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Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Man, I think I forgot all the Sierra Hard, as a defense mechanism or something.

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Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
We just found that bowl out in the middle of a field, right?

Well, I suppose you'd be disinclined to pick up a wooden bowl unless you were a protagonist anyway. ('A bowl! I found a bowl! Good for me!")

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Man, that giant game over message must get pretty old pretty fast.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Kings need to respect kings, don't they?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I can just imagine having no sugar, inching past those brambles, and then not scaring off the ghost. You'd probably throw something out the window.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
That's a pretty good realization of a strange world with the color palette available at the time.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So somebody sat down and made all those desert screens to get lost in and die.

That's some dedication.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Getting your poo poo stolen from you seems like an excellent way to dodge the wizard frisking you for spell ingredients.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I imagine all this fine cursor navigation was regarded as an acceptable challenge in those early days of gaming. Can't think why.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I suppose blood sacrifice waits for no man, but couldn't it have waited like ten more minutes?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
It's okay, guys, I know how to get us out of here. First we need to find the mural of all the children of the world holding hands.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Really it's the shark screen that irritates me the most. What you have to do in order to live feels like cheating.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So the magic stops working when the king is sad? That's... useful.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I wonder why she wouldn't don the hat to go on an adventure. Then again it's probably a little disrespectful.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Sounds like someone wanted to see what lies at the intersection of pixel-hunting and limited durability.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Can you even run away from them when they spawn, or is it a foregone conclusion?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Man, I shudder to think what Lolotte would do to an actual princess. I suppose a peasant at least can be useful to anyone.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Oh. Here I figured we'd have to randomly dig for something until we found it.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Man, it looks like Roselia's drowning when she heads out the waterfall. I suppose it's the limited animation palette at work.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
What's the ogre even want golden eggs for? Is there a shady merchant who trades with anyone, even ogres?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Wow, that's kind of ridiculous. That's, like, a lantern so bright you can't see anything for about six inches, and then darkness so deep you can't see anything.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
...shouldn't the only thing left in the box be hope?

Or did all the evils that plagued the world just decide to go home for the weekend?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
"Aha," thought Lolotte. "Mad scientists are constantly being betrayed by their beautiful daughters, so I'll just have an ugly son!"

Alas, it could not save her.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I like how Genesta put in some goddamn guardrails for once.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I like that logo. The letters stack very pleasantly.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So I guess whichever programmer they gave the Cedric hat to just kind of... took a bad idea and never stopped running because there was nobody to say stop?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
You'd think Graham would have gone walking with some money in his pockets.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Cut Cedric a break, his only moral exemplar is a senile wizard grandpa. Probably gets all his news from foxes.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Suleiman trapped them djinns for a reason, Graham.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
And the thing is, it takes more effort to turn the player into a dead man walking than not. You have to deliberately plan out the two dozen ways people can gently caress themselves over and learn almost nothing from the experience.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I'm surprised we didn't need special gloves to handle that wheel, or else prick ourselves and sleep forever.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
What kind of peasantry doesn't learn how to pick a lock with a bit of short wire? For shame, Young And Excessively Upright Graham.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I like to think that you were violently swearing at that snake in rattlese.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I like how he's just a talking wolf like it ain't no thing. Makes you wonder what kind of trash talk he spat at Cedric before you got there.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Of course! In his natural arctic environment, he had no opportunity to cultivate a defense against baked goods!

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry

U.T. Raptor posted:

I like how that map apparently didn't trust the reader to understand that Harpy Island would have harpies on it.

Given this game? It could easily have crazed harp-makers who'll kill you unless you pick up a broken matchstick on the third screen of the game.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Man, I don't want to know how that old rotting fish is going to come in handy.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Really it's just a matter of bylaws. Can't keep your evil wizard's guild card if you don't visit calamity on some do-gooder once a year.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I guess the cat's having a nap too. This seems like an able time to yowl loud enough to wake the dead.

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Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Have you at least got as much time as possible to work out what the hell that machine is for, or are you on a timer?

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