Everyone else: *Traumatized by past deeds* Leper: *Was betrayed, suffers an incurable and horrible lethal disease that left him disfigured* "Beautiful world we live in, huh?" *starts to sing poetry with a flute*
@@DylanJo123 I don't believe so. Without spoiling anything, it does not appear that the academic and the DD2 protagonist have any blood relationship to the ancestor.
I'm honestly kinda worried about the fact that he's not in the roster yet because [MASSIVE SPOILERS BELOW] The Antiquarian is an enemy in-game, so it's entirely possible the others could be too
Jester: I slaughtered the entire Imperial Court. I was not proud of it, and I permanently severed my connection to the unholy powers so that I might never do it again. Leper: I slaughtered the entire imperial court. *Proudest moment of my life and my only regret is I hadn't done it sooner!*
>buy a set of armor >buy a huge fuck off sword >wake up in the middle of the night >kill royal court >Break sword on the last advisor’s skull >leave through the city >refuse to explain Normal day for the king
@@larsthememelord3383 leprosy causes nerve damage on one's skin, hence losing sensation of pain, heat, pressure. No wonder the Leper is so tanky and doesn't even flinch when being damaged, as he couldn't feel any pain.
I think that's the point. The Hellion's clan was utterly outmatched by the army, with no hope of victory, but because she chose not to die in futility, she was exiled.
"So what are you doing this for?" Occultist: I thought I knew better Plague Doctor: same Hellion: I have failed my men Man-at-arm: same Jester: I have to satisfy my obsession Runaway: same Highway man: money, greed Grave robber: same Leper: I think the world is too beautiful to miss out on it. . .
@@Ttegegg Bro, Dismas didn't even know he had even killed them until after the smoke cleared, and it's implied he got set up to rob the wrong carriage as well. Hell, his origin comic implies he saw movement in the carriage and fired at it purely out of instinct, not malice. Even some of his Afflicted barks from DD1 - "I can't get their faces out of my head," "A reflex - I didn't mean to...", "No! I DIDN'T KILL HER. 'TWAS AN ACCIDENT!" - heavily imply he bears a great deal of shame and guilt over it. Guilt was a pursuer he could never outrun, a prison he would never escape, indeed.
All Heroes Intro Portraits: *Facing away from the "light". The light being indicative of the reality of their failures.* Leper Intro Portrait: *Stoically facing the light so as to say: "I. DID. NOTHING. WRONG."*
@@quinnholloway5400 The light, symbolically speaking has many meanings. One of the more popular ones, and the one I believe is hinted at in these portraits is the "Light as Truth". The light reveals what is hidden in darkness, and to many of these characters, being confronted with the truth of their actions is like forcing them to acknowledge that they are bad people, or at least that they have committed horrible sins which they wish to forget. This is not the case for the Leper.
Heroes: so stressful and traumatic Leper: Sigma rule no. 36: Kill scheming betas and then retire peacefully as a wandering badass #grindset #critillionaire
He was in extreme pain from a incurable and terminal disease, and had his advisors come to kill him. So instead of calling his guards to protect him in his painful state, HE CALLS IN A BLACKSMITH TO MAKE HIM SOME ARMOR AND A SWORD.
Yooo that violinist the Jester played against... that HAS to be the Squiffy Ghast from DD1, he's sitting in the exact same position and this all explains why he always targets the Jester.
I think one of the most interesting things here is that almost all the stories are tragedies of varying types. We have tragedies born of hubris(Occultist, Man-At-Arms), accident(Highwayman, Plague Doctor, Hellion), or circumstance(Jester, Grave Robber, Runaway). The sole exception is Leper, who, sees that a tragedy is coming, and ends it like the absolute Chad he is.
Leper's tragedy is his leprosy. He didn't prevent his tragedy. That's why his portrait looks into the light, while everyone else looks into the dark. The thing isolating him from society is his psychical illness, not his character or actions. All other characters have done something or have some self-perceived wrong that has occurred. For instance, terrible people or not, Jester still chose to kill a whole lot of people. Leper has no regrets and does not believe he did anything wrong, nor has he. That's why he is different, he has no dark past or regrets. His issue is his body, which you see as he hides it.
@@himedo1512 fair enough. Leper’s still the odd man out, though. I have to wonder if his Leprosy is the result of one of those eldritch beings like the Heart of Darkness seeing that there’s a fairly good chance Leper could kill them singlehandedly if he was healthy. I mean, anyone in a setting where the weapons are mostly realistic who wields a Buster Sword effectively in combat(though admittedly, it’s more of a greatclub with a sharp edge akin to Guts’ sword from Berserk than the traditional oversized anime sword in how Leper uses it) while dying of Leprosy(though Leprosy mostly affects manual dexterity and eyesight, which explains Leper’s low accuracy/self-blinding) is a man to be feared.
@@noahandrulis9077 Leper is one of those few characters that can one shot the heart of darkness if you pump him high enough with space dust crap , the man is an absolute unit
The tragedy with Leper is that his kingdom is doomed as it is explained that even though he thwarted his Entourage's scheme, there will always be more to follow the dark path. With the Leper King being able to do nothing of it. Not just his contraction of leprosy
Darkest Dungeon early access: Pfff, Leper it's just a meat shield, can't hit for shit! Darkest Dungeon full game: Damn, when Leper hit's those crits at the bosses feels heroic and righteous. Darkest Dungeon full plus comics: My boi Leper was a king that left everything behind for the greater good while sick?! What a Chad! Darkest Dungeon 2 backstories: YOOOOOOOOOOO! THE KING GIGA CHAD RETURNED, TANKING THOSE HITS WHILE T POSING!!!!!!!
Musketeer where you go through different targets in a competition, and the moment you land on that final target.... Shambler. And you watch as your fellow comepetitors basically get devoured, only for the final remaining one to not only score the killing blow on the shambler (which turns it back into a target) but ends the encounter, with you in second place as fortold by the comic in DD1.
@@ExhiledGod2 Apparently the Musketeer was she concentrated on the target hard enough that she became aware of the Heart of Darkness which caused her to see a hallucination of an eye on the bullseye, but ngl that sounds cool
Men i was rly desperate doing the man-at-arm, i would not loose and was confusing about orders, until i understood THIS was exactly the feeling of the man-at-arm and the only way to complete this battle. Genius one personally.
Man... Runaway really... really ruined her life. Escaped abusive caretakers, found a loving family and destroyed it all for a sick obsession with fire. Made me sad :(
I wouldn’t say she had a sick obsession with fire, beyond that of a child never told not to play with fire discovering matches. I wouldn’t entirely blame her, as a small part of the blame rests on her adoptive parents not teaching her about the dangers of fire(I know I sound like I’m victim blaming, but Runaway’s backstory was a chain of bad/negligent decisions that culminated in tragedy, like most events of a similar stripe. Yes, Runaway shouldn’t have played with fire, but her adoptive parents shouldn’t have assumed she knew better than to play with fire)
Yep... She escaped a bad family situation (Or like you said, Caretaker Situation) and found a loving family But her obsession with fire overpowered her Probably why she's willing to go on a quest to fight a Eldritch Horror
Interesting to see that comics got realised in small playable sections. Maybe it's becuase it's early access, but kinda shame that lot of the flash back encounters just have the basic soldier/gaoler character enemy with the only difference being them holding different weapons. Also the Highwayman's final flash back encounter is kinda amusing, with the stagecoach being basicly a clown car full of guards that just keep coming out when one get done in.
I do think that in the final version there'll be different enemies than the basic soldier type, those aren't what we see in the hellion comic so it gives me a little bit of hope.
Sadly they killed him and the vestal off because making the leper kill God in 1 fell swoop was "too light hearted" and "doesn't make sense in canon/lore"
Yeah, since the meaning behind that segment is that jester is actually just murdering all the nobles in a bloodthirsty rage… It’s called darkest dungeon for a reason folks!
For those who came here to see how to solve the Jester ones: 2 - verse - chorus - verse - chorus - bridge - misstep - solo - verse - chorus - verse - chorus - solo - finale 4 - you need to mirror the notes on the enemy's side Any stuttering in the gameplay is as a result of the EGS launcher using my laptop to mine bitcoin. All jokes aside I don't really make videos like this, but a friend of mine wanted to see the Occultist backstory and I figured since I already had so many of the stories already recorded in my regular playthoughs I might as well compile all of them in one video to make it easier for people to watch them.
Are there any hints for that first Jester "puzzle" or are you just choosing skills randomly till something happens? I can't tell what's going on in the vid...
Didn't expect the PD to end up attempting to be 049 quite literally but for science. Also that stagecoach be trying to escape you,knowing who's behind the wheel and how you delight in pushing the previous game to the limits.
Oh the PD's character has been crawling with Reanimator references since DD1. Her story here confirms it, she is Darkest Dungeon's version of the Reanimator
Leper with a fully forged blade could hit the back row... my goodness what a giga chad, the only champion who has already earned the title 'hero', and now he show's others the way
So the Leper was a kind king who got sick and understood the beauty of life when his own was bleeding away... ... and the Jester was Dandelion until he heard psychodelic music... or rather... cthulian rock music.
The Leper was a just king and he cared for his people, but he had little love for his court. Vindictive some would say. When he was sick and he heard of their plans he went "This shall not stand! Fetch a smith!" And then took care of business. The Jester heard what seems to have been an Eldritch-influenced music, possibly created with (not so) divine inspiration. He was enraptured by the song and the talent it allowed him to show got him a spot in the local court of nobles. However, the nobles just wanted a pincushion to stick knives in and huniliate. Eventually he snapped, played the song, and while the nobles reeled from a mild case of Mind Shattering Music, he killed them as an epic revenge. Then he sliced his hand in order to forever destroy his ability to play music like that again.
Because the rest still feel guilt, or regret for their past actions. Man At Arms being a terrible general, Plague Doctor reanimating and killing again her professor. But the Leper has nothing to dwell on, he kinda chill like that
I honestly love these While Darkest Dungeon 2 is a little mixed, due to it still being one Act of a game and still being early access This is one of the best parts they've added Looking into the Past of the characters, going through unique fights as we learn their stories, and seeing how they ended up where they are now? It's honestly really fun The Rest of the game is nice though, but i'd rather just wait for the full game instead of dealing with the bugs that come from Early Access
Considering how we have the Runaway as a new character, I'm kind of hoping that we end up getting The Descendant as a party member who ends up standing up to the final boss to protect the party like they're facing their own guilt and going through a battle of the five stages of grief before coming out of it as a hero
The descendant apparently is the dude that bust the door down at the beginning of the game, surprisingly. If you read into it deeply the beginning of DD2 is talking about one of the ancestors students. But the narrator now could be you, the descendant, and you basically knocked your current self’s, the student, door down. But really if you believe that you should also believe there is no descendant in the first place since the ending of dd1 [spoiler] Explains that ruin has come to “our family,” preceded by “the family of man.” So the entire series is just mankind being compelled by some eldritch horror to cleanse said horror so it could consume them.
"the waning and waxing tides of sanity, the glimmering eyes, and the inhuman tolerance for horrors from the beyond. This man is a cold, and calculating engine of war. Using men as tools, and relics as crutches."
24:19 I wonder if it was possible to win that fight, but with how little damage the clan mates were dealing and how much health the soldiers had... I kind of doubt winning was possible.
The fact that Leper, in the backstory, heaved around a blade as tall as him and likely as heavy as the armor he was in like it was a dagger it absolutely terrifying. Even more so that apparently his court were so durable they could take blind, furious swings without dying.
Thanks a lot, it will be very useful for my next paper-RPG EDIT : So far, the Leper is the only one facing right. EDIT 2 : yeah he is the only one. Baldwin Thundercock strikes back
@@fahholliday5374 | I'm wondering if he and the Vestal bite the bullet there. Either that or consumed by the madness of the flame. The antiquarian has proved that loyalties aren't set in stone.
there's no official canon of anyone actually dying on DD1 tho, and until i see Reynauld's and Junya's corpses hanging in front of me, i'll be rooting for their comebacks. If Jester made it, they can do it.
I love how the the game presents each character’s backstory conflicts as combat scenarios through their situations and actions, and pour on exactly how much stress and pain was caused by these events. Ever since I found out about Darkest Dungeon, I’ve been habitually doing the same for movies and stuff, who gains stress, where the crits happen, what moves could be made out of character decisions- but to see it happen here is breathtaking. Red Hook, you have amazed me again, and thank you for making this video, TVS. And he always has been, Leper is the most chad character in video game history, and this proves it conclusively.
Maybe because of Leper's blind fury, which probably included heavy swinging everywhere, and the advisors probably "dodging" them. It's the imaginative mind that should get it, not just watching.
Kinda surprised it didn't end up being something like "his strength deteriorated enough that he couldn't lift his sword, so he asked his blacksmith to make it lighter and also turn it into a reflection of physically broken, but still sharp man that he is"
They did a great job with the Shrine battles. They each relate to how the heroes behave during an actual fight. Occultist balances between DPS and healing, while building up toward a big attack with his Unchecked Power. Highwayman moves around on the battlefield to attack key targets, alternating between keeping himself out of an opponent's reach and closing in for the kill. Hellion is a strong attacker with a lot of abilities related to self-preservation, but her effectiveness wanes as the battle wears on or she finds herself out of position. Leper has to fight to stay at the front and can't always attack every turn, but he hits like a truck and has immense resilience. Grave Robber uses her abilities (like poison and the pickaxe) to bypass the defenses of tough opponents while keeping herself alive with evasion and self-heals. The Runaway moves around a lot while trying to avoid or mitigate damage as much as possible; meanwhile, she sets up her opponents for a slow burn. Plague Doctor wears her opponents down until they expire, keeping her side alive with healing skills. Man-at-Arms uses support skills on his team while not being a great DPS himself; he can also take a beating while he wears opponents down. The Jester has to carefully use the correct support abilities at the right time and place, while making sure he positions himself to do the maximum amount of damage throughout the battle. My only complaint is that the Jester's battles seem poorly designed. You wouldn't be able to clear either of them without a pretty good grounding in music theory, which isn't that common and the game gives no hints as to how to solve the puzzles.
note for "Head of the Class" using heated rebuttal before the professor uses conclusion makes him instantly counter you with "SIT DOWN!" and the classmates laugh at you dealing a total of 4 stress
Tutorial for "A Dark Song" (jester hero shrine ep. 4) In order to play a melody, the notes need to align with the other side (jester's position does not matter), use the other moves to change position: Crescendo - move jester forward, useless Diminuendo - move jester backwards, useless Improvise - shuffles notes, spam till it's good enough Nota Cambiata - change note, fix that one note that doesn't fit U gotta do it in 10 turns (every non-melody gives 1 stress, reaching the meltdown threshold means you wasted your fucking time), and u gotta play 3 melodies lol
@@sirmount2636 ....They've been aknowledging the comics as canon for the longest time, do you just not read anything the characters said in DD1, especially when stressed? Or the trinkets? There's a ton of references to the comics.
After reading the comics, i thought plague bringers story would be that she would prove that the disease infected the lungs, but apparently she went full frankenstein.
Considering the Leper's backstory, it makes it even more confusing why in DD! he would refuse to party up with the Abomination before the devs finally decided to patch it out.
Damn man biggest sick in the entire game is that pitiful wailer who plagued the prince with Leprosy when he was being there for him and tried giving him A hug.
The ancestor(or at least his voice) will never leave this franchise Even after the ending of DD1 and his narration supposedly being only the letters and notes he send you, his booming voice is the voice of this cruel and unforgiving world (you can almost say, literally)
@@aurelionsolofficial yea but he doesn't like to kill. He might have been a thief or something cause the only reason why he would attack the stagecoach is to expect food in return... who knows what he did, he might have punch a noble for all we know.
When the full game is released, there should be an achievement for getting *all* of the hero's backstories, maybe something like: Facing the past, or a similar naming scheme. Would be a good touch.
It's crazy because I didn't realize how much they refined the art style and animations until I looked back at the first game on Steam. Seriously, good work from the developers, no doubt.
Leper battles: *Be nice or Save your kingdom.* JESTER: "YOU BETTER HAVE LEARNED HOW TO ACTUALLY PLAY MUSIC BECAUSE IF YOU HAVEN'T, WELL YOU AIN'T GETTING MY SKILLS."
So many fantastic small details I love. A few notes: - Is it just me, or do the abilities we unlock correspond quite nicely to the memory they were unlocked from? - Our favorite Chad, the Leper, is one of the only ones facing the 'flame' of his past with dignity unlike everyone else who's trying to turn their back to it. - Also the Leper so had gloves on his belt when he embraced the sickly be chose not to use them. - I like how the Hellion can never be beaten outright, she always puts up a fight no matter what, it's constant waves of lapping pressure that break her spirit. - The Man at Arms has a few scattered medals when he's bold and naieve, but when remorseful he keeps only his crest and a scrap of paper. Perhaps a memento of the oath he took when he swore command
I look forward to seeing the Abomination, Bounty Hunter, Crusader, Flagellant, Shield Breaker, and Vestal getting their own stories when they finally arrive... So much story content from these six alone.
Im very happy that these characters now have propper backstories instead of it merely being hinted at how "there is a reason they come here" in the first game I've always wandered about the occultist, the man at arms, and the leper's reason to be there
@@joshuaarnett762 as far as i was concerned those were not set on stone Most of the dialog in the first game is generalized if not "class-specific" and you can have multiples of the same person, im just glad they made it more personal by making the comics actually matter and the characters be individuals rather than "classes" An example is how the tf2 comic has all these explanations for in game events but they dont truly mean anything, just an excuse for it to be there.
@@joshuaarnett762 With the comics being canon... That may be tough as Reynauld did not make it out of the Dungeon, as Dismas carried some of the belongings of his brother in arms out of the depths.
I'm thinking for Bounty Hunter we see his first bounty and it goes really awry and it ends with him killing the corrupt cops that were in houndmaster's comic
I do like the ability to explore the stories of the characters. These are really interesting game-play sections, and really well designed, but liking DD2 is still difficult for me. I want to tell my own story, with my own characters! But in DD2, win or lose, my characters, their upgrades, their relationships and the stories they tell don’t last more than a single mission.
Everyone else: *Traumatized by past deeds*
Leper: *Was betrayed, suffers an incurable and horrible lethal disease that left him disfigured* "Beautiful world we live in, huh?" *starts to sing poetry with a flute*
not only that but kills all the people who tried to take his kingdom, a true badass
Leper is the true protagonist of Darkest Dungeon. We're all his secondary characters
@@DylanJo123 leper and the heir are the 2 main characters
@@videoms1271 Do you think we re still playing the heir from the first game in the second?
@@DylanJo123 I don't believe so. Without spoiling anything, it does not appear that the academic and the DD2 protagonist have any blood relationship to the ancestor.
They did it, they somehow made Leper, the biggest Chad in Darkest Dungeon, an even bigger Chad
Was not expecting that. Kinda of the only good story in the cast.
At least until they bring back the Crusader. If they indeed do.
I'm honestly kinda worried about the fact that he's not in the roster yet because [MASSIVE SPOILERS BELOW]
The Antiquarian is an enemy in-game, so it's entirely possible the others could be too
And the jester more metal
@@snakept69 Crusader's story isn't quite as positive as Leper's. We more or less know what happened to him from the comic.
@@lemolime217 maybe it's not the same person, just a mob with the same profession.
Jester: I slaughtered the entire Imperial Court. I was not proud of it, and I permanently severed my connection to the unholy powers so that I might never do it again.
Leper: I slaughtered the entire imperial court. *Proudest moment of my life and my only regret is I hadn't done it sooner!*
>buy a set of armor
>buy a huge fuck off sword
>wake up in the middle of the night
>kill royal court
>Break sword on the last advisor’s skull
>leave through the city
>refuse to explain
Normal day for the king
The Leper only killed his advisors, who were explicitly stated to be traitors.
@Dominotik Ivan Tulovskiy
>Kill the false god (The true God is the light)
>Be able to finish both games solo
>still has leprosy
>deals the most damage and is tanky as hell despite having leprosy
@@larsthememelord3383 leprosy causes nerve damage on one's skin, hence losing sensation of pain, heat, pressure. No wonder the Leper is so tanky and doesn't even flinch when being damaged, as he couldn't feel any pain.
To be fair Hellion's clanmates we're doing shit damage against the soldiers
For real though, imagine carrying your team but getting shit on by your family for not dying like the rest.
I think that's the point. The Hellion's clan was utterly outmatched by the army, with no hope of victory, but because she chose not to die in futility, she was exiled.
Especially compared to Hellion herself!
That’s their fault, she was doing great damage and yet she was blamed.
WERE*
"So what are you doing this for?"
Occultist: I thought I knew better
Plague Doctor: same
Hellion: I have failed my men
Man-at-arm: same
Jester: I have to satisfy my obsession
Runaway: same
Highway man: money, greed
Grave robber: same
Leper: I think the world is too beautiful to miss out on it. . .
He fights to protect an unfair but beautiful world. Brings a tear to my eye.
same
highwayman didnt want money after his prison break bro just wanted to be a freeman but he was broke so he did one last job
@@theforbiddenchannel4279 and that job involved killing a child and a woman
@@Ttegegg Bro, Dismas didn't even know he had even killed them until after the smoke cleared, and it's implied he got set up to rob the wrong carriage as well. Hell, his origin comic implies he saw movement in the carriage and fired at it purely out of instinct, not malice.
Even some of his Afflicted barks from DD1 - "I can't get their faces out of my head," "A reflex - I didn't mean to...", "No! I DIDN'T KILL HER. 'TWAS AN ACCIDENT!" - heavily imply he bears a great deal of shame and guilt over it. Guilt was a pursuer he could never outrun, a prison he would never escape, indeed.
All Heroes Intro Portraits: *Facing away from the "light". The light being indicative of the reality of their failures.*
Leper Intro Portrait: *Stoically facing the light so as to say: "I. DID. NOTHING. WRONG."*
the man has always been a chad. nothing short of a super hero.
* gets leprosy by hugging the diseased
* kills his advisors with a great sword
* refuses to elaborate
* leaves.
@@armintor2826 still a chad.
The Light is said to be good though
And i think it knows the Leper is good too
@@quinnholloway5400 The light, symbolically speaking has many meanings. One of the more popular ones, and the one I believe is hinted at in these portraits is the "Light as Truth".
The light reveals what is hidden in darkness, and to many of these characters, being confronted with the truth of their actions is like forcing them to acknowledge that they are bad people, or at least that they have committed horrible sins which they wish to forget. This is not the case for the Leper.
The Leper is solidified as one of my favorite characters in this game. He is now the biggest Chad is the series in my opinion.
yeah and he's one that people loved even after he got infected trying to help the less fortunate what a guy.
Let’s hope if they add the crusader they’ll be just as chad
Also fair. Nominated for a close second best
Heroes: so stressful and traumatic
Leper: Sigma rule no. 36: Kill scheming betas and then retire peacefully as a wandering badass
#grindset #critillionaire
It's official everyone, Leper is the protagonist of this series
He was in extreme pain from a incurable and terminal disease, and had his advisors come to kill him. So instead of calling his guards to protect him in his painful state, HE CALLS IN A BLACKSMITH TO MAKE HIM SOME ARMOR AND A SWORD.
Gears up
Whoop their asses
Refuses to elaborate further
Leaves the castle
@@librac5 Counts his blessings
Battles Eldritch Monstrosities
Wins
Ultra Chad
Wait till the Crusader shows up then we'll see.
But yeah. Leper is such a badass
@@thaipankatima658 so wait. Who’s the narrator for this game and the story?
Leper: "Somebody call a blacksmith."
Guards: *Get ready to receive some armor and weapons*
Leper: "But not for them!"
this gives me big
Leper: "call an ambulance! Call an ambulance!"
Leper: "but not for me!"
Yooo that violinist the Jester played against... that HAS to be the Squiffy Ghast from DD1, he's sitting in the exact same position and this all explains why he always targets the Jester.
Its at the very least an homage to the squiffy ghast and their music duels in the cove
I wouldn’t say he is a squiffy ghast but it’s just a nod to the squiffy ghast.
@@actjokinglyric830 that'd be neat though, the jester stealing his song before he gets his ass drown and being pissed off that he did that
The devil went down to the Hamlet he was looking for a jester to steal
I think one of the most interesting things here is that almost all the stories are tragedies of varying types. We have tragedies born of hubris(Occultist, Man-At-Arms), accident(Highwayman, Plague Doctor, Hellion), or circumstance(Jester, Grave Robber, Runaway). The sole exception is Leper, who, sees that a tragedy is coming, and ends it like the absolute Chad he is.
Leper's tragedy is his leprosy. He didn't prevent his tragedy. That's why his portrait looks into the light, while everyone else looks into the dark. The thing isolating him from society is his psychical illness, not his character or actions. All other characters have done something or have some self-perceived wrong that has occurred. For instance, terrible people or not, Jester still chose to kill a whole lot of people. Leper has no regrets and does not believe he did anything wrong, nor has he. That's why he is different, he has no dark past or regrets. His issue is his body, which you see as he hides it.
@@himedo1512 fair enough.
Leper’s still the odd man out, though.
I have to wonder if his Leprosy is the result of one of those eldritch beings like the Heart of Darkness seeing that there’s a fairly good chance Leper could kill them singlehandedly if he was healthy. I mean, anyone in a setting where the weapons are mostly realistic who wields a Buster Sword effectively in combat(though admittedly, it’s more of a greatclub with a sharp edge akin to Guts’ sword from Berserk than the traditional oversized anime sword in how Leper uses it) while dying of Leprosy(though Leprosy mostly affects manual dexterity and eyesight, which explains Leper’s low accuracy/self-blinding) is a man to be feared.
@@noahandrulis9077
Leper is one of those few characters that can one shot the heart of darkness if you pump him high enough with space dust crap , the man is an absolute unit
The tragedy with Leper is that his kingdom is doomed as it is explained that even though he thwarted his Entourage's scheme, there will always be more to follow the dark path. With the Leper King being able to do nothing of it. Not just his contraction of leprosy
@@gustavou9389 Most characters can one shot the heart of darkness, leper just needs a lot less help :D
Darkest Dungeon early access: Pfff, Leper it's just a meat shield, can't hit for shit!
Darkest Dungeon full game: Damn, when Leper hit's those crits at the bosses feels heroic and righteous.
Darkest Dungeon full plus comics: My boi Leper was a king that left everything behind for the greater good while sick?! What a Chad!
Darkest Dungeon 2 backstories: YOOOOOOOOOOO! THE KING GIGA CHAD RETURNED, TANKING THOSE HITS WHILE T POSING!!!!!!!
It's like he's chastising them for trying to stab him.
"You've done as much damage to me as you ever could...none at all."
@@apathymanthemundane4165 Badass 😲
More like A posing but still.
Really would love to see Houndmaster next. Having him face off the sheriff and deputies at the end.
Musketeer where you go through different targets in a competition, and the moment you land on that final target....
Shambler. And you watch as your fellow comepetitors basically get devoured, only for the final remaining one to not only score the killing blow on the shambler (which turns it back into a target) but ends the encounter, with you in second place as fortold by the comic in DD1.
@@ExhiledGod2 Apparently the Musketeer was she concentrated on the target hard enough that she became aware of the Heart of Darkness which caused her to see a hallucination of an eye on the bullseye, but ngl that sounds cool
@@s.p6024 She rolled twice the perception she needed, and saw god.
Flagellant where he starts as a meek and timid beggar then finds his inner power through the sufferign and blood.
@@adekaiwamisou he’s really into it
(Grave robber pick a guard in the face)
Guard: must be rats
??????:Yes-Yes
Thick with his insane luck.
@@ng.tr.s.p.1254
You mean her, the grave robber? Guard is not lucky, he is in denial or stupid.
GUTTER RUNNER!
I instantly think of a Elder scrolls NPC going "Must have been the wind"
@@bufan7177
Yes, he is in denial. There is no such thing as ratmen...I mean rats. Yes...rats.
...okay witch hunter you can lower the gun now.
Men i was rly desperate doing the man-at-arm, i would not loose and was confusing about orders, until i understood THIS was exactly the feeling of the man-at-arm and the only way to complete this battle. Genius one personally.
Ik right I love that one
Man... Runaway really... really ruined her life. Escaped abusive caretakers, found a loving family and destroyed it all for a sick obsession with fire. Made me sad :(
Rimworld pyromaniacs be like
I wouldn’t say she had a sick obsession with fire, beyond that of a child never told not to play with fire discovering matches. I wouldn’t entirely blame her, as a small part of the blame rests on her adoptive parents not teaching her about the dangers of fire(I know I sound like I’m victim blaming, but Runaway’s backstory was a chain of bad/negligent decisions that culminated in tragedy, like most events of a similar stripe. Yes, Runaway shouldn’t have played with fire, but her adoptive parents shouldn’t have assumed she knew better than to play with fire)
Yep...
She escaped a bad family situation (Or like you said, Caretaker Situation) and found a loving family
But her obsession with fire overpowered her
Probably why she's willing to go on a quest to fight a Eldritch Horror
PTSD be like:
Oh, you thought 'Darkest' only applied to the setting. This game will put your hope and feeling at deaths door.
Interesting to see that comics got realised in small playable sections. Maybe it's becuase it's early access, but kinda shame that lot of the flash back encounters just have the basic soldier/gaoler character enemy with the only difference being them holding different weapons.
Also the Highwayman's final flash back encounter is kinda amusing, with the stagecoach being basicly a clown car full of guards that just keep coming out when one get done in.
I do think that in the final version there'll be different enemies than the basic soldier type, those aren't what we see in the hellion comic so it gives me a little bit of hope.
anyone else love this line "He had shown his compassion. Now...he would show his fury" ?
Don’t try your luck with a man that gives.
Strive for peace, but be willing and able to wage war.
@@ethanhinton4549 hope for the best prepare for the worst
"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man."
1:01:50 The guard almost dies to a pick to the face and is just like "must be rats"
He must live in New York
Silly guard, this isn't skyrim
Dishonored moment
Something might be up with that carriage, can place my finger on it.
"It just works"
it's running with pure hope and nothing else.
Probably just rats
highwayman showing us why he's a damage dealer even without his tools of trade.
my man was bulkin in prison
@@SirChris314 Victorian prison gains.
Without his tools? He’s got two already.
@Shenglu Chen 5 if you include the...you know the thing
@Shenglu Chen no, it’s the head, for Headbutting
Man I wish Highwayman's final memento was a stand against a bunch of briggands side to side with a crusader...
The idea that Dismas has come to rectify his ancestor's mistakes yet again does sound rather awesome in context
Sadly they killed him and the vestal off because making the leper kill God in 1 fell swoop was "too light hearted" and "doesn't make sense in canon/lore"
@@berniemcburnface6176 the vestal is in the game tho
Daaaaaaamn, the leper back story is consistant with DD1 and somehow they made it even more incredible than before. the man is a chad.
Damn, my fav girl plague doctor got a lot more complex to her backstory
Brunette canon
lab rat brunette tomboy, perfect fit, i'd let her reanimate my corpse anyday ngl.
@@Charlie.G506
"Hey cutie what's up wanna reanimate your love tho baby ?"
+3 STRESS
@@aurelionsolofficial *Noxious blast, blight damage 5 per round*
@@aurelionsolofficial + 20 cringe(hidden stat)
Jester, that’s a banjo, not an electric guitar
You sure it isnt an ukulele?
jester took the heavy metal bardic school.
@@daimpthing maybe you’re right considering how electrical his music was
@@tonycamel5707 Is that a Risk of Rain 2 reference in the year of our Lord 2021?
@@c-arfredvillaluz7961 Chance of precipitation 2 electric boogaloo
Just noticed that in the Jester's, the final time you use melody it turns the notes into the nobles as it hits
Yeah, since the meaning behind that segment is that jester is actually just murdering all the nobles in a bloodthirsty rage… It’s called darkest dungeon for a reason folks!
For those who came here to see how to solve the Jester ones:
2 - verse - chorus - verse - chorus - bridge - misstep - solo - verse - chorus - verse - chorus - solo - finale
4 - you need to mirror the notes on the enemy's side
Any stuttering in the gameplay is as a result of the EGS launcher using my laptop to mine bitcoin.
All jokes aside I don't really make videos like this, but a friend of mine wanted to see the Occultist backstory and I figured since I already had so many of the stories already recorded in my regular playthoughs I might as well compile all of them in one video to make it easier for people to watch them.
Are there any hints for that first Jester "puzzle" or are you just choosing skills randomly till something happens? I can't tell what's going on in the vid...
@@ng.tr.s.p.1254 it's basic song structure, just slightly different.
"verse - chorus - verse - chorus -bridge - chorus - outro"
I still don't get 4... am I matching or mirroring cause the guide I looked up said I had to match them and I failed... spectacularly. ;)
Didn't expect the PD to end up attempting to be 049 quite literally but for science.
Also that stagecoach be trying to escape you,knowing who's behind the wheel and how you delight in pushing the previous game to the limits.
outta my way brigands, i have a tofu delivery to make
Oh the PD's character has been crawling with Reanimator references since DD1. Her story here confirms it, she is Darkest Dungeon's version of the Reanimator
I wanna see someone using hacks or some cheat engine to summon a buffed lepper into the heroes pasts, saving them from trauma.
You say that as if leper wasn't already buff as fuck
Leper with a fully forged blade could hit the back row... my goodness what a giga chad, the only champion who has already earned the title 'hero', and now he show's others the way
So the Leper was a kind king who got sick and understood the beauty of life when his own was bleeding away...
... and the Jester was Dandelion until he heard psychodelic music... or rather... cthulian rock music.
The Leper was a just king and he cared for his people, but he had little love for his court. Vindictive some would say. When he was sick and he heard of their plans he went "This shall not stand! Fetch a smith!" And then took care of business.
The Jester heard what seems to have been an Eldritch-influenced music, possibly created with (not so) divine inspiration. He was enraptured by the song and the talent it allowed him to show got him a spot in the local court of nobles. However, the nobles just wanted a pincushion to stick knives in and huniliate.
Eventually he snapped, played the song, and while the nobles reeled from a mild case of Mind Shattering Music, he killed them as an epic revenge. Then he sliced his hand in order to forever destroy his ability to play music like that again.
can’t believe you already completed all of these background stories! will you be doing an all enemies types for regions video next or?
i'll see what i can do, not happy that the enemies don't have their moves listed in the UI anymore
There really should be an option for more enemy info in the UI.
@@thickveinysausage3062 They do now
I hope they will add Abomination and Bounty Hunter later.
I'm pretty sure they said Abomination is super unlikely since it takes the same time that could be used to make two separate things.
@John Doe Dismas is the Highway man isn't he? I thought he survived.
@@joshuaarnett762 Yeah, pretty sure he's still in DD2.
@@zombekilleralt3770 I figured the canon sacrifices will be Abomination and Hound master, as apparently they may not be making them
Probably, but maybe not for initial release. could be DLC
Jester:“im tired of everyone making fun of me >:[ “ *invents rock*
Boomer nobility: *Literally die*
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WHOAOAOA GRAB ON EVERYONE
+Stress
Meltdown
wait, that guy on the tombstone in jesters story... is that the cove ghost that stresses you out?
From what I'm seeing in other comments, could be that (Squiffy ghast) or simply a reference to the enemy. Knowing DD, its probably the former.
When everyone looks to the left, the king(Leper) looks to the right....
Chad king do not afraid what lies ahead.
the only one who's truly righteous
Because the rest still feel guilt, or regret for their past actions. Man At Arms being a terrible general, Plague Doctor reanimating and killing again her professor. But the Leper has nothing to dwell on, he kinda chill like that
I honestly love these
While Darkest Dungeon 2 is a little mixed, due to it still being one Act of a game and still being early access
This is one of the best parts they've added
Looking into the Past of the characters, going through unique fights as we learn their stories, and seeing how they ended up where they are now?
It's honestly really fun
The Rest of the game is nice though, but i'd rather just wait for the full game instead of dealing with the bugs that come from Early Access
I replayed whole early access few times and encountered a bug once. It's good to go if you ask me.
Considering how we have the Runaway as a new character, I'm kind of hoping that we end up getting The Descendant as a party member who ends up standing up to the final boss to protect the party like they're facing their own guilt and going through a battle of the five stages of grief before coming out of it as a hero
The descendant apparently is the dude that bust the door down at the beginning of the game, surprisingly. If you read into it deeply the beginning of DD2 is talking about one of the ancestors students. But the narrator now could be you, the descendant, and you basically knocked your current self’s, the student, door down.
But really if you believe that you should also believe there is no descendant in the first place since the ending of dd1
[spoiler]
Explains that ruin has come to “our family,” preceded by “the family of man.” So the entire series is just mankind being compelled by some eldritch horror to cleanse said horror so it could consume them.
"the waning and waxing tides of sanity, the glimmering eyes, and the inhuman tolerance for horrors from the beyond. This man is a cold, and calculating engine of war. Using men as tools, and relics as crutches."
Leper just really give that Guts from berserk vibe when he is attacking
24:19 I wonder if it was possible to win that fight, but with how little damage the clan mates were dealing and how much health the soldiers had... I kind of doubt winning was possible.
Realistically, the enemy would probably get reinforcements anyway
The fact that Leper, in the backstory, heaved around a blade as tall as him and likely as heavy as the armor he was in like it was a dagger it absolutely terrifying. Even more so that apparently his court were so durable they could take blind, furious swings without dying.
Thanks a lot, it will be very useful for my next paper-RPG
EDIT : So far, the Leper is the only one facing right.
EDIT 2 : yeah he is the only one. Baldwin Thundercock strikes back
The Runaway's story could be viewed as a pretty great metaphor for all kinds of abuse victims.
yup, they traded our favorite Kleptomaniac for a hissy pyromaniac, i miss ya Reynauld...
Who knows? Maybe RH will surprise us all with the return of our favourite klepto boi and his backstory of smiting infidels.
at least I hope so :v
He probably sacrificed himself facing the Heart of Darkness.
@@fahholliday5374 | I'm wondering if he and the Vestal bite the bullet there. Either that or consumed by the madness of the flame. The antiquarian has proved that loyalties aren't set in stone.
there's no official canon of anyone actually dying on DD1 tho, and until i see Reynauld's and Junya's corpses hanging in front of me, i'll be rooting for their comebacks.
If Jester made it, they can do it.
@@Charlie.G506 if leper’s still alive there’s no way those two didn’t.
You’re the best for putting this in a digestible format with time stamps btw
its already broken down into sections.
Nobody talks about glitched carriage, SO I WILL ! WTF JUST HAPPEND TO THIS CARRIAGE !?
I just love the song on "music of the night"
Very well done, sounds amazing
And its indeed very aluring.
Darkest Dungeon 2 is perfect
literal 1 second into the video: wagon flip
Game starts: Coach flys into space so the horses can finally run free.
...I am sold!
I love how the the game presents each character’s backstory conflicts as combat scenarios through their situations and actions, and pour on exactly how much stress and pain was caused by these events. Ever since I found out about Darkest Dungeon, I’ve been habitually doing the same for movies and stuff, who gains stress, where the crits happen, what moves could be made out of character decisions- but to see it happen here is breathtaking. Red Hook, you have amazed me again, and thank you for making this video, TVS.
And he always has been, Leper is the most chad character in video game history, and this proves it conclusively.
*As he always has been
typo oops
My boi leper being decent until he had enough of this shit . Didn't explain too well the broken sword though.
It literally says "his blade was broken" or something. It just chipped while he was fighting lol
@@moonlight2870 i meant like I was expecting something else. Not just breaking the dragonslayer on the feeble body of your court
Maybe because of Leper's blind fury, which probably included heavy swinging everywhere, and the advisors probably "dodging" them.
It's the imaginative mind that should get it, not just watching.
Kinda surprised it didn't end up being something like "his strength deteriorated enough that he couldn't lift his sword, so he asked his blacksmith to make it lighter and also turn it into a reflection of physically broken, but still sharp man that he is"
In the end it just felt lacking
We already knew the Leper was a king, but goddamn, homeboy dropped his 👑
Alpha male leper.
Was wondering what was up with the carriage. Then I remembered this is Thick's channel
They did a great job with the Shrine battles. They each relate to how the heroes behave during an actual fight. Occultist balances between DPS and healing, while building up toward a big attack with his Unchecked Power. Highwayman moves around on the battlefield to attack key targets, alternating between keeping himself out of an opponent's reach and closing in for the kill. Hellion is a strong attacker with a lot of abilities related to self-preservation, but her effectiveness wanes as the battle wears on or she finds herself out of position. Leper has to fight to stay at the front and can't always attack every turn, but he hits like a truck and has immense resilience. Grave Robber uses her abilities (like poison and the pickaxe) to bypass the defenses of tough opponents while keeping herself alive with evasion and self-heals. The Runaway moves around a lot while trying to avoid or mitigate damage as much as possible; meanwhile, she sets up her opponents for a slow burn. Plague Doctor wears her opponents down until they expire, keeping her side alive with healing skills. Man-at-Arms uses support skills on his team while not being a great DPS himself; he can also take a beating while he wears opponents down. The Jester has to carefully use the correct support abilities at the right time and place, while making sure he positions himself to do the maximum amount of damage throughout the battle. My only complaint is that the Jester's battles seem poorly designed. You wouldn't be able to clear either of them without a pretty good grounding in music theory, which isn't that common and the game gives no hints as to how to solve the puzzles.
So the "Dark Song" of the Jester is just Metal. I'm satisfied.
note for "Head of the Class"
using heated rebuttal before the professor uses conclusion makes him instantly counter you with "SIT DOWN!" and the classmates laugh at you dealing a total of 4 stress
Tutorial for "A Dark Song" (jester hero shrine ep. 4)
In order to play a melody, the notes need to align with the other side (jester's position does not matter), use the other moves to change position:
Crescendo - move jester forward, useless
Diminuendo - move jester backwards, useless
Improvise - shuffles notes, spam till it's good enough
Nota Cambiata - change note, fix that one note that doesn't fit
U gotta do it in 10 turns (every non-melody gives 1 stress, reaching the meltdown threshold means you wasted your fucking time), and u gotta play 3 melodies lol
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The horse carriage: *It's time to get funky*
The ending of Jester's chapter 5 gave me goosebumps
I love that they made the origin comics into canon.
Red hook made the comic its always canon
@@fauzul4004 BUT THEY HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THEM IN-GAME NOW
It’s blessed.
@@sirmount2636 ....They've been aknowledging the comics as canon for the longest time, do you just not read anything the characters said in DD1, especially when stressed? Or the trinkets? There's a ton of references to the comics.
@@valberline I don’t care. I got 83 likes
('-' )
>starts video
>sees the carriage having a seizure
yep seems about right
After reading the comics, i thought plague bringers story would be that she would prove that the disease infected the lungs, but apparently she went full frankenstein.
I keep seeing Kratos and Aloy during Hellion quest.
It's really cool how they made the backstories act as little tutorials on how to play that hero.
wdym? There are completely different skillsets which are not used in the main game
The leper is a top tier chad, he had to be beefed with leprosy otherwise he would be too powerful
Grave Robber: PICK TO THE FACE!
Vault Watchman: Hmm…must be rats…
Unfortunately,hes not here. Wherever is his,hes Deus Vult,taking back Jerusalem.
How can Heroes do the Echos of the past even though the carriage flew away at the first place?
Considering the Leper's backstory, it makes it even more confusing why in DD! he would refuse to party up with the Abomination before the devs finally decided to patch it out.
Flagellant: Wants to watch the world bleed
Runaway: Wants to watch the world burn
*gets hit in face by pickaxe*
“Must’ve been the wind”
Jester: I killed, so many people in the court.
Leper: Same.
Jester And like you, I regret it.
Leper: Regret?!
Damn man biggest sick in the entire game is that pitiful wailer who plagued the prince with Leprosy when he was being there for him and tried giving him
A hug.
1:02:08
Guard: _literally gets hit in the face with a pickaxe_
Also guard: damn those are some strong rats!
The ancestor(or at least his voice) will never leave this franchise
Even after the ending of DD1 and his narration supposedly being only the letters and notes he send you, his booming voice is the voice of this cruel and unforgiving world (you can almost say, literally)
The narrator in DD2 is a different character called the Academic. The Ancestor is and always was the voice of the Heart of Darkness.
So literally everyone but the leper is a terrible person
Hmm... not really? They have flaws but they did have some good and somewhat reasonable intentions.
Then the Leper tho...
of course Chad Thundercock can't be a bad person.
Highwayman isn't terrible, he only killed the innocents accidentally
@@half.blight
Why was he in the prison in the first time ?
@@aurelionsolofficial yea but he doesn't like to kill. He might have been a thief or something cause the only reason why he would attack the stagecoach is to expect food in return... who knows what he did, he might have punch a noble for all we know.
I can't wait to see how the Abomination came to be when his backstory comes out.
When the full game is released, there should be an achievement for getting *all* of the hero's backstories, maybe something like: Facing the past, or a similar naming scheme. Would be a good touch.
It's crazy because I didn't realize how much they refined the art style and animations until I looked back at the first game on Steam. Seriously, good work from the developers, no doubt.
I am still so pissed crusader ain’t in the game yet.
Hope we get musketeer and Flagellent soon. My favs.
Everyone here: Talking about leper being a chad
Me, a no good simp: God I wish PD would stab me like that...
I think we can all agree that Leper is the single biggest hardass in the series at this point.
Leper battles: *Be nice or Save your kingdom.*
JESTER: "YOU BETTER HAVE LEARNED HOW TO ACTUALLY PLAY MUSIC BECAUSE IF YOU HAVEN'T, WELL YOU AIN'T GETTING MY SKILLS."
So many fantastic small details I love. A few notes:
- Is it just me, or do the abilities we unlock correspond quite nicely to the memory they were unlocked from?
- Our favorite Chad, the Leper, is one of the only ones facing the 'flame' of his past with dignity unlike everyone else who's trying to turn their back to it.
- Also the Leper so had gloves on his belt when he embraced the sickly be chose not to use them.
- I like how the Hellion can never be beaten outright, she always puts up a fight no matter what, it's constant waves of lapping pressure that break her spirit.
- The Man at Arms has a few scattered medals when he's bold and naieve, but when remorseful he keeps only his crest and a scrap of paper. Perhaps a memento of the oath he took when he swore command
Damn highwayman is ripped
I love how nobody is talking about the carriage going orbital at the start of the video
Just gonna start the video with the wagon going absolutely apeshit. No need to worry about the bending of reality onto the lore! XD
I look forward to seeing the Abomination, Bounty Hunter, Crusader, Flagellant, Shield Breaker, and Vestal getting their own stories when they finally arrive... So much story content from these six alone.
What's the tactic in the jester duel? I literally had to idea what to do and seeing this doesn't really explain a lot
Prison riot:*Starts*
Dissmas: *It's Free Real Estate*
Im very happy that these characters now have propper backstories instead of it merely being hinted at how "there is a reason they come here" in the first game
I've always wandered about the occultist, the man at arms, and the leper's reason to be there
I mean, the comics? The ones that already existed?
@@joshuaarnett762 as far as i was concerned those were not set on stone
Most of the dialog in the first game is generalized if not "class-specific" and you can have multiples of the same person, im just glad they made it more personal by making the comics actually matter and the characters be individuals rather than "classes"
An example is how the tf2 comic has all these explanations for in game events but they dont truly mean anything, just an excuse for it to be there.
@@commitsniff370 well in this instance it would seem the comics were Canon, as these were expansions of those. I really want Crusader back.
@@joshuaarnett762 With the comics being canon... That may be tough as Reynauld did not make it out of the Dungeon, as Dismas carried some of the belongings of his brother in arms out of the depths.
@@thyrussendria8198 given that apparently they don't want to do Abomination and Hound master, I think they will be the canon sacrifices
I love it when gameplay is used to tell a story, like in these fights.
So, the Leper's still the goodest boy.
The plague doctors story shares a lot of similarities with H.P. Lovecrafts - "The Re-animator"
I'm thinking for Bounty Hunter we see his first bounty and it goes really awry and it ends with him killing the corrupt cops that were in houndmaster's comic
Sounds like the Leper was the only righteous one.
The darkest dungeon player may be the one who commands him, but the Leper is 10000% the protagonist
I do like the ability to explore the stories of the characters.
These are really interesting game-play sections, and really well designed, but liking DD2 is still difficult for me.
I want to tell my own story, with my own characters! But in DD2, win or lose, my characters, their upgrades, their relationships and the stories they tell don’t last more than a single mission.