Lokathor's Audio Only Let's Plays

This is the last Forbidden West episode for a while. I've deleted it off my PS5. I kinda like where the story might be going, but the game playing is too similar to the entire rest of the first game. It doesn't super inspire me to play. Also, the AOLP feed is on temporary pause I guess, until I do find a fitting game. You can check out the Lokanime Podcast I've been doing with Skeleton House, if you want to keep hearing me talk about stuff in the mean time. Also, the Lokathor Patreon will continue to release episodes even when the AOLP feed is quiet, so no worries there.

Eventually we do get through it though.

Ugh, this guy!

We continue the thing that I so suddenly interrupted at the end of the last episode.

Aloy is the perfect DnD protagonist.

Welcome... to the world of tomorrow!

Jeff is still in the frozen North, how will he ever get back to the rest of the team?

This place is creepy, but after a tunnel of ghosts we're surely ready for anything.

In Happy Happy Village, things are totally fine and everyone is totally happy.

We meet two strange children and one of them is helpful.

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Today we're starting on a modded version of Earthbound called MaternalBound. I hope you like it!

I didn't bother to split this long ep into three separate episodes, so here you go. This game rules.

We make our way to Twin Elms, and we're not quite welcome here.

Honestly, [S] WV: Ascend was always one of my favorite homestuck vids.

We're playing all the fantasy hits and that means it's time for a Cult with a Secret Plan!

I can't believe we let down Kana! Also there's a spooky lady.

Aw crap, this basement goes deeper than we signed up for!

It's spooky as heck!

We get the Knights of the Crucible on our side for one thing to do with the main quest, but the DLC doesn't seem to let them also help us with the DLC quest? It's a little strange, but oh well.

Today we're going to the "Sanitarium", which is an archaic word for basically "Insane Asylum". Content Warning: the mental health facility isn't great, there's some abuse and experiments going on.

Durance is voiced by Dave B. Mitchell, who also is the narrator of this game. Pallegina mes Rèi is voiced by Mela Lee. They're both very good in these roles!

They're the "Searing" falls because it's a hot spring area.

Today we do a bunch of stuff with Caed Nua.

Our playlist of the greatest fantasy hits continues as we delve into some catacombs this week.

What's a fantasy adventure if not the chance to explore a ruined temple watched over by a ghost?

We meet a character named Maerwald, who comes with a bit of a Content Warning on him. He's got a fantasy thing going on that basically causes some form of Dissociative Identity Disorder. This is going to be a recurring sort of thing in Pillars. Not like every single ep, but it'll come up at least a few more times before the game is done.

This week we meet Eder (spelled Edér if you're not an ASCII imperialist, like I obviously am). Also we meet problematic fave Durance.

There was a little bit of Microphone trouble with this episode, and my apologies about that, but I couldn't get it out of the recording after the fact in Audacity. Maybe you won't even notice it if you're not too picky or you're just using airpods or whatever.

Does the "spiritual successor" to the Baldur's Gate series pull it off? Hek yeah it does.

The saga is finally over.

Where did that limo come from!?

I don't know Spanish.

This part of the game sucks so bad, like it'll make you just quit the game. Honestly, the worst.

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IQ helps spell damage.

Get scrap-ified!

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