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Shadowgate.

Nothing like creepy music, horrible descriptions of your death and a grim reaper staring at you whenever you made a mistake to traumatize a 5-year old with sprite graphics. Having to depend on torches to survive didn't help to minimize a pre-existing fear of the dark as well.

Fatal Frame series

The first night had the most original scares I've seen in awhile, but sadly they kind of lost their luster on the replay/backtracking. Oh I never liked playing this series in the dark, but it was fun as hell to do so. In Dig Dug the monsters would morph into scary faces that could pass through walls and corner you. For years developers forgot about this as they focused on "survival horror" clones that had enemies obey the almighty wall. Nothing quite like having the tables turned on you and suddenly the environment is no longer your friend as you get attacked by 3 ghosts on the final night that are half-submerged in the floor and forcing you to restart your game because you saved just before it.

Which Way Adventure

http: //www.youtube.c...h?v=0NFEZjZp8lY

Trilby: Art of Theft.

Thank you Yahtzee. Your retro low-rez epic that features darkness as a main gameplay element has brought a new lease to the shadowgate-fueled childhood phobia years after I thought I conquered it.

I' d say probably the Tabula Rasa one.

Crysis rated my system as "Medium". But as soon as those volumetric clouds showed up in the intro.... FPS ----> SHITTER

This game pretty much begs you to post your mid-range specs online to compare your e-penis to others and ask if you're having as much *ahem* performance problems.

Whew, finally finished reading all 26 pages.

Now to share my brilliance with the world so that unlike Chzo, Yahtzee shall choke on the pain of yet another person raping their work with wrong conclusions and release the special edition just to make it stop.

So here are some of the musings that seem to make sense to me.
John Defoe is gone completely. If any part of him remained then the bridge would not have formed. The look and behavior of the New Prince is the influence of Defoe on Decabe, but not Defoe himself. Chzo isn't keeping the Trilby clone for control because the New Prince did not react badly and fear him as Defoe did. If the look command is used on him at the end, Theo will say that Trilby is the Guide and can freely float right past him to get to the Arrogant Man.

The reason why the welder costume stayed with Theo on his trip to Chzo's world despite being constructs of John Defoe's mind was because of Magick since the real objects were still hurtling through space at the time. The choice might also have been to further enrage the Tall man who was previously the master of the Welder/Bridgekeeper/Defoe and now was being replaced by a superior version of his slave.

The three blessed agonies prepared Theo for Chzo to mold him into the new prince. The Tall man was only the soul of Cabadath placed in a tree while the new Prince seems to use Theo's broken body covered in bandages, a limited Mind controlled by "it hurts" ChzoDOS and a soul that's easily manipulated still powerful.

Having his soul placed inside the tree was supposed to keep the Tall Man alive through his lessons, but once unleashed Cabadath had no interest in ending his torment by destroying the tree. Instead he clung to his existence and protected the various forms as it was passed down through the ages, maybe even enjoying his rampages. His vulnerability through the idol, the disobedience, the dozens of dead Trilbies being scattered around Chzo and using his punishment to gain power and immortality instead of being humble necessitated the creation of the new prince to replace him

While "then _________ knew the name of Chzo" seems to be a euphemism for death, Cabadath was said to have already known the name of Chzo after being pulled through to Chzo's realm but when the Tall/Arrogant man fell into the pit it said that he knew the name of Chzo again. The Lych/Wraith note Theo found at the entrance to Defoe's mind states that a Lych can still feel pain but only damage to their soul artifact is permanent. So losing his powers and his place along with 196 years in the gut of Chzo until the idol is vaporized seems to have been his final punishment.

Garbage disposal... what a way to go~

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Yahtzee bleeding out of his eyes yet?