circling around the concepts involved pretty closely, to the extent it seems like deliberate avoidance at a point. I will say this seems more like a direct reference to the Baldur's Gate setup than Highlander, given they're not immortal and the subject of a ritual for someone else to get power, but it seems pretty likely that's just an indirect path to Highlander.
This commentary is like listening to a David Attenborough doco but the actual dialogue is wild and is causing some kind of internal dissonance 😂😂😂😂 I love it.
I like how the main character’s goal is a heroic “I want to run away and elope with my hot sister” while the villain is just “MMM YESSS IM GOING TO MARRY YOUR SISTER FOR POOOWAAAAH!!!” Just to hype the player up to… have their sister for themselves???
@Deusaga i would. I can spend the rest of my life replaying those old and flawed yet fun games. If any AAA developers want my money, they gotta earn it.
@@marcomongke3116 I feel the same. Modern games are so lame, they are afraid to offend everyone. These old games before 2015 were brave and creative. And they gave better fan service.
Just in case someone else wants to know it: The voice of margrave Sumudan is Peter Marinker :) And the game is settled in the universe of the (in germany) pretty famous P&P universe of the "The dark eye". It's like the german D&D (and started with exactly that purpose).
Yeah, I feel like if you've ever played a video game or watched an anime, chances are you've heard Peter Marinker's voice. Though he sounds a LOT like Patrick Stewart, here lol
Marinker has a huge list of credits as a voice actor, but most notably he was Kingseeker Frampt in Dark Souls, plus several roles across the Witcher series including Narration and Zoltan in W1 and Thaler in W3,
Cairon getting angry and nearly coming to blows over his sister's planned wedding was when I finally called it quits. I do agree that it was hilarious.
All these names are from the Dark Eye setting, Germany's D&D so to speak. I played it and read the books a lot. The stories were always fantastical but still very grounded. What the hell happened?!
A relationship ended, and one side was very butthurt about it, trying to snitch on the little secrets behind the scenes? 😉 `But, please: Do not let me keep you from banging your sister, or so.´ 🤣
It was their try to be dark - no pun intended - and edgy. Didn't work out that well... I suggest playing the Drakensang RPGs instead, if you want your fix of Aventuria. (Not to be confused with Drakensang Online, which has nothing to do with the Dark Eye franchise. They only bought the name after the studio which developed Drakensang went bankrupt.)
Somehow, the fact that Calandra is voiced by the iconic Alix Wilton Regan, the voice of the Inquisitor from Dragon Age, Sebille from DOS2, who also appeared in DAO, Mass Effect 3, Cyberpunk and many other great games, really adds to the hilarity and absurdity of this game 😅
Y'all just found out this is part of GOG's digital preservation program. Picked up for $4 on sale thanks to this video. I'm digging in as soon as I finish BG3, an actual good game. MitchManix, you are doing the great lord's work. Thank you so much.
Oh boy, the game is rough and janky. But not in a mechanically broken way. Oh no. The cinematography and acting is hilarious. I wouldn't even say Dragon Age from Wish. More like "Dragon Age from Wish by people who just played through Two Worlds and watched Highlander"
two worlds, now theres a game i havent heard of in a long time. I actually enjoyed the gameplay from that game, but the dialogue and VA was beyond fucky lol.
@@declancampbell1277 Did you ever look at the any% speedrun of Two Worlds? You really need to go see that if you haven't, because how they beat the game is hilarious.
Also Tzar Borimir in Victor Vran, a game that also had Doug Cockle (aka Gerald of Rivia) as main character and Andrew Wincott (Raphael in BG3) as taunting voice in your head
I found your channel recently from your Anachronox video. You are hilarious ser. Maybe it's b/c my mom is Scottish and grew up on stuff like "Are you being served" but I never tire of the dry wit humour style. Keep up a good work and happy holidays.
For all the people saying "why would professional VA's voice a game like this?" They read the script, saw how wonderfully silly it is and wanted to have some fun with it.
The tabletop RPG this is based on is "das schwarze Auge" I play it for 25 years now and it is one of the best rpg systems out there. Sadly the computer game version wasnt always the best...
An evil curse that gives your character a case of the Skywalkers/Lannisters (depending on your favorite franchise) is more original than your usual "boyscout suddenly wants to eat puppies for breakfast". And works better to scare the player, if this video is any indication. He should play the 1st Drakengard next for more sibling love and general bonkery (and unfortunately, bad combat) - from the weird even by Japanese standard creator of Nier Automata
I feel that Automata was like one game in franchise that actually was developed by competent dev they outsourced it to and the rest were just "janky Dynasty Warriors clone and DRAGONS". I've seen a video essay that tried to make it sound like an old guy making penis jokes is deep and profound so I stay away from that fandom.
I was listening to your video while playing and when Falk talked I stopped what I was doing because "Is this Raphael?? Is this voiced by Andrew Wincott?" I looked it up and yes, it's him :D
😂😂😂😂 Demonicon - an odd game, but it made a great video and was hilarious as always 😂 Needed those laughs very much, thank you! Matchless kung-fu looked awesome though 👌
Some interesting info here: The World and Story is based on the German Tabletop RPG Das Schwarze Auge / The Dark Eye (DSA/TDE) I say this becaus Aventurien/Aventuria is the Continent that most of the Adventures happen in The Dark Eye. It has a pantheon with Rondra being the Goddess of Fight and Thunder (War and Thunder?) I'm really deep into it's lore and the name Borbarad made me looked up from my coffee :D Sorry for my English, not my first language and it's early and I'm still sipping my coffee xD
Hold up a minute. Children imbued with power of evil demon/god, urge to murder, absorbing each others gift, brother & sister saved from the temple... that's not wish Dragon Age, that's wish Baldur's Gate :D
Mitch i seen your videos long time back and I was trying to remember and knew it was this exanima video I seen so i searched it and found you again i was so happy. Your videos are hilarious.
I'd say the story here is very subtle. George Martin created the Valyrians and Targaryens and it's their culture marrying their siblings, but because it's successful everyone ignores it
This game is like Fable and Dragon Age had an incestuous fever dream child together. 😂 Generally speaking, the style, graphics for the time, and the foundation of this game are pretty good tbh.
I unironically love this game, and think the incest thing should've just been actual, full-on "doing the Targaryen." The game is so damn edgy anyway that the incest cop-out seems actually lame tone-wise. There's already pregnant women and babies sacrificed to a demon in the damn _intro cinematic,_ a necromancer running a brothel with questionably _"living"_ women, the first boss of the game is an insane cannibal who uses blood magic he derives from gorging on flesh from humanoid corpses... _Uh, yeah._ The edge is the damn point of the narrative, and they decided to just randomly dull it at one specific point, for no valid reason. 🤣
There is more magic in the prologue than there is in half of the actual tabletop rpg ... its weird... it has all the names and the setting but it feels like a stitched up corpse of the Dark Eye, rly.
-Aaand they threw another baby into the soup. And that guy raises corpses for his brothel! -Hey but what if we made the love interest a sibling? -Ew. What's wrong with you...
Could be rules against the ESRB back in the day. Its a subject that people are afraid to go full-on in, and the only game I know of it doing it was Twelve Minutes.
The first boss you described isn't new or shocking decades after the Butcher in Diablo... thing with incest, it's not about edginess, it's about ratings and censors, tons of platforms just won't let the game release with real one, even legit hentai and sex games always have an edition where everyone is "step" sibling to be able to get released on stuff that's ok with NSFW SA, corruption and sex slavery.
Fascinating, how you are able to keep your voice and not start laughing while recording this (ok except this one scene lol), pure gold ;) Btw, YT identifies this as Veilguard :D
5:30 I like how cairon just rocks back and forth like a slightly annoyed , impatient middle school student whos waiting for his sister to get her make up done to finally go into Nintendo-theme park .
So, 7 children growing up wanting to kill each other to steal their power and ultimately, allow their demonic father to arise? That's the whole Bhaalspawn plot of BG1...
OH GOOD LORD this is a Dark Eye game. The moment you said Aventuria, I knew. Aventuria is the setting of Das Schwarze Auge/The Dark Eye, Germany's "we have D&D at home". Played the actual pen and paper roleplaying game when I was a young teen a bunch, was a pretty decent and harmless introduction to the whole hobby. There are some decent videogames based on it even, mainly the DOS games were alright, but just like how Dark Eye could never fully shake the cheap knockoff vibes as a roleplay setting, a lot of the videogames are also low budget affairs made by third rate European game studios ... everything you see makes a lot of sense with that in mind
What is incredible is how many good voice actors are in this game, and how interesting the visual design can be at times. Some of those enemies are outright inspired, and the environment is actually pretty good. Like, clearly a lot of work went into this game and it’s not quite so strictly derivative as it seems early on, though the Temu Witcher description from an earlier comment is very apt
@@Bear-rl6uk Bad adaptations? The Northland Trilogy was legendary back in the day (though the remakes were indeed shit), and the two Drakensangs were pretty decent, too.
To whom it may concern, the game is set in the world of "The Dark Eye", a German D&D-inspired tabletop RPG which is why, tonally it has about as much in common with Dragon Age as The Witcher has with Lord of the Rings. To get a general idea of what The Dark Eye is think "Conan the Bavarian"
Oh man, I played and beat this game back when it came out because it was like 80% off on a steam sale. I remember the gameplay being serviceable, but the story being WEIRD so I'm glad to see my memory was correct. I think this is from the universe of The Dark Eye, so there's several other games to get into including a competent Baldur's Gate (1&2) like called Drakensang and an actually good tactical RPG called Blackguards.
HA! You dug something up there. Played that years ago. That game is old, and the setting isn't really dragon age inspired. It's set in a demonicstuff-infested area from an old RPG setting called "the dark eye", which is a german RPG world that originated in the 80s. That's the same system where titles like "Chains of Satinav", "blackguards" and a bunch of others come from.
Oh, I didn't know there were more games based on The Dark Eye tabletop RPG. It's basically a rival product to D&D made in Germany. But the video game adaptations were never really top of the line. The really old ones from the early 90's were kinda fun, but a product of their time: pixel art, pseudo 3d dungeon crawling, isometric rasterized combat screen with turn based combat. But I've never even heard about this one!
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I'm always here
I once want to be there
I went there
But upon arrival
I was still here
I'm always here..
You know, I actually already Play matchless Kung Fu. The translation can be kinda jank, but it's pretty cool over all.
And the recent changes means that an old master can defeat a young prodigy, if built right (where as previously, having the right bloodline made you almost untouchable.)
Mind you, Karma's still make a pretty big difference.
My only real complaint is that, once you get to a certain level of power, it's hard to find peers to test yourself against who won't just Axe you if you lose a spar. THe master of the Sword school in particular is rather merciless.
Here is hoping they work Gu into something worth using, as well as the poison based martial art. (not that poison isn't useful- as a status effect tied to a weapon- but the Martial art dedicated to it is *terrible*.)
If it's so great then why haven't you made content about it?
@@AsaelTheBeastain't gonna lie My character is so OP that I trivialized the game to it's ending
Hold on you said 11 years yes it came out on steam 11 years a go but it came out on CD in 2010 that's 15 years ish.
The main character literally looks like that guy who failed the Warden joining ritual in DA:O.
I think I know why he failed now
Lol I love the idea he made a game all about himself and imagined what it would be like if he successfully became a Grey Warden.
After I reading this I can't unsee it anymore. :D
Oh he does! Hahah
Ser Jory! Yes I see it
Wanting to protect your sister from marrying a creepy dude with an even creepier mom is a noble motive. It's a shame that it was his secondary motivating factor, with the primary being in his pants.
lmao for what's worth she's adopted. Pretty much the backbone of the hub's plot-related content.
@@TheCrimsonRevenger they still grew up together
@@TheCrimsonRevenger
Honestly it would've been more honest and on-brand if they just went full edge and left is as a "going full Targaryen" thing. It would narratively fit the game.
The intro cinematic starts with pregnant women and babies being sacrificed in a demonic ritual, there's a brothel operated by a necromancer (yes, that implication is exactly what you think), the first boss of the game is a cannibal madman using blood magic derived from corpses he devours in front of Cairon and Calandra etc. etc.
So I don't get why they even bothered to go with the "not actually blood-related"-cop out. 🤣
@@RuSosanplausible denibility
Wow they're not even blood related who cares lmao YAWN
"There is a difference between kneeling and bending over." is a hard line, not gonna lie.
I am glad I wasn't the only one that thought that!
Isn't that from the song "It's okay to be gay"?
Not really, unless you have brainrot lmao.
agreed
@bobhill-ol7wp what
What baffles me about this game is that the romance goes full steam ahead when your characters believe they are related, and then when they're told 'no you're not actually related' it's treated as an afterthought. Like, the core of the romance is that these two characters want to have sex as siblings, no matter what anyone says, and then it's like 'oh wait no they're not actually related.' But they THOUGHT THEY WERE. FOR YEARS. Absolutely baffling.
SWEET HOME ALABAMA.
the only way they could have made this better (worse, but funnier) would have been if them NOT being actually related was a deal-breaker. If they're gonna go all in, might as well go with inverting the trope where suddenly screwing one's sibling is ok because surprise someone's adopted! and take refuge in audacity
I can't stop laughing at how silly this all is.
Say you're my sister, say you're my sister!" Joe Dirt
The author of this story is seemingly revealing something about themselves in this.
I cannot get over how characters wearing million dollar armor and robes are having an engagement party in a burlap yurt.
"Wait so we're not brother and sister?"
No, son...
"So... we made-out together thinking we were for nothing then..."
I don't even........
You mean we're... not related...?
This sucks!
Came here for Veilguard. Stayed for the incest lmao WTAF
This game sounds like it was written by someone who saw the reveal of Luke and Leia and thought “but wait what if that was framed as a good thing”
That line "Why would you expect to not be a virgin after a boss battl... oh, wait. Cairon's here." had me rolling. 🤣
Despite the number of DA voice actors I can recognise in this masterpiece, this feels more like a Temu Witcher if anything.
Funny enough, it was described as the german "Witcher" during development/release
so there's an ending where the main character was a villain the whole time, who pretended not to know anything about the evil scheme, and betrays his sister after having pretended to be in love with her for years?
10/10 GOTY
Gotta say, never heard of a game that has incest as a central plot point before.
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sure you haven't
@@Hauklingur Not one that isn't an out-and-out nukige anyway.
@@HauklingurI love how you commented that like it’s a gotcha but it’s legit rare to come up with RPGs with actual incest as a plot point; so honestly you just exposed yourself more than anything.
Like at best, it’s all German games like Ring: Legend of the Nibelungen which is based on the Wagner opera and the legend the opera is based on that involves a pair of siblings having a son to avenge their clan.
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Oh my god, Calandra's voice actor is Alix. (Quite a few characters in Dragon Age Origins, default female Inquisitor voice in Inquisition, Traynor is Mass Effect 3)
I'm sorry for her
I’ve been scouring the comments hoping some one else would mention it.
I've been playing veilguard and had seen Inky recently, so it was jarring to hear her.
And Falk's voice actor is Andrew Wincott, who voiced Raphael in BG3!
Llevelan! No!
Hey, a paycheck is a paycheck
The Monty Python guardsmen bits cracked me up.
"...hey..." 🤔
*Calandra’s voice is the same as the British Inquisitor in the third Dragon Age and it makes me cackle*
And the MC is Silent Hill 2 Remake James.
i THOUGHT her voice sounded familiar LMFAO
GREAT voice actor. She knows how to pronounce "talisman," lol.
Well you never expect the British Inqusition
That's BG3's Raphael voicing Falk. You know what, when you got a good villain voice, you put it to work.
He's been in a bunch of stuff. Can't blame the voice actors for bad writing and game development. Oh wait..."talisman." lol.
I thought it sounded familiar lol
I took note of him too and had to look up who else they got, 4 people from Vermintide it seems. The sister is Alix Wilton Regan, Kerillian. Bardin, Saltzpyre and Olesya are there as well.
"Wh*res healed 1/1" was unexpected
why censor Whore? You got a problem with whores buddy?
Me when I practice self care
I have never been so invested and engrossed by a story. Your narration throughout this janky as hell game is captivating.
'you and calandra are not siblings' 'you came into the world as part of a ritual in which azaril summoned a powerful demon' so... they were born from the same ritual... started by the same person... which would make them siblings still.... okay
It's made by Germans, they ignore your petty moral qualms. They have a party in government (the Greens) who once lobbied hard to legalise animal love (until the yanks bought the party, now they support turning off nuclear power plants so they can burn more coal, the leader waxes nostalgic about her Nazi grandfather and wants to start a war with Russia). This sibling thing is pocket change to them.
they really went and made a "what are you doing step bro" game. And this was from 2012, truly a game ahead of its time.
story still better than veilguard somehow....
@@tatfly5779 Because as low-budget and incompetent as this game is, the writers and developers were indeed trying to make a gritty dark fantasy. They weren't a bunch of politburo propagandists.
@@KopperNeoman isn't Veilguard is less political than any Dragon Age released before?
@@koshetz Veilguard is real life political, not ingame, which is kinda the main point.
@@koshetz Veilguard is 2020s American leftist politics, pushed into a game where we would all love nothing more than to get away from 2020s American leftist BS. Make Dragon Age Great Again!!!
That Falk guy trying to NTR cairon is voiced by Andrew Wincott, also known as the voice for Raphael in Baldur's Gate 3. How did this game get so many great actors?
I knew his voice sounded familiar!! Also Calandra is voiced by Alix Wilton Regan (Fem Brit Inquisitor's voice from DA Inquisition)
Cause even good voice actors need to pay the rent
I think it's similar to how Highlander 2 had Sean Connery in it. Sometimes, you need money more than you need to have any respect for the script you're reading.
Tbf Falk somehow seems like one of the more sane characters here
The only person who did their job well was a casting director apparently
wait a minute...killing others to increase ones power until the last one is left as the most powerful one?...being drawn to others with same power. by the quickening! THIS IS HIGHLANDER!
Or Baldur's Gate
Or Jet Li's The One. Not exactly a common trope, but enough that it's hardly a direct reference any more.
@@SimonBuchanNzone movie a few years later (and not since then) isn't exactly a trope😂 there's Highlander and then Highlander in the future starring Jet Li
@@SimonBuchanNz Or even the Chrestomanci. Though his circumstances were purely chance.
@@whitehuayra you sent me to tv tropes to check and I didn't come out for a day! 😄
You're right there's not too many that have *all* the features of "there's a fixed group of people that share a specific power and when one kills another the killer gets the targets strength and they are destined to end up with one", even The One didn't quite fit that as all the Jet Li's got stronger, not just the killer.
But there's a lot of people circling around the concepts involved pretty closely, to the extent it seems like deliberate avoidance at a point.
I will say this seems more like a direct reference to the Baldur's Gate setup than Highlander, given they're not immortal and the subject of a ritual for someone else to get power, but it seems pretty likely that's just an indirect path to Highlander.
This commentary is like listening to a David Attenborough doco but the actual dialogue is wild and is causing some kind of internal dissonance 😂😂😂😂 I love it.
41:05 The, "Silence! I keel you!" absolutely GOT me! 💀💀💀
i swear I heard that before, it sounds like Jeff Dunham's Achmed character hahaha
That is literally what it is. Edited in.
A certain pony-loving "lego terminator" springs to mind...
Not gonnah lie. That edit was smooth af.
yeah that took me out
Some of the character models and city buildings were ripped straight out of the Witcher 1, this is wild
And the story was ripped straight out of Highlander. ⚔
Same with Dragon Age: Origins. The entire town is Denerim!
I really like these longer ones where you recap the whole game
Same because I am totally never going to play these old games.
@@redraijin8696
Still better than veilguard, problem is running it in windows 11
@@redraijin8696better then woke new game i would prefer that then veilguard
You know the pre-rendered cutscenes look pretty good for a game that came out in 2007-2008.
Wait? 2013? I take it back...
i'm dying at the pop-up text that says "1/1 wh*res healed"
I like how the main character’s goal is a heroic “I want to run away and elope with my hot sister” while the villain is just “MMM YESSS IM GOING TO MARRY YOUR SISTER FOR POOOWAAAAH!!!”
Just to hype the player up to… have their sister for themselves???
I love this era of unfiltered and raw games.
Yeah, 2000's and early 2010's.
Two worlds was so clunky and bad, but also.. good. Bad good. haha. Not really now though, can't go back to play it hah.
@Deusaga i would. I can spend the rest of my life replaying those old and flawed yet fun games. If any AAA developers want my money, they gotta earn it.
@@marcomongke3116Well said!
@@Deusaga I recently played Two Worlds and honestly its not as bad as people say.
@@marcomongke3116 I feel the same. Modern games are so lame, they are afraid to offend everyone. These old games before 2015 were brave and creative. And they gave better fan service.
Text box: "Sacrifice yourself, I love you!"
Audio: "I only wanted your power, stupid woman!"
A truly Bethesda level dialogue mismatch. XD
"Sacrifice yourself! I don't love you!" is what the option actually said, so not as egregious.
@aaronbyers2458 my eyes must not have registered it haha!
Nah it does say I dont love you.
And this is a perfect example of why upvotes don't matter.
@@RuneKatashima This is not reddit
This absolute gem is now available for the low-low price of 3 dollars and 44 cents on Steam!
Worth it way better than veil guard
Around same price on GOG as well. ANd interestingly enough its on their preservation list.
What is this game anyways? I keep seeing it all over the place, but I've never heard anyone call it by name.
@@DarkWarden041 The Dark Eye: Demonicon, apparently.
@@dranzerjetli5126 OH! Burn! 🔥
Just in case someone else wants to know it: The voice of margrave Sumudan is Peter Marinker :)
And the game is settled in the universe of the (in germany) pretty famous P&P universe of the "The dark eye". It's like the german D&D (and started with exactly that purpose).
Yeah, I feel like if you've ever played a video game or watched an anime, chances are you've heard Peter Marinker's voice. Though he sounds a LOT like Patrick Stewart, here lol
He's the narrator from The Witcher 1.
Marinker has a huge list of credits as a voice actor, but most notably he was Kingseeker Frampt in Dark Souls, plus several roles across the Witcher series including Narration and Zoltan in W1 and Thaler in W3,
I had an immediate throwback to Anno 1404 as that's where I've heard that voice in that tone so many times.
@@Morboeatspeople He sounds like the love child of Patrick Stewart and Tom Baker, here.
Cairon getting angry and nearly coming to blows over his sister's planned wedding was when I finally called it quits. I do agree that it was hilarious.
All these names are from the Dark Eye setting, Germany's D&D so to speak. I played it and read the books a lot. The stories were always fantastical but still very grounded. What the hell happened?!
A relationship ended, and one side was very butthurt about it, trying to snitch on the little secrets behind the scenes? 😉 `But, please: Do not let me keep you from banging your sister, or so.´ 🤣
It was their try to be dark - no pun intended - and edgy. Didn't work out that well... I suggest playing the Drakensang RPGs instead, if you want your fix of Aventuria. (Not to be confused with Drakensang Online, which has nothing to do with the Dark Eye franchise. They only bought the name after the studio which developed Drakensang went bankrupt.)
@@Reviel17 Drakensang 1 and 2 are really quite good. The DLC for the 2nd is neat too.
I hate that the shading on Cairon’s pants makes it look like he’s wearing assless chaps
Usually we need to install mods for that.
That's exactly what I was thinking....for a split second...does he?....no he doesn't... does he? Lol
Well would fit the general setting
He is, he just Hides it well.
Aren't literally all chaps assless?
All chaps are assless, that's what makes them chaps instead of pants.
Fun fact. Calandra is voiced by the actress who voices Samantha Traynor in Mass Effect 3. Crazy this came out a year after that game.
This is why even voice actors should consider hiring a professional agent.
Paying work is paying work. . .
Somehow, the fact that Calandra is voiced by the iconic Alix Wilton Regan, the voice of the Inquisitor from Dragon Age, Sebille from DOS2, who also appeared in DAO, Mass Effect 3, Cyberpunk and many other great games, really adds to the hilarity and absurdity of this game 😅
No HR watching over the shoulder for this game's dialogue lmao. Love it.
Not the Monty python Lancelot run 😂
Love your editing and humor in these videos of games I will never play, keep it up :)
The funny thing is the voice cast for this ridiculous game is...actually decent. The player character is Luke Roberts ffs.
Y'all just found out this is part of GOG's digital preservation program. Picked up for $4 on sale thanks to this video. I'm digging in as soon as I finish BG3, an actual good game.
MitchManix, you are doing the great lord's work. Thank you so much.
'Silence! I kill you' really flashbanged me
Oh boy, the game is rough and janky.
But not in a mechanically broken way. Oh no. The cinematography and acting is hilarious.
I wouldn't even say Dragon Age from Wish. More like "Dragon Age from Wish by people who just played through Two Worlds and watched Highlander"
Hey, don't bash Highlander!!!! (There's only one).
@@StNerevar76 Indeed, there's only Highlander: The Source.
two worlds, now theres a game i havent heard of in a long time. I actually enjoyed the gameplay from that game, but the dialogue and VA was beyond fucky lol.
Dragon Age by the Zelda CDI devs
@@declancampbell1277 Did you ever look at the any% speedrun of Two Worlds? You really need to go see that if you haven't, because how they beat the game is hilarious.
The voice acting is so good though!!
Mustve been where the production budget went
The reverend is Kingseeker Frampt from Dark Souls and that stoney dude in Dark Souls 2
Also Tzar Borimir in Victor Vran, a game that also had Doug Cockle (aka Gerald of Rivia) as main character and Andrew Wincott (Raphael in BG3) as taunting voice in your head
Also he is the announcer in Anno 1404
Frampt! That explains it.
I was thinking he was one of the guys who reads quotes after researching new techs in Civilization.
He's also the narrator for the first Witcher game and the voice of thaler in both 1&3. (Peter Marinker btw)
I found your channel recently from your Anachronox video. You are hilarious ser. Maybe it's b/c my mom is Scottish and grew up on stuff like "Are you being served" but I never tire of the dry wit humour style.
Keep up a good work and happy holidays.
It’s okay guys, they aren’t actually related by blood. Just raised together… as siblings…
For all the people saying "why would professional VA's voice a game like this?" They read the script, saw how wonderfully silly it is and wanted to have some fun with it.
And money.
The tabletop RPG this is based on is "das schwarze Auge" I play it for 25 years now and it is one of the best rpg systems out there. Sadly the computer game version wasnt always the best...
An evil curse that gives your character a case of the Skywalkers/Lannisters (depending on your favorite franchise) is more original than your usual "boyscout suddenly wants to eat puppies for breakfast". And works better to scare the player, if this video is any indication.
He should play the 1st Drakengard next for more sibling love and general bonkery (and unfortunately, bad combat) - from the weird even by Japanese standard creator of Nier Automata
I feel that Automata was like one game in franchise that actually was developed by competent dev they outsourced it to and the rest were just "janky Dynasty Warriors clone and DRAGONS". I've seen a video essay that tried to make it sound like an old guy making penis jokes is deep and profound so I stay away from that fandom.
Okay this video is brilliant. The editing and such and limited downtime makes it very compelling to keep watching and listening.
God bless this is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels
The irony of the sister being a voice of FemQuisitor will never stop being funny to me.
I need to replay DAI real quick for maximum hilarity.
This made me nearly cry from laughing-the edits, the humor, the soccer ball callbacks?? Subscribed immediately! 😂
This and the Anachronox video are amazing I love how it's a game synopsis but formatted like a movie where you're a narrator.
The Arnold Schwarzenegger aaarrrrrrrrgh when he dies is making me rofl
Andrew Wincott voicing Falk makes it a win LOL
I was listening to your video while playing and when Falk talked I stopped what I was doing because "Is this Raphael?? Is this voiced by Andrew Wincott?" I looked it up and yes, it's him :D
As a fellow Anno 1800 player I INSTANTLY knew that voice... deeply ingrained nightmares indeed.
Having played more Anno 2070, it luckily doesn't awaken nightmares.
The fact that youtube shows the Game in this Video as "Dragon Age: The Veilguard" under the infobox is INSANE, and kind of funny.
😂😂😂😂 Demonicon - an odd game, but it made a great video and was hilarious as always 😂 Needed those laughs very much, thank you! Matchless kung-fu looked awesome though 👌
Some interesting info here: The World and Story is based on the German Tabletop RPG Das Schwarze Auge / The Dark Eye (DSA/TDE) I say this becaus Aventurien/Aventuria is the Continent that most of the Adventures happen in The Dark Eye. It has a pantheon with Rondra being the Goddess of Fight and Thunder (War and Thunder?) I'm really deep into it's lore and the name Borbarad made me looked up from my coffee :D
Sorry for my English, not my first language and it's early and I'm still sipping my coffee xD
Thought this game was a surreal dream I had as a teenager, good to know I wasn't entirely insane.
Latika is such a mood. I love her 😂
Hold up a minute. Children imbued with power of evil demon/god, urge to murder, absorbing each others gift, brother & sister saved from the temple... that's not wish Dragon Age, that's wish Baldur's Gate :D
And in BG 2 Imoen in several places makes hints about feelings towards Gorion's ward. Just here and there.
Mitch i seen your videos long time back and I was trying to remember and knew it was this exanima video I seen so i searched it and found you again i was so happy. Your videos are hilarious.
Today in "the writer's thinly veiled excuse to create a world and story revolving around their fetish"! Holy moly thats not even subtle! 😂
I'd say the story here is very subtle. George Martin created the Valyrians and Targaryens and it's their culture marrying their siblings, but because it's successful everyone ignores it
This game is like Fable and Dragon Age had an incestuous fever dream child together. 😂
Generally speaking, the style, graphics for the time, and the foundation of this game are pretty good tbh.
Jaimie and Cirse Lannister would be proud of these siblings.
I unironically love this game, and think the incest thing should've just been actual, full-on "doing the Targaryen."
The game is so damn edgy anyway that the incest cop-out seems actually lame tone-wise.
There's already pregnant women and babies sacrificed to a demon in the damn _intro cinematic,_ a necromancer running a brothel with questionably _"living"_ women, the first boss of the game is an insane cannibal who uses blood magic he derives from gorging on flesh from humanoid corpses... _Uh, yeah._
The edge is the damn point of the narrative, and they decided to just randomly dull it at one specific point, for no valid reason. 🤣
@@RuSosan they should’ve just made it your childhood friend instead if they were copping out
There is more magic in the prologue than there is in half of the actual tabletop rpg ...
its weird... it has all the names and the setting but it feels like a stitched up corpse of the Dark Eye, rly.
-Aaand they threw another baby into the soup. And that guy raises corpses for his brothel!
-Hey but what if we made the love interest a sibling?
-Ew. What's wrong with you...
Could be rules against the ESRB back in the day. Its a subject that people are afraid to go full-on in, and the only game I know of it doing it was Twelve Minutes.
The first boss you described isn't new or shocking decades after the Butcher in Diablo... thing with incest, it's not about edginess, it's about ratings and censors, tons of platforms just won't let the game release with real one, even legit hentai and sex games always have an edition where everyone is "step" sibling to be able to get released on stuff that's ok with NSFW SA, corruption and sex slavery.
Fascinating, how you are able to keep your voice and not start laughing while recording this (ok except this one scene lol), pure gold ;)
Btw, YT identifies this as Veilguard :D
5:30
I like how cairon just rocks back and forth like a slightly annoyed , impatient middle school student whos waiting for his sister to get her make up done to finally go into Nintendo-theme park .
This plot feels more Baldur's Gate than Dragon Age.
So, 7 children growing up wanting to kill each other to steal their power and ultimately, allow their demonic father to arise? That's the whole Bhaalspawn plot of BG1...
0:35 Instant buy
OH GOOD LORD this is a Dark Eye game. The moment you said Aventuria, I knew. Aventuria is the setting of Das Schwarze Auge/The Dark Eye, Germany's "we have D&D at home". Played the actual pen and paper roleplaying game when I was a young teen a bunch, was a pretty decent and harmless introduction to the whole hobby. There are some decent videogames based on it even, mainly the DOS games were alright, but just like how Dark Eye could never fully shake the cheap knockoff vibes as a roleplay setting, a lot of the videogames are also low budget affairs made by third rate European game studios ... everything you see makes a lot of sense with that in mind
Dragon age from wish? No, no, we already had that.
This is Temu Dragon Age
Dragon age 2
Veilguard
They just released it!
Well, these replies were predictable. I don’t know what I expected. 🙄
What is incredible is how many good voice actors are in this game, and how interesting the visual design can be at times. Some of those enemies are outright inspired, and the environment is actually pretty good. Like, clearly a lot of work went into this game and it’s not quite so strictly derivative as it seems early on, though the Temu Witcher description from an earlier comment is very apt
Oh hahaha, that is a "The Dark Eye" game, a famous RPG setting and system here in germany
I knew I recognised the deity’s names from somewhere !
@winfehler yeah, the main villian from the intro, Borbarad, had a huge campaign in the TTRPG
And sadly famous for bad PC adaptions.
@@Bear-rl6uk Bad adaptations? The Northland Trilogy was legendary back in the day (though the remakes were indeed shit), and the two Drakensangs were pretty decent, too.
Okay I got to give the game credit that final choice was actually kind neat and unexpected.
Back when bad writing meant that at least it was going to be somewhat unpredictable... to think I would miss those times.
zombies with ninja speed is a really scary concept
42:51 oh I love you for recreating this! ♥️
To whom it may concern, the game is set in the world of "The Dark Eye", a German D&D-inspired tabletop RPG which is why, tonally it has about as much in common with Dragon Age as The Witcher has with Lord of the Rings.
To get a general idea of what The Dark Eye is think "Conan the Bavarian"
Ah yes, Dragon Age: Incest Inquisition.
Still more compelling than anything Bioware has put out in the past decade.
Oh man, I played and beat this game back when it came out because it was like 80% off on a steam sale. I remember the gameplay being serviceable, but the story being WEIRD so I'm glad to see my memory was correct. I think this is from the universe of The Dark Eye, so there's several other games to get into including a competent Baldur's Gate (1&2) like called Drakensang and an actually good tactical RPG called Blackguards.
40:48 What IS that frog doing? Most compelling character arc in the game
Never look at a MitchManix video when you're about to gulp a beverage, you may end up with a mess. I find it the hard way.
i was looking for something to crack open a beer to on this lonesome friday night, and i think this is it!
The football thing done it for me. I lost control and couldn't stop laughing.
The Reverend is the narrator of The Guild franchise.
Thank you for your service and for taking us on this disturbing journey.
This game is by the way based on propably the most popular german tabletop rpg. The Dark Eye/das schwarze Auge.
41:52 Ahahahah! The Monty Python reference was greatly appreciated!! Hah!
Demonicon is a lot of fun! I'm the one jackass who bought it brand new. Hard to find good games in the Dark Eye setting. Drakensang is great to.
11:27 "Thargunitoth" damn that word gives me nightmares at night
HA! You dug something up there. Played that years ago. That game is old, and the setting isn't really dragon age inspired. It's set in a demonicstuff-infested area from an old RPG setting called "the dark eye", which is a german RPG world that originated in the 80s.
That's the same system where titles like "Chains of Satinav", "blackguards" and a bunch of others come from.
"Mom, please buy me Dragon Age."
"We already have it at home."
Oh, I didn't know there were more games based on The Dark Eye tabletop RPG. It's basically a rival product to D&D made in Germany. But the video game adaptations were never really top of the line. The really old ones from the early 90's were kinda fun, but a product of their time: pixel art, pseudo 3d dungeon crawling, isometric rasterized combat screen with turn based combat.
But I've never even heard about this one!
oh thats why Aventurien rang a bell - he dropped the name so fast and moved on that my brain didnt register it immediately as THE Aventurien from DSA
Perfect timing because it's $3 on Steam right now. Bought it immediately.