The Sanctuary of the Clans looms before me, a side entrance gated off, previously blocking my entrance, can now be warped through. Immediately I pick up another Artifact, bring my total to three. Two of Dumah’s brood guard a bridge over a pond, the only way to defeat them is to throw them over the […]
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#ThrowbackThursday Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver playthrough part 4
So, last week we happened upon a room with a large elevator. On the far side of that room, I find two switches, one is a lever on the floor, it doesn’t do anything right now, the other is on a wall above a grilled floor. Pulling this lowers the grilled floor to the level […]
#ThrowbackThursday Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver playthrough part 2
Leaving the gate room Raziel comes across more familiar scenery, the Lake of the Dead. Even though much of Nozgoth has changed in the time Raziel lay at the bottom of the lake, this landmark allows him to get his bearings. There are two directions I can, in theory, access, though I take the route […]
#ThrowbackThursday Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
I’ve had a few weeks break from #ThrowbackThursday since completing my Final Fantasy IX playthrough and thus it’s time to get back up and running again. I decided to stick with the same era but go with a completely different genre and fancied tackling the Legacy of Kain series, now why have I started with […]
#ThrowbackThursday Final Fantasy IX playthrough part 47
Zidane walks towards the white light which resembles the moon being reflected in a pool of water. Garland: “You have entered a new realm. There are no more worlds. There is no more space… Follow your memory, your original memory, and march forth…” Zidane: “Garland, what exactly is our memory!?” G: “…” Z: “Why can […]
#ThrowbackThursday Final Fantasy IX playthrough part 46
We’re finally on the road to the end of Final Fantasy IX folks! At the end of last weeks post, we were stood at the bottom of a staircase/cobblestone pathway after Garland had named this new location “Memoria”. We begin by climbing the staircase towards a castle where we find a glowing orb that I […]
#ThrowbackThursday Final Fantasy IX playthrough part 45
Wow, it’s been a long-long time since this was updated, it’s not that I’d forgotten or put the game down, its that other things happened. First I did a playthrough of Alan Wake for “Horroctober” then when I returned to FFIX the left stick on my Vita was acting up. I tried to swap it […]
Delayed #Horroctober Alan Wake playthrough – The Final Week
Okay, it took me longer than it should have to get here, but it’s here and it’s done! Episode 6 New York, Two years ago, Alan awakes in his apartment, seemingly hungover, the screen pulses with white light. He takes some painkillers and puts on some sunglasses before pressing the play button on his answer […]
Delayed #Horroctober Alan Wake playthrough – Week I’m not tracking them Edition
Wake and Barry find themselves in a jail cell, Alan remarks that the FBI agent had taken the manuscript pages, he tells Barry he needs to get out and talk to Cynthia Weaver because she saw what happened at the lake. He hears Agent Nightingale and Sheriff Breaker arguing, but then has another vision, though […]
#Horroctober Alan Wake playthrough – Week 4.5
Knowing I’m not going to get this write up finished before Halloween at my previous pace, I’m upping the regularity of these updates. Episode 4 Alan awakens to Alice’s face looking down on him, but it then begins to change and takes on the appearance of Dr Hartman. He tells Wake that he’s had a […]